Newbies Guide to Doctor Who

Author: John Peel

ISBN: 0 563 40573 2

Published: October 1997

Editor: Steve Cole

Placement: After Genocide

Links: This story is a sequel to (well, retcon of) every Dalek story from the 1980s.

The eighth Doctor has byronesque hair and tends to wear velvet coats. He is childlike and has a sense of wonder about him.

Sam is a teenaged schoolgirl from London 1997 who joined the Doctor in The Eight Doctors. She is a do-gooder with a heavy interest in groups like Greenpeace and Amnesty.She has blonde hair.

The Daleks are a race of mutants encased in powerful cyborg bodies whose shape is reminiscent of pepperpots. The Doctor first encountered them on their home planet of Skaro in The Daleks (Season 1). He has subsequently fought them on numerous occasions in every single incarnation. In Genesis of the Daleks (Season 12), the Time Lords sent him to interfere with their origins. In Remembrance of the Daleks (Season 25), he was responsible for the destruction of their home planet, Skaro.

Leader of the Daleks, the last survivor of the original Daleks seen in Genesis of the Daleks (Season 12). He is probably the Emperor Dalek seen in The Evil of the Daleks (Season 4).

In Genesis of the Daleks (Season 12), Davros created the Daleks. His experiments had discovered the form that his people, the Kaleds, would eventually mutate into. He then removed positive emotions such as love and compassion from those mutants, and created the Travel machines in which the Daleks now travel around. He, he was betrayed, and apparently exterminated, by his creations. However he actually survived the attack. In Destiny of the Daleks (Season 17), the Daleks returned to Skaro and discovered and unearthed his body to help with a war against the Movellans. Some time agter this, Davros created a rival faction of Daleks. His faction was destroyed during Remembrance of the Daleks (Season 25), when the Doctor tricked him into using a device called the Hand of Omega to destroy Skaro's sun. Davros was last seen leaving his spaceship in an escape pod just before Skaro's sun exploded.

A robotic race who fought against the Daleks. In Destiny of the Daleks (Season 17), the war had reached a stalemate, with neither side able to break through. In Resurrection of the Daleks (Season 21), they had designed a virus which could wipe out the Daleks.

The Thals were one of two races which inhabited the planet Skaro. By Genesis of the Daleks (Season 12), they had fought a long war with the other race, the Kaleds. This war turned Skaro radioactive, and eventually resulted in the creation of the Daleks. The radiation mutated the Thals into a peace-loving race who were blond and blue-eyed. In The Daleks (Season 1), the Doctor taught the Thals to fight against a Dalek city near their encampment. In Planet of the Daleks (Season 10), they had become a spacefaring race and begun a war effort against the Daleks.

In The Daleks (Season 1), the Doctor defeated a group of Daleks confined to a single city on Skaro. In the process, he taught the (by then) pacifist Thals how to fight.

In The Dalek Invasion of Earth (Season 2), the Daleks had conquered Earth for ten years of the 22nd Century. The Doctor defeated their plan to mine out the Earth's magnetic core so that they could turn Earth into a spaceship.

In The Chase (Season 2) and The Daleks' Masterplan (Season 3), the Daleks made use of a time machine similar to the TARDIS to chase the Doctor.

In The Power of the Daleks (Season 4), the Doctor defeated a Dalek factory on the planet Vulcan.

In The Evil of the Daleks (Season 4), the Daleks hatched a plan to isolate the Human Factor and the Dalek Factor and seed 19th Century humanity with the Dalek Factor to ensure that the Daleks won. However, the Doctor defeated this plan.

In Day of the Daleks (Season 9), the Daleks changed history so that they invaded Earth a whole century earlier. However, some rebels stole their time travel equipment, and travelled back in time. Their actions disrupted a world peace conference chaired by Sir Reginald Styles. The Doctor's intervention destroyed this timeline.

In Planet of the Daleks (Season 10), the Doctor helped a group of Thal soldiers destroy a large Dalek army hidden on the planet Spiridon.

In Death to the Daleks (Season 11), the Doctor prevented the Daleks from obtaining the only supply of Parrinium, the only cure for a space plague, in the galaxy.

In Genesis of the Daleks (Season 12), the Time Lords sent the Doctor to interfere with the creation of the Daleks. During this story, he met Davros for the first time.

In Destiny of the Daleks (Season 17), the Daleks unearthed Davros so that he could help them end the stalemate in their war against the Movellans. The Doctor prevented this plan, and arranged for Davros to be sent to Earth in suspended animation.

In Resurrection of the Daleks (Season 21), the Daleks sent a force to free Davros from imprisonment. The Doctor foiled an insanely complicated Dalek plan, and Davros escaped from both humans and Daleks.

In Revelation of the Daleks (Season 22), Davros had started creating his own force of Daleks on the planet Nekros. The Doctor stopped his plans, and Davros was taken captive by the original Daleks.

In Remembrance of the Daleks (Season 25), two Dalek factions travelled back to Earth, 1963 to capture an ancient Time Lord device called the Hand of Omega. Davros and his faction obtained the Hand. However, the Doctor tricked him into using it to destroy Skaro's sun, thus destroying all life on Skaro. The Doctor then persuaded the leader of the other Dalek faction to commit suicide.

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