Just as David Tennant is about to leave the series and hand over the keys of the TARDIS to the eleventh doctor Matt Smith—the final episodes with Tennant air Christmas and New Year’s Day—the last remaining Dalek from the original series in 1963 is about to go on the auction block in Britain:

Despite the Daleks’ fearsome reputation onscreen, off it the plywood and fibreglass mutants were frequently cannibalised due to tight production budgets.

Mr Beech said: “Every time a new artistic director came in and ordered a redesign, they were re-patched and re-patched, until they got so bad they couldn’t be patched up any longer.”

Only the lower half of this Dalek dates from 1963, he said.

Also to be sold are a number of Cybermen, Sea Devils and Tractators.

They were all part of a touring Dr Who exhibition and are being sold because of the cost of conserving them.

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I see someone’s jealously hiding the link. I’ll bet I know who the winning bidder will be!

Sea devils rock! Proto traveller/crusty stylee!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwAahSsAARI&feature=related
great sound also!

Sad that I know this, but it was Shawcraft, not Surecraft, who built the original four Daleks, and yes, there were quite a few new models built for the show over the years.  But these original four - or parts thereof - did in fact appear in every Dalek show up until the end of the series in 1989.