Template:EngvarB Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox Doctor Who episode Remembrance of the Daleks is the first serial of the 25th season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. The serial was first broadcast in four weekly episodes from 5 to 26 October 1988. It was written by Ben Aaronovitch and directed by Andrew Morgan. The serial contains many references to the history of the show, featuring settings from the first Doctor Who episode, An Unearthly Child, such as Coal Hill School and the junkyard at 76 Totter's Lane.
In the serial, alien time traveller the Doctor and his companion Ace travel back to 1963 to retrieve the Hand of Omega, a powerful device created by the Time Lords, and keep it from the Daleks. The serial is the final appearance of the Daleks in the original run and the only occasion in which the Seventh Doctor encountered them on television.
In reader polls conducted by Doctor Who Magazine from 1998 onwards, Remembrance of the Daleks has consistently been voted as one of the greatest Doctor Who stories.<ref name="1998poll"/><ref name="2003poll"/><ref name="mighty200"/><ref name="2013poll"/><ref name="2023poll"/>
PlotEdit
The Seventh Doctor and Ace arrive in Shoreditch in 1963. They meet a military unit led by Group Captain Gilmore and Sergeant Smith, tracking abnormal local magnetic fluctuations, originating mainly from Coal Hill School where a transmat device in its basement is tied to a Dalek ship in geostationary orbit. A second, weaker fluctuation is emitted by a nearby Dalek. There are two Dalek factions: Imperial Daleks on the orbiting mothership, controlling the school, and Renegade Daleks, who reject the Emperor's authority, controlling the junkyard. Both sides seek the Hand of Omega, a Time Lord device the Doctor left on Earth during his first visit to 1963.
Smith is a secret associate of Ratcliffe, leader of a group of fascists, reporting to a Renegade battle computer, which uses a schoolgirl as its eyes and ears. The Doctor has the Hand buried in a local cemetery, but Ratcliffe finds it, tipped off by Smith. Imperial Daleks arrive to seize it from the Renegades, but the Doctor and Ace defeat them and destroy their transmat. Anticipating a siege, the Doctor has Gilmore fortify the school while he disables the Renegade "time controller", fleeing with Daleks in pursuit, returning to the school just as the Imperial Daleks land. The Imperials eventually defeat the Renegades after deploying a Special Weapons Dalek, wiping out all but the Supreme Dalek, allowing Ratcliffe and Smith to escape with the controller, pursued by the schoolgirl, who kills Ratcliffe.
The Imperial Daleks take the Hand to the mothership, leaving for their home planet, Skaro. Ace follows Smith to recover the controller. The Doctor establishes communication with the Dalek Emperor, who is really their creator, Davros, who means to destroy the Time Lords with the Hand. The Doctor mocks him but then feigns fear. Davros launches the Hand, Skaro's sun goes supernova, and Skaro is destroyed, the force of the explosion also destroying the mothership. The Hand returns to Gallifrey, and Davros flees in an escape pod.
Smith captures Ace, but the schoolgirl finds them and kills Smith. The Doctor convinces the Supreme Dalek that it is the last of its species and it has no purpose anymore. The Supreme Dalek self-destructs, and the girl screams and faints, but is still alive. At Smith's funeral, The Doctor and Ace slip away contemplating that time will tell if they "did good".
