Something has definitely been lost since the earliest Dalek stories, to do with how genuinely frightening they were. I don’t mean frightening like in 2005’s Dalek, where they show you this chillingly clever mass-murderer, or even the gruesome horror from stories like Revelation. I mean that gut-twisting, sleep-with-the-lights-on creepiness that you only find in a couple of their earliest appearances. The atmosphere of this original Dalek story is deeply unsettling, and it isn’t even a card-carrying ‘scary episode’. Personally, I think this creepy quality peaked in Power of the Daleks, and has rarely been glimpsed since. The weird part is, it doesn’t come off like some lost magic that the show has been unable to recapture- it really seems like it’s just for lack of trying. The Daleks are used in many different ways, and those are all fair enough, it just doesn’t seem to occur to anyone to try this approach again. If they put their minds to it, I’m sure they could bring back those evasive, uneasy emotions from the ‘60s Dalek stories.
I think something that gave the early Daleks such an eerie feeling was the strange uncanny valley effect they gave. The reason I say uncanny valley is because you'd see the machines, the way they'd talk in the stilted monotone, the calculating logic to them. Then you'd see the blearing hatred and fear they had. The only two emotions they'd show and they were intense. The creeping realisation that these creatures stunning intelligence is guided by those two irrational emotions. It was uncanny in the sense that behind that singular white pupil was a terrified genius. Behind the armour there was some screaming conscious being that could not feel anything but hatred and fear. They almost seemed human when they were wound up, the ugly side to humanity. The Daleks in the original serial were tragic villains in my opinion. They were so warped by war. They could only think in terms of black and white. Kill or be killed.
@@themechbuilder6171 Someday, probably. I'm held back by not having access to a ring modulator to do the voice. There is a Dalek related video scheduled to go up on my channel a few hours after posting this comment, though. Thanks for showing interest!
Nowadays they just seem like shrieky military enemies. A whole battalion of warriors isn't as scary as a handful going about their silent eerie business
The song that comes in at around 0:55 is undoubtedly my favorite incidental music from the Hartnell-Throughton days (as it also appeared in _The Daleks' Master Plan_, _The Ark_, and _The Power of the Daleks_); it always reminds me of the downfall of Mavic Chen in _The Daleks' Master Plan_ and sends chills down my spine each time I hear it...
@@FrankNFurter1000 Id use that word to describe the build up and the drum beat. Its is haunting. Just the way the doctor and group are on the edge of this gigantic plateau, hidden away from the danger, looking over this ancient city, devoid of life. How long has it been there? It gives me post apocalyptic and historical vibes. I could imagine this playing if we found a huge ancient egyptian underground crypt, untouched since their days. Just the entire track of this episode is just something else and deserves a remaster or remake
There's something really creepy about this episode. We, the viewers know what is coming. The TARDIS team, totally newborn to any of this and utterly ignorant of what the universe has in store, are blind. But we know the Daleks are *lurking* down there, in the city, just waiting. They've been down there for seems like 1000s of years, ossifying in a state of perpetual isolated genocidal hatred, never having met one sole from the outside. But one contact between a bunch of time travellers who wandered in would rip open their influence on the universe for centuries to come, realising how much was out there, and how much they've got to kill. It's like opening up some kind of bread loaf and letting all the spores come rushing out from its tight sealing. You should have just let it rot there. The doctor has no idea how evil they are. He has no idea what they really are. He is completely new to time travelling. He is like a small child. What horrors he'll discover in time. Knowing what comes next and seeing none of the characters in show have any clue to what they are gives this whole story a palpable sense of anxiety (especially the first episode). And that's what I love about the music of this piece. Especially 0:56, which if i recall is when we see a swooping shot downwards into the city and the team go into it. It's like the Daleks are waiting, and this haunting, hypnotic ghostly sound is inviting you in.
You know, this music is so much better than what they are using now. This sounds more creative, more mysterious etc. The Doctor Who's from the 1960s are timeless classics. I just wish they would find more of the missing episodes, especially "The Power of the Daleks". That would be a good one to see.
