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The Daleks are entirely dependent on static electricity drawn through the metal floors of the city, and when the power is turned off and the Daleks fall lifeless, one is heard to intone "This is the end of the Daleks...".
[[Famous Last Words|How wrong he was.]]
It can be watched [http://www.dailymotion.com/playlist/x1ia6d_matrixarchive_the-daleks here.]
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== Tropes ==
* [[After the End]]: Skaro is still suffering the after-effects of a devastating war, fought centuries earlier. Most of the plant and animal life is dead, and the survivors have all mutated in one way or another.
* [[All There in the Manual]]: [http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/episodeguide/dalekhistory1.shtml According to the BBC Classic Doctor Who website], the Daleks encountered in this story are early prototypes of Darvos' experiments, left behind when most of the Daleks went into space after the end of the Thal-Kaled War. This explains both why the Daleks have a mighty space empire later while the Daleks in this episode are confined to the city {{spoiler|and are all wiped out}}, and why later Daleks don't have the same weaknesses of needing high levels of radiation to survive and constant static electrcity to power their shells.
* [[All Up to You]]: Poor little Susan had to go out there all alone and fetch these anti-radiation <s>gloves</s> drugs.
** To save the lives of others, she braves a jungle at night in a storm while suffering from radiation sickness, travels several miles, navigates to a pinpoint target, then keeps it together when suprised by a apparent monster that proves to be handsome man. Self-possession of the highest order; go girl!
* [[Artistic License: Biology]]: The whole "cycle of mutation" thing. The Thals mutated into creatures like the Daleks, then over centuries back into human form.
** Though this was ''sort of'' retconned in ''[[Doctor Who/Recap/S12 E4 Genesis of the Daleks|Genesis Of The Daleks]]'' (broadcast 15 years later) where it implies that the later Thals are descended from both the Thal and Kaled survivors of Davros' massacre of both race's cities. May turn this into [[Unreliable Narrator]] in that case.
* [[Beauty Equals Goodness]]: The Thals, all of whom are blonde and nearly physically perfect. Not that they don't have flaws, a few of which prove fatal. But they're nearly all good characters, while the hideous Daleks are all evil.
* [[Breakout Character]]: And thus Dalekmania had begun.
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