Series 5 (2010)
Episode title: Victory of the DaleksFeaturing: Eleventh Doctor
Companions: Amy Pond
First shown: 17th April 2010
Related articles: Daleks
Guide: The TARDIS lands with the Doctor and Amy in the Cabinet War Rooms during the Blitz of the Second World War, a whole month after Winston Churchill requested the Doctor’s assistance at the end of episode two. Due to the Doctor not arriving on time, Churchill chose to go with the scientific advances of Edwin Bracewell who had created robotic machines that he called “ironsides”, though these are immediately recognised by the Doctor to be Daleks.
The Doctor tries to work out why the Daleks are being so submissive and subjecting themselves to human commands, but they keep stating that they are ready to help Britain’s War effort. The Doctor angrily attacks the devices instead, and shouts “I am the Doctor and you are the Daleks!” This testimony is heard by a lone Dalek orbiting near the Moon in a lone Dalek ship. This Dalek alerts its fellows on Earth and they finally reveal their true intent, and expose Bracewell as a robot of their own creation. The Daleks transmit themselves onto their ship and the Doctor follows in his TARDIS, leaving Amy behind for her safety.
The Doctor learns that the Dalek ship escaped the Crucible (at the end of Series Four) by accidently falling through time. The Daleks plan to restart the Progenator that contains pure Dalek DNA and thus recreate their race. The Doctor feigns to destroy their ship, including himself, before the machine can finish its job, but the Daleks send a light beam back to Earth and light London up like a Christmas tree minutes before an air-raid, leaving his allies exposed and putting him in a tough situation. In this time, five brand new Daleks emerge from the Progenator machine and destroy the “inferior” previous ones who were not of pure Dalek DNA.
Amy convinces Churchill to use what Dalek technology and knowledge they have to modify three Spitfires to fly in space and destroy the Dalek ship. They succeed in destroying the light beam dish, saving London from the German bombers, though two of the pilots die in the process. The Doctor claims victory for Great Britain and orders the remaining pilot to destroy the Dalek ship, but the Daleks reveal their final plan. Bracewell contains a device in him that will create a wormhole that will consume the entire planet. The Doctor and Amy work to convince Bracewell that he is more human than machine, deactivating the machine while the Daleks escape and claim victory themselves. The episode ends with the Doctor removing all of the Dalek technology, despite Churchill wanting to use it for the War effort.