WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:07.000 Dialects beyond the screen! 00:07.000 --> 00:15.440 When I was passing Verity Lambert's office one day, she called me in. 00:15.440 --> 00:17.560 She said, look at this. 00:17.560 --> 00:21.880 This mailbag full of letters. 00:21.880 --> 00:22.880 All for the dialects. 00:22.880 --> 00:23.880 They want more dialects. 00:23.880 --> 00:26.840 I said, that's extraordinary. 00:26.840 --> 00:35.940 And she said, BBC Enterprises, that's before Worldwide, are planning to make dialect tea 00:35.940 --> 00:41.600 towels and dialect soap on a rope. 00:41.600 --> 00:44.680 And she said, I've heard there's going to be a feature film. 00:44.680 --> 00:49.160 Gosh, I thought, you know. 00:49.160 --> 00:54.680 It was at that point that I met my boss in the toilet. 00:54.680 --> 00:58.800 I said to him, you know, I explained to him all about these tea towels and soaps on ropes 00:58.800 --> 00:59.800 and things. 00:59.800 --> 01:05.920 And I said, it all smells of merchandise and money and films. 01:05.920 --> 01:11.520 You know, I said, is any of this money coming my way? 01:11.520 --> 01:13.160 I couldn't answer the following week. 01:13.160 --> 01:16.280 I mean, that was no. 01:16.280 --> 01:22.760 On Saturdays, I and some girlfriends used to go and have lunch in expensive restaurants. 01:22.760 --> 01:25.440 And we were in a restaurant one day, I was with a girlfriend. 01:25.440 --> 01:27.160 And we was, but it was late. 01:27.160 --> 01:29.680 It was like three o'clock in the afternoon on Saturday. 01:29.680 --> 01:31.960 And there was only one other table in the restaurant. 01:31.960 --> 01:33.600 And they were sitting next door to us. 01:33.600 --> 01:37.000 And we got chatting to them and introduced ourselves. 01:37.000 --> 01:42.160 And I, when I said my name, this man said, you have made me a millionaire. 01:42.160 --> 01:45.280 And this man was Walter Tupquell, who had bought the rights. 01:45.280 --> 01:48.340 Because I was earning 1600 pounds a year at the time. 01:48.340 --> 01:52.720 And this man had been made a millionaire from the, by the way, I never got one single, I 01:52.720 --> 01:56.400 never got one single piece of merchandise from Doctor Who. 01:56.400 --> 02:00.280 We'd already made miniature ones to come up out of the sand. 02:00.280 --> 02:05.520 Shawcraft were ready to actually manufacture the small ones and were dying to do it. 02:05.520 --> 02:07.800 There was no opening made for them. 02:07.800 --> 02:12.120 And actually they ceased to make them, ceased to be interested and went out of business. 02:12.120 --> 02:17.200 They gave the franchise to somebody else and lost thousands upon thousands. 02:17.200 --> 02:22.400 Garlic soap. 02:22.400 --> 02:27.560 I would say literally hundreds, I think, of garlic merchandise products that are out there. 02:27.560 --> 02:31.120 I mean, from across the years as well, not just recent series. 02:31.120 --> 02:37.760 We've got everything from bottle openers and hot water bottles to action figures and dress 02:37.760 --> 02:39.720 up kits, which are my personal favourite. 02:39.720 --> 02:42.040 They had garlic models, a garlic game. 02:42.040 --> 02:44.440 And I think there was a garlic comic book. 02:44.440 --> 02:46.600 I think they had a garlic suit. 02:46.600 --> 02:51.600 That Christmas, I remember going into the shops and seeing and being ashamed that there 02:51.600 --> 02:57.760 was a garlic suit made out of PVC with sort of hoops. 02:57.760 --> 03:01.480 I was really annoyed when I was a kid that I didn't get one of those garlic suits. 03:01.480 --> 03:04.720 I wasn't allowed big, expensive toys. 03:04.720 --> 03:07.280 It's a shame, isn't it? 03:07.280 --> 03:08.280 I was scarred by that. 03:08.280 --> 03:12.000 I probably wouldn't have ended up doing the garlic voice if I'd been allowed to have a 03:12.000 --> 03:15.160 garlic suit, because I would have got it all out of my system then. 03:15.160 --> 03:20.480 Early garlics, the first toys that they attempted to market were rubbish. 