Sympathy for the Daleks

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Story based on one person’s early memories of the Patrick Troughton era Doctor Who and the Daleks story, The Evil of the Daleks.

Story extract:

Leo was barely two years old when he saw his first Dalek. Dr Who was on the telly and he was crouching behind his parent’s settee as usual. He always half-watched Dr Who this way, ready to spring to the door at a moment’s notice.

How his older brother’s and sister would tease him about it.

Dr Who was fighting the Daleks again. Dr Who was always fighting the Daleks back then, so little Leo thought. The Doctor was back in the ‘olden days’ when Leo had his first sighting. On the telly a woman in white dress was hiding as a Dalek whirred through the wood paneled corridors of an old house. Leo remembered this big mass of bumpy things and a mean looking grill for a face topped off by a head like a saucepan with a flash lights attached.

He was so mesmerized by it all he forgot to run for the door.

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