I first saw them years ago as a kid when the Space Network aired the O.G. Doctor Who from the very start. That first image of a Dalek closing in on Barbara, fascinated, thrilled and scared me stiff. When the Supreme Dalek appeared in Invasion of Earth, that scared me more, that voice is what did it.
Ngl I think I got heavier tolerance to horrific things so this scene and the daleks in general do not frighten me. Hell maybe cos I aint from UK I can't relate :X
@@Ghajahha When you have a villain that's been around for 60 years through various different writers, directors, and even returning after being off air for years, plot holes and inconsistencies are guaranteed to show up. The Master, who's been around for 50, isn't free from this either. The only group that doesn't really have this issue are the weeping angels, who only first appeared in 2007.
whenever I see them at Comic Con, I chant "all hail the daleks" every time I see them and pass by at Comic Con, I remember when they walked up to me and asked about my Audrey II pop figure, still awesome as heck
I know Ian Levine has had a bit of backlash over the years and can sometimes be a bit full of himself. But we should at least be thankful to him these first Dalek episodes survive as the film prints were about to be destroyed.
@@c0nvict_pleb174no, you’re thinking of Stef Coburn. Levine is a songwriter and DJ who found many of the once-missing episodes of Doctor Who. He is also vocally islamophobic, and there are rumours that he’s holding some once-missing episodes ‘hostage’ due to his well-known opposition to a female Doctor, or for other reasons. Stef Coburn is the person who’s preventing _An Unearthly Child_ from being streamed or made available on home media and is threatening to give the rights of the episode to Putin. He’s an antisemite and a Holocaust denier who also hates black people and/or LGBT+ people. I think the only time I’ve seen people praise Levine is when he went after Coburn on Twitter.
Everyone got mad because he didn’t like the idea of the 13th doctor and everyone called him sexist. Here we are 7 years later after her era was universally panned and the show was almost cancelled, and the poor guy’s stilled cancelled after giving us so much classic Who. Guess we as the general public prefer people who destroy the show over those who preserve it.
@@Justin-cw7rg even through I think the 13th Doctor’s era absolutely deserves the criticism it gets, I also think the way people reacted to the casting & judged her as being shit before series 11 came out was unfair
Compared with other monsters it amazes me how relatively unchanged the Daleks are, in appearance and voice, after 6 decades. Cusick's design, Shawcraft's realization of it and Hawkins & Graham's vocal performances really set the bar amazingly high from day 1.
It's a good thing they re-aired the pilot episode and went back on their "no bug-eyed alien" rule. Who knows how long Doctor Who would have last without these changes.
@@DrWhoFanJ Even calling that the 'pilot' episode is a misnomer. Doctor Who didn't have a 'Pilot' episode. The first episode had two separate recordings, but neither was a 'pilot'
@@Yetaxa That is indeed entirely true, but at least it’s a better fit for the title than the actual first broadcast episode! (And it is always identified as the “pilot episode” whenever a distinction is needed between the two.)
This scene hits differently after watching an adventure in space and time! The introduction of the daleks and defying Sydney Newman’s original idea of doctor who being an Educational kids show is what really saved the show! Bravo verity and Hussein!!!
One of the most important episodes in the shows history, introducing the most iconic villain! 🐙 Without this story and the eventual buzz and attention that the daleks brought, DW would likely have only lasted one season, so I'm forever grateful to this story for existing! 😄
this was supposed to be the last story as the show got cancelled after the bad reception of the caveman story prior. but because of the critical acclaim the daleks got it was revived.
@@deststraw6085been watching classic who for the first time, honestly not surprised about the caveman serial, it was a real struggle to get through those episodes
I can't wait to see this in color. I've been wanting to watch the Hartnell era for some time and I think the Daleks is a great start. I hope they continue to bring color to the rest of the 60s era Doctor Who episodes.
