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Classic Who S25 • Serial 1 · (4 episodes)

Remembrance of the Daleks

4.54/ 5 356 votes

First aired Wednesday, October 5, 1988
Production Code 7H
Written by Ben Aaronovitch
Directed by Andrew Morgan
Runtime 100 minutes
Time Travel Past
Tropes: (Potential Spoilers!) Cold open Milkman Breaking the Fourth Wall Mind Control
Story Arc: (Potential Spoilers!) Dalek Civil War
Synopsis

Not for the first time, unusual events are unfolding at Coal Hill School. At 76 Totter's Lane, the Doctor discovers that his oldest foes — the Daleks — are on the trail of stolen Time Lord technology that he left on Earth long ago. The Daleks are planning to perfect their own time-travel capability, in order to unleash themselves across the whole of time and space.

4 Episodes:

First aired Wednesday, October 5, 1988
Runtime 25 minutes
Written by Ben Aaronovitch
Directed by Andrew Morgan
UK Viewers 5.5 million
Appreciation Index 68

Synopsis

London, 1963. Returning to the scenes of his first televised adventure, the Doctor and new companion Ace play a tricky game of bluff and deceit involving two rival Dalek factions, local soldiers, and the awesomely powerful Gallifreyan artefact, the Hand of Omega...

First aired Wednesday, October 12, 1988
Runtime 25 minutes
Written by Ben Aaronovitch
Directed by Andrew Morgan
UK Viewers 5.8 million
Appreciation Index 69

Synopsis

With two factions of Daleks involved in a race war on Earth, the Doctor takes care of old business by having the Hand of Omega ceremoniously but quietly buried in a churchyard. His actions do not go unobserved, and leaving behind a bored Ace without a purposeful outlet could spell trouble as well.

First aired Wednesday, October 19, 1988
Runtime 25 minutes
Written by Ben Aaronovitch
Directed by Andrew Morgan
UK Viewers 5.1 million
Appreciation Index 70

Synopsis

The Doctor plans to let one of the Dalek factions have the Hand of Omega (but not too easily, of course) while keeping Gilmore and his military men preoccupied in a safe territory, but that plan could be threatened by a mole in their midst and a miscalculation on the Doctor's part.

First aired Wednesday, October 26, 1988
Runtime 25 minutes
Written by Ben Aaronovitch
Directed by Andrew Morgan
UK Viewers 5 million
Appreciation Index 72

Synopsis

The Omega device is in jeopardy. A giant Dalek warship hangs above the Earth. London has become a battleground for ruthless alien intelligences.

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