Doctor Who: 10 Things Everyone Always Gets Wrong About The Daleks

[@WhoCulture]

So, anyone fancy some Dalek bread?

[@TakxGaming]

Yes please

[@badwolf66]

Goes nice with a bit of Kaled Soup :P

[@Jaziem]

Garlic Dalek bread? 😂

[@julianaylor4351]

Dr Who recipes on Pinterest. ♥️

[@HouseSanity]

It's the future

[@epicbanana3669]

Honestly with the whole "Daleks are robots" thing, I've just given up and will quietly respond "I mean they aren't really, but close enough. Let's continue" whenever anyone calls them a robot.

[@bennett4789]

how often could this possibly happen LOL

[@epicbanana3669]

@@bennett4789 quite a lot. I have a few friends who know that Daleks are a bad guy thing, but don’t watch the show, so they don’t realise they aren’t robots.

[@wolfehoffmann2697]

Yup, not only are they not robots, they had an entire civil war over a difference on opinion of what the line between too much machine/cybernetic enhancement is.

[@joshpetzoldt6344]

They are in The Lego Batman Movie and are literally called "British Robots", so clearly the makers of that film are guilty of this mistake.

[@MollieFrieWeevilGenius]

They are Krang from TMNT

[@neilgodwin6531]

In the Dalek books of the 60's, the dome lights were to "expel surplus energy" or something. In reality, the reason they synch with dialogue is simply so the viewer knows which Dalek is speaking in a scene with two of the pepperpots having a "conversation". Especially important back in the days of mono sound and black and white 405 line TV (how did we survive?)

[@adrianhjordan1981]

As a child I only ever saw Doctor Who in black and white, all the way through to the end of McCoy's run....!!

[@petegaslondon]

OK, but .. supposing they DID communicate acoustically (having come from some fairly humanoid life forms originally) THEY might need to know who's talking in an echoey metal spaceship, now thier voices have lost human nuance..? Course I'm sure they could do a few other 'modulated light' things,..? Just thinking out loud...

[@BlakeFaeMorton]

Funny story about Vulcan. In the 19th century it was a theoretical planet in our solar system. So a lot of early Sci-Fi stories include mention of it as a bit of an homage to early astronomy.

[@janus1958]

Right. It was supposed to orbit nearer the Sun than Mercury and was proposed to account for the extra precession of Mercury's orbit. Then Einstein's General Theory of Relativity was able to explain it without needing Vulcan to exist.

[@RicStorm616]

lol I totally read that with Sheldon Cooper's voice in my head 😂😂😂

[@tzarg]

@@RicStorm616 young or normal?

[@joshpetzoldt6344]

​@@RicStorm616Yes, it could be one of his fun facts

[@DanielWright-np3fq]

When I hear the magic words, "Hello, I'm Ellie with WhoCulture!" it makes little fireworks of happiness fire in my brain, much like opening a new issue of Doctor Who Magazine. I love a fresh "issue" of WhoCulture with our best pal, Ellie.

[@cardinalhamneggs5253]

04:10 Personally, I always thought the Dalek Gunstick looked more like the business end of a paint roller (without a paint roll on it).

[@TheValeyard92]

Also, fun fact for no. 6: the Dalek emperor in the comics had a complete crown of about seven dome lights circling around the back of his head.

[@oobtty]

The one in the "DALEKS!" miniseries also had like 5-6 of 'em iirc

[@TakxGaming]

I love when new WhoCulture videos come out, they just make my day much better

[@DanielWright-np3fq]

Ha! Great minds think alike!😁

[@igorschmidlapp6987]

When Ellie's WhoCulture videos come out, they just make my day much better... ;-)

[@so1opiniao]

I always wonder how Ellie's gonna include River in the list 😂

[@FreihEitner]

Any way that she can.

[@WhoCulture]

Even if it isn’t in the script, she finds a way!

[@hannahwatermelon]

The “davros is a dalek” situation is like the exact opposite of the Frankenstein’s monster situation!

