Introduction
Something I’ve talked about doing for a long time, is a journey through all the Dalek stories from the beginning to date. But today I’m just going to write an introduction, detailing a bit about how I came to be a Dalek geek. 
For me didn’t actually begin with the Daleks on tv. When I first began to watch Dr Who, less than two months before my 7th birthday; it was the beginning of the Jon Pertwee era, and the Daleks would not reappear in the series for another two years. I have the vaguest of impressions in my memory, of seeing 1960s Who, but my first solid memory is the first episode of ‘Spearhead From Space’, although my dad; who liked science fiction from boyhood, when he listened to Journey Into Space on the radio; watched Dr Who when it first aired, and it became part of Saturday evening tv viewing before I was really old enough to remember it.
And yet, when I was very young I did have one of these battery operated Dalek toys by Louis Marx which I vividly remember playing with it, even though I have no memory of the Daleks on screen at that point.
As a young boy I also remember TV Comic, TV Action, and TV Century 21, which featured The Daleks in a comic strip of their own. which eventually became known as The Dalek Chronicles.
But the main reason I knew about the Daleks before they reappeared on tv in 1972, was because at some point before then, my mum took me to the cinema to se bee Daleks Invasion Earth: 2150AD; the second of the Peter Cushing Dalek films, which was doing a rerun during the school holidays. I think this more than anything, imprinted on me the idea that the Daleks were an entity in their own right, and that the character of ‘Doctor Who’, was almost secondary.
Finally, before the much anticipated return of the Daleks to tv Who; my youngest uncle who would’ve been around 11yrs old when the Dr Who first started, and already 18 and moving on by the time I first started watching it; gave me his old Dalek Book from 1964; which went onto become one of my most treasured childhood possessions; providing me with a fascinating look into the world of the Daleks, in their very first comic strips and stories.
So finally seeing Day of the Daleks on broadcast a couple of months before my 9th birthday was like a major event for me, and I kind of felt like I already knew the Daleks of old.
Not everything I write about the upcoming stories are going to be in the form of an in-depth review of them a Dr Who story. Some will be an overview with some impressions, some will be more a review of the story in its entirety, and the acting and plots, etc…
The story begins in 1963. Click on the links at the foot of each page, to follow on.
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