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10.20.2011

The Daleks – pitch perfect

If early Doctor Who was conceived as serial drama, designed to draw you back week after week, then the Daleks is a high water mark. Watching again, I am struck by it’s series of pitch perfect cliffhangers, each one making the… Read more

10.13.2011

Posted by Daniel

The Ambush

The shocking truth of the Daleks becomes clear: they are more than just unfeeling machines or robots. There are living, breathing creatures inside the machines, and as the time travelers escape their cell, a gnarled, clawed hand extends from beneath… Read more

The Stories

First Doctor

Quinnis (BFA)
The Alchemists (BFA)
An Unearthly Child
The Daleks
The Edge of Destruction
Marco Polo
The Keys of Marinus
The Aztecs
The Sensorites
The Transit of Venus (BFA)
The Reign of Terror
Here There Be Monsters (BFA)
Farewell, Great Macedon (BFA)
The Fragile Yellow Arc of Fragrance (BFA)
The Masters of Luxor (BFA)
The Wanderer (BFA)
Planet of Giants
The Dalek Invasion of Earth
The Rescue
The Romans
The Web Planet
The Rocket Men (BFA)
The Crusade
The Space Museum
The Chase
The Time Museum (BFA)
The Time Meddler
Frost Fire (BFA)
Galaxy 4
Mission to the Unknown
The Daleks' Master Plan

Home Truths (BFA)

The Drowned World (BFA)

The Guardian of the Solar System (BFA)

The Anachronauts (BFA)

The Perpetual Bond (BFA)
The Cold Equations (BFA)
The First Wave (BFA)
The Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Eve
The Ark
The Celestial Toymaker
The Gunfighters
Mother Russia (BFA)
Tales from the Vault (Steven's tale; BFA)
Return of the Rocket Men (BFA)
The Savages
The Smugglers
The Tenth Planet

Second Doctor

The Power of the Daleks
The Highlanders
The Underwater Menace
The Moonbase
The Macra Terror
Resistance (BFA)
The Selachian Gambit (BFA)
The Three Companions (Polly's story; BFA)
The Forbidden Time (BFA)
The Faceless Ones
The Evil of the Daleks
The Tomb of the Cyberman
The Great Space Elevator (BFA)
The Emperor of Eternity (BFA)
Fury of the Deep
The Wheel in Space
The Three Doctors
Fear of the Daleks (BFA)
The Dominators
The Mind Robber
The Invasion
The Memory Cheats (BFA)
The Wheel of Ice (PDA)
The Jigsaw War (BFA)
The Uncertainty Principle (BFA)
The Seeds of Death
The Glorious Revolution (BFA)
Echoes of Grey (BFA)
Tales from the Vault (Zoe's tale; BFA)
Prison in Space (BFA)
The Rosemariners (BFA)
The Space Pirates
The War Games
Season 6B

Helicon Prime (BFA)

The Five Doctors

Third Doctor

Spearhead from Space
Doctor Who and the Silurians
Old Soldiers (BFA)
Shadows of the Past (BFA)
The Ambassadors of Death
Inferno
The Blue Tooth (BFA)
Terror of the Autons
The Sentinels of the New Dawn (BFA)
The Mind of Evil
The Claws of Axos
The Doll of Death (BFA)
The Mists of Time (BFA)
Colony in Space
The Magician's Oath (BFA)
Find and Replace (BFA)
Day of the Daleks
The Curse of Peladon
The Sea Devils
The Mutants
The Time Monster
The Three Doctors
The Many Deaths of Jo Grant (BFA)
Frontier in Space
Planet of the Daleks
The Green Death
The Three Companions (The Brigadier's story; BFA)
The Prisoner of Peladon (BFA)
The Time Warrior
The Paradise of Death (BBCA)
Invasion of the Dinosaurs
Death to the Daleks
The Ghosts of N-Space (BBCA)
The Monster of Peladon
Planet of the Spiders