ContinuityEdit
An undertaker says that he thought the Doctor was supposed to be an "old geezer with white hair," referring to his first incarnation.<ref name="fact of fiction"/>
ProductionEdit
Conception and writingEdit
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Producer John Nathan-Turner wanted to start Doctor WhoTemplate:'s twenty-fifth anniversary season "with a bang", a story with the Doctor's most famous adversaries, the Daleks. Nathan-Turner and script editor Andrew Cartmel hired 25 year old Ben Aaronovitch to write the story, who had not written for television before. He initially developed a story idea which later became Battlefield (1989), before Cartmel then commissioned Aaronovitch to write the Dalek story, originally titled Nemesis of the Doctor.<ref name="information text"/> According to deals made with Terry Nation, the creator of the Daleks, he had to approve a Dalek story if he was not writing it. Despite initial concerns, the storyline was approved.<ref name="DVDdoc"/> One of Cartmel's goals with the story was to have the Doctor be a commanding centre, rather than being "pushed and pulled" by the story as he felt had been happening recently. As such, Aaronovitch wanted there to be a spirit of the Doctor just wanting to tackle the Daleks.<ref name="DVDdoc"/> Two of the first things Aaronovitch thought of when creating the story was the 1963 setting and a Dalek climbing up stairs. He decided to reveal the Daleks in the middle of the first episode instead of as its cliffhanger, and then have a Dalek levitating up stairs to surprise viewers.<ref name="remembrances"/> The inability of Daleks to climb stairs was an urban myth and a joke, with the Doctor even joking about it in Destiny of the Daleks (1979). Remembrance was intended to put it to rest, though Cartmel noted that the joke was still prevalent.<ref name="remembrances"/> The Dalek civil war seen in Remembrance was intended to be an outcome of the previous Dalek story, Revelation of the Daleks (1985).<ref name="remembrances"/> Aaronovitch felt that destroying Skaro at the end seemed like a logical conclusion, but he noted that it might not be the best decision in the long run.<ref name="remembrances"/>
Remembrance of the Daleks, the first story in Doctor WhoTemplate:'s twenty-fifth anniversary season,<ref name="anniversary"/> contains many references to the series' past, something Aaronovitch felt was fun.<ref name="remembrances">Template:Cite video</ref> It is set in the same time and place as the programme's first episode, "An Unearthly Child", where Coal Hill School employed original companions Ian and Barbara and the Doctor's granddaughter Susan was enrolled.<ref name="remembrances"/> The Totter's Lane junkyard also reappears, as it had in season 22's Attack of the Cybermen, though "I.M. Foreman" is misspelled "I.M. Forman".<ref name="discontinuity">Template:Cite book</ref> It originally read "L.M.", though that was changeable in production.<ref name="information text"/> In one of the classrooms, Ace picks up a book on the French Revolution just as Susan had in "An Unearthly Child"; Aldred studied the original to try to mimic Carole Ann Ford's stature.<ref name="remembrances"/> The Doctor references the events of The Dalek Invasion of Earth (1964), Genesis of the Daleks (1975), Terror of the Zygons (1975), and The Web of Fear (1968), as well as likening a device to something he used in Planet of the Daleks (1973).<ref name="information text"/><ref name="remembrances"/> The Doctor mistakenly calls Group Captain Gilmore "Brigadier", a reference to Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, who had headed UNIT, an organisation similar to Gilmore's. Rachel, a scientific advisor from Cambridge, is similar to Liz Shaw, and she shares a conversation with Gilmore that is reminiscent of a conversation between the Brigadier and Liz in Spearhead from Space (1970).<ref name="remembrances"/> Rachel also bears a physical resemblance to Barbara.<ref name="remembrances"/> Remembrance of the Daleks is also contains a meta-reference; a television continuity announcer says, "This is BBC television, the time is quarter past five and Saturday viewing continues with an adventure in the new science fiction series Doc—", but is cut off by a scene change before completing the title. Aaronovitch "couldn't resist" the reference, and clarified that it was meant as a joke and was not to be taken seriously.<ref name="remembrances"/> Originally, it was intended that the show that was introduced would be called Professor X.<ref name="information text"/> Alison and Rachel make mention of a "Bernard" from the "British Rocket Group". This is a reference to Bernard Quatermass and his British Experimental Rocket Group, of the Nigel Kneale-penned Quatermass science-fiction television serials.<ref name="discontinuity" /> Several scenes from Remembrance of the Daleks were cut or edited in production. McCoy's favourite scene, in which the Doctor muses to a worker at a café, was cut by about half.<ref name="deleted scenes"/> As originally shot, Ace defused the tension between her and the Doctor when he left her at the boarding house.