I watched this when it first aired and I was 13 years old. Davros was absolutely terrifying. Brilliant story and acting. Still holds up 47 years later. And I met Tom a year later and got his autograph which I still have.
Michael Wisher played Davros this first time he appeared in Doctor Who. Terry Malloy played Davros in Resurrection Of the Daleks in season 21 to 25. David Gooderson played Davros only in Destiny of the Daleks, but I never saw David's role. Both Wisher and Malloy played Davros really well.
@@codemeister26 Dear Cody, I am so envious, I would have loved to have been in your place for though I love all the Doctors for different reasons, Tom Baker is my absolute favorite of them all!!GARY BAILEY , L
I saw Tom Baker in a Starbucks in Glasgow years ago...he said (very loudly) "CAN I HAVE A LARGE CAPPUCCINO PLEASE - sorry for shouting". He's a legend. An absolute LEGEND. 🤣👍🏻
Just four episodes in with this new Doctor, and we got this masterpiece. Tom Baker and Michael Wisher delivering 110% performances --great things lay ahead.
@@DrWhoFanJ This is a bit of a nitpick but I keep seeing you do this. I'm sure you mean well by correcting people's use of words like episode and season but you often say it in a way that doesn't make it immediately clear what the problem is. Think about it from the perspective of someone that you're correcting who made the mistake because they don't know the difference between episode and serial (or season and series), often your replies would make it more confusing.
"Let me tell you what is going to happen: You will answer my questions. You will answer them carefully and precisely. The instruments to which you are wired are particularly sensitive. They will detect instantly any attempt to lie". Great monologue, great writing ❤
This episode cemented my love for Tom’s Doctor as one of my favourites. The line and execution, “Excuse me-can you help me? I’m a spy!!” With his smile and knocking out the Thal Guards.
Davros is such a lovely gentleman, the life of the party and every woman’s dream husband. The eyeball on top, wires sticking out of his skull, dead from the waist down, no matter with such charm.
The story writer never explained just what race Davoros was from, He's obvious NOT a Thal, or even humanoid. It's also fascinating that his wheelchair is prototype for design of Darleks.
@@paulhunter6742 He's a Kaled. If you're interested in how he became the disfigured bitter man we see in Genesis I'd recommend the audio series "I, Davros". Four stories long but all of them excellent.
This scene pretty much shows how unhinged Davos is, he doesn't want failure from his creations and wants the knowledge on how to prevent their defeats, yet he hasn't stopped to think of the consequences of his choices and what it will lead to!!
Tom Baker was my first Doctor Who growing up. Was so thrilled to see him in a cameo appearance with Matt Smith. He will always hold a special place in the childhood of this long time Whovian.
But the answer is also in this episode. The Doctor gives Davros the chance to become good, Davros utterly rejects it. At that point of the rejection of goodness and embracing the utter knowledge of cruelty and destruction, Davros is no longer redeemable. Therefore, the answer to 'should you kill baby Hitler' is obvious to those with a slightly higher IQ than normal: if one has the power of time travel, you can simply pay for Adolf to remain in art school, or steer him into architectural design, which is what he was most interested in and most skilled at. Then the Nazis do not happen and Hitler dies of Parkinsons likely by his early 60s. But, the Soviets still exist. Stalin still takes power in the 1930s and murders millions of his own people. Perhaps a world war still takes place. He too must be stopped. Once you begin meddling in time, you quickly find you can never stop. The ripples of causality touch all things.
@@Alondro77 You’re correct. The answer is given in the episode. The answer is given by the Doctor. The answer is you don’t kill him. You don’t have that right. Countries and peoples will become allies. Good will come from his evil.
@@looksirdroids9134 So who is and what is? I was a McCoy fan due to my age and season 25 is my fave but I have to admit Pertwee and Baker were the best Doctors and there was never a better Dalek story than this and 'Rememberance'
This classic was made in the still remembered shadows of World War Two and the Holocaust.It spoke to me as a child and it has not lost any power .Yes the sets are very 7os and the effects are dated but the writing acting and directing are top notch.The BBC should show this whole story.Tom baker is brilliant as is all the cast
Indeed,it was only 30 years after the end of the War. The year after seeing this,I was watching a rerun of the then-recently-put-together The World at War. The sight of the bulldozer pushing piles of dead bodies at one of the liberated camps in that shocked me to the core then.