Yes you're right "Power of the Daleks" was great story and it'd be fantastic if we had it back but but until they find it well just have to make do with the target novelizations and audio CD's. I sure a lot of people will disagree with what I'm going to say here but in my opinion the classic is vastly superior to the current series in a lot of ways and I wish someone would do a reboot where they bring back Paul Mcgann as the 8th Doctor, wipe the slate clean and do the series right this time because it just feels like to me that Doctor Who has lost something since the new series came along. It's a shadow of it's former self where it could have been so much more, so much better.
the music in the new series is rubbish. Dark ambient is what it should be... it's supposed to be a spooky mysterious program, not a rollicking space adventure with john williams music
+Liam O'neill It's a CHILDREN'S show, genius. It was never meant to be scary. It was meant to teach kids about history; the guy who came up with the concept got mad when the Daleks were introduced for that very reason. You're about as wrong about what Doctor Who was "meant to be" as is possible to get. Hartnell's first episode was considered too scary by the creators, and was re-shot to be less so. It was never meant to be a dark show. It was meant to be an educational kid's show.
+apdarkness905 No offence but for that comment to have any value, you really need to DEFINE "doing it right". Unless you can provide a better alternative, it just sounds like you're bitching because you don't like change. Doctor Who has had some very powerful moments since the new series (which is NOT a reboot. It's the same continuity, and a reboot is a do over from the start) started, and your comment didn't provide a single genuine criticism. All you said was "it doesn't FEEL the same"; which is what ANYONE says when something new is introduced. It's what the audiences said when regeneration was introduced. That by itself does not count as a valid criticism. If you want your comment to be taken seriously, and not just as someone complaining for no reason, you need the following: -proper, real criticisms regarding the new series - more than just a vague "it's different so I don't like it" -suggestions on how it could be better; preferably not just "keep it exactly the same as it was", because 50 years on, that's not realistic OR reasonable.
+LordofFullmetal You make a good point there and I thank you for calling me on it and so to answer your question of how I define doing it right, well here is the answer. As I said before a complete reboot of the current series, eliminate the story line of _The Time War_, reinstate Paul McGann as the Doctor for at least one season maybe more, and model the reboot series after the wilderness years particularly the original novels by Virgin and BBC Books, because my God they came up with some amazing stories during that time. The reason why I would do this is new series is so trivial and superficial it's depressing to even think this hack job attempt to create a worthy successor something that was pure genius could even dare to share the title of the original as every achievement of the current series is either unforgivable or, as I said, unbelievably shallow. For example on the shallow end of the spectrum you have the special effects and the more dramatic tone of the program. The effects are nothing more than sugar-coating on the surface and in the grander scheme of things are of no real consequence and the dramatic element is in the shallow region because it was already achieved by someone else in previously the original novels and the Big Finish audio adventures who introduced a very similar element to the mix and frankly did a much better job of it, and what did the new series do? They came waltzing in did an inferior version of the same thing and then had the audacity to claim it as their own. A few flashy effects and a little drama a Doctor Who series does not make. As for the unforgivable side of things well that was getting rid of the multi episode format for each adventure. Now I understand on a certain level that the change in format was to increase the efficiency with which the show is produced but there were other ways to do that without almost completely sacrificing one of the key elements that made classic DW great. For example the new production could have adopted the same format as Season 22 back in 1985, which was made up of two, occasionally three, 45 minute episodes per story as opposed to the traditional four to six 25 minute episodes. This would preserve some element of the episodic format while still allowing the show to be produced in an expeditious manner. The fact that the episodic format could be considered expendable is, as I have said, unforgivable. Another mistake the new is the fact that the current DW just isn't scary enough. The new series should be darker and more frightening to put the kids back behind the sofa and not this parody of itself that it's become. The show has sunken so deeply into the pit it's dug for itself that reboot of this type is the only solution of any significance because even if you got a team even if they did get a better writing team or producer the poor choices that have already been made would still be carried over and therefore would ultimately accomplish nothing apart from a cowardly band-aid solution that would make no real difference in the end, and this all for what? So some ill-conceived, poorly executed show can maintain some tenuous relevancy in the canon *NO*! The current series just is not worth that, nothing is worth what has happened to this series. The fact is that there comes a time when hard decisions need to be made and you simply have to cut your losses and start again. Doctor Who is coming dangerously close to that time. And it’s sad, it’s sad that it ever reached this point, it’s sad that they couldn't get it right the first time but clearly the wrong people for the job where put in charge of the project and now someone is going to have to clean up their mess, before it's too late and Doctor Who disappears again, maybe this time forever due to the damage that this new series has done. As the Master himself once said "a universe without the Doctor scarcely bears thinking about."