03:20.480 --> 03:25.960 They were really, really badly made, badly constructed, inaccurate. 03:25.960 --> 03:29.640 And they weren't the models that they should have been, could have been. 03:29.640 --> 03:36.040 These are Lewis Mark's garlic rollerkins, which came out in 1965, which was the boom 03:36.040 --> 03:37.360 year for garlic mania. 03:37.360 --> 03:40.480 You could roll them across any flat surface. 03:40.480 --> 03:45.920 Weirdly, also accompanied in the same range by rollerkin Batman and Robin. 03:45.920 --> 03:53.600 Here we have the Cherry Lee garlic, which were called Swop-Its, because you could pull 03:53.600 --> 03:54.920 their heads off eventually. 03:54.920 --> 04:01.200 You could swap them around, so have a yellow middle and a blue top and a black top and 04:01.200 --> 04:03.920 a slightly strange off-green colour. 04:03.920 --> 04:09.200 Along with the garlic, they also produced a companion mechanoid. 04:09.200 --> 04:15.520 The garlic sold in vast quantities, whereas obviously the mechanoids didn't. 04:15.520 --> 04:20.800 The garlic, I think, was soon dropped and later showed up as space pods where they'd 04:20.800 --> 04:22.880 been cannibalised. 04:22.880 --> 04:31.200 This is a Selko spinning top, slippers, garlic meteorite storm, garlic jigsaw, jet bombers 04:31.200 --> 04:34.440 coming over and garlics exterminating. 04:34.440 --> 04:38.640 This is the garlic book, again, part of the explosion of all the merchandise which came 04:38.640 --> 04:39.640 out at that point. 04:39.640 --> 04:45.200 You can see here you've got this strange insignia on the top, and you've got markings here as 04:45.200 --> 04:46.200 well. 04:46.200 --> 04:50.640 That would have been something only used in the studio to identify one garlic from another. 04:50.640 --> 04:54.960 In the photographs given to the people doing the book in this great rush, they thought 04:54.960 --> 04:56.960 it was actually part of the design itself. 04:56.960 --> 05:02.920 You have here indications of the haste with which garlic just exploded outwards. 05:02.920 --> 05:06.200 Generally, they'd have a piece of graphic on them somewhere. 05:06.200 --> 05:10.440 I thought that always felt like their serial number or barcode. 05:10.440 --> 05:17.720 One of the things we thought we'd do is put a piece of garlic graphics under the eyepiece 05:17.720 --> 05:22.080 so when they'd look at each other and their eyes lined up, they could see who they were 05:22.080 --> 05:23.080 talking to. 05:23.080 --> 05:27.440 This, I believe, was from War of the Garlics, which was a board game. 05:27.440 --> 05:30.520 I quite like the way the head moves. 05:30.520 --> 05:31.520 Exterminate. 05:31.520 --> 05:34.440 I don't know how weird that is. 05:34.440 --> 05:37.340 This is the Daypole garlic. 05:37.340 --> 05:38.760 It's probably pregnant. 05:38.760 --> 05:46.880 I'd certainly had a Daypole garlic toy, which looks a bit unsophisticated compared to the 05:46.880 --> 05:47.880 new toys. 05:47.880 --> 05:49.320 It's a tubby garlic. 05:49.320 --> 05:51.960 This would be a cute garlic you could give someone without any fears that it would actually 05:51.960 --> 05:52.960 exterminate them. 05:52.960 --> 06:00.280 Daypole garlics got so mad that I did actually curb my habit of buying garlic toys. 06:00.280 --> 06:04.640 When you could buy them that were done out in the Stars and Stripes or Union Jacks or 06:04.640 --> 06:07.000 Chrome, I just stopped. 06:07.000 --> 06:10.360 In those days there was no big quality control. 06:10.360 --> 06:13.720 Nowadays we've got important BBC people who look at all these things. 06:13.720 --> 06:21.280 I think the thing that is hard to get right about a garlic is exactly the right proportions. 06:21.280 --> 06:26.560 The Louis Marx ones are so completely off in their proportions, especially the top half 06:26.560 --> 06:32.800 where it's all just squashed into a truncated, flattened down version of what the garlic's 06:32.800 --> 06:33.800 head should be. 06:33.800 --> 06:35.840 It was completely the wrong shape. 