The 2005 ‘Doctor Who’ Revival Almost Looked Completely Different
The Doctor Who revival in 2005 hit an immediate snag when the BBC struggled to get the rights to use the daleks.
Apart from the Doctor himself, if there is one alien entity that fans of Doctor Who immediately associate with the BBC hit show, that’s the Daleks. The salt-and-pepper-shaker-looking exterminating machines - or, rather, creatures within machines - have been practically synonymous with the series ever since they were first introduced to the Who-niverse in 1963. Coming back over and over again to threaten the Doctor, his companions, and humanity as a whole, they quickly became so popular that some would argue they were even bigger than The Beatles. It is only natural, then, for the Daleks to be the very first big bads in the show’s 2005 revival. Reintroduced in the new series’ sixth episode, aptly titled “Dalek”, they were the ones that the Ninth Doctor (Christopher Eccleston) and Rose Tyler (Billie Piper) faced by the time the revamped Season 1 came to an end with “The Parting of the Ways”.
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