The Dalek City (starts at 1:00 ) music is amazing. You're instantly transported to an strange, unearthly alien world and it emphasises the character of the city itself, which should be beautiful with it;s gleaming metallic spires and yet which has a forbidding menace. Everything about the city is saying "KEEP AWAY" and this is a neat counterpoint to the Doctor's insatiable curiosity and need to explore it. WHich of cours ehe does, by trickery, which leads to disaster.
Thats what I was thinking as well very mysterious and foreboding like the stillness of entering a potentially dangerous eerie place and feeling someone or something could be lurking or watching...
With each series in the revival, the Daleks spend more time screaming 'Exterminate' than they actually do exterminating. Consider Eccleston's finale where the Daleks slaughter a room full of civilians on the Game Station like the massacre of the Kaled rebels in Genesis. There's been no comparable moment to it since. (That stupid 'reality bomb' aside') For me as a child watching the Classic Series, the most terrifying Dalek moments were when a character suddenly found themselves faced with a Dalek, and it killed them. No screams from the Dalek; just the sound of the death ray and the human falling dead and the Dalek usually turning away indifferently; often with the sound of its wheels rumbling on the floor which I always found particularly unsettling. Now it's endless scenes of massive numbers of Daleks screaming Exterminate and the irritating orchestral music with the Latin chanting that worked really well, ONCE.
@@DomWeasel I will agree with you there but I know people aren't going to agree with me but I do like resolution with just the recon scout Dalek I do think that one was pretty bad ass
@@louiswright8282 that wouldn’t make sense seeing as the renegade daleks and bronze Daleks are both from Skaro, it would make more sense to bring back the imperials
I've been thinking about it for years, and I think I've finally mustered up the right words to describe my feelings succinctly enough to describe how I feel about this piece, this story, and what it means. It feels like the story of Pandora's Box, metaphorically speaking. The Doctor's curiosity is what made the Daleks aware that they are not alone in the universe, and their pathological, instinctual need to be the only beings in existence is now the reason why we have such suffering widespread across time and space. Sometimes, it's best to leave things alone. After all, the Daleks were the closest to being content before the Doctor's arrival, they seemed the most "regular" in contrast to their previous incarnations. Not only do they have actual sentences and conversations, but they have art sculptures in their city, and a need for food, water, etc. It's like as if the Doctor's intervention made them regress back into what Davros intended for them to be. Hell, it is confirmed that the reason they act more unstable and mechanical(And a bit gimmicky lately) in their thinking is because the Doctor's intervention in "Genesis of the Daleks" basically made Davros alter their genetic makeup even further to be more robotically detached, because in his paranoid mind he thinks that's what made him and his Daleks better than everyone.
So ahead of its time. Great audio that actually makes the Daleks seem even more menacing, scary and mysterious. I hope they either find or animate evil of the Daleks.
imagine in new who. the tardis crew get a disturbing distress beacon. land on this unknown planet and while listening to creepy static radio of someone screaming for help. across the mountain they see an old metal city and this music plays. just exactly how it was in the dead planet.
I am currently going through 60s Doctor Who marathon at the moment I started at beginning the year with the first season of course, I love the soundtrack of the 60s Doctor Who for stories like this it makes the Daleks even more creepy
The Dalek City Theme with the recurring Violin sound is easily one of the best Dalek tracks in the entire show. I cannnot think of any other track from dr who as both errie and industrial to the degree of this one.
Many people say how to make the Daleks more scary is by having them shoot more and talk less. A very good point, but that only retains to soldiers or a traveling mini Dalek Empire, not The Daleks from Skaro, let me explain. The Daleks are simply there to exterminate, they thought everything in the universe was dead except for a couple of Thals, the actions that the Doctor and the old gang did was set off a ticking time bomb for the Daleks to learn their is more life out in the cosmos, and that is where they will exterminate anything. While the extermination fear should only retain to soldiers and mini little empires lead by a Supreme, an actual Dalek homeworld should be very secluded, empty, and downright mysterious. Go in the inside and you’ll learn the threats from these mutants, a low trembling unknown sense of these things. Doctor Who has greatly lost that effect because of all the soldiers and things like that. We need an episode where the Daleks are on a planet, and are keeping people for their own evil desires, obviously written by RTD of course.