06:35.840 --> 06:43.080 Looking back on those Daypole toys, they're not exactly correct garlics, which is a very 06:43.080 --> 06:44.080 polite way of saying it. 06:44.080 --> 06:49.680 It's great when you work on something, when we were working on New Doctor, we didn't realise 06:49.680 --> 06:55.560 that the toys were A, going to be made and B, take off as much as they have done. 06:55.560 --> 06:59.360 When we're talking about garlics specifically, we don't want to do anything that makes them 06:59.360 --> 07:04.600 look too cute and cuddly because that's not their character. 07:04.600 --> 07:10.320 I think one of the reasons that you know they're working again is when you have small children 07:10.320 --> 07:16.240 not only turning up at shops and picking the garlics off the shelves and saying, will you 07:16.240 --> 07:17.920 buy me this? 07:17.920 --> 07:21.800 But the fact that they know, oh that's garlic Thay, I haven't got that one. 07:21.800 --> 07:27.640 I was given a new series garlic and I use it to frighten my cat now because if you press 07:27.640 --> 07:31.080 the button on top, out comes Nick Briggs' voice. 07:31.080 --> 07:39.600 I have my voice activated garlic at home and you know, I quite like shouting garlic to 07:39.600 --> 07:41.840 him and when he shouts, yes. 07:41.840 --> 07:47.240 Such a thing never existed when I was young and it just blows my mind every time I look 07:47.240 --> 07:48.240 at them. 07:48.240 --> 07:53.920 There's part of my brain that's just dancing with joy that such a thing actually exists 07:53.920 --> 07:54.920 now. 07:54.920 --> 08:00.520 The Garlic Chronicles. 08:00.520 --> 08:10.960 In the 60s they created garlic comic strips and garlic books, like the TV 21 here and 08:10.960 --> 08:15.800 every week it had this garlic strip, beautifully drawn garlic strip on the back here. 08:15.800 --> 08:20.240 I was quite a big fan of the garlic comics from the 60s. 08:20.240 --> 08:25.040 The stories I think would take place on their home planet and would involve the day to day 08:25.040 --> 08:27.080 life of being a garlic. 08:27.080 --> 08:31.960 So you did get to see sort of working class garlics, middle class garlics and upper class 08:31.960 --> 08:32.960 garlics. 08:32.960 --> 08:34.760 This is one of my favourite pieces. 08:34.760 --> 08:40.880 It had all these wonderful monsters in it that you wanted to see in the TV series and 08:40.880 --> 08:44.680 you really wanted to see a garlic being squashed by one. 08:44.680 --> 08:50.200 You can see whole fleets of them flying around in space on their discs and yes, come screaming 08:50.200 --> 08:52.600 out of the sky, blowing stuff up. 08:52.600 --> 08:55.040 It was spectacular and epic. 08:55.040 --> 09:01.240 On screen inevitably they get beaten and in the books they are the heroes. 09:01.240 --> 09:06.400 Here you've got a news report about the garlics invading a planet. 09:06.400 --> 09:10.960 The World Security Council met in Washington to discuss the plea but informed sources claim 09:10.960 --> 09:13.120 that no help will be sent at present. 09:13.120 --> 09:14.640 That's nice isn't it? 09:14.640 --> 09:17.840 These people say they're being invaded by the garlics and the World Security Council 09:17.840 --> 09:20.960 met and went, we'll just leave it. 09:20.960 --> 09:25.480 The garlics are very different in the comic strips I think because they are the heroes. 09:25.480 --> 09:28.560 You don't have to have them defeated by the Doctor. 09:28.560 --> 09:35.400 So you can have the garlics versus the rogue planet or the mechanoids and actually cheer 09:35.400 --> 09:38.200 when the garlics win and particularly the Emperor. 09:38.200 --> 09:41.160 The Emperor in the comic strip is such a fantastic character. 09:41.160 --> 09:49.200 Yeah, the Emperor became the central character really throughout the entire run of the strip. 09:49.200 --> 09:55.000 Darveling created the garlics in the aftermath of this terrible war on Skaro. 09:55.000 --> 10:01.280 In the TV21 strip they found it necessary to create the origin of the garlics. 