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There's a bit of him in his own creations.

Michael Wisher was great casting, helps that he voiced Dalek in Planet of The Daleks and Death as well

@@Enzo012 'In his own image'

Michael Wisher is the best portrayal of Davros

I think Davros IS a dalek.

old Davros and the 'elite' clearly based on Hitler and the SS

@@marcokite well, the OG daleks were based off of the Nazis. So that ain't surprising.

So not like Fauci then? 😈

@@highonanime6726 When a group of writers working just 20 years after the second world war base their aliens on Nazis, the aliens turn out to be some real motherfuckers

Indeed! Davros is a product of his long at war planet. The product of the cultivation of hatred for the enemy "other". It's somewhat similar to the lasting apparent hatred in most of my fellow Americans for Russia. A deeply inculcated and hateful prejudice, embracing every slander and lie. Probably most of his staff are similarly disposed, although not realizing that to Davros, they're also in line to be disposed of.

;)

You mean like ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4YR8fp0RF8o.html

Dalek plumbers union. Overcharge Overcharge Overcharge.

I'm glad they added that it really is convenient

Pulled the words right out of my mouth. My first thought was, "Is that a fucking plunger?!"

Sorry, but no. David Tenant is.

@@Imkicelee sorry mate you're wrong and clearly didn't grow up with the dr back when Tom was in the part. Tom Baker is universally considered to be the best and for good reason.

@@obiemichaels9675 nah.

I grew up with the original Dr. Who. I was only 6 at the time it first came to BBC, but I remember Hartnell.

Yes, William hartnell was the best.it's all been down hill since. Hmm!

"I like it!" - Davros after seeing a plunger on his death machine.

Ugh...

That doesn't count though because it's nu bullcrap

He's handi capable not handicapped

They really are great and hold up so well today.

"Well, if it isn't the consequences of my own actions."

He should have read Mary Shelley

If you look at the story of Frankenstein, The Bunker, Downfall, and the origin of the Joker and in recent the phantom menace, the clone wars, and Revenge of the Sith. They seem to follow the pattern of Julius Ceasar they wanted all that power. And eventually, it destroyed all of them.

​@@svenmartin840Revenge of the Sith doesn't count. Palpatine had Anakin's ear for around two decades, without that poisoning his mind he would have been fine. Or if Mace had left him behind...

He really doesn't want to control them. In fact, them needing him is something he considers a flaw.

Read it back to yourself in Priti Patel's voice.... Now that is true horror.

@@lmlmd2714and things have only gotten worse. 20th century sci-fi saw it all.

​@@lmlmd2714you spelt Klaus swaab wrong...

​@@trooperwolfieAll extremism is wrong, regardless of which side of the political fence it comes from.

Given time, it might make it as a Reddit moderator.

Israel and the USA vs Hamas and the Muslims.

@@timothylyons5686 israel and the USA vs terrorists and pedophiles

Honestly i laugh at the "insane robot A.I he was capable to create" yet the first thing he shows off is that he was capable to create the most basic of functions we have on computers today... voice control

I imagine the Kaleds were the ones who started the war on Skaro, considering they were obsessed with racial purity and no doubt viewed the Thaals as inferior

Michael Wisher. I thought his portrayal of Davros was awesome, and for me at least, MW was THE Davros

Honestly thought that was a puppet.

@@grubalaboocreosote4774 Funnily enough, when I saw GOTD when it first appeared way back in 1975, I too thought that Davros was a puppet, worked by some clever mechanical means. It was only later, that I discovered it was an actual actor playing the part, namely Michael Wisher, and TBH, I felt played the character superbly.

Michael Wisher... also in Carnival of Monsters. And the Autons .

@@grubalaboocreosote4774 Funnily enough, that was my first impression, when I first saw Davros, mind you, I was only rather young at the time!

Actually in he serial he first has some "humanity" left in them, but after a conversation with the Doctor regarding it, where the Doctor tried to reason with Davros into making them even more empathic and telling him what happens if he doesn't and all the destruction they would cause? He truly removes all remorse and adds even more arrogance about wishing to be the dominant life form were others are inferior. So basically the Doctor made it worse by trying to do good. This is one of those serials that, even with the really limited budget, really did a great job to expand the Dalek backstory. Although I'd love to see the destruction of the Daleks by the Second Doctor. So many of those episodes are lost :( .