Fourth Doctor

Robot
The Ark in Space
The Sontaran Experiment
Genesis of the Daleks
Revenge of the Cybermen
Terror of the Zygons
Planet of Evil
Pyramids of Mars
The Android Invasion
The Brain of Morbius
The Masque of Mandragora
The Pestacons (BBCA)
The Hand of Fear
The Deadly Assassin
The Face of Evil
The Robots of Death
The Talons of Weng-Chiang
The Catalyst (BFA)
Empathy Games (BFA)
Horror of Fang Rock
The Invisible Enemy
The Sun Makers
Underworld
The Time Vampire (BFA)
The Invasion of Time
Hornet's Nest

The Stuff of Nightmares (BBCA)

The Dead Shoes (BBCA)

The Circus of Doom (BBCA)

A Sting in the Tale (BBCA)

Hive of Horror (BBCA)

Demon Quest

The Relics of Time (BBCA)

The Demon of Paris (BBCA)

A Shard of Ice (BBCA)

Starfall (BBCA)

Sepulchre (BBCA)

The Key to Time

The Ribos Operation

The Pirate Planet

The Stones of Blood

Ferril's Folly (BFA)

Tales From the Vault (Romana's tale; BFA)

The Androids of Tara

The Power of Kroll

The Armageddon Factor

The Stealers from Saiph (BFA)
Destiny of the Daleks
City of Death
The End of Now (ST)
Nightmare of Eden
The Beautiful People (BFA)
The Horns of Nimon
Shada
The Leisure Hive
Meglos
E-Space Trilogy

Full Circle

State of Decay

Warriors' Gate

The Keeper of Traken
Logopolis

Fifth Doctor

Castrovalva
Four to Doomsday
Kinda
The Visitation
Black Orchid
Earthshock
Time-Flight
Time Crash
Arc of Infinity
Snakedance
Mawdryn Undead
Terminus
Enlightenment
The King's Demons
The Five Doctors
Warriors of the Deep
The Awakening
Frontios
Resurrection of the Daleks
Planet of Fire
The Caves of Androzani

Sixth Doctor

The Twin Dilemma
Attack of the Cybermen
Vengeance on Varos
The Mark of the Rani
The Two Doctors
Timelash
Revelation of the Daleks
Trial of a Time Lord

The Mysterious Planet

Mindwarp

Terror of the Vervoids

The Ultimate Foe

Seventh Doctor

Time and the Rani
Unregenerate! (BFA)
Red (BFA)
Paradise Towers
Bang-Bang-A-Boom! (BFA)
Flip-Flop (BFA)
Delta and the Bannermen
The Fires of Vulcan
Dragonfire
Remembrance of the Daleks
The Happiness Patrol
Silver Nemesis
The Greatest Show in the Galaxy
Battlefield
Relative Dementias (PDA)
Ghost Light
The Curse of Fenric
The Hollow Men (PDA)
Survival
Illegal Alien (PDA)
Matrix (PDA)
Storm Harvest (PDA)
The Genocide Machine (BFA)
Prime Time (PDA)
Heritage (PDA)
Loving the Alien (PDA)
The Algebra of Ice (PDA)
Atom Bomb Blues (PDA)
Dust Breeding (BFA)
Colditz (BFA)
The Rapture (BFA)
The Harvest (BFA)
Dreamtime (BFA)
Live 34 (BFA)
Night Thoughts (BFA)
The Veiled Leopard (BFA)
The Four Doctors (BFA)
The Settling (BFA)
No Man's Land (BFA)
Nocturne (BFA)
The Dark Husband (BFA)
Forty-Five (BFA)
The Magic Mousetrap (BFA)
Enemy of the Daleks (BFA)
The Angel of Scutari (BFA)
Project: Destiny (BFA)
A Death in the Family (BFA)
Lurkers at Sunlight's Edge (BFA)
Timewyrm

Genesys (NA)

Exedus (NA)

Apocalypse (NA)

Revelation (NA)

Cat's Cradle

Time's Crucible (NA)