60's dr who is unique. Compared to all the other classic/modern eras after it the Hartnell/Throughton era has this unique feel that hasn't been found since. The alien worlds feel truly alien. And the music in many of the serials gives a sense of vast, dangerous mystery. The daleks entire soundtrack feels like it wasn't meant for humans. Which fits the daleks themselves, who's city, their ways of thinking and even their equipment has none of the design features standard for humanoid bodies.
+Roanstar I have no idea why half the responses to this comment are people saying it's not a kid's show. It was ALWAYS meant to be for kids. The man who came up with the concept got mad, because he thought the BBC made it too scary.
Cryer24597 Not really, when you consider: -"family" shows still HAVE to be acceptable viewing for children in order to be considered family shows. They can't be too scary or they immediately lose that. In fact, Doctor Who is currently at risk of LOSING its "family show" status because of the way Clara died. -The BBC's documentary about the creation of Doctor Who, in which they explicitly STATE that the original purpose of the show was to educate children. Do your research next time and maybe you won't look like an idiot. The evidence is on my side. Right now, it's the word of the BBC plus the DEFINITION of the term "family show" against your unsupported word.
Cryer24597 Done wasting my time here. You either ignored my point or didn't understand it. Either way, your response now makes zero sense because you failed to address my argument properly. I don't even have to fight you; that last comment destroyed itself with your backwards logic. You literally just made an argument and tore it apart in the same comment. That comment is so nonsensical that I feel sorry for you if you can read that and think it proves your point at all. Your ONE argument is that your word is somehow better than the BBC's, because you have given ZERO evidence and ZERO reason to trust what you say. You also managed to contradict YOURSELF. It's impossible to win an argument with someone who's so completely ignorant they don't realise that their argument makes no sense and clearly has no evidence. Because guess what; if you HAD evidence, you would have used it. You're pulling this out of your ass. Message me again and you're blocked.
If you ever feel depressed or void of emotions,at night, play this with headphones at loudest with no light, pick a corner in your room and stare into that corner
Can someone make an extended version? Or a looped version? Like ten minutes to an hour maybe? I'd really appreciate it, I hate having to hit the replay button.
Given it was the radiophonic workshop they probably didn’t use instruments. They probably just messed around with various sounds and mixed it all together.
Something has definitely been lost since the earliest Dalek stories, to do with how genuinely frightening they were. I don’t mean frightening like in 2005’s Dalek, where they show you this chillingly clever mass-murderer, or even the gruesome horror from stories like Revelation. I mean that gut-twisting, sleep-with-the-lights-on creepiness that you only find in a couple of their earliest appearances.
The atmosphere of this original Dalek story is deeply unsettling, and it isn’t even a card-carrying ‘scary episode’. Personally, I think this creepy quality peaked in Power of the Daleks, and has rarely been glimpsed since. The weird part is, it doesn’t come off like some lost magic that the show has been unable to recapture- it really seems like it’s just for lack of trying. The Daleks are used in many different ways, and those are all fair enough, it just doesn’t seem to occur to anyone to try this approach again. If they put their minds to it, I’m sure they could bring back those evasive, uneasy emotions from the ‘60s Dalek stories.
Spot on
I think something that gave the early Daleks such an eerie feeling was the strange uncanny valley effect they gave. The reason I say uncanny valley is because you'd see the machines, the way they'd talk in the stilted monotone, the calculating logic to them. Then you'd see the blearing hatred and fear they had. The only two emotions they'd show and they were intense. The creeping realisation that these creatures stunning intelligence is guided by those two irrational emotions. It was uncanny in the sense that behind that singular white pupil was a terrified genius. Behind the armour there was some screaming conscious being that could not feel anything but hatred and fear. They almost seemed human when they were wound up, the ugly side to humanity. The Daleks in the original serial were tragic villains in my opinion. They were so warped by war. They could only think in terms of black and white. Kill or be killed.
dalek animation when
@@themechbuilder6171 Someday, probably. I'm held back by not having access to a ring modulator to do the voice. There is a Dalek related video scheduled to go up on my channel a few hours after posting this comment, though. Thanks for showing interest!
