Victory of the Daleks (TV story)

Victory of the Daleks was the third episode of the fifth series of BBC Wales Doctor Who. In it, the Eleventh Doctor met the Daleks and Winston Churchill, each of whom he had met several times in past incarnations. Like Daleks in Manhattan before it, it involved the last Dalek units in the universe desperately trying to rebuild the Dalek race in a famous period in Earth's recent past.

The episode was notable for its redesign of the Daleks into multi-coloured units, each with its own specific function. Writer Mark Gatiss acknowledged the controversial nature of this redesign in his in-vision commentary on the DVD box set. In conversation with principal Dalek voice artist Nicholas Briggs, and Dalek operator Barnaby Edwards, he said that the new shape of the Daleks, especially in the dorsal region, was not particularly to his liking. Briggs agreed, but, with Edwards, swiftly noted that in their experience of taking the new Daleks on live exhibition to the public, British kids invariably loved the new design. The decision was revisited in DWM 431 with critics voicing their opinions on the design. A comparison was made with the RTD-era Daleks but no conclusion as to which was the better-made.

Synopsis
The Doctor and Amy are called to London during World War II by an old friend of the Doctor: Winston Churchill. To the Doctor's horror, he finds the Daleks posing as a manmade "secret weapon" that Churchill calls "ironsides" and hopes will win him the war.

Plot
In World War II, some one of the female phone operators receives distressing news on one of the lines as Winston Churchill enters the room, asking for an update. They explain that a Luftwaffe squadron will be flying in, normaly out of range. With a smirk, Churchill tells them to move out the secret weapon; one of the operators moves a peace on the strategy board, which, when the picture focuses in on in, is revealed to be a replica of a Dalek.

A little while later the TARDIS materializes in the Cabinet War Rooms, setting off an alarm; Churchill notices this and smiles, knowing the Doctor has arrived. The Doctor exits the TARDIS to be met by four soldiers pointing guns and him with Churchill walking up behind them; Amy pokes her head out of the TARDIS. Unafraid of the guns, the Doctor introduces Amy to Churchill. Shocked, Churchill asks the Doctor if he is himself, implying he knows another of the Doctor's incarnations, as Amy exits the TARDIS. The Doctor greets Churchill as an old freind, who then demands the TARDIS key from the Doctor, wishing to use it to prevent the lose of innocent lives. However, the Doctor calmly explains "that's not how it works" and locks the TARDIS. Churchill wonders if he'll have to use force to take the key, but the Doctor calls his bluff.

Walking through a corridor, Amy guesses correctly where and when they are as Churchill comments on the Doctor changing his face again. The Doctor comments he has "had some work done" and learns that he has arrived one month after Churchill's call. Appologizing for being late due to the newly-configured TARDIS is still inaccurate, the Doctor is surprised to learn Churchill wants to show him his latest secret weapon. On the roof, Amy is shocked to see London in World War II as it is history to her, but the present to those living there. Churchill then introduces Professor Edwin Bracewell, head of the Ironside Project, to the Doctor. A squadron of Stukas comes into view over Blitz-torn London and Bracewell gives the order to fire on them to an unknown figure behind sandbags. Much to the Doctor and Amy's shock, energy breams shoot out form behind the sandbags and bring down the planes. As energy beams were never "human technology", the Doctor demands to see what fired them. Churchill anounces that it's their "new, secret weapon" as, much to the Doctor's horror, a camouflaged, Union Flag-wearing Dalek comes out from behind the sandbags. The Doctor demands to know what the Dalek is doing there, but only gets "I am your soldier" as answer. Angry, the Doctor demands it stop it's charade as the Daleks always know who he is despite regeneration. Much to the Doctor's confusion, the Dalek doesn't know who he is. Professor Bracewell tries to clear the Doctor's confusion by explaining he invented the Ironsides to help with the war and that they're obediant, even willing to make tea.

Back in Chuchill's office, the Doctor tires convincing his freind that the Ironsides are not obediant drones, but instead Daleks. However, Churchill believes the Ironsides were indeed created by Bracewell as he has skematics, feild tests, photogrpahs, etc. The Doctor tries calmly to tell Churchill that the Daleks are alien (pausing when an Ironside passes by), but Churchill remians adamant, saying "They will win me the war", showing the Doctor a poster for victory with a Dalek on it.

