Stories Television Doctor Who Series 12 Revolution of the Daleks 10 images Overview Characters How to Watch Reviews 8 Statistics Related Stories Quotes 12 Transcript + Script Overview First aired Friday, January 1, 2021 Written by Chris Chibnall Directed by Lee Haven Jones Runtime 71 minutes Story Type Companion Exit, New Year, Special Time Travel Present Tropes (Potential Spoilers!) Companions meeting, Earth Invasion, Prison Planet Inventory (Potential Spoilers!) Squareness gun Location (Potential Spoilers!) Earth, England, Japan, London, Space UK Viewers 6.36 million Appreciation Index 79 Synopsis As the Thirteenth Doctor marks her days in prison, back on Earth the Daleks are presented on national television. They are the new Defence Drones, designed to protect the British public. Left behind on Earth, Yaz, Graham and Ryan need their friend more than ever. Now with Daleks on the assembly line, and a familiar face behind their production... What would the Doctor do? Watch Watched Favourite Favourited Add Review Edit Review Log a repeat Skip Skipped Unowned Owned Owned Save to my list Saved Edit date completed Custom Date Release Date Archive (no date) Save Characters Thirteenth Doctor Jodie Whittaker Graham O'Brien Bradley Walsh Yasmin Khan Mandip Gill Ryan Sinclair Tosin Cole Captain Jack Harkness John Barrowman Daleks Jack Robertson Show All Characters (7) How to watch Revolution of the Daleks: Watch on iPlayer Blu-Ray Revolution of the Daleks DVD Revolution of the Daleks Reviews Add Review Edit Review Sort: Date (Newest First) Date (Oldest First) Likes (High-Low) Likes (Low-High) Rating (High-Low) Rating (Low-High) Word count (High-Low) Word count (Low-High) Username (A-Z) Username (Z-A) Spoilers First Spoilers Last 8 reviews 11 April 2025 · 131 words Review by zachbot3000 Spoilers This review contains spoilers! Overall enjoyed this special but felt like time could have been spent better. For instance, I don't need ten minutes of explanation up top about how the Dalek casing was resurrected. That time could have been better spent with Ryan and Graham seeing as its their last episode. Also maybe give Yaz more time to process why The Doctor leaving her behind affected her so much! I'm pointing these things out because the rest of the special is fun. For once, Chibnall comes up with a solution to fighting the big bad that is both clever and not completely out of left field. Also Captain Jack telling The Doctor how Gwen is doing and that he's going to spend time with her on earth now made me grin like a madman. zachbot3000 View profile Like Liked 0 6 April 2025 · 140 words Review by Dullish Spoilers 1 This review contains spoilers! Revolution of the Daleks Too much happens in this episode, it's still a good episode though. Thirteen is in jail after what happened in Timeless children the previous year. We see some cool monsters from the past like a silence. Jail doesn't last long as Captain Jack just breaks her out. "The fam" are on there own, the TARDIS they stole, disguised as a house is where Yaz is spending her time after Thirteen was arrested. Daleks are being produced by the dozen as Defence drones to protect Britain. This fails because they're daleks and want to kill the human race. Pure daleks appear and the guy from Arachnids in the UK wants to help them for some reason. "The fam" breaks up, Ryan and Graham leave Yaz and the Doctor leave at the end to have real lives. Dullish View profile Like Liked 1 21 January 2025 · 507 words Review by godslayer86 Spoilers 2 This review contains spoilers! how does every single episode with a huge plot like this feel so stupid. Like i cant even express how flat everything about this is. The daleks were actually a high point of the episode BUT everything else just brought it down. I dont even feel like jack being here really added much of anything to the episode at all. Spyfall was so good but evidently those will be the only 2 episodes chibnall can write that will get a positive response out of me. Also I don't get why this one was titled a "festive special" but there was nothing festive about it. No new years or christmas or anything. Honestly the only positive of this beyond the daleks is Jodie's acting which really carries it after the awesome reveal of the timeless child (that also, somehow, had to take place between really stupid annoying boring plot!) as far as series 12 goes I'd dare to say the only actually consistently good aspects are the doctor (would be concerning if not) and the master (why did he get barely anytime at all here... Like he seriously got the least screentime in 1 season I've seen from any incarnation of the master who got a place in any seasons overall plot). Sure the companions are nice. I'm a little sad to see Ryan and Graham go. But 3 companions is so bloated and evidently chibnall couldn't handle it. He can barely handle writing one character, the main one everyone watches the show for! Insane they brought back some dude from series 11 here who I did not remember at all, looked up, and realized hes from one of the most god awful episodes I've sat through. The fact I have stuck with the show through all of this has proved I have genuine brainrot from not getting over the absolute peak of moffats era. Every new episode is a disappointment (except spyfall, that was genuinely good). Why even bother to show yazmin having feelings for the doctor when she's the companion who got the least characterization. Like she literally does not have any character traits that I can name of beyond the fact she has family and apparently struggled with being bullied. And she's a cop (YAWN). It's really impressive how Chibnall can show how little he truly cares about writing this show, or is the production team behind him just truly incompetent. I honestly think it's a mix of both. The timeless child was absolutely genius on paper but that might've been a stroke of luck from him that he even was capable of thinking of that (I could've thought of it too though if i was in that studio immediately after i finished playing xenogears). I'm honestly just flabbergasted this show has been allowed to be this terrible for 2 straight seasons and they let chibnall on for a third one. Genuinely BBC I have beef with you and you need to get your s**t together I literally volunteer to get in there and fix everything because you need help. godslayer86 View profile Like Liked 2 12 January 2025 · 29 words Review by whitestar1993 Spoilers 1 This review contains spoilers! Another good Dalek story. I really liked how this episode handheld the 'loss' of the Doctor, and the effects on the companions, as well as Graham and Ryan's exit. whitestar1993 View profile Like Liked 1 22 September 2024 · 21 words Review by The9thCyberLegion Spoilers 2 This review contains spoilers! Captain Jack, yay! That american guy again, boo! The Silence, the Ood, the Weeping Angels and the Sycorax getting cameos, yay! The9thCyberLegion View profile Like Liked 2 Show All Reviews (8) Open in new window Statistics AVG. Rating673 members 3.03 / 5 Trakt.tv AVG. Rating513 votes 3.46 / 5 Member Statistics Watched 1385 Favourited 56 Reviewed 8 Saved 2 Skipped 1 Related Stories Doctor Who Specials • New Year Special Resolution Rating: 3.24 Story Skipped Television Reviews(9) More Actions View Sets Close Related Sets Set of Stories: Doctor Who Series 12 Set of Stories: Doctor Who (2005-2022) Set of Stories: Thirteenth Doctor Add Review Edit Review Skip Skipped Unowned Owned Save to my list Saved Quotes Add Quote Link to Quote Favourite DALEK: Daleks are not pets of the Doctor! — Daleks, Revolution of the Daleks Show All Quotes (12) Open in new window Transcript + Script Needs checking A long time ago... (2019) far, far away... (Cheltenham) [Government Communications Headquarters] (A Dalek descends through a hole it has blown in the roof.- see Resolution) DALEK: Exterminate! The Doctor must be destroyed! (The TARDIS and her crew are there.) Show Full Transcript Open in new window View Script (PDF)