In earlier episodes, Davros is referred to ( albeit not by name ) twice: first in the episode " Dalek " by the Ninth Doctor, who explains that the Daleks were created by " a genius ... a man who was king of his own little world ", and again by the Tenth Doctor in the episode " Evolution of the Daleks ", where he refers to the Daleks ' creator as believing that " removing emotions made a race stronger ".

The wastes of Gallifrey include the Death Zone, an area that was used as a gladiatorial arena by the first Time Lords, pitting various species kidnapped from their respective time zones against each other ( although Daleks and Cybermen were considered too dangerous to use ).

For Destiny of the Daleks exterior scenes meant to take place on Skaro were shot in Winspit quarry.

Two episodes of MacGyver's first season were co-written by Terry Nation, a British writer best known as the creator of the Daleks in Doctor Who.

While the Doctor's other old enemies, the Daleks, were on the whole unchanged during the original series ' twenty-six season run, the Cybermen were seen to change with almost every encounter.

" However, the Daleks are actually organic life-forms that were encased in robotic shells, and thus do not possess the purported positronic brain and, in any case, do not obey the Three Laws of Robotics.

Featuring the Daleks and the Cybermen, the Daleks were voted as The Weakest Evil Creature and had to perform the Walk of Shame ; " The most embarrassing part was the walk of shame, I'm sure it never used to be three flights of stairs.

* The TARDIS console room and three of the Daleks used in the production were sourced from the people who made the Doctor Who fan production Devious.

However, the Daleks ' ability to defy gravity was first implied as far back as The Chase ( 1965 ); a Dalek was seen hovering with the aid of an " anti-gravitational disk " in the 1973 adventure Planet of the Daleks and both Davros and the Daleks were seen to hover in Revelation of the Daleks ( 1985 ).

* Originally, the Daleks were going to be armed with flamethrowers, but these were vetoed ( for fear of being too frightening, and also for health and safety reasons ) and replaced with smoke projectors.

Flamethrowers were, however, later incorporated into the Daleks seen in the TV serial The Daleks ' Master Plan broadcast later in 1965.

* The Daleks were slightly redesigned from their appearance in the television series, most noticeably in the rounded bases.

* The Dalek props seen in the film are taller than the TV Daleks, having large bumpers at the base ( Possibly to make them more imposing-the TV Daleks were only about five feet high ).

* All of the Daleks featured large, distinctive dome lights and a number were fitted with a two-jawed mechanical claw instead of a plunger.

* Some of the Daleks used in the background for ' crowd scenes ' were constructed from moulded fibreglass, and can be distinguished by the slightly different shape of the brass collars around their midsections.

Ring modulation, also known as amplitude modulation, is an effect made famous by Doctor Who's Daleks and commonly used throughout sci-fi.

He also manipulated events to bring the Doctor and Donna Noble together, who manage to defeat the Daleks.

It also claimed that the Dalek / Movellan war ( and indeed most of Dalek history before the destruction of " Skaro ") was actually faked for Davros's benefit ; the Daleks had discovered records of Skaro's destruction during their conquest of Earth, but, unable to change history, had developed an elaborate plot to bring the recorded events about while ensuring Skaro's survival.

However, the Daleks return in " Bad Wolf "/" The Parting of the Ways " ( 2005 ), and subsequently in " Army of Ghosts "/" Doomsday " ( 2006 ), " Daleks in Manhattan "/" Evolution of the Daleks " ( 2007 ), " The Stolen Earth "/" Journey's End " ( 2008 ) and " Victory of the Daleks " ( 2010 ), the penultimate of these being the series 4 finale where Davros also returns, and the final of these being the first time the Eleventh Doctor meets the Daleks.

The First Doctor was also able to unlock it with his ring (" The Web Planet ", 1965 ) and repair it by using the light of an alien sun refracted through the ring's jewel (" The Daleks ' Master Plan ").

Alien influences have also, for example, trapped the Doctor's TARDIS and drained its power in " The Web Planet " ( 1965 ) and " Death to the Daleks " ( 1974 ), while its course has been diverted by " The Keeper of Traken " ( 1981 ), the " Mandragora Helix " ( 1976 ) and by the Daleks ' " time corridor " in " Resurrection of the Daleks " ( 1984 ).

