Doctor Who: 15 Amazingly Retro Pieces of 1960s Dalek Merchandise
The 1960s Dalekmania Craze Was the Height of Popularity for the Doctor’s Nemesis.
The mid-1960s was a merchandising dream for toy producers across the country and an even better one for Doctor Who and Dalek loving children. With the popularity of the show rocketing, thanks in no small part to the Daleks, by 1965 you could lay your hands on everything from Dalek board games to novelisations and annuals.
Merchandisers quickly realised the marketing potential for Terry Nation’s tin pepper pots, and here we present 15 of our favourite, wonderfully 1960s, pieces of Dalekmania. With so much on offer at the height of the craze, we had to be cruel and cut the likes of the Dr Who’s Anti-Dalek Neutron Exterminator, Selcol’s Nursery Toy Dalek and even the legendary TV-21 Dalek Chronicles.
15: Dalek Shooting Game (Louis Marx)
Produced in 1965, the set featured a pop gun with cork ammunition to fire at tin Daleks which would slide into place after the player scored a hit.