<ref name="deleted scenes"/> Also cut was the Doctor curing Ace's leg at the beginning of the third episode, and the issuing of instructions from the Dalek controller through an earpiece.<ref name="deleted scenes"/> In a notable deleted line, the Doctor tells Davros that he is "far more than just another Time Lord".<ref name="deleted scenes">Template:Cite video</ref> This, along with the Doctor's hints that he was present at the creation of the Hand of Omega, was part of the so-called "Cartmel Masterplan" by script editor Andrew Cartmel to restore some of the mystery to the Doctor's origins.<ref name="scriptdoctor">Template:Cite book</ref> However, as the programme ceased production in 1989, the intended revelations never came to pass.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> The original script also had the Doctor blowing up a Dalek with the anti-tank missile in episode two, but McCoy felt this was out of character and suggested Ace should do it instead.<ref name="DVDdoc"/>
CastingEdit
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To protect the secret of Davros' presence in the story, Terry Molloy was credited in part three under an anagram, "Roy Tromelly".<ref name="discontinuity"/><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Ian Ogilvy was approached for the role of Gilmore, but did not accept;<ref name="DVDdoc"/> Neil Stacy was also considered.<ref name="information text"/> The role went to Simon Williams, who was known for his role as James Bellamy in Upstairs, Downstairs. Sophie Aldred and Karen Gledhil, who had watched the programme when they were younger, were awed to work with him.<ref name="DVDdoc"/> Williams had trouble handling the character's gun and also misunderstood a stage direction in the script describing it, which earned him the nickname of "Chunky".<ref name="DVDdoc"/><ref name="information text"/> This nickname was carried on into the character, with McCoy adding the line, "...why his men call him 'Chunky' I've no idea."<ref name="DVDdoc"/>
The computer was voiced by John Leeson, who previously played K-9. Leeson was asked to make his voice sound like Davros', to trick viewers into thinking the computer was Davros, and watched past episodes for reference.<ref name="information text"/> Michael Sheard was chosen to play the headmaster as he would be familiar to children.<ref name="DVDdoc"/> Sheard had to be released from his work on Grange Hill to participate; Peter Tilbury was briefly considered for the role if Sheard could not make it.<ref name="information text"/> Sheard had previously appeared in The Ark (1966), The Mind of Evil (1971), Pyramids of Mars (1975), The Invisible Enemy (1977), and Castrovalva (1982).<ref name="information text"/> Peter Halliday, who played the blind Vicar, had also appeared in various Doctor Who stories.<ref name="information text"/> Stratford Johns, who had previously appeared in Four to Doomsday, was originally considered for Ratcliffe.<ref name="information text"/> Mark McGann, the brother of Eighth Doctor actor Paul McGann, was originally considered for the role of Mike Smith.<ref name="DVDdoc"/><ref name="information text"/> Pamela Salem had roles in two Fourth Doctor serials, as one of the Xoanon voices in The Face of Evil, and as Toos in The Robots of Death (1977).<ref name="information text"/> Simon Williams, Karen Gledhill, and Pamela Salem reprised their roles in this serial in an audio spin-off series for Big Finish titled Counter-Measures, which details the adventures of the group after this story.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Remembrance of the Daleks was the first story in which Ace was a regular companion,<ref name="DVDdoc"/> having joined at the end of Dragonfire.<ref name="information text">Template:Cite video</ref> Cartmel worked with Aldred to make Ace different from most companions: less of a "screamer" and more tomboyish.<ref name="aldred interview"/> Aldred recalled that taking on the Daleks made her feel like a "real assistant".<ref name="aldred interview">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Aldred did many of her own stunts, bonding with the new stunt coordinator, Tip Tipping. She found the experience "terrifying" at first.<ref name="DVDdoc"/> Aldred has said that she is proud of the scene where Ace beats up a Dalek with a baseball bat, calling it one of the best things she has done in her life.<ref name="DVDdoc"/><ref name="aldred interview"/> Aldred was also trained in firing guns for the scene where she shoots a Dalek.<ref name="DVDdoc"/>
Filming and effectsEdit