@@robhardy When the doctor told him about what they'd turn into, he was proud though, and used that info to make them even more ruthless and racist. As he mislead the doctor who thought he could reason with Davros. Also one little hint in this serial, his voice starts going more and more into "Dalek" voice pattern. At first it is only when he's angry, then also when he is jubilant, and by the end of it it is ... constant. It is one of the fun little details about this serial that also shows you don't need a special effects or stunts to make a great Doctor Who story. Heck most of it was extremely simple, but it worked. I would love to one day see "The Evil of the Daleks" in it's original though. Or the two Cybermen serials that were more or less lost. It's stuff the BBC should put online (youtube) if ever found as it's something heavily sought after by now.

@@DehnusNorder Yes, with all respect to the actors who came afterwards, Michael Wisher was the greatest of all Davroses! There’s a rumour going around that lost episodes have been found in the Middle East, we can live in hope …

@@elseworlds5 Oh that would be so fantastic, I"d love to see Evil of the Daleks and the lost Cybermen Serials of the Second Doctor. Seemed like Peak Doctor Who :).

@@DehnusNorder We’ll just have to wait and see what, if anything, comes up!

The Kaleds were fascists anyway. Davros was just the best scientist.

*"I love how this doesn’t raise a clear red flag for the kaled scientists until a few episodes down the line"* Well, it didn't on screen. They could easily have had doubts from that moment on but we wouldn't necessarily know about it because we didn't see it.

Good point, but it is hinted at here, and laid-out strongly in the audio dramas, that Davros is essentially the ranking political authority of the Kaleds. The scientists are too terrified of him to not obey orders.

Daleks are just a worse version of themselves at this point. A lot of people who bought Hitler's rhetoric probably didn't expect the death camps

Oh dear! Oh dear!

Welcome to the BBC and it's left wing femnazi agenda, in order to be accepted you have to be female, part of the alphabet squad, autistic, or in some way disabled and anything other than white, male and straight. If you don't tick any of those boxes you're [insert ist or phobe here].

😂 same, hopefully they will correct this in a new version

He looked the way he did, but that Wheelchair added a new, more Sinister Dimension, to the Evil

After seeing someone in a wheelchair make something so evil. I, too, have come to the conclusion that everyone wheelchair bound is pure evil and I will only change my mind if I see him walk again 48 years after the release of this episode

We need Russell T Davies to enlighten our darkness and ignorance!

And Russell t Davies had the cheek to say that it made disabled people look back

Has she created a bio weapon yet?

@@molybdaen11 yes! she farts on a very regular basis.

@@thylacine1962 Natural Gas does not fall in the bio category. Farting expels gaseous molecules not lethal viruses. But you never know with mother-in-laws.

@@eyecomeinpeace2707 the only time my mother inlaw every looked good was the day she was unwillingly dressed in rottweiler.

@@thylacine1962 LOL!!!!!

Yeah, it's like they have full fledged space travel, weapons to destroy planets and even pass the stairs in present, and they were considering simple voice control something advanced? Well back then it used to be so

@@seneryy At this point the Daleks didn’t have any space travel. They didn’t even know there were other planets outside their solar system

Absolutely riveting story to me as a 9 year old in 1975, and has definitely stood the test of time. Would watch it again anyday over the modern day woke nonsense!

@@carlh429 For sure, Genesis of the Daeks is a Classic and far superior yo anythings the modern show has come up with. I like Nu Who, but for me Classic Who will always be my favourite.

It is brilliant. When I first saw it as a child, however, I didn't appreciate it; I actually found it one of the most boring stories. It was quite ambitious in its sophistication.

Second best after Caves of Androzani

@@MetalPersonJ Genesis just has the edge over it for me, but Caves is indeed a magnificent adventure and easily has the best regeneration scene we've ever seen in any era of Dr Who - classic or nu who

Yeah, his last 3 or so Dalek stories were all basically the same as his first even with similar elements such as someone hiding within a Dalek. The producers said that he'd already sold them that story several times and asked him to show them the genesis of the Daleks. So he did.

