The hand of omega
| Episode of the Doctor Who series | |||
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| title | The hand of omega | ||
| Original title | Remembrance of the Daleks | ||
| Country of production | United Kingdom | ||
| original language | English | ||
| length | 4 × 25 minutes | ||
| Age rating | FSK 12 | ||
| classification | Season 25, episodes 1–4 668th - 671st episode in total ( list ) |
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| First broadcast | October 5, 1988 to October 26, 1988 on BBC |
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| German-language first broadcast |
February 11, 1990 to March 4, 1990 on RTL Plus |
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| Director | Andrew Morgan | ||
| script | Ben Aaronovitch | ||
| production | John Nathan-Turner | ||
| music | Keff McCulloch | ||
| camera | Robin Sutherland & Barry Chaston | ||
| cut | Hugh Parson | ||
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The hand of the Omega ( Remembrance of the Daleks ) is the 148th plotline of the British science fiction - television series Doctor Who . It consists of 4 episodes that aired between October 5th and October 26th, 1988.
action
The Doctor and Ace landed the TARDIS in Shoreditch in 1963, where they met Captain Gilmore and Sergeant Smith of the British military investigating strange magnetic fields in a junkyard and Coal Hill School. The magnetic field in the junkyard is a single Dalek looking for something there. The Doctor manages to overpower the Dalek and can save Captain Gilmore and his soldiers in time.
While examining the magnetic field at school, the doctor discovers that it is a Transmat that the Daleks use to teleport from orbit directly to Earth. According to the doctor, it appears that two warring factions of the Daleks have appeared on Earth; the Transmat belongs to the Imperial Daleks, who report to the Dalek Emperor, while the Dalek in the junkyard belongs to the renegade Daleks. Before the doctor and Ace can deactivate it, a Dalek materializes in the Transmat and attacks them. Barely escaping with his life, the Doctor hands Ace over to Sergeant Smith while he has a personal matter to attend to.
As it turns out, the doctor left the hand of the Omega, a weapon used by the scientist Omega, with the help of which the Daleks could destroy entire planets, on Earth the night before , in order to hide it from possible warlike uses by the Time Lords. When the doctor hides the weapon in a cemetery, he is watched by a spy from the renegade Daleks, who shortly afterwards removes his hand from the grave and brings it to the hiding place of the renegade Daleks.
On the same day a war breaks out on the streets of Shoreditch between the Imperial and renegade Daleks, in the course of which the number of renegades is massively reduced. In the middle of the war, the Doctor try to get Ace and Captain Gilmore back the hand of Omega, but are prevented from doing so by the Imperial Daleks several times. With no way of getting his hand back into the base of the British military, the Doctor decides to reprogram the weapon and leave it to the Imperial Daleks' units.
Back at Coal Hill School, the doctor uses the transmat to establish a video link with the Imperial Dalek mothership and asks to speak to the Dalek Emperor, who is Davros, the creator of the Daleks. The doctor provokes Davros until he uses the hand of the Omega to destroy the doctor and planet earth. But the reprogramming of the hand by the doctor does not destroy the earth, but Skaro, the home planet of the Daleks, and the mother ship of the Imperial Daleks.
production
Serial producer John Nathan-Turner wanted the anniversary season to start with a big bang, which is why he insisted that the Doctor meet the Daleks. Newcomer Ben Aaronovitch, who had already completed a draft of the plot, was hired for the script. However, this was discarded and later taken up again for the Serial Excalibur's legacy . Aaronovitch was keen to include in the story that the action should take place in 1963 and that you see a Dalek floating up a flight of stairs, since up until that point they had made fun of the fact that the Daleks' greatest enemy was stairs be. The shown war between two warring Dalek factions should represent the finale of the Dalek civil war, which was last mentioned at the end of the series Planet of the Dead .
Since the serial was produced as part of the series 'anniversary season, there were also several allusions to the series' past: The action takes place a day after the Doctor, Susan, Ian and Barbara in The Child from the Stars on their journey through space and time have broken out. The junkyard shown in the serial is the same as in the very first episode. In one of the classrooms, Ace begins reading a book about the French Revolution. It's the same book Susan reads in the first episode. In the four episodes, the doctor mentions the events of the series The Dalek Invasion of Earth from 1964, The Web of Fear from 1968, Genesis of the Daleks from 1974 and Terror of the Zygons from 1975. He also confuses Captain Gilmore with Brigadier several times by name Lethbridge-Stewart.
