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Topic: Is Victory of the Daleks the first Doctor Who remake?
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Post Posted: 10 Apr 2010 (12.47 a.m.)    Post subject: Is Victory of the Daleks the first Doctor Who remake?
The plot to the forthcoming Victory of the Daleks sounds a lot like the the plot to the 1966 lost classic Power of the Daleks.

[possible spoliers]

Power of the Daleks takes place on a human colony in the future. A scientist uncovers dormant Daleks in a crashed saucer. He re-activates one who promises to be a loyal servant of the colony. While being a polite and considerate, the Dalek secretly activates a factory for constructing more Daleks. Eventually the Daleks rise up and kill everyone.

In Victory of the Daleks, a scientist in WII finds or builds a new Dalek. The new Dalek acts as a loyal slave to the British, all the time secretly constructing a new Dalek army.

[end spoilers]

Since Power of the Daleks is presumably lost for all time, I think a remake by the official Doctor Who team is a way to recapture a little bit of that lost heritage.

But while there is every chance Victory will come across as fresh and interesting, there is a danger it will start an avalanche of story retreads. Are we going to see direct remakes of other classic Whos cluttering up new seasons? Do we need to see a remake of Inferno, The Green Death of the Robots of Death? No.
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