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Are the Daleks robots or cyborgs?
They aren't really either. Right from their very first appearance in the first season of Doctor Who in 1964, the Daleks are described simply as mutated beings that are encased in an armored capsule.
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How dangerous are the Daleks?
Season 1, episode 6, "Dalek", does a decent job explaining the Daleks and how dangerous they are. From the script (emphasis mine):
DOCTOR: What's the nearest town?
VAN STATTEN: Salt Lake ...
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Location of this 1980's Dalek found in a scholarly article?
It's not an in-universe image. It's from the Dr. Who exhibit at Madame Tussauds wax museum in London, 1982-1986.
Dr. Fan "The Gene Lantern" posted a similar image on the Dr. Who North America fan ...
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Why are the Daleks considered a threatening enemy?
Nearly invincible. Every Dalek tank has a nearly impenetrable shield. While there are future civilizations shown defeating those shields with focused fire, that just means the five Daleks right ...
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How dangerous are the Daleks?
Throughout the history of the Doctor Who stories Daleks have been considered the most dangerous race in the universe. At various points throughout both the classic series and the books, people would ...
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Other than the Daleks, did any other enemies have real-world parallels in Doctor Who?
I believe the Cybermen would, in the time when they first on tv, likely have been seen as allegories for totalitarian communism (or at least the Western perception of it).
The Zygons as portrayed in ...
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How could one Dalek hold against entire armada of Daleks?
Short answer is : We don't know
Rusty was first introduced in season 8, the day he became obsessed with destroying Daleks. In this episode we see him destroy several Daleks (the exact number is hard ...
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How do The Daleks and Genesis of the Daleks relate?
Russell T. Davies suggested some years ago in an episode of Doctor Who Confidential that Genesis of the Daleks could be considered the first strike of the Time War.
Continuity in Doctor Who has ...
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What was 'impure' about the last surviving red dalek?
The reason why isn’t clear, but the new Daleks have mutated in some way
In the episode, when the Doctor is reunited with the fam and does a scan for Dalek DNA on Earth, she says this:
Dalek DNA trace,...
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Did the Daleks kill Davros?
This happens in the Sixth Doctor story Revelation of the Daleks, broadcast in two parts in March 1985. From Wikipedia's plot summary:
Daleks loyal to the Dalek Supreme arrive from Skaro, called by ...
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Did anyone else have access to an Emergency Temporal Shift?
The Daleks as a whole have some form of time travel technology. Without it, they could hardly have been a credible threat to the Time Lords, nor could they have waged a Time War.
We have never seen ...
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Location of this 1980's Dalek found in a scholarly article?
I think this might be a Dalek warrior from the 1979 story, Destiny of the Daleks. Destiny features Daleks with a distinct elliptical plate between their 'arms', which is unusual. (When this is present,...
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What were the 27 planets taken by the Daleks?
9 are mentioned in the episode:
Earth, Callufrax Minor, Jahoo, Shallacatop, Woman Wept, Clom, Pyrovilia, Adipose 3, and The lost moon of Poosh.
Three more are mentioned elsewhere:
Strepto (...
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Why Does No One Remember Past Invasions In Doctor Who?
I used this as an answer in another question, very similar to this.
The 12th Doctor once try to explain this, back in his first series. He claims that forgetting "traumatic events" is ...
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Links between "The Daleks" comics and the television series
The statement about the the Daleks using humanoid duplicates in the comics, and this "later" showing up on Doctor Who is simply false. The Daleks first produced robotic humanoid ...
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"Genesis of the Daleks" and the link with "The Dalek invasion of Earth"
I think what the Doctor said actually was intended as a reference to "The Dalek Invasion of Earth." However, Terry Nation (or whoever actually wrote that bit of dialogue; by 1975, Nation's ...
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When was the first time the Daleks moved the earth?
According to the Tardis Data Core/Doctor Who Wiki, this is a reference to the Second Season serial The Dalek Invasion of Earth, broadcast November-December 1964: The Doctor mentions that someone tried ...
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What happened to the third "Dalek" movie?
The faked clip mentioned by the OP is probably this "trailer", which created a myth:
A third Dalek film starring Peter Cushing, based on DW: The Chase and
titled Daleks vs. Mechons, was filmed ...
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During the Time War why didn't the Daleks blow up at least one TARDIS while in the Time Vortex?
When Daleks learned that TARDIS was going to take out the universe, they actually teamed up with some inferior species to lock The Doctor inside Pandorica Box. It means that Dalek's masterplan has ...
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How dangerous are the Daleks?
Per "The Apocalypse Element", an audio story from Big Finish released in 2000 featuring the Sixth Doctor (Colin Baker), the Daleks destroyed the Seriphia galaxy. This is described as being 4 times as ...
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Did anyone else have access to an Emergency Temporal Shift?
If you accept other sources besides the TV show, the Fifth Doctor performed a temporal shift in an audio story.
From http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Temporal_shift
The Fifth Doctor performed a ...
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Why did a Dalek beg River Song for mercy?
Another thing to remember - These are Not Quite Proper Daleks
In this weird little alternate version of Earth, penguins lived on the Nile instead of cats, Polar Bears live in the desert, and only ...
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Did the pure Daleks survive?
The New Paradigm Daleks were a marketing failure - nobody liked them.
The new series Dalek design was made the size it was so it would be at eye-to-eyestalk level with Rose Tyler. The New Paradigm ...
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How big is the 'Crucible' from Doctor Who?
The minimum radius to have the spheroidal shape characteristic of a planet depends in whether it is made of weak ice or strong rock and thus might vary from 200 to 400 kilometers and even more. ...
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How often have Daleks appear on comedy television shows?
There was a bit on Dave Allen At large where a familiar-looking baptismal font comes to life and chases the Vicar about the church yelling "Exterminate", and eventually disintegrating him ...
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How often have Daleks appear on comedy television shows?
There is this from Vision On.
It was a show made for deaf children, so relied heavily on visual things, without much dialogue. It was a frequent thing to show Tony Hart drawing a picture, some of ...
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Are the Daleks robots or cyborgs?
HorusKol's answer is almost correct, and I nearly agree with it.
What I'd say is that the answer varies from one story to another.
In their earliest appearance they were cyborgs. They needed their ...
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"Genesis of the Daleks" and the link with "The Dalek invasion of Earth"
(I point out that this was a question of mine from a previous incarnation. Since then I have obviously regenerated).
In the book The Black Archive #51 Earthshock by Brian Robb, it was pointed out that ...
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"Genesis of the Daleks" and the link with "The Dalek invasion of Earth"
What The Doctor says about an invasion in the year 2000 has no resemblance to the events of The Dalek Invasion of Earth, which as you say, take place in 2164.
The Doctor says of the 2000 invasion:
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