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Perhaps no classic episode has benefited more from a “special edition” than Day of the Daleks. Although it tells a solid timey-wimey paradox story, the original version didn’t do justice to Doctor Who’s No. 1 monsters. They only made three rather diminutive props for the story, and the voices made Lumbergh from Office Space sound good. But when you add some convincing disintegration effects and dub new cries of “Exterminate!” from the incomparable Nicholas Briggs, it really levels up this adventure to the compelling return of the mechanical crowd-pleasers that it always should have been. What does that say about the material, though, that relatively superficial enhancements make such a difference? This bears close examination, so Blinovitch limitation effect be damned — let’s go back again to 1972.
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Story Essentials
Season 9, Serial 1
Story number: 59, per the The Pull To Open Codex
Writer: Louis Marks
Director: Paul Bernard
Producer: Barry Letts
Aired 1 January – 22 January 1972
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Season 4
Episode 44
Hosts: Pete Pachal and Chris Taylor
Music: Martin West/Thinking Fish
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