Stories Audio Drama Big Finish Main Range Davros 1 image Overview Characters How to Listen Reviews 14 Statistics Quotes 2 Overview Released Friday, September 19, 2003 Written by Lance Parkin Cover Art by Clayton Hickman Publisher Big Finish Productions Directed by Gary Russell Runtime 152 minutes Time Travel Unclear Location (Potential Spoilers!) Skaro Synopsis TAI stock has shot up by over fifteen percent on news that galaxy-famous scientist Davros, controversial creator of the Daleks, has been hired to work on unspecified technological projects. Davros has been given the chance to redeem himself. Humanity stands on the verge of a new era, but it needs the help of the galaxy's greatest ever scientist. But Davros is dead... isn't he? From the bunkers and shelters of ancient Skaro to the gleaming domes of the future Earth Empire, Davros has always been a man of destiny. Now he's working for mankind's benefit. But how much do we really know about Davros? Has Davros really turned over a new leaf? The Doctor certainly doesn't think so. But is the Doctor always right? Listen Listened Favourite Favourited Add Review Edit Review Log a repeat Skip Skipped Unowned Owned Owned Save to my list Saved Edit date completed Custom Date Release Date Archive (no date) Save Characters Sixth Doctor Colin Baker Arnold Baynes Davros Terry Molloy Lorraine Baynes Show All Characters (4) How to listen to Davros: Listen on Apple Music Listen on Spotify DVD The Complete Davros Collection Big Finish Audio Davros Reviews Add Review Edit Review Sort: Date (Newest First) Date (Oldest First) Likes (High-Low) Likes (Low-High) Rating (High-Low) Rating (Low-High) Word count (High-Low) Word count (Low-High) Username (A-Z) Username (Z-A) Spoilers First Spoilers Last 14 reviews 28 April 2025 · 57 words Review by megaminxwin Spoilers This review contains spoilers! excellent psychological probing, both into the mind of a fascist leader, but also into the minds of apologists. im reminded of people who attempt to rehabilitate the third reich, saying "yeah but they did good things too, and they were very smart!" and its like. even assuming thats true, thats not the point is it. great audio megaminxwin View profile Like Liked 0 25 February 2025 · 390 words Review by DanDunn Spoilers This review contains spoilers! Next we have Davros featuring, you guessed it, the Master! No of course I’m kidding. This was part of a special trilogy in 2003 during the 40th anniversary celebrations which Big Finish was spearheading. While the Eighth Doctor got the main 40th anniversary story in the utterly insane story Zagreus, Doctors Five, Six and Seven got their own stories pairing them up with an individual villain and naming the stories after said villain. With Five we got Omega, Seven got the Master and Six was left with Davros. Picking up in between Resurrection and Revelation of the Daleks, Davros is restored to life thanks to the head of the galaxy’s largest corporation TAI. Mr Baines hopes to use Davros to make further advancements in TAI’s technology while his wife Mrs Baines (voiced by Wendy Padbury) is a historian who admires and is fascinated by Davros. The Doctor attempts to persuade them of how dangerous Davros is but ends up being employed to work alongside him instead. This scenario is as entertaining as it sounds, listening to the Doctor and Davros trying to one up the other at work is very funny, but beyond that this story is a fantastic dive into Davros’s character. It’s the first Big Finish story to feature him and Terry Molloy easily sinks back into the role in what I can honestly say is his best work as Davros. I already considered him in this position but didn’t fully appreciate it from just the TV episodes, but Terry Molloy is by far the best Davros actor in all of Doctor Who, you can tell his successor in Modern Who, Julian Bleach (second best) is modelling his performance more on Molloy’s than his predecessors. Unlike any other Davros story, this one focuses solely on him without featuring his creations which helps to demonstrate just how deadly Davros can be even without his Daleks flanking him. The story even offers our first glimpse into Davros’s origins as we hear flashbacks from before his accident and the signs of the cruel, power crazed monster he would later become. This would be expanded on further in the four-part mini-series I, Davros, a biography from childhood to wheelchair that I highly recommend. It’s an infinitely more superior origin story than the five wasted minutes Steven Moffat gave us in The Magician’s Apprentice. DanDunn View profile Like Liked 0 24 February 2025 · 55 words Review by Guardax It's been a few years since