Evolution of the Daleks was the fifth episode of the third series of Doctor Who. It marked the destruction of three members of the Cult of Skaro, as well as the genocide of two species and the near genocide of the Daleks.

Contents 1 Synopsis 2 Plot 3 Cast 4 Crew 5 References 6 Story notes 6.1 Ratings 6.2 Filming locations 6.3 Production errors 7 Continuity 8 Home video releases 9 See also 10 External links

Synopsis Edit

As a new Dalek Empire rises in 1930s New York, the Doctor must enter an unholy alliance.

Plot Edit

The hybrid Dalek Sec comes face-to-face with the Tenth Doctor, who has emerged from the crowd. The other Daleks wish to exterminate him, but Sec orders them to stop. As they attempt to capture him, the Doctor holds out a surprise: a radio. Using his sonic screwdriver, he causes the radio to emit a high-pitched sound which disorients the Daleks and the pig-humans. The Doctor and the captured humans run back through the sewers, catching up with Tallulah on the way. As soon as they ascend the ladder and disappear from sight, two Daleks (Thay and Caan) come into view, discussing their doubts about Dalek Sec's orders since he became humanised.

The gang arrives back at Hooverville, and the Doctor's stories are told to the crowd. Soon, a watchman sees one of the pigs and calls everyone to arm themselves. A fight breaks out between humans and pigs. Suddenly Daleks Jast and Caan arrive in the air, ready to exterminate the assembled humans. Dalek Sec watches from the Empire State Building via visual link.

Solomon tries to reason with the Daleks, saying that they are both outcasts and should work together to create a better universe. The Daleks exterminate him. Sec watches and gasps in horror as Solomon - a man whose courage he admires - falls. Furious, the Doctor steps out and demands they kill him too and spare the other residents of Hooverville. The Daleks prepare to do so, but are stopped by Dalek Sec. He asks the Doctor to return to the Daleks' genetics laboratory. The Doctor agrees, but only on the condition the Daleks do not kill the Hooverville residents. Martha asks the Doctor if she can go with him, but the Doctor refuses, saying that she should help the injured. At the same time, he slips her the psychic paper.

At the lab, Dalek Sec explains to the Doctor how he wanted to create a new race which combined Dalek and human DNA by 'formatting' the human brain, ready for information to be loaded onto it, creating new hybrids. The Daleks planned to use a gamma strike from a solar flare (which will occur in eleven minutes) which will hit the Empire State Building as an energy source. However, there are problems which only the Doctor can fix. The Doctor has no choice but to help the Daleks. He prepares the gene solution to be fed into the human 'shells'. Sec explains the new race will have the intelligence of Daleks but the emotions of a human. He also says the Daleks' obsession with universal supremacy must be removed. The Doctor is shocked that Sec is willing to eliminate the one thing that makes a Dalek a Dalek. However, seven minutes before the flare, as the Dalek DNA is pumped into the humans, a malfunction occurs. The other Daleks are overriding the system. Dalek Caan leads a mutiny, taking Sec and the Doctor hostage. They believe Sec is no longer Dalek, so they don't have to obey him. The two Daleks load pure Dalek gene solution into the humans. The Doctor and Laszlo escape to the elevator and ascend to the top of the Empire State Building.

Meanwhile, Martha and Tallulah use the psychic paper to gain entry into the Empire State Building. On reaching the top floor, they scan the blueprints of the top floor, looking for design and construction changes. They see a design change at the top of the building, where dalekanium has been added. The Doctor and Laszlo escape up the lift and meet with Martha, Frank, and Tallulah. The Doctor climbs to the top. He uses the sonic screwdriver to loosen the bolts holding the dalekanium. However, after removing one strip of dalekanium and a bolt holding another, he drops the sonic screwdriver; all he can do is hug the pole as the lightning strikes. Martha has made a makeshift lightning rod from spare pipes to divert the lightning into the elevator, just as the pig slaves arrive, killing them. The Dalek-humans awaken, and Dalek Caan designates himself the new leader. Sec states he was to be the controller, but Dalek Caan deems him unfit and orders them to take up arms (Thompson submachine gun fitted with Dalek laser weapons). The army goes into the sewers. The Doctor, Martha, Tallulah, Frank and Laszlo head for Tallulah's theatre.