"I could do it." I wonder if Davros really could have done it. My first thought is that he couldn't have, even if he himself actually believed it. I don't think he actually understood compassion and benevolence, except as an intellectual exercise - it was just his arrogance making that claim. Crippled and being propped up every second by life support, Davros' fear of death was as much a motivator as anything. I would say that it was ironic that humanity would share a similar fate to that of the Daleks, becoming the Toclafane.
Apparently Douglas Adams would tell a story about doing the radio version of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy where he'd send off bizarre requests to the Radiophonics Workshop saying things like 'I want the sound of the entire universe collapsing in on itself and draining away down a vortex of infinity' and they'd always deliver. th-cam.com/video/ciE0rAOjK0A/w-d-xo.html
Patrick Troughton is a better Doctor than Tom. Harry and Sarah are overated companions. Power and Evil are stronger Dalek stories. And Davros is only mid-tier villain at best.
I watched this in Australia in 1979 on summer vacation and it frighten the heck out of me. I showed it to my children. And my grandchildren. And this before I found Star Blazers. And I had seen Star Wars 4. And it got me thinking. During the war between the Thals and the Kaleds. That Count Dooku gave Davros the technology to build the Dalek guns. And showed him the of space and time travel too. When Dooku landed in Khaled held lines. And was captured and taken to Davros. And Davros questions him about his knowledge of his galaxy. Great acting from Michael,Liz and Ian may you rest in peace. I wish I had gotten to see you on the stage. And thank you Mr. Baker for making Doctor Who a beloved show forever.
I recall watching Genesis Of The Daleks, when it was first broadcast way back in 1975. And as I was only rather young at the time, when I first saw Davros, he absolutely terrified me! At first, given his appearance etc., I thought he was a puppet, worked by some clever mechanical means, and it was only later that I learned that he was actually portrayed by an actor, the actor in question of course being Michael Wisher. And with all due respect to the other actors who've played the character, and who gave rather convincing portrayals, for me, Michael Wisher was THE Davros, for his own portrayal of the character was simply awesome. Apparently, while rehearsing, he used to wear a paper bag over his head, with two slits for eyes, in order to get used to being semi-blind, when he wore the actual Davros mask. Guess it must have been a bit uncomfortable (the mask that is), which surely makes his performance all the more commendable. RIP MW ...
You will tell me! You will tell me! You will tell me! Davros was possibly the ultimate madman/ultimate Dr Who villain, and he if got any angrier in this scene, his head might have exploded, and/or his mobile life support system possibly blown a fuse. Maybe The Doctor should have given him a jelly baby or two, to help calm him down a bit ....
I'd have loved to have seen Davros team up with The Master. Reckon that would have been a pretty formidable duo, both equally insane/evil, and with the same aim/goal, ie universal domination/conquest. Though The Master tended to have a slightly more refined approach, whereas Davros was just a downright nasty piece of work ...
Americans did get a fair amount of exposure to Dr Who prior to Eccleston. In the early 1970s, their 1st taste of the programme being the Jon Pertwee episodes, but I don’t know how widespread it was networked. Tom Baker’s stories were promoted stateside in the late 1970s with more success. The 1960s theatrically released films (Dr Who & The Daleks / Dalek Invasion of Earth) probably didn’t attract much interest in the USA as, not having had the TV series shown over there at that time, no fan base had been built up. In the 1990s, ‘Dr Who the Movie’, a made-for-TV movie was shown in the UK, USA, etc.
"Doctor,let me tell your friends are wired into an instrument they will know every pain ever imagined,Now I want to know every darlek defeat,YOU WILL TELL ME,YOU WILL TELL ME"
"All the torments and agonies ever known." Davros is specifically referring to the torment of lacking voluntary bowel control, and the agony of having his diapers changed by daleks approximately once every seventeen hours.
His excrement is used to fuel his chair. The urine is purified, remineralized and added back into his body along with nutrients so he doesn't have to eat, and no one should believe anything I say since I'm making it all up.
