Better Hide Your Wallet, Cause the Daleks are Coming
- Publication: The Pottstown Mercury
- Date: 1964-11-21
- Author:
- Page: 3
- Language: English
LONDON (AP)—The Christmas outlook is horrific. All the kiddies want Daleks.
And what, pray, are Daleks? They are things or persons created for a children's television series called Dr. Who.
This is a space-time serial that for years has flitted unspectacularly from planet to planet without stirring up much comment.
Suddenly, however, Dr. Who has hit the jackpot with a story of an invasion by Daleks. Dalekitis may be as big an epidemic as Beatlemania.
A Dalek is an armor-plated cone topped by a sort of helmet with death-ray antennae. Inside is a once-human monster supposedly so revolting that even the tele-screens won't show it.
Dalek toys and outfits are on sale for the Christmas trade.
They come in two sizes.
One is a battery-powered job which wobbles across the floor emitting metallic noises.
The other is a child-powered model tailored to fit the average 8-year-old.
Even the dear old British Broadcasting Corp. already has issued instructions for making a do-it-yourself Dalek.
The advertising, pitch for the toys or outfits has a swell theme: "Superfun: Disintegrate Your Dad."
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- APA 6th ed.: (1964-11-21). Better Hide Your Wallet, Cause the Daleks are Coming. The Pottstown Mercury p. 3.
- MLA 7th ed.: "Better Hide Your Wallet, Cause the Daleks are Coming." The Pottstown Mercury [add city] 1964-11-21, 3. Print.
- Chicago 15th ed.: "Better Hide Your Wallet, Cause the Daleks are Coming." The Pottstown Mercury, edition, sec., 1964-11-21
- Turabian: "Better Hide Your Wallet, Cause the Daleks are Coming." The Pottstown Mercury, 1964-11-21, section, 3 edition.
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- Title: Yule Toys Taken Over By Horrific Monster
- Publication: Los Angeles Times
- Date: 1964-11-24
- Title: New 'Toy' for Christmas: Dandy Dad Disintegrators
- Publication: Austin American-Statesman
- Date: 1964-11-21
- Title: Horrific Yule in Store for Children with Daleks
- Publication: Albuquerque Journal
- Date: 1964-11-24
- Title: London Children Going Daffy Over Dalek Fad
- Publication: The Kansas City Times
- Date: 1964-11-26