Walking back to the main war room, the Doctor complains and asks why Churchill called him if he won't listen to him. Churchill explains when called the Doctor, he did have doubts about the Ironsides, but saw them as an advantaged over the Nazis that he needed. Much to the Doctor's continued annouyance, Churchill begins thinking what could happen if there were 100 or even 1000 Ironsides at his command. Allowing Churchil to go ahead, the Doctor orders Amy to tell Churchill the truth about the Daleks. However, she has no idea who the Daleks are. The Doctor attempts to remind her about the Dalek invasion of Earth, saying that planets in the sky isn't something anyone on earth would forget. However, Amy still has no idea who the Daleks are, confusing the Doctor as if he picked her up in 2010, the invasion would have already happened.

In the war room, the Doctor and Amy watch an Ironside; he asks her what hate looks like and explains Daleks are hate personafied. However, he still wonders what the Daleks could be after by playing the part of obediant drones. Ignoring the Doctor's warning of danger, Amy attempts to ask an Ironside if it's an alien, only to get "I am your soldier" as an answer. The Doctor attempts to talk Churchill into getting rid of the Ironsides, but Churchil is still adamant about keeping them as the Nazis destroying the country, prompting the Doctor to tell him "wait tell the Daleks get started". As Churchill continues to tell him about the horrors of war, the Doctor tells him "try the earth in flames" as another warning about the Daleks. However, depsite his warnings and encouragement, the Doctor is unsuccessful in changing Churchill's mind.

Deciding to investigate the problem at the source, the Doctor goes to see the Ironsides' "creator." He asks Bracewell how he came up with the idea for the Daleks, leading Bracewell to show the Doctor other impossibly advanced inventions that only the Daleks would have knowledge of. Suspecting that Bracewell is a eventualy-exterminated accomplice to the Daleks, the Doctor warns Bracewell that whatever the Daleks promised him, they won't hold up their end of the deal. Just as the Daleks and Churchill enter the room, the Doctor strikes the Dalek with a heavy wrench, ordering it to attack him as they hate him and want to do so. He tells them how they are the most hated thing in all creation, how he defeated them, how he is their greatest enemy, and declares, "I am the Doctor, and you are the Daleks!" before kicking it across the room. The Dalek recovers and reverts to its true personality, agreeing. The Dalek transmits the "testimony" to the Dalek ship, hidden behind the moon. Two soldiers run in to stop the Daleks, and are promptly exterminated. The Professor yells from them to stop and obey their creator; one of the Daleks blasts his hand off, leaving only exposed wiring -- Bracewell is their android, and they created him, not the other way around. They teleport away, gloating.

Amy wonders what that was all about and the Doctor explains the Daleks wanted to lure him to them and give a testimony about their true idenities. He runs to the TARDIS, ordering Amy to stay behind in the bunker as it is the safest place at the moment. Amy is annoyed and wonders what the Doctor expects them to do now. Churchill answers "K.B.O. - keep buggering on" as they head back to the war room.

Inside the Dalek ship, the Doctor's testimony has been accepted by a device in a small chamber in the control room and a third Dalek manning the ship closes the chamber as the two Ironsides telepot in. They bask in the moment of victory as the TARDIS lands in the corridor just outside. The Doctor emerges from it and jokes about a cup of tea. The Daleks preapre to exterminate him, but the Doctor brandishes a TARDIS self-destruct control -- in fact, a Jammie Dodger biscuit -- claiming that he will blow them all up and orders them not to try scanning it or he will use it. He asks what they can be up to as when they last met in the Medusa Cascade War, they were supposed to have been wiped out. The Daleks explain that thet fell back in time and located the last Progenitor device, a genetic archive containing pure Dalek DNA -- "our past and our future". The Doctor becomes confused as to why they put on their charade if they had the device. However, he realizes they built Bracewell and pretended to be "Ironsides" to lure him in and give his testimony on their idenity as the device saw them as impure since they wre created from Davros's DNA; the Progenitor accepted his testimony as proof because the Doctor is the Daleks' greatest enemy and an expert on them.

The Daleks order the Doctor to leave or they will destroy London. The Doctor refuses as he knows that the ship does not have the firepower to wipe out a city as it barely has enough just to keep the lights on. However, the Daleks gloat, telling the Doctor to "watch as the humans destory each other" as they activate a dish below the ship that shoots a beam of energy down into London, forcing the lights on.