The Master (in his incarnation as Missy) later told Clara that Skaro "is where it all began." Meaning that up until this clash with the Daleks the First Doctor was just wandering aimlessly, content to sightsee and collect artefacts from the planets he and Susan visited as momentos. After fighting alongside the Thals and two humans from Earth against the genocidal Daleks, the Doctor gradually began to crusade against aggressors and injustice everywhere he went, abandoning his Time Lord reserve. By the time of his trial before the Malfeasance Tribunal the Doctor had a political manifesto: his people should abandon their isolationism and start shepherding younger races toward a better Universe. The court wasn't impressed by that argument due to a long-standing concern that younger races might misuse Time Lord technology but they recognised that the Daleks and other predatory races might one day pose a threat to Gallifrey itself. They decided that the Doctor should be spared the death sentence in order to help with that fight. Later the series revealed that by refusing to engage with the wider Universe as the Doctor proposed at his trial the Time Lords had actually condemned themselves to cultural and technological stagnation, until they were finally overwhelmed by the Daleks in the Time War with no outside assistance coming to their aid. (In a foreign relations disaster most younger races aware of the conflict despised the Time Lords as much as the Daleks).
So that's why most factions in the Time War really hated the Time Lords in the New era! I see I see! These guys go way back even before I was born damn!
@@petratyraanderson What? Release them with horrible editing? Music that drowns out a lot of the speech, adding effects that is not needed, adding dialog that was not needed along with flashbacks
We need to see more older versions of the Daleks. Time travel means there must be early generations of daleks out there with their cool, retro color schemes instead of the old bronze daleks we have been seeing for several years
Ooh that's a good one, I remember around the time of the 50th I bought a magazine about the missing Troughton episodes and became fascinated with Power of the Daleks, then when the animated DVD was announced I was bouncing off the walls with excitement, now I have the 2020 special edition and it's definitely my favourite 2nd Doctor story, along with Tomb of the Cybermen 😊
I personally hope they update the Dalek's look to be a sort of retro/updated version of their classic design from this era of Doctor Who. Honestly, just having them be Silver again over that Bronze look would be a nice fresh change.
What makes this scene terrifying to me is the chilling music and the Dalek voice provided by Peter Hawkins. I can see why kids hid behind their sofas. (It was probably Roy Skelton who did the voice, but it’s still unnerving.)
It was good that Ian's legs were temporarily paralyzed, or Barbara would've been so upset to see her fellow schoolteacher unable to walk again after getting shot by the Daleks while he tried to make a run for it.
wait the daleks don't just kill, they can disable your legs? huh, surprised they don't use that much but also not surprised as they are threatening, love the daleks, all hail the daleks!
Yes however we learn later that these are a different kind of Daleks. These can only travel on smooth ground and aren’t very combat ready for outside Skaro. The doctor explained it to Ian in a different story.,
Dalek weapons are actually powerful enough to completely disintegrate a person. They just dial down the power until it’s just enough to kill them. Then they dial it down just a little more, so that the victim’s nervous system is burnt away, causing an agonising death that lasts for at least a second, often more. Why do they make sure that their victims suffer such a horrific death? They enjoy it. Source: _Doctor Who: Prisoner of the Daleks_
Dalek guns actually have a load of different power settings; they can disintegrate a person at full power. But the Daleks prefer to turn that down just low enough to kill a person. Then they lower it just a bit more, so that their target’s nervous system is burnt away over the course of somewhere between 1-5 seconds. Because they *enjoy* doing that to people. Source: _Doctor Who: Prisoner of the Daleks_
I wish we got other voice actors for the Daleks like classic who had. Nick Briggs does get a but dull after a while, especially when he did so many other monster voices lol
ahhh the matte paintings!! really love this component of Hartnell-Who. I loved the dedication to selling scale. Makes you think of a high school play on a souped up budget.
As a little kid seeing the Daleks in America on TV in the early 70`s scared the bleep out of me for years! haha It was the other episode with the hideous creator of the Daleks! 😟😱🙈🙉
They didn’t actually yell ‘exterminate’ as a battle cry until the very end of their third story! They say ‘exterminated’ and extermination’ two or three times in their first story, and one tells its subordinates to ‘exterminate him’ (or was it ‘exterminate them’?) in their second story, but it’s not until the end of the third story that we see Daleks charging towards their enemies yelling ‘exterminate’ to no-one in particular.
@@Cybermat47 The word 'exterminate' wasn't even in the original script! It was added in editing to replace the rather blander 'destroyed' as written by Terry Nation.
They are honestly not really a plausible hostile alien race. I guess if you wanted to terrorize your enemies they could make something like that. Maybe a guy in a wheelchair could somehow project outward with something like that, or that was the fix argument.