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The director, Andrew Morgan, wanted to improve upon his last effort, Time and the Rani (1987). Feeling that the script was worth it, extra money was put into the production.<ref name="DVDdoc"/> However, production went over-budget by £13,000, and as a result Morgan was barred from directing for the programme again.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> Filming took place in April 1988.<ref name="Radio Times"/> St John's School in Hammersmith was used as Coal Hill School.<ref name="information text"/> The Kew Bridge Steam Museum in Brentford was used as the I.M. Forman junkyard.<ref name="information text"/><ref name="Radio Times"/> Filming at this location was occasionally interrupted by a radio traffic news helicopter circling overhead.<ref name="information text"/> John Nodes Funeral Service in Ladbroke Grove, London was used for the funeral parlour the Doctor retrieves the Hand of Omega from, and the graveyard where he buries the Hand is Willesden Lane Cemetery.<ref name="information text"/> The cemetery filming was attended by some Doctor Who fans who came to watch.<ref name="information text"/>
For the levitating Dalek, a scaffolding was built over the stairs, and the Dalek prop was placed in a tray that was hoisted up by a rail-mounted trolley.<ref name="DVDdoc"/><ref name="information text"/> Two of the six Renegade Daleks were reused props from the 1960s.<ref name="information text"/> Imperial Daleks were built with bigger wheels that would roll easier on location.<ref name="DVDdoc"/> Aaronovitch expected the Dalek ship to be cheap-looking and achieved with colour-separation overlay, and was surprised when a model ship was constructed and "landed" with the help of a crane.<ref name="DVDdoc"/> For the final battle sequence between the Renegade and Imperial Daleks, the BBC Effects Department's pyrotechnics were so loud and the explosions so realistic that the London Fire Brigade was dispatched to the scene by local residents who feared that an IRA bomb had gone off. McCoy recalled that after the first explosions, a number of car alarms in the neighbourhood went off, and the emergency services drivers were surprised when they arrived to see Daleks coming at them from out of the smoke.<ref name="DVDdoc">Template:Cite video</ref> The junkyard gate was part of ITV's storage facility, and the pyrotechnics not only destroyed it for the effect of the Special Weapons Dalek blowing it up, but also smashed windows in the nearby building.<ref name="DVDdoc"/> A thermal imaging camera was used for Dalek perspective shots.<ref name="information text"/>
Post-productionEdit
The first episode begins with a cold open, the second serial to have a specially-shot pretitles sequence after Time and the Rani (1987), though Castrovalva (1982) began with a reprise of Logopolis (1981) and "The Five Doctors" (1983) featured a clip from The Dalek Invasion of Earth (1964) before the title sequence.<ref name="fact of fiction"/> RemembranceTemplate:'s cold open features a shot of the Earth with audio clips from 1963, including John F. Kennedy's American University speech and Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech. Other clips from the early 60s were planned but did not make the final cut.<ref name="fact of fiction"/> Many songs from the time period can be heard in the background during several scenes in the serial.<ref name="fact of fiction"/>
Themes and analysisEdit
James Chapman, in his book Inside the TARDIS (2006), reported that the plot to revisit the Doctor's past and origins has been compared to a comic book trend in the 1980s to reinterpret the origin stories of comic-book characters. He also noted that the many continuity references in the story displayed a knowledge of the series' history, but that Remembrance of the Daleks was "neither a celebration of the Doctor Who legacy" like "The Five Doctors" (1983), "nor an exercise in fan-obsessive continuity" as was displayed in Attack of the Cybermen (1985).<ref name="chapman">Template:Cite book</ref>
The battle between Dalek factions has been likened to racism, which is apparent in the 1960s setting as Ace sees a sign that says "No Coloureds".<ref name="patheos">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="DVDtalk2002"/> The subtext was intentional, as Aaronovitch drew on the Daleks' Nazi theme and applied it to the setting. Cartmel was particularly proud of the scene and, when it was screened to BBC Head of Drama Mark Shivas, rewound the tape because Shivas had missed the sequence due to a phone call. Shivas felt that Ace should have torn the sign up, and Cartmel agreed it was a missed opportunity.<ref name="DVDdoc"/>
Broadcast and receptionEdit
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This was the first time the programme was transmitted – albeit only in the London region – with NICAM stereo sound.<ref name="discontinuity"/>
