Editing Dalek (section)

===Magazine covers===
[[File:Radio Times Vote Dalek cover.jpg|right|thumb|alt=A gatefold magazine cover, depicting a nighttime scene with four gold Daleks in the foreground, the railing of a bridge in the midground, and the Perpendicular Gothic towers of the Houses of Parliament and Big Ben in the background. The left half of the image contains the text "Radio Times" in the top, and "VOTE DALEK!" in the lower left. A small black-and-white photograph is superimposed on the upper left of the right side of the image; that photograph, taken from a slightly different angle, shows four Daleks crossing the same bridge, with the same building in the background.|The ''Radio Times'' for 30 April&nbsp;– 6 May 2005 covered both the return of the Daleks to ''Doctor Who'' and the forthcoming [[2005 United Kingdom general election|general election]]. In 2008, it was voted the best British magazine cover of all time.]]

Daleks have appeared on magazine covers promoting ''Doctor Who'' since the "Dalekmania" fad of the 1960s. ''[[Radio Times]]'' has featured the Daleks on its cover several times, beginning with the 21–27 November 1964 issue which promoted ''The Dalek Invasion of Earth''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.radiotimes.com/content/features/galleries/doctorwhocovers/02/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20081203002552/http://www.radiotimes.com/content/features/galleries/doctorwhocovers/02/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=3 December 2008 |title=Doctor Who covers: The Dalek Invasion of Earth |access-date=24 March 2010 |work=Radio Times |publisher=BBC Magazines}}</ref> Other magazines also used Daleks to attract readers' attention, including ''Girl Illustrated''.<ref name=porn>Howe (1996), pp. 60–61, 66</ref>

In April 2005, ''Radio Times'' created a special cover to commemorate both the return of the Daleks to the screen in "[[Dalek (Doctor Who episode)|Dalek]]" and the forthcoming [[2005 United Kingdom general election|general election]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.radiotimes.com/shows/doctor-who/gallery/gallery-twenty/001/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20110524004825/http://www.radiotimes.com/shows/doctor-who/gallery/gallery-twenty/001/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=24 May 2011 |title=Doctor Who – The greatest magazine cover of all time |access-date=24 March 2010 |work=Radio Times |publisher=[[BBC Magazines]] }}</ref> This cover recreated a scene from ''The Dalek Invasion of Earth'' in which the Daleks were seen crossing [[Westminster Bridge]], with the [[Houses of Parliament]] in the background. The cover text read "VOTE DALEK!" In a 2008 contest sponsored by the [[Periodical Publishers Association]], this cover was voted the best British magazine cover of all time.<ref>{{cite news |first=Nicole |last=Martin |title=Vote Dalek image voted best magazine cover of all time |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/3102812/Vote-Dalek-image-voted-best-magazine-cover-of-all-time.html |date=29 September 2008 |work=The Daily Telegraph|location=UK |access-date=24 March 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101123153512/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/3102812/Vote-Dalek-image-voted-best-magazine-cover-of-all-time.html |archive-date=23 November 2010 |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2013 it was voted "Cover of the century" by the [[Professional Publishers Association]].<ref>{{cite web|first=Marcus|last=Hilton|title=Radio Times Exhibition|url=http://www.doctorwhonews.net/2013/07/radio-times-exhibition.html|work=Doctor Who News|access-date=29 July 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130801112238/http://www.doctorwhonews.net/2013/07/radio-times-exhibition.html|archive-date=1 August 2013|url-status=live}}</ref> The [[2010 United Kingdom general election]] campaign also prompted a collector's set of three near-identical covers of the ''Radio Times'' on 17 April with exactly the same headline but with the [[Victory of the Daleks|newly redesigned Daleks]] in their primary colours representing the three main political parties, Red being Labour, Blue as Conservative and Yellow as [[Liberal Democrats (UK)|Liberal Democrats]].{{Citation needed|date=February 2024}}