Feature film
T he trailer promised that the Daleks would get “So close, you can feel their fire!” Subotsky claimed that he’d wanted his Daleks to shoot actual flames – extermination by incineration, perhaps – but that this was vetoed by Britain’s chief film censor, John Trevelyan, who vetted scripts in advance of production: “So we went to the other extreme and armed them with fire extinguishers!”