July 12th, 2013
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Doctor Who The Monster Collection The Daleks DVD
Doctor Who The Monster Collection The Daleks DVD
Note the original images sent by the BBC were drafts.The final covers are now shown.
Correct covers with thanks to TheMindRobber
These six real ‘hide behind the sofa’ collections bring together episodes of the scariest and most iconic monsters from Doctor Who’s classic and recent series.
Each title concentrates on a deadly enemy – The Daleks, Cybermen, Sontarans, The Master, Davros and the Silurians – and features two separate stories from popular incarnations of the Doctor, including Matt Smith, David Tennant, Tom Baker and Jon Pertwee. These collections are perfect for younger viewers just discovering the scary delights of fifty years of Doctor Who.
The Monster Collection: The Daleks
The Daleks (1963)
On the planet Skaro, the mutated Daleks plan a final assault on the Thals. Starring William Hartnell as the First Doctor
Asylum of the Daleks (2012)
Kidnapped by his oldest foe, the Doctor is forced on an impossible mission – to a place even the Daleks are too terrified to enter… the Asylum. Starring Matt Smith as the Eleventh Doctor.
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Anonymous
July 15th, 2013 - 5:39pmthis looks good
josh smith
July 15th, 2013 - 5:40pmok i was just saing that is i leave th top blank it says anonymous because i thought it was someones username.
Josh smith
July 15th, 2013 - 5:34pmI am going to buy this because I. Am missing the Daleks from my collection because I have it away along with underworld
Anonymous
July 15th, 2013 - 5:35pmWhy?
josh smith
July 15th, 2013 - 5:39pmi didnt like those 2 stories
Anonymous
July 15th, 2013 - 5:41pmI like underworld 🙂
josh smith
July 15th, 2013 - 5:48pmthe bits on the spaceship look great but the planet is bad.
Anonymous
July 15th, 2013 - 5:58pmLooks aren’t everything. Take the happiness patrol for instance
josh smith
July 15th, 2013 - 6:06pmthe happiness patrol is absolutely amazing.
its acted brilliantly, it looks stunning and is very good.
The Greater Intelligence
July 17th, 2013 - 3:22amI will never understand why everyone rips on ‘The Happiness Patrol’ all the time. It is well acted, vivid characters, a plot/story that keeps you guessing, even the political undertone makes it fun to think of when the government is actually going to try and control your emotions. It is bright and colorful when it needs to be, but also reminds you of death and despair every waking moment. I found the Pipe People adorable, especially when they were copying Ace’s phrases and the scene of Helen A crying over Fifi’s body made me feel sorry for her
josh smith
July 17th, 2013 - 6:38ami love helan A she was the strongest actor in the story.
Pug Dalek
July 17th, 2013 - 9:58pmIs fifi a dog
Dalek The Supreme
July 18th, 2013 - 3:06pmThe Greater Intelligence, you have just summed up everything I like about the story! Thanks!
Anonymous
July 15th, 2013 - 3:40pmi prefered the other cover
it stood out more with the red dalek
josh smith
July 15th, 2013 - 4:25pmbut this one looks more like a war zone.
Dalek The Supreme
July 15th, 2013 - 6:06pmMaybe keep the war zone but add the red Dalek? I’d love that.
Doctor Rules
July 14th, 2013 - 10:28amYep The Daleks desrve a palce ther ebut asylum doesn’t. The episode is the worst of series 7. One: dissapointed with no classic daleks and just a special weapons dalek standing motionless. Moffatt completely ruined the story by ignoring the dlakes altogether and just focusing on Oswin, he loves to make episodes complicated and erasing the doctor from The Dalek’s memory banks is idiotic. So it’s a shame The Daleks leave after a terrible closing story.
Anonymous
July 14th, 2013 - 5:03pmI agree with you asylum is the batman and robin of dr who
Dalek sec
July 15th, 2013 - 8:42amIt’s a shame when there’s actually a lot of things you could do with a great big Dalek prison. That episode didn’t have every dalek ever. Just a lot of bronze ones, and some classic and 2010 ones included. Most people won’t agree with me on this, but it’s also a shame that the 2010 daleks aren’t the standard dalek type anymore. One of the only good parts of that episode was the bit where Rory thinks that the dalek wants eggs｡
Dalek The Supreme
July 15th, 2013 - 6:11pmI found the episode to be highly enjoyable with a complex plot that kept me interested. I love the parts that examine the Doctor’s relationship with the Daleks, showing how he’s practically the devil to them. I found the revelation that Oswin was a Dalek a high point of the story, and while I love the 2010 Daleks, I have to admit they look even more menacing around the bronze. I don’t think the Amy and Rory subplot would have worked with any other characters, and the Daleks forgetting the Doctor made for what I felt was an epic closing scene.
