Terry Molloy might be my favourite actor to play Davros. For years it was the original Michael Wisher but Molloy's consistently amazing performances backed by stellar writing in Big Finish have nudged him into the top spot. And this story is a blast! Action-packed and so many memories seared into my young mind - the sinister policemen, the Daleks swarming the prison like stormtroopers, gas attack gore, badass Commander Lytton, creepy duplicate soldiers, the mutant in the warehouse, that epic "Release Davros!". The notoriously high death count is also the highest onscreen of any DW story.
Wisher’s Davros is definitely a mad scientist. Molloy’s Davros? Well, Molloy’s Davros is Gene Wilder in Frankenstein… utterly batshit insane but no less dangerous.
At what second of the video is it??? I wanna see her reaction to it but hadn't seen this serial yet so would like to avoid other spoilers not informed by the thumbnail lol
The engineer Davros takes over went on to become a famous soap opera villain, "Dirty Den" Watts on EastEnders. The actress who played his wife is now Mrs. Flood on NuWho!!
I have been looking forward to watching your reaction to this story, because I have a personal attachment to it. I have a manikin on my landing wearing a costume worn by the actor (Jim Findley) who plays Mercer. (It's the green coverall that he wears in the first half of the story.) I even got Jim to play a part in an independent film I made some years ago, and I'm delighted to tell you he is a really lovely guy.
Terry Molloy was shortlisted to come back as Davros in The Stolen Earth. In the end they went with Julian Bleach as he had worked with David Tennant before and so the chemistry was already there, but Molloy has done a lot with Big Finish including the excellent iDavros series.
tbh that's mildly dumb. Chemistry with Tennant really isn't important in that story with that role. He just talks at a wall and shouts really. I'm cool with either casting choice but that reasoning is pretty silly.
The story with a higher body count than the Terminator, and most slasher movies. Though originally filmed as a traditional four- parter, Resurrection of the Daleks was aired as a two-parter to free up transmission slots for the 1984 Winter Olympics. This story is notable for being the debut of Terry Molloy as the third actor to portray Davros, who would carry on playing the role well into the Big Finish audio dramas.
Another classic story its between this one or another for favourite this season great dalek story great backing guest characters and last of 2024 merry Christmas
5:04 Dr Styles is played by Rula Lenska, who was one of the actresses shortlisted for the role of Jo Grant. It was finally decided that Lenska was too tall and voluptuous to play the part, which of course went to the shorter, but no less attractive, Katy Manning.
This story was originally intended to be the final 4-parter of season 20, between _The King's Demons_ and _The Five Doctors,_ but was postponed to season 21 due to an electricians' strike. It was produced (with some alterations) as the intended 4 parts, but was then broadcast in 2 longer episodes in a different timeslot due to the 1984 Winter Olympics. Depending on where you watch, you might see either the 2 or 4 part version.
THIS is the start of the Great "R_____ Of The Daleks" stories! It does that "beer holding" trope of DARK Dr. Who that is one of my favorite runs!! There are bodies dropping all over, it makes The Daleks and Davros feel as dangerous as they should be! It's not for everyone, including the companions!
Fifth is my favorite Doctor in classic Who. Out of all Doctors, he’s second only to the 11th. This story is a great showcase of reminding us how evil the Daleks are and allows Five to shine by putting him and his companions through the paces. “Brave Heart, Doctor!”
Just so you know, Jess, this episode was only a two part story because it was broadcast around the 1984 Olympics, so they smushed 4 episodes down into two longer episodes to handle the Olympics. Also, this shows you where the Shouty Davros from Modern Who comes from. This story - Davros has *lost his shit* at the Daleks and has (probably) lost his mind. He is, however, no less dangerous.
Hi Seska this story brought back the black Dalek Supreme, back and he was played John Scott Martin, a Dalek veteran and also voiced by actor Brian Miller and his black Dalek sports white spheres instead of dark blue spheres like in the Bill Hartnell Dalek serials and also the Supreme Dalek in Day of the Daleks was gold with black spheres and in Planet of the Daleks he was black with gold spheres and gold dome. I do say Seska it well worth seeing and reacting to sci-fi series Blakes Seven which started in 78 and ran to 81 and I loved it enormously .
PS. I also wanted to let you know why this story is a "long" two part adventure. It was shown in early 1984, and clashed with the winter Olympics, so to make it fit into the BBC's schedule. The BBC edited part one and two together, and then the same thing with parts three and four. I was pleased they did this, as I was appearing in a school play at the time, and it would have made me miss part two if it had gone out in its intended format.
*"A Man who never would!"* proceeds to pop a cap in that Dalek ass. There's quite a few guest stars in this story, and Jess probs wouldn't recognize even one😆 Would *_Eastenders_* have started by the time this aired?
