Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site uwmcsd1.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!uwmcsd1!jerry From: jerry@uwmcsd1.UUCP (Jerry Lieberthal) Newsgroups: net.tv.drwho Subject: Re: More trivia: where did the name DALEK come from? Message-ID: <399@uwmcsd1.UUCP> Date: Thu, 22-Aug-85 23:49:57 EDT Article-I.D.: uwmcsd1.399 Posted: Thu Aug 22 23:49:57 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 24-Aug-85 18:23:07 EDT References: <118@ulose.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: U of Wi-Milwaukee, Computing Services Div Lines: 12 > Having noticed the question of where the name TARDIS comes from, I couldn't > resist asking if anyone on the net really knows how Terry Nation came up > with "DALEK" and under what circumstances. > The only information I have on that was during one of the Tom Baker episodes when he was intercepted in the transmat and sent to Skaro. The name is the name of the race spelled backwards (KELAD), who were at war with the other race on the planet. They were named by Davros. Other than that, I have no idea under what circumstances the name originated. - jerry ihnp4!uwmcsd1!jerry