Doctor Rules
July 15th, 2013 - 7:58pmok Dalek The Supreme but answer these two questions. Was there any bad things about the episode and is it the best dalek story of the lot?
Anonymous
July 15th, 2013 - 8:20pmDoes anyone else think the ending to asylum was just incredibly cringy when he’s shouting doctor who! Also I can’t stand that bit where Rory says who killed all the daleks and he comes in carrying Amy -_-
Dalek The Supreme
July 17th, 2013 - 3:08amDoctor Rules, first question: It’s all down to opinion, but in mine, there is none, and second question: Again, it’s down to opinion, but in mine, it’s second best after Remembrance.
Anonymous, no, in fact, both scenes are some of my all time favorite scenes in Doctor Who.
Pug Dalek
July 13th, 2013 - 11:18pmNo red 🙄 😥 2005 but it’s 2013 poor new daleks
Pug Dalek
July 13th, 2013 - 11:25pmNew daleks kill old daleks :evIl:
josh smith
July 15th, 2013 - 9:02pmthe red ones looks tacky
Anonymous
July 16th, 2013 - 4:07pmbut they stand out better on the cover and make the cover look better
pug dalek
July 17th, 2013 - 8:30pmbut its 2013
pug dalek
July 17th, 2013 - 8:33pmgold daleks r good but its old now
pug dalek
July 17th, 2013 - 8:36pmnot red new daleks
Anonymous
July 13th, 2013 - 4:56pmAsylum is bad the story is all over the place the classic daleks were barly in it and the ending was terrible
I give asylum of the daleks 1/10
Dalek The Supreme
July 14th, 2013 - 3:33amAsylum of the Daleks is the most recent appearance of the Daleks as The Daleks is the earliest, therefore, as these are 50th Aniversery products trying to connect the beginning of the show, they would add both stories. Besides, many other people did like it, myself included.
josh smith
July 14th, 2013 - 8:11ami think all the stories should be in colour. lots of people hate black and white and it won help people form the new series get into the classic.
Dalek The Supreme
July 13th, 2013 - 3:14pmKind of annoyed that they changed the cover, sure the bronze Daleks are the current drones, but the Paradigm is the newest model, and my favorite. Oh well, at least no matter what model they decide to put on the cover, it will be a great design.
josh smith
July 14th, 2013 - 8:12ammore people dislike the power ranger daleks but everyone likes something. i think im the only one who puts mel in my top 5 companions.
Dalek The Supreme
July 15th, 2013 - 6:13pmTrue, true. Still it is 2013, and I would have thought it would make more sense to display the newest model in all it’s glory.
josh smith
July 15th, 2013 - 6:18pmi think that the white one would be better than the red ones
Dalek The Supreme
July 18th, 2013 - 3:09pmThe Series 5 Supreme Dalek is not only my favorite of the 5 “Dalek Rangers”, but my favorite villain characterwise in Doctor Who. He has all the strengths of the Daleks, but he has guile and intelligence, and outsmarted the Doctor twice in one season.
Doctor Rules
July 13th, 2013 - 12:05pmI’m quite dissapointed. Of all Dalek stories why pick Adylum? They could of put Doomsday in, Dalek in, Planet oF The Daleks. Asylum in my opinion was terrible.
josh smith
July 13th, 2013 - 12:26pmsame asylum is very bad
Anonymous
July 13th, 2013 - 1:28pmAsylum of the daleks is one of the worst dr who stories ever!
Trenzalore
July 13th, 2013 - 1:37pmI agree, one of the things I hate most of all about the episode is the fact that with RTD episodes he had a big army of daleks then the doctor destroys them and thinks they are all dead but one always survives which is reasonable and scary but then Moffat comes along and decides to put a great big dalek asylum and a dalek parlament 😯 you would have thaught we would have heard of this parlament before but no! And that just takes the scariness away they used to be like the ones in the asylum and then suddenly they have a parlament 😡
Jamie
July 13th, 2013 - 1:58pmI thought Asylum was excellent, one of the best new series Dalek story’s.
Anthony
July 13th, 2013 - 3:07pmI didn’t feel as if aslym was good felt really angry and confused after the ep
Dalek The Supreme
July 13th, 2013 - 3:12pmThe Daleks was the earliest story and Asylum of the Daleks is the most recent, they’re trying to tie the beginning of the show with the now of the show by giving us the first (Fully surviving) story the monster debuted in along with their most recent appearance. (With the exception of the Cybermen) Trenzalore, their rank has changed over time, in Evil of the Daleks they were suddenly given an Emperor, and a Supreme Council of the Daleks was referenced in Planet of the Daleks.
