Third Dalek War

The Third Dalek War was a war fought between the empires of Earth and the Daleks, some unknown time after the Human-Draconian War and the Second Dalek War. Along with those other conflicts, it exhausted Earth enough to put an end to their expansionist phase. Planets such as Mechanus were left uncolonised. (PROSE: The Chase)

Behind the Scenes

 * The only in-universe mention of the Third Dalek War is in John Peel's 1989 novelisation of The Chase. Future stories, however, would concern themselves with the Second Dalek War, such as Love and War, Return of the Living Dad, Deceit, Abslom Daak... Dalek Killer and Prisoner of the Daleks, although the mention of the Third does pre-date the naming of the Second.
 * In the televised version of The Chase from 1965, Steven merely makes reference to "interplanetary wars". John Peel replaced this with specific examples when novelising the serial, since the mythos was much larger.
 * A Dalek Wars source from Doctor Who: Battles in Time #55 gives an account of the final battle of the Third Dalek War, although it is fought by the Second Great and Bountiful Human Empire rather than the Earth Empire, which would mean it wouldn't fit into the same time period as the Human-Draconian War. After being all but defeated by the humans, the Supreme Dalek sent the remaining forces to attack the planet JT227, a planet rich with the element Promethium 62 which the humans were using to break Dalek forcefields. However, the humans' Spindroids mining the element fought back and proved resistant to Dalek fire and the Daleks were pushed back from human space.