Rent Daleks' Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D. (1966)

Entertaining Children's SciFi - Daleks' Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D. review by GI

This sequel to the previous years Dr Who & The Daleks benefits from the bigger budget with better sets, more outside location filming, a bigger cast and some pretty good model work and effects. Peter Cushing returns as the bumbling inventor of the TARDIS time machine joined this time by Bernard Cribbins and Jill Curzon as Roy Castle and Jennie Linden from the earlier film were unavailable. Police Constable Tom (Cribbins) unable to stop a burglary stumbles into the TARDIS thinking it to be a police box and finds himself whisked off to London in the year 2150 by the Doctor, his niece (Curzon) and granddaughter (Roberta Tovey). There they find the Daleks have invaded and the plucky time travellers join the rebellion. For a children's matinée film this is entertaining, if a little dated by today's standards, and is well worth modern Dr Who fans checking it out even though the two films aren't included in the Dr Who canon. There's lots of continuity errors and loads of rough edges, and the sci-fi sets are still a bit ropey, all flashing lights and bleeps but the model spaceship is great even if you can spot the wires! Andrew Keir supports as an angry rebel leader and there's a few famous British TV actors littered throughout the cast. The biggest laugh is that the Daleks have invaded the Earth and the reason lies in leafy Bedfordshire, unlucky for them because the plucky English are soon rallied to fight even if they need a scientist from 90 years earlier to tell them how.