Doctor Who and the Daleks (short story)

 was a 1964 short story told on a series of 50 cards included with Dr Who and the Daleks sweet cigarettes, manufactured by Cadet Sweets. Each card had a snippet of the story on one side and a full-colour painting on the other.

The story was told in a very economical way, because of the tiny space available on each card. Sentences were often devoid of articles, and were rendered, unusually, in the present tense to eliminate the need for helping verbs. Modern readers might justifiably consider it a "story as told on Twitter".

The writer and illustrator are unknown, but it is a clear effort to market Terry Nation-owned characters. It is one of the few pieces of merchandising to include the Voord and the planet Marinus, which had also been introduced in 1964.

It is the first work of original prose to use the character of the Doctor in the history of the Doctor Who franchise. It may also be the first work of original DWU prose, period, but it's unknown when in 1964 this product was first released. Thus, it could have been beaten to the market by June 1964's The Dalek Book. It was unlikely to have been released prior to mid-April 1964, since that's when the Voord debuted on television.

For Dalek fans, it is notable as the first piece of fiction in any medium to introduce the concept of the Dalek Emperor, and the first to depict him as having a golden dome. This would later be developed in TV Century 21 Dalek comics, where the Emperor was often styled the "Golden Emperor".

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Characters

 * First Doctor
 * Chief Voord
 * Dalek Emperor
 * Daleks
 * Voord

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