Editing Dalek (section)

==Licensing==
Copyright for the Daleks was maintained by Terry Nation rather than the BBC and has passed to his estate after his death.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-67417109 | title=When Doctor Who's Daleks beat the Beatles in TV ratings battle | work=BBC News | date=19 November 2023 }}</ref> A number of licensed usages have been made over the years.

[[File:Dalek Chronicles 4.jpg|thumb|alt=A comics page with eleven panels. The first panel contains the title "The Daleks" in jagged white letters. Subsequent panels show Dalek cylinders (slightly narrower than those depicted in previous images) and blue-skinned humanoids with bulbous heads. The last panel shows a gold-coloured Dalek-like shape with a large spherical top.|A page from the TV 21 comic strip, featuring the creation of the Emperor Dalek]]

Two ''Doctor Who'' movies starring [[Peter Cushing]] featured the Daleks as the main villains: ''[[Dr. Who and the Daleks]]'', and ''[[Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150 AD]]'', based on the television serials ''The Daleks'' and ''The Dalek Invasion of Earth'', respectively. The movies were not direct remakes; for example, the Doctor in the Cushing films was a human inventor called "Dr. Who" who built a time-travelling device named ''Tardis'', instead of a mysterious alien who stole a device called "the TARDIS".<ref>Peel (1988), p. 96; Howe (1992), p. 129</ref>

Four books focusing on the Daleks were published in the 1960s. ''[[Dalek comic strips, illustrated annuals and graphic novels#The Dalek Book|The Dalek Book]]'' (1964, written by Terry Nation and [[David Whitaker (screenwriter)|David Whitaker]]), ''The Dalek World'' (1965, written by Nation and Whitaker) and ''The Dalek Outer Space Book'' (1966, by Nation and Brad Ashton) were all hardcover books formatted like [[annual publication#British annuals|annuals]], containing text stories and comics about the Daleks, along with fictional information (sometimes based on the television serials, other times made up for the books).<ref>Howe (1992), p. 138</ref> Nation also published ''The Dalek Pocketbook and Space-Travellers Guide'', which collected articles and features treating the Daleks as if they were real.<ref>Howe (2003), pp.126–127</ref> Four more annuals were published in the 1970s by World Distributors under the title ''Terry Nation's Dalek Annual'' (with cover dates 1976–1979, but published 1975–1978).<ref>Howe (1992), pp. 74–75</ref> Two original novels by [[John Peel (writer)|John Peel]], ''[[War of the Daleks]]'' (1997) and ''[[Legacy of the Daleks]]'' (1998), were released as part of the [[Eighth Doctor Adventures]] series of ''Doctor Who'' novels.<ref>{{cite book |title=[[War of the Daleks]] |last=Peel |first=John |author-link=John Peel (writer) |year=1997 |publisher=BBC Books |location=London |isbn=0-563-40573-2}}<br/>{{cite book |title=[[Legacy of the Daleks]] |last=Peel |first=John |author-link=John Peel (writer) |year=1998 |publisher=BBC Books |location=London |isbn=0-563-40574-0}}<br/>Howe (2003), pp. 83–84</ref> A novella, ''[[The Dalek Factor]]'' by [[Simon Clark (novelist)|Simon Clark]], was published in 2004, and two books featuring the Daleks and the [[Tenth Doctor]] (''[[I am a Dalek]]'' by [[Gareth Roberts (writer)|Gareth Roberts]], 2006, and ''[[Prisoner of the Daleks]]'' by [[Trevor Baxendale]], 2009) have been released as part of the [[New Series Adventures]].<ref>{{cite book |title=[[The Dalek Factor]] |last=Clark |first=Simon |author-link=Simon Clark (novelist) |year=2004 |publisher=[[Telos Publishing]] |location=[[Tolworth]], Surrey |isbn=1-903889-30-8}}<br/>{{cite book |title=[[I am a Dalek]] |last=Roberts |first=Gareth |author-link=Gareth Roberts (writer) |year=2006 |publisher=BBC Books |location=London |isbn=1-84607-641-2}}<br/>{{cite book |title=[[Prisoner of the Daleks]] |last=Baxendale |first=Trevor |author-link=Trevor Baxendale |year=2009 |publisher=BBC Books |location=London |isbn=978-0-563-48648-0}}<br/>Howe (2006), p. 51</ref>

