Doctor Who "Spearhead from Space", released in July 2013 and the 1996 TV film "Doctor Who" released in September 2016. Many early releases have been re-released as special editions, with more bonus features. There are two "Doctor Who" feature films: "Dr. Who and the Daleks", released in 1965 and "Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D." in 1966. Both are retellings of existing television stories (specifically, the first two Dalek serials, "The Daleks" and "The Dalek Invasion of Earth" respectively) with a larger budget and alterations to the series concept. In these films, Peter Cushing plays a human scientist named "Dr. Who", who travels
Thal (Doctor Who) a meteorite storm detonates it prematurely, causing planet-wide destruction in which the Thals apparently perish. Thals are featured in the film "Dr. Who and the Daleks" (1965), which is based upon the BBC "Doctor Who" television programme serial "The Daleks", and the film's 1966 comic book adaptation. The Thals appear in the Eighth Doctor Adventures novel "War of the Daleks" (1997) by John Peel, which depicts them as having once again become a warlike society, willing to destroy an inhabited planet simply as part of a trap to defeat a Dalek attack fleet. In the Big Finish Productions audio play