From the Vaults: Patrick Troughton Era

Covering 5th November 1966 to 2nd January 1970

Items in italics are audio-only.

  • 5th-19th November 1966: The Power of the Daleks 1-3 voiceover credits (BBC1) [1’35”]
  • 27th November 1966: The Umbrella (Sydney Newman) (CBC, Canada) [42’46”]
  • December 1966: Pardon the Expression Christmas Special (toy Daleks) (ITV) [unaired] [25’35”]
  • 1967: Daleks, il futuro tra un milione di anni (Daleks Invasion Earth 2150 A.D.) cinema trailer (Italy) [0’47”]
  • 1967: Wall’s Sky Ray Space Raider advert #1 (colour) [0’32, on The Tomb of the Cybermen:SE DVD]
  • 1967: Wall’s Sky Ray Space Raider advert #2 (B&W) [0’32, alternate b/w version – refilmed, not just dropped to b/w]
  • 17th January 1967: Points West (William Hartnell) (BBC1) [3’19”, on The Tenth Planet DVD]
  • 16th February 1967: Blue Peter (trick photography with toy Daleks) (BBC1) [0’54”]

  • 18th March 1967: The Macra Terror 2 continuity (BBC1) [0’30”]
  • 23rd March 1967: Carry On Screaming (Doctor Who gag) (movie) [0’42”]
  • 1st April 1967: The Faceless Ones trailer, next week (BBC1) [0’52”]
  • 8th April 1967: The Faceless Ones 1 Continuity (BBC1) [0’10”]
  • 20th May 1967: The Evil of the Daleks 1 continuity (BBC1) [0’12”]
  • 25th May 1967: Robot Boy (Dalek) (Pathé) [1’37”]
  • 18th June 1967: Round the Horne 3.19: BBC Wardrobe Department (Julian & Sandy mistake Horne for Dalek) (BBC Light Programme) [6’04”]
  • 6th July 1967: The Edge of Destruction 2 Arabic narration (RTT, Tunisia) [1’34”, on DVD]
  • September 1967: Wenvoe Open Day (Dalek) (amateur footage) [2’59”]

On July 22nd 1967, キングコングの逆襲 was released in Japan (and on June 19th the following year in America as King Kong Escapes). This film featured a villain by the name of Doctor Who, and while we’re reasonably certain the name is a coincidence, he does wear a suave get-up reminiscent of a bit of a Hartnell/Pertwee mix, and sometimes wears a hat just like Hartnell’s in An Unearthly Child).

  • September 1967: Wenvoe Open Day (Dalek) (BBC Wales) [unknown program] [0’48”]
  • 6th September 1967: Talkback (Kit Pedler) (BBC1) [6’10”, on Doctor Who at the BBC Volume 2 CD]
  • 14th September 1967: The Aztecs 4 Arabic narration (RTT, Tunisia) [2’07”, on DVD]
  • 21st September-5th October 1967: Planet of Giants 1-3 Arabic narration (RTT, Tunisia) [4’05”, on DVD]
  • 23rd September 1967: The Abominable Snowmen trailer, next Saturday (BBC1) [1’03”]
  • 30th September-4th November 1967: The Abominable Snowmen 1, 6 continuities, 2 technical fault (BBC1) [0’26”]
  • October 1967: BBC Open Week, Cardiff (Daleks) (BBC Wales) [unknown program] [3’59”, on The Power of the Daleks:SE Blu-ray]
  • 3rd October 1967: Talkback (schoolboy talks about time travel in Doctor Who) [0’40” clip appears in 30 Years in the TARDIS; different 0’07” clip on More Than 30 Years in the TARDIS]
  • 4th November 1967: The Ice Warriors trailer, next Saturday (BBC1) [1’24”]
  • 23rd November 1967: Pound Down (Dalek) (Movietone) [2’17”]
  • 25th November 1967: Late Night Line-Up (Jack Kine, Doctor Who props) (BBC2) [2’51”, on The Tomb of the Cybermen DVD]
  • 27th November 1967: Blue Peter (Design a Monster competition announced) (BBC1) [3’26”, on The Ice Warriors DVD]
  • 14th December 1967: Blue Peter (Design a Monster competition winners) (BBC1) [7’37”, on The Ice Warriors DVD]
  • 16th December 1967: Enemy of the World trailer, next Saturday (BBC1) [1’04”]
  • 23rd December 1967: Enemy of the World 1 continuity (BBC1) [0’16”]
  • 31st December 1967: Daily Mail Schoolboys and Girls Exhibition (Pathé) [1’09”]
  • 1968: Dalek ride at Blackpool Pleasure Beach (amateur footage) [0’20”]

