Davros (Doctor Who audio)

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Big Finish Productions audio play
Album cover
Davros
Series Doctor Who
Release number 48
Featuring Sixth Doctor
Davros
Writer Lance Parkin
Director Gary Russell
Producer(s) Gary Russell
Jason Haigh-Ellery
Executive producer(s) Jacqueline Rayner
Production code 6WA
Set between The Two Doctors and
Cryptobiosis
Release date September 2003

Davros is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

Contents

[edit] Plot

When Davros is asked by an Earth corporation to use his great genius to work for good ends, he seems to be playing along. The Sixth Doctor then arrives and finds he cannot trust Davros, and seeks to uncover him as the force for evil he has encountered many times before.

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[edit] Notes

  1. This story is part of a trilogy with Omega and Master to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Doctor Who. The plot concerns the Sixth Doctor's attempts to determine whether Davros is sincerely helping an Earth corporation benevolently, or if he is up to more dangerous schemes.
  2. The story marks the first appearance of Davros in the Big Finish audios. Following his first appearance in Genesis of the Daleks, he appeared in every subsequent Dalek story in the original television series, but Big Finish initially declined to use him in any of their audio Dalek stories. The Daleks do not appear in this story. Davros and the Daleks are reunited in The Juggernauts and Terror Firma.
  3. This audio adventure takes place at some point between the television stories The Twin Dilemma and Revelation of the Daleks in the Sixth Doctor's timeline and between the events of Resurrection of the Daleks and Revelation for Davros.
  4. Peri is mentioned as travelling with the Sixth Doctor although she is absent from this story.
  5. Wendy Padbury played former companion Zoe Heriot alongside Patrick Troughton's Second Doctor from The Wheel in Space to The War Games.
  6. Bernard Horsfall has appeared several times in different roles in the television series. He was Gulliver in The Mind Robber, a Time Lord in The War Games, Taron in Planet of the Daleks and Chancellor Goth in The Deadly Assassin.
  7. Chronologically, this is the earliest audio drama to feature the Sixth Doctor.
  • An extract from this audio play can be heard on Colin Baker's official website.

[edit] See also

Television serials featuring Davros:

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