There's a new light now with these two. The creators of the Daleks and the Progenitor of the Time Lords. No wonder Davros was viewed more as the Doctor's rival compared to the Master.
ahh good ol' Woolworths. I remember a mate calling me to get to our local Woolworths quick cos they had loads of copies of the original Resident Evil game going really cheap in a bargain bin. Took some digging down but I found one.
Tom Baker was my first and remains my favourite Doctor. He could switch from serious acting to a comedic style effortlessly, with such charisma. Gave the Doctor true complexity in the characterisation.
The quirkiness of Tom Baker and the quirkiness of the set design f.e. "Ark in Space" or the episode with the alien giant killer plant and the bubbling bucket of acid. I love the Tom Baker era. You can smell the low budget but it just smells so damn good :P
Michael Wisher's portrayal of Davros here was simply awesome. David Gooderson, Terry Malloy and one or other actors gave a very convincing portrayal of the character, but for me at least, Michael Wisher was THE Davros.
People don't realise that *Genesis of the Daleks* was a complete reboot of the Dalek origins separate from the Kaled-Thal war in the first doctor's lifetime.
I love that little confrontation between Davros and The Doctor. "What mistakes do they make? You will tell me." "No." "YOU WILL TELL ME!!!!" "NO, I WILL NOT!!!!" I think Davros must be one of the most short-tempered men in the entire universe. Maybe The Doctor should have given him a jelly baby or two, to have helped calm him down.
Michael wisher would have been 89 today if he had still Been alive , he was a great Actor, The character he played was very strong and powerful in 1975, has Davros . We miss u Michael wisher .
The Doctor could have said to Davros “The reason the Daleks fail is that they don’t have a conscience. This causes them to be blind to opportunities.” Saying this at this moment would have made the Dalek’s less aggressive. As was his mission.
@@jakepullman4914 Technically? Based on the other scripts? Probably not. But in the context of this question of this script, as Davros would say, “It is an interesting proposition.”
so davros is supposed to be hitler in a mask, he does seem to do the task a bit too well, and it might be good to find out exactly what happened to him and how he ended up in the chair in the first place, and although i never saw this amazing story when it was first on television, i at least caught up with it on video, in the 90`s and i wouldn`t be surprised if this was probably with planet of the spiders one of the first doctor who videos that i ever bought, and remind me to have a chat with someone who did watch this when it was first on, and find out what they thought about this serial, let alone this episode.
It's sinple: most of the time they are blind by they arrogance and either underestimate the enemies or refuse to accept change as part of life. That's the darleks biggest weakness.
I think a lot of later Davros performances end up off the mark in two main ways. Some simply ascend to shouting too often and quickly. Yes, it’s his trait, but it still needs to land. He doesn’t need to do that every time he speaks. Wisher is very measured in when he starts to raise his voice, and smartly leaves room to go higher when he has to yell a longer piece of dialogue. Some later performances just miss this mark. But two, Wisher is also doing phenomenal work in lower, even whisper registers. The general dynamics of his voice are extreme, employed in an inorganic way. Many later performances really struggle here, making Davros sound too close to ordinary conversational tone, not enough jumps in dynamics, or random emphasis of words, or rolls back before going a little louder. Wisher is much more musical. But Wisher really is an amazing actor. I wouldn’t expect many to match him. A couple other Davroses were pretty decently close though.
Superb. I'm in my fifties, yet I can still watch this "kid's story" and feel genuine fear when I watch this scene. It's just so well written and acted. Compare it with what passes for adult drama these days, where you'd have a smirking hero trading quips with some cartoonish villain and a complete absence of any actual emotion. How far we've fallen.
i remember seeing this episode..looking at my big brother and the shock on his face..and thinking the Doctors stuffed this time..pure horrific drama..and bloody brilliant..Tom Baker owns The Doctor.
I wonder how Genesis of the Daleks would have worked, if Jon Pertwee was still the Dr at the time and how well he would have interacted with Davros the man who created the Daleks . I must say I always preferred the Dalek stories when they were lead by either Emperor Daleks and or Supreme Daleks as Who villains go Davros IMO screwed up the concept of the Daleks and after Death to the Daleks no Dalek story was ever a non Davros story.
