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An online DVD store in the UK had some old Doctor Who DVDs going cheap so I bought myself four – 3 Dalek ones and a Cyberman one. The first one that I watched was Genesis of the Daleks starring Tom Baker and written by Terry Nation. I grew up with the Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker Doctors so I probably saw this storyline when it was first broadcast in 1975.
I’ve got to say that this is a magnificent story. The Doctor has been set back in time to Skaro to stop the creation of the Daleks. The tone is very dark for a children’s TV series with thinly veiled references to totalitarianism, genocide and the holocaust. It stands up to the current series very well – OK the sets are a bit dodgy and Tom hams it up when he is attacked by the Dalek biological organisms – but all in all an excellent example of what the show was able to produce on a shoestring budget compared with today’s series.