Eastenders started about 1985 I think so Leslie Grantham wouldn't have been recognised. I did notice Chloe Ashcroft from "Play School" wearing the glasses, helping tend Tegan though.
But there's also Maurice (Howard's away) Colbourne and of course Rodney (Likely Lads) Bewes in there... Have to say though as a child of the 70's it's always surprising to see Chloe as an actor rather than presenter...
@Payne2view I believe Matthew Robinson, the director of this story, cast Leslie Grantham in this, then later when auditions were taking place to cast Dirty Den, cast Grantham in that role as he was set to (and did) direct the first ever episode of “EastEnders,” which first aired in February, 1985! Trivia fact: it’s believed that part of the reason that Grade and Powell wanted Doctor Who axed in 1985 was due to wanting to use its budget on the new EastEnders soap, as it was the BBC’s first major soap opera in decades, which both men hoped would eventually rival ITV’s long running juggernaut soap opera, “Coronation Street,” which in 1985 was still pulling in a staggering 30 million viewers every week, something both Grade and Powell wanted their new soap opera to eventually aspire to reaching the same level of success and viewing figures!
This story is quite dark for Team TARDIS (not nearly as dark as Earthshock though but one of the darkest Dalek stories for sure). It's not one of my main go-to Dalek stories by itself I think but I feel it captures the darkness and mood of the Daleks far better than many other stories in terms of drama and intensity. This story left its mark for sure. In terms of Davros stories, just you wait for the sequels 😉
You could rank all the Dalek stories in the format of a tier list video. That way you can add new Dalek stories to your existing tier list as time goes on in future videos. Sounds like The Dalek Invasion of Earth would be placed in your S tier. I'm trying to think which Dalek stories (if any) you might put in the F tier. I'm loving the storytelling, pacing and atmosphere in this story. It's the complete opposite to what we got in Warriors of the Deep. Not one second of screen time has felt wasted in this first part. Making the Daleks feel like a genuine threat has become a lost art (especially in New Who!) and is a feat that is understandably difficult to pull off considering The Doctor and his companions are pretty much always guaranteed to win every battle against them. This story does a pretty good job making them feel like a threat again. I wasn't expecting Bob Ferris from The Likely Lads to show up in an episode of Classic Who as a Dalek agent but here we are.
I would definitely agree on that. I would say that Chibnall did at least bring back the menace and threatening in the 13th Doctor's era (it's fine if you disagree, it's just the vibe I get from the Daleks in those stories), but I agree that they've lost some of their menace in New Who since maybe the end of Tennant's 10th Doctor era.
Notoriously one of the most violent Doctor Who stories with a bigger body count than Natural Born Killers and The Terminator. Certainly the first ep is the most tense and scary since the Baker/Hinchliffe years. The winter Olympics of 1984 messed things up for this story. Season 21 went out Thursday and Fridays but this had two episodes shown together on Wednesdays
Actor Leslie Grantham who appeared in this before going on to long term success in UK soap opera Eastenders, was a murderer in real life, going into acting after serving time for killing a taxi driver for his money.
He was charged with Man Slaughter , but the the BBC being the BBC got over that, but then sacked him for being sleazy online. In keeping with his character, but they sacked him. So Man Slaughter, ok, knocking one out on a webcam no 😅
@@AndyRossism "In his statement to the police following his arrest, Grantham said that he did not know the gun was loaded and it had gone off during the struggle, which would have resulted in a conviction for manslaughter had a jury believed this version of events. However, at his trial in April 1967, he was convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. Grantham was paroled in 1977, having served 10 years of his life sentence."
Viewers in some 1980s PBS markets (mine included) had a weird experience with this story. Somehow, the incidental music and sound effects were missing from part of it! Imagine seeing the the sequence when the Daleks blast their way into the prison ship but there is only the dialogue, no dramatic music, no "zings" from the Dalek guns, no "zows" from the human weapons! It was rather like watching a schoolyard game of "cops and robbers", but the participants don't even say "Bang! Bang!" to imply they've shot their guns! Even the explosion of the bulkhead was merely the "crack" of the pyrotechnics used to break apart the set dressing, no truly thunderous "boom!" as we've come to expect from decades of movies and TV. A similar thing happened (at least for my PBS station) with "The Brain of Morbius". When the Doctor and Sarah arrive on Karn, there is lightning that reveals a graveyard of crashed spaceships and later they're caught in a torrential rainstorm. But there is no thunder. Later, the doors to Solon's castle swing open and a chandelier crashes, supposedly by violent winds directed by the Sisterhood, but there's no accompanying "howl" to clarify that as the cause. One can sometimes forget how important sound and/or music are to a scene...until they are absent. Now, I can understand that during the conversion process of the material from European PAL format and NTSC is complicated and the audio also has to be reworked due to slightly different playback speeds. There are no doubt cases when a step is overlooked. It's just weird that only SOME PBS stations got tapes lacking the supplementary audio tracks but not other markets. One would think ALL the distribution tapes came from the same masters.