I watched this when it first aired and I was 13 years old. Davros was absolutely terrifying. Brilliant story and acting. Still holds up 47 years later. And I met Tom a year later and got his autograph which I still have.
Michael Wisher played Davros this first time he appeared in Doctor Who. Terry Malloy played Davros in Resurrection Of the Daleks in season 21 to 25. David Gooderson played Davros only in Destiny of the Daleks, but I never saw David's role. Both Wisher and Malloy played Davros really well.
The new Davros is better.
@@looksirdroids9134 Bleach doesn't hold a candle. Don't get me wrong, he's a great actor and plays the role well... but he doesn't compare.
I was only 7 when it first aired. I was petrified. I suspect I was probably behind the couch for some of it.
@@codemeister26 Dear Cody, I am so envious, I would have loved to have been in your place for though I love all the Doctors for different reasons, Tom Baker is my absolute favorite of them all!!GARY BAILEY
, L
I saw Tom Baker in a Starbucks in Glasgow years ago...he said (very loudly) "CAN I HAVE A LARGE CAPPUCCINO PLEASE - sorry for shouting". He's a legend. An absolute LEGEND. 🤣👍🏻
Just four episodes in with this new Doctor, and we got this masterpiece. Tom Baker and Michael Wisher delivering 110% performances --great things lay ahead.
This isn’t his fourth episode, though; it’s his 15th.
@@DrWhoFanJ they meant serial
@@GlennSkywalker2305 I know that’s what they meant; I was just informing them they’d used the wrong word.
@@DrWhoFanJ This is a bit of a nitpick but I keep seeing you do this. I'm sure you mean well by correcting people's use of words like episode and season but you often say it in a way that doesn't make it immediately clear what the problem is. Think about it from the perspective of someone that you're correcting who made the mistake because they don't know the difference between episode and serial (or season and series), often your replies would make it more confusing.
Ark in space is low key essential who. Helped inspire the alien franchise
"Let me tell you what is going to happen: You will answer my questions. You will answer them carefully and precisely. The instruments to which you are wired are particularly sensitive. They will detect instantly any attempt to lie".
Great monologue, great writing ❤
This episode cemented my love for Tom’s Doctor as one of my favourites. The line and execution, “Excuse me-can you help me? I’m a spy!!” With his smile and knocking out the Thal Guards.
Davros: "I have eliminated consciences from them!"
Doctor Yoda: "That is why you will fail."
Davros: "Tell me, not Tell-Me-Not. There is no lie!"
Not really
Davros is such a lovely gentleman, the life of the party and every woman’s dream husband. The eyeball on top, wires sticking out of his skull, dead from the waist down, no matter with such charm.
The story writer never explained just what race Davoros was from, He's obvious NOT a Thal, or even humanoid. It's also fascinating that his wheelchair is prototype for design of Darleks.
@@paulhunter6742He's a Kaled. Its pretty obvious.
@@paulhunter6742 He's a Kaled. If you're interested in how he became the disfigured bitter man we see in Genesis I'd recommend the audio series "I, Davros". Four stories long but all of them excellent.
A good provider surely. Not sexually demanding, just demanding
This scene pretty much shows how unhinged Davos is, he doesn't want failure from his creations and wants the knowledge on how to prevent their defeats, yet he hasn't stopped to think of the consequences of his choices and what it will lead to!!
Tom Baker was my first Doctor Who growing up. Was so thrilled to see him in a cameo appearance with Matt Smith. He will always hold a special place in the childhood of this long time Whovian.
Loved this Doctor. Tom Baker was just perfect in the role
Best Dalek story ever. This scene and others capture the stakes and moral question of killing Hitler in his crib.
But the answer is also in this episode. The Doctor gives Davros the chance to become good, Davros utterly rejects it. At that point of the rejection of goodness and embracing the utter knowledge of cruelty and destruction, Davros is no longer redeemable.
