"My creature showed a natural desire. An instinct to destroy." I really do love Davros as an antagonist. He really just shows he is completely sociopathic. How he is curious on the concept of genocide and completely extermination of all life. Similar when the doctor questioned him about creating a virus and letting in it out into the world, just to watch the carnage.
@@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.
Considering the budget for Dr Who sets back then, these genesis episodes are remarkable. Add in the excellent script and the acting, this was peak Dr Who.
@@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.
Ah, the old "Mad Scientist creates a weapon that can think for itself, but doesn't consider the fact, that that means he won't be able to control it." It's a classic.
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...
Davros is very clearly evil and insane. But the Kaleds put him in charge of science and weapons development. They’d also basically killed their world in pursuit of their war. A subtle yet elegant message.
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
Right from the start Davros is consumed by nothing but a drive to have his creations kill and think as dominant life forms. Ironic that he never considered they would deem him inferior too.
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 :).
@@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.
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.
@@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
The director of this story, David Maloney, deserves more credit. He did great work on Doctor Who. Michael Wisher who plays Davros in this also deserves more credit. His performance as Davros is absolutely perfect.
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.
One thing I do like about classic science fiction is seeing things that are considered futuristic at the time but are somewhat mundane now. For example Voice Control here. It's always interesting to see how far we've come.
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
“My creature showed a natural desire an instinct to destroy” I love how this doesn’t raise a clear red flag for the kaled scientists until a few episodes down the line “You don’t suppose this guy we’re working for is a sociopathic maniac and that we are committing our own future to be destructive and unfeeling machine like creatures” “Lol nah mate”
*"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.
@@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.
Tom Baker made my school day afternoons so much fun. As a American kid in the 70's we had Star Trek, Space:1999 and a few others. But, Dr. Who was a whole new book for me. Just wonderful.
My all time favourite dr Who story, supposedly Terry Nation had been told off for "phoning it in" with his last few Dr Who scripts , and then went away in a huff and subsequently produced this absolute classic. I'm thinking people should have taken the time to annoy Nation more often lol
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.
@@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
When I was 12 years old this was my first episode when I was on vacation in Australia. And I was hooked ever since. No wonder they took the joker's spot away. As the number one sci-fi villain of all time. Rest well Michael Wisher. Davros is a combination of Adolf Hitler Joseph Mengle and Dr Frankenstein. And Mr Wisher brought it out in real life. I can only imagine what kind of voice. If would have done if he had lived. And done the Batman animated series.
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.
"That's magnificent! He's perfected voice control!" There's a key reason these episodes work and why people STILL seek them out - they have very strong narratives and are focused. I know there's the whole message behind what the Daleks actually represent but nobody is stopping to tell you. They never underestimated the intelligence of 8 year olds.
@@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!
Genesis of the Daleks remains my all-time favourite Classic serial. Not just because it features the debut of Davros, the themes of war and conflict provide a darker, thrilling atmosphere.
Utter brilliance 'Genesis Of The Daleks' it is so dark, so ominous, so atmospheric and so engrossing! By far the best Doctor Who episode of all time. It has a most 'grown-up' storyline that will never ever become dated because sadly evil deranged leaders/dictators will always be a part of human history!
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].
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
Michael Wisher’s performance as Davros is still incredible to watch, and only Julian Bleach has come close to equalling it. Apparently, Wisher wasn’t even the first choice to play him, which seems hard to believe now, simply because he’s so good in the role.
New Doctor Who has never come anywhere as close as this in terms of storytelling, camera direction, acting, the use of simplistic sets to convey the atmosphere and capturing the gravity of the situation. There is a reason this and many classic Doctor Who are classics.
Davros and the daleks are the product of the thousand years of total war on Skaro between the kaleds and the thalls. Generations came and went, bathed in hate and death and the struggle for survival and victory. One can see how Davros might have become the way he is and how the daleks are just a projection of him, and as we see later the daleks main programming is survival and victory over all that is not them. Genesis is one of the best episodes and the acting is superb, especially Michael Wisher in the role of Davros.
Little Known Doctor Who Fact #678432: Davros' wheelchair recycles his waste into nutrient paste that is delivered back into his body by way of an elaborate system of tubes which are the reason for his expression of merriment and tone of sheer peacefulness.