Nowadays they just seem like shrieky military enemies. A whole battalion of warriors isn't as scary as a handful going about their silent eerie business
The song that comes in at around 0:55 is undoubtedly my favorite incidental music from the Hartnell-Throughton days (as it also appeared in _The Daleks' Master Plan_, _The Ark_, and _The Power of the Daleks_); it always reminds me of the downfall of Mavic Chen in _The Daleks' Master Plan_ and sends chills down my spine each time I hear it...
My favorite too
I don't know why they don't use it again.
Ah yes, 'The City' suites - gorgeously haunting!
Beautiful, isn't it?
@@FrankNFurter1000 Id use that word to describe the build up and the drum beat. Its is haunting. Just the way the doctor and group are on the edge of this gigantic plateau, hidden away from the danger, looking over this ancient city, devoid of life. How long has it been there? It gives me post apocalyptic and historical vibes. I could imagine this playing if we found a huge ancient egyptian underground crypt, untouched since their days. Just the entire track of this episode is just something else and deserves a remaster or remake
There's something really creepy about this episode. We, the viewers know what is coming. The TARDIS team, totally newborn to any of this and utterly ignorant of what the universe has in store, are blind. But we know the Daleks are *lurking* down there, in the city, just waiting. They've been down there for seems like 1000s of years, ossifying in a state of perpetual isolated genocidal hatred, never having met one sole from the outside. But one contact between a bunch of time travellers who wandered in would rip open their influence on the universe for centuries to come, realising how much was out there, and how much they've got to kill. It's like opening up some kind of bread loaf and letting all the spores come rushing out from its tight sealing. You should have just let it rot there. The doctor has no idea how evil they are. He has no idea what they really are. He is completely new to time travelling. He is like a small child. What horrors he'll discover in time. Knowing what comes next and seeing none of the characters in show have any clue to what they are gives this whole story a palpable sense of anxiety (especially the first episode).
And that's what I love about the music of this piece. Especially 0:56, which if i recall is when we see a swooping shot downwards into the city and the team go into it. It's like the Daleks are waiting, and this haunting, hypnotic ghostly sound is inviting you in.
You know, this music is so much better than what they are using now. This sounds more creative, more mysterious etc. The Doctor Who's from the 1960s are timeless classics. I just wish they would find more of the missing episodes, especially "The Power of the Daleks". That would be a good one to see.
Yes you're right "Power of the Daleks" was great story and it'd be fantastic if we had it back but but until they find it well just have to make do with the target novelizations and audio CD's.
I sure a lot of people will disagree with what I'm going to say here but in my opinion the classic is vastly superior to the current series in a lot of ways and I wish someone would do a reboot where they bring back Paul Mcgann as the 8th Doctor, wipe the slate clean and do the series right this time because it just feels like to me that Doctor Who has lost something since the new series came along. It's a shadow of it's former self where it could have been so much more, so much better.
the music in the new series is rubbish. Dark ambient is what it should be... it's supposed to be a spooky mysterious program, not a rollicking space adventure with john williams music
+Liam O'neill It's a CHILDREN'S show, genius. It was never meant to be scary. It was meant to teach kids about history; the guy who came up with the concept got mad when the Daleks were introduced for that very reason. You're about as wrong about what Doctor Who was "meant to be" as is possible to get. Hartnell's first episode was considered too scary by the creators, and was re-shot to be less so. It was never meant to be a dark show. It was meant to be an educational kid's show.
+apdarkness905 No offence but for that comment to have any value, you really need to DEFINE "doing it right". Unless you can provide a better alternative, it just sounds like you're bitching because you don't like change. Doctor Who has had some very powerful moments since the new series (which is NOT a reboot. It's the same continuity, and a reboot is a do over from the start) started, and your comment didn't provide a single genuine criticism. All you said was "it doesn't FEEL the same"; which is what ANYONE says when something new is introduced. It's what the audiences said when regeneration was introduced. That by itself does not count as a valid criticism.
If you want your comment to be taken seriously, and not just as someone complaining for no reason, you need the following:
-proper, real criticisms regarding the new series - more than just a vague "it's different so I don't like it"
-suggestions on how it could be better; preferably not just "keep it exactly the same as it was", because 50 years on, that's not realistic OR reasonable.
+LordofFullmetal
You make a good point there and I thank you for calling me on it and so to answer your question of how I define doing it right, well here is the answer. As I said before a complete reboot of the current series, eliminate the story line of _The Time War_, reinstate Paul McGann as the Doctor for at least one season maybe more, and model the reboot series after the wilderness years particularly the original novels by Virgin and BBC Books, because my God they came up with some amazing stories during that time.