Audience ratings
- Remembrance of the Daleks - Part 1: 5.5 million viewers
- Remembrance of the Daleks - Part 2: 5.8 million viewers
- Remembrance of the Daleks - Part 3: 5.1 million viewers
- Remembrance of the Daleks - Part 4: 5.0 million viewers
Cast and dubbing
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The dubbing of the story was done by HW Film in Munich, directed by Hendrik Wiethase , who also wrote the dialogue book.
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| The doctor | Sylvester McCoy | Michael Schwarzmaier |
| Ace | Sophie Aldred | Carin C. Tietze |
| Captain Gilmore | Simon Williams | Klaus Guth |
| Sergeant Mike Smith | Dursley McLinden | Erhard Hartmann |
| Rachel Jensen | Pamela Salem | Marion Hartmann |
| Allison Williams | Karen Gledhill | Ruth Fischer |
| Ratcliffe | George Sewell | Horst Sachtleben |
| Headmaster | Michael Sheard | Walter Reichelt |
| Harry | Harry Fowler | Ulrich Bernsdorff |
| Judith Winters | Jasmine Breaks | Sabine Bohlmann |
| Embery | Peter Hamilton Dyer | Klaus Kessler |
| Vicar | Peter Halliday | Ulf J. Söhmisch |
| John | Joseph Marcell | Stephan Hoffmann |
| Martin | William Thomas | Thomas Reiner |
| Kaufman | Derek Keller | Gerd Rigauer |
| Davros | Terry Molloy | Werner Abrolat |
| Dalek fight computer | John Leeson | Willi Röbke |
| Daleks |
Roy Skelton Royce Mills Brian Miller |
Willi Röbke Hendrik Wiethase |
publication
In England, a novel adaptation of the series first appeared in June 1990, also written by Ben Aaronovitch. There were also scenes that were removed from the broadcast version of the series, such as various recaps of Gallifrey and the creation of the Hand of Omega. A mysterious figure called "The Other" was also incorporated in the flashbacks, which is said to be an early incarnation of the doctor. A new edition of the novel was published in 2013 as part of the Doctor Who anniversary series. The serial itself was released on video along with the serial The Chase in September 1993. It was first released on DVD on February 26, 2001, although the DVD contained several errors in the Videomaster and two Beatles songs had to be removed for legal reasons. On July 20, 2009, a new edition of the DVD was released as part of The Complete Davros Collection box set, this time eliminating the errors in the Videomaster and including the two Beatles songs again.
In Germany, the serial was initially broadcast on the private broadcaster RTL Plus from February 11 to March 4, 1990, and was broadcast several times in the following years, including an omnibus version in which the four parts were presented as a "film " was sent. The episodes were released on DVD on February 27, 2015 as part of the Doctor Who - The Seventh Doctor Volume 2 DVD Set and in December 2017 as part of the Doctor Who - The Seventh Doctor: Special Collector's Edition box set. In addition, published Lübbe a German translation of the novel adaptation and audiobook version, read by Michael Schwarzmaier, July 21, 2017th
Remarks
- In the scene before the opening credits, when the mothership of the Imperial Daleks approaches the earth, audio excerpts from the speeches by Martin Luther King , John F. Kennedy and Charles de Gaulle are played.
- Terry Molloy is listed under the false name Roy Tromelly in the credits of the third episode in order to hide the identity of the Dalek Emperor, who is actually Davros.
- When the doctor picks up the coffin from the funeral with Omega's hand, Martin, the undertaker's assistant, tells his superior that the doctor is not an old man with gray hair as described .
- Although the serial first showed a Dalek floating up the stairs, the serial Planet of the Dead already showed Davros floating.
Web links
- The Hand of Omega on the official BBC website with Photonovel with Telesnaps to illustrate the episode
- The Hand of Omega - Detailed Summary in the Doctor Who Reference Guide. (English)
Individual evidence
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