I've been rewatching classic Doctor Who for good stories. I am still watching William Hartnell at the moment but I look forward to the start of the Tom Baker era which was my favorite.
As a child of the 70s Davros scared me so much I hid around the back of the couch. I was nearly there again watching this but my sofa is against the wall!!! 🤭😊
Absolutely loved this episode, this was my very very first classic who episode and fell in love with Tom bakers version of the doctor💙💙 EXTERMINATE!!!!!!
@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
I recall watching this when it was first broadcast way back in 1975, and being only young at the time, was absolutely petrified when I saw Davros for the first time! At first, and given his rather hideously deformed/wheelchair-bound state, I thought he was a puppet, worked by some clever mechanical means, it was only later that I realized that he was actually played by an actor. Davros, possibly the baddest, maddest man in the universe, and for me at least, the ultimate Dr Who villain, played superbly in this story (his Dr Who debut) by Michael Wisher, who for me at least, was THE Davros
Behind the cosy melodrama. Behind the jokes about "wobbly sets" and "stairs". Brilliant acting. And a brilliant story. The pure of heart shall inherit the universe and stop the horror of evolution. Not by being meek. But by extermination. Can the Doctor stop them? And does he have the right?
"You dare to interfere! You have the audacity to interrupt one of MY experiments!" I think if Davros had got any angrier here, his head might have exploded and/or his mobile life support system blown a fuse😄
A great pity the budget didn't extend to having a 1963 version dalek in this scene..the Doctors "very primitive" line would then have made much more sense.
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.
@@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.
Absolutely one of the very best Doctor Who stories, ever. I will rewatch this in particular when nothing catches my interests. After that, almost any other Tom Baker. Including his Sinbad movie! Lol
This is a masterpiece story and got the dalek figures from this story. And this was part of the time lord victorious. And hoping to get a b and m genesis of the daleks set this year.
Me too, it was a defining part of my childhood and it's still a classic, they worked hard to make it dark and frightening in the bunker. It's a great story.
The part where the Dalek Gun is removed from its case and given to the Dalek is so similar to the scene where the Disintegrator Gun is removed from its case and given to the Robot in the the same season.
This is always great. It's more a piece of theater than modern television production (well, obviously I know - it was made almost 50 years ago). If they could have gotten away with some dancer flitting through a scene and called it "a storm" that would have been fine.Also notice there's a very subtle echo on everything that makes everything "look" bigger. Low budget certainly but they knew what they were doing.
Interesting that Davros specifies that "the machine" is the creature, this ties in with the next Dalek story which some fans say demeans the Daleks by classifying them as robots who used to be organic. Of course the point is, the Daleks suborned their organic intelligence to machine logic - in many ways Terry Nation also invented the Cybermen (the Robomen from 1964 even look a bit like them). And Karel Capek, who invented robots in his play "R. U. R." made them partly organic.
I felt very sorry for all the other people around Davros, they all got killed, because of his insane ambition. Nasty 😱 Davros himself died originally until the Doctor intervened, and when Davros had died as in the original history, it meant the Daleks did become unstoppable, by anyone except the Doctor. Whereas that changed afterwards.
The battle grey Daleks in this story are my all time favourite Daleks. I just love them. Genesis of the Daleks is one of my favourite Tom Baker stories. Just brilliant.
I missed the last episode of this when it was originally broadcast cos it was my best mates tenth birthday party. He threw a strop and ran off into the local woods screaming "I'm never coming back!" His dad chased after him going "Get back here David!" Sometimes real life is better than Doctor Who. 😀
And featuring in my opinion one of the WORST Dalek designs. (The true worst designs being the ones from Destiny of the Daleks.) I'm sorry, but I hate the continuity error of the Mark III's being the first Daleks instead of the Mark I's, the static pupils instead of the dilating irises, the shoddy glossy paint job, & I really don't like the grey & black colors and prefer the original 1960s Silver & Blue Daleks from both the show & the Peter Cushing movies, and this is coming from a guy from America who's first exposure to both Doctor Who & the Daleks was Looney Tunes: Back in Action, Peter Capaldi's role in Lego Dimensions, & Army of the Ghosts/Doomsday's Disney XD trailer!
1978, KBSC TV Channel 52 Corona, California (now Telemundo). Dr. Who was broadcast around 3 in the PM just in time after returning home from middle school, I was 13. Been hooked ever since.