At the theatre, the Doctor uses the sonic screwdriver to let the Daleks know where he is. The army breaks in. Daleks Thay and Jast enter, with Sec bound in chains and crawling like a dog. The Doctor tries to tell the Daleks what they have done to Sec is wrong, because he is the most intelligent Dalek who ever existed. They try to exterminate the Doctor. Sec, trying to reason with the others, gets up and is hit by a blast from Thay meant for the Doctor, which kills him. This angers the Doctor; he again tells the Daleks to order the Dalek-humans to kill him, but one Dalek-human repeatedly asks "Why?", and says they are not Daleks. The Doctor reveals that, because he hugged the pole as the lightning came through, some Time Lord DNA was mixed into the hybrids. This gave the Dalek-humans freedom. Jast promptly kills the Dalek-human who openly questioned orders. The other Dalek-humans return fire. Thay and Jast kill more Dalek-humans, but are overwhelmed and destroyed under the volume of fire power. Back in the building, watching via the visual link, Caan says the Dalek-humans are a failure and commands "Destruct". All the Dalek-humans clutch their heads in pain and fall to the ground, dead.

After witnessing this genocide, the Doctor arrives at the Empire State Building. He confronts Caan and offers to help. He says he is probably the only person in the universe that would show him any compassion, because he has seen enough death today - they are now both the last of their species. He does not want to see more genocide. Caan replies with "Emergency temporal shift". As the Doctor lunges forward, he vanishes.

Laszlo is on his deathbed (the pig-slaves can survive only for a few weeks). The Doctor starts to work on a solution to save him, stating, "There's been enough death today. Brand new creatures, wise old men and age old enemies!" Later, Laszlo (still a pig slave, but alive and healthy) and Tallulah are in the park. Frank comes and tells Laszlo he talked to the residents of Hooverville. They will take him in and give him a home. As always, Hooverville is where people go when they have nowhere else. As the Doctor and Martha are about to enter the TARDIS, Martha says there's somebody for everyone. The Doctor says, "Maybe". Martha asks the Doctor if he thinks he will ever see Dalek Caan again, and the Doctor responds, "Oh, yes. One day..."

Cast Edit

• The Doctor - David Tennant
• Martha Jones - Freema Agyeman
• Tallulah - Miranda Raison
• Laszlo - Ryan Carnes
• Solomon - Hugh Quarshie
• Frank - Andrew Garfield
• Dalek Sec - Eric Loren
• Man #1 - Earl Perkins
• Dalek Operators - Barnaby Edwards, Nicholas Pegg, David Hankinson
• Dalek Voices - Nicholas Briggs
• Pig slave - Paul Kasey
• Human-Dalek hybrid - Ian Porter

Crew Edit

References Edit

• Davros is alluded to by the Doctor (not by name but as the Daleks' creator).
• Dalekanium is used to attract the gamma radiation.
• The Daleks have enhanced Tommy gun like weapons for their human Daleks they create.
• The Doctor says to Martha Jones, "People are hurt, you can help them." Usually the Doctor is the one being told this.
• In one of the final shots of the episode, a slight hole can be seen where the arrow from the end of The Shakespeare Code hit the TARDIS.
• The first Dalek-Human to question the Dalek's orders is the worker that was taken away from the pig slaves after he questioned Diagoras in the previous episode.

Story notes Edit

• This is the first new series episode to use the classic ...of the Daleks title format. (So far the only new series episodes to have this format are the Eleventh Doctor episodes Victory of the Daleks, and Asylum of the Daleks. A Tenth Doctor novel, Prisoner of the Daleks, followed.)
• As is routine for post-2005 Doctor Who, a "NEXT TIME" trailer for the next episode is shown at the end of the episode.

Ratings Edit

• 6.96 million viewers - BARB figures, 18th most popular broadcast on British television that week.
• 6.5 million viewers - Overnight
• 1.04 million viewers - BBC3 Repeat

Filming locations Edit

• Some location filming took place in New York.

Production errors Edit

• Throughout the episode, Thay, Jast and Caan's recognition codes switch.
• When Dalek Thay confronts Sec about the latter's belief that the Daleks shouldn't be the supreme race anymore, Thay's recognition code is inverted.
• In the last episode and this one a Dalek has a unique symbol which is not of the Cult, but looks like Dalek Caan's symbol without the middle identification line and dot. It also has a deep voice like Caan's. So the identity of this Dalek is unknown, as all of the Cult have specified codes.