My first classic dalek story i watched when the box set came out on dvd with an unearthly child and edge of destruction. The color version that was on bbc 4 a few weeks back was awful
@@AndrewChapman Yeah. They spliced it up and changed things a little in the old color version too. I like the new color version better. ua-cam.com/video/lFM2xAkD1y8/v-deo.html
These early Daleks had way more chill than the modern ones. Kept prisoners and even fed them until they were no longer useful 😂
Modern ones just can't stand to see other life forms.😂
To be fair: they were also on the verge of extinction and needed information
Well these Daleks were running a restaurant after the First Doctor ruined their nightclub so they decided to act like they've never met the Doctor.
It’s a bugger that I never got to watch that episode
@@asdasasdas3476 it's on BritBox, along with the first 26 seasons.
Imagine being a kid and watch this on tv, truly terrifying
I first saw them years ago as a kid when the Space Network aired the O.G. Doctor Who from the very start. That first image of a Dalek closing in on Barbara, fascinated, thrilled and scared me stiff. When the Supreme Dalek appeared in Invasion of Earth, that scared me more, that voice is what did it.
As a twelve year old in 1963, I was that kid.
@@ConcertinaChap :) I was a fan after watching The Unearthly Child, The Daleks made me a fan for the rest of my life.
Ngl I think I got heavier tolerance to horrific things so this scene and the daleks in general do not frighten me. Hell maybe cos I aint from UK I can't relate :X
To think that the Daleks are the reason that Doctor who survives to be 60 years is extraordinary. I love my Daleks, Even if they might hate me.
Nah they’re crap villains full of plot holes, the master, the wheeling angel , so many more are better than the daleks
Although I’m intrigued by Dalek of those days
@@Ghajahha When you have a villain that's been around for 60 years through various different writers, directors, and even returning after being off air for years, plot holes and inconsistencies are guaranteed to show up. The Master, who's been around for 50, isn't free from this either. The only group that doesn't really have this issue are the weeping angels, who only first appeared in 2007.
whenever I see them at Comic Con, I chant "all hail the daleks" every time I see them and pass by at Comic Con, I remember when they walked up to me and asked about my Audrey II pop figure, still awesome as heck
Thank God prints of these were saved before being disposed of!
Such iconic creatures, and to think they started as mere placeholder characters for a filler storyline!
Definitely my favourite 1st Doctor story, I bought it on DVD 10 years ago and watched it all the time, it has a somewhat nostalgic taste now 😊
Quite benign, those early Daleks. "I only paralised you temporarily and will ask your friends to help you move along." So sweet!
Aww, the first appeareance of those toilet plungered mutants that we all learned to love.
I know Ian Levine has had a bit of backlash over the years and can sometimes be a bit full of himself. But we should at least be thankful to him these first Dalek episodes survive as the film prints were about to be destroyed.
That’s not the guy whos father wrote the Unearthly child right?
@@c0nvict_pleb174no, you’re thinking of Stef Coburn.
Levine is a songwriter and DJ who found many of the once-missing episodes of Doctor Who. He is also vocally islamophobic, and there are rumours that he’s holding some once-missing episodes ‘hostage’ due to his well-known opposition to a female Doctor, or for other reasons.
Stef Coburn is the person who’s preventing _An Unearthly Child_ from being streamed or made available on home media and is threatening to give the rights of the episode to Putin. He’s an antisemite and a Holocaust denier who also hates black people and/or LGBT+ people.
I think the only time I’ve seen people praise Levine is when he went after Coburn on Twitter.
@@c0nvict_pleb174 No, that would be Stef Coburn
Everyone got mad because he didn’t like the idea of the 13th doctor and everyone called him sexist. Here we are 7 years later after her era was universally panned and the show was almost cancelled, and the poor guy’s stilled cancelled after giving us so much classic Who. Guess we as the general public prefer people who destroy the show over those who preserve it.
@@Justin-cw7rg even through I think the 13th Doctor’s era absolutely deserves the criticism it gets, I also think the way people reacted to the casting & judged her as being shit before series 11 came out was unfair
Compared with other monsters it amazes me how relatively unchanged the Daleks are, in appearance and voice, after 6 decades. Cusick's design, Shawcraft's realization of it and Hawkins & Graham's vocal performances really set the bar amazingly high from day 1.