I've always wondered how dirty his scarf is from always dragging on the ground and I am also surprised he does'nt trip because of it dragging around his feet or gets his feet tangled up with that 60 foot scarf causing him to fall,or if he has ever jumped in an elevator but got the scarf caught in the closed doors. Could strangle him.
3:00 I believe the last time Michael Wisher voiced a Dalek? Also love the effect for the Dalek weapon used at the end of Episode 1 with the secret testing
Every time I watch this episode I just fixate on the fact that the actor playing Davros is most likely scrunched down and awkwardly walking inside that thing. The fact that he can do that and still turn out such a great performance is really impressive.
The line aboit it being a MKIII does help explain why the Daleks seen in the first story were different it’s possible those were MKI casings with those featured in “The Dalek Invasion of Earth” being MKII
@@criert135Terry Nation, in "The Dalek Guide" , explained that some of the Kaleds in the Dome survived the Nuclear Attack by the Thaals, and mutated into Squids (Dals) while the Renegades were in their 1000 Year Hibernation while they waited for the Bunker Exit to clear, the Dals, dying from the polluted atmosphere, found some of Davros's notes and Early MK1 Prototypes in the Domes Ruins, and, used them to Survive, Becoming the 60's/ Skaro Dalek's as a Result.
our machine is now equipped with a weapon for self defence...and a special device for unblocking toilets
;)
You mean like ruclips.net/video/4YR8fp0RF8o/видео.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?!"
3:16 I love how this Davros's voice actually rises to a Dalek-like scream when he gets angry.
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.
"My creature showed a natural desire. An instinct to destroy."
I really do love Davros as an antagonist. He really just shows he is completely sociopathic. How he is curious on the concept of genocide and completely extermination of all life.
Similar when the doctor questioned him about creating a virus and letting in it out into the world, just to watch the carnage.
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.
Considering the budget for Dr Who sets back then, these genesis episodes are remarkable. Add in the excellent script and the acting, this was peak Dr Who.
They really are great and hold up so well today.
The actor playing Davros is simply amazing. In my view, one of the greatest characters on classic serial science fiction television.
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!
Ah, the old "Mad Scientist creates a weapon that can think for itself, but doesn't consider the fact, that that means he won't be able to control it." It's a classic.
"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.
"Brilliant... Brilliant! It has detected the non-conformity." That line alone is terrifying.
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.
Davros is very clearly evil and insane. But the Kaleds put him in charge of science and weapons development. They’d also basically killed their world in pursuit of their war. A subtle yet elegant message.
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
Right from the start Davros is consumed by nothing but a drive to have his creations kill and think as dominant life forms. Ironic that he never considered they would deem him inferior too.
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!
Holy cow Davros could easily pass as my mother inlaw. The resemblance is so uncanny.
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!!!!!
Genedis of the Daleks is one of the best Dr Who stories of all time. It's brilliant!
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
The director of this story, David Maloney, deserves more credit. He did great work on Doctor Who.
Michael Wisher who plays Davros in this also deserves more credit. His performance as Davros is absolutely perfect.
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
One thing I do like about classic science fiction is seeing things that are considered futuristic at the time but are somewhat mundane now. For example Voice Control here.
It's always interesting to see how far we've come.
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
“My creature showed a natural desire an instinct to destroy”
I love how this doesn’t raise a clear red flag for the kaled scientists until a few episodes down the line
“You don’t suppose this guy we’re working for is a sociopathic maniac and that we are committing our own future to be destructive and unfeeling machine like creatures”
“Lol nah mate”
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!
Tom Baker is STILL the greatest Doctor to date.
he really gave the show the foothold it needed to continue for as long as it has.
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!
Tom Baker made my school day afternoons so much fun. As a American kid in the 70's we had Star Trek, Space:1999 and a few others. But, Dr. Who was a whole new book for me. Just wonderful.
Rupert Murdochs foray into acting, type casting at its best. A marvelous Davros.
My all time favourite dr Who story, supposedly Terry Nation had been told off for "phoning it in" with his last few Dr Who scripts , and then went away in a huff and subsequently produced this absolute classic. I'm thinking people should have taken the time to annoy Nation more often lol
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.
