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{{quote|''We are the masters of Earth!''|'''A Dalek'''}}
[[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|The title of the story says it all really]]. After the runaway success of "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S1
It's the future - some point after 2164 - and the story focuses not on the invasion itself (still a little beyond the budget and capability of 1964) but on a world ruled by the Daleks and their robotised slaves ("Robomen").
The Doctor and the others fall in with a group of resistance fighters led by wheelchair-bound Dortmun, and discover that the Daleks are digging a huge mine in Bedfordshire of all places. It turns out that they are planning to plant a bomb in the Earth's core which will hollow out the planet, so they can replace the core with an engine and pilot the planet around like a spaceship.
Ian rigs up a barrier in the mineshaft which detonates the bomb prematurely, conveniently destroying the Dalek mothership and most of the Daleks in the process, not to mention creating a new volcano in Bedfordshire. Susan, the Doctor's granddaughter, has meanwhile fallen in love with resistance fighter David Campbell and the Doctor leaves her behind to make a new life with him.
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It was adapted as ''[[Daleks – Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D.]]'', the sequel to ''Dr. Who and the Daleks''.
* [[After the End]]: Most of the human race is dead, their cities are deserted and the survivors are more concered with just staying alive than fighting back.
* [[Almost Kiss]]: Susan and David actually start, but the sudden appearance of The Doctor from off camera cuts it short.
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* [[Idiot Ball]]: The Doctor shows a rare case of it on the Dalek spaceship. After discovering that his cell contains [[Locking MacGyver in the Store Cupboard|exactly what they need to escape captivity]] he tries to escape. [[Schmuck Bait|It turns out it was an intelligence test to find suitable slave labor.]]
* [[Mayfly-December Romance]]: David and Susan.
* [[Name's the Same]]: This serial's Jenny's not [[Doctor Who
* [[A Nazi by Any Other Name]]: While "The Daleks" had elements of [[Fantastic Racism]], here the Dalek = Nazi parallel becomes overt.
* [[Newspaper Dating]]: The TARDIS crew discover the is 2164 (or later) via a calander in an abandoned warehouse.
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* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]: Wells uses this against the Daleks in his first scene.
* [[Plot Hole]]: Once the show developed its back-story and mythology, the Doctor leaving behind Susan on Earth, even a future one, seems a bit strange considering she's doomed to outlive David and age much slower then everyone who knows her, and change appearance once she's close to dying......
** It's implied in [[Doctor Who
* [[Sound-Only Death]] - As Susan and David crouch in a corner hiding from the Daleks we hear a man in the street begging a Dalek for his life before he gets killed.
* [[Too Much Information]]: One sign which [[Blooper|appears in shots it shouldn't appear in]] reads "It is forbidden to dump bodies into the river."
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* [[Wham! Episode]]: This was the first time the TARDIS crew changed at all, with Susan leaving at the end of part six.
* [[The X of Y]]
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