That's so interesting and weird? I don't remember anything odd seeming about the audio of "The Brain of Morbius" or "Resurrection of the Daleks" (as shown in the Baton Rouge, Louisiana area on WLPB).
I sometimes wonder, given hindsight and what JNT had noted as an arc/flow mistake for >insert spoiler here< this current season (21), if the originally-intended production/airing for this story (the end of S20) would really have been better placement, if the electricians' strike hadn't delayed/shifted production earlier that season. It would have allowed for part of >insert spoiler here< to occur a little earlier in the season which would have allowed for more arc-time for >spoiler< to play out more organically (as JNT noted that later part again being a mistake/misjudgment on his part relative to >spoiler< ).
@@tideoftime ...OK, I'm pretty deeply versed in the production/background stuff of this era, as well as the plotlines of most stories yet to come, but even *I* can't figure out what on Earth you're talking about! =;o} Maybe try this comment again once the spoilers aren't spoilers any more?
@@therealpbristow Lol -- if you're actually familiar with the era, then you know what the spoilers are in context -- particularly relative to JNT's mistake/"mistake" in how certain arcs were handled this season, in terms of timing. That should be more than enough of a clue as to what's being referred to, especially relative to the timing of this story. :) (I'm just following Sesska's directive about not mentioning future events in a "currently" reacting episode.)
This story was panned a lot for how violent the Doctor was, I remember that. But I think Peter Davison acquitted himself well, as always in his role. I'm still on the fence about Terry Malloy after all these years. Nobody's ever going to beat Michael Wisher's electric performance as Davros...but I guess Terry's okay enough.
This is the one episode, of all shows with cats in them, that my cats I had growing up were at all fooled by. The meow on the TV was answered back by my pets! No other show fooled them but this episode. For me Genesis is the definitive Daleks story, but I do like this one and one from the next to last season of Classic era as my favs.
Resurrection of the Daleks is so dark, brutal, violent, nasty and disturbing. It's a story clearly made with the purpose of leaving the viewer feeling dirty... and that's all a good thing. I have a lot of problems with the Eric Saward era, but for me Resurrection of the Daleks is a case where all of his tropes work really well (along with Earthshock, The Caves of Androzani, Vengeance on Varos and Revelation of the Daleks). It's easily on my Top 5 Fifth Doctor stories.
Rodney Bewes who played Stien was a British TV legend from his role as Bob in BBC Sitcom "Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads" - ironically his onscreen wife in that, Thelma, was played by Brigit Forsyth who had appeared in the Patrick Troughton classic "Evil of the Daleks" in 1967!
I love how Davros absolutely loses it when he hears that the Movellans won the war. On the one hand, he crows that the Daleks must come grovelling back to him for help. On the other hand, he can't accept that his creation is anything less than perfect and superior. But it really makes me want to see more of the Movellans. We're told the Movellans are no better than the Daleks, so they could have been suitable villains to revisit numerous times.
Woohoo this is a good one! Resurrection of the Daleks was a story from my early years that I definitely wanted to watch. Because i can remember when I borrowed Kinda from the library i opened up the vhs inside to see a catalog of all other bbc videos of doctor who and seeing Resurrection listed on there. I went to check if my library had it, sadly they didn’t so I didn’t see this story many years later till I got it on dvd. For me this is one of my favourite Dalek stories. It’s bleak, action packed but it’s a convoluted script with so many plots going on but has great writing. Davros is one of my highlights in this story with Terry Malloy playing the role and my opinion my favourite portrayal of Davros. I know many people consider Michael Wisher the best Davros but honestly Terry Malloy is the definitive Davros. The character has multiple layers and who doesn’t love that good old rant? It never gets old.
The gas attack scene traumatised me when I first saw it at ten years old. It was the fourth classic story I watched, and it was engraved in my consciousness for months.
This was a four part story that was turned into a two parter due to scheduling conflicts with the Olympics. On the DVD, the cliffhanger for part 1 is the dalek appearing in the corridor, the Doctor and others taking cover and the Dalek yelling EXTERMINATE.
This was originally supposed to be the finale of Season 20. It's production got postponed due to an industrial strike at the BBC. (The Five Doctors was produced as a special, separate from the rest of Season 20, and with its own budget.) Resurrection was made as a four parter (and can be viewed some places in that format) but was broadcast as two 45 minute episodes to free up air time for coverage of the 1984 Winter Olympics.
I did meet Terry Molloy in Coalville. The museum where I was working at had a Doctor Who exhibition. I was busy clearing tables etc. I would have asked for an autograph. But you needed to pay.
