Dalek

Information

Writer: Robert Shearman
Director: Joe Ahearne
Script Editor: Helen Raynor
Producer: Phil Collinson
Executive Producer(s): Russell T. Davies, Julie Gardner, Mal Young

Originally Broadcast: 30th April 2005
Duration: 45 mins
Viewing Figures (in millions): 8.6m
Production Code: 1.6
Monsters/Villains: Dalek, Henry Van Statten
Year Set: 2012
Location: Utah, Earth

Synopsis

The Doctor encounters his oldest enemy, and it's a fight to the death as Rose is caught in the middle.

Beneath the Salt Plains of Utah, billionaire collector Henry Van Statten holds the last relic of an alien race. When The Doctor and Rose investigate, they discover that The Doctor's oldest, and most deadly, enemy is about to break free...

Cast

Christopher Eccleston – The Doctor

Billie Piper – Rose Tyler

Steven Beckingham - Polkowski

Corey Johnson - Henry van Statten

Anna Louise Plowman - Goddard

Bruno Langley - Adam

Nigel Whitmey - Simmons

John Schwab - Bywater

Jana Carpenter - De Maggio

Joe Montana - Commander

Barnaby Edwards - Dalek Operator

Nicholas Briggs - Dalek Voice

Villain File: Henry Van Statten

Home Planet: Earth
Life Form: Human

Henry Van Statten was the multi-billionaire owner of the internet and the head of an American Company called GeoComTex. He was also a collector of various different alien artifacts, which he kept in his underground base, called the Vault, fifty floors under Utah. In his collection, there included a creature, which he called the a ‘metaltron’. Little did he know that he had actually acquired a Dalek, that had survived the Time War! His work partners were Diana Goddard and Adam Mitchell. The Doctor and Rose landed, in the middle of his collection, after following the Dalek’s distress signal. Van Statten showed the Doctor, gis ‘metaltron’, but the Doctor knew what it really was, and so ordered for the Dalek to be destroyed, worried of killing many people on the planet, but van Statten refused! Van Statten captured the Doctor, after the Doctor owning up to be an alien, as he wanted to find out more about his species. Rose had touched the Dalek, and the DNA had been transferred from Rose to the Dalek, but nothing was going to stop the Dalek from killing everyone it saw! It wasn't until Rose's emotions had started seeping through into the Dalek, and it became more friendly! It did not kill Rose when it had the chance to, but spared her life! In the end, it destroyed itself, after realising how much of a monster it's race was, and decided it doesn't deserve to live! After the Dalek had killed two hundred GeoComTex personnel he was taken away, mind-wiped and left on the street for keeping something so dangerous! Diana Goddard ordered this and took over.

Preceded by: World War Three - Followed by: The Long Game