“Every Dalek Ever!” exclaimed the front cover of Doctor Who Magazine issue 447, which was published several months ahead of the transmission of Asylum of the Daleks in 2012.
In his editorial, Tom Spilsbury ramped up the hype: “The first story of the new series is a Dalek extravaganza – featuring every Dalek that the BBC Wales team has been able to lay its hands on.” This was a mission statement originally set out in Steven Moffat’s shooting script, which described the cobweb-strewn Daleks in the gloomy asylum as “all different, every era on display”.