Rula Lenska is a good guest actress but I wonder how they got Chloe Ashcroft who presented shows for under 6s. How was she attracted to the script, her role was meant to go to Miriam Margolyes.
Resurrection is SO close to being a classic for me. It's a brutal, dirty, grimey story & the atmosphere is unmatched in 80's who, but there's literally about half a dozen plots all fighting for screen time at once and it's just too much
It's also just too bloodthirsty in killing off basically every character in the story, it's trying too hard to be dark and edgy and brutal. Just so many random scenes of random people getting gunned down for no reason.
Back In the classic era the stories with the Daleks always stepped up and more money was spent but the chemical warfare that the Daleks use on boarding the station is horrific this went out originally earlier evening was shocking back then.
I saw this story for the first time myself about...a month ago I want to say. I didn't quite know what to make of it to be honest, but I did love Davros, The Daleks with their new voices, and the Doctor. Fit to burst is how I would describe it, but in a fun way in a way. 🙂Terry Molloy's take on Davros is my favourite as well. He's so chilling and unnerving, Molloy brings the best out of this character. 🙂I hope Christmas treated you well. 😊
One of the most highest body counts in any other Doctor Who episodes even more than "RoboCop" or "Total Recall" and I wish they had this kind of violence in NuWho.
Happy holidays, Jess! The Winter Olympics necessitated the show be transmitted as two 45 minute episodes, broadcast on consecutive Wednesdays on BBC1 back in February 1984.
This is proper Dr. Who i'm sorry call me old-fashioned but I really hate the term "TARDIS team" it sounds like a rugby league football match it's just the Doctor and his companions I love Jodie Whittaker's Doctor but the one thing I hated about her era was the introduction of the term "TARDIS team" or "Fam".
There was once a list of violent movies compared to this story and Earthshock in terms of numbers of on screen deaths. Earthshock had 36 and Resurrection of the Daleks was top on 76, while Reservoir Dogs had just 9!
Currently I’m in the rewatch process of all of Classic Doctor Who and I’m currently rewatching The Dalek Invasion Of Earth 🌎, but I’ll be happy when I eventually reach this serial and beforehand reading the Eric Saward novelization!
I do say Seska this Dalek story was intended to bring back the Dalek Emperor who had last appeared in the second Dr story Evil of the Daleks, but instead we got the black Dalek Supreme back who had last appeared in Planet of the Daleks. I also when I first saw this story was shocked that Stein Rodney Bewes, was a Dalek agent and the sets on both the Dalek battle cruiser and the space station are well awesome and this story is like the Cyberstory Earthshock and also there are awesome locations in the area of London too.
😂 Aww man! I was hoping you'd see this is technically a two parter and accidentally give us four parts worth of DW in one video! So as not to break with your "2 parts a week" format. Haha! Merry Christmas and New Years and everything for this week!
The escapee who gets killed in the opening scenes has the name "Galloway". That seems to be a call-back to an earlier Daleks story, "Death To The daleks" where a character called Galloway generally acts selfishly but ends up saving everyone by sacrificing his life, detonating a bomb while on a Dalek spaceship.
@maartenvangeffen4508 excuse me last time I checked I wasn't the only one who's made posts like that. All I said was that she'd need tissues for part 2, that could mean anything. Get a grip
Back in the day when this aired in Canada, Part Two was missing all of the music and sound effects. It was one of the funniest things I'd ever seen. I wonder where you found these as it's been a four-perter on every home video release so far. Fingers crossed this is the messed-up version.🤣
Doctor Who was going through a lot of problems in those days because Uh they were up against other big shows that were on in England and this episode they ran as a two-parter they're basically made part one longer than part two they did this later on and Colin Bakers error
It wasn’t up against a big show this early. That problem started from S23 when Trial was pitted against The A-Team and then S24-26 were put up against Corrie. This was edited into two 45-minute episodes because the original slots were taken up by coverage of the 1984 Winter Olympics from Sarajevo. At this time, Who was up against whatever each ITV region was spewing up which was regional news, Crossroads (a popular soap opera whose popularity had been waning for a good few years by then) or cheap American imports like WKRP In Cincinnati.
