Rewire a transmat so it mangles any materialising Dalek. (Remembrance of the Daleks)
Whacking a Dalek with an energised baseball bat is OK if you just want to take out an eyestalk or the odd Dalek bump. What you really need is an Anti-Tank Missile. (Remembrance of the Daleks)
Trick Davros into turning Skaro’s sun supernova. (Remembrance of the Daleks)
Talk it to death. Probably only works if its forces have been destroyed and Skaro is a burnt cinder circling a dead sun. (Remembrance of the Daleks)
Get it to absorb human DNA from a time traveller. Yes, it’ll regenerate but ultimately it’ll continue to mutate, question its own existence and self-exterminate. Job done. (Dalek)
If you’re Captain Jack and find yourself in a situation where the TARDIS has materialised around Rose and a Dalek, blast said Dalek into little bits with a big ray gun. (The Parting of the Ways)
Use the Anne-Droid to fry advancing Daleks. They are the weakest link. (The Parting of the Ways)
Stare directly into the heart of the TARDIS, absorb the Vortex and then wipe the entire Dalek race from history. Thorough, less time intensive, but risky – every cell in your body is likely to die. (The Parting of the Ways)
Get history to collapse so the Daleks are deleted from existence. Any that survive the purge will be fossilised. Even if they start to reboot, a blast of Alpha Mezon energy will kill the mutant stone dead. (The Big Bang)
Identify yourself as the Doctor. Daleks are programmed to destroy the Predator and so will self-destruct, hoping to take you out in the process. A couple of caveats: only works if a) the Dalek is unarmed, b) the Doctor’s identity hasn’t been wiped from the Dalek Pathweb. (Asylum of the Daleks)
THE DALEKS IN NUMBERS
The number of times the Daleks have banged on about their vision being impaired = 15
The number of times Daleks have insisted they will obey = 91
The number of times Daleks have claimed to be superior beings = 3
The number of times Daleks have offered someone drinks = 7
The number of times the Daleks have shrieked Exterminate or any of its variations = 469
The number of onscreen deaths caused by Daleks = 210
UNIVERSAL MONSTERS
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VAMPIRES
The Daleks fought a Count Dracula robot in the 1996 Festival of Ghana’s haunted house attraction. (The Chase)
The Doctor used to be told tales of the undead by an old hermit from the mountains of South Gallifrey. In the old time, Rassilon had led a fleet of steel bolt-firing bow ships against the vampire horde that was swarming across the universe. The Doctor would later defeat the last of the Great Vampires on a planet in E-Space. (State of Decay)
On the post-apocalyptic Earth of the year AD 500,000, humanity evolved into vampire-like monsters. Eventually the planet’s poisoned atmosphere killed even the Haemovores, but Fenric transported the last of their kind back in time to spawn a new race of blood-suckers as part of his game against the Doctor. (The Curse of Fenric)
Hiding from the Judoon in Royal Hope Hospital, a Plasmavore fugitive using the alias Florence Finnegan supped blood from her victims using a stripy straw. (Smith and Jones)
The Doctor, Amy and Rory came up against Rosanna Calvierri and her school of beautiful vampire girls in Venice, 1580. The nosferatu turned out to be fish-like aliens from the planet Saturnyne breeding in the canals of Venice. (Vampires in Venice)
FRANKENSTEIN
A robot version of Frankenstein’s monster attacked the Daleks while they chased the Doctor through the Festival of Ghana’s House of Horrors. (The Chase)
Mirroring Baron Frankenstein’s experiments, scientist Mehendri Solon stitched together scraps of corpses to build a new body for the brain of Time Lord criminal Morbius. (The Brain of Morbius)
Universal’s 1931 Frankenstein starring Boris Karloff as the creature was playing on 31 December 1999 as the Seventh Doctor regenerated in Walker General Hospital Morgue. (Doctor Who)
WEREWOLVES
The Sixth Doctor encountered the wolf-like Lukoser in the tunnels of Thoros Beta. As Dorf, he had been equerry to King Ycranos, but he had since been experimented on by the scientist Crozier. (The Trial of a Time Lord: Mindwarp)
The Seventh Doctor was trapped in the Psychic Circus ring with Mags, a werewolf from the planet Vulpana. (The Greatest Show in the Galaxy)
In the 1990s, UNIT included silver bullets in their arsenal as standard. (Battlefield)
In Scotland in 1879, the Tenth Doctor and Rose saved Queen Victoria from a werewolf-like alien the Doctor described as a Lupine-Wavelength-Haemovariform. Despite the Time Lord’s best intentions, Victoria may have been infected and perhaps passed the werewolf gene on to her descendants. (Tooth and Claw)
THE INVISIBLE MAN
The Refusians became invisible following a massive solar flare in the vicinity of their planet, Refusis II. With invisibility came great strength, and they willingly invited refugee humans and Monoids to live in harmony on their world. (The Ark)
The eight-foot-high Visians of Mira were vicious and completely invisible. (The Daleks’ Master Plan)
The Spiridons of the planet Spiridon could make themselves invisible by means of an anti-reflection light wave. The Daleks duplicated the ability, but it sapped their power sources rendering them invisible, but dead as a doornail. (Planet of the Daleks)
On an unnamed planet, the Fourth Doctor encountered the remnants of a eugenics experiment run by the deranged computer Xoanon – which looked exactly like the Doctor! Part of the experiment included invisible monsters that Xoanon unleashed into the jungle to terrorise the Sevateem tribe. (The Face of Evil)
Although they were largely invisible, a blinded Krafayis predator could be seen by the artist Vincent van Gogh in 1890s Auvers-sur-Oise, France. (Vincent and the Doctor)
SWAMP MONSTERS
Like their Silurian cousins, the amphibious Earth reptile dubbed the Sea Devils by the local military, went into hibernation on prehistoric Earth but were woken in the late 20th century. (The Sea Devils)
The Marshmen of Alzarius emerged from the swamps every 50 years during Mistfall. They were highly adaptable and could even evolve into a new life form. (Full Circle)
WARLORDS OF MARS
The Ice Warriors are perhaps the noblest race ever known to the universe. A proud civilisation of soldiers, the reptilian Martians’ actions could often be misconstrued, with long periods of war and invasion attempts (with Earth as a target at least twice) making them feared across the galaxy. In periods of peace, the Ice Warriors became known for diplomacy and formed an important part of the Galactic Federation.
The Martians first appeared in 1967’s The Ice Warriors by Brian Hayles. They returned for an attempt at conquering Earth via the Moon in The Seeds of Death (1969). During the Third Doctor’s era, the Ice Warriors became a force for good in The Curse of Peladon (1972), but a faction of them was back to their monstrous ways for a rematch with the third Doctor in The Monster of Peladon (1974).
Although they would make no further appearances in the original series after 1974, the Ice Warriors remain one of Doctor Who’s great monsters. With hissing, rasping voices, and armoured green reptilian skins, they are out there somewhere, waiting for the day when they will return to battle the Doctor again…