User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-31010985-20180428165444/@comment-6032121-20200512142831

I think all that needs to be said has been said, but here's a fun fact I recently found out about, which might help sway anyone still thinking that the Cushing Movies "split off" from mainstream Who: in The Witch's Familiar, more Daleks than just the Paradigm models ended up not making it to the finished cut. Among them was a Red Dalek of the Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. design.

Again, all that really matters is that the movies weren't intended to be outside the regular DWU back in the 1960's. Whether later writers thought otherwise isn't strictly relevant to validity. But if anyone's worried about implementation, it's always good to reassure ourselves that this decision (to cover the Cushing Movies as having "happened" somehow, somewhen, in the DWU) would be in accordance with the beliefs of several other, more recent DWU authors and stories.