As a story, “Resurrection of the Daleks,” is, IMO, pretty much rubbish all the way through! Eric Saward, the then script editor, could often turn in a half decent script (“The Visitation,”) as well as much better ones (“Earthshock,” “Revelation of the Daleks,”) but his script for this story was all over the place! Its main fault was that it had too many ideas, with none of those ideas being properly thought out nor executed as well as they could have been! Why did the Daleks need Davros in the first place? If they could already design and implement a germ warfare virus, capable of wiping out everything on Spiridon (“Planet of the Daleks,”) then surely their scientists could have come up with another type of virus, one which could wipe out the virus the Movellan’s made? Failing that, the Daleks could have operated on themselves to come up with an antidote to the Movellan virus! Of course Davros wasn’t needed in this story but contractually he had to be included in every Dalek story since “Genesis of the Daleks,” on the behest of their creator, Terry Nation, otherwise he had the power to veto any future Dalek story from being made! The script also had too many characters/guest stars in it, and none of them had anything meaningful to do in the story. Rula Lenska and Rodney Bewes were only cast because of their so called ‘star pulling power,’ and in Lenska’s case she wasn’t given much to do in the story but be there to issue world weary lines about her character and the job she was doing. I loved Rodney Bewes in the hit sitcom, “Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?,” but judging by his performance in this story, dramatic acting was definitely not his forte. Also, why oh why did JNT think it was a good idea to cast ex Play School and Play Away presenter, Chloe Ashcroft in this? Did he really think her name and past stage performances would get people tuning in specifically to see her in this story? Apart from the three regulars, only Maurice Colbourne as Lytton, the ice cool mercenary for hire, and Terry Malloy as the scheming Davros (2nd best after Michael Wisher’s fantastic performance as Davros in “Genesis of the Daleks,”) were worthy of being cast, and thankfully both were able to raise their performance above the absolute drivel that passed as this story. 3/10 (and only given that based on the performances of the three regulars and the two main guest stars, Colbourne and Malloy!)
Terry Molloy might be my favourite actor to play Davros. For years it was the original Michael Wisher but Molloy's consistently amazing performances backed by stellar writing in Big Finish have nudged him into the top spot. And this story is a blast! Action-packed and so many memories seared into my young mind - the sinister policemen, the Daleks swarming the prison like stormtroopers, gas attack gore, badass Commander Lytton, creepy duplicate soldiers, the mutant in the warehouse, that epic "Release Davros!". The notoriously high death count is also the highest onscreen of any DW story.
Wisher's Davros is sublime, but Molloy is great, especially when you have all his work as Davros combined
Wisher’s Davros is definitely a mad scientist. Molloy’s Davros? Well, Molloy’s Davros is Gene Wilder in Frankenstein… utterly batshit insane but no less dangerous.
Yesss, I love Molloy's performance as Davros; so delightfully over-the-top!
"Release Davros" one of the best lines/moments of 80s who
At what second of the video is it??? I wanna see her reaction to it but hadn't seen this serial yet so would like to avoid other spoilers not informed by the thumbnail lol
@lichcoin6144 not in the video
@@phantomsidious2934 Ah. Ok
Yeah, leave the Krakken where it is. Davey-boy's way more badass! =:o}
Or as the Judean People’s Front would say, “Welease Davwos!”
The engineer Davros takes over went on to become a famous soap opera villain, "Dirty Den" Watts on EastEnders. The actress who played his wife is now Mrs. Flood on NuWho!!
And before this filming he served 10 years for murder!
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I have been looking forward to watching your reaction to this story, because I have a personal attachment to it.
I have a manikin on my landing wearing a costume worn by the actor (Jim Findley) who plays Mercer. (It's the green coverall that he wears in the first half of the story.) I even got Jim to play a part in an independent film I made some years ago, and I'm delighted to tell you he is a really lovely guy.
Terry Molloy was shortlisted to come back as Davros in The Stolen Earth. In the end they went with Julian Bleach as he had worked with David Tennant before and so the chemistry was already there, but Molloy has done a lot with Big Finish including the excellent iDavros series.
tbh that's mildly dumb. Chemistry with Tennant really isn't important in that story with that role. He just talks at a wall and shouts really. I'm cool with either casting choice but that reasoning is pretty silly.
Oh that’s tragic! Never knew that.
2:40 British police responding to reports of political wrongthink on social media.
The story with a higher body count than the Terminator, and most slasher movies. Though originally filmed as a traditional four- parter, Resurrection of the Daleks was aired as a two-parter to free up transmission slots for the 1984 Winter Olympics. This story is notable for being the debut of Terry Molloy as the third actor to portray Davros, who would carry on playing the role well into the Big Finish audio dramas.
Happy new year Jess . This has to be my favourite Dr who stories of all time
Oh this is a nice suprise! The 5th Doctor era gets dark as it goes on doesn't it ! This story is more death packed than many adult films lol
Another classic story its between this one or another for favourite this season great dalek story great backing guest characters and last of 2024 merry Christmas
I hope you had a merry Christmas with the family xx xx
When this story was shown on PBS, most copies of Part Two were missing the incidental music and sound effects!
This was one of the first Classic Who stories I ever owned on VHS many years ago. It has a very special place in my heart!
5:04 Dr Styles is played by Rula Lenska, who was one of the actresses shortlisted for the role of Jo Grant. It was finally decided that Lenska was too tall and voluptuous to play the part, which of course went to the shorter, but no less attractive, Katy Manning.