Reviews were mostly positive. Paul Cornell, Martin Day, and Keith Topping wrote in The Discontinuity Guide, "The best Doctor Who story in some considerable time, Remembrance of the Daleks reintroduced mystery and magic into the series with much intelligence and revisionist continuity".<ref name="discontinuity"/> The A.V. Club reviewer Christopher Bahn, despite noting that the production had not aged well visually, called Remembrance of the Daleks "the Seventh Doctor era at its best". He was positive towards how going back to An Unearthly Child allowed Aaronovitch and Cartmel to "showcase their new, more devious master-planner version of the Doctor", as well as the action and the character moments for Ace.<ref name="AV Club">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> DVD Talk's J. Doyle Wallis, reviewing the original DVD release, gave the story three and a half out of five stars, calling it "a good ... adventure" and noting the shift in the Doctor's personality.<ref name="DVDtalk2002">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Alasdair Wilkins of io9 called Remembrance "by a pretty wide margin the best anniversary special the show has ever done", praising the return to the 1960s and the various continuity references.<ref name="anniversary">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Patrick Mulkern of Radio Times praised the serial for "attempting to honour the programme's roots, even if, sadly, the effect is more of the present clomping all over the past", and questioned how the Doctor could have known about the Daleks in 1963 if he did not meet them until he left. He was also critical of the supporting characters and McCoy and Ace; he felt McCoy "struggles to convey gravitas" in the changes that had been made to his character, and while Aldred brought "gusto", Ace was "a peculiarly safe, middle-class rendering of a streetwise kid". Mulkern wrote that the action scenes were handled well, but some of the Daleks looked "fragile" and destroying Skaro was double genocide.<ref name="Radio Times">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> John Sinnot, reviewing the second DVD release on DVD Talk, gave the serial three and a half out of five stars. He praised the action, references, and the Doctor's active involvement in the plot, but criticised the music and also questioned how the Doctor would have been able to plant the Hand of Omega for the Daleks. Sinnot also felt the Daleks acted "stupid" in some scenes, and wrote that the relationship between Ace and Mike was "clumsy and awkward".<ref name="DVDtalk2010">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 2010, Charlie Jane Anders of io9 listed the cliffhanger to the first episode – in which the Dalek levitates up the stairs – as one of the greatest cliffhangers in the history of Doctor Who. However, Anders felt that the execution was "pants, with Sylvester McCoy pulling some dreadful faces".<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 2013, Den of GeekTemplate:'s Andrew Blair selected Remembrance of the Daleks as one of the ten Doctor Who stories that would make great musicals.<ref name="Blair 2013">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
In the Doctor Who Magazine 1988 season poll, Remembrance of the Daleks was voted as the best story of season twenty-five with 64% of the vote, 46% ahead of The Greatest Show in the Galaxy.<ref name="1998poll">Template:Cite journal</ref> Ten years later, the magazine conducted a poll of readers to find the most popular Doctor Who stories of all time for the programme's 35th anniversary; Remembrance of the Daleks was voted 6th.<ref name="1998poll"/> In 2003, the magazine conducted a poll for the programme's 40th anniversary – this time, Remembrance of the Daleks finished 7th.<ref name="2003poll">Template:Cite journal</ref> Remembrance of the Daleks placed 14th in the magazine's 2009 "Mighty 200" reader survey, which ranked the 200 Doctor Who stories made up to that point.<ref name="mighty200">Template:Cite journal</ref> In the magazine's 50th anniversary poll, released in 2014, it placed 10th.<ref name="2013poll">Template:Cite magazine</ref> In 2023, the story finished in 9th position in the magazine's 60th anniversary poll.<ref name="2023poll">Template:Cite journal</ref>
The 2021 Channel 4 drama It's a Sin contains a mocked-up scene of a fictional Doctor Who serial involving a Dalek attack in tribute to the actor Dursley McLinden, who appeared in Remembrance of the Daleks and whose life and early death from AIDS partially inspired the drama's main character played by Olly Alexander.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Commercial releasesEdit
In printEdit
Template:Infobox book Ben Aaronovitch's novelisation was published by Target Books in June 1990. Its use of a "darker Doctor and more modern approach" influenced the Virgin New Adventures, a series of more adult original novels that continued the Doctor Who story after the series was cancelled.<ref name="fact of fiction">Template:Cite journal</ref> The ancient Gallifreyan figure known as "The Other" first appears here, who had been instrumental to the Cartmel Masterplan,<ref name="ahistory">Template:Cite book</ref> and whose storyline continued into the New Adventures.<ref name="fact of fiction"/> The novelisation also references Kadiatu Lethbridge-Stewart, who became a recurring character in the New Adventures.<ref name="fact of fiction"/> Certain phrases are also translated into the Daleks' language which refer to the Doctor as the "Ka Faraq Gatri" and is variously translated as "Bringer of Darkness" or "Destroyer of Worlds". The phrase is used throughout the Virgin New Adventures series to refer to the increasingly dark actions of the Seventh Doctor and is referred to again in "Journey's End" where Davros condemns the Tenth Doctor as the "Destroyer of Worlds".
