Dr. Who and the Daleks

Dr. Who and the Daleks
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Directed by	Gordon Flemyng
Screenplay by	Milton Subotsky
Based on	The Daleks by Terry Nation
Produced by	Milton Subotsky Max J. Rosenberg
Starring	Peter Cushing Roy Castle Jennie Linden Roberta Tovey
Cinematography	John Wilcox
Edited by	Oswald Hafenrichter
Music by	Malcolm Lockyer Barry Gray (electronic music)
Production companies	AARU Productions BBC-TV Productions Amicus Productions
Distributed by	Regal Films International
Release date	23 August 1965 (1965-08-23)
Running time	82 minutes[1]
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Budget	£180,000[2] or £159,054[3]

Dr. Who and the Daleks is a 1965 British science fiction film directed by Gordon Flemyng and written by Milton Subotsky, and the first of two films based on the British science-fiction television series Doctor Who. It stars Peter Cushing as Dr. Who, Roberta Tovey as Susan, Jennie Linden as Barbara, and Roy Castle as Ian. It was followed by Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. (1966).

The story is based on the Doctor Who television serial The Daleks, produced by the BBC. Filmed in Technicolor, it is the first Doctor Who story to be made in colour and in a widescreen format. The film was not intended to form part of the ongoing story-lines of the television series. Elements from the programme are used, however, such as various characters, the Daleks and a police box time machine, albeit in re-imagined forms.