It’s greatly ironic that Ronson would become the first fatal victim of the Daleks after saving the Doctor of all people from that specific fate.
When I was 12 years old this was my first episode when I was on vacation in Australia. And I was hooked ever since. No wonder they took the joker's spot away. As the number one sci-fi villain of all time. Rest well Michael Wisher. Davros is a combination of Adolf Hitler Joseph Mengle and Dr Frankenstein. And Mr Wisher brought it out in real life. I can only imagine what kind of voice. If would have done if he had lived. And done the Batman animated series.
' 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.
"That's magnificent! He's perfected voice control!" There's a key reason these episodes work and why people STILL seek them out - they have very strong narratives and are focused. I know there's the whole message behind what the Daleks actually represent but nobody is stopping to tell you. They never underestimated the intelligence of 8 year olds.
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.
Genesis of the Daleks remains my all-time favourite Classic serial. Not just because it features the debut of Davros, the themes of war and conflict provide a darker, thrilling atmosphere.
Michael Wisher does a FANTASTIC job as Davros!
Still one of the absolute best, most iconic moments in tv history!
💙🪠🧂🔫💙
If I ever need a wheelchair it’s going to look like that.
And Russell t Davies had the cheek to say that it made disabled people look back
Utter brilliance 'Genesis Of The Daleks' it is so dark, so ominous, so atmospheric and so engrossing! By far the best Doctor Who episode of all time. It has a most 'grown-up' storyline that will never ever become dated because sadly evil deranged leaders/dictators will always be a part of human history!
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.
I don’t know about the rest of y’all, but as soon as Davros showed up I felt the overwhelming sense that everyone bound to a wheelchair was evil.
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!
Michael Wisher’s performance as Davros is still incredible to watch, and only Julian Bleach has come close to equalling it. Apparently, Wisher wasn’t even the first choice to play him, which seems hard to believe now, simply because he’s so good in the role.
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.
New Doctor Who has never come anywhere as close as this in terms of storytelling, camera direction, acting, the use of simplistic sets to convey the atmosphere and capturing the gravity of the situation. There is a reason this and many classic Doctor Who are classics.
best doctor ever, i remember watching with my father growing up as a kid. when they changed doctors we were both mad. lol miss you dad
Eh. Pat and Jon run rings around Tom onscreen for me. Colin and Sylvester do the same in the Big Finish audios.
Davros and the daleks are the product of the thousand years of total war on Skaro between the kaleds and the thalls. Generations came and went, bathed in hate and death and the struggle for survival and victory. One can see how Davros might have become the way he is and how the daleks are just a projection of him, and as we see later the daleks main programming is survival and victory over all that is not them. Genesis is one of the best episodes and the acting is superb, especially Michael Wisher in the role of Davros.
Little Known Doctor Who Fact #678432: Davros' wheelchair recycles his waste into nutrient paste that is delivered back into his body by way of an elaborate system of tubes which are the reason for his expression of merriment and tone of sheer peacefulness.
I've been rewatching classic Doctor Who for good stories. I am still watching William Hartnell at the moment but I look forward to the start of the Tom Baker era which was my favorite.
As a child of the 70s Davros scared me so much I hid around the back of the couch. I was nearly there again watching this but my sofa is against the wall!!! 🤭😊
Everyone has a favourite Dr.Tom Baker every time. He never needed to act. Just a natural fit for the character.
3:22 30 seconds ago he said the weapon was for "self defense" then it immediately tried to kill someone for no reason hahah
Absolutely loved this episode, this was my very very first classic who episode and fell in love with Tom bakers version of the doctor💙💙 EXTERMINATE!!!!!!
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.
I recall watching this when it was first broadcast way back in 1975, and being only young at the time, was absolutely petrified when I saw Davros for the first time! At first, and given his rather hideously deformed/wheelchair-bound state, I thought he was a puppet, worked by some clever mechanical means, it was only later that I realized that he was actually played by an actor. Davros, possibly the baddest, maddest man in the universe, and for me at least, the ultimate Dr Who villain, played superbly in this story (his Dr Who debut) by Michael Wisher, who for me at least, was THE Davros
He is right up there with the Joker, Riddler,Ras A Gul.
My childhood Doctor, and Davros.... he frightened the life out of me as a kid
Magnificent! He's perfected voice control!
