Anatomy of a Dalek (feature)

Anatomy of a Dalek was a fiction piece published in The Dalek Book.

The reader is meant to believe this fold-out cross-sectional poster is the pamphlet Jeff Stone finds in City of the Daleks. However, the poster is called Anatomy of a Dalek, and the comic calls it Anatomy of the Dalek.

Anatomy of a Dalek was the first cross-sectional view of a Dalek that had ever been publicly released. Some of its terms were later reused on-screen or other narrative sources.

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Behind the scenes
Many cross-sections of a Dalek were produced along the years, often based on at least parts of the original one until a narrative picture of a Dalek drone was shown in Into the Dalek although it clashes with what was shown when a dalek opened its casing in Dalek and Daleks in Manhattan. A narrative showing of the Golden Emperor insides was done in The Secret of the Emperor.

The Dalek Pocketbook and Space Travellers Guide (1965)
A similar cross-section as the Dalek Book one with the same descriptions and a slightly edited version of the Dalek War Machine illustration, also titled "Anatomy of a Dalek".

Doctor Who and the Daleks Omnibus (1976)
Originally titled The Anatomy of a Dalek and reprinted in Terry Nation's Dalek Special as Inside a Dalek, it contains an original cross-section of a Dalek with slats. The damaged New Dalek Paradigm Supreme Dalek from TV: The Wedding of River Song appears to be based on it, especially the strainer-like piece under its dome.


 * Scanner
 * Audio-scanners
 * Combat computor
 * Photo-sonic cells
 * Environment chamber
 * Grav deflector
 * Psych analysers
 * Vocal simulator & Translator unit
 * Etheric transmitter/receiver
 * Multi-range variable power destructor
 * control arm
 * Element to energy convertor
 * auto-navigators
 * auto-repair circuits
 * Hostility sensors
 * Cryogen survival unit
 * Auto-destruct
 * Motive unit

Terry Nation's Dalek Annual 1979 (1978)
Contains a new drawing called "Anatomy of a Dalek" of a slated Dalek.
 * 1) Dalek eye
 * 2) 'Noise telepathy' unit
 * 3) Energy dispersers
 * 4) Outer casing
 * 5) Bands
 * 6) Dalek Blast Gun
 * 7) Ultra sensitive globes
 * 8) Sucker Cup
 * 9) Atractavon
 * 10) Dalek Fenders

The Doctor Who Technical Manual (1983)
Contains an annoted drawing of a slated "Mark V" Dalek, titled "Anatomy of a Dalek".


 * 1) Eye
 * 2) Insulators
 * 3) Energy dispensers
 * 4) Translator unit
 * 5) Super-sensitive recording screens
 * 6) War computer
 * 7) Outer casing
 * 8) Manipulator arm
 * 9) Blast-gun
 * 10) Control chambers
 * 11) Sense globes
 * 12) Gravity compensator
 * 13) Attractavon [sic]
 * 14) Motive power source

Target Books (1984)
A 1984 poster was made depicting a cut away of a slated Dalek.

Doctor Who Yearbook 1993 (1992)
"Anatomy of the Imperial Dalek" by Lee Sullivan details what could be glimpsed from the transmated dalek from Remembrance of the Daleks.
 * Eyestick
 * Directional audio receptor
 * Low-profile comm-light & radiation bleed unit
 * Mutated organic brain
 * Audio in/output electrostatic screens
 * Brain stem conduit
 * Mutant skull & secondary brain core
 * Solar power gathering slats
 * Telescopic manipulation arm
 * Combined manipulator/neural jack
 * Gunstick
 * Manipulator actuation bus
 * Life support, blood and drug administration tubes
 * Diagnostic data band
 * Mobile internal servo-repair unit
 * Mutant spine
 * Mutant life support organ container
 * 56 sensor pods
 * Dalekanium -based polycarbide armour
 * Main hover/directional motor guide
 * Fender
 * 3 attitude/stabiliser globes

Dalek Survival Guide (2002)
The beginning of the "Know Your Enemy" section contains an annoted drawing of a slated Dalek cutaway.

Doctor Who DVD Files (2012)
Reprinted in A History of the Universe in 100 Objects, this cross-section of a Dalek War Machine was done by Peter McKinstry.

DWM 471 (2014)
A graphics of a Dalek War Machine, titled "Anatomy of a Dalek!", done by Gavin Rymill.
 * 1) Radiation valve
 * 2) Eye
 * 3) Computer brain
 * 4) Sensor mesh
 * 5) Television screen
 * 6) Dalek mutant
 * 7) Manipulation and neural feedback arm
 * 8) Neutraliser weapon
 * 9) Hemispherical detectors
 * 10) Limbs
 * 11) Dalekanium
 * 12) Power unit
 * 13) C.A.S.T.O.R.S. (Chassis Acceleration System for Transit Over Rigid Surfaces)