| The Time of the Daleks | |
| Publisher: | Big Finish Productions |
| Series: | Doctor Who |
| Number: | 32 |
| Featuring: | Eighth Doctor Charley Pollard |
| Cover: | Time of the Daleks.jpg |
| Director: | Nicholas Briggs |
| Producer: | Gary Russell Jason Haigh-Ellery |
| Executive Producer: | Jacqueline Rayner |
| Production Code: | 8K |
| Length: | 2 hours 2 mins |
| Date: | May 2002 |
| Following: | "Neverland" |
| Preceding: | "Embrace the Darkness" |
The Time of the Daleks is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It is the last serial in the Dalek Empire arc, which began with The Genocide Machine and continued in The Apocalypse Element and The Mutant Phase.
The Doctor is confused enough when he finds that Charley has never heard of William Shakespeare. But when he travels to Britain in the near future and discovers a leader obsessed with watching Shakespeare's plays — and the Daleks wanting to help her — the mystery grows more sinister. Can the Daleks really claim to be the 'Masters of Time'?
The kitchen boy in this story is eventually revealed to be a young William Shakespeare, dislocated from his proper time. The short story "Apocrypha Bipedium" by Ian Potter (in the collection ) is set immediately following The Time of the Daleks, and involves the Doctor's attempt to return young Shakespeare to his own time. Also featuring Vicki, it deals with the Doctor's previous encounters with Shakespeare and tries to reconcile Vicki's apparently happy ending as Cressida in The Myth Makers with the tragic ending of Troilus and Cressida.