Oh I didn't know that! Yeh she wouldn't have been right for Jo. Sad that now she's known mostly for the 'I'll be the Cat ' moment in Celeb Big Brother
This story was originally intended to be the final 4-parter of season 20, between _The King's Demons_ and _The Five Doctors,_ but was postponed to season 21 due to an electricians' strike. It was produced (with some alterations) as the intended 4 parts, but was then broadcast in 2 longer episodes in a different timeslot due to the 1984 Winter Olympics. Depending on where you watch, you might see either the 2 or 4 part version.
Ooh new cushions! ❤ merry Christmas queen!
The street in London with all the warehouses, is a lovely shopping parade now!
Where is it?
Its called Shad Thames. @@flaggerify
@@flaggerifyButler's Wharf. It used to be the location of The Design Museum.
THIS is the start of the Great "R_____ Of The Daleks" stories! It does that "beer holding" trope of DARK Dr. Who that is one of my favorite runs!! There are bodies dropping all over, it makes The Daleks and Davros feel as dangerous as they should be! It's not for everyone, including the companions!
This is the type of story that would give ol Mary Whitehouse a fit and coronary!!!
Fifth is my favorite Doctor in classic Who. Out of all Doctors, he’s second only to the 11th. This story is a great showcase of reminding us how evil the Daleks are and allows Five to shine by putting him and his companions through the paces.
“Brave Heart, Doctor!”
Just so you know, Jess, this episode was only a two part story because it was broadcast around the 1984 Olympics, so they smushed 4 episodes down into two longer episodes to handle the Olympics.
Also, this shows you where the Shouty Davros from Modern Who comes from. This story - Davros has *lost his shit* at the Daleks and has (probably) lost his mind. He is, however, no less dangerous.
Hi Seska this story brought back the black Dalek Supreme, back and he was played John Scott Martin, a Dalek veteran and also voiced by actor Brian Miller and his black Dalek sports white spheres instead of dark blue spheres like in the Bill Hartnell Dalek serials and also the Supreme Dalek in Day of the Daleks was gold with black spheres and in Planet of the Daleks he was black with gold spheres and gold dome. I do say Seska it well worth seeing and reacting to sci-fi series Blakes Seven which started in 78 and ran to 81 and I loved it enormously .
Best Dr Who story ever. Atmosphere galore and moral ambiguity at every turn. Truly haunting.
PS. I also wanted to let you know why this story is a "long" two part adventure.
It was shown in early 1984, and clashed with the winter Olympics, so to make it fit into the BBC's schedule. The BBC edited part one and two together, and then the same thing with parts three and four.
I was pleased they did this, as I was appearing in a school play at the time, and it would have made me miss part two if it had gone out in its intended format.
It's so weird to see that area of London so empty and full of disused warehouses. These days it's bustling with people and packed with coffee shops.
The Daleks could have made a killing in real estate!
*"A Man who never would!"* proceeds to pop a cap in that Dalek ass.
There's quite a few guest stars in this story, and Jess probs wouldn't recognize even one😆
Would *_Eastenders_* have started by the time this aired?
Eastenders started about 1985 I think so Leslie Grantham wouldn't have been recognised. I did notice Chloe Ashcroft from "Play School" wearing the glasses, helping tend Tegan though.
But there's also Maurice (Howard's away) Colbourne and of course Rodney (Likely Lads) Bewes in there...
Have to say though as a child of the 70's it's always surprising to see Chloe as an actor rather than presenter...
@Payne2view I believe Matthew Robinson, the director of this story, cast Leslie Grantham in this, then later when auditions were taking place to cast Dirty Den, cast Grantham in that role as he was set to (and did) direct the first ever episode of “EastEnders,” which first aired in February, 1985!
Trivia fact: it’s believed that part of the reason that Grade and Powell wanted Doctor Who axed in 1985 was due to wanting to use its budget on the new EastEnders soap, as it was the BBC’s first major soap opera in decades, which both men hoped would eventually rival ITV’s long running juggernaut soap opera, “Coronation Street,” which in 1985 was still pulling in a staggering 30 million viewers every week, something both Grade and Powell wanted their new soap opera to eventually aspire to reaching the same level of success and viewing figures!
This story is quite dark for Team TARDIS (not nearly as dark as Earthshock though but one of the darkest Dalek stories for sure). It's not one of my main go-to Dalek stories by itself I think but I feel it captures the darkness and mood of the Daleks far better than many other stories in terms of drama and intensity. This story left its mark for sure. In terms of Davros stories, just you wait for the sequels 😉
Malcolm Clarke's atmospheric score is excellent throughout
[NODS] Making the most of the Workshop's new FM synths, in all their jangly metallicness! =:o}
First organic technology and effects used after a long period since early 4th Doctor era. It did get angry letters I read.