[@random-person1]

not a dalek story per se, but something from my childhood i have never forgotten. when i was very *very* young, i lived in a children's home called "the grange" in coventry (uk). the building was massive, standing 3 story's above ground and one below. the front entrance (which was rarely used) had a huge wooden door that must have weighed a good few kilos. the other side of the front door showed off a rather grand staircase and an equally grand entrance hall. somewhat surprisingly, there stood an entrance guard that was none other than a full sized dalek, complete with a hinged door at the rear that opened up to reveal enough room for a full sized adult with a small stool. sadly our dalek didnt have any wheels so we werent able to move it about. years later i found out that it had been used in a few of the doctor who episodes but had needed some repair after falling over, breaking the dome. and so was given to the children's home for some reason? the bbc had replaced the dome and put a hard wooden floor in so that no-one could get hurt should this thing fall over. and to be fair, the bloody thing frightened the life out of me the first time i saw it!!!

[@SHINOBI-03]

"Daleks can't use stairs" is one of those gripes of mine

[@henrykujawa4427]

In the comics from the 1960s, they were always shown with the ability to HOVER. It was nice when the show finally showed that in the mid-late 80s. (One actually was hovering in "Revelation", but the shot was so badly done you might not be sure what you're looking at. No such confusion with that cliffhanger in "Remembrance", when Sylvester McCoy sees one coming up the stairs behind him!)

[@Jedi_Spartan]

5:50 Maybe that misconception got spread around in the late Tom Baker era and the Peter Davison era after the release of Destiny of the Daleks (apparently the 2nd most watched Doctor Who story on broadcast) which had lines like "The Daleks have finally met a foe worthy of their powers, ANOTHER race of robots." and other lines that imply that the war they were in was a case of robots vs robots.

[@cptblood1981]

For #10 so let me this straight, just because the FULL prop isn't in the scene there is no Dahlek in the scene. If that logic holds NEITHER IS THE ACTRESS BECAUSE WE CAN'T SEE PART OF HER!!!

[@RicStorm616]

Yes I would say they had 2 first appearances 1. Part appearance 2. Full appearance

[@ftumschk]

The fact that Moffat debunked the idea that Daleks must appear because of a contractual obligation to the Terry Nation estate firmly puts this myth to bed. Not only was he one of the longest-running show-runners/producers of Doctor Who, but his mother-in-law was Terry Nation's agent!

[@B__C__]

While Davros is not a Dalek, he is genetically similar enough (being a Kaled) to be affected by the Movellan virus as seen in _Resurrection of the Daleks._

[@themirrorsofmymind]

*_"I am not a Dalek! I AM DAVROSSSSSSS!"_* Poor old bugger. 😏

[@richardoverton4425]

I thought it is mentioned that the virus attacks the Daleks' circuitry and not the creature which would mean Davros's chair which must support his life essentials such as nutrition and excretion as well as mobility would be susceptible to it?

[@wolfehoffmann2697]

@@richardoverton4425 I can't find any mentions of it attacking circuitry. Every mention of it is that it goes after the biological component, the Kaled mutant. I think it shows how bad the writing was getting at that point that a genius scientist wouldn't consider for a moment that he'd have the same DNA was a species directly derived from his species.

[@rgnestle]

I'm sorry, love! But that's NOT a whisk the Daleks tote around, but a camping clothes dryer! I have two of them, my self, and have just decided to use one of them for a fancy dress party later this year when I go as Dalek in a tuxedo! 🥰 BTW, loved the video!

[@brookead]

They're not bumps. They're etheric beam locators!

[@bryancorrell3689]

In Resurrection of the Daleks Davros literally yells "I am not a Dalek!" As he is getting messed up by an anti-Dalek virus. Guess he forgot that Daleks are just a mutated form of Kaled.

[@robstoppablecosplay]

Great video. People calling the Daleks Robots was and is my biggest pet peeve. My all time favourite Dalek stories are The Dalek Invasion of Earth and Genesis of the Daleks.

[@thirtyfoursevenzero]

Genesis and Dalek(2005) for me...although I HATED the novelisation of the latter.