Continuity Edit

• This is the first Dalek story in the new series to be named with the title scheme "(blank) of the Daleks". The last time this was used was 19 years ago for Remembrance of the Daleks.
• Dalekanium was first mentioned in The Dalek Invasion of Earth.
• The idea of genetic purity within the Dalek race was explored in more detail in Remembrance of the Daleks, and has been a theme from their beginning.
• Caan used an emergency temporal shift to escape the Doctor. Sec previously used an emergency temporal shift in Doomsday.
• The Cult of Skaro planned to turn Earth into "New Skaro". In Silver Nemesis, the Cybermen planned to turn Earth into their base planet as the "New Mondas".
• The idea of humans being the "great survivors" re-surfaced in Utopia.
• Dalek Caan 'shifts' himself back to the Time War to save Davros. This is explained in Series 4, in The Stolen Earth.
• It is revealed in this story that Skaro was destroyed in a 'great war', presumably the Last Great Time War. In Remembrance of the Daleks the Doctor destroys Skaro in his seventh incarnation. If the Doctor was correct, perhaps the Time War started in the Doctor's Seventh Incarnation. Perhaps it started even earlier: some fans and commentators, including Russell T. Davies, speculate that the Fourth Doctor's interference in Dalek evolution formed part of the Time War. (Genesis of the Daleks) A simpler explanation, however, was that Dalek Caan was referring to the Dalek civil war. (Remembrance of the Daleks)

Home video releases Edit

• The story was released with Daleks in Manhattan, The Lazarus Experiment and 42 on the Series 3 Volume 2 DVD.
• It is also part of the series 3 DVD box set.

See also Edit

• TV: The Evil of the Daleks
• TV: Genesis of the Daleks
• TV: Revelation of the Daleks