Despite everyone's attempts to turn the lights off, they fail. Amy realizes that the Daleks must begind this as Churchill worries about an incoming attack from German bombers. Annoyed, Amy tells Churchill that they have to take the fight to the Daleks, but is met with equal annoyance as the technology currently on Earth is no match for that of the Daleks. However, Amy has an epiphany -- they have an android built by the Daleks! -- they can use Bracewell knowledge of alien technology. They catch him trying to commit suicide. Bracewell is confused about what he is as he has memories before he created the Ironsides. Amy talks him out of this thought as "a spaceship is lighting London up like a Christmas tree" and they need his help. Listing things Bracewell said he had ideas for, Amy gives Chuchill the idea of sending something up to fight the Daleks. Bracewell explains they can with a gravity bubble and is told to "think big".

Back in the Dalek ship, the Doctor threatens to blow up the TARDIS if they do not turn off the lights. The Daleks call a stalmate with the Doctor, demanding he leave the ship and allow them to leave back to their proper era and begin the Dalek empire once again. However, the Doctor is adamant in preventing the Daleks from building back up and beginning their conquest of the universe. Much to the horror of the Doctor, the chamber holding the progenitor device glows red and opens with a cloud of smoke. The Daleks announce that the progenitor has created their "new destiny" and that the ressurection of the master race has happened. A new paradigm of five "pure" Daleks -- larger, more imposing, and presumably more powerful than their antecedents emerge from the chamber in a varity of five colors. The Medusa Cascade War Daleks praise the new members of their species. However, the white one (who has a deep voice) declares the older Daleks are "inferior", to which the three agree. It tells them to prepare and the three anounce that they are ready. The white Dalek tells the blue Dalek to "cleanse the unclean, total obliteriation". The blue Dalek desintegrates an Ironside Dalek and the third Dalek while the red Dalek desintegrates the last Ironside. Shocked by what the Daleks did, the Doctor asks confused, "Blimely, What do you do to the ones that mess up. The white Dalek immediate recognises the Doctor and declares he must be exterminated. However, the Doctor once again brandishes his Jamie Dodger telling the Daleks not to mess with him.

In the Cabinet War Rooms, Bracewell has arrived with a modified communications hacking devices to pick up on Dalek trasmissions while the Spitfires he upgraded with anti-gravity technology and Dalek laser cannons are being manned. They turn on the device to find the white Dalek explaining the roles and ranks of the new Dalek paradigm to the Doctor; it is the Supreme, the blue Dalek is the Strategist, the orange Dalek is the Sceintist, the red Dalek is a Drone and the yellow Dalek is the Eternal. On earth, Bracewell gets the call that the Spitfires are ready, ordering them to head out.

Back on the Dalek ship, the Doctor orders the Daleks to shut off the device or he will blow up the TARDIS along with himself and the Daleks as an "occupational hazard". However the Strategist Dalek has scanned the Jamie Dodger and declares that it is harmless. The Doctor admits to his bluff, saying "I was promised tea". However, before the Daleks can try exterminating him, they get readings that three unknown objects have left Earth. Pilot Danny Boy calls the Doctor for orders, prompting the Doctor to praise Churchill for coming up with such an ingenius plan before ordering the Spitfires to take out the dish under the ship. The Daleks revert their attention to the Doctor and attempt firing on him, but the Doctor is quick enough to evade the blasts and enters the TARDIS, taking off. However, the Dalek ship is sheilded and all but Danny Boy is lost in the first tow attempts. The Doctor tells Danny Boy that he can disrupt the Dalek sheild temporarily and Danny Boy is susccessful in destorying the dish, allowing London to be put back in the cover of darkness.

The Doctor, with a smirk, gives Danny Boy the order to destroy the ship. However, the Supreme Dalek contacts the Doctor, ordering him to call off his attack or they will destroy the earth. Confident, the Doctor tells the Daleks that they have "played their last card" and deception is second nature to them. The Supreme Dalek announces that Professor Bracewell is a bomb. Scared, but unsure, the Doctor thinks they are bluffng. However, the Supreme Dalek tells the Doctor that Bracewell is powered by an Oblivion Continuum, giving the Doctor a tought choice -- destroy the Daleks and lose earth or save earth and allow the Daleks to begin their reign of terror once again.