Therefore, the answer to 'should you kill baby Hitler' is obvious to those with a slightly higher IQ than normal: if one has the power of time travel, you can simply pay for Adolf to remain in art school, or steer him into architectural design, which is what he was most interested in and most skilled at. Then the Nazis do not happen and Hitler dies of Parkinsons likely by his early 60s. But, the Soviets still exist. Stalin still takes power in the 1930s and murders millions of his own people. Perhaps a world war still takes place. He too must be stopped.
Once you begin meddling in time, you quickly find you can never stop. The ripples of causality touch all things.
@@Alondro77 You’re correct. The answer is given in the episode. The answer is given by the Doctor. The answer is you don’t kill him. You don’t have that right. Countries and peoples will become allies. Good will come from his evil.
Not seen Power/Evil then?
Also this is more of a Davros story than a Dalek one.
I'm just impressed that they got the real Doctor to play himself on TV. What a coup for the casting director!
Best Doctor + Best Davros + Best companions = Best Story!
No + No + No = No!
@@looksirdroids9134 You = Are = A = Tw@
@@looksirdroids9134 So who is and what is? I was a McCoy fan due to my age and season 25 is my fave but I have to admit Pertwee and Baker were the best Doctors and there was never a better Dalek story than this and 'Rememberance'
@@davidscholesphotographer i hated mccoy destroyed the doctor and dr who as a going concern , loved all before that
Yes + Yes + among the very best + among the very best!
This classic was made in the still remembered shadows of World War Two and the Holocaust.It spoke to me as a child and it has not lost any power .Yes the sets are very 7os and the effects are dated but the writing acting and directing are top notch.The BBC should show this whole story.Tom baker is brilliant as is all the cast
Indeed,it was only 30 years after the end of the War. The year after seeing this,I was watching a rerun of the then-recently-put-together The World at War. The sight of the bulldozer pushing piles of dead bodies at one of the liberated camps in that shocked me to the core then.
Michael Wisher's portrayal of Davros is one of the best things to ever grace the show.
Never bettered. He commanded this role. Loved him in this.
In one word - awesome
Terry Malloy did a solid job in the audios.
@@minicle426 Terry Molloy did a great job in the series too, but not on the same level as Wisher.
"I could do it." I wonder if Davros really could have done it. My first thought is that he couldn't have, even if he himself actually believed it. I don't think he actually understood compassion and benevolence, except as an intellectual exercise - it was just his arrogance making that claim. Crippled and being propped up every second by life support, Davros' fear of death was as much a motivator as anything. I would say that it was ironic that humanity would share a similar fate to that of the Daleks, becoming the Toclafane.
"What are my Daleks' weaknesses?" "Well, you might want to give them a way to get upstairs..."
They do though
Eyestalk.. sub zero temperatures.. relative lack of imagination... arrogance and extremely high energy weapons
Love the sinister 'wub-wub-wub' sound effect. How they got it to sound so evil is genius.
BBC Radiophonic Workshop at it's predictable best :)
Apparently Douglas Adams would tell a story about doing the radio version of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy where he'd send off bizarre requests to the Radiophonics Workshop saying things like 'I want the sound of the entire universe collapsing in on itself and draining away down a vortex of infinity' and they'd always deliver. th-cam.com/video/ciE0rAOjK0A/w-d-xo.html
Best doctor .best companion. Best dalek story ...and best villain ....what a wonderful TV moment. ..classic in every way. .
Patrick Troughton is a better Doctor than Tom. Harry and Sarah are overated companions. Power and Evil are stronger Dalek stories. And Davros is only mid-tier villain at best.
I think Davros needed a few jelly babies to calm him down!
The one episode I remembered as a teen in 1986. Davros was menacing. No wonder I never forgot this episode.
Genesis of the Daleks is a true classic episode of Doctor Who. Doctor Who writing at it's best.
Brilliantly chilling, atmospheric story, up there with Robots of Death, Horror of Fang Rock, Weing Chiang and Brain of Morbius.
I watched this in Australia in 1979 on summer vacation and it frighten the heck out of me. I showed it to my children. And my grandchildren. And this before I found Star Blazers. And I had seen Star Wars 4. And it got me thinking. During the war between the Thals and the Kaleds. That Count Dooku gave Davros the technology to build the Dalek guns. And showed him the of space and time travel too. When Dooku landed in Khaled held lines. And was captured and taken to Davros. And Davros questions him about his knowledge of his galaxy. Great acting from Michael,Liz and Ian may you rest in peace. I wish I had gotten to see you on the stage. And thank you Mr. Baker for making Doctor Who a beloved show forever.