The reason why I would do this is new series is so trivial and superficial it's depressing to even think this hack job attempt to create a worthy successor something that was pure genius could even dare to share the title of the original as every achievement of the current series is either unforgivable or, as I said, unbelievably shallow.
For example on the shallow end of the spectrum you have the special
effects and the more dramatic tone of the program. The effects are nothing more than sugar-coating on the surface and in the grander scheme of things are of no real consequence and the dramatic element is in the shallow region because it was already achieved by someone else in previously the original novels and the Big Finish audio adventures who introduced a very similar element to the mix and frankly did a much better job of it, and what did the new series do? They came waltzing in did an inferior version of the same thing and then had the audacity to claim it as their own. A few flashy effects and a little drama a Doctor Who series does not make.
As for the unforgivable side of things well that was getting rid of the multi episode format for each adventure. Now I understand on a certain level that the change in format was to increase the efficiency with which the show is produced but there were other ways to do that without almost completely sacrificing one of the key elements that made classic DW great. For example the new production could have adopted the same format as Season 22 back in 1985, which was made up of two, occasionally three, 45 minute episodes per story as opposed to the traditional four to six 25 minute episodes. This would preserve some element of the episodic format while still allowing the show to be produced in an expeditious manner. The fact that the episodic format could be considered expendable is, as I have said, unforgivable. Another mistake the new is the fact that the current DW just isn't scary enough. The new series should be darker and more frightening to put the kids back behind the sofa and not this parody of itself that it's become.
The show has sunken so deeply into the pit it's dug for itself that reboot of this type is the only solution of any significance because even if you got a team even if they did get a better writing team or producer the poor choices that have already been made would still be carried over and therefore would ultimately accomplish nothing apart from a cowardly band-aid solution that would make no real difference in the end, and this all for what? So some ill-conceived, poorly executed show can maintain some tenuous relevancy in the canon *NO*! The current series just is not worth that, nothing is worth what has happened to this series.
The fact is that there comes a time when hard decisions need to be made and you simply have to cut your losses and start again. Doctor Who is coming dangerously close to that time. And it’s sad, it’s sad that it ever reached this point, it’s sad that they couldn't get it right the first time but clearly the wrong people for the job where put in charge of the project and now someone is going to have to clean up their mess, before it's too late and Doctor Who disappears again, maybe this time forever due to the damage that this new series has done.
As the Master himself once said "a universe without the
Doctor scarcely bears thinking about."
way ahead of its time
the music around 2:49 is the sort of thing you'd hear in breaking bad
Imagine if the new Dalek episodes had a score like this.
New daleks haven't got the scare factor there just bronze horrendous design
The Dalek City (starts at 1:00 ) music is amazing. You're instantly transported to an strange, unearthly alien world and it emphasises the character of the city itself, which should be beautiful with it;s gleaming metallic spires and yet which has a forbidding menace. Everything about the city is saying "KEEP AWAY" and this is a neat counterpoint to the Doctor's insatiable curiosity and need to explore it. WHich of cours ehe does, by trickery, which leads to disaster.
Literally g.o.a.t material, sad how little it's talked about now of days.
@@robotx9285I've been inspired by it to include it in my works.
Mightily impressive, so spooky and atmospheric. The noise at 1:04 is way ahead of it's time, sounds almost like the Clockwork Orange soundtrack.
Thats what I was thinking as well very mysterious and foreboding like the stillness of entering a potentially dangerous eerie place and feeling someone or something could be lurking or watching...
This is flipping scary.
The Eleventh Wheatley I don't know why. But every time I hear this soundtrack, it gives me the creeps 😖
And this is why the classic Daleks were scary.
And the new Daleks aren't.
I like the new Daleks, but they can't beat the classics in the scare factor.
With each series in the revival, the Daleks spend more time screaming 'Exterminate' than they actually do exterminating. Consider Eccleston's finale where the Daleks slaughter a room full of civilians on the Game Station like the massacre of the Kaled rebels in Genesis. There's been no comparable moment to it since. (That stupid 'reality bomb' aside')
For me as a child watching the Classic Series, the most terrifying Dalek moments were when a character suddenly found themselves faced with a Dalek, and it killed them. No screams from the Dalek; just the sound of the death ray and the human falling dead and the Dalek usually turning away indifferently; often with the sound of its wheels rumbling on the floor which I always found particularly unsettling.