The Doctor reluctantly radios Danny Boy and tells him to return to Earth on the double as he does the same. In the war room everyone is celebrating their victory over the Daleks; the Daleks, despite having won, activate the bomb anyway. The TARDIS lands and the Doctor runs out into the war room, punching Bracewell in the chin, knocking him down. The Doctor (shaking his hand in pain) apologizes for hitting the Professor, but explains his status as a bomb that the Daleks are going to set off. He opens the fake human skin coverign Bracewell's chest, revealing the Oblivion Continuum. Amy is shocked by this and wonders if the Doctor can defuse Bracewell. However, the Doctor's sonic screwdriver has no success in doing so. Churchill adds in his confusion as Bracewell mentioned have experienced the previous war and other things. The Doctor figures that they are real memories taken from someone else and implanted in Bracewel's brain. Seeing another way to stop the bomb, the Doctor begins asking Bracewell about his past and the pain of the memories he has from losing loved ones. Despite Bracewell geiunely showing distraught at these memories, the countdown is nearing its end. Since the Doctor has failed with his attmept, Amy asks Bracewell if he's ever fancied someone he shouldn't; Bracewell remembers a girl called Dora Bella, and how beautiful she was. The countdown retreats, cancelling the detonation; the Doctor welcomes Bracewell to the human race, congradualting Churchill and Amy for their assitance. The Doctor prepares to leave and wipe out the Daleks, but Bracewell tells him to wait.

In their ship, the Supreme Dalek gloats that the Doctor has not seen the last of them, they will return; the Dalek saucer flees via a time corridor. On earth, Bracewell tells the Doctor that the Daleks are gone as his head is clear of constant thoughts of alien technology. Anguished at the thought of the last of the Daleks escaping from him once again, the Doctor yells and mopes. However, Amy reminds him that he saved Earth again, so it's not so bad. Proud of his old freind, Chruchill offers him a cigar; cheered up, the Doctor declines

The next day, Amy gushes over having met an important person like Churchill and bids him farewell. She then wodners where the Doctor went as he enters. The Doctor explains that he removed the alien technology that Bracewell put in the Spitfires; Churchill complains that the technology would have won him the war in 24 hours, which the Doctor agrees on. Despite there being dark days ahead, the Doctor assures Churchill that all Britan needs is him. They hug and bid each other farewell. However, Amy stops Churchill, demanding the TARDIS key back (she's an expert pic-pocket herself) as he toke it when he hugged the Doctor. Churchill is impressed with Amy, but says she's not as sharp as him. The Doctor takes the key back and they head to check on Bracewell. Bracewell is expecting to be deactivated as he is alien technology, but the Doctor and Amy give him subtle hints that they are not (despite Bracewell being slow), making the android scientist extremely happy.

They walk back to the TARDIS, where Amy asks if the Doctor is worried about the Daleks, to which he comments that he always is. She then says she has enemies of her own, but the Doctor has "arch enemies". The Doctor wonders if this a problem, but Amy tells him it isn't. However, the Doctor tells Amy that there is something she is forgetting -- the Daleks -- she didn't rememeber the Battle of Canary Wharf or the War in the Medusa Cascade. They enter the TARDIS and it dematerializes, revealing a shining crack in the wall behind where it had rested.

Cast

 * The Doctor - Matt Smith
 * Amy Pond - Karen Gillan
 * Winston Churchill - Ian McNeice
 * Bracewell - Bill Paterson
 * Blanche - Nina De Cosimo
 * Childers - Tim Wallers
 * Dalek 1 - Nicholas Pegg
 * Dalek 2 - Barnaby Edwards
 * Dalek Voice - Nicholas Briggs
 * Lilian - Susannah Fielding
 * Todd - James Albrecht
 * Air Raid Warden - Colin Prockter
 * Civil Servant - Jamal Nasir (uncredited)
 * Spitfire Pilot - Mark Gatiss (uncredited)

