Roy Knipe’s renowned cover painting for
Doctor Who:
Death to the Daleks
(1978).
Peter Archer depicted Ian attacking the glass Dalek in the 1965 paperback of
Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks.
“He
was resting on a kind of dais and his
casing was totally made of glass. Inside,
I could see the same sort of repulsive creature that the Doctor and I had taken out of the machine and wrapped in the cloak. The Dalek looked totally evil, sitting on a tiny seat with two squat legs not quite reaching the floor.”
In this scene from Chapter Nine of Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks, science teacher Ian Chesterton describes the Dalek Leader, whom he’s discovered in the Master Room of the Dalek city on Skaro. It remains one of the book’s most memorable passages – not only because the idea of a glass Dalek is so compelling, but also because, somewhat disappointingly, the scene didn’t appear in the original television serial the book was based on.
This was the very first Doctor Who novelisation, originally published by Frederick Muller in November 1964. Written by series script editor David Whitaker, this adaptation of The Mutants (aka The Daleks, 1963-64) was retitled Doctor Who and the Daleks for its 1973 Target paperback reprint. Widely regarded as one of the best Doctor Who novelisations, it offers several more surprising additions to Dalek lore – additions that never featured on screen.
In Chapter Five, for example, the Doctor and Ian open up the top of a Dalek, which they’ve disabled. The creature inside is described as having “one eye in the centre of a head without ears and a nose so flattened and shapeless it was merely a bump on the face.” Its skin is dark green and it has two short stubby arms about two feet long. Later on, after Ian has shattered the glass Dalek with a metal rod, the Doctor notices that the dead Dalek Leader has a wire attached to one leg, and deduces that it used electricity to help its heart beat.
Arnold Schwartzman interior art from the same book.
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