When the Cult of Skaro found themselves stranded in 1930's New York, their leader Dalek Sec devised a scheme to create a new army of human-Dalek hybrids. They would be human beings, mentally conditioned to act like Daleks. They began abducting sewer workers and the homeless to create this new army, but some of the captives showing lower intellect were transformed into human-pig hybrids, to act as servants and guards, and to go out into the city at night to capture others.
One such victim was a young man named Lazlo, but with him the process failed to take hold completely - leaving him more human than swinish. He was able to tell the Doctor that those transformed into Pig-Slaves had only a limited life span, and he himself was already dying.
Following an attack on the Hooverville homeless camp in Central park, the Pig-Slaves were despatched to the top of the Empire State Building to stop the Doctor interfering with the Dalek plan to use its lightning conductor mast to harness gamma radiation to awaken their army. Martha Jones, with the help of Lazlo and his girlfriend, showgirl Tallulah, rigged up a booby trap for them. When they emerged from a lift, the gamma lighting bolt electrocuted them.
Lazlo was later helped by stabilising his condition, though he could not be made fully human again. He would be given sanctuary at Hooverville.
Played by: Paul Kasey (lead Pig-Slave). Appearances: The Daleks in Manhattan / Evolution of the Daleks (2007).
- Regular monster performer Kasey was credited as "Hero Pig-Slave" - a term used to denote the lead monster, who often had a more detailed, sometimes animatronic, mask.
- A Pig-Slave mask was featured in the Worlds of Wonder exhibition at Edinburgh in 2023...
- And one of the creatures is on display at the exhibition at Peterborough Museum, alongside some of their masters...
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