Jamie
July 13th, 2013 - 3:16pmTrenzalore the reason there was a Dalek Parliament and Asylum is that at the end of Victory of the Daleks the Daleks escaped and built a new empire. They escaped using a time corridor so they had plenty of time to create a parliament and Asylum. And im glad they don’t keep getting killed of like in the RTD era, that got annoying after a while The idea of a big Dalek empire out there is scarier than 1 Dalek I think. The Daleks being defeated every time takes away from there threat.
Anonymous
July 13th, 2013 - 4:54pmThe story is filled with plot hole’s, the daleks were under used, the main focus was amy and rory’s marrage which felt more like a soap than dr who and the ending……….. Every time I watch that ending it feels like stevan moffat slaping me in the face
ps there were no classic daleks
Trenzalore
July 14th, 2013 - 10:31amJamie, I didn’t know the reason it got there and that’s the reason I didn’t like it because that wasen’t explained in the episode the parlament just popped up (to me). And the asylum must have been there for a while because it had old daleks and looked old in it and we had never even heard of that, if the story would have been better, it should have been a 2 parter. BRING BACK 2 PARTERS!!! if Moffat did this the episodes would be way better 😥 I miss 2 parters 😥
Trenzalore
July 14th, 2013 - 10:33amAlso why was the parlement filled with bronze daleks when in ‘Victory of the daleks’ they were called ‘inferior’ by the rainbow daleks
josh smith
July 14th, 2013 - 3:46pmthey cant seem to make u their mind
Dalek sec
July 15th, 2013 - 8:54amActually it was their DNA that was considered inferior not their casings. Other then that they should do more with the New dalek paradigm. All they seem to do is sit there and blurt out orders when they could be cunning, dangerous, and immensely trigger happy. Also if ALL the daleks were destroyed in the Time War why are there classic series daleks in the asylum. And if there was every single dalek there then why not just show it to us (even if it’s only CGI). In my opinion this episode could have been better in alot of ways.
Dalek The Supreme
July 18th, 2013 - 3:15pmI think they made the Paradigm clever in Victory of the Daleks, where they outwit the Doctor. I would like to see a closer look at the current Dalek hiearchy, thouh, and find out what the Eternal does. The Amy and Rory was a main subplot but not as much as Oswin being a Dalek, besides, if you eliminated the subplot, they’d just stand around and be boring all episode. There are quite a few Classic Daleks if you look closely, and every Dalek in the episode was faced onscreen by every Doctor.
josh smith
July 13th, 2013 - 11:56ammuch better cover!
Doctor Who Crazy Ross
July 13th, 2013 - 11:26amI have to admit, this cover is much better than the previous one- the only fault that I have with the DVD covers is the new Davros logo.
Anonymous
July 13th, 2013 - 10:34amWhy did they change it I love the new daleks just because they have some coluor does not mean there bad plus the bronze ones are dated
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Doctor Who Crazy Ross
July 13th, 2013 - 11:09amnot really, the bronze ones were last seen in Asylum of the Daleks, along with the others..
Dalek sec
July 15th, 2013 - 9:01amThey got resurrected. They were cool, but now they are just getting old.
Cyberman V2
July 13th, 2013 - 8:25amThis looks great
A New Dalek Paradigm
July 12th, 2013 - 11:48pmI’m pleasantly surprised they went with a Paradigm Dalek for the cover rather than an RTD Bronzie. It should be metallic red though if it’s from Asylum.
Dalek the Supreme
July 13th, 2013 - 5:44amTotally agree. These are the latest model of the Dalek travel machine, wether you like it or not. I like the idea of having the most recent design of each monster on it, though it would have been nice to give an image of the Classics too.
josh smith
July 13th, 2013 - 8:22amno the bronze ones are still the new ones
Dalek The Supreme
July 13th, 2013 - 3:12pmThe bronze ones are simply the current drones, the Paradigm are the newest model.
josh smith
July 14th, 2013 - 8:14ambut the power ranger daleks looks babyish
Tardis’nt
July 12th, 2013 - 9:25pmI might actually have to get this, y’know!