I've listened to this one, but dropping by with a review: this story is absolutely phenomenal. An incredible psychological examination of Davros underpinned by a tour de force from Terry Molloy. This is one of Big Finish's best, and pairing him with Colin Baker's Doctor was the right alchemy. Guardax View profile Like Liked 0 5 February 2025 · 683 words Review by KnuppMello Spoilers This review contains spoilers! Original (Brazilian Portuguese) Translation (English) Acho que todos nós fãs da série concordamos que os momentos reservados para um embate entre Doutor e Davros, sempre corresponde as expectativas entregando cenas memoráveis e tensas. Então é claro que dedicar uma história inteira a isso dificilmente falharia, tá bom, talvez não precisava beirar a duas horas e meia de duração, independente disso, o áudio ainda consegue ser consistente entregando sua proposta da maneira mais aprofundada e intensa possível. Aproveito esse comentário para avisa-los de antemão que “Davros” lhe entregará uma experiencia bem densa que requer muita cautela e até mesmo disposição tendo em vista o tamanho de seu enredo (já comentando antes) - O foco maior de Lance Parkin estão em seus diálogos e em sua habilidade de fazer analogias entre os dois personagens que possui ideais completamente opostos, Davros por exemplo usou toda sua genialidade cientifica para procriar a espécie mais cruel e temida do todo o Universo, é de tamanho inimaginável o quanto os Daleks já conquistaram. Mesmo possuindo objetivos iguais, nem tudo são como flores, pois mais a frente vemos suas próprias criaturas se revoltando contra seu próprio criador e doutrinador. É interessante como isso sempre assombra o Davros, mesmo estando a maior distância possível dos chamados Daleks Renegados, é um nível de assombração e magoa que o faz não aceitar ser igualado as suas criaturas “Eu não sou um Dalek!”. O mesmo cabe ao Doutor em relação aos Senhores do Tempo, o único diferencial é que ele não foi o procriador de sua espécie...Não, pera! (Timelees Children). Mesmo com suas atitudes de rejeito, ambos ainda são muito influenciados pelos tais citados, Davros sempre volta a provar que depende dos Daleks para obter poder e domínio, mesmo fugindo o Doutor sabe que é praticamente impossível não ter os senhores do tempo envolvidos na sua vida. Há toda uma discussão voltada ao enredo que basicamente consiste nos dois protagonistas acabarem se unindo a uma corporação T.A.I., dedicada a projetar avanços tecnológicos para os seres humanos com intenções de ter um mundo melhor. Entendo os que questionam, mas eu consegui enxergar uma clara intenção nas entre linhas que o Lance Parkin colocou ambos os personagens se dedicando em prol a mesma coisa, para tornar mais nítido e evidente a diferença dos ideais do Doutor e do Davros. Assim como os outros dois áudios da trilogia “Omega” e “Master”, o vilão em destaque recebe um rígido aprofundamento repleto de flashbacks do seu passado, vemos várias situações e episódios da vida de Davros, até mesmo antes dele sofrer o acidente que o fez construir seu dispositivo de suporte de vida, sua cadeira. Lance também trabalha muito em cima dos sentimentos do vilão que supostamente um dia também já sentiu amor, mas também explica todo o processo que levou Davros a se tornar um ser sem sentimentos, frio consumido pelo ódio. Os únicos deslizes que posso apontar são: Em um determinado momento o 6° Doutor solta uma frase que destoa completamente da causa do personagem “Com a queda das corporações, a humanidade cairá junto” claramente se referindo a influencia das empresas baseando-se em um mundo ideal. Isso é algo completamente contraditório, sendo que suas encarnações antecessoras e sucessoras possuem vários exemplos e episódio onde lutam contra grandes corporações. E o outro deslize é que chamo de “efeito ping-pong” que ocorre nos eventos finais, inúmeras situações acontecem em um curto período de tempo no momento que a história se dedica ao Doutor derrotar mais uma vez o Davros, é o algo bem bagunçado e confuso de acompanhar. Bastava fazer o simples, o chamado feijão com a arroz que já estaria de grande tamanho, já tendo captado que a proposta centro do áudio é o desenvolvimento de personagem e relação do Doutor e Davros. Em resumo, se você está cansado delas histórias Daleks de enredos repetidos e previsíveis e quer se aprofundar ao máximo no criador dos saleiros, “Davros” é o áudio certo para você, que na minha opinião, ele funciona muito melhor do que o duplo inicial da 9° Temporada do New Who, o The Magician’s Apprentice/The Witch’s Familiar. Super Recomendo! I think all of us fans of the series agree that the moments reserved for a clash