10:01.280 --> 10:05.920 The garlics in the comic strips have names, Garlic Zeg and weirdly it does work. 10:05.920 --> 10:08.120 Garlic Zeg's a fantastic character. 10:08.120 --> 10:10.600 Again a garlic that you really cheer for in that story. 10:10.600 --> 10:16.520 Wasn't he subjected to something or other that made him faster, stronger, meaner? 10:16.520 --> 10:20.640 I think the garlic Emperor didn't like the fact that Zeg was a bit of an upstart and 10:20.640 --> 10:23.200 had delusions of grandeur. 10:23.200 --> 10:31.080 It's a very sweet little story really until you realise that actually the first new garlic, 10:31.080 --> 10:35.960 the first garlic that has conscience if you like, is trying to be exterminated by every 10:35.960 --> 10:37.320 single one of his fellows. 10:37.320 --> 10:40.800 So actually you suddenly realise it's a really sad little story. 10:40.800 --> 10:47.640 And eventually the other garlics tried to kill him and it took a lot of killing. 10:47.640 --> 10:52.360 Playing Garlics. 10:52.360 --> 10:57.240 When they brought Doctor Who to the stage you have to have the garlics involved because 10:57.240 --> 11:03.440 in the public's eye the garlics are as important as Doctor Who. 11:03.440 --> 11:06.840 The first stage play, Curse of the Garlics, didn't even feature the Doctor. 11:06.840 --> 11:10.240 Remember, remember the garlic December. 11:10.240 --> 11:12.640 With Paris in ruins and London in ember. 11:12.640 --> 11:16.960 In times of the future when fears are abating, don't try to forget them. 11:16.960 --> 11:17.960 The garlics are waiting. 11:17.960 --> 11:22.480 They thought, well he's making the TV series, we can't have him in the stage show, so let's 11:22.480 --> 11:25.880 do a story that's just got the garlics in, doing their garlic thing. 11:25.880 --> 11:28.880 That the garlics are waiting. 11:28.880 --> 11:34.760 One day we will rise again. 11:34.760 --> 11:41.840 Then later on when they did Seven Keys to Doomsday in 1974, 5 I think, they got a new 11:41.840 --> 11:42.840 Doctor in. 11:42.840 --> 11:43.840 But he had to face the garlics. 11:43.840 --> 11:44.840 Has the Doctor been found? 11:44.840 --> 11:45.840 Not yet, your majesty. 11:45.840 --> 11:54.240 You know, if you're going to show the Doctor at his best on stage, then who do you get? 11:54.240 --> 11:55.240 The garlics. 11:55.240 --> 11:58.560 Same thing happened with The Ultimate Adventure in the 80s. 11:58.560 --> 12:01.280 It's almost, it's a no brainer really. 12:01.280 --> 12:03.120 The garlics have to be in it. 12:03.120 --> 12:08.440 Like why they use garlics on stage, I have no idea, because I cannot think of a more 12:08.440 --> 12:14.160 awkward or cumbersome thing to try and get on stage, if you tried. 12:14.160 --> 12:20.240 Particularly when I saw Ultimate Adventure, the stage had a rake, so the poor actors inside 12:20.240 --> 12:24.040 of it were constantly stopping themselves, trundling down stage and ending up in the 12:24.040 --> 12:25.040 orchestra pit. 12:25.040 --> 12:26.040 Exterminate the Doctor! 12:26.040 --> 12:27.040 Exterminate! 12:27.040 --> 12:28.040 Exterminate! 12:28.040 --> 12:29.040 Exterminate! 12:29.040 --> 12:30.040 Exterminate! 12:30.040 --> 12:31.040 Exterminate! 12:31.040 --> 12:32.040 Exterminate! 12:32.040 --> 12:33.040 Exterminate! 12:33.040 --> 12:34.040 Exterminate! 12:34.040 --> 12:38.160 Rather than sitting there and when the garlics go on stage going, wow, the garlics have arrived, 12:38.160 --> 12:43.000 I sat there and went, oh, they've got the shape slightly wrong and the base isn't quite 12:43.000 --> 12:46.960 at the right angle at the front, so I got more bogged down with the fact that the props 12:46.960 --> 12:51.560 weren't actually accurate to the TV show, more than we've got garlics on stage. 