Daleks – Invasion Earth 2150 AD – 1966 | 81 mins | Science-Fiction | Colour

Plot Synopsis

Taking his inspiration from H.G. Wells The Time Machine, BBC televisions Doctor Who had two feature length outings. In Daleks – Invasion Earth 2150 AD, director Gordon Flemyng adopted the same formula as Doctor Who and the Daleks yet with some new characters – retaining the casting of Doctor Who and Susan.

Doctor Who (Peter Cushing) and his companions; granddaughter Susan (Roberta Tovey), niece Louise (Jill Curzon), and Tom Campbell (Bernard Cribbins), a policeman who finds himself a reluctant stowaway on the TARDIS after he mistakes the time machine for an ordinary police box, are catapulted into the future and make a horrifying discovery. The year is 2150 AD, and the Daleks have devastated entire continents and conquered Earth, the TARDIS lands in a bombed-out, rubble-strewn London which evoke memories of the Blitz. The Daleks have enslaved the population and turned them into dehumanised, mindless drones called Robomen, the remaining survivors are forced to work in a huge mine. The Doctor and Tom are captured and taken to an alien ship by the Daleks, while his female companions join forces with the Resistance movement, a band of freedom fighters to be found deep within the bowels of the London Underground. The band of rebels plan to thwart the Daleks before they complete their final evil plan: to explode a nuclear device at the Earth’s core in order to use the resulting magnetic imbalance to pilot it to their own planet and occupy it.