Beautiful scene, Daleks are really iconic enemies of Doctor
It's a good thing they re-aired the pilot episode and went back on their "no bug-eyed alien" rule. Who knows how long Doctor Who would have last without these changes.
They didn’t re-air the pilot episode. They didn’t even air it at all until 1991!
@@DrWhoFanJ Even calling that the 'pilot' episode is a misnomer. Doctor Who didn't have a 'Pilot' episode. The first episode had two separate recordings, but neither was a 'pilot'
@@Yetaxa That is indeed entirely true, but at least it’s a better fit for the title than the actual first broadcast episode! (And it is always identified as the “pilot episode” whenever a distinction is needed between the two.)
0:52 I think this might be the first time I've ever seen someone use the Fourth Wall as an actual wall!
This scene hits differently after watching an adventure in space and time! The introduction of the daleks and defying Sydney Newman’s original idea of doctor who being an Educational kids show is what really saved the show! Bravo verity and Hussein!!!
One of the most important episodes in the shows history, introducing the most iconic villain! 🐙
Without this story and the eventual buzz and attention that the daleks brought, DW would likely have only lasted one season, so I'm forever grateful to this story for existing! 😄
this was supposed to be the last story as the show got cancelled after the bad reception of the caveman story prior. but because of the critical acclaim the daleks got it was revived.
@@deststraw6085it originally got cancelled after its first serial the first 4 episodes?
@@deststraw6085source ?
@@Mattinator95 yeah because of the poor ratings. but the dalek story saved it
@@deststraw6085been watching classic who for the first time, honestly not surprised about the caveman serial, it was a real struggle to get through those episodes
Seeing that the building blocks for one of the greates series of all time were allready there in 1963 is extraordinary
"You will move ahead of us. And follow my directions." Meet the Daleks everybody!
The moment that changed television forever.
I can't wait to see this in color. I've been wanting to watch the Hartnell era for some time and I think the Daleks is a great start. I hope they continue to bring color to the rest of the 60s era Doctor Who episodes.
And thus Dalekmania swept Great Britain like a hurricane, ensuring Doctor Who's longevity in all of pop culture.
Finally seeing the very first appearance of the Daleks in a long overdue rerun was strange but interesting.
Tristam Cary's music is just *chef's kiss*
He's a legend man, along with all of the Radiophonic Workshop staff
If it were in 2023, William Hartnell would appear at the end saying: don't forget to subscribe below to the Doctor Who channel on UA-cam
They have plungers for arms. What are they going to do? Unclog my toilet?
Amazing how they managed to make something so silly, so scary!
I loved how their weapon's "special effects" were so wonderfully low-tech back then!
Celebrate the daleks 60th anniversary today. “Happy birthday Daleks”
These daleks are way more chill and their weapons are too
This story got over 10 million viewers.
🎉🎉It's Dalek Remembrance Day!🎉🎉
The Master (in his incarnation as Missy) later told Clara that Skaro "is where it all began." Meaning that up until this clash with the Daleks the First Doctor was just wandering aimlessly, content to sightsee and collect artefacts from the planets he and Susan visited as momentos. After fighting alongside the Thals and two humans from Earth against the genocidal Daleks, the Doctor gradually began to crusade against aggressors and injustice everywhere he went, abandoning his Time Lord reserve. By the time of his trial before the Malfeasance Tribunal the Doctor had a political manifesto: his people should abandon their isolationism and start shepherding younger races toward a better Universe. The court wasn't impressed by that argument due to a long-standing concern that younger races might misuse Time Lord technology but they recognised that the Daleks and other predatory races might one day pose a threat to Gallifrey itself. They decided that the Doctor should be spared the death sentence in order to help with that fight. Later the series revealed that by refusing to engage with the wider Universe as the Doctor proposed at his trial the Time Lords had actually condemned themselves to cultural and technological stagnation, until they were finally overwhelmed by the Daleks in the Time War with no outside assistance coming to their aid. (In a foreign relations disaster most younger races aware of the conflict despised the Time Lords as much as the Daleks).
So that's why most factions in the Time War really hated the Time Lords in the New era! I see I see! These guys go way back even before I was born damn!
Remember watching this with my Dad I was 4 loved the Doctor ever since.
