The Evil of the Daleks (2021) Animated

The Evil of the Daleks was the ninth and final serial of Season 4 of Doctor Who. It introduced Deborah Watling as new companion Victoria Waterfield.

The serial was intended to be the Doctor's final battle with the Daleks altogether, facilitating the transition of The Daleks into its own spin-off TV series, which Terry Nation hoped to produce in the USA. Although the planned TV spin-off did not pan out, the Daleks did not appear again in Doctor Who for five years except for minor cameos.

The story also marked the first true live-action appearance of a Dalek Emperor. Although this first Dalek Emperor had featured prominently in prose and comic stories for years, its sole televised appearance had been a brief, silent appearance of its likeness in the Thunderbirds episode The Man from MI.5 over a year prior.

The serial is the first story to feature a fez, later a particular favourite hat for the Eleventh Doctor.

Currently, only Episode Two exists in the BBC Archives.

The story was released on DVD and Blu-Ray on 27 September 2021, with all seven episodes animated in both black-and-white and colour, included alongside the surviving Episode Two.

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