Nation authorised the publication of the comic strip ''[[Dalek comic strips, illustrated annuals and graphic novels#TV Century 21|The Daleks]]'' in the comic ''[[TV Century 21]]'' in 1965. The weekly one-page strip, written by Whitaker but credited to Nation, featured the Daleks as protagonists and "heroes", and continued for two years, from their creation of the mechanised Daleks by the humanoid Dalek scientist, Yarvelling, to their eventual discovery in the ruins of a crashed space-liner of the co-ordinates for [[Earth]], which they proposed to invade. Although much of the material in these strips was directly contradicted by what was later shown on television, some concepts like the Daleks using humanoid duplicates and the design of the [[Dalek variants|Dalek Emperor]] did show up later on in the programme.<ref>Howe (1992), p. 143</ref>

At the same time, a ''Doctor Who'' strip was also being published in ''[[TV Comic]]''. Initially, the strip did not have the rights to use the Daleks, so the [[First Doctor]] battled the "Trods" instead, cone-shaped robotic creatures that ran on static electricity. By the time the [[Second Doctor]] appeared in the strip in 1967 the rights issues had been resolved, and the Daleks began making appearances starting in ''The Trodos Ambush'' (TVC #788-#791), where they massacred the Trods. The Daleks also made appearances in the [[Third Doctor]]-era ''Dr. Who'' comic strip that featured in the combined ''[[Countdown (comic)|Countdown]]/[[TV Action]]'' comic during the early 1970s.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.drwhoguide.com/tvaction3.htm |title=Countdown / TV Action Strips and Stories featuring the Third Doctor |access-date=20 March 2010 |last=Boies |first=Dominique |publisher=Doctor Who Reference Guide |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100101172230/http://drwhoguide.com/tvaction3.htm |archive-date=1 January 2010 |url-status=live }}</ref>

An animated series called ''Daleks!'', which consists of five 10-minute long episodes, was released on the official ''Doctor Who'' YouTube channel in 2020.<ref>{{cite web |last=Dela Paz|first=Maggie|date=September 9, 2020|url=https://www.comingsoon.net/tv/news/1147971-daleks-doctor-who-animated-spinoff#:~:text=BBC%20has%20announced%20the%20upcoming,Doctor%20Who%3A%20Time%20Lord%20Victorious.|title=Daleks!: BBC Announces New Doctor Who Animated Spinoff Series|publisher=[[ComingSoon.net]]|access-date=November 26, 2020}}</ref>

Other licensed appearances have included a number of stage plays (see [[#Stage plays|Stage plays]] below) and television adverts for [[Wall's ice cream|Wall's]] "Sky Ray" ice lollies (1966), [[Weetabix]] breakfast cereal (1977), [[Kit Kat]] chocolate bars (2001),<ref name=bignell187 >{{cite book |title=Terry Nation |last1=Bignell |first1=Jonathan |last2=O'Day |first2=Andrew |year=2004 |publisher=[[Manchester University Press]] |location=[[Manchester]] |page=187 |isbn=0-7190-6547-X |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=grv8uA0MtXkC |access-date=8 March 2010}}</ref><ref>Newman, pp. 35, 120–121</ref> and the [[ANZ Bank]] (2005).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.anz.com/about-us/our-company/profile/advertising/ |title=Advertising |publisher=[[ANZ Bank]] |access-date=7 January 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100208062912/http://anz.com/about-us/our-company/profile/advertising/ |archive-date=8 February 2010 |url-status=live }}<br/>
{{cite web |url=http://afcorson.site.net.au/ |title=The Daleks |access-date=7 January 2010 |format=[[SWF]] format; click on "Productions" |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706123644/http://afcorson.site.net.au/ |archive-date=6 July 2011 |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2003, Daleks also appeared in UK billboard ads for [[Energizer]] batteries, alongside the slogan "Are You Power Mad?"<ref name=bignell187/>