Behind the cosy melodrama. Behind the jokes about "wobbly sets" and "stairs". Brilliant acting. And a brilliant story.
The pure of heart shall inherit the universe and stop the horror of evolution. Not by being meek. But by extermination.
Can the Doctor stop them? And does he have the right?
0:39 Love the music when Davros enters the room.
Saw this episode this morning and it still gives me goosebumps
"You dare to interfere! You have the audacity to interrupt one of MY experiments!" I think if Davros had got any angrier here, his head might have exploded and/or his mobile life support system blown a fuse😄
This was a great show back then
I swear I have been a fan of Dr. Who since I was born this is epic.
When they hook up the first disintegrator sends chills down my spine
He's mastered voice control. Alexa could take some lessons.
GPT-5 would have made these evil scientists have a techgasm.
This is the Doctor I grew up. Man those were was great years. I am 46.
Tom Baker, my favorite doctor. I remember watching these in the late 70's to early 80's
This scene has always the best part I enjoyed ever day of my life.
1:32 "You're mistaken! It's a mark 3 travel machine for the BBC dwarf that's sitting inside it."
Tom Baker, #4, one of my favorite Doctors’.
A great pity the budget didn't extend to having a 1963 version dalek in this scene..the Doctors "very primitive" line would then have made much more sense.
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.
Absolutely one of the very best Doctor Who stories, ever. I will rewatch this in particular when nothing catches my interests. After that, almost any other Tom Baker. Including his Sinbad movie! Lol
One of the best episodes of Dr Who
Davros is an ultimate villain. He gives me the creepies yet can't but watch him. BUT always the Dr has the last laugh. YAH Dr!!
This is a masterpiece story and got the dalek figures from this story. And this was part of the time lord victorious. And hoping to get a b and m genesis of the daleks set this year.
Recycled boiler plate, coat hangers,1960's car indicator lights and a hand brushed paint job. BBC spared no expense.
And yet - it’s compelling stuff. Budget is irrelevant when you have writing and acting as good as this.
"I've equipped this machine with the ability to think for itself with no outside influence. Now what?"
"lets give it a gun!!!!"
I was about 7 when I saw this. It still thrills and chills me today even with its humble budget. Its just that good.
Me too, it was a defining part of my childhood and it's still a classic, they worked hard to make it dark and frightening in the bunker. It's a great story.
Michael Wisher was superb as Davros.
the only one ;)
The part where the Dalek Gun is removed from its case and given to the Dalek is so similar to the scene where the Disintegrator Gun is removed from its case and given to the Robot in the the same season.
Always my favorite Dr. Who. I accept no substitutions.
I'm surprised The Doctor did not cotton on to the fact it had something to do with Daleks when he saw Davros' bubbly pants
When it comes to classic Who, this is episode was definitely the standard that all others were judged by 😊
There's 14ths first dalek with the sink plunger on it at 1:22.
This is always great. It's more a piece of theater than modern television production (well, obviously I know - it was made almost 50 years ago). If they could have gotten away with some dancer flitting through a scene and called it "a storm" that would have been fine.Also notice there's a very subtle echo on everything that makes everything "look" bigger. Low budget certainly but they knew what they were doing.
Interesting that Davros specifies that "the machine" is the creature, this ties in with the next Dalek story which some fans say demeans the Daleks by classifying them as robots who used to be organic. Of course the point is, the Daleks suborned their organic intelligence to machine logic - in many ways Terry Nation also invented the Cybermen (the Robomen from 1964 even look a bit like them). And Karel Capek, who invented robots in his play "R. U. R." made them partly organic.
The Cybermen were created by Kit Pedler and not Terry Nation. He was a scientist himself.
@@aarthoor Well, the Robomen in his 1964 story are pretty much the Cybermen from the 1966 story. Plus The Avengers had the Cybernauts in 1965.
I felt very sorry for all the other people around Davros, they all got killed, because of his insane ambition. Nasty 😱
Davros himself died originally until the Doctor intervened, and when Davros had died as in the original history, it meant the Daleks did become unstoppable, by anyone except the Doctor. Whereas that changed afterwards.
this serial was my very first ever sight of a dalek.
The battle grey Daleks in this story are my all time favourite Daleks. I just love them. Genesis of the Daleks is one of my favourite Tom Baker stories. Just brilliant.