They showed this story as one episode on BBC 3 a few weeks ago. Was good to see the early years. ❤
I wish they'd release more of them that way
@@petratyraanderson What? Release them with horrible editing? Music that drowns out a lot of the speech, adding effects that is not needed, adding dialog that was not needed along with flashbacks
@@animelovers000 yes, it was fun and a lot of us enjoyed it. also much more accessible than the slog of a 6 part serial
@@isack_hs People must be easily pleased if they enjoyed that train wreck
REAL Dr Who.
We need to see more older versions of the Daleks. Time travel means there must be early generations of daleks out there with their cool, retro color schemes instead of the old bronze daleks we have been seeing for several years
Yeah, since we know the Daleks can time travel it would be cool to see some old 60s or 70s Daleks go to the future and team up with the modern ones
3:03 Well, everyone, meet the Daleks.
Watching Power of the Daleks now. Been binging Classic Who all week
Ooh that's a good one, I remember around the time of the 50th I bought a magazine about the missing Troughton episodes and became fascinated with Power of the Daleks, then when the animated DVD was announced I was bouncing off the walls with excitement, now I have the 2020 special edition and it's definitely my favourite 2nd Doctor story, along with Tomb of the Cybermen 😊
The greatest villains in sci-fi history!
They aren’t villains
@@FlagadossSupremewhat are they then?
Yes they are@@FlagadossSupreme
@@jferran7276 Hero's
@@Smokestroke18 please learn some media literacy
I personally hope they update the Dalek's look to be a sort of retro/updated version of their classic design from this era of Doctor Who.
Honestly, just having them be Silver again over that Bronze look would be a nice fresh change.
I want them to be sinister and cruel again
That would be awesome
Happy Birthday Daleks!
What makes this scene terrifying to me is the chilling music and the Dalek voice provided by Peter Hawkins. I can see why kids hid behind their sofas. (It was probably Roy Skelton who did the voice, but it’s still unnerving.)
Happy Dalek Remembrance Day!
It was good that Ian's legs were temporarily paralyzed, or Barbara would've been so upset to see her fellow schoolteacher unable to walk again after getting shot by the Daleks while he tried to make a run for it.
I prefer it in B&W rather than the new colourised version this is Doctor Who for me.
The colourised version was interesting to watch, but I too will always take the original B&W version over it.
Watching the full serial now as today (19th Nov) would've been William Russell's 100th birthday. RIP
Daleks are my favorite foes of the Doctor!
Time really does fly, 60 years of daleks (first to comment on a Dr who thing, that's impressive)
wait the daleks don't just kill, they can disable your legs? huh, surprised they don't use that much but also not surprised as they are threatening, love the daleks, all hail the daleks!
Yes however we learn later that these are a different kind of Daleks. These can only travel on smooth ground and aren’t very combat ready for outside Skaro. The doctor explained it to Ian in a different story.,
@@Invadermoofy man I need to catch up on 60 years of Doctor Who
Dalek weapons are actually powerful enough to completely disintegrate a person. They just dial down the power until it’s just enough to kill them. Then they dial it down just a little more, so that the victim’s nervous system is burnt away, causing an agonising death that lasts for at least a second, often more.
Why do they make sure that their victims suffer such a horrific death?
They enjoy it.
Source: _Doctor Who: Prisoner of the Daleks_
@@Cybermat47 I believe it
Glad this is the original version and not that botched up re-edited colour version with distracting new music
The re-edited colourised part was ok but that new music did get a bit annoying after a while tbh mate
The ultimate in hammy acting.
Whatever happened to the New Dalek Paradigm introduced in Nu Who?We never saw them again after that one episode starring Matt Smith.
The good ‘ole days 🥰
REAL Dr Who, at least there will be that 1963-1989 when the series ends again.
looking forward to seeing Ncutis first battle against them, even if it takes a couple of series (they need a rest for the moment)
Happy 60th anniversary to what is legally the first Doctor Who story!
Quite remarkable
Oddly compelling and scary!
With RTD back on the scene will the next outing with the daleks be like TV Offal?
Imagine the aliens finding us extinct and for some reason all they can find as to how was the daleks and made defenses for the daleks
3:52 Back when Dalek death rays had a stun setting.
MODERN DALEKS: Christ almighty! Did we really use to have a stun setting back in the day?!
Dalek guns actually have a load of different power settings; they can disintegrate a person at full power.
