Remembrance of the Daleks
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.
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| Directed by | Andrew Morgan John Nathan-Turner (uncredited) | ||
| Written by | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| Script editor | Andrew Cartmel | ||
| Produced by | John Nathan-Turner | ||
| Executive producer(s) | None | ||
| Music by | Keff McCulloch | ||
| Production code | 7H | ||
| Series | Season 25 | ||
| Running time | 4 episodes, 25 minutes each | ||
| First broadcast | 5 October 1988 | ||
| Last broadcast | 26 October 1988 | ||
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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.
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.
The serial is the final appearance of the Daleks in the original run and the only serial in which the Seventh Doctor encountered them in a television story.