Warhead (NA)

Witchmark (NA)

Nightshade (NA)
The Fearmonger (BFA)
Independence Day (PDA)
Future History

Love and War (NA and BFA)

Transit (NA)

The Highest Science (NA)

The Pit (NA)

Deceit (NA)

Lucifer Rising (NA)

White Darkness (NA)
Shadowmind (NA)
Birthright (NA)
Iceberg (NA)
Alternate Universe

Blood Heat (NA)

The Dimension Riders (NA)

The Left-Handed Hummingbird (NA)

Conundrum (NA)

No Future (NA)

Tragedy Day (NA)
Legacy (NA)
All-Consuming Fire (NA)
The Shadow of the Scourge (BFA)
The Dark Flame (BFA)
Blood Harvest (NA)
Strange England (NA)
First Frontier (NA)
St Anthony's Fire (NA)
Falls the Shadow (NA)
Parasite (NA)
Warlock (NA)
Set Piece (NA)
Infinite Requiem (NA)
Sanctuary (NA)
Human Nature (NA)
Bernice Summerfield and the Criminal Code (BFA)
Original Sin (NA)
Sky Pirates! (NA)
Zamper (NA)
Toy Soldiers (NA)
Head Games (NA)
The Also People (NA)
Shakedown (NA)
Just War (NA)
Psi Powers

Warchild (NA)

Sleepy (NA)

Death and Diplomacy (NA)
Happy Endings (NA)
GodEngine (NA)
Christmas on a Rational Planet (NA)
Return of the Living Dad (NA)
Cold Fusion (MA)
The Death of Art (NA)
Damaged Goods (NA)
So Vile a Sin (NA)
Bad Therapy (NA)
Eternity Weeps (NA)
The Room With No Doors (NA)
Lungbarrow (NA)
The Sirens of Time (BFA)
Bullet Time (PDA)
Last of the Titans (BFA)
Death Comes to Time (BBCA)
Excelis Decays (BFA)
Project: Lazarus (BFA)
Master (BFA)
Return of the Daleks (BFA)
Valhalla (BFA)
Robophobia (BFA)
The Doomsday Quartrain (BFA)
House of Blue Fire (BFA)
Protect and Survive (BFA)
Black and White (BFA)
Gods and Monsters (BFA)
Frozen Time (BFA)
The Death Collectors (BFA)
Spider's Shadow (BFA)
Kingdom of Silver (BFA)
Keepsake (BFA)
A Thousand Tiny Wings (BFA)
Klein's Story (BFA)
Survival of the Fittest (BFA)
The Architects of History (BFA)
The Lost Stories

Thin Ice (BFA)

Crime of the Century (BFA)

Animal (BFA)

Earth Aid (BFA)

UNIT: Dominion

Part One (BFA)

Part Two (BFA)

Part Three (BFA)

Part Four (BFA)