But the Daleks prefer to turn that down just low enough to kill a person. Then they lower it just a bit more, so that their target’s nervous system is burnt away over the course of somewhere between 1-5 seconds.
Because they *enjoy* doing that to people.
Source: _Doctor Who: Prisoner of the Daleks_
I like Daleks! :)
Same.
Crikey - its scary now!
Remember, the plungers that the Daleks use was recommanded by the Doctor
"I LIKE IT!"
But Terry nation approved for the Daleks to have the 🪠
Hey BBC, release 'Torchwood: Absent Friends'
Happy Birthday To You! Happy Birthday To You! Happy Birthday Dear Daleks! Happy Birthday To You! 🥳🎉🎁🎂🎈👏
Crazy to think how their weapons were used nonlethally back then. I guess they got even more pissed off as time went on.
I wish we got other voice actors for the Daleks like classic who had. Nick Briggs does get a but dull after a while, especially when he did so many other monster voices lol
They were there since the very beginning, chances are they'll be there during the end.
Greatest irony ever the daleks saved doctor who
ahhh the matte paintings!! really love this component of Hartnell-Who. I loved the dedication to selling scale. Makes you think of a high school play on a souped up budget.
As a little kid seeing the Daleks in America on TV in the early 70`s scared the bleep out of me for years! haha It was the other episode with the hideous creator of the Daleks! 😟😱🙈🙉
I like the darleks best evil
I don’t regret watching this just for the heck of it
They are when they suck your face off like in the later series
HBD To the Daleks of Skaro!
EPIC
Damn! I already watched the first Dalek story just recently. Wish I'd held on and watched it now.
To think that it’s because of the 14th Doctor’s intervention that the Daleks have a plunger instead of a retractable claw 😂
I hate that twist. It should have just been a scientific instrument that coincidentally looks like a plunger to us Earthlings.
@@Tulf42it was just a joke, there are plenty of serious stories that contradict it, like _The Dalek Chronicles_
I'm amazed that daleks took over the universe. It took them 1,000 years to concur stairs.
🐙🧂❤
Terrifying lol
I'm going to watch the 2023 Xmas the day after because I'm not going to give my oldest sister spoilers and she does watch Doctor who
And this is not the second episode
Who said it was?
No, it’s the fifth and sixth episodes.
Now thats better i hated that Daleks in Colour crap. Black and white makes it creepier.
So the doctor had no idea what they were this time?
Nope, this is the Doctor encountering the Daleks for the first time.
Ahhhh, the good old days when Dr Who was good. It only underlines just how crap it is today.
It still is good. It was never c***.
Doctor who lately is being destroyed by RTDs woke agenda its losing viewers left right and centre hardly nobody's watching anymore unfortunately
@@stevedickson5853The modern show may have its flaws, but if you think THAT'S what the issue is, you got some reevaluating to do, bud
What? ... No "EXTERMINATE!"
They didn’t actually yell ‘exterminate’ as a battle cry until the very end of their third story!
They say ‘exterminated’ and extermination’ two or three times in their first story, and one tells its subordinates to ‘exterminate him’ (or was it ‘exterminate them’?) in their second story, but it’s not until the end of the third story that we see Daleks charging towards their enemies yelling ‘exterminate’ to no-one in particular.
@@Cybermat47 Yep, that's it.
@@Cybermat47 The word 'exterminate' wasn't even in the original script! It was added in editing to replace the rather blander 'destroyed' as written by Terry Nation.
They are honestly not really a plausible hostile alien race. I guess if you wanted to terrorize your enemies they could make something like that. Maybe a guy in a wheelchair could somehow project outward with something like that, or that was the fix argument.
They are so cheesy…
That's how it was during classic era. Partly what makes it fun to watch lol
Most sci fi is cheesy fun but cheesy
i am the next actor of doctor
My first classic dalek story i watched when the box set came out on dvd with an unearthly child and edge of destruction. The color version that was on bbc 4 a few weeks back was awful
You literally just released this episode in color. Why not use that for clips?
Cuz they're showing these scenes as they originally aired since they also re-edited scenes in the new colour version.
@@AndrewChapman Yeah. They spliced it up and changed things a little in the old color version too. I like the new color version better. ua-cam.com/video/lFM2xAkD1y8/v-deo.html
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