With the series' B/W era no longer relying on outside contractors, it would be up to the BBC's Visual Effects Department to handle the show's ambitious effects/model work. And The Evil of the Daleks would certainly prove to be an ambitious baptism of fire for Peter Day and MichaelJohn Harris with its model and pyrotechnics work captured at Ealing Film Studios, especially with the spectacular-for-its-time finale civil war conflict between the Daleks within their soon-in-destructive-flames city. The final on screen results in June 1967 certainly won plaudits from viewers via BBC internal audience research.
It was called 'the final end' for the Daleks by both the Doctor in onscreen voiceover and with the Powers-that-be at the BBC. But immortal and iconic villains don't stay dead for too long... thank goodness!
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| The Dalek City in devastation. |
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| The clash between re-painted Louis Marks toy Daleks begins. Note the already destroyed Dalek middle left. |
Watch colour footage of the behind the scenes filming:
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