Eighth Doctor

Doctor Who
The Eight Doctors (EDA)
The Dying Days (NA)
The Company of Friends (Benny's story; BFA)
Shada (BFA)
The Company of Friends (Mary's story; BFA)
The Silver Turk (BFA)
The Witch from the Well (BFA)
Storm Warning (BFA)
Sword of Orion (BFA)
The Stones of Venice (BFA)
Minuet in Hell (BFA)
Invaders from Mars (BFA)
The Chimes of Midnight (BFA)
Living Legend (BFA)
Seasons of Fear (BFA)
Embrace the Darkness (BFA)
Solitaire (BFA)
The Time of the Daleks (BFA)
Neverland (BFA)
Zagreus (BFA)
Scherzo (BFA)
The Creed of the Kromon (BFA)
Natural History of Fear (BFA)
The Twilight Kingdom (BFA)
Faith Stealer (BFA)
The Last (BFA)
Caerdroia (BFA)
The Next Life (BFA)
Terror Firma (BFA)
Scaredy Cat (BFA)
Other Lives (BFA)
Time Works (BFA)
Something Inside (BFA)
Memory Lane (BFA)
Absolution (BFA)
The Girl Who Never Was (BFA)
Blood of the Daleks (BFA)
Horror of Glam Rock (BFA)
Immortal Beloved (BFA)
Phobos (BFA)
No More Lies (BFA)
Human Resources (BFA)
Dead London (BFA)
Max Warp (BFA)
Brave New Town (BFA)
The Skull of Sobek (BFA)
Grand Theft Cosmos (BFA)
The Zygon Who Fell to Earth (BFA)
Sisters of the Flame & The Vengeance of Morbius (BFA)
Orbis (BFA)
Hot House (BFA)
The Beast of Orlok (BFA)
Wirrn Dawn (BFA)
The Scapegoat (BFA)
The Eight Truths & Worldwide Web (BFA)
Death in Blackpool (BFA)
An Earthly Child (BFA)
The Four Doctors (BFA)
Situation Vacant (BFA)
Nevermore (BFA)
The Book of Kells (BFA)
Deimos & The Resurrection of Mars (BFA)
Prisoners of the Sun (BFA)
Lucie Miller & To the Death (BFA)
Dark Eyes

The Great War (BFA)

Fugitives (BFA)

Tangled Web (BFA)

X and the Daleks (BFA)

The Company of Friends (Izzy's story; BFA)
Vampire Science (EDA)
The Bodysnatchers (EDA)
Genocide (EDA)
War of the Daleks (EDA)
Alien Bodies (EDA)
Kursaal (EDA)
Option Lock (EDA)
The Longest Day (EDA)
Legacy of the Daleks (EDA)
Dreamstone Moon (EDA)
Seeing I (EDA)
Placebo Effect (EDA)
Vanderdeken's Children (EDA)
The Scarlet Empress (EDA)
The Janus Conjunction (EDA)
Baltempest (EDA)
The Face-Eater (EDA)
The Taint (EDA)
Demontage (EDA)
Revolution Man (EDA)
Dominion (EDA)
Unnatural History (EDA)
Autumn Mist (EDA)
Interference (EDA)
The Blue Angel (EDA)
The Taking of Planet 5 (EDA)
Frontier Worlds (EDA)
Parallel 59 (EDA)
The Shadows of Avalon (EDA)
The Fall of Yquatine (EDA)
Coldheart (EDA)
The Space Age (EDA)
The Banquo Legacy (EDA)
The Ancestor Cell (EDA)
The Burning (EDA)
Causalities of War (EDA)
Wolfsbane
The Turing Test (EDA)
Endgame (EDA)
Father Time (EDA)
Escape Velocity (EDA)
EarthWorld (EDA)
Fear Itself (EDA)
Vanishing Point (EDA)
Eater of Wasps (EDA)
The Year of Intelligent Tigers (EDA)
The Slow Empire (EDA)
Dark Progeny (EDA)
The City of the Dead (EDA)
The Company of Friends (Fitz's story; BFA)
Grimm Reality (EDA)
The Adventuress of Henrietta Street (EDA)
Mad Dogs and Englishmen (EDA)
Hope (EDA)
Anachrophobia (EDA)
Trading Futures (EDA)
The Book of the Still (EDA)
The Crooked World (EDA)
History 101 (EDA)
Camera Obscura (EDA)
Time Zero (EDA)
The Infinity Race (EDA)
The Domino Effect (EDA)
Reckless Engineering (EDA)
The Last Resort (EDA)
Timeless (EDA)
Emotional Chemistry (EDA)
Sometime Never... (EDA)
Halflife (EDA)
The Tomorrow Windows (EDA)
The Sleep of Reason (EDA)
The Deadstone Memorial (EDA)
To the Slaughter (EDA)
The Gallifrey Chronicles (EDA)

Ninth Doctor

Rose
The End of the World
The Unquiet Dead
Aliens of London & World War Three
Dalek
The Long Game
Father's Day
The Empty Child & The Doctor Dances
Boom Town
Bad Wolf
The Parting of the Ways

