Daleks' Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D. (1966)

Peter Cushing's second outing as the Doctor is only slightly better than his first adventure. Cushing doesn't attempt to expand the nuances of his character whatsoever, so it's left to the villains to bring anything interesting to the table. Those villains are once again the Daleks; although they're slightly more threatening this time, as are the Nazi-style militant underlings they control. Unfortunately, any kind of atmosphere built up by the mechanical menaces is destroyed frequently by the awful music that seems to have been left over from a BBC sit-com.

2 motorised dustbins out of 5

Dr. Who and the Daleks (1965)

Peter Cushing is the Doctor in this first feature-length outing based on the time-hopping Time Lord's adventures, except he's not a Time Lord yet because his Gallifreyan origins had yet to be invented in 1965. Cushing's Who is a dithering Grandpa that I suspect was a high-school physics teacher at one point in his life. How else could he build a TARDIS in his spare room?
It's a kind of H.G Wells version of the Doctor, which makes it sound better than it is. It's hampered by being a British TV production with a non-threatening menace that feels completely set-bound and lacks any kind of impetus. It was fun for me to see Cushing in this kind of role, though, and I was surprised to see that even Daleks liked lava lamps.

2 soft centres out of 5