The novelisation was rereleased in 2013 as part of a 50th anniversary collection of novels reprinted for each Doctor. Remembrance of the Daleks was the only novelisation in the range.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Home mediaEdit
Remembrance of the Daleks was released on VHS with The Chase in September 1993 as a special Dalek tin set titled The Daleks: Limited Edition Boxed Set.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="programmeguide">Template:Cite book</ref> It was re-released in 2001 as part of The Davros Collection, which was a limited-edition box set, exclusive to UK retailer WH Smith.
The serial was released on DVD in the United Kingdom on 26 February 2001, remastered by the Doctor Who Restoration Team. The original Region 2 DVD release has some video effects missing from episode 1 and the start of episode 2. This was an unforeseen consequence of the Restoration Team using earlier edits of these episodes to minimise generational quality loss, made before certain effects were added.<ref name="2001DVD">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The problem was corrected with subsequent DVD releases, including Region 1. This DVD also was not able to include two songs by The Beatles, "Do You Want to Know a Secret" and "A Taste of Honey", due to copyright; the former was replaced by the Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas' version, while the latter was replaced with "generic production music".<ref name="fact of fiction"/><ref name="2001DVD"/>
The story was included as part of a limited run box set in 2003 with The Dalek Invasion of Earth and Resurrection of the Daleks.<ref>The TARDIS Library: 40th Anniversary Dalek box set</ref> A remastered version of this story was released on Region 2 in November 2007, as part of The Complete Davros Collection and as a two-disc standalone release (including the 'Davros Connections' documentary from the boxset) on 20 July 2009. It includes the effects that were mistakenly left out and songs by The Beatles that weren't clearable for the original release but subsequently fell under a blanket music licensing agreement for the UK. There is also a newly remastered stereo and 5.1 surround sound mix. In the original Davros Boxset release version, there were two total mutes of the 5.1 soundtrack during episode one. 2entertain fixed the master within a few days of release and faulty copies could be exchanged for fixed ones via mail-in. The standalone version of the release uses the fixed version. The two-disc Special Edition was delayed due to clearance issues and was held off until it was released in the United States and Canada on 2 March 2010.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
This serial was also released as part of the Doctor Who DVD Files in issue 29 on 10 February 2010, the first of the classic series to be released on the partwork.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> This marks the fourth different separate release of the serial on DVD.
In 2013, (in the USA and Australia) it was released on DVD for another time as part of the "Doctor Who: The Doctors Revisited 5–8" box set, alongside Earthshock, Vengeance on Varos, and the TV movie.
NotesEdit
ReferencesEdit
External linksEdit
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- Script to Screen: Remembrance of the Daleks, by Jon Preddle (Time Space Visualiser issue 39, May 1994)
Target novelisationEdit
- Template:Trim {{#if: | " | }}Remembrance of the Daleks{{#if: | " | }} title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- On Target – Remembrance of the Daleks
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