Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site ulose.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!ucbvax!decvax!ulose!bob From: bob@ulose.UUCP ( Robert Bismuth ) Newsgroups: net.tv.drwho Subject: The orgin of the name DALEKS - the answer ... Message-ID: <122@ulose.UUCP> Date: Sun, 22-Sep-85 12:15:25 EDT Article-I.D.: ulose.122 Posted: Sun Sep 22 12:15:25 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 24-Sep-85 03:19:34 EDT Distribution: net Organization: CADMUS Computer Systems, Lowell, MA. Lines: 40 <------------------ this line blank for timeporters ---------------------> Many people responded with possible sources for the name DALEK. I should have been more careful in my first posting - what I meant was to pose the question: where did Terry Nation get the name from? Several people took my question the wrong way and responded with the story line derrivation from KALED. The leading theories were: 1. Terry Nation owned an encyclopedia set on which two adjacent volumes were labled DAL and LEK, and, 2. He invented the name without any "real world" prompting. Holders of #1 opinion report Terry Nation saying this in an interview and holders of #2 comment that while at one time he said this, he later denied it and claimed total fictious invention. What I remember is similar to #1. Shortly after the success of the first DALEK episodes, Terry Nation was interview on BBC radio. He described himself as somewhat overcome with success and commented that prior to the invention of the DALEKs he had been poor and starving. He was very frank during the interview and said that after conceiving of the tale of the "Dead Planet", he needed a name for the pseudo robot creatures. He looked up at the book shelf over his desk and the first 5 volumes spelled: DALEK, if one took the first letter from each title. Thus it was born. Eventhough I am remembering events of over 20 years ago, I tend to still believe this, since though successful at the time, his success was still somewhat isolated from the lime light since Dr. Who had a smaller dedicated following. -- bob (decvax!ulose!bob)