1.20 mins Davros is so badass even his chair give you the middle finger
The best portrayal of Davros.
Of course.
Never bettered. Pure genius face mask creator, John Friedlander, and tom and Michael Wisher as Davros. Screen chemistry.
"Davros if l tell you everything you want to know then I betray millions of people in future I can't do that"
“BUT YOU CAN!!”
@@Drp_br_ YOU WILL TELL ME!! YOU WILL TELL ME!!! YOU WILL TELL ME!!!!
@@diamondaxe4133 “ALRIGHT ALRIGHT ALRIGHT!!…. I’ll tell you….”
I recall watching Genesis Of The Daleks, when it was first broadcast way back in 1975. And as I was only rather young at the time, when I first saw Davros, he absolutely terrified me! At first, given his appearance etc., I thought he was a puppet, worked by some clever mechanical means, and it was only later that I learned that he was actually portrayed by an actor, the actor in question of course being Michael Wisher. And with all due respect to the other actors who've played the character, and who gave rather convincing portrayals, for me, Michael Wisher was THE Davros, for his own portrayal of the character was simply awesome. Apparently, while rehearsing, he used to wear a paper bag over his head, with two slits for eyes, in order to get used to being semi-blind, when he wore the actual Davros mask. Guess it must have been a bit uncomfortable (the mask that is), which surely makes his performance all the more commendable. RIP MW ...
This is proper Dr Who
Another Classic Cliffhanger! Makes me want to watch the story again!
You will tell me! You will tell me! You will tell me! Davros was possibly the ultimate madman/ultimate Dr Who villain, and he if got any angrier in this scene, his head might have exploded, and/or his mobile life support system possibly blown a fuse. Maybe The Doctor should have given him a jelly baby or two, to help calm him down a bit ....
Ah, my youth. Every weekday afternoon at 4pm after school in the mid-late 70's. Followed by Star Trek TOS. Wonderful memories!
One Of The BEST TOM BAKER Stories , Along With The VERY BEST Pyramids Of Mars .
Bring on some stories like this in 2022.
I'd have loved to have seen Davros team up with The Master. Reckon that would have been a pretty formidable duo, both equally insane/evil, and with the same aim/goal, ie universal domination/conquest. Though The Master tended to have a slightly more refined approach, whereas Davros was just a downright nasty piece of work ...
"Thanks for spilling your guts, Doctor, now lets see what happens when I turn this up to 11."
When Davros loses his temper and begins to sound like a Dalek.. so perfect 👌
So good - and played for real. Just brilliant.
He has a knob on his chair specifically to control the torture device things.
One assumes it can hooked up to many devices.
Doesn’t everybody?
Tom Baker = pure awesome.
Davros loves yelling doesn't he?
You would know
Would you would you know would know.
Just balancing the woulds,yous and knows up. All is now equilibrium again.
Has anyone noticed how Darleks have annoying high pitch streak in voices. Just like Davoros.
@@paulhunter6742 Daleks are just permanently angry Davros.
he likes to talk really quietly too. AND THEN HE EXPLODES IN ANGER ! it's really effective. DO YOU AGREE ? DO YOU AGREE !?
*"Nobody Loves Genesis Of The Daleks More Than Me!"*
Said every Whovian ever 😂. To be fair it is such a brilliant episode
@@doofusboy7054 very true 😅
@@doofusboy7054 It’s a brilliant *six* episodes, even!
@@DrWhoFanJ 6 PARTS, EPISODE in this context, has the same meaning as story/serial
@@jakeisthedoctor2308 No, it doesn’t, though. An episode is a part of a serial, so how can a part of something mean the same as the larger thing‽ 🤷♂️
Such a great story, probably my all time favourite.
When the doctor was younger he was older
Not really, Tom Baker was only 40 here.
