When The Daleks went into pre-production in the autumn of 1963, BBC staff designer Raymond Cusick was assigned to the serial. As well as designing the sets for the petrified jungle and the Dalek city, Ray's brief included realising the new alien creatures described in Terry Nation's script:
"Standing in a half circle in front of them there are four hideous machine-like creatures. They are legless, moving on a round base. They have no human features. A lens on a flexible shaft acts as an eye. Arms with mechanical grips for hands... The creatures hold strange weapons in their hands."
Ray Cusick recalls being "puzzled" by this description, and phoning Terry Nation for clarification. Nation mentioned a show he'd seen in London by the Georgia State Dancers: "I'd seen it too," says Ray. Terry said: "Do you remember the peasant dance when the girls come on in long dresses and they seem to glide like they're on roller skates? That's how I think the Daleks should move."
Destiny of the Daleks (1979) saw four working Daleks hurriedly assembled out of bits and pieces (including a prop from a traveling exhibition that looked very little like a Dalek). These four Daleks were accompanied on location filming by a horde of lightweight vacuum-formed dummy casings. Some were only single-sided half-Daleks, and were carried through Skaro wastelands by extras; the end effect was less of a glide and more of a bounce. Most of these were blown up on location. By the time the four real Dalek props made it back into the studio, they had suffered considerable damage. There wasn't time to repair them properly, so Tom Baker's Doctor was menaced by Daleks with bits missing or, in one case, held together with tape.
Actor Michael Wisher was cast as Davros by director David Maloney. Wisher had provided Dalek voices for three of their encounters with Jon Pertwee's Doctor and had taken roles in another three Third Doctor serials. Knowing that he would spend six episodes sitting in a chair and wearing a close-fitting mask that would restrict his vision and hearing, Wisher prepared himself for the part by rehearsing with a paper bag over his head.
"Standing in a half circle in front of them there are four hideous machine-like creatures. They are legless, moving on a round base. They have no human features. A lens on a flexible shaft acts as an eye. Arms with mechanical grips for hands... The creatures hold strange weapons in their hands."
Ray Cusick recalls being "puzzled" by this description, and phoning Terry Nation for clarification. Nation mentioned a show he'd seen in London by the Georgia State Dancers: "I'd seen it too," says Ray. Terry said: "Do you remember the peasant dance when the girls come on in long dresses and they seem to glide like they're on roller skates? That's how I think the Daleks should move."
S. Tribe & J. Goss, "The Dalek Handbook"
Destiny of the Daleks (1979) saw four working Daleks hurriedly assembled out of bits and pieces (including a prop from a traveling exhibition that looked very little like a Dalek). These four Daleks were accompanied on location filming by a horde of lightweight vacuum-formed dummy casings. Some were only single-sided half-Daleks, and were carried through Skaro wastelands by extras; the end effect was less of a glide and more of a bounce. Most of these were blown up on location. By the time the four real Dalek props made it back into the studio, they had suffered considerable damage. There wasn't time to repair them properly, so Tom Baker's Doctor was menaced by Daleks with bits missing or, in one case, held together with tape.
S. Tribe & J. Goss, "The Dalek Handbook"
Actor Michael Wisher was cast as Davros by director David Maloney. Wisher had provided Dalek voices for three of their encounters with Jon Pertwee's Doctor and had taken roles in another three Third Doctor serials. Knowing that he would spend six episodes sitting in a chair and wearing a close-fitting mask that would restrict his vision and hearing, Wisher prepared himself for the part by rehearsing with a paper bag over his head.
S. Tribe & J. Goss, "The Dalek Handbook"
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