Black Dalek (Dr. Who and the Daleks)

The Black Dalek, a Black Dalek with golden adornments, was the supreme authority of the Daleks' Dalek City on Skaro, leading the Red Dalek and the Blue Daleks, when Dr. Who and his traveling companions in time and space visited it and ended up causing the apparent destruction of the Dalek race. (NOTVALID: Dr. Who and the Daleks)

According to another account, the Red Dalek ruled alone, (NOTVALID: Dr. Who and the Daleks) and in yet another account where it was the First Doctor who visited the Dalek City with his companions, the City's leader was a Glass Dalek. (PROSE: Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks)

Characteristics
The Black Dalek had a casing mostly coloured black, consisting of the dome section, middle section and lower section. Like the Red Dalek, it sported gold accessories; the neck rings which supported its black neck grille, middle section bands atop and below the arm sockets, and the tall fender at the bottom of the lower section. Uniquely, the eyestalk that connected the eye lens, which appeared as a shining white disc at the face of a black ball, to the dome's pivot, along with the six discs that supported it, were coloured gold rather than silver and light blue respectively. The left and right arms of the middle section were a gunstick and suction cup manipulator arm respectively. The sense globes in the Black Dalek's lower section were alternately coloured gold and silver. As with all the Daleks on Skaro, two red, cone-shaped luminosity dischargers stood atop the dome and flashed when the Dalek spoke. (NOTVALID: Dr. Who and the Daleks)

Behind the scenes

 * In David Whitaker's novelisation of The Daleks, on which the Doctor Who and the Daleks feature film was also based, the leader of the Daleks in the City was the Glass Dalek.
 * This Black Dalek (recognisable by the shape of its luminosity dischargers and golden metalwork) appeared on the cover of the documentary Dalekmania. Dr._Who_and_the_Daleks_Poster.jpg''.]]
 * The Black Dalek also appeared on a notorious poster for Dr. Who and the Daleks wherein which Dr Who and his companions came across a long line of Daleks in the corridors of Skaro, led by the Black Dalek. According to this poster, the Black Dalek's weapon could be used as a pyro-flame, in accordance with original concepts for the film which were later dropped in favor of the gas weapons.
 * In the comic adaptation of the film, Dr. Who and the Daleks, the Blue Daleks are led by a single dark Red Dalek.
 * A Black Dalek of a slightly different design features in the sequel film Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D., where it is subordinate to the Gold Dalek.
 * This Dalek's color scheme is identical to one of the colour schemes used for the Black Dalek Leader (the Dalek Prime's second-in-command), in the comic story The Archives of Phryne to be exact.