Saturday Night Showcase> Doctor Who: Power Of The Dalek Fanfilm

Well, if the current official owners of Doctor Who can’t or won’t provide anything the fans want to see, it’s up to the fans themselves.

In previous posts I posted a Doctor Who fanfilm and episodes from a fan series with an original Time Lord. Tonight’s offering is a bit different. During both of his runs, Russell T. Davies hasn’t be afraid to use non-canon prose and comics and make an episode so he doesn’t have to come up with something original. So why not have a fan film in the same vein? Take a “lost episode” (thought it does have an animated recreation), rework it with a new Doctor, and as long as you acknowledge the swipe, make an interesting episode.

Thus is the case with “The Nick Scovelli Adventures” and their original Doctor. “The Power Of The Daleks” is taken from the lost episode, but only partially. The Second Doctor’s debut is replaced with a new Doctor and this isn’t his first post-regeneration story. No Ben and Polly, the psychic paper and ties to UNIT are here despite neither of them existing when Patrick Troughton came onboard, and it’s just a remake of the episode. Tracking a distress signal, the Doctor finds Daleks are taking over a small mining operation as they recover from a crash. UNIT also detects the signal, realizes it’s a Dalek distress signal, and are ready to blow the place up, all while the unaware humans deal with their own internal politics and stupidities. Can the Doctor save the humans from themselves, the bombs, and the galaxy’s most dangerous killing machines? Enjoy.

From the description:

In 2011 we embarked on our biggest, most complex and ambitious production ever – a 50 minute reimagined version of the classic 60s mostly missing story Power of the Daleks. This was to compliment the stage adaptations of the other missing stories that we’d previously produced.

Months of planning and pre-production was involved and a large cast (by our standards) was assembled, which also included Barnaby Edwards (who played the PM) and Lisa Bowerman (as Admiral Cunningham) with Nick Briggs providing the Dalek voices.

At one point there were seven Daleks being operated live on set, which was more than had appeared in any TV episode of the series up to that point.

After several long weekends of principal photography the film went into editing and was shown in full on 1 September 2012 as part of our Power ReImagined convention. Previously the first two episodes had already been made available online earlier in 2012, with the final one added after the convention.

With thanks to TNT Films for allowing us to make this available.