[@joshpetzoldt6344]

You wouldn't be a fan of The Lego Batman Movie then, where they appear and are called "British Robots"

[@sp1midholm]

3:30 I'm sure in Genesis of the Daleks the 'a' of Kaled was pronounced exactly like the 'a' of Dalek - i.e. Karled

[@therealpbristow]

... or rather, "Kah-led". I mean, when the GP says "Say ahh" and looks down your throat, do people think he wants them to talk like a pirate?!? =:o}

[@RustyShackleford101]

People thought Davros was a Dalek? But....they wanted to kill him in Genesis Of The Daleks because he wasn't a Dalek.....?

[@tenzhitihsien888]

I always thought the "egg whisk" was the skeleton of a paint roller.

[@margarethall1625]

I love the Daleks! Favourite enemy of the Doctor, well, next to the Master. Favourite story with them would be Remembrance of the Daleks, Resolution and Eve of the Daleks. Can't go wrong with Ace and her baseball bat.

[@MadHax-wt5tl]

Actually Ace did go very wrong with her baseball bat, as the actress smashed an actual Dalek prop, not realising it was supposed to be swapped out with a "stunt" Dalek.

[@Legendary3Dgamer]

Please do this again but with Cybermen

[@WhoCulture]

Good idea - we’ll consider it!

[@igorschmidlapp6987]

@@WhoCulture "Cybermen" or "Cybamen"? That should get you going.... ;-P

[@jmurray1110]

Technically it didn’t start as an egg whisk it was a paint roller with the brush part taken off

[@newsmith]

As a long time Canadian fan, I have always heard Darlek. Perhaps it is due to the accent that we over the pond have always thought it was pronounced with an R.

[@BadBadAngel3]

Ellie at 2:17 you pronounced the story as: The Quantum Arch Angel. It should be pronounced: The Quantum Ark Angel. Sorry for being pedantic 😅

[@brookead]

OK... So now that we are doing things you don't know about that include pronunciation, we need a "10 things you didn't know about Omega" so we can teach Ellie how to say it properly. :) :) :) :)

[@geoffroi-le-Hook]

At first, in The Hand of Omega, I thought they were saying 'Oh my God.'

[@TheIrvy]

We should probably also point out that it's pronounced "ark-angel" and not "arch-angel" ;)

[@DrWhoFanJ]

@@geoffroi-le-HookNone of Omega’s three stories are called that.

[@stephenhumphreys9149]

@@DrWhoFanJ No, but they probably meant the Hand of Omega device in Remembrance of the Daleks.

[@adrianhjordan1981]

How else would you pronounce it than "oh-may-ga"??

[@talahar123]

Definitely had some Mandela effect there because I was so sure the Daleks were spelled Darleks. Yowza! O_O

[@VuddyProductions]

it always INFURIATES ME when someone says daleks are robots. happens around me more than you'd think

[@joshpetzoldt6344]

Don't watch The Lego Batman Movie then. It features Daleks, but calls them "British Robots".

[@VuddyProductions]

@@joshpetzoldt6344 nahhhh what

[@igorschmidlapp6987]

Those dancers just look creepy now that the Dalek likeness is planted in my head.... ;-)

[@ItsDissolver]

It would be awesome if you made one of these about the weeping angels!

[@GabePuratekuta]

Again?

[@thirtyfoursevenzero]

Relevance to the Daleks?

[@loopylinguist7716]

Before I ever got into Doctor Who, I always used to say Daleks looked like bins with flashing lights. Yeah, I thought the bumps were lights 😂

[@digitaldeathsquid3448]

I mean, the bumps do give them a bit of a disco look

[@taliesinllanfair4338]

Really enjoyed Day of the Daleks.. Aubrey Woods played a great bad guy in that.

[@ploppysonofploppy6066]

Outstanding sci fi construct your Dalek. Not a great Who fan, but what do you get when a human turns its back on humanity? The Dalek fits the bill in every way.

