Directed by Gordon Flemyng / Screenplay by Milton Subotsky and David Whitaker

In the mid-1960s, two different outbreaks of ‘mania’ gripped the youth of Britain: one was Beatlemania, and the other, which tended to afflict the younger siblings of the Fab Four’s screaming fans, was Dalekmania. Launched in November 1963, just as ‘She Loves You’ was heading for number one, the BBC’s new adventure serial Doctor Who was a moderate hit from the start, but five weeks later it was catapulted into legend by the arrival of the dreaded Daleks, who sprang from the fertile mind of writer Terry Nation. Viewing figures rocketed, and school playgrounds across the land echoed to cries of “Exterminate!” By the following Christmas, shops were overflowing with Dalek toys, Dalek board games, Dalek playsuits - even the humble water pistol was repackaged as an ‘Anti-Dalek Fluid Neutraliser’. There was the inevitable novelty pop single, and even a West End play featuring the Daleks. It was only a matter of time before the big screen beckoned, and sure enough, in 1965 Shepperton-based producers Milton Subotsky and Max J. Rosenberg purchased the film rights from Terry Nation and the BBC for a princely £500. The two Technicolor pictures that followed were adaptations of the first two televised Dalek adventures, with fresh faces replacing the TV cast: as the Doctor himself, Peter Cushing brought a sprightly twinkle to the role still being played on television every week by William Hartnell. Both films are much loved, but the second, Daleks: Invasion Earth 2150 AD, is considered the better of the two, benefiting from handsome production design, a truly menacing army of Daleks, and a standout supporting performance from the great Bernard Cribbins, who would return to Doctor Who more than 40 years later and face the Daleks all over again.

Framed Dimensions: 330mm x 410mm

Acrylic on 300gsm Arches oil paper
Glazed, mounted and framed

Supplied with signed letter of authenticity from Barnaby.