This language, like that of the Teletubbies in the 1990s, was invented by Peter Hawkins ( who also voiced the Daleks ) and was criticised for hindering children from learning proper English.

Ring modulation, also known as amplitude modulation, is an effect made famous by Doctor Who's Daleks and commonly used throughout sci-fi.

The Doctor also whistles the march in the serials The Invasion of Time, The Talons of Weng-Chiang and Destiny of the Daleks.

It was created by Terry Nation, who was also creator of the Daleks for Doctor Who.

Skaro also features prominently in the first episode of the seventh series, " Asylum of the Daleks ".

War of the Daleks also reveals that the events of Destiny of the Daleks took place on the terraformed Antalin.

Skaro is also the setting for the Peter Cushing feature film Dr. Who and the Daleks ( 1965 ) which is generally regarded as non-canonical, although the story in the film is a copy ( with some changes ) of the serial The Daleks ( naturally shortened since a feature film does not have the same running time as a 7-episode serial ).

This is also generally consistent with Dalek Caan's claim in " Daleks in Manhattan " that his planet " is gone ... destroyed in a great war ".

This may also simply be that Skaro survived the events of Remembrance of the Daleks ( as portrayed in War ).

The success of Doctor Who and the Daleks also garnered press attention for Lambert herself ; in 1964, the Daily Mail published a feature on the series focusing on the perceived attractiveness of its young producer: " The operation of the Daleks ... is conducted by a remarkably attractive young woman called Verity Lambert who, at 28, is not only the youngest but the only female drama producer at B. B. C.

Susan attempts to broker peace between the two groups, and while it appears to work, the Daleks eventually betray the Thals, opening fire on them at what was supposed to be a peaceful exchange of food.

Other than the Doctor and Susan, the Monk was the first member of the Doctor's race to appear in the programme, and the second Doctor Who villain ( after the Daleks ) to make a return appearance.

Skaro did not appear in any of the Dalek-related stories made for the rebooted Doctor Who until the seventh series, although a group of Daleks called the Cult of Skaro appear in the second series episodes " Army of Ghosts " ( briefly ) and " Doomsday ", and the third series episodes " Daleks in Manhattan " and " Evolution of the Daleks " — in the last of these the Cult threaten to turn Earth into " a new Skaro ".

In " The Pandorica Opens ", some Silurians appear in 102 AD alongside various alien enemies of the Doctor ( including alien Daleks, Sontarans, Nestenes and other species ) to imprison the Doctor in the mythical " Pandorica " in order, as they see it, to save the universe from him.

Suddenly, the Daleks appear and capture the travellers, confining them to a cell and seizing the Doctor's fluid link for inspection.

The plan fails when the Daleks appear, the Thals scatter and Susan and the Doctor are captured.

Thals as they appear in the film Dr. Who and the Daleks ( 1965 ).

They also appear in the Eighth Doctor Adventures novel War of the Daleks by John Peel, which depicts them having become a warlike society willing to destroy an inhabited planet simply as part of a trap to defeat a Dalek attack fleet-although the Doctor's disgust at their actions lends some hope that they will begin to reconsider their stance -, and the Big Finish Productions audio plays The Mutant Phase, where their attempt to use a biological weapon against the Daleks nearly creates a monstrous insectoid race, and Brotherhood of the Daleks, where the Sixth Doctor discovers a Thal project to brainwash Daleks to act as ' sleeper agents ', only for the plan to fail when the Daleks ' true natures assert themselves.

The Ogrons also appear, in the employ of the Daleks, in the Big Finish Productions audio drama Return of the Daleks.

In Destiny of the Daleks, they appear to have abandoned Skaro.

Waterfield is being coerced by the Daleks, who appear in a secret room of his shop through a time machine, and exterminate his mutinous employee Kennedy.

* Other versions of a Dalek Emperor would appear in Remembrance of the Daleks and " The Parting of the Ways ".

All four of these adverts have since been included on the DVD release of the 1979 serial Destiny of the Daleks in which both actors appear.

Sheard previously featured in The Ark and The Mind of Evil and would later appear in The Invisible Enemy, Castrovalva and Remembrance of the Daleks.

Two more elements of the Dalek hierarchy are also introduced ; the Dalek Emperor and Daleks with black domes which appear to act as the Emperor's personal guard.