  • January 1968: Daily Mail Schoolboys and Girls Exhibition (unknown newsreel) [2’09”]
  • January 1968: Television Production Planning (Christopher Barry, David Maloney, photos of Daleks) (BBC) [unaired] [37’05”]*
  • 4th January 1968: The Young Idea (Daily Mail Schoolboys and Girls Exhibition) (Movietone) [2’53”]
  • 10th Thirty-Minute Theatre 3.13 The News-Benders (Doctor Who gag, models reused in Wheel in Space & Seeds of Death) (BBC2) [2 clips] [5:53]
  • 27th January 1968: The Web of Fear trailer, next Saturday (BBC1) [1’37”]
  • 27th January 1968: Whicker’s World – A Handful of Horrors – I Don’t Want My Monsters to Have Oedipus Complexes [5’22”]*
  • 9th March 1968: Fury From the Deep trailer, next Saturday (BBC1) [0’42”]
  • 16th March – 20th April 1967: Fury from the Deep 1, 6 continuities (BBC1) [0’20”]

*The production being made is Z Cars Series 6, Episodes 103-104: What D’Yer Mean – Charity? There are at least four photos of Daleks on the wall: three from DIOE and one from Power. And the whole thing is two Doctor Who directors using techniques that they would have used on Doctor Who itself.

  • 5th April 1968: Tarbuck’s Back (TARDIS gag) (ITV) [3’04”]
  • 20th April 1968: The Wheel in Space trailer, next Saturday (BBC1) [0’47”]
  • 1st May 1968: Doctor Mysterio El Centro (The Web Planet 6 Spanish narration) (Canal 5, Mexico) [1’49”]
  • 8th – 22nd June 1968: The Evil of the Daleks 1 (with new audio), 3 (with transmission fault), 5, 7 repeat continuities (BBC1) [7’13”]
  • 27th June 1968: Miss Honeywell (robot compared to Dalek) (Pathé) [3’04”]
  • 21st July 1968: Top Gear – The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band – Beautiful Zelda (BBC Radio 1) [2’30”]*
  • August 1968: Dalek at Royal National Eisteddfod, Barry (BBC Wales) [unknown program] [1’27”, on The Power of the Daleks:SE Blu-ray]
  • 18th August 1968: Top Gear – The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band – Beautiful Zelda (BBC Radio 1) [2’52”]*
  • 10th October 1968: The Tyrant King 1.2 Don’t Walk, Run (where to now, Doctor Who?) (ITV) [0’20”]
  • 23rd November 1968: The Invasion 1 continuity (BBC1) [0’05”]

* Beautiful Zelda tells the story of a gorgeous, duplicitous space woman from Galaxy 4. The resemblance to the Drahvins from Galaxy 4 would seem like a superficial coincidence, if not for the involvement of Lyn Ashley in both. Ashley played Drahvin Three in Galaxy 4, and performed as a dancer alongside The Bonzos in the late 60s. The band also frequently collaborated with Ashley’s husband, Eric Idle. Given this connection, it seems plausible that the song was genuinely inspired by Ashley’s role in Doctor Who.

  • 26th November 1968: Tom Tom 4.22: Making Electronic Music (Radiophonic Workshop; The Power of the Daleks clip) (BBC1) [7’05”]
  • 18th January 1969: The Seeds of Death trailer, next Saturday (BBC1) [0’48”]
  • 26th February 1969: Do Not Adjust Your Set 2.2 The Bonzo Dog Band – Beautiful Zelda (ITV) [3’00”]
  • 29th March 1969: The Zoo in Winter (Krotons & Daleks referenced) (BBC2) [0’35”]
  • 1st April 1969: Out of the Unknown 3.13: Get Off My Cloud (Daleks, TARDIS) (BBC2) [5’11”]**
  • 12th April 1969: 1969.04.12 The War Games trailer, next week (BBC1) [0’22”]
  • 21st June 1969: The War Games 10 continuity (promoting Star Trek) (BBC1) [0’56”]
  • 20th November 1969: Softly Softly Task Force 1.1: Arrival (missing boy liked to play Dalek) (BBC1) [1’19”]

