Season 27 - Series 1 (2005)

Dalek

Last Updated 06 Mar 2013 by Harry Ward

Dalek

Story Number: 161 (1.6)

Writer: Robert Shearman
Director: Joe Ahearne

Starring: : Christopher Eccleston, Bruno Langley, Billie Piper, Corey Johnson

No of Episodes: 1
First Broadcast: Sat 30 Apr 2005
Running Time: 45 minutes 20 seconds

Average Audience: 8.63 Million Average AI: 84

Beneath the salt plains of Utah, the billionaire collector Henry Van Statten holds the last relic of an alien race. When the Doctor and Rose investigate, they discover that the Doctor's oldest and most deadly enemy is about to break free. It's a fight to the death, with Rose caught in the middle.

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On This Day: 24th May

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Birthdays

Jo Joyner is 35 today - credited as Lynda Moss in Bad Wolf / The Parting of the Ways

Naomi Ryan is 36 today - credited as Cassandra in Asylum of the Daleks

William Sasso is 38 today - credited as Pete in The TV Movie

Jim Broadbent is 64 today - credited as The Eleventh Doctor in The Curse Of Fatal Death(Misc)

Rob Edwards is 64 today - 2 credits, including Xoanon in The Face of Evil

Graham Williams (died 1990 aged 45) would be 68 today - 18 credits, including Producer for Horror of Fang Rock

Fiona Walker is 69 today - 2 credits, including Lady Peinforte in Silver Nemesis

Robert Russell (died 2008 aged 71) would be 77 today - 2 credits, including The Caber in Terror of the Zygons

Freddie Earlle (died 2007 aged 83) would be 89 today - credited as Aldo in Warriors' Gate

Deaths

Robert Holmes (died 1986 aged 60) - 34 credits, including Script Editor for Robot

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