10 Times Doctor Who Reused Footage And Hoped You Wouldn't Notice

At first, the Daleks were conspicuously absent from Flux. After all, if there’s a universe-ending catastrophe to capitalise upon, you’d have thought they’d be first in line!

Instead, the Sontarans were the focus of Flux’s first two chapters – hardly surprising when you consider that the Chibnall era largely reserved the Daleks for specials, a refreshing change in its own right.

Still, those bumpy boys did eventually find their way into Flux, with brief appearances in Once, Upon Time and The Vanquishers (above). However, neither of these cameos necessitated new footage.

The Daleks in Once, Upon Time were entirely computer generated, and in The Vanquishers they were represented via reused footage: an alternate take of the Death Squad, as seen in that year’s New Year’s Day special, Revolution of the Daleks (below).

It’s a slightly puzzling one, as the 2022 specials – two of which feature the Daleks – had gone before cameras by the time The Vanquishers was broadcast. So it’s not like the crew was averse to shooting new Dalek material.

Perhaps they wanted footage of the villains in their (admittedly rather nifty) new spaceship. And for the sake of a couple of shots, recycling footage made more sense than re-building an entire set!