“We found this thing in a bog, but we don’t know what it is… there seems to be something inside it, but as yet we haven’t been able to open it..”

“I think we need to call in Torchwood, maybe they have some idea of what it is.”

“Nah… let’s just try cutting it open first… what could go wrong?”

Clearly someone (a committee I am sure) at the BBC had no sense of history.

Hopefully some day that Doctor will travel back to 70s England and stop the fools responsible for this loss to our history. Then he can head on over to Alexandria, Egypt circa 400 AD and stop the barbarians from destroying the Library there.

Given the eyestalk finning, the dome-ish lights at the side, and the eyepiece itself reveal it to be what you’d refer to as a Pertwee-era Dalek – see this library for verification:
http://www.projectdalek.co.uk/files/reflib/07_Day_Of/index.html

For those interested in Dalek-hunting for fun and profit, this type is fairly early. No temporal shift capabilities, poor armour, small calibre weaponry and a fairly poor range of travel. As always though, they ARE capable of flight, so be wary.

Any reasonable energy weapon will have one of these in trouble, and even some particle weapons stand a good chance. This is well before they incorporated force-fields, so the eyestalk is a good aiming point. Failing that, I seem to recall that their rear armour is thinner, and that their bottom armour is even worse. Ever seen a Dalek run over a land mine? If yours flies further than my record of 127m, then I owe you a beer.

I’ve also found that these early models are very vulnerable to having their vision obscured – their self-repair capability is very limited, and self cleaning is pretty basic. I wouldn’t count on thrown mud doing the trick, but a decent heavy sack would probably have it screaming “I AM IMMOBILISED” in a way that’ll make you wonder how Daleks ever survived these earlier years…

Happy hunting!

This is kind of disturbing. The BBC doesn’t have a policy for the safe disposal of Daleks? Who knows what kind of health hazard is involved here? I hope the environmental groups jump on them for this.

Hey, it was the seventies. No-one had policies for the safe disposal of anything!

That said, if this is really as represented, imagine that Doctor Who had been canceled shortly after the Dalek had been dumped in the pond, and long forgotten by now. Then, in 2009, SOMETHING big and gray and metallic with strange protuberances, that looked like it could hold a person, and had some basic wiring for flashing lights and so forth, turned up in a pond. What would we imagine it was?

“But she looks like one.”

“They dressed me up like this.”

“Throw her into the pond!!”

I gave you the benefit of the doubt and went with the first definition. Linking to the sun makes you feel disgusting or distasteful?

Meh…the Doctor will save us.

“We’ve all agreed it best to keep the pond’s exact location under wraps. The last thing we want is sci-fi fans descending on the pond frantically searching for other Dalek parts.”

Well, I guess I can cancel my flight now.