Here we go! One of the best Dalek Stories ever!!!
You could rank all the Dalek stories in the format of a tier list video. That way you can add new Dalek stories to your existing tier list as time goes on in future videos. Sounds like The Dalek Invasion of Earth would be placed in your S tier. I'm trying to think which Dalek stories (if any) you might put in the F tier.
I'm loving the storytelling, pacing and atmosphere in this story. It's the complete opposite to what we got in Warriors of the Deep. Not one second of screen time has felt wasted in this first part.
Making the Daleks feel like a genuine threat has become a lost art (especially in New Who!) and is a feat that is understandably difficult to pull off considering The Doctor and his companions are pretty much always guaranteed to win every battle against them. This story does a pretty good job making them feel like a threat again.
I wasn't expecting Bob Ferris from The Likely Lads to show up in an episode of Classic Who as a Dalek agent but here we are.
I would definitely agree on that. I would say that Chibnall did at least bring back the menace and threatening in the 13th Doctor's era (it's fine if you disagree, it's just the vibe I get from the Daleks in those stories), but I agree that they've lost some of their menace in New Who since maybe the end of Tennant's 10th Doctor era.
Cough, "Daleks in Manhattan", cough cough.
@@scottboswell6406 Oh that one is one of my quiet favourite modern Dalek stories.
Notoriously one of the most violent Doctor Who stories with a bigger body count than Natural Born Killers and The Terminator. Certainly the first ep is the most tense and scary since the Baker/Hinchliffe years. The winter Olympics of 1984 messed things up for this story. Season 21 went out Thursday and Fridays but this had two episodes shown together on Wednesdays
Actor Leslie Grantham who appeared in this before going on to long term success in UK soap opera Eastenders, was a murderer in real life, going into acting after serving time for killing a taxi driver for his money.
...and his acting teacher, while in jail, was none other than Louise Jameson (who played Leela).
He was charged with Man Slaughter , but the the BBC being the BBC got over that, but then sacked him for being sleazy online. In keeping with his character, but they sacked him. So Man Slaughter, ok, knocking one out on a webcam no 😅
Never knew he murder someone
@@AndyRossism "In his statement to the police following his arrest, Grantham said that he did not know the gun was loaded and it had gone off during the struggle, which would have resulted in a conviction for manslaughter had a jury believed this version of events. However, at his trial in April 1967, he was convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. Grantham was paroled in 1977, having served 10 years of his life sentence."
This was my first Dalek story, and they were terrifying!
Hope you had a lovely Christmas! Happy New Year! :)
Viewers in some 1980s PBS markets (mine included) had a weird experience with this story. Somehow, the incidental music and sound effects were missing from part of it! Imagine seeing the the sequence when the Daleks blast their way into the prison ship but there is only the dialogue, no dramatic music, no "zings" from the Dalek guns, no "zows" from the human weapons! It was rather like watching a schoolyard game of "cops and robbers", but the participants don't even say "Bang! Bang!" to imply they've shot their guns! Even the explosion of the bulkhead was merely the "crack" of the pyrotechnics used to break apart the set dressing, no truly thunderous "boom!" as we've come to expect from decades of movies and TV. A similar thing happened (at least for my PBS station) with "The Brain of Morbius". When the Doctor and Sarah arrive on Karn, there is lightning that reveals a graveyard of crashed spaceships and later they're caught in a torrential rainstorm. But there is no thunder. Later, the doors to Solon's castle swing open and a chandelier crashes, supposedly by violent winds directed by the Sisterhood, but there's no accompanying "howl" to clarify that as the cause. One can sometimes forget how important sound and/or music are to a scene...until they are absent. Now, I can understand that during the conversion process of the material from European PAL format and NTSC is complicated and the audio also has to be reworked due to slightly different playback speeds. There are no doubt cases when a step is overlooked. It's just weird that only SOME PBS stations got tapes lacking the supplementary audio tracks but not other markets. One would think ALL the distribution tapes came from the same masters.
I remember that! I never knew why that was the case, so thanks for the explanation. Were you watching in the Chicago area by any chance?
That's so interesting and weird? I don't remember anything odd seeming about the audio of "The Brain of Morbius" or "Resurrection of the Daleks" (as shown in the Baton Rouge, Louisiana area on WLPB).
Fun fact, this story was actually filmed and produced as 4 parts, but was later edited into 2 parts for the broadcast.
I sometimes wonder, given hindsight and what JNT had noted as an arc/flow mistake for >insert spoiler here< this current season (21), if the originally-intended production/airing for this story (the end of S20) would really have been better placement, if the electricians' strike hadn't delayed/shifted production earlier that season. It would have allowed for part of >insert spoiler here< to occur a little earlier in the season which would have allowed for more arc-time for >spoiler< to play out more organically (as JNT noted that later part again being a mistake/misjudgment on his part relative to >spoiler< ).