*full episode was 43’43”; a 37’14” edit appeared on the Power of the Daleks:SE Blu-Ray, with trims for nudity and movie clips, and with some extra footage used to cover over the edits, described below:

TimecodeEdit
1’25”Movie clips removed
2’19”Movie clips removed, zooms/pans on two pieces of art slowed down to change edit
4’08”Interview cut short, movie clips removed, establishing shot of Lee added (in TX version cuts straight to the close up of his mouth)
6’41”Movie clips removed, Dracula poster pan slowed to cover some of this
11’06”Lengthy movie clip replaced with short shot of a black cat, also removes some of the second part of the interview
17’20”Movie clips, and a little of the establishing shot of the next interview, removed
25’21”A very brief cut to the start of a shot of the girl under the cover, and moments later another cut to the end of the same shot, showing her naked
25’37”A close up shot of the naked girl talking removed, and the start of the following shot which is a repeat of the final moments before the girl talks, from a different angle (in the TX version this repeat is barely noticeable but when removing the girl would have caused an obvious loop)
26’00”Very brief cut to the end of the shot of the woman in purple just before we see the bearded man toying with his sword again
26’02”Another cut close up of the naked virgin chatting and smiling, along with some more footage of the woman in purple
34’45”Movie clips removed
35’01”Movie clips removed, along with some of the establishing interview shot following
36’43”Movie clips removed, along with some of the next establishing shot of the warehouse door
39’39”Movie clips removed, with a shot of piano artwork used to cover the gap

**this episode no longer exists, but numerous photos, the plot, and five short audio extracts exist. Jon Green and Gav Rymill produced a short reconstruction, using four of the extracts, as part of their 2019 YouTube documentary ‘Terry Nation Army’.

During 1969, the seventh season of radio sketch show I’m Sorry I’ll Read That Again was broadcast on BBC Light Programme radio. Every episode featured a Doctor Who themed skit ‘Professor Prune and the Electric Time Trousers’.

EpisodeAirdate
112th January 1969 (11’24”)
219th January 1969 (13’27”)
326th January 1969 (9’37”)
42nd February 1969 (12’55”)
59th February 1969 (10’04”)
616th February 1969 (12’52”)
723rd February 1969 (10’41”)
82nd March 1969 (11’17”)
99th March 1969 (11’56”)
1016th March 1969 (13’59”)
1123rd March 1969 (10’40”)
1230th March 1969 (12’25”)
136th April 1969 (11’32”)

Beyond the TARDIS

  • 12th December 1966: Thunderbirds Are Go (prop reused as sonic screwdriver body) (movie) [2’32”]
  • 1st July 1967: Out of the Unknown 2.13: The Prophet (robot reused in The Mind Robber) (BBC2) [1’20”]
  • 27th December 1967: Thirty-Minute Theatre 3.11: The Metal Martyr (robot reused in The Mind Robber) (BBC2) [0’31”]
  • 29th December 1967: Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons 1.14 Model Spy (prop reused as sonic screwdriver head) (ITV) [0’14”]
  • 27th July 1968: Chronicle – The Silbury Dig (archaeology, inspiration for The Dæmons) (BBC1) [39’30”, on BD]
  • 4th April 1968 Flight of Apollo-Saturn V (clip used in Revenge of the Cybermen 4) [4’02”]
  • 1969: Under the Table You Must Go (Jon Pertwee in Schloss Keller, Fleet Street) (movie) [3’29”]
  • 1969: The Body Stealers cinema trailer (spaceship from Daleks Invasion Earth 2150 A.D.) [2:16]
  • 8th February 1969: Chronicle – Realms of Gold (Aztecs) (BBC2) [49’52”, no Doctor Who links but present on The Aztecs: SE DVD]
  • 26th February 1969: Z (Les Daleks Enhavhissent La Terre poster) (movie, France) [0’19”]
  • March 1969: The Body Stealers (spaceship from Daleks Invasion Earth 2150 A.D.) (movie) [1’24”]

  • 3rd March 1969: Apollo 9 Launch (clip used in The Android Invasion 4) [1’25”]
  • 15th June 1969: Life With Johnny 1.3 Johnny Come Home (William Hartnell) (ITV) [21’25”]
  • 31st August 1969: Children’s Film Premiere (Jon Pertwee) (Pathé) [1’34”]
  • 18th November 1969: Cribbins 1.1 (Bernard Cribbins, police box from Dalek movies) (ITV) [2’20”]