[@WayneFawcett-v1h]

The Dead Planet used to be the common collective name for the 7 part first Dalek serial, so it is/was the first appearance of a Dalek. (no idea why or who decided to change it, it's a much better name than The Daleks If anyone knows, feel free to enlighten me, I first noticed the change in Doctor Who Magazine)

[@raywood8187]

As an American, I would say Dalek is just pronounced Dahlek. Saying there's no R so it can't be pronounced that way does not fit my sensibilities or does putting an R in just to ignore it. Or pronouncing a hard R where there isn't one. If it was spelled Darlek then I would do a hard R and pronounce it that way. Oh well, you speak the language of whatever place in which you learned it so no right or wrong, now now, let's not go exterminating! 🤣

[@CTheRobot]

How did you spend so much time banging on about how we pronounce the A in Dalek, when you keep pronouncing the E as an i? We know it doesn’t rhyme with Garlic… it’s DalEHHHHK 😫😂

[@lharrowing]

9:20 the planet Vulcan was originally hypothesised to exist in our universe, until astronomers discovered that it didn't. I believe that this is why it has been used in multiple sci-fi franchises, rather than being an "original Roddenberry creation".

[@hollymatton474]

I remember watching the series 1 episode Dalek for the first time and my mum got so excited when the dalek elevated up the stairs to get rose and adam, she said "Finally, they found a way to get them up stairs." 😂😂😊

[@robertjackson3552]

5 October 1988 remembrance of the daleks (Sylvester McCoy) was the first time

[@Jellybelly98]

@@robertjackson3552 everyone seems to forget that

[@hollymatton474]

Sorry my mistake, thanks for pointing this out 😊😊

[@ekij133]

Also before Daleks elevated, we just _levelled the building_

[@juliet1203_]

Literally just watching this to see how many i know. Once i have, there will be an edit (probably after a scroll) saying how many i knew and which ones i did/didnt Edit: surprisingly, the only one I didnt know was number 4. However, I do have something to say about 6. The Red Supreme having a third light isn't the only Dalek to have one, so I believe that it is about identifying a higherarchy within the Daleks. In the short online animated series DALEKS, the emperor had 4 lights on its dome. So I think that it was something the Daleks adapted in the Time War as there are other Daleks within there that have multiple lights on the dome, such as the Time Controller Dalek (I believe also has three, don't quote me, may have two double check)

[@Pooter-it4yg]

The word for "far" or "distant" in most Slavic languages is "daleko" with the a short as in cat and the single stress on the o. Possibly just coincidence.

[@stuartcastle2814]

Didn''t know that thing about the BBC being sued by someone who claims he invented Davros as an entry to a competition..

[@the_once-and-future_king.]

Dome lights? Dome lights? They are luminosity dischargers, thank you very much!

[@stuartdavis4711]

The dome lights are called luminosity dischargers and their bumps are called sensor globes or hemispherical detectors

[@darrenrichardson6146]

I always thought it pronounced "Dah-Lek" with a silent "H"

[@therealpbristow]

Yes! Thank God I'm not the only one. Open "ahh" sound with a flat, relaxed tongue, not the tighter "arr" with tongue lifted.

[@shrewman]

I always thought that Tennant says dalek right, sounds more alien and feel like the R isn’t rlly heard

[@TolaSrrup]

Whatever fans that thought any of these were true before this vid needs to turn in their Whovian cards.

[@alaskanativemanitou9340]

I have never thought of of a salt shaker (or pepper pot as you say in the UK). They have always looked like small tanks to me, with the eyestalk resembling a turret. I do admit to calling them Darleks as a child, until I saw the spelling & corrected myself. I can confirm that to someone raised to speak American English it does sound like many of the British actors are making an R sound.

[@igorschmidlapp6987]

In "Genesis of the Daleks",they actually turned on Davros, speaking for themselves...

[@RicStorm616]

Yes the Daleks paraded around in front of Davros modelling Victoria Secret lingerie 😂🤣

[@jetfire1153red]

4:48 you’re forgetting the ones that swapped the energy weapon for a machine gun.

[@ala5530]

And the ones that swapped the plunger for a gripping claw.