Tenth Doctor

Children in Need
The Christmas Invasion
New Earth
Tooth and Claw
School Reunion
The Girl in the Fireplace
Rise of the Cybermen & The Age of Steel
The Idiot's Lantern
The Impossible Planet & The Satan Pit
Love & Monsters
Fear Her
Army of Ghosts & Doomsday
The Runaway Bride
Smith and Jones
The Shakespeare Code
Gridlock
Daleks in Manhattan & Evolution of the Daleks
The Lazarus Experiment
42
The Infinite Quest
Human Nature & Family of Blood
Blink
Utopia
The Sound of Drums & Last of the Time Lords
Time Crash
Voyage of the Damned
Partners in Crime
The Fires of Pompeii
Planet of the Ood
The Sontaran Stratagem & The Poison Sky
The Doctor's Daughter
The Unicorn and the Wasp
Silence in the Library & Forest of the Dead
Midnight
Turn Left
The Stolen Earth & Journey's End
The Next Doctor
Planet of the Dead
The Waters of Mars
Dreamland
The End of Time

Eleventh Doctor

The Eleventh Hour
Meanwhile in the TARDIS 1
The Beast Below
Victory of the Daleks
The Time of Angels & Flesh and Stone
Meanwhile in the TARDIS 2
The Vampires of Venice
Amy's Choice
The Hungry Earth & Cold Blood
Vincent and the Doctor
The Lodger
The Pandorica Opens & The Big Bang
A Christmas Carol
The Impossible Astronaut & Day of the Moon
The Curse of the Black Spot
The Doctor's Wife
The Rebel Flesh & The Almost People
A Good Man Goes to War
The Battle of Demon's Run: Two Days Later
Let's Kill Hitler
Night Terrors
The Girl Who Waited
The God Complex
Closing Time
The Wedding of River Song
Space & Time
Death is the Only Answer
Night and the Doctor

Bad Night

Good Night

First Night

Last Night

Up All Night

The Doctor, The Widow and the Wardrobe
Pond Life
Asylum of the Daleks
Dinosaurs on a Spaceship
A Town Called Mercy
The Power of Three
The Angels Take Manhattan
P.S.
The Great Detective
The Snowmen
The Bells of St John
The Rings of Akhaten
Cold War
Hide
Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS
The Crimson Horror
Nightmare in Silver
The Name of the Doctor
Fiftieth Anniversary Special

Torchwood

Everything Changes
Day One
Ghost Machine
Cyberwoman
Small Worlds
Countrycide
Greeks Bearing Gifts
The Keep Killing Suzie
Random Shoes
Out of Time
Combat
Captain Jack Harkness & End of Days
Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
Sleeper
To the Last Man
Meat
Adam
Reset
Dead Man Walking
A Day in the Death
Something Borrowed
From Out of the Rain
Adrift
Fragments
Exit Wounds
Children of Earth

Day One

Day Two

Day Three

Day Four

Day Five

Miracle Day

The New World

Rendition

Dead of the Night

Escape to L.A.

The Categories of Life

The Middle Men

Immortal Sins

End of the Road

The Gathering

The Blood Line

The Sarah Jane Adventures

K9 and Company
A Girl's Best Friend
Invasion of the Bane
Revenge of the Slitheen
Eye of the Gorgon
Warriors of Kudlak
Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?
The Lost Boy
The Last Sontaran
The Day of the Clown
Secrets of the Stars
The Mark of the Berserker
The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith
Enemy of the Bane
From Raxicoricofallipatorius with Love
Prisoner of the Judoon
The Mad Woman in the Attic
The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith
The Eternity Trap
Mona Lisa's Revenge
The Gift
The Nightmare Man
The Vault of Secrets
Death of the Doctor
The Empty Planet
Lost in Time
Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith
Sky
The Curse of Clyde Langer
The Man Who Never Was

Bernice Summerfield

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