Wish America had the early episodes of Doctor Who. It started here in 2005 with Christopher Eccleston, and i.have watched every episode.
A lot of the earlier episodes were destroyed. There have been some attempts at recreating them but many are gone for good.
Americans did get a fair amount of exposure to Dr Who prior to Eccleston. In the early 1970s, their 1st taste of the programme being the Jon Pertwee episodes, but I don’t know how widespread it was networked. Tom Baker’s stories were promoted stateside in the late 1970s with more success. The 1960s theatrically released films (Dr Who & The Daleks / Dalek Invasion of Earth) probably didn’t attract much interest in the USA as, not having had the TV series shown over there at that time, no fan base had been built up. In the 1990s, ‘Dr Who the Movie’, a made-for-TV movie was shown in the UK, USA, etc.
This is the very definition of "iconic".
Davros is by far my favourite TV character of all-time ♥
Underrated cliffhanger.
Sp*rs lose at home again, Sausage, chips 'n' beans for tea, Dr.Who. My trips down memory lane are great.
I used have the same thing for tea. 😁
"Doctor,let me tell your friends are wired into an instrument they will know every pain ever imagined,Now I want to know every darlek defeat,YOU WILL TELL ME,YOU WILL TELL ME"
"All the torments and agonies ever known." Davros is specifically referring to the torment of lacking voluntary bowel control, and the agony of having his diapers changed by daleks approximately once every seventeen hours.
His excrement is used to fuel his chair. The urine is purified, remineralized and added back into his body along with nutrients so he doesn't have to eat, and no one should believe anything I say since I'm making it all up.
1:08 and 3:42 when Davros gets mad he sounds just like a Dalek
Pretty sure they did it on purpose.
Well Davros, there are things called stairs .
There's a new light now with these two. The creators of the Daleks and the Progenitor of the Time Lords. No wonder Davros was viewed more as the Doctor's rival compared to the Master.
I remember back in 2005 my mum got me 5 doctor who DVD’s from Woolworths the 4 was the 1st new series and this episode good year
ahh good ol' Woolworths. I remember a mate calling me to get to our local Woolworths quick cos they had loads of copies of the original Resident Evil game going really cheap in a bargain bin. Took some digging down but I found one.
I liked the episode when the doctor offered davros a jelly baby 🤣
Davros: Why did you come here?
Doctor Zoidberg: Not a day goes by I don't ask myself the same question...
Tom Baker was my first and remains my favourite Doctor. He could switch from serious acting to a comedic style effortlessly, with such charisma. Gave the Doctor true complexity in the characterisation.
Great Dialogue and Script go to make this such a memorable episode....
Okay, Davros, from now on, it’s decaf for you! What a grumpy git!
The quirkiness of Tom Baker and the quirkiness of the set design f.e. "Ark in Space" or the episode with the alien giant killer plant and the bubbling bucket of acid.
I love the Tom Baker era.
You can smell the low budget but it just smells so damn good :P
The one with the alien giant killer plant was The Seeds of Doom,one of my other all-time favourites.
Michael Wisher's portrayal of Davros here was simply awesome. David Gooderson, Terry Malloy and one or other actors gave a very convincing portrayal of the character, but for me at least, Michael Wisher was THE Davros.
Amazing scene
People don't realise that *Genesis of the Daleks* was a complete reboot of the Dalek origins separate from the Kaled-Thal war in the first doctor's lifetime.
Yes we do.
I love Dr Who & l remember watching this great episode when l was 16 years old❤️👍
I love that little confrontation between Davros and The Doctor.
"What mistakes do they make? You will tell me."
"No."
"YOU WILL TELL ME!!!!"
"NO, I WILL NOT!!!!"
I think Davros must be one of the most short-tempered men in the entire universe. Maybe The Doctor should have given him a jelly baby or two, to have helped calm him down.
Screen chemistry fsntastic.
Wonderful! 👍
Brilliant!
Davros: "I can create in their bodies, all the torments and agonies ever known". "Pins and needles" perhaps?
Michael wisher would have been 89 today if he had still
Been alive , he was a great Actor, The character he played was very strong and powerful in 1975, has Davros . We miss u Michael wisher .