Story notes

 * This episode had the working titles of The Dalek Project and The Dalek Tea Party.
 * In this episode, each Dalek was given a different title, which corresponded with their armour colour; namely, "Scientist" (orange), "Strategist" (blue), "Drone" (red), "Eternal" (yellow) and "Supreme" (white). In Doctor Who Confidential, Mofatt and Gatiss both admit they don't know what the title "Eternal" means yet ("but it sounds cool").
 * The red, blue and yellow Daleks were first revealed in the Radio Times and the colours were used to symbolise the different colours of the three major British political parties: Labour (red), Conservative (blue) and Liberal Democrats (yellow).
 * This was the first Dalek story since DW: Dalek, back in 2005, not to feature David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor, as well as the first Dalek story since then to not be a multi-parter.
 * Colin Prockter previously appeared as the Head Chef in DW: The Long Game.
 * Like DW: The Unquiet Dead in Series 1, this episode is the third in the series, is a pseudo-historical, is penned by Mark Gatiss, and is both preceded and followed by two episodes by the head writer.
 * Ian McNeice previously portrayed Winston Churchill in the Royal National Theatre's 2008 production of Never So Good.
 * This is the second Dalek episode in the new series to use the infamous "...of the Daleks" title scheme, the first being DW: Evolution of the Daleks.
 * Mark Gatiss said in the Radio Times: "They're bigger than they've ever been; and in technicolor!" This would show that the new Daleks shall be different colours like the 'classic' Daleks of the earlier eras.
 * This is the third time in the new series that the Daleks have been featured mid-way in the series, following DW: Dalek in series one and then in series three two part story DW: Daleks in Manhattan and DW: Evolution of the Daleks.
 * The Daleks seen since series 1 were designed so that the eye stalk lined up with Billie Piper's eyes. The new Daleks are designed to match Karen Gillan's height.
 * For narrative and filming purposes, the Cabinet War Rooms in the episodes are far larger than the real ones and have an RAF "spotter" table that was not really present.
 * The Dalek model on the "spotter" table appears to be a Character Options Dalek toy painted grey, likely the "mutant reveal" Dalek figurine with the removal front given the visible separation lines on the front of the model.
 * This episode holds the record for the most non-CGI Dalek models used in a single story, with no less than eight Dalek models on-screen at the same time.
 * The Doctor mentions how the Daleks always manage to recognise him despite his regenerations, as they first did in DW: The Power of the Daleks with his second incarnation. However, this has not always been the case: in DW: Revelation of the Daleks, only Davros' Daleks recognised his sixth incarnation; the other faction disbelieving that he was the Doctor. Furthermore, in DW: Doomsday, the Cult of Skaro failed to recognise the Tenth Doctor but acknowledged that he registered as an enemy.
 * It is not clarified whether these Daleks were part of the half-human faction from Parting of the Ways or members of the New Dalek Empire from Journey's End. They are implied to be from the latter but it is never stated. The Progenitor won't recognise the gold Daleks, the ones seen thus far in the series, because (according to the Doctor) it doesn't recognise their DNA as Dalek. This could mean that these Daleks are part of the fleet developed by the Dalek Emperor from human DNA or part of Davros' Medusa Cascade fleet developed from his own Kaled cells. The latter seems more likely, as Rose, empowered by the Time Vortex, wiped out the Emperor's fleet in an instant, making it extremely unlikely that one saucer would be able to escape. The Dalek Handbook also states they are Daleks who survived the War in the Medusa Cascade.
 * Amy refers to the Daleks as the Doctor's "Archenemies".
 * This episode aired on the same day the K9 episode, Jaws of Orthrus was first broadcast on Disney XD in Britain. It also aired on the same day that The Korven was first broadcast on Network Ten in Australia.
 * Although Terry Nation originally based the Daleks on the Nazis, this the first time the race has appeared in World War II - ironically, helping the British fight against the Nazis.
 * This is the first Dalek episode of the new series to not show any Daleks in flight.
 * Cookies known as "jammie dodgers" are added to the Doctor's list of favourite foods, as he'll ask for them later. DW: Night Terrors

Ratings
6.2 million - First broadcast

7.82 million - Final BARB ratings

Filming locations
to be added

Rumours

 * Adolf Hitler was rumoured to make a brief appearance. He was mentioned, but not seen. He would later make an appearance in Series 6's Let's Kill Hitler.
 * Fans speculated that the Daleks had been digitally re-coloured for the Radio times election special covers, and that the Daleks featured in the episode would be uniformly coloured. This was proven false, and Daleks coloured red, blue and yellow were seen in the episode alongside others.