[@Poliss95]

Cusick said it could just as easily have been a salt cellar that he used to demonstrate the Dalek's movement.

[@shshyie]

Don't you dare tell me my mum was correct in taunting me all these years by saying "dah-lik"

[@Charliefarley170287]

I laughed way too hard at Dardis.😂

[@thirtyfoursevenzero]

I'd never (in 62 years) heard that "word". It is just so stupid and irrelevant.

[@johnglielmi6428]

Ah but you forget that Davros had said himself in story that he used his own cells to create the DALEKs, but I don't understand the spelling considering that Tom Baker had said the DALEK was KALED spelled backwards in an episode. I also love hearing the iconic ELLIE's intro's and outro's to WHOCULTURE videos. will never forget the "IN THE WORDS OF RIVER SONG HERSELF, GOODBYE SWEETY" Thanks Ellie for always making your videos so entertaining and educational for anyone WHO might not be a WHO fan.

[@theperceptor9287]

Actually I believe Tom said the name Kaled was an anigram of the word Dalek which is a word with the same letters in a different order. Assuming my memory is still working lol.

[@MadHax-wt5tl]

Th Kaled people were being affected by the radiation and chemical weapons used in their endless war with the Tharls. Davros original experiment was to take the mutation to its final form, as he believed the mutation was another form of evolution. The Daleks were the result of that experiment, and were considered to be a completely new species, not Kaled but evolved from their DNA. At the end of Genesis of the Daleks, the Daleks turned on Davros because he wasn't a Dalek. Davros kind of missed the whole genius bit in the evil genius thing with that one.

[@ChrisMentzer]

In Rembrance of the Daleks, Davros was revealed as the Emperor Dalek.

[@stephenhumphreys9149]

An emperor dalek. There have been several :-)

[@chrisharris4146]

But they were Daleks that he specifically recreated to only obey him.

[@remandstimpy]

It's not only the planet Vulcan exists in the Dr Who universe. According to the subtitles (7:38) the Doctor discovered a "derel STC". A certain other faction of half human/half machine creatures wish to know more.

[@tdpuuhailee8222]

Adeptus Mechanicus

[@igorschmidlapp6987]

The imposing shot down the Dalek plunger! Strikes fear in the hearts of viewers everywhere! ;-)

[@discodisconicky]

Call me controversial but I love the new paradigm daleks

[@MJN_SEIFER]

I like them too, they're a cool idea in my opinion, and I like how each color represents the purpose of each dalek. It would have been good if they'd at least had been given a chance to show that, even if they still go back to using the traditional daleks for most episodes.

[@petefischer3820]

Eric Luskin of Chanel 23 was someone in the end who actually championed the show and brought a crew over to do a documentary about Silver Nemesis..... but he did not start out that way. And remember, The Seventh Doctor corrected Ace, at the beginning of Remembrance when she said Darlek while they were driving.

[@andrewbowman4611]

Ace said Day-lek. Seven actually corrected it to Dal-lek, but that would be McCoy's accent more than anything else. There's definitely a non-rhotic r spund in 'Dalek', though.

[@therealpbristow]

@@andrewbowman4611 To me, the correct pronunciation is "dah-lek". In a Southern English accent like mine, there's little or no audible difference between that and "dar-lek", but in various other accents there definitely would be.

[@petefischer3820]

I know where Darlek comes from. In America, PBS showed Doctor Who and they relied on pledge breaks to fund keeping the program on the air. 2 Huge competitors were Channel 12 and Channel 23 out of Philadelphia and New Jersey. During the breaks, the people who were talking about the show trying to get pledges, had little to no idea what was on the TV. They would read from cue cards or prompts to talk in American English about Doctor Who's foes, The Darleks. Trying to sound British and not having heard the word.

[@weatherwitchandfelinefamiliars]

I think this is about ten years late 🤔

[@robertmilo5203]

The Darlek bit reminds me of Australians online explaining how they pronounce a word and writing that they say "warter" or "barth" or "parsta". They write in the r to elongate the a sound, because Australian is a non-rhotic accent. Not sure how exactly "darlek" could have arisen though as you'd expect most people would have heard it spoken that way in the show and I've never seen it written like that before.

