Dalek

Doctor Who race
Daleks
Type	Kaled mutants in mechanical shells (with some exceptions)
Affiliated with	Davros
Home planet	Skaro
First appearance	The Daleks (1963)

The Daleks are a made-up alien race of mutants from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. Daleks are aliens from the planet Skaro, integrated within a tank-like metal casing. The creatures are a powerful race who always wanted universal conquest and control, they have no pity, feelings or guilt (as all of their emotions were removed except hate).

The Daleks are one of the most powerful races ever in Doctor Who history and are the Doctor's worst enemies. They cry "EX-TER-MIN-ATE!" when they are about to kill someone. They come in different colours, like bronze, black, red, white, gold, and silver. They first appeared in the first season episode of the series (in "The Daleks") and they were last seen in the Series 7 episode "Asylum of the Daleks" (2012). They are not robots, but horrible aliens kept in a metal casing, because they became mutated during a war on their planet, Skaro. They were created by an evil scientist named Davros. They can not be easily hurt by guns as their casing reflects the bullets that come from the gun and a shield melts bullets shot at them.

Daleks were created by writer Terry Nation and designed by BBC designer Raymond Cusick.^[1] They were introduced in December 1963 in the second Doctor Who serial.^[2] From their first appearance they became very popular with viewers. They appeared in many later serials and two 1960s motion pictures. The word "Dalek" has been put into the Oxford English Dictionary^[3] and other major dictionaries; the Collins Dictionary defines it rather broadly as "any of a set of fictional robot-like creations that are aggressive, mobile, and produce rasping staccato speech".^[4] Although there is no meaning to their name, "Dalek" sounds like the Norwegian word "dårlig", which means "bad" or "evil". It is also a trademark, having first been registered by the BBC in 1964 to protect its range of Dalek merchandise.

The Daleks were on a postage stamp celebrating British popular culture in 1999, photographed by Lord Snowdon.^[5]

1. ↑ "Terry Nation created the Daleks". Archived from the original on 2008-10-01. Retrieved 2008-11-06.
2. ↑ Writer Terry Nation, Director Christopher Barry, Producer Verity Lambert (1963-12-28). "The Survivors". Doctor Who. London. BBC.
3. ↑ Sheidlower, Jesse (2005-06-21). "Science Fiction Citations for OED - Dalek". jessesword.com. Retrieved 2006-12-01.
4. ↑ "Collins Dictionary Search - Dalek". Retrieved 2006-12-01.^{[permanent dead link]}
5. ↑ "Mercury and Moore head millennium stamps". BBC News Online. 1999-05-24. Retrieved 2006-12-01.