G is for... Gold Dalek

When the Doctor investigated a group of guerrilla fighters who had travelled back from the 22nd Century to assassinate a leading diplomat, his companion Jo Grant was accidentally thrown forward to the future by one of their time machines. To get her back, he accompanied the guerrillas on their return to their own time, and found the planet to be under the rule of the Daleks. They had changed history and reconquered the planet following a series of global wars - the blame for which was allegedly due to the diplomat, Sir Reginald Styles. In command of the Dalek forces was the Gold Dalek. It acted as governor of the planet. It knew of the Doctor but did not recognise him in his third incarnation, so authorised the use of a mind probe to ascertain his identity. The Doctor managed to escape with the help of the guerrillas, after they learned of his experience fighting the invaders. He was able to work out that the guerrillas had themselves been responsible for the wars, and so travelled back to the 20th Century with Jo to put history back on course. The Gold Dalek led an assault party after them, in order to make sure their version of events took place. They were destroyed when the guerrilla Shura blew up the mansion where a peace conference was to have taken place.

In the year 2540, the Doctor discovered that someone was trying to provoke a war between the rival Earth and Draconian Empires. This proved to be the Master, who was using a hypnotic device to make his Ogron servants appear as humans or Draconians to each other when they raided their spaceships. The Doctor traced the Master to the Ogron home planet but on arrival he was captured by a squad of Daleks. They were behind the Master's scheme - intent on invading the galaxy after the two Empires had destroyed themselves in warfare. The Daleks had come to the Ogron planet to check on progress, and the squad was led by another Gold Dalek. After it had left to report back to the Supreme Council on Skaro, the Doctor got hold of the Master's hypno-device and used it to make himself appear as the Gold Dalek, in order to force an Ogron guard to release him.

Voiced by: Oliver Gilbert and Michael Wisher. Appearances: Day of the Daleks (1972), Frontier in Space (1973).