[@ultimatespiderman9962]

Drink every time she says darlek

[@ronaldnelson6692]

Weren't the orbs on the Dalek base sometimes used as mini bombs? In Resolution, they had missile launchers hidden behind them.

[@MadHax-wt5tl]

According to the Doctor Who technical manual, which came out in the 1970s. The orbs were motion sensours for detecting movement all around them. Which doesn't explain how so many people hide from them, by simply stepping round a corner and remaining quiet as a squad of Daleks trundle by.

[@stephenhumphreys9149]

According to the Master in The Curse of Fatal Death, Dalek bumps can detect ion-charged emissions, and operate as etheric beam locators. They're also extremely firm.

[@logixthedev]

I've heard theories about them being motion sensors and shield generators, the latter of which we did see in 2005's episode 'Dalek'. At the end of that same episode, the Dalek self destructs, using the spheres to generate a force field to contain the blast. It's unclear where the blast comes from, though.

[@MadHax-wt5tl]

@@stephenhumphreys9149 And apparently comic strip artists like them, because they look like boobies.

[@darkstardavros]

When I was a kid there was,and still is, a building just around the corner from where I live that had two roof grills with a dome on top that looked exactly like the back of a Dalek. As a child I would either hide behind my mum or sneak past the building hidden from view of the 'Daleks' by crouching down behind the wall. Least one of them turned around and spotted me. The building is still there. As are the grills. Although the tops are no longer dome shaped. Having been flattened over the years by whatever force was involved in flattening them.

[@rbobinsky]

I can only imagine Leonard Nimoy standing next to a Dalek on the planet Vulcan saying, ":Live Long and Exterminate"!!!!! Hahahahaha!🤣🤣🤣

[@RandallTipping]

Daleks are the end form of the Kaled people as Davros envisioned them - Davros would be a few steps back on a few potential forks in the road. The Thals - though a different race of the same world - never end up as Daleks as they naturally breed and were not created in a lab.

[@markprior2278]

"Remembrance of the Daleks" has always been my favourite Dalek story with "Genesis of the Daleks" coming in a close second.

[@stephenreardon2698]

Try watching this video with the subtitles on to see how many different ways DALEK can be spelt

[@thomaskoenig9932]

My first time I saw the daleks were in “Dalek” and I straight up thought it was being called “garlic” and I thought to myself “that’s a weird name for an alien” 😂😂

[@MadMal2024]

I am a Fan of Dr Who... have been since the William Hartnell era. (If you must know I am 67 at time of writing0. There is supposed to be what is considered the definitive History of the Daleks; but it is by no means the first. I remember getting a copy of a Paperback from a curiosity shop in Blackpool when a teenager that had a partial history of Skaro and the Daleks in particular. I won't bore you with the details; but one relative fact in that book was about the dome "Lights". As was revealed in Genesis of the Daleks; Davros "engineered" the fast mutation of the Kaled race to define the final mutated form of the race. It goes therefore without saying; that there were many stages of mutation. And obviously many iterations of "Equipment" developed. In that book; the author states that the Dome lights are in fact Excess Energy Dissipators. Early versions of the; as Davros revealed, Travel machine when encasing a mutant, didn't have the dissipators. and the mutants back then didn't have all their emotions removed. So when one of these Daleks got really angry; the build up of excess energy resulted in them literally exploding/// FX guys; that would be a one to see. As for the number of Dome lights... The Gold Emperor Dalek has been depicted as having from two to eight of them in various depictions. Some Supremes and Commanders have even had four. So two is not the standard by any means. As epicted in one episode of Sylvester McCoy's Doctor; he managed to make one self destruct just by getting it conflicted enough... so the dissipators may not be infallible. From one of their appearances it also became apparent that the dome lights have other functions too...As sensors. As for them flashing in time to the Dalek speaking... That book described that as purely coincidental. As a dalek is always angry and needs to dissipate excess energy; even when they f=talk. Hope this has clarified things a bit.

