Destiny of the Daleks

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She's not going to get the call for Destiny of the Daleks, so she needs to make the most of it here.

Those letters were signed by Taron Capel.

Before he left, he was an important scientist.

So, the purpose of the talk, I'm just going to explain why someone from the University of York is talking about Terence Dick's archive.

Overview of what's in it, and then I'm going to do a quick deep dive into the novelisation for Destiny of the Daleks.

So, why is Terence's archive at York? We've been collecting the archives of 20th century writers for quite a while, since 2005, and on the screen, for any of you TV, radio, and stage heads, you may notice or may know some of these faces.

We've got the Goochow Preservation Society, Miles Kington, Johnny Spate, Barry Tuck, Sir Alan Aikman, Ray Galton, Alan Simpson, and Lawrence Parks and Maurice Grant, amongst many others.

As Sid says, well, you can also do this for Caves of Androzani, where there is a similar set of surviving scripts right the way through.

A little fact I discovered, the Fifth Doctor's original last line was going to be, "'Mind regenerate feels different this time," so it was all re-edited round again.

But the key thing, and I think the thing that I think is quite interesting, is that Destiny of the Daleks is one of those target novelisations that's written really quickly and is published very quickly after transmission.

So this slide here is how quickly, this is Terence's work over 1979.

But it turns out that there definitely is such a thing as pent-up demand, as tonight an astonishing 13 million people tune in for one more classic end-of-part-one Dalek reveal.

It's time for us to talk about Terry Nation's final script for the program, Destiny of the Daleks.

All right, before we get on to the Terry Nation-ness of this story, I think we need to talk about two things.

We're going to talk about the regeneration scene.

Can we talk a little bit about the ratings for this story as well? Yeah.

Just before we get on to Terry and sort of, you know, his remarkable, wonderful legacy for the series.

It makes me happy that Destiny of the Daleks is the second most watched Doctor Who story of all time.

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Well, I mean,

next week we're doing Destiny of the Daleks, and again, that's a kind of failure of the mask and the actor's lips and things.

Like, it just doesn't kind of work.

But I think they do look really good.

Thank you.

Well, that's all the time we have for this week.

We'll be back next week to watch Doctor Who's second Dalek-focused regeneration story, Destiny of the Daleks.

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But, you know, there's Siege of Doom there.

But, you know, if they wanted a Dalek story, they could have released Destiny of the Daleks.

That was still far enough ago.

But look, I mean, whatever.

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All right, brilliant.

We don't know how long it's been around.

And this guy is convinced.

He says that if you secretly, if you know what this song is about, it's like a secret history of Britain.

which I thought was wonderful.

and they're always the best ones and they look the least shonky.

But then you get Destiny of the Daleks and Nightmare of Eden and Horns of Nyman and they just look like galloping galaxies.

That's the trouble.

Oh, I love Galloping Galaxies.