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I've been continuing with my occasional watch-through of classic Doctor Who, and just watched The Dalek Invasion of Earth. I don't thiy I'd seen the original serial before, though I'd read the Target novelisation and also saw the Peter Cushing film, so was familiar with the plot.
What surprised me, watching it, was just how much it resembles a WW2 film. The Doctor and his companions are the British party, landed in enemy-held territory; the resistance could so easily be the French Resistance; the women who betray Barbara and Jenny in return for food are so familiar from war films.
(It's also a bit startling that the serial starts with the Doctor ticking Susan off as if she was quite a young child, and ends with him pushing her out to marry a man she's only just met.)
What surprised me, watching it, was just how much it resembles a WW2 film. The Doctor and his companions are the British party, landed in enemy-held territory; the resistance could so easily be the French Resistance; the women who betray Barbara and Jenny in return for food are so familiar from war films.
(It's also a bit startling that the serial starts with the Doctor ticking Susan off as if she was quite a young child, and ends with him pushing her out to marry a man she's only just met.)