[@oobtty]

The Recon Dalek wasn't actually remote controlled. Once the casing was completed the Recon Dalek got off Lin and jumped inside, and presumably left it while the Doctor melted it. The Defence Drones were just mobile watercannons and tear gas dispensers until the cloned Dalek mutants were transmatted into the casing, and THEN they started exterminating everything.

[@wolfehoffmann2697]

I think you misunderstood what was being said. That's all in-universe. The props themselves were remote controlled for the first time, rather than controlled by someone inside.

[@JackRabbit20]

5:25 sorry but its more like a ponytail on its placement right behind the scalp of the dalek

[@lucifersdevilishdetails.]

The head light is also the special weapon Dalek with none

[@01Beaker]

When I first started watching Doctor who as a young American I had for a very long time thought they were called garlics

[@Randy_Batswinger]

Number 11: Stef Coburn's dad had nothing to do with their creation.

[@FalloutJack]

{1} A minor quibble, at best. {2} There has never been a mention of 'DARDIS' in all my time as a Doctor Who fan. I know SIDRAT, but the Dalek time machine is just the Dalek time machine, end of story. {3} When I was a child, I thought they were called Garlics, but that was because I wasn't use to people with accents. My mother and I joked about it afterwards, 'cause it was still funny. {4} Let's be honest, this is a case of calling a spade a spade. It looks like an egg whisk, and that's just what you end up calling it because it's funny. We all know they didn't start out that way, though, except the plunger. That's iconic. {5} I mean, *of course* special Daleks are going to look different. They have their pomp and circumstance too! {6} People may think they're robots, but the Doctor has always corrected anyone in-universe who thought so. People just don't pay attention. {7} As I understood it, Terry Nation's agreement was that the show should USE the Daleks regularly, because contract negotiations are weird, sometimes. I think the wording is actually that there must be an episode *featuring* the Daleks. Featuring can be interpreted as 'There were Daleks on-screen for some reason.', so that covers any episode in which it wasn't a Dalek-centric episode. {8} Daleks don't NEED Davros as a spokesperson. It's just that, sometimes, you want someone to break up "TALKING LIKE THIS!" with a more eloquent speaker. Davros is the answer to that because Daleks and long speeches tend to get awkward, after a while. You don't want Tom Baker listening to a DALEK going on about the morality of releasing an unstoppable virus across the universe, as Davros did. {9} Their look was not based upon a pepperpot. That is what people equate them to - that and trashbins - after th fact. {10} And finally, Davros is not technically a Dalek, but the Daleks are all - in essence - Kaleds, like he is. Because he is a Kaled mutant and the Daleks are Kaled mutants, the Movellan virus had an effect on him, but not a total one, since he was able to escape in Resurrection of the Daleks. (It's that darned life support system he's got.) What's odd is that the virus has an effect on their poly-carbide armor, making one harken back to *another* virus that is very deadly and has had an effect on plastic (The Andromeda Strain).

[@fluffyross2297]

I absolutely love the stolen earth, and Journeys end. Two Brilliant Dalek stories in my opinion. I loved this video, its really interesting to see what we've all been getting wrong, about the Daleks all these years. Thank you for all your awesome Doctor who videos, I look forward to seeing the next one. Allons-y!!!! 💙

[@dareka9425]

The Daleks look goofy with their tall, thin figure and extruding appendages. It's hard to see them as effective war machines pre CGI days. And yet...their design could be perfect for remote or automated police street tasks. Just replace the plunger with a net caster and egg whisk with an AR-15.

