The Daleks March Again
- Publication: Sunday Express
- Date: 1965-06-27
- Author: Ewan Ross
- Page: 19
- Language: English
VERY Saturday afternoon the children of Britain sit transfixed before the television set as B.B.C.'s science-fiction series "Dr. Who" transports them to other worlds and other times.
And always their eyes come nearest to saucer-size when Dr. Who is locked in mortal combat with the Daleks-the metallic-voiced monsters that look like pepper-pots, run on wheels and hate everybody.
Now, a full-length colour film, DR. WHO AND THE DALEKS (Studio One), has been made.
In the film, stitched together from seven episodes of the TV series, the original cast has hero of countless horror films been replaced. Peter Cushing takes over from William Hartnell as Dr. Who, Jennie Linden is his grown-up granddaughter Barbara. TV comic Roy Castle her boy friend, Ian, and Roberta Tovey little Susan, the doctor's other granddaughter.
They are all plunged into adventure when Dr. Who is showing Ian his spaceship-cum-time machine, the Tardis.
Ian, a clumsy young man, knocks over a vital lever. Lights blink, glass tubes glow, and the Tardis and its occupants vanish from the face of the earth.
They land on a mysterious planet where a terrible catastrophe has reduced a forest to ashes and twisted stumps. Not far away. gleaming like World's Fair pavilion, is mysterious, futuristic city.
Dr. Who investigates with the others. In no time flat they are captured by the inhabitants. the Daleks, red lights blinking on their heads, single malevolent eye wobbling on the end of a rod.
The Daleks. it seems. are trying to exterminate the Thals - the only other inhabitants of the planet left after a nuclear war. The Daleks cannot go outside their city because of radiation hazards. So they send Susan back to the Tardis for drugs which they believe will protect them against radiation. On the way. Susan meets the Top Thal, a handsome man with bare chest, aluminium hair, and green eye-shadow.
The Thals are tricked into going into the city, promised food by the Daleks. The Dr. Who party warns them and escapes with them. Then the allies attack the evil city. It all ends in a fireworks display of exploding valves and electric sparks as the Daleks are destroyed.
CHARMING
Best of the cast is little Roberta Tovey, playing Susan. She is charming. natural and, fittingly, cleverer and braver than any adult. Peter Cushing dithers and mumbles as the dotty old doctor. Miss Linden looks lovely-and looks most of the time as if she can't understand how she got mixed up in this madness Roy Castle makes Ian an excellent ham-handed. reluctant hero.
The Daleks. glowing, spitting death in all directions, grinding out their "de-stroy-the-Thals" lines like robots with laryngitis, are as they ever were, one of the finest creations for children since Bambi.
Should you take your children to see it? Have you any choice?
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- APA 6th ed.: Ross, Ewan (1965-06-27). The Daleks March Again. Sunday Express p. 19.
- MLA 7th ed.: Ross, Ewan. "The Daleks March Again." Sunday Express [add city] 1965-06-27, 19. Print.
- Chicago 15th ed.: Ross, Ewan. "The Daleks March Again." Sunday Express, edition, sec., 1965-06-27
- Turabian: Ross, Ewan. "The Daleks March Again." Sunday Express, 1965-06-27, section, 19 edition.
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