Howling:The Doctor not recognising the Daleks

Is there any explanation as to why the First Doctor did not recognise the Daleks in The Dead Planet, when it's shown in The Five Doctors that they'd long been inside the Death Zone on Gallifrey, since the earliest days of the Time Lords? 82.2.136.93talk to me 22:35, March 17, 2012 (UTC)

There are several: he was pretending not to because he was trying to be mysterious. He had never seen a Dalek since at the time he left Gallifrey they were not known to be important -- he had only graduated from the academy with a barely passing grade, after all. Because he was actually the Other, he came from the earliest days of the time lords himself, from before their contact with the Daleks. The stress of events leading up to his stealing the TARDIS and fleeing had left him with partial amnesia. There are probably other reasons too. Feel free to make them up. Boblipton talk to me 02:07, March 18, 2012 (UTC)