Better Hide Your Wallet, Cause the Daleks are Coming
- Publication: Los Angeles Times
- Date: 1964-11-24
- Author:
- Page: 15
- 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.: (1964-11-24). Better Hide Your Wallet, Cause the Daleks are Coming. Los Angeles Times p. 15.
- MLA 7th ed.: "Better Hide Your Wallet, Cause the Daleks are Coming." Los Angeles Times [add city] 1964-11-24, 15. Print.
- Chicago 15th ed.: "Better Hide Your Wallet, Cause the Daleks are Coming." Los Angeles Times, edition, sec., 1964-11-24
- Turabian: "Better Hide Your Wallet, Cause the Daleks are Coming." Los Angeles Times, 1964-11-24, section, 15 edition.
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