The Evil of the Daleks - Episode 7 - Two Tele-snaps brought to life

John Cura, pioneer of the 'Tele-snaps', died thirty years ago this year. Withouth him, so much of the sixties 'Doctor Who' would be a blank. In the case of one of my favourite stories, 'The Evil of the Daleks', we would have no idea what most of the Dalek city looked like, or how many Daleks there were, or what their 'Dalek Factor' machinery was like. Most of the 'Evil' videos on You Tube would not exist without him, so this is a small tribute to his foresight.

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[MrClassicDoctorWho]

whats with the slim dalek?????

[themindrobber]

Nobody seems to know. Some theories say it was built so that it could fit through normal-width doorways, but the jury is out as to whether any such scene in Evil would have needed it. Perhaps it was a precaution since they knew there would be location filming in a real house?

[TheOneAfter9090909]

what font did you use. great work, though, you are brilliant on the computer

[themindrobber]

That 60s font is Eurostile.

[GavSalkeld]

@themindrobber dalek6388 co uk has the details :)

[Sindre1]

@TheZodiacz Oh, it was his job?

I'm a bit disappointed about that..

[TheZodiacz]

@Sindre1 Cura wasn't strange- his business was selling the photos to people who worked in television such as set and costume designers, directors, etc, so that in pre-video recorder days they could show examples of their work to prospective employers.

[MrMinecrafterEXTreme]

in old news reports of the 80's (which thay still have), they show alot of fottage of the old ones that cannot be seen anymore.

[tomdamann]

@DavrosTheKaled

To re-use the tape and to save space.

[DavrosTheKaled]

I think it's such a shame that such brillantly acted amazing storylines where destroyed, all the money gone to waste...Anybody know why/how they were wiped?

[Yetaxa]

There are no telesnaps for Marco Polo ep4, Reign of Terror, Galaxy 4, Mission to the Unknown, The Myth Makers, The Daleks' Master Plan, The Massacre, The Celestial Toymaker, The Enemy of the World ep 4, The Invasion or The Space Pirates.

[Sindre1]

If it where not for this sligthly strange person taking pictures of his TV, we would not have all these recreations of the early episodes.

What a lovely man he must have been :)

[Hawkeye26]

Brilliant, as always, mindrobber.

[randomdave30]

Telesnaps don't exist for all missing episodes, notably The Space Pirates, the lost episodes of The Invasion, the fourth episode of Marco Polo and all of The Massacre, and I think the second episode of Enemy of the World.