Remembrance of the Daleks
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| Directed by | Andrew Morgan John Nathan-Turner (uncredited) | ||
| Written by | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| Script editor | Andrew Cartmel | ||
| Produced by | John Nathan-Turner | ||
| Executive producer(s) | None | ||
| Music by | Keff McCulloch | ||
| Production code | 7H | ||
| Series | Season 25 | ||
| Running time | 4 episodes, 25 minutes each | ||
| First broadcast | 5 October 1988 | ||
| Last broadcast | 26 October 1988 | ||
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Remembrance of the Daleks is the first serial of the 25th season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. The serial was first broadcast in four weekly episodes from 5 to 26 October 1988. It was written by Ben Aaronovitch and directed by Andrew Morgan. The serial contains many references to the history of the show, featuring settings from the first Doctor Who episode, An Unearthly Child, such as Coal Hill School and the junkyard at 76 Totter's Lane.
In the serial, alien time traveller the Doctor and his companion Ace travel back to 1963 to retrieve the Hand of Omega, a powerful device created by the Time Lords, and keep it from the Daleks. The serial is the final appearance of the Daleks in the original run and the only occasion in which the Seventh Doctor encountered them on television.
In reader polls conducted by Doctor Who Magazine from 1998 onwards, Remembrance of the Daleks has consistently been voted as one of the greatest Doctor Who stories.