Remembrance of the Daleks

148 – Remembrance of the Daleks
Doctor Who serial
In the cliffhanger to the first episode, a Dalek levitates up stairs.
Cast
Doctor Sylvester McCoy (Seventh Doctor)
Companion Sophie Aldred (Ace)
Others Terry Molloy — The Emperor Dalek/Davros Simon Williams — Group Captain Gilmore Pamela Salem — Professor Rachel Jensen Karen Gledhill — Allison Dursley McLinden — Sgt. Mike Smith George Sewell — Ratcliffe Harry Fowler — Harry Jasmine Breaks — The Girl Joseph Marcell — John Peter Hamilton Dyer — Embery Michael Sheard — Headmaster Peter Halliday — Vicar William Thomas — Martin Derek Keller — Kaufman John Leeson — Voice Hugh Spight, John Scott Martin, Tony Starr, Cy Town — Dalek Operators Roy Skelton, Royce Mills, Brian Miller, John Leeson — Voices/Dalek Voices
Production
Directed by	Andrew Morgan John Nathan-Turner (uncredited)
Written by	Ben Aaronovitch
Script editor	Andrew Cartmel
Produced by	John Nathan-Turner
Executive producer(s)	None
Incidental music composer	Keff McCulloch
Production code	7H
Series	Season 25
Length	4 episodes, 25 minutes each
Originally broadcast	5 October–26 October 1988
Chronology
← Preceded by Followed by → Dragonfire The Happiness Patrol
List of Doctor Who serials

Remembrance of the Daleks

Author	Ben Aaronovitch
Cover artist	Alister Pearson
Series	Doctor Who book: Target novelisations
Release number	148
Publisher	Target Books
Publication date	21 June 1990
ISBN

Remembrance of the Daleks is the first serial of the 25th season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. The serial was first broadcast in four weekly episodes from 5 October to 26 October 1988. It was written by Ben Aaronovitch and directed by Andrew Morgan.

In the serial, alien time traveller the Doctor (Sylvester McCoy) and his companion Ace (Sophie Aldred) travel back to 1963 to retrieve the Hand of Omega, a powerful device created by the Doctor's Time Lord race, and keep it from the Daleks.

The serial contained many references to the history of the show. It is set in 1963, around the same time as the very first Doctor Who episode, An Unearthly Child. Remembrance of the Daleks returns the Doctor to Coal Hill School and the junkyard at 76 Totter's Lane, locations first seen in that episode. The serial also continues the story arc of a civil war between rival Dalek factions, culminating in a showdown between the Doctor and Dalek Emperor Davros. This was the last appearance of Davros and the Daleks in the original run of Doctor Who. Davros appears for one scene only, and this in the fourth and final part.

In a variety of reader polls conducted by Doctor Who Magazine from 1998 onwards, Remembrance of the Daleks has consistently been voted as one of the greatest Doctor Who stories of all time.

The Doctor and Ace arrive in Shoreditch in 1963 and become ingratiated with Professor Jensen and Sergeant Mike Smith, who are tracing "the primary source" of magnetic fluctuations outside Coal Hill School. They are summoned to "the secondary source" at Totter's Lane Junkyard, where Group Captain Gilmore and his men have been attacked by an unidentified assailant. The aggressor is a grey Dalek, which is promptly destroyed by the Doctor using Ace's Nitro-9 explosive.