N is for... New Paradigm Daleks

When Prime Minister Winston Churchill summoned the Doctor to London at the height of the Blitz, the Time Lord discovered that Daleks were being employed as part of the city's defence. Known as "Ironsides", they were pretending to be helpful servants. It was also claimed by Professor Bracewell that these were his own invention. The Doctor challenged the Daleks - letting them know that he knew exactly what they were. It transpired that he had fallen into a trap. These Daleks were the remnants of their race and they had located a Progenitor device. This contained pure Dalek DNA, capable of reconstituting the race. However, the genetic make-up of the Ironsides and other survivors was so altered and mutated that the device no longer recognised them as Dalek. The Doctor's spoken recognition proved enough for the Progenitor to activate, and a New Paradigm of Daleks was created. 

Larger than the originals, they were colour-coded to denote their status and function. 

Drones were red, whilst the Supreme was white. Scientists were orange, and Strategists blue. A yellow Dalek was nominated an Eternal, which acted as adviser to the Supreme.

All had grey spheres on their skirts apart from the Eternal, which had black ones.

On being created, they exterminated the original Daleks due to their impurity. The five escaped into the future whilst the Doctor was diverted with a bomb threat to the Earth.

The Doctor encountered them again when he was captured by the Pandorica Alliance, which was being led by the Supreme.

One of the New Paradigm survived being petrified during the collapse of the universe - reanimated by the Pandorica itself which had the power to render its occupant immortal. It wounded the Doctor but was then destroyed by River Song.

Another Supreme was found by the Doctor in a crashed spaceship, and he robbed it of its computer core to search for information about the Silence.

The New Paradigm formed part of the Dalek Parliament, led a white Supreme under the Dalek Prime Minister.

Appearances: Victory of the Daleks, The Pandorica Opens / The Big Bang (2010), The Wedding of River Song (2012), Asylum of the Daleks (2013).

• The New Paradigm were one of Steven Moffat's less successful ideas. Indeed, they were almost universally hated. Inspired by the Dalek movies, he decided to redesign the TARDIS to look like the Peter Cushing one, and wanted bigger, more colourful Daleks like the cinematic ones.
• The original plan was that they were supposed to have an equipment store at the rear, and new implements would slide round to the front when needed - hence the slot which runs round the centre. However, this gave them a bulky hunchback look.
• An organic eye-ball was incorporated into the design, and Nick Briggs gave the Supreme a much deeper voice than the previous versions.
• The colour schemes, plus the plastic-looking finish, caused them to be nicknamed the Teletubby-Daleks, whilst others likened them to colour-coded recycling bins.
• The production team realised that they were a mistake and they were quickly phased out, despite a metallic paint finish for Asylum of the Daleks. They had departed the series by the time Peter Capaldi became Doctor.
• In the same way that the arrival of the bronze Dalek had coincided with a UK General Election, so too did the arrival of the New Paradigm. Radio Times produced a new cover, mimicking their award winning 2005 one. Three variants were available, the colours representing the main political parties - red for Labour, blue for Conservative and yellow for Lib-Dem: