The Daleks
It's not just the Doctor's anniversary, it's also an adversary's anniversary: try saying that after inventing the banana daiquiri a few centuries early. They need celebrating too. And after all, our relationship with the Daleks is love-hate; we wouldn't have Who without them, and they despise us. 50. The big reveal of a Dalek floating up stairs in 2005's 'Dalek', the story to reintroduce the villains to Who, was actually beaten to the punchline by Seventh Doctor story Remembrance of the Daleks. 49. The estate of Terry Nation, the man who created the Daleks, originally refused permission for the BBC to use Daleks in the revived series. They were unhappy with the BBC letting the Daleks be used in Looney Tunes: Back in Action, but Steve Martin, star of the film and apparently the one who insisted Daleks appear in the movie, heard about the news and wrote a letter of apology to the Terry Nation estate. The Nation estate granted permission after this apology. 48. Events from 'Genesis Of The Daleks' triggered the Time War, according to Russell T Davies. 47. It wasn't until the second season that the Daleks uttered their famous battle cry, "Exterminate!"
46. 'The chanting that underscores the Daleks in 'Bad Wolf' - titled 'The Daleks' in the Original Television Soundtrack - is sung in Hebrew. The phrase sung is "What is happening?" 45. The Doctor has faced the Daleks in every series since Who was brought back in 2005. Series 6 features a dismantled Dalek for only a single scene in 'The Wedding of River Song', though. 44. In 'Asylum of the Daleks', Rory makes the first televised joke of mistaking the first syllable of "Exterminate" for "eggs". This was done twenty years prior though by Paul Cornell ('Father's Day', 'Human Nature'), in a comic. 43. Ridley Scott, director of Bladerunner and Alien, nearly designed the Daleks. Scott was working for the BBC at the time, but couldn't take the job due to scheduling conflicts. 42. The Dalek ray gun was first used in Genesis of the Daleks, way into the Doctor's fourth incarnation. 41. Blue Peter presenter Gethin Jones operates a Dalek in 'Journey's End'.