"COME AND MEET THE DALEKS..."

Having begun their own snooping of the colony, the Doctor, under the guise of 'The Examiner', with Ben and Polly in tow, penetrates the secret hatch on the alien capsule, discovering the cobwebbed shells of two inert Daleks. As our hero knows, it takes just one Dalek to cause maximum destruction, and where there are two, there are normally more somewhere...

Rehearsal shot taken, prior to the Daleks being set-dressed with cobwebs.

The Doctor with two of the unique pieces of Dalek metal.

Which he uses to gain further access into the vessel's interior.

Images: Derek Dodds Estate, Don Smith/Radio Times, BBC

Another great shot of the Daleks taken during studio rehearsals.

'POWER's DRAMATIS PERSONAE!

Scientist Lesterson (Robert James) witnesses the true cunning and power of the Daleks!

Vulcan, in the Earth year of 2020. housing a human colony full of diverse characters - a highlight of The Power of the Daleks, all of whom ambitiously vie for their own kind of influence and power, and all proving ripe for manipulation and later extermination by the seemingly servant-like and docile Daleks, the menaces from Skaro cleverly keeping their numbers secret whilst working within their unearthed vessel, readying to take-over the colony.

Images: BBC/Don Smith/Radio Times/Derek Dodds Estate

Left to right: Bragen (Bernard Archard), Quinn (Nicholas Hawtrey, seated) and Hensell (Peter Bathurst).

Janley (Pamela Ann Davy) in the sabotaged Communications Room.

The supporting cast watch with Ben and Polly as The Doctor examines the alien capsule.

A WALK INTO DANGER!

Newly arrived on the unusual mercury-geysered world of Vulcan, this quirky 'renewed' Doctor decides to go out for a stroll, but ultimately lands himself in trouble, discovering a soon-slain man and manipulated by an unknown foe into becoming an Earth 'Examiner' for the nearby human colony.

REGENERATION RECOVERY!

'The Destiny of Doctor Who' is revealed...

The pivotal, now revolutionary opening sequence to The Power of the Daleks. His mind at first a cacophony of musical sounds and pain, the 'renewed' Doctor gets to his feet slowly and stabilizes himself, watched by his stunned companions Ben and Polly, the former of whom being at first unable to accept that the Doctor has changed his appearance, considering him an imposter in the TARDIS, whilst the latter is more open-minded to the physical abilities of the alien space traveller. The Doctor, at times referring to himself in the past tense, makes the situation more tense, though playfully forages around for trinkets and other pieces from around the console room, including opening up a large trunk full of items. Meanwhile, the TARDIS is in flight to its next undetermined destination.

https://whopix.wordpress.com/2017/12/26/power-of-the-daleks-telecomic-1/

All images: BBC, Don Smith/Radio Times

The opening moment to The Power of the Daleks.

From Doctor Who - The Scripts: The Power of the Daleks, by David Whitaker. Edited by John McElroy. Published by TITAN BOOKS.

Interior The Tardis.

(THE DOCTOR lays unconscious on the floor, his face partially obscured by a strange glow. As POLLY and BEN look on, helpless, the glow begins to fade, and they look at each other in horror as they realise that the figure before them is no longer that of THE DOCTOR.)

Hit by disturbia waves of sound and noise.

Recovering...

Upright and examining his surroundings, then setting the TARDIS controls.

Soon adjusting his wardrobe whilst discovering a nearby trunk of collected items, The Doctor gestures his companions to come closer.

POLLY: Ben, do you remember what he said in the tracking room? Something about... "this old body of mine is wearing a bit thin."

BEN: So he gets himself a new one?

Ben and Polly are confused and wary of the new face.

Opening up a nearby trunk, The Doctor picks out a recorder then examines his 500 Year Diary.

Specially posed images of the scene taken during camera rehearsals.

Acquiring his stove pipe hat, recorder and diary.

THE DOCTOR: Life depends on change... and renewal.

BEN: Oh so that's it, you've been renewed have you?

(THE DOCTOR ignores BEN's obvious sarcasm and turns away, talking to himself, suddenly very serious.)

THE DOCTOR: I've been renewed, have I? That's it, I've been renewed. It's part of the TARDIS. Without it, I couldn't survive.

Specially posed images taken during episode recording at Riverside Studios by Don Smith for the BBC and Radio Times on 22nd October, 1966..

Episode telesnap of the new Doctor enjoying his recorder.

The Doctor performs a little jig shanty.

Troughton with trusted director Christopher Barry, both friends from previous TV work.

A wary Ben and Polly in a posed publicity image.

CELEBRATING PATRICK TROUGHTON, AND 'THE POWER OF THE DALEKS'

The Second Doctor unveiled - Patrick Troughton, an image used for the 1968 UK Doctor Who annual. Below is the restored image by Clayton Hickman.