[@selena8472]

guess what I'm guilty of zero for example I never assumed what we saw in terms of Armaments was *all* they had if that was so how did they conquer so many planet??surely people on other planets had sophisticated weapons of high enough caliber to require specialist daleks and I have always said Daleks not Darlek because I knew it was Palindrome of Kaled but at the end of the day Kaled or Dalek they are both space nazis :P

[@Urban_Flux]

questions Darlek but pronounces Drawrings at the end....just another up and down vocal script reader.... heyho

[@johntaphouse5235]

i love dr who and have classic who logo tattoo, but im no fanatic, i just love the show, and though i really did try to love and watch the new who'ess i simply could not, she's annoying and certainly has no screen gravitas to which i would sacrifice myself to save her. you say "everyone" gets these facts wrong, just who(lol) is everyone, i think you meant everyone who hasnt watched most of the shows !! right ? funny though you mention all these mix ups but skirted round the one i hate the most "whittaker is the first female to play the doctor" .. that's simply not true. though not lore a gorgeous lady with massive screen presence who i would bite my arm of just to be near did a very good job but is rarely mentioned .. and i know anyone with a fairly brisk knowledge of Who (or 10 seconds access to google) will know her name

[@xaero76]

Vulcan, is not a Star Trek nor a Doctor Who thing.... Vulcan was a theoretical planet In our 19th century, the planet was thought to orbit close to our very own sun... there were strange orbit mechanics of Mercury and it was thought that the theoretical planet Vulcan would explain it

[@xedalpha1]

This is an entire list of ‘umm, well AKSHUALLY…’ level facts.

[@ThAlEdison]

2:43 To me it sounds like you're not pronouncing an 'r' in either Dalek or Garlic. I'm guessing it's the Jonathan Ross effect where r->w, but in accents near to me, the extended 'a' in Dalek is almost like it's Dawlek.

[@adrianhjordan1981]

So I should know by now that any video with phrases such as "that everyone gets wrong" is actually just going to contain things that most self respecting fans already know....

[@TheValeyard92]

My guess is that point 8 comes from the good old US of A. They seem to pronounce soft As almost as an "o" sound* over there. *"o" like "john", not "o" like "joan".

[@brendancull8316]

The name Vulcan has nothing to do with Spock. In the early days of astronomy, it was thought there was another planet between Mercury named the Sun, they named it before it was found,. then Einstein turned up with his laws of relativity and planetary motion, telling every one that's how it works, so there is no extra planet.

[@sean112178]

minor adjustment. Davros is technically an unevolved Dalek. the Daleks are supposed to be the Kaleds final evolutionary form.

[@MammothMorals]

Davros is basically a Dalek. A Kelad scientist who hasn't made the full transition. Not the exact same thing, but close enough.

[@inwalters]

5:02 - is that a scene from 'Mary Poppins vs the Daleks"? I'd love to see that. [btw, she'd kick their *sses, and then send them to bed without any supper]

[@mrfergus5915]

Third dome light could just be something that those daleks have as a way of communicating orders with every Dalek at once, it may be annoying if all daleks were in the global channel

[@c.hawker7605]

Ellie's pronunciation of Dalek isn't as bad as her pronunciation of Archangel 😂

[@johna5635]

The Daleks make a dastardly Lentil Dal, but you'd be daft not to try it... no, you don't need an "r" to make "Da..." sound like "Dah".

[@AndreiTupolev]

Essentially Daleks *are* robots though aren't they, they're mechanical devices controlled by a biological brain. One thing I've always wondered is what source of power are they supposed to use? Do they have lithium batteries? Do they have to plug in 🔌 to recharge when they're not in action?

[@AndreiTupolev]

* Another thing that might have been mentioned perhaps is how people doing impressions of Daleks always say "I am a Dalek". Why would they need to introduce themselves by saying that? Surely it's pretty bloody obvious

[@athenahitchin7738]

The Darlek name origin has always been tied to twisting and making words from Irish/Scottish Gaelic in my opinion.

[@sangmoon2464]

They're fictional, so what is true about them depends on the author. I could write a story where a pickle defeats the Daleks.

[@octaviasaenz6666]

wait hold on that Steve Clark design looks EXACTLY like Davros. How did he lose that case??

[@melisastone231]

With the third dome light arguments the cannon dalek doesn't have some lights and it's used mostly only as a canon and less as a transport and technology interacting dalek and more as only a weapon, so the one with more lights being higher powered than the cannon in a social and legal or governmental sense