I missed the last episode of this when it was originally broadcast cos it was my best mates tenth birthday party. He threw a strop and ran off into the local woods screaming "I'm never coming back!" His dad chased after him going "Get back here David!" Sometimes real life is better than Doctor Who. 😀
Anyone's here after the latest dr who show? I think the original one is 1000s times better than the new one
He was the best Doctor
By far the BEST Dr Who actor ever
The _BEST_ Dalek story featuring the _BEST_ Davros out of the whole series.
Thank you, Terry nation. Thank you, Michael Wisher.
Thank Robert Holmes, who heavily edited Nation’s script and made this story what it is.
And featuring in my opinion one of the WORST Dalek designs. (The true worst designs being the ones from Destiny of the Daleks.) I'm sorry, but I hate the continuity error of the Mark III's being the first Daleks instead of the Mark I's, the static pupils instead of the dilating irises, the shoddy glossy paint job, & I really don't like the grey & black colors and prefer the original 1960s Silver & Blue Daleks from both the show & the Peter Cushing movies, and this is coming from a guy from America who's first exposure to both Doctor Who & the Daleks was Looney Tunes: Back in Action, Peter Capaldi's role in Lego Dimensions, & Army of the Ghosts/Doomsday's Disney XD trailer!
I just recently watched this. God it was awesome. *EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!*
Only in Doctor Who could the 10th Dalek story be the first. Poetry. 😁
Such glorious dialogue. Who doesn't love Tom Baker?
1978, KBSC TV Channel 52 Corona, California (now Telemundo). Dr. Who was broadcast around 3 in the PM just in time after returning home from middle school, I was 13. Been hooked ever since.
Back when Dr Who was worth watching
plot twist; daleks could vacuum like a Roomba.
It doesn't get much better than this
I forgot how old he’s getting now I’m glad he still alive though
Every hair on my body is standing on end, especially when davros started shouting when interrupted. I'm so haunted by daleks voices
I've always wondered how dirty his scarf is from always dragging on the ground and I am also surprised he does'nt trip because of it dragging around his feet or gets his feet tangled up with that 60 foot scarf causing him to fall,or if he has ever jumped in an elevator but got the scarf caught in the closed doors. Could strangle him.
I'm sure he tripped up on his scarf in the invasion of time.
The angrier Davros gets, the more he sounds likea Dalek. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
Dave Ross is a name that will go down in Who history as one of the Doctor’s greatest villains
Here after watching the sneak peak with the 14th Doctor
"I like it!" - Davros after seeing a plunger on his death machine.
" Look out the Daleks are coming!"
Everyone just go up some stairs, showed them!
"The fact is that the Time Lords did start it, all the way back in Genesis of the Daleks."
It responds to voice control. Some of the guys suggested we call it Siri, but Davros is insisting we call it a Dalek.
Got to love the Daleks, and the plunger for their hand. Just like a B movie but it's a show. I always kept thinking where's the toilet.
The metallic bodies and colours of the Daleks in the 1970s seem to have an austere early 1980s design style.
3:00 I believe the last time Michael Wisher voiced a Dalek? Also love the effect for the Dalek weapon used at the end of Episode 1 with the secret testing
Every time I watch this episode I just fixate on the fact that the actor playing Davros is most likely scrunched down and awkwardly walking inside that thing. The fact that he can do that and still turn out such a great performance is really impressive.
The producers saw an early episode of Pike on Star Trek and said "you know, we don't have MUCH of a budget, but we can do a sight better than THAT!"
Davros is quite a reasonable chap, in the end.
The line aboit it being a MKIII does help explain why the Daleks seen in the first story were different it’s possible those were MKI casings with those featured in “The Dalek Invasion of Earth” being MKII
Except this story is set well before both of those stories.
@@criert135Terry Nation, in "The Dalek Guide" , explained that some of the Kaleds in the Dome survived the Nuclear Attack by the Thaals, and mutated into Squids (Dals) while the Renegades were in their 1000 Year Hibernation while they waited for the Bunker Exit to clear, the Dals, dying from the polluted atmosphere, found some of Davros's notes and Early MK1 Prototypes in the Domes Ruins, and, used them to Survive, Becoming the 60's/ Skaro Dalek's as a Result.