Dalek Supreme Type B

A distinct model of Dalek casing was identified by the Time Lords (PROSE: Dalek Combat Training Manual) as being used by the Dalek Supreme who oversaw the Spiridon Incident. (TV: Planet of the Daleks)

Characteristics
This Dalek Supreme model had a black and gold casing, and the unusual feature of a lamp in his eyestalk eye lens. He held the same communications function as a regular Dalek's luminosity dischargers on the sides of his dome, lighting up when he spoke. At the bottom of the base unit was an enlarged Dalek fender similar to the earlier Dalek Earthforce. (TV: Planet of the Daleks)

Spiridon
During the Spiridon campaign, the Dalek Supreme arrived to take command after Supreme Command grew impatient with the pace at which the Dalek expedition to deal with the intruders and awaken the grey Dalek army. (PROSE: Doctor Who and the Planet of the Daleks) By one account, the Dalek Supreme was none other than the original Black Dalek, the Dalek Prime's warlord. (PROSE: The History of the Daleks)

He and his escort left their craft unguarded, unknowingly travelling past Jo Grant and Latep. When he arrived at the Dalek base, the Dalek Supreme ordered normal operations to resume, and found the progress of the invisibility experiments "satisfactory." In a fit of temper, he then exterminated the Dalek Section Leader for its incompetence.

However, the Dalek Supreme proved to be little more successful. The Third Doctor and the Thals infiltrated the ice caves holding the hibernating army and caused an ice volcano eruption, burying the army and the remaining members of the Dalek expedition underground. The ice volcano began to flood through the rest of the base, prompting the Dalek Supreme abandon it and set all instruments to self-destruct. (TV: Planet of the Daleks)

The Supreme and his aides were the only three Daleks left active on the planet. (PROSE: Doctor Who and the Planet of the Daleks) They remained so once the Thals stole his ship so they could return to Skaro. After unsuccessfully giving chase to the Doctor and Jo Grant, the Dalek Supreme ordered one of his escort to have Dalek Command send a rescue craft, and have a team of experts free the army from the ice. He then declared: "We have been delayed, not defeated. The Daleks are never defeated..." (TV: Planet of the Daleks)

According to human historians, however, the Dalek Supreme was never rescued and was lost on Spiridon, which the native Spiridons subsequently reclaimed. This was a great blow to the Supreme Council, (PROSE: Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe) with the Dalek Supreme having been second in command to the Dalek Emperor. (PROSE: Doctor Who and the Planet of the Daleks)

Legacy
This casing was the second of five Supreme Dalek models, preceding the New Dalek Paradigm of the post-Time War universe, which were identified by the Time Lords in their scrutiny of the Daleks' timeline and recorded in the Dalek Combat Training Manual, published during the Last Great Time War. The Time Lords, who believed these Supreme Daleks to all be different individuals, associated this model with the Spiridon Incident. (PROSE: Dalek Combat Training Manual)

Prop
The Dalek Supreme prop was actually made up of parts from two props used for the Dr. Who film Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D.; the top half from the Gold Dalek and the bottom half from a Silver Dalek.

In 1977, the top half of this prop was repainted black and red, the end of the manipulator arm went missing so it was replaced by a pink one. The base unit for this prop, however, was from the photoshoot of Doctor Who and the Daleks in Seven Keys to Doomsday.

Merchandise

 * A figurine of this Supreme Dalek was released with issue 55 of Doctor Who: Figurine Collection magazine.