Production errors

 * In the scene where the Doctor and Amy are discussing Bracewell's possible deactivation, editor John Richards fails to match the frontals of the Doctor with the reverses looking at Bracewell. In the frontals, Matt Smith clearly has his hands in his pockets or clasped together in front of him. On the reverses, his right hand is seen dangling rather lifelessly at his side.
 * At the end, when Churchill is talking to the Doctor and Amy, he bends down to light a cigar, and puts it in his mouth. When he gets up, it is no longer anywhere to be seen.
 * When the Doctor was talking to the Dalek Supreme on the "actual" shot he was further away from the Dalek but on the screen provided by Bracewell the plunger is nearly touching him. The Supreme Dalek was also seen moving towards the Doctor after the 'cleansing' of the old Daleks, but immediately after seen starting to move, it is back in its original position and immobile.
 * There were numerous points in the episode where the 'earlights' of the Daleks did not light when a Dalek was speaking.
 * Before the Doctor arrived, a Dalek states "Commencing stage two!", but, its earlights aren't on. The next Dalek that speaks speaks with another's voice instead of its own.
 * Before the new Daleks emerged, an old Dalek states that they had succeeded, but none of their earlights were on.
 * The Supreme Dalek had numerous incidents; when it ordered the extermination of the Doctor, and stating that the Daleks would return, its earlights weren't on.
 * The Scientist Dalek's earlights didn't turn on when it was monitoring the energy pulse and the shields. Also notable is that its earlights were on, when it wasn't speaking, when the Supreme Dalek ordered the Doctor to 'explain'.
 * The cockpits of the spitfire pilots glow green when firing their lasers, but they fired red lasers.
 * When the TARDIS dematerialises and causes wind to blow against Churchill and Amy their clothes are affected but the cigar smoke in the air is unaffected and actually drifts towards the TARDIS.
 * In many scenes, the Doctor will see a Dalek in one room, and then more in the next room. This is impossible, because there are only three Daleks that survived the backfire of the Reality Bomb in DW: Journey's End, and they are not fast enough to move that quickly from one room to the next.

Continuity

 * The Doctor mentions sending the Daleks back into the Void (DW: Doomsday) and saving all of reality from them. He further states that Amy should have remembered them from when there were "planets in the sky" (DW:The Stolen Earth/Journey's End), and is concerned that she doesn't remember.
 * Subservient Daleks is also the theme of the first Second Doctor adventure. (DW: The Power of the Daleks)
 * The end of DW: The Beast Below directly leads into this story.
 * The Dalek Saucer seen in the dogfight with the Spitfires is similar to those from DW: Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways and DW: The Stolen Earth/Journey's End
 * The Doctor has had a group of soldiers point weapons at him shortly after or while exiting the TARDIS before, in the Torchwood Tower and in Albion Hospital (DW:Army of Ghosts, Aliens of London). It will later happen again in DW: A Good Man Goes to War.
 * The Doctor mentions that his TARDIS is a Type 40 TARDIS. (DW: The Ribos Operation)
 * The new Daleks use a time corridor to depart from the era. The last time a Time corridor was used on-screen was in DW: Resurrection of the Daleks.
 * Another one of the cracks can be seen on the wall of the Cabinet War Room after the TARDIS dematerialises.
 * In Doctor Who Confidential, Gatiss confirms that the brightly coloured restored Daleks are a nod to the 1960s Amicus films.
 * Churchill remarks that the Doctor has changed his face again, implying that he has encountered at least two other incarnations of his. The Doctor had already met Churchill in his sixth incarnation in PDA: The Shadow in the Glass and both his second and sixth incarnations encountered him in PDA: Players and The Shadow in the Glass.
 * The Dalek saucer is hidden on the dark side of the Moon. The Cybermen hid a craft there in DW: The Invasion.
 * The Spitfire Pilot known as Danny Boy later appears in Series 6 as one of many who owe a debt to the Doctor. He takes part in the Battle of Demon's Run where he destroys their communication array. (DW: A Good Man Goes to War)
 * The Doctor exclaims to the new Daleks that it is the final end - something that he had said at the end of DW : The Evil of the Daleks.

Timeline

 * This story occurs after: DW: The Beast Below
 * This story occurs before: NSA: Apollo 23

Home video releases
BBC Video - Doctor Who Series Five - Volume One was released on DVD and Blu-Ray on 7 June 2010 (UK only), featuring The Eleventh Hour, The Beast Below, Victory of the Daleks and the featurette The Monster Files.