12:51.560 --> 12:56.440 Having done the Garlic Empire series on audio, it feels more dangerous than Doctor Who, because 12:56.440 --> 13:00.600 you always know that the Doctor must succeed, that's the deal with the audience and we love 13:00.600 --> 13:04.240 that, that's fantastic and it's reassuring in the way that the garlics are reassuringly 13:04.240 --> 13:08.680 bad, the Doctor's reassuringly good, but to just experiment with the garlics being let 13:08.680 --> 13:13.080 loose without that reassurance of success, without that reassurance that the garlics 13:13.080 --> 13:19.880 can be defeated, and in a way the garlics are never defeated in Garlic Empire, you know, 13:19.880 --> 13:26.120 it's largely a story of them winning, but of human beings retaining great courage in 13:26.120 --> 13:27.880 the fight against them. 13:27.880 --> 13:34.160 I really did like the scenes between Susan Mendes and the Dalek Supreme, where the Dalek 13:34.160 --> 13:39.160 Supreme was trying to get Susan Mendes to work for him. 13:39.160 --> 13:43.440 Do you take pride in what you have done? 13:43.440 --> 13:44.440 Answer! 13:44.440 --> 13:50.920 The Dalek Supreme was toying with Susan Mendes' ideas of hope, that if she stayed alive and 13:50.920 --> 13:53.640 worked for the Daleks, there was hope that she could defeat them one day, and yet the 13:53.640 --> 13:56.960 Dalek Supreme thought, yeah, but you never can, you know, and there was all this going 13:56.960 --> 14:01.640 on, and funnily enough, when I was doing Dalek, the first one in the new TV series, Russell 14:01.640 --> 14:06.160 T. Davis was chatting to me on the phone about the burning intelligence of the Daleks, and 14:06.160 --> 14:11.200 he said, it's like those scenes with Susan Mendes in Dalek Empire, you know, we need 14:11.200 --> 14:14.360 to get that sort of feeling across, I know you know how to do it, because I've heard 14:14.360 --> 14:17.360 it before, you know. 14:17.360 --> 14:21.560 Dalek, I love you! 14:21.560 --> 14:27.440 All our great baddies in history, all are ludicrous in some way, like, we know that 14:27.440 --> 14:33.360 Hitler was ghastly, but he was kind of short with a stupid moustache, you know, and we 14:33.360 --> 14:39.880 have always mocked the most evil things in our history, and the Daleks, because they're 14:39.880 --> 14:45.160 not real, they're even, you know, riper for that kind of satire, really. 14:45.160 --> 14:48.560 I have a theory, because I've spent this afternoon going through all the Private Eye old issues, 14:48.560 --> 14:53.000 looking at various cartoons of Daleks, which date right back to the 60s, and my theory 14:53.000 --> 14:55.080 is that they're very easy to draw. 14:55.080 --> 14:58.520 Not only are they easy to draw, but they're easy to do basic gags with, because Daleks 14:58.520 --> 15:03.680 have, and this is something about the way cartoonist minds work, they have large circles 15:03.680 --> 15:07.000 on them which look a bit like boobies, and they have sticking out things that go like 15:07.000 --> 15:08.640 that when they get excited. 15:08.640 --> 15:13.260 Apart from that, I think they're a good cartoon shorthand, you've got your desert islands 15:13.260 --> 15:15.160 and your specific things you can always use. 15:15.160 --> 15:17.640 Daleks are quite easy to draw, and you get the message of what a Dalek is doing, it's 15:17.640 --> 15:22.160 kind of, even though we all know, as Doctor Who fans, that they're not robots, they're 15:22.160 --> 15:23.840 kind of shorthand for a robot. 15:23.840 --> 15:29.640 So it's very easy to get a joke out of them by making them suddenly be subverted in that 15:29.640 --> 15:30.640 way. 15:30.640 --> 15:35.040 You can have them suddenly chanting that they need chocolate biscuits, because the whole 15:35.040 --> 15:40.080 essence of what a Dalek is, ultimately of course, could never actually lighten up and 15:40.080 --> 15:41.080 have a break. 15:41.080 --> 15:44.560 They're best when they're barking orders, and for some reason, exterminate! 15:44.560 --> 15:49.960 It works if it has several syllables in it, which is why you've got cartoonists and comedians 15:49.960 --> 15:52.440 doing, I don't know, expectorate! 