Day of the Daleks

060 – Day of the Daleks
Doctor Who serial
A Dalek menaces the Doctor.
Cast
Doctor Jon Pertwee (Third Doctor)
Companion Katy Manning (Jo Grant)
Others Nicholas Courtney — Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart Richard Franklin — Captain Mike Yates John Levene — Sergeant Benton Wilfred Carter — Sir Reginald Styles Jean McFarlane — Miss Paget Anna Barry — Anat Scott Fredericks — Boaz Jimmy Winston — Shura Tim Condren — Guerilla Aubrey Woods — Controller Valentine Palmer — Monia Peter Hill — Manager Andrew Carr — Senior Guard George Raistrick — Guard Alex MacIntosh — Television Reporter Gypsie Kemp — UNIT Radio Operator Deborah Brayshaw — Technician Rick Lester, Maurice Bush, David Joyce, Frank Menzies, Bruce Wells, Geoff Todd — Ogrons Oliver Gilbert, Peter Messaline — Dalek Voices John Scott Martin, Murphy Grumbar, Ricky Newby — Daleks
Production
Directed by	Paul Bernard
Written by	Louis Marks
Script editor	Terrance Dicks
Produced by	Barry Letts
Executive producer(s)	None
Incidental music composer	Dudley Simpson
Production code	KKK
Series	Season 9
Length	4 episodes, 25 minutes each
Originally broadcast	1 January–22 January 1972
Chronology
← Preceded by Followed by → The Dæmons The Curse of Peladon

Doctor Who and the Day of the Daleks

Author	Terrance Dicks
Cover artist	Chris Achilleos
Series	Doctor Who book: Target novelisations
Release number	18
Publisher	Target Books
Publication date	April 1974
ISBN

Day of the Daleks is the first serial of the ninth season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from 1 January to 22 January 1972. It was the first to feature the Daleks since 1967's The Evil of the Daleks.

Sir Reginald Styles, a British diplomat trying to organise a peace conference to avert World War III, is in his study at the government-owned Auderly House when a soldier dressed in grey camouflage and wielding a futuristic looking pistol bursts in and holds him at gunpoint. However, before the guerrilla can fire, he vanishes, leaving Styles to shakily tell his secretary he has been visited by a ghost. As the conference is of vital international importance, UNIT is called in. The Chinese have pulled out of the conference and Styles will be flying to Peking to try to persuade them to rejoin, and nothing must interfere with the conference's success. However, when the Third Doctor, Jo and the Brigadier go over to Auderly House, Styles denies ever seeing the "ghost", even though the Doctor notes the presence of muddy footprints in the study.

The guerrilla reappears on the grounds in a vortex-like effect, but he is intercepted by two huge humanoid aliens, Ogrons, who attack him and leave him for dead. UNIT soldiers discover the severely injured guerrilla and take him to the hospital while the Doctor examines his weapon and a small black box that was found in a nearby tunnel system. Styles leaves for Peking, while the Doctor discovers that the pistol, which is an ultrasonic disintegrator, is made of Earth materials, not alien, and that the box is a crude time machine, complete with a miniature dematerialisation circuit. As he tries to activate it, the vortex effect appears again and the guerrilla vanishes from the ambulance. The temporal feedback circuit on the time machine also overloads — as the Doctor explains to the Brigadier, it has blown a fuse. Since everything seems to be centred on Auderly House, the Doctor decides to spend the evening there.