Power of the Daleks

"Doctor Who and the Daleks", "Doctor Two and the Daleks", "Vulcan You Dig It Sucka?"

“The One with Charlie Chaplin” (USA), “Where's Willie?” (BBC Audience Research)

Doctor Who has cosmetic surgery and then pretends to be someone he isn't. Which is ironic as no one believes he is who he actually is.

*** - Without this story there would've been no Colin Baker era and that's as true as it is a fact.

Troughton: Oh my giddy aunt, oh crumbs, oh golly...

Director: Cut! Mr Hartnell, will you please come out from behind the console?

Hartnell: Ah there you are... no I don't suppose you are... what are you young people doing in my studio, hmm?

“Ben: [Picking up the old Doctor's pants.] 'The Doctor always wore these. If you are him they should fit.'

Doctor: 'I'd like to see a butterfly fit into a chrysalis case after it spreads its wings.' ”

Troughton's first line was actually scripted to be "I've got teeth - that's weird. Where was I?"

Patrick Troughton had been waiting in the BBC canteen ever since the Celestial Toymaker for the chance to replace Bill Hartnell.

Hartnell sent Troughton a congratulatory toad on his first day. The toad escaped and its many descendants still cause slimy hell in Television Centre.

The Daleks were a late addition to the script. In the original version a Sensorite was found in the swamp. Unfortunately Peter Glaze had a cemetery to open and was unable to accept the role. A temp was hired to change all the script references accordingly.

Star Trek fans smugly proclaim that they were the first to use the name Vulcan - some months before Doctor Who. Educated people reply that the Romans beat them to it by around two thousand years.

Terry Nation hated this script believing it did considerable harm to his Dalek brand. He got this opinion from the spine of an encyclopaedia which read En - Vy

It was the start of a new era.

Si Hunt

"When I was younger I made a long list of things I intended to do before I became old and lost control of my toilet functions. Eventually the time came to take Michael Craze to task for his absurd suggestion that Mr Troughton could not have been "The Doctor" because he couldn't wear Mr Hartnell's ring. I knocked briskly on his door, took out my photostat camera script in case he denied saying the line, and waited for him to answer. "Don't be pathetically stupid" I said when the door opened a couple of inches. "That is no way to judge a man. I could push my finger into Ian Devine's ring but that wouldn't make me Ian Devine. Ian Devine could, and indeed on one occasion did, slip his finger into my ring and yet no one would mistake us for each other. Putting your finger into another man's ring does not make you the same person and thinking otherwise is beneath contempt." He mumbled something about having a plate of chips going cold and slammed the door in my face. Waste not want not, that's always been my motto. Despite his poor choice of dialogue, Mr Craze went up in my estimations that night. I faced the three hundred mile drive home with a smile on my face."

Something to make you feel better about being a Dr Who fan

Regeneration... Hartlepool style