External links Edit

• BBC Website for Evolution of the Daleks

v • e Doctor Who television stories   Seasons 1-4: First Doctor Season 1 1963 1964 An Unearthly Child • The Daleks • The Edge of Destruction • Marco Polo • The Keys of Marinus • The Aztecs • The Sensorites • The Reign of Terror Season 2 1964 1965 Planet of the Giants • The Dalek Invasion of Earth • The Rescue • The Romans • The Web Planet • The Crusade • The Space Museum • The Chase • The Time Meddler Season 3 1965 1966 Galaxy 4 • Mission to the Unknown • The Myth Makers • The Daleks' Master Plan • The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve • The Ark • The Celestial Toymaker • The Gunfighters • The Savages • The War Machines Season 4 1966 The Smugglers • The Tenth Planet   Seasons 4-6: Second Doctor Season 4 1966 1967 The Power of the Daleks • The Highlanders • The Underwater Menace • The Moonbase • The Macra Terror • The Faceless Ones • The Evil of the Daleks Season 5 1967 1968 The Tomb of the Cybermen • The Abominable Snowmen • The Ice Warriors • The Enemy of the World • The Web of Fear • Fury from the Deep • The Wheel in Space Season 6 1968 1969 The Dominators • The Mind Robber • The Invasion • The Krotons • The Seeds of Death • The Space Pirates • The War Games   Seasons 7-11: Third Doctor Season 7 1970 Spearhead from Space • Doctor Who and the Silurians • The Ambassadors of Death • Inferno Season 8 1971 Terror of the Autons • The Mind of Evil • The Claws of Axos • Colony in Space • The Dæmons Season 9 1972 Day of the Daleks • The Curse of Peladon • The Sea Devils • The Mutants • The Time Monster Season 10 1972 1973 The Three Doctors • Carnival of Monsters • Frontier in Space • Planet of the Daleks • The Green Death Season 11 1973 1974 The Time Warrior • Invasion of the Dinosaurs • Death to the Daleks • The Monster of Peladon • Planet of the Spiders   Seasons 12-18: Fourth Doctor Season 12 1974 1975 Robot • The Ark in Space • The Sontaran Experiment • Genesis of the Daleks • Revenge of the Cybermen Season 13 1975 1976 Terror of the Zygons • Planet of Evil • Pyramids of Mars • The Android Invasion • The Brain of Morbius • The Seeds of Doom Season 14 1976 1977 The Masque of Mandragora • The Hand of Fear • The Deadly Assassin • The Face of Evil • The Robots of Death • The Talons of Weng-Chiang Season 15 1977 1978 Horror of Fang Rock • The Invisible Enemy • Image of the Fendahl • The Sun Makers • Underworld • The Invasion of Time Season 16 1978 1979 The Key to Time: The Ribos Operation • The Pirate Planet • The Stones of Blood • The Androids of Tara • The Power of Kroll • The Armageddon Factor Season 17 1979 1980 Destiny of the Daleks • City of Death • The Creature from the Pit • Nightmare of Eden • The Horns of Nimon • Shada (unbroadcast) Season 18 1980 1981 The Leisure Hive • Meglos • Full Circle • State of Decay • Warriors' Gate • The Keeper of Traken • Logopolis   Seasons 19-21: Fifth Doctor Season 19 1982 Castrovalva • Four to Doomsday • Kinda • The Visitation • Black Orchid • Earthshock • Time-Flight Season 20 1983 Arc of Infinity • Snakedance • Mawdryn Undead • Terminus • Enlightenment • The King's Demons Children in Need 1983 The Five Doctors Season 21 1984 Warriors of the Deep • The Awakening • Frontios • Resurrection of the Daleks • Planet of Fire • The Caves of Androzani   Seasons 21-23: Sixth Doctor Season 21 1984 The Twin Dilemma Season 22 1985 Attack of the Cybermen • Vengeance on Varos • The Mark of the Rani • The Two Doctors • Timelash • Revelation of the Daleks Season 23 1986 The Trial of a Time Lord: The Mysterious Planet • Mindwarp • Terror of the Vervoids • The Ultimate Foe   Seasons 24-26: Seventh Doctor Season 24 1987 Time and the Rani • Paradise Towers • Delta and the Bannermen • Dragonfire Season 25 1988 1989 Remembrance of the Daleks • The Happiness Patrol • Silver Nemesis • The Greatest Show in the Galaxy Season 26 1989 Battlefield • Ghost Light • The Curse of Fenric • Survival   TV Movie: Eighth Doctor TV Movie 1996 Doctor Who   Series 1: Ninth Doctor Series 1 2005 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   Series 2-4: Tenth Doctor Series 2 2005 2006 Mini-episode Children in Need Special Christmas special The Christmas Invasion Regular episodes 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 Series 3 2006 2007 Christmas special The Runaway Bride Regular episodes Smith and Jones • The Shakespeare Code • Gridlock • Daleks in Manhatten / Evolution of the Daleks • The Lazarus Experiment • 42 • Human Nature / The Family of Blood • Blink • Utopia / The Sound of Drums / Last of the Time Lords Animation The Infinite Quest Series 4 2007 2008 2009 2010 Mini-episode Time Crash Christmas special Voyage of the Damned Regular episodes 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 • The End of Time Mini-episode Music of the Spheres Animation Dreamland For the purposes of this list, "series 4" is considered to be the production series 4, which ran all the way from Time Crash to The End of Time.   Series 5-present: Eleventh Doctor Series 5 2010 Regular episodes The Eleventh Hour • The Beast Below • Victory of the Daleks • The Time of Angels / Flesh and Stone • The Vampires of Venice • Amy's Choice • The Hungry Earth / Cold Blood • Vincent and the Doctor • The Lodger • The Pandorica Opens / The Big Bang Series 6 2010 2011 Christmas special A Christmas Carol Mini-episodes Space / Time Regular episodes Spring Half: 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 Autumn Half: Let's Kill Hitler • Night Terrors • The Girl Who Waited • The God Complex • Closing Time • The Wedding of River Song Mini-episodes Death Is the Only Answer Series 7 2011 2012 2013 Christmas special The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe Mini-episode Good as Gold Regular episodes Autumn Half: Asylum of the Daleks • Dinosaurs on a Spaceship • A Town Called Mercy • The Power of Three • The Angels Take Manhattan Mini-episode The Great Detective Christmas special The Snowmen Regular episodes Spring Half: The Bells of Saint John • The Rings of Ahkaten • Cold War • Hide • Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS • The Crimson Horror • Nightmare in Silver • The Name of the Doctor Despite marketing language by the BBC, The Adventure Games are not televised episodes, and therefore are not included on this list. 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v • e Dalek television stories Major The Daleks • The Dalek Invasion of Earth • The Chase • Mission to the Unknown • The Daleks' Master Plan • The Power of the Daleks • The Evil of the Daleks • Day of the Daleks • Planet of the Daleks • Death to the Daleks • Genesis of the Daleks • Destiny of the Daleks • Resurrection of the Daleks • Revelation of the Daleks • Remembrance of the Daleks • Dalek • Bad Wolf / The Parting of the Ways • Doomsday • Daleks in Manhattan / Evolution of the Daleks • The Stolen Earth / Journey's End • Victory of the Daleks • The Big Bang • Asylum of the Daleks Minor The Space Museum • The Wheel in Space • The War Games • The Mind of Evil • Frontier in Space • Logopolis • The Five Doctors • Doctor Who • Army of Ghosts • Human Nature • The Waters of Mars • The Pandorica Opens • The Wedding of River Song Because of the ubiquity of this race, no attempt will be made here to list every appearance in every medium. Instead, we focus on televised appearances here, and invite you to explore a complete list of appearances elsewhere.

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