The Doctor could have said to Davros “The reason the Daleks fail is that they don’t have a conscience. This causes them to be blind to opportunities.” Saying this at this moment would have made the Dalek’s less aggressive. As was his mission.
But is that the truth?
@@jakepullman4914 I think perhaps they may have been less aggressive if they collaborated with other beings. No?
@@dougmaclennan8654 But is that why they failed?
@@jakepullman4914 Technically? Based on the other scripts? Probably not. But in the context of this question of this script, as Davros would say, “It is an interesting proposition.”
I couldn't look at Davros when I was a kid, too scary
One of the all-time greatest stories of all time, with one of the greatest scenes.
Of all time.
Nothing better than these.
so davros is supposed to be hitler in a mask, he does seem to do the task a bit too well, and it might be good to find out exactly what happened to him and how he ended up in the chair in the first place, and although i never saw this amazing story when it was first on television, i at least caught up with it on video, in the 90`s and i wouldn`t be surprised if this was probably with planet of the spiders one of the first doctor who videos that i ever bought, and remind me to have a chat with someone who did watch this when it was first on, and find out what they thought about this serial, let alone this episode.
The beginning of the war between the doctor and davros that has raged ever since this episode.
Davros is like Putin - except Putin doesn't speak through a ring modulator.
And he's not a scientific genius.
It's sinple: most of the time they are blind by they arrogance and either underestimate the enemies or refuse to accept change as part of life.
That's the darleks biggest weakness.
Love Davros,real gentleman.❤
I think a lot of later Davros performances end up off the mark in two main ways.
Some simply ascend to shouting too often and quickly. Yes, it’s his trait, but it still needs to land. He doesn’t need to do that every time he speaks. Wisher is very measured in when he starts to raise his voice, and smartly leaves room to go higher when he has to yell a longer piece of dialogue. Some later performances just miss this mark.
But two, Wisher is also doing phenomenal work in lower, even whisper registers. The general dynamics of his voice are extreme, employed in an inorganic way. Many later performances really struggle here, making Davros sound too close to ordinary conversational tone, not enough jumps in dynamics, or random emphasis of words, or rolls back before going a little louder. Wisher is much more musical.
But Wisher really is an amazing actor. I wouldn’t expect many to match him. A couple other Davroses were pretty decently close though.
Superb. I'm in my fifties, yet I can still watch this "kid's story" and feel genuine fear when I watch this scene. It's just so well written and acted. Compare it with what passes for adult drama these days, where you'd have a smirking hero trading quips with some cartoonish villain and a complete absence of any actual emotion. How far we've fallen.
Davros is like a kid that's bratty and always frustrated and goes through tantrums all the time.
1:25 The back of Davros’ chair looks like he’s flipping off the camera.
Just sublime, unlike the modern day dirge.
i remember seeing this episode..looking at my big brother and the shock on his face..and thinking the Doctors stuffed this time..pure horrific drama..and bloody brilliant..Tom Baker owns The Doctor.
Isnt Davros played by Sir Tony Rob inson of time team fame?
“YOU WILL TELL ME! YOU!…WILL!…TELL ME!”
Need part 2 of this pls
Isn’t Davros another name for the World Economic mic Forum?
I wonder how Genesis of the Daleks would have worked, if Jon Pertwee was still the Dr at the time and how well he would have interacted with Davros the man who created the Daleks . I must say I always preferred the Dalek stories when they were lead by either Emperor Daleks and or Supreme Daleks as Who villains go Davros IMO screwed up the concept of the Daleks and after Death to the Daleks no Dalek story was ever a non Davros story.
3:44 *YOU WILL TELL ME!!!! YOU WILL TELL ME!!! thx 4 uploading! Been looking for this for over 40 years!!*
Just be like the Dangerous Brothers - 'I will not talk'
“You will tell me! You will tell me!! YOU WILL TELL ME!!!”
You will tell me!!! You will tell me!!!
The best Dr.
This Davros actually sounds like a Dalek.
That was brilliant acting Michael wisher was mint at doing Davros voice he should have been a jockey at wincanton
Fond memories growing up with Tom Baker.
Nyder, little would you know that your very cells would become a Dalek later on