Now it's endless scenes of massive numbers of Daleks screaming Exterminate and the irritating orchestral music with the Latin chanting that worked really well, ONCE.
@@DomWeasel I will agree with you there but I know people aren't going to agree with me but I do like resolution with just the recon scout Dalek I do think that one was pretty bad ass
Possibly the most of any Dalek music, if not all of Who.
#bring back the renegade daleks to destroy the bronze daleks.
@@louiswright8282 that wouldn’t make sense seeing as the renegade daleks and bronze Daleks are both from Skaro, it would make more sense to bring back the imperials
At about 0:58 the music is absolutely beautiful
2022 and this creeps me out
I've been thinking about it for years, and I think I've finally mustered up the right words to describe my feelings succinctly enough to describe how I feel about this piece, this story, and what it means. It feels like the story of Pandora's Box, metaphorically speaking. The Doctor's curiosity is what made the Daleks aware that they are not alone in the universe, and their pathological, instinctual need to be the only beings in existence is now the reason why we have such suffering widespread across time and space. Sometimes, it's best to leave things alone. After all, the Daleks were the closest to being content before the Doctor's arrival, they seemed the most "regular" in contrast to their previous incarnations. Not only do they have actual sentences and conversations, but they have art sculptures in their city, and a need for food, water, etc. It's like as if the Doctor's intervention made them regress back into what Davros intended for them to be. Hell, it is confirmed that the reason they act more unstable and mechanical(And a bit gimmicky lately) in their thinking is because the Doctor's intervention in "Genesis of the Daleks" basically made Davros alter their genetic makeup even further to be more robotically detached, because in his paranoid mind he thinks that's what made him and his Daleks better than everyone.
The Radiophonic Workhouse was...well, ingenious and genius!
I think the music for when the Dalek city is seen is very haunting and beautiful in a way :)
I am pretty sure this was also used in The Power of the Daleks.
yes it was used in power of the daleks. it was also used in the ark, the daleks master plan and the rescue
I just think of the Daleks moving through their city corridor around the 1:30 part. Amazing stuff
Oh it's you again
Where've you seen me before lol?
@@_SomeRandomRUclipsr_ yeah on the fat bart video XD. Rag on a stick
Lmao oh yeah. I'm sure it won't be the last time.
Probably XD
So ahead of its time. Great audio that actually makes the Daleks seem even more menacing, scary and mysterious. I hope they either find or animate evil of the Daleks.
Hope they find it evil just to good to be animated was really impressed by how good episode 2 was
imagine in new who. the tardis crew get a disturbing distress beacon. land on this unknown planet and while listening to creepy static radio of someone screaming for help. across the mountain they see an old metal city and this music plays. just exactly how it was in the dead planet.
I am currently going through 60s Doctor Who marathon at the moment I started at beginning the year with the first season of course, I love the soundtrack of the 60s Doctor Who for stories like this it makes the Daleks even more creepy
It is to quote 9 "fantastic"
Can you imagine if they brought this back for resolution
I am now too, I'm on the Aztecs :-)
The Dalek City Theme with the recurring Violin sound is easily one of the best Dalek tracks in the entire show.
I cannnot think of any other track from dr who as both errie and industrial to the degree of this one.
Imagine if they did this track for resolution when Lynn finds the creature on the wall
That would have been so cool
Many people say how to make the Daleks more scary is by having them shoot more and talk less. A very good point, but that only retains to soldiers or a traveling mini Dalek Empire, not The Daleks from Skaro, let me explain.
The Daleks are simply there to exterminate, they thought everything in the universe was dead except for a couple of Thals, the actions that the Doctor and the old gang did was set off a ticking time bomb for the Daleks to learn their is more life out in the cosmos, and that is where they will exterminate anything.
While the extermination fear should only retain to soldiers and mini little empires lead by a Supreme, an actual Dalek homeworld should be very secluded, empty, and downright mysterious.
Go in the inside and you’ll learn the threats from these mutants, a low trembling unknown sense of these things.
