8. Day Of The Daleks (1972)
Several things lead us to put Day of the Daleks on this list, primary among them being that it was never meant to be a Dalek story in the first place. They were written into this story when another story which would have featured the Daleks, The Daleks in London, got dropped. Originally the story's big bads were the Ogrons. The Ogrons, mind you, a race whose return to the new series is likely to never happen because the Sontarans are now considered the stupidest aliens in the universe. This explains part of the strangeness of the Daleks needing troops, something that will come up again in Resurrection of the Daleks - if they need troops, they're pretty weak. And they are weak, given that there's only about three or four of them in the whole story. The storming of the house in the last episode is, frankly, pathetic - it's less a storm than it is a mild drizzle of Daleks. And the Daleks themselves sound... odd. So odd, in fact, that when the story was released on DVD a few years back, current Dalek voice actor Nicholas Briggs rerecorded all of the Dalek dialogue. Not that it really made the story any better, nor did the enhanced special effects. Lipstick on a pig, indeed. Were that this were the only bad Pertwee Dalek story, but it isn't. God help us, it isn't.