DALEKS MAKE HEADLINES

While, I think it’s fair to say that Doctor Who didn’t have that much  to do with the worlds of Gerry Anderson,  the Daleks, on the other hand will forever be linked by way of their inclusion in TV Century 21.

They even made a small but significant headline on the front cover of issue 2.

In the ‘Stripped For Action’ documentary on ‘The Planet of the Daleks’ DVD extras , Gerry explains that Terry Nation contacted him with the view to doing a comic strip featuring the Daleks in the upcoming TV Century 21.

Gerry went on to say he was very jealous of the creation of the Daleks in the way they moved. While he had struggled to make convincing robots in his series, here was a ’robot’ that moved about annoyingly convincingly. Imagine if Terry Nation had suggested that Gerry do a puppet series based on the Daleks.

Ah, what if!

The strip, written by David Whittaker featured the story of the creation of the Daleks  many years prior to Dr Who coming across them.

Rather than having a Nazi influence that would take place many years later in the TV series, this strip took its influences’ more from the Roman Empire,  and showed the Daleks building up their fearsome and all conquering reputation.

The strip ended after two colourful years with the Daleks about to conquer Earth.

As we see The Daleks made plenty of headline news for TV Century 21 so as far as I’m concerned the Daleks are a welcome addition to the worlds of Gerry Anderson.