Trivia / Doctor Who S4 E9 "The Evil of the Daleks"

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• Contractual Immortality: This was meant to be the last Dalek story, and for a while it seemed to persist. However, the popularity of the pepperpot space Nazis (and Terry Nation's failure to sell a standalone Dalek series) resulted in the BBC bringing them back into the series in 1972 via "Day of the Daleks"; they've had a perpetual case of Joker Immunity since then.
• Executive Meddling: Despite the intent for this to be the end of the species, Innes Floyd and production assistant Michael Combe were apparently told at different times not to kill the Daleks. Combe decided to add one of the Dalek emperor’s bulbs still flashing to signify they weren’t completely dead.
• Exiled from Continuity: As Terry Nation was expected to sell a Dalek Pilot in America, this was intended to be the final end of the villains. But the pilot fell through, and by 1972, the Daleks returned into the main show. (This was parodied on a special feature on the DVD of "The War Games" in which two Cloudcuckoolander Time Lords dubbed into the trial sequence cut off the Doctor from showing images of the Daleks 'for copyright reasons'.)
• Fake Nationality: Trinidadian wrestler Sonny Caldinez plays Kemel the Turk. It helps that he doesn't have any dialogue.
• First Appearance: Of Victoria Waterfield.
• Missing Episode: Only Episode 2 is known to survive, leaving six episodes missing. All seven episodes were animated in colour and released in 2021.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Dalek creator Terry Nation wasn’t able to see his creation through, as he was working on getting a Dalek Spin-Off made.
  • Because of David Innes’ cutback on six-part storylines to save money, Michael Craze and Anneke Wills were let go during the making of "The Faceless Ones". Ben and Polly were intended to leave in this story.
  • A Throw It In! moment didn't make it into the episode. When the Daleks received the Human Factor, their voices started to take on more humanlike qualities, prompting Roy Skelton as "Dalek Beta" to demand of his compatriot, "What's-it-all-about-Al-PHA?" The less-than-pleased director asked him to stick to the script.
• Working Title: The Daleks, or War of the Daleks.
• You Look Familiar: John Bailey, who played Edward Waterfield, had previously appeared in "The Sensorites".
  • Sonny Caldinez (Kemel) appeared in four more Who serials after this, albeit clad in a head-to-toe fiberglass Ice Warrior costume.

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