15:52.440 --> 15:56.520 But it kind of works with this sort of management speed, which is where you ram in five syllables 15:56.520 --> 15:58.040 where one would usually do. 15:58.040 --> 15:59.700 It works perfectly for the Dalek's voice. 15:59.700 --> 16:04.120 The Daleks don't bother communicating with the people they invade, they just kill them, 16:04.120 --> 16:08.360 or tell them what to do, or starve them, or make them work, you know. 16:08.360 --> 16:14.060 So the Daleks are a good metaphor to use for saying that someone is really rubbish at their 16:14.060 --> 16:16.020 very responsible job. 16:16.020 --> 16:21.120 And it was actually Dennis Potter, the playwright and celebrity psoriasis sufferer, in his speech 16:21.120 --> 16:25.520 at the Edinburgh Television Festival in 1993, who referred to John Burt as a croak-voiced 16:25.520 --> 16:31.080 Dalek, and an alien who was kind of coming in and invading the BBC with strange new ways. 16:31.080 --> 16:33.760 And somehow it was just one of those things where they didn't actually sound very much 16:33.760 --> 16:38.600 like a Dalek, and he tends to wear Armani suits rather than Dalekinium armour. 16:38.600 --> 16:40.240 It just suited him perfectly. 16:40.240 --> 16:47.040 Meaning, of course, he had no ability to understand comedy, or drama, or imagination whatsoever. 16:47.040 --> 16:52.160 We started to get sent in all these examples of the most extraordinary Burt-speak, or management-speak, 16:52.160 --> 16:55.960 and nonsense and gobbledygook that was going around the BBC at the time. 16:55.960 --> 16:58.720 This is from a memo which was about how people should arrange their offices. 16:58.720 --> 17:02.880 I shall be on sites during the next six to eight weeks to manage and install a new filing 17:02.880 --> 17:05.720 stroke storage system from which you all may benefit. 17:05.720 --> 17:08.760 This may incorporate some reconfiguration of desking. 17:08.760 --> 17:10.760 Has there ever been a more Dalek-like phrase than, 17:10.760 --> 17:13.480 Reconfigurate Desking? 17:13.480 --> 17:16.800 Richard Sandbrook, the director of BBC Global News says, 17:16.800 --> 17:21.760 We created this pan-divisional post to enable us to communicate a unified and compelling 17:21.760 --> 17:24.840 global news message around the world. 17:24.840 --> 17:28.680 And thereafter to drill out the core of the world and steer it off into space. 17:28.680 --> 17:30.440 The Corporate Breakthrough Advisor will align... 17:30.440 --> 17:36.040 ...breakthrough more closely with business needs, support the existing network of advisors 17:36.040 --> 17:41.880 and facilitators, work with business unit heads and other managers who want to develop 17:41.880 --> 17:44.480 their use of team-based problem solving. 17:44.480 --> 17:45.920 These are not human words. 17:45.920 --> 17:46.920 These are alien words. 17:46.920 --> 17:49.600 The BBC is best symbolised by Tom Baker's Doctor Who. 17:49.600 --> 17:54.600 Sort of slightly shambolic, aware of his role, kind of winking to camera and doing a bit 17:54.600 --> 17:58.160 of business occasionally, and something people are quite fond of. 17:58.160 --> 17:59.920 This kind of new culture and this new management. 17:59.920 --> 18:04.720 It was seen as a sort of sinister, very untraditional kind of alien way, alien thing coming in and 18:04.720 --> 18:07.920 threatening cuddly old Aunty Bee. 18:07.920 --> 18:13.040 Dalek facts. 18:13.040 --> 18:17.240 Kids love lists of facts and background information. 18:17.240 --> 18:23.520 So in the books particularly, they invented all this stuff about the Dalek creed and what 18:23.520 --> 18:24.720 the Daleks stood for. 18:24.720 --> 18:28.520 And then suddenly all the Dalek language and various weird words that the Daleks would 18:28.520 --> 18:30.520 use, which of course they never did. 18:30.520 --> 18:36.560 Terry Nation says that he translated these things from alien cubes he found in his garden. 18:36.560 --> 18:39.840 He went to David Whittaker's house and he helped him out a bit. 18:39.840 --> 18:41.440 I find that quite funny. 