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.

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.

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 Short Trips: Companions) is set immediately following The Time of the Daleks, and involves the Doctor's attempt to return young Shakespeare to his own time.