Dalek The Supreme
July 12th, 2013 - 7:53pmI like the cover, and it has two great Dalek stories inside. Yup, this is definately on my want list.
josh smith
July 12th, 2013 - 6:48pmthey should have put the space museum instead for the lols
videogamemad00
July 12th, 2013 - 8:23pm… if it was released in April.
josh smith
July 12th, 2013 - 8:32pmyh lol well they did feature in it
josh smith
July 12th, 2013 - 8:33pmthey could of had a booklet that on the cover says happy april fools day with the doctor in the dalek smiling.
auton101
July 12th, 2013 - 8:48pmThats like the dalek war boxset, they were in frontier in space for 10 minutes. lthough they were linking stories i thought they could have been in it more.
josh smith
July 12th, 2013 - 8:54pmfrontier in space is the best dalek story
Dalek The Supreme
July 12th, 2013 - 11:02pmIt’s my dad’s favorite story, and while I agree it’s one of the best of Jon Pertwee’s run, I don’t consider it the best Dalek story because, as Auton101 said, they’re only in it for about 10 minutes in the final episode.
josh smith
July 13th, 2013 - 8:24amthats makes it better. i dont like dalek being the main event. but when they only in it for a bit it makes them more menacing.
katy manning acting in frontier in space is top notch.
i can see why people dont think it as the best dalek story though. Power of the daleks is very boring and i cant see wy people like it so much
Anonymous
July 15th, 2013 - 8:25pmI agree about Frontier in Space, it’s definitly in my top ten, wouldn’t say it’s the best dalek story though, Master Plan is the best for me! x
Dalek The Supreme
July 18th, 2013 - 3:17pmTo get a great Dalek story, you need to put the character in main focus. It’s why The Daleks, Genesis of the Daleks, Remembrance of the Daleks, Dalek, and Asylum of the Daleks are my favorite Dalek stories.
auton101
July 12th, 2013 - 6:40pmonly 1 good story and thats the daleks, asylum wasn’t good. they should have had half a new dalek on one side then half a harnell dalek on the other, so its split and just looks better.
Doctor Who Crazy Ross
July 12th, 2013 - 5:30pmokay, thats it. I’m getting them all. The covers are brilliant, the contents are amazing, and I’m sure they’ll look great in my collection 🙂
Moid
July 12th, 2013 - 4:37pmIt’s hard to see the merit of these sets. Younger viewers who’ve only seen the revived series may find the classic shows a bit of an acquired taste. This dalek set, in particular, has the earliest and most recent dalek stories only, but misses out all the stories in-between which would have provided a very rewarding decades-long story arc (well kind of, anyway). I think the BBC are going to dilute their sales with these sets, doesn’t make much sense to me.
darnall42
July 12th, 2013 - 4:25pmOh no…it’s the fatleks 😉
Dalek The Supreme
July 12th, 2013 - 11:03pmThese Paradigm Dalek jokes are starting to get older than Rassilon…
Doctor Who Crazy Ross
July 12th, 2013 - 4:18pmdefinitely getting this because:
Asylum of the Daleks
The Daleks
Daleks…
🙂
Dalek the Supreme
July 13th, 2013 - 5:45amYou just summed up my reasons for wanting this set perfectly! Thank you! 😀
Andrew
July 12th, 2013 - 4:15pmhm I would have thought it would be Genesis of the daleks, but I can understand why they did it.
Trenzalore
July 12th, 2013 - 4:25pmGenesis is on the davros collection
josh smith
July 12th, 2013 - 4:09pmwould have bought it if it didnt have the worst dalek story in it 🙁
Some bloke
July 12th, 2013 - 4:17pmasylum of the daleks?
josh smith
July 12th, 2013 - 6:40pmyes
Dalek The Supreme
July 12th, 2013 - 7:54pmA) There are many people who like Asylum of the Daleks, and B) it’s the most recent Dalek story, so people will have a familiar story to watch and it seems to connect the then and now better
josh smith
July 12th, 2013 - 8:33pmi know people like it but i cant bring my self to buy it because of it
Dalek The Supreme
July 12th, 2013 - 11:03pmThat’s down to personal preference, but I was simply giving the reasons for including it.
Trenzalore
July 12th, 2013 - 3:45pmdoes this have the individual casings for the classics?
Some bloke
July 12th, 2013 - 3:47pmIf you’re asking if this is a boxset with a 2 case, one for each story, then no. These 2 stories have just been put into one DVD case
Trenzalore
July 12th, 2013 - 4:24pmawww, not buying
MattyBoy
July 12th, 2013 - 3:34pmGood but it should contain every single Dalek episode, the same for the Cyberman and Sontaran collections!
josh smith
July 12th, 2013 - 6:40pmthen it would be too expensive
Dalek The Supreme
July 12th, 2013 - 11:04pmAnd Power of the Daleks and Evil of the Daleks are both missing all but one episode of Evil and a few clips from both.
josh smith
July 13th, 2013 - 11:58amthey could have included the audio?
RORY DOCTOR RIVER POND
July 12th, 2013 - 3:33pmwicked front cover tho
Some bloke
July 12th, 2013 - 3:32pmdesign faults on this one too. I’ve posted a comment on the cyberman collection bit about my thoughts on the cover designs, if you would like to see what I think (although thinking about it many of you couldn’t care less. Oh well) 🙂