between the Doctor and Davros always meet expectations, delivering memorable and tense scenes. So, of course, dedicating an entire story to this would hardly fail, okay, maybe it didn't need to be as long as two and a half hours, regardless of this, the audio still manages to be consistent delivering its proposal in the most in-depth and intense way possible. I take this comment to warn you in advance that "Davros" will deliver a very dense experience that requires a lot of caution and even willingness considering the size of its plot (already commenting before) - The main focus of Lance Parkin is on his dialogues and on his ability to make analogies between the two characters who have completely opposite ideals, Davros for example used all his scientific genius to procreate the most cruel and feared species of the entire Universe, it is unimaginable how much the Daleks have already conquered. Even having similar objectives, not everything is rosy, because later on we see their own creatures revolting against their own creator and indoctrinator. It is interesting how this always haunts Davros, even being as far away as possible from the so-called Renegade Daleks, it is a level of haunting and hurt that makes him not accept being equated to his creatures "I am not a Dalek!". The same applies to the Doctor in relation to the Time Lords, the only difference is that he was not the progenitor of his species...No, wait! (Timelees Children). Despite their attitudes of rejection, both are still heavily influenced by the aforementioned, Davros always returns to prove that he depends on the Daleks to obtain power and dominance, even fleeing the Doctor knows that it is practically impossible not to have the Time Lords involved in his life. There is a whole discussion focused on the plot that basically consists of the two protagonists ending up joining a corporation T.A.I., dedicated to designing technological advances for humans with the intention of having a better world. I understand those who question, but I could see a clear intention in the lines that Lance Parkin put both characters dedicating themselves to the same thing, to make the difference in ideals of the Doctor and Davros more clear and evident. Just like the other two audios of the trilogy "Omega" and "Master", the featured villain receives a strict deepening full of flashbacks of his past, we see various situations and episodes from the life of Davros, even before he suffered the accident that made him build his life support device, his chair. Lance also works a lot on top of the feelings of the villain who supposedly once also felt love, but also explains the whole process that led Davros to become a being without feelings, cold consumed by hatred. The only slips I can point out are: At a certain moment the 6th Doctor drops a phrase that completely deviates from the cause of the character "With the fall of the corporations, humanity will fall together" clearly referring to the influence of companies based on an ideal world. This is something completely contradictory, since his previous and subsequent incarnations have several examples and episodes where they fight against large corporations. And the other slip is what I call the "ping-pong effect" that occurs in the final events, numerous situations happen in a short period of time at the time the story is dedicated to the Doctor defeating Davros once again, it is something very messy and confusing to follow. It was enough to do the simple, the so-called bread and butter that would already be of great size, having already captured that the central proposal of the audio is the character development and relationship of the Doctor and Davros. In summary, if you are tired of Dalek stories with repetitive and predictable plots and want to delve into the depths of the creator of the pepper pots, "Davros" is the right audio for you, which in my opinion, it works much better than the initial double of the 9th Season of New Who, The Magician’s Apprentice/The Witch’s Familiar. Highly recommended! (Translation generated by AI, so mistakes are possible). KnuppMello View profile Like Liked 0 25 January 2025 · 71 words Review by KamelionFan27 This is a story that features Davros and not the Daleks, allowing for an exploration of Davros's character, and does that brilliantly. This is the second story in the villains trilogy, and I think it's my favourite. All the characters feel very fleshed out and are played brilliantly, the standout performance here was of course Terry Molloy as Davros, the scenes of him recounting moments from his past are simply incredible. 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