The Daleks

Story Code: B / Season 1	UK Airdate: 21 Dec 1963 to 1 Feb 1964	Doctor: William Hartnell
First airings by location	UK Repeats / Foreign Cable and Satellite	Previous Story / Next Story

We have called this story by this title rather than "The Mutants", the one by which the BBC actively marketed the serial in 1964, to avoid confusion with the Jon Pertwee serial of the same name.

This story aired in the following 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.)

New Zealand	Oct 64	b/w
Australia	Feb 65	b/w
Canada	Feb 65	b/w
Singapore	May 65	b/w
Gibraltar	May 65	b/w
Malta	Jun 65	b/w
Aden	Aug 65	b/w
Nigeria	Aug 65	b/w
Rhodesia / Zimbabwe	Oct 65	b/w
Zambia	Nov 65	b/w
Trinidad & Tobago	Nov 65	b/w
Bermuda	Jan 66	b/w
Uganda	Feb 66	b/w
Jamaica	Mar 66	b/w
Ghana	Mar 66?	b/w
Cyprus	Apr 66	b/w
Barbados	May 66	b/w
Hong Kong	May 66	b/w
Kenya	Jul 66	b/w
Thailand	Sep 66	b/w
Mauritius	Nov 66	b/w
Venezuela	Mar 67	b/w
Tunisia	Apr 67	b/w
Sierra Leone	May 67	b/w
Mexico	Mar 68?	b/w
Morocco	68	b/w
Saudi Arabia	68	b/w
Iran	Jan 69?	b/w
Chile	Feb 69	b/w
Jordan	69	b/w
Ethiopia	Nov 70	b/w
Libya	72?	b/w
Algeria	Jan 74	b/w

• New Zealand sent its prints to Denmark in 1968, but the serial did not play there.
• It has been reported that Cyprus sent its prints to Uganda - and yet, Uganda screened the serial two months before Cyprus!

Reissue

• The serial was reissued by the BBC in late 1985, and sold to:

United States

from Sep 85

b/w

• Newspapers occasionally refered to this serial as Day of the Daleks.

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