Scientist Doctor Who accidentally activates his new invention, the Tardis, a time machine disguised as a police telephone box. Who, his two granddaughters Barbara and Susan, and Barbara's boyfriend Ian are transported through time and space to the planet Skaro, where a peaceful race of Thals are under threat of nuclear attack from the planet's other inhabitants: the robotic mutant Daleks.
Family, Adventure, Science Fiction
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What kind of time-travel story is this?
Time travel is an important premise, with limited sustained exploration.
Meets the archive’s time-travel criteria. The mechanism is classified as Mechanical.
Why the archive makes this assessment (spoilers)
The TARDIS enables arrival on Skaro, while the main conflict concerns the Daleks and Thals there.
The TARDIS is explicitly described as a time machine transporting passengers through time and space.
Titan combines the archive’s quality, audience and legacy base with the significance of time travel. It is an index, not a score out of 100, and is distinct from the FMV archive’s scoring model.
Partial inputs flag incomplete source metadata. Provisional weighting flags a time-travel assessment that remains uncertain; it receives no additional confidence penalty.
The evidence
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Cast: Peter Cushing, Roy Castle, Jennie Linden, Roberta Tovey, Barrie Ingham
12 cataloged editions. Narrow by format, then check region, audio and subtitles. Missing specifications mean unknown, not absent.
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4K UHD
Dr. Who and the Daleks 4K (1965)
Compare this edition’s specifications
Release date
Jun 24, 2025
Studio
Severin Films
Resolution
Native 4K (2160p)
Region / playback
4K Blu-ray: Region free | 2K Blu-ray: Region A
Discs
4K Ultra HD | Blu-ray Disc | Two-disc set (1 BD-100, 1 BD-50)