Genesis of the Daleks

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Story Code: 4E / Season 12 UK Airdate: 8 Mar to 12 Apr 1975 Doctor: Tom Baker
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This story aired in the following known countries. They are listed in chronological order according to known airdate. If no month is noted, the actual airdate is not confirmed, and is a close approximate. (Refer also to Selling Doctor Who for expanded airdates.)

Super Channel replacement credits in 1987 for Genesis of the Daleks with Sylvester McCoy title sequence and logo
United Arab Emirates 76? PAL
Australia Mar 77 PAL
United States* Sep 78 NTSC
Hong Kong Nov 78 PAL
Gibraltar Nov 78? PAL
Canada Dec 78 NTSC
Brunei Mar 79 PAL
Nigeria Apr 79 PAL
Chile May 79 NTSC
Mexico Jun 79 NTSC
Puerto Rico Dec 79? NTSC
Swaziland Jan 80 PAL
Costa Rica Feb 80 NTSC
Ecuador Apr 80 NTSC
Colombia May 80 NTSC
Nicaragua Aug 80 NTSC
Brazil 80? PAL
Venezuela 81 NTSC
Honduras? ? NTSC
Bahrain Jan 82? PAL
  • (*) The US date is based on the airdates for WTEV, which was the first US station to screen the initial package of 98 Tom Baker episodes.
  • This story was dubbed into Spanish (for Latin America); French; Catalan, Galician and Spanish (for Spain); and Japanese; and subtitled in Swedish.
  • A number of the countries that screened The Sontaran Experiment and Revenge of the Cybermen did not screen Genesis of the Daleks. There could be any number of reasons why this would be the case, such as: censorship, or it was too hard to dub the Dalek voices satisfactorily, or there were rights issues with Terry Nation and his agent which excluded the serial from being sold by the BBC...
  • This story was often shown after Revenge of the Cybermen, the stories being screened in production code order.


Reissue

  • The story was reissued in the mid-1980s, during the THIRD WAVE of sales.
Canadian poster (in French) for the "Director's Cut" shown in Canadian cinemas in 2018
Sri Lanka Jun 84? PAL
Saudi Arabia mid-85? NTSC
Barbados/Saint Lucia Feb 86 NTSC
Trinidad & Tobago Mar 86 NTSC
Armed Forces Network Apr 86 NTSC
Bahamas Oct 86 NTSC
Taiwan* Nov 86 NTSC
Greece Feb 87 SECAM
Seychelles Mar 87 PAL
New Zealand May 87 PAL
Spain Mar 88 PAL
Ghana Oct 88 PAL
France Feb 89 SECAM
Japan Aug 89 NTSC
Sweden Oct 96 PAL
Poland Jun 02 PAL
  • (*) The screening in Taiwan was as a four-parter (and subtitled in Chinese). (But it's possible this was actually a listing printing mix up and what was actually screened was Destiny of the Daleks.)
  • The story was released on DVD in the Netherlands in the mid-2000s.
  • A subtitled DVD was also issued in Brazil in 2016.
  • To mark the release of the Season 12 Blu-ray set, the edited down 86-minute omnibus that had aired in 1975 was shown in select cinemas in the US on 11 June 2018, and later at Cineplex cinemas in Canada on 14 June 2018. Advertisements for this - which had both English and French variants - billed it as "The Director's Cut".


US TV Guide descriptions

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Title: Genesis of the Daleks

  • Part 1: The Doctor is stranded on war-torn Skaro—the planet of the Daleks.
  • Part 2: Sarah faces the wastelands alone, while the Doctor meets a Dalek.
  • Part 3: A new threat is unleashed when the Kaled dome is destroyed.
  • Part 4: Davros turns against his allies.
  • Part 5: The Daleks revolt against Davros.
  • Part 6: The Daleks take over.
  • Compilation: The Doctor is stranded on war-torn Skaro—the planet of the Daleks.
  • Compilation 1/2: The Doctor is stranded on war-torn Skaro—the planet of the Daleks.
  • Compilation 2/2: Sarah faces the wastelands alone, while the Doctor meets a Dalek.


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