Remembrance of the Daleks

148[1] – Remembrance of the Daleks
Doctor Who serial
Cast
Guest
Production
Directed byAndrew Morgan
John Nathan-Turner (uncredited)
Written byBen Aaronovitch
Script editorAndrew Cartmel
Produced byJohn Nathan-Turner
Executive producer(s)None
Music byKeff McCulloch
Production code7H
SeriesSeason 25
Running time4 episodes, 25 minutes each
First broadcast5 October 1988 (1988-10-05)
Last broadcast26 October 1988 (1988-10-26)
Chronology
← Preceded by
Dragonfire 		Followed by →
The Happiness Patrol
List of episodes (1963–1989)

Remembrance of the Daleks is the first serial of the 25th season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. The serial was first broadcast in four weekly episodes from 5 to 26 October 1988. It was written by Ben Aaronovitch and directed by Andrew Morgan.

In the serial, alien time traveller the Doctor (Sylvester McCoy) and his companion Ace (Sophie Aldred) travel back to 1963 to retrieve the Hand of Omega, a powerful device created by the Doctor's Time Lord race, and keep it from the Daleks.

The serial contains many references to the history of the show, featuring settings from the first Doctor Who episode, An Unearthly Child, such as Coal Hill School and the junkyard at 76 Totter's Lane. The serial is the final appearance of the Daleks in the original run and the only occasion in which the Seventh Doctor encountered them on television.

In reader polls conducted by Doctor Who Magazine from 1998 onwards, Remembrance of the Daleks has consistently been voted as one of the greatest Doctor Who stories of all time.[2][3][4][5][6]

  1. ^ From the Doctor Who Magazine series overview, in issue 407 (pp26-29). The Discontinuity Guide, which counts the four segments of The Trial of a Time Lord as four separate stories and also counts the unbroadcast serial Shada, lists this story as number 152. Region 1 DVD releases follow The Discontinuity Guide numbering system.
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