Dalek Empire (audio series)

Dalek Empire is a series of linked audio dramas and one book in the Short Trips series, all published by Big Finish Productions.

Publisher's summary
An epic saga of humanity's struggle to survive the relentless onslaught of the Daleks. Spanning the entire galaxy and stretching over centuries, it is seemingly a war without end.

Format
The Dalek Empire range started with a progressive thread through four stories in the main line of Big Finish Doctor Who audio stories, then spun off into independent audio mini-series.

Dalek Empire (Doctor Who audio dramas)

 * The Genocide Machine (Part 1)
 * The Apocalypse Element (Part 2)
 * The Mutant Phase (Part 3)
 * The Time of the Daleks (Part 4)

Dalek Empire (spin-off mini-series)

 * Dalek Empire
 * Dalek Empire II: Dalek War
 * The first two mini-series tell the story of struggle against the Daleks following their invasion of Mutter's Spiral in 4162 and subsequent conquest of the galaxy from the perspectives of three key players: Alby Brook, Susan Mendes and Kalendorf.


 * Dalek Empire III continues twenty-five hundred years after Dalek Empire II: Dalek War, as the galaxy prepares for a new invasion by the Daleks in the 67th century.
 * Dalek Empire IV takes a different approach and details other areas of the first war with the Daleks in the 42nd century, with different characters.

Other releases

 * BFA: Return of the Daleks, a special subscribers'-only audio drama features the Seventh Doctor with Susan Mendes and Kalendorf. It takes place between the events of The Human Factor and "Death to the Daleks!", the second and third releases in the first series of Dalek Empire.
 * Short Trips: Dalek Empire, a short story anthology, it features supplemental stories from various Dalek storylines, including the Doctor in several incarnations. Adapting Dalek Empire to the world of print, it also features the full script to Return of the Daleks.

Also See

 * Big Finish Doctor Who audio spin-offs