18:41.440 --> 18:45.120 I find it also very funny because it implies that everything else in Doctor Who isn't like 18:45.120 --> 18:46.120 that. 18:46.120 --> 18:49.880 You know, that Bill Stratton with his Zarbi didn't find Zarbi cubes, but only the Dalek 18:49.880 --> 18:51.280 stuff which is actually real. 18:51.280 --> 18:54.840 What enemies do the Dalek have? 18:54.840 --> 19:00.320 The Daleks consider every living creature in the universe to be their enemy. 19:00.320 --> 19:03.880 Did you know that the colour red is unknown on the planet Skaro? 19:03.880 --> 19:07.120 The Dalek sees through a colour corrected electronic eye. 19:07.120 --> 19:10.720 When it was constructed, red was not included in its perception range. 19:10.720 --> 19:17.280 So the new red Dalek in the new series, all the Daleks are there going, who's saying that? 19:17.280 --> 19:23.320 There's a map of Skaro which you learn that one of the continents is called Darren, which 19:23.320 --> 19:27.660 is great because I had a friend at school called Darren and I found out that he was 19:27.660 --> 19:33.400 the barren area where thousands of years ago the mighty neutron bomb exploded. 19:33.400 --> 19:34.400 That's really good, isn't it? 19:34.400 --> 19:36.840 J is the forbidden letter of the Dalek language. 19:36.840 --> 19:39.440 To precede a word with this letter is a great insult. 19:39.440 --> 19:44.640 For example, J'Galcor, because Galcor means follow me, I am your guide. 19:44.640 --> 19:48.200 So J'Galcor would mean follow me, weakling, I am your guide. 19:48.200 --> 19:54.200 I like the fact that the Daleks have one word that means follow me, I am your guide. 19:54.200 --> 19:55.200 Galcor. 19:55.200 --> 19:56.200 J'Galcor. 19:56.200 --> 20:01.320 How long does it take the technicians to build a Dalek? 20:01.320 --> 20:02.320 Roughly three months. 20:02.320 --> 20:05.480 They are very complicated mechanisms. 20:05.480 --> 20:10.100 Three months is quite a short time when you consider what goes into making one. 20:10.100 --> 20:15.280 Over 9000 different components and 11 miles of wiring. 20:15.280 --> 20:18.800 What sort of weather do they have on Skaro? 20:18.800 --> 20:23.680 Before the neutron war against the Thals, the climate was very temperate. 20:23.680 --> 20:27.240 Since then, however, the planet has become a virtual desert. 20:27.240 --> 20:29.520 How to say goodbye to a Dyke is very good. 20:29.520 --> 20:33.880 The Dyke word for farewell is Zee Quiverly. 20:33.880 --> 20:34.880 That means goodbye. 20:34.880 --> 20:37.040 I presume that's what you say as it shoots you. 20:37.040 --> 20:40.680 Do they have any entertainments? 20:40.680 --> 20:42.240 In a way, yes. 20:42.240 --> 20:47.600 Parades of strength, displays of new weapons, mock battles, etc. 20:47.600 --> 20:52.260 Television programmes that deal with the glorious history of the Daleks, and micro books that 20:52.260 --> 20:56.400 tell the fictional stories of the universe when the Daleks have conquered it. 20:56.400 --> 21:02.040 It's quite nice that in all Dalek spaceships they have a little plaque on the wall. 21:02.040 --> 21:05.600 Just to remind the Daleks what they should be doing. 21:05.600 --> 21:09.640 And then you realise what Dalek really stands for. 21:09.640 --> 21:12.200 D Destroy without pity. 21:12.200 --> 21:14.800 A Attack without fear. 21:14.800 --> 21:17.080 L Live without conscience. 21:17.080 --> 21:21.320 E Eliminate without worry. 21:21.320 --> 21:23.560 K Kill. 21:23.560 --> 21:25.080 Kill. 21:25.080 --> 21:26.640 Kill. 21:26.640 --> 21:28.480 Kill. 21:28.480 --> 21:30.200 And then the Daleks are supreme. 21:30.200 --> 21:31.920 The Daleks are supreme. 21:31.920 --> 21:33.880 The Daleks are supreme. 21:33.880 --> 21:37.840 I love the way they've got all that written on one plaque. 21:37.840 --> 21:39.360 Just writing it once would have been enough. 21:39.360 --> 21:41.600 They could just come back and read it three times. 21:41.600 --> 21:45.280 But no, it's actually written there three times. 21:45.280 --> 21:46.680 But I mean, there you are. 21:46.680 --> 21:53.120 That absolutely sums up the Daleks.