Captain's Theatre: DOCTOR WHO & THE DALEKS / DALEKS - INVASION EARTH: 2150 A.D. Trailers!

Since the Doctor Who and the Daleks comic adaptation has garnered such a response, we're presenting the two trailers for the film

along with a bonus you'll see when you scroll down...

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The British Trailer, narrated by Peter Cushing as Doctor Who!
Note the sound effect that was later used as the alien ship effect on Gerry Anderson's UFO!

The American Trailer
Plus:
Trailer for the sequel, Daleks-Invasion Earth: 2150 AD!

Captain's Library: DR WHO & THE DALEKS Conclusion

We Have Already Seen...

Doctor Who, his granddaughters Susan and Barbara, along with Barbara's boyfriend Ian, accidentally activate Who's time-and-space machine, the TARDIS, and travel to an alien world where they become involved an a centuries-long war between two races, the humanoid Thals and the life-support device-enclosed Daleks.

While the comic's scripter is unknown, the art was by Dick Giordano and Sal Trapani.
Encouraged by the box office for this film, Amicus adapted the second Dalek story into an even more-expensive feature film, Daleks-Invasion Earth: 2150 AD.

There was no American comic adaptation of the second Dr Who movie.

Captain's Library: DR WHO & THE DALEKS Part 1

The British have a long tradition of taking successful tv series in every genre from sitcom to sci-fi, and remaking them into feature films.
So, it seemed only logical that, with "Dalekmania" reaching a frenzied peak in 1965,  a feature film adapting the first tv appearance of the lethal pepperpots, would be a box office smash.
It didn't quite turn out that way.
Amicus Productions, basically a lower-budget Hammer Studios, acquired the rights, and produced Dr Who and the Daleks, starring horror icon Peter Cushing as Doctor Who.

Note: I said "Doctor Who" and not "The Doctor".
That's because the movie's Doctor is an eccentric human inventor named "Who", not an alien Time Lord using the title "Doctor"!
The TARDIS, while still a space-time travelling device bigger on the inside than the outside and looking like a Police Call Box, is now the product of one man's expertise, not the culmination of the technology of an advanced civilization.

Beyond that basic change to the concept, the movie was a fairly straightforward condensation of the  seven-episode serial, utilizing the original story's major plot points.
With the benefits of

• being the first color version of Doctor Who (the tv show was shot in black and white until 1970)
• a bigger budget than the tv series and
• a music score by Thunderbirds composer Barry Gray

the movie did very good box office in Europe and Asia, though only moderately-well in the US, where the tv show had not yet aired.

With all that in mind, let's continue...

We will discover more of the Daleks' plans and how to stop them, tomorrow, in the exciting conclusion!

Captain's Theatre: SPACE: 1999 "Breakaway" (Power Records)

Space: 1999 debuted in 1975 with a major licensing push, including audio adventures, novelizations along with original novels, and comic books/b/w magazines.
Power Records, the premier children's audio line of the era did two lp record albums and two comic book/45 record adventures, including the pilot episode "Breakaway".
Charlton Comics published two different series, one as a standard comic book, the other a b/w magazine, both of which adapted the pilot episode with far different results.
With three different print adaptations (not including the prose novelization from Pocket Books), "Breakway" was the single most adapted sci-fi movie or tv show in history, until Battlestar Galactica came along in 1979.
Over the next three Mondays, we're going to present all three adaptations of "Breakaway".
First up, the Power Records version, complete with soundtrack!
(After all, it was meant as a read-along adventure!)


The writer who adapted the screenplay is unknown, but the art is by Rich Buckler, Dick Giordano, Frank McLaughlin, and Neal Adams' Continuity Studios crew.

Next Monday, the b/w magazine version.

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