Doctor Who has greatly lost that effect because of all the soldiers and things like that. We need an episode where the Daleks are on a planet, and are keeping people for their own evil desires, obviously written by RTD of course.
Excellent to have this - appropriately - greatest of the Doctor Who soundtracks in this perfectly condensed suite form.
Thank you, Ryan.
60's dr who is unique. Compared to all the other classic/modern eras after it the Hartnell/Throughton era has this unique feel that hasn't been found since. The alien worlds feel truly alien. And the music in many of the serials gives a sense of vast, dangerous mystery.
The daleks entire soundtrack feels like it wasn't meant for humans. Which fits the daleks themselves, who's city, their ways of thinking and even their equipment has none of the design features standard for humanoid bodies.
The Hartnell and Troughton era had the best music of the classic series.
0:58 that part sounds so modern like Boards of Canada or something >.>
I thought doctor who was a childrens show. To me it sounds like a horror movie !!!!!!!!!!
Doctor who used to be a horror sci-fi back in the day. But now has been turned into a children's show.
The Really Good Apple Pie If anything, it's more the inverse of that.
+Roanstar I have no idea why half the responses to this comment are people saying it's not a kid's show. It was ALWAYS meant to be for kids. The man who came up with the concept got mad, because he thought the BBC made it too scary.
Cryer24597
Not really, when you consider:
-"family" shows still HAVE to be acceptable viewing for children in order to be considered family shows. They can't be too scary or they immediately lose that. In fact, Doctor Who is currently at risk of LOSING its "family show" status because of the way Clara died.
-The BBC's documentary about the creation of Doctor Who, in which they explicitly STATE that the original purpose of the show was to educate children.
Do your research next time and maybe you won't look like an idiot. The evidence is on my side. Right now, it's the word of the BBC plus the DEFINITION of the term "family show" against your unsupported word.
Cryer24597
Done wasting my time here. You either ignored my point or didn't understand it. Either way, your response now makes zero sense because you failed to address my argument properly. I don't even have to fight you; that last comment destroyed itself with your backwards logic. You literally just made an argument and tore it apart in the same comment. That comment is so nonsensical that I feel sorry for you if you can read that and think it proves your point at all. Your ONE argument is that your word is somehow better than the BBC's, because you have given ZERO evidence and ZERO reason to trust what you say. You also managed to contradict YOURSELF.
It's impossible to win an argument with someone who's so completely ignorant they don't realise that their argument makes no sense and clearly has no evidence. Because guess what; if you HAD evidence, you would have used it. You're pulling this out of your ass.
Message me again and you're blocked.
Say what you will about the special effects on the Classic Series but this soundtrack was ahead of its time.
Its aged incredibly well
Solidus-Skully you been watching the live stream too? Seeing everyone's comments about the music in this story was really refreshing
@ Sam Jones yes it was used in Power Of The Daleks it was also used in The Rescue, The Ark and The Daleks Master Plan.
Is it me, or have small parts of this soundtrack been re-orchestrated and used in some of the newest episodes of the show?
If you ever feel depressed or void of emotions,at night, play this with headphones at loudest with no light, pick a corner in your room and stare into that corner
1:00 fav bit.
Absolutely genius
Radiophonic workshop with keying in unit .later ems vcs3 and synthi 100
Me:oh boy Oh boy oh boy come on old timer Or grandfather
Hartnell: ok ok great great times 100 grandson
Back when the daleks were scary
Who music was never this good again.
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YOU WILL MOVE AHEAD OF US AND FOLLOW MY DIRECTIONS... THIS WAY!!
Can someone make an extended version? Or a looped version? Like ten minutes to an hour maybe? I'd really appreciate it, I hate having to hit the replay button.
Right click and click loop.
Mr. Retro Gamer
That isn't an option on mobile.
Then get a computer.
Late reply but you can always make a playlist of just this video and loop the playlist?
This does kind of give me a Silent Hill vibe.
I understand why kids in the 60s hid behind the sofa when this came on
We are your servants
Reminds me of the ddadio sounds from half life
Is it bad that some of this sounds like the freezers in Budgens?
Creepy as fuck.
How did you upload this without getting a copyright strike?
What instruments were used to create this?
Given it was the radiophonic workshop they probably didn’t use instruments. They probably just messed around with various sounds and mixed it all together.
A combination of found sounds and electronically generated tones from Tristram Cary's electronic music studio
argh....
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