Genesis was mostly rewritten by holmes

@@isaac7472 yeah, I remember seeing that on the "making of" documentary from the genesis DVD. If memory serves Holmes mainly lightened the script up, pre Holmes it was supposedly relentlessly dark, which it surely was if the finished script had been lightened up, it's hardly a laugh a minute in its altered state lol

@@peterchu5609 Yeah. and while I'm a fan of Planet of the Daleks, Death to the Daleks is dire. Definitely my least favourite Pertwee story.

David Whitaker is the best Dalek writer for me.

Yeah, David Maloney was responsible for some of the best stories in Doctor Who history - this, The War Games, The Deadly Assassin, Talons Of Weng-Chiang, etc.

Ridley Scott copied everything from David Maloney. :P

yes, that was such a great comment from TB@@minicle426

They also had actors who could act and had to prove this.They weren't tick box choices.

@@Marvin-dg8vj what the hell is Tick box

I like Doctor Who all of it but I wouldn't call it focused when they literally scratch stories that could feel maybe two episodes in four parts

@@plantainsame2049 I'd agree that some middle episodes can be little more than wandering around - maybe the nature of the beast at the time. Of course on its original run of airing 25 minute episodes once a week they might have hoped you'd have forgotten that by the next week!

Star Trek is far superior.

' Obey the daleks, Obey, Obey, Obey!

I do find it a little odd that given he has one working arm, which doesn't work very well, he still chose to put all the important switches in his robot wheelchair on the opposite side for maximum inconvenience. It's almost as if long-term thinking isn't his strong suit.

@@hjalfi in his backstory. Davros's lab was a hit by a atomic shell. And I guess the concrete hit his arm. Crushing the nerve that he can't move it no more. Plus the heat fused his nerves together. So he could only use one arm. What a genius actor Michael Wisher was.

Current history also with the current events

Poootin...

@@g4obb History repeats itself over and over again and nobody ever learns!

The worst dictator is the one who plays the good guy.

It's generally agreed that the first Daleks ever encountered by The Doctor, are from a time far into the future from 'Genesis', where, for some reason, the Daleks had retreated back to their city on Skaro. That's the trouble with time travel - you keep meeting in the wrong order.

Technically atleast some of those props are the original 1963 ones!

Even if the slats had been removed that would have been enough.

@@brianartillery it's often believed The Doctor was wrong when he said that but there is also a theory that the Daleks encountered in the 1963 story were the prototypes that Davros discarded and they went off and built their own city. To me I think The Doctor was wrong as we watched them gain power via a disc on their backs and then the slats seen in later storys as an evolutionary chain of events. The budget wouldnt have stretched for new props in this story but it's a shame they didnt have the slats removed and a band placed round the bottom of the neck bin/mesh area to emulate the idea

@@watmun - Indeed so. Those props have a fascinating history. The ones seen in 'Genesis Of The Daleks' , were an amalgamation of parts from other Dalek props. One prop had a very obvious neck ring repair during the 1970's, and I always looked out for it. The props were getting very tatty, sadly.

nah

GPT-5 would have made these evil scientists have a techgasm.

Indeed, if anyone is then Baker is THE Doctor.

@MultiFan oh for sure I'm not diminishing the other doctors, even the least popular ones sufferd mainly through poor writing than anything else. I'm biased as I was a little kid at the end of Baker /start of Davison

​@@swfcocs1 Not for me. Prefer Pat and Jon, and Colin for the audios.

With a paper bag over his head too.

@@paulashe61 Yes, off course. I forgot about that lol.

Terry Molloy is very good in the audios.

And yet - it’s compelling stuff. Budget is irrelevant when you have writing and acting as good as this.

He briefly encountered Missy, but otherwise don't think so

The War Master briefly met a young Davros in the audio ‘Anti-Genesis.’ This was an alternate timeline though, as the Master proceeded to kill Davros and steal his place in history as the creator of the Daleks.

the only one ;)

He is right up there with the Joker, Riddler,Ras A Gul.

Few had colour TV then so no one cared.

Nobody had colour TV in the UK in the early 60's, next big leap was 625 lines resolution (& a extra channel BBC2), next up was colour, but having just spent out hard earned cash for the last set 2 -3 years ago, nobody was in a position to junk their newish sets. Colour ownership didn't overtake b/w until the mid 70's.

well 60s u couldnt see the color as there was no color tv

Eh. Pat and Jon run rings around Tom onscreen for me. Colin and Sylvester do the same in the Big Finish audios.