Celebrating the new release of the updated animated version of  The Power of the Daleks on Blu-ray and DVD from 27th July, 2020, plus the centenary of Patrick Troughton's birth, enjoy this ongoing tribute to the Second Doctor's debut on UK TV, a soon-described 'Cosmic Hobo' emerging after his 'rejuvenation' from the dying body of William Hartnell incarnation, as witnessed by millions of dedicated Saturday night BBC 1 viewers from 5th November, 1966.

An image surely taken during the final costume test for Patrick Troughton's Doctor at BBC TV centre, London. The harlequin check trousers would only be worn for his first two stories then replaced.

An early reference photo presumably from Power director Christopher Barry's personal archive, used as the memorable cover to Doctor Who Magazine.

Note that Troughton would have a different bow tie by the time of filming. Restoration by Clayton Hickman.

Image restoration by Clayton Hickman.

The image in B/W (used in colour for the 1968 annual, but this time presented here in the right side). Note the yet to be painted recorder, of which the prop was the actor's suggestion in having.

First off is the earliest imagery of Troughton in visual character as the Doctor, images we assume from a costume test reference taken at BBC TV centre in the week or two leading up to filming. (Note the stove pipe hat that would disappear by the actor's third story, a haircut changed to a Beatles' mop haircut, and a different bow tie). Two colour images from the test shoot were used within the first Second Doctor annual of 1968, which would be published in the UK by World Distributors in September, 1967. The same two images (and likely a third that remains unpublished) were also used as reference for interior art in the annual's text adventures. The annual's story content and profile of the newly 'regenerated' (not 'rejuvenated') Doctor, with companions Ben and Polly, centred on their characters as written and portrayed in The Power of the Daleks. Presumably because of a tight timeline of production for the annual in early 1967 (at a time when the series future and merchandising potential may have been in doubt with Hartnell's departure), of which future decisions from the TV series production office possibly caused a delay, there was no way for World Distributors to incorporate Jamie McCrimmon as a companion, who'd be introduced in the next TV story, until 1968.

The first Second Doctor annual of 1968. The main Troughton art may have come from a very rare B/W image of The Doctor with Ben and Polly in the TARDIS, from this story.

EXHIBITION PIECE!

In all of his travels in time and space, The Doctor surely loves visiting museums of every kind. But I bet even he never expected to become a part of one, when captured by the evil Xerons during his first incarnation. Thankfully, The Doctor's human friend and companion Ian Chesterton is to the rescue during the action runaround events of The Space Museum, a tale whose time-bending first episode is memorably atmospheric and clever.

NOR IRON BARS A CAGE...

The appeal of 'The Psychic Circus' seems to have diminished for our hero, and his new friend Mags (a great performance from Jessica Martin - she'd have made a great travelling companion), newly incarcerated by the Ringmaster and his clown cronies, in this super image from The Greatest Show in the Galaxy, and one effectively used for the story's release on UK DVD by 2Entertain.

THE COST OF BETRAYAL!

Certainly one of the most memorably gruesome and adult scenes of Eighties era WHO- as villain turned hero Lytton (the always interesting and much-missed Maurice Colbourne) faces the wrath of the Cybermen, and a moment which certainly showed a tougher side to the new era of Colin Baker's incarnation.

I remember my bestie secondary school buddy and I watching the second episode of Attack of the Cybermen live on original transmission that January, Saturday in 1985, and feeling that the hand crushing was a particularly strong moment for a 6 pm time slot (and still feel that now with re-watching). That doesn't mean we didn't both think it was cool, though- that Who was continuing to feel more adult again since The Caves of Androzani, and especially when linked to the uncompromising and emotionless, brutal Cybermen.

It's great to see that the intriguing character of Lytton is returning for an all-new comic series, via his creator, Eric Saward:
http://www.doctorwhonews.net/2020/07/new-independent-comics-set-in-doctor.html

AN AMERICAN IN TARDIS!

Rescued from drowning in the waters of Lanzarote, and now in a strange new futuristic environment, plucky American student Peri Brown's mind is well and truly filled with awe and fear. So what will she make of the android Kamelion? Especially when it assumes the shape of the most despicable evil in the galaxy: The Master!

A CORNUCOPIA OF MONSTERS!

You can always judge a man by the quality of his enemies, as the saying goes, and Tom Baker's fourth incarnation certainly fought a formidable assortment, especially iconic ones, during his opening seasons, as shown with this great art from Chris Achilleos that was the cover to the Target Books second Doctor Who and the Monsters book, compiled and written by Terrence Dicks. This was a great book title which I always had close by to read when growing up in the mid-seventies.

http://chrisachilleos.co.uk/