The Evil of the Daleks

036 – The Evil of the Daleks
Doctor Who serial
A Dalek checks on the captive Victoria Waterfield
Cast
Doctor Patrick Troughton (Second Doctor)
Companions Frazer Hines (Jamie McCrimmon) Deborah Watling (Victoria Waterfield)
Others John Bailey — Edward Waterfield Marius Goring — Theodore Maxtible Brigit Forsyth — Ruth Maxtible Geoffrey Colville — Perry Griffith Davies — Kennedy Alec Ross — Bob Hall Windsor Davies — Toby Sonny Caldinez — Kemel Gary Watson — Arthur Terrall Jo Rowbottom — Mollie Dawson Peter Hawkins & Roy Skelton — Dalek Voices Robert Jewell, Gerald Taylor, John Scott Martin, Murphy Grumbar, Ken Tyllsen — Daleks
Production
Directed by	Derek Martinus
Written by	David Whitaker
Script editor	Gerry Davis (episodes 1-3) Peter Bryant (episodes 4-7)
Produced by	Innes Lloyd Peter Bryant (associate producer, episode 1)
Executive producer(s)	None
Incidental music composer	Dudley Simpson
Production code	LL
Series	Season 4
Length	7 episodes, 25 minutes each
Episode(s) missing	6 episodes (1, 3-7)
Date started	20 May 1967
Date ended	1 July 1967
Chronology
← Preceded by Followed by → The Faceless Ones The Tomb of the Cybermen
List of Doctor Who serials

The Evil of the Daleks

Author	John Peel
Cover artist	Alister Pearson
Series	Doctor Who book: Target novelisations
Release number	155
Publisher	Target Books
Publication date	August 1993
ISBN

The Evil of the Daleks is the mostly missing ninth and final serial of the fourth season in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which originally aired in seven weekly parts from 20 May to 1 July 1967. This serial marked the debut of Deborah Watling as the Doctor's new companion, Victoria Waterfield. Only episode two, the episode in which Victoria first appears, is held in the BBC archives; the other six remain missing.

Evil was initially intended to be the last Dalek story on Doctor Who. Writer Terry Nation, the creator of the Daleks, was trying to sell the Daleks to American television at the time and it was intended to give them a big send-off from the series. However this was not to be his last encounter with them. In 1993, readers of DreamWatch Bulletin voted The Evil of the Daleks as the best ever Doctor Who story in a special poll for the series' thirtieth anniversary.

In 1966 London, the Second Doctor and Jamie watch helplessly as the TARDIS is loaded onto a lorry and driven away from Gatwick Airport. The trail leads them to an antique shop run by Edward Waterfield, who sells Victorian-style antiques that curiously seem as though they were still new. Waterfield is being coerced by the Daleks, who appear in a secret room of his shop through a time machine, and exterminate his mutinous employee Kennedy. Investigating the store, the Doctor and Jamie succumb to a booby trap that gasses them, and are dragged into the time machine by Waterfield.

They wake up to find that they have been transported to 1867, and are in the house of Theodore Maxtible, Waterfield's partner. The two had been trying to invent a time machine using mirrors and static electricity, when the Daleks emerged from their time cabinet. The Daleks then took Waterfield's daughter, Victoria, hostage and forced Waterfield to travel a century forward in time to lure the Doctor into a trap by stealing the TARDIS. Waterfield is obviously fearful for his daughter's safety and his own, but Maxtible seems to be cooperating with the Daleks for his own reasons.