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Fifty Years of Shit Robots
59. DALEKS' INVASION EARTH 2150AD
Season 6, Ep. 12
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Between Metropolis and Star Wars lies a 50 year wasteland of terrible movie robots. Every week we rate the robot from a movie, if it gets a score of 7 out of 10 then we say that it is not a shit robot. Today, we visit both the future and the past with another non-canon Dr Who movie, DALEKS' INVASION EARTH 2150AD. The daleks are back but are they still shit? We are joined in this episode by Dr Who writer and animator, Niel Bushnell.
WARNING! The S**t-bomb is sometimes uttered but nothing more.
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NOTES
ANIMEX FESTIVAL
LOST DR WHO EPISODES FOUND IN NIGERIA
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/lost-doctor-who-episodes-found-in-storeroom-in-africa/
METROPOLIS FOUND IN ARGENTINA
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2008/jul/04/features.sciencefictionandfantasy
VOX ARTICLE: WHO IS DOCTOR WHO?
https://www.vox.com/2014/8/22/6055755/doctor-who-explained-who-is-doctor-who
QUATERMASS: THE TERRIFYING SCI FI THAT CHANGED TV FOREVER
THE ANCIENT MULTIVERSE
https://nautil.us/the-multiverse-is-an-ancient-idea-236401/
MAKING THE SOUND OF THE TARDIS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WzESKlFCt8
RUSSELL T DAVIES: DR WHO IS NOT FOR KIDS
CHEKHOV’S GUN
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