@@tideoftime ...OK, I'm pretty deeply versed in the production/background stuff of this era, as well as the plotlines of most stories yet to come, but even *I* can't figure out what on Earth you're talking about! =;o}
Maybe try this comment again once the spoilers aren't spoilers any more?
@@therealpbristow Lol -- if you're actually familiar with the era, then you know what the spoilers are in context -- particularly relative to JNT's mistake/"mistake" in how certain arcs were handled this season, in terms of timing. That should be more than enough of a clue as to what's being referred to, especially relative to the timing of this story. :) (I'm just following Sesska's directive about not mentioning future events in a "currently" reacting episode.)
This story was panned a lot for how violent the Doctor was, I remember that. But I think Peter Davison acquitted himself well, as always in his role. I'm still on the fence about Terry Malloy after all these years. Nobody's ever going to beat Michael Wisher's electric performance as Davros...but I guess Terry's okay enough.
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"Grey haired Peter Davison isn't real and can't hurt you"
Grey haired Peter Davison:
Would love a dalek story ranking, that would be fun!!!
This is the one episode, of all shows with cats in them, that my cats I had growing up were at all fooled by. The meow on the TV was answered back by my pets! No other show fooled them but this episode.
For me Genesis is the definitive Daleks story, but I do like this one and one from the next to last season of Classic era as my favs.
Resurrection of the Daleks is so dark, brutal, violent, nasty and disturbing. It's a story clearly made with the purpose of leaving the viewer feeling dirty... and that's all a good thing. I have a lot of problems with the Eric Saward era, but for me Resurrection of the Daleks is a case where all of his tropes work really well (along with Earthshock, The Caves of Androzani, Vengeance on Varos and Revelation of the Daleks). It's easily on my Top 5 Fifth Doctor stories.
Rodney Bewes who played Stien was a British TV legend from his role as Bob in BBC Sitcom "Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads" - ironically his onscreen wife in that, Thelma, was played by Brigit Forsyth who had appeared in the Patrick Troughton classic "Evil of the Daleks" in 1967!
Bewes also played Bob Ferris in The Likely Lads 1964-66.
Brigit also appeared in the serial Dark Season in 1991, written by one Russell T Davies.
Anther example of JNT casting against type with people from “light comedy”?
I love how Davros absolutely loses it when he hears that the Movellans won the war. On the one hand, he crows that the Daleks must come grovelling back to him for help. On the other hand, he can't accept that his creation is anything less than perfect and superior.
But it really makes me want to see more of the Movellans. We're told the Movellans are no better than the Daleks, so they could have been suitable villains to revisit numerous times.
This story was later released as a 4 parter with mormal length episodes 🎩
Merry Christmas Jess.
This whole story has a higher kill count than the terminator, robo cop and predator combined!
Woohoo this is a good one! Resurrection of the Daleks was a story from my early years that I definitely wanted to watch. Because i can remember when I borrowed Kinda from the library i opened up the vhs inside to see a catalog of all other bbc videos of doctor who and seeing Resurrection listed on there. I went to check if my library had it, sadly they didn’t so I didn’t see this story many years later till I got it on dvd. For me this is one of my favourite Dalek stories. It’s bleak, action packed but it’s a convoluted script with so many plots going on but has great writing. Davros is one of my highlights in this story with Terry Malloy playing the role and my opinion my favourite portrayal of Davros. I know many people consider Michael Wisher the best Davros but honestly Terry Malloy is the definitive Davros. The character has multiple layers and who doesn’t love that good old rant? It never gets old.
To me this story is the closest Classic Who got to being like Star Wars, whether you see that as a good thing or not.
The gas attack scene traumatised me when I first saw it at ten years old. It was the fourth classic story I watched, and it was engraved in my consciousness for months.
This was a four part story that was turned into a two parter due to scheduling conflicts with the Olympics. On the DVD, the cliffhanger for part 1 is the dalek appearing in the corridor, the Doctor and others taking cover and the Dalek yelling EXTERMINATE.
This was originally supposed to be the finale of Season 20. It's production got postponed due to an industrial strike at the BBC. (The Five Doctors was produced as a special, separate from the rest of Season 20, and with its own budget.) Resurrection was made as a four parter (and can be viewed some places in that format) but was broadcast as two 45 minute episodes to free up air time for coverage of the 1984 Winter Olympics.
I did meet Terry Molloy in Coalville. The museum where I was working at had a Doctor Who exhibition. I was busy clearing tables etc. I would have asked for an autograph. But you needed to pay.
Rula Lenska is a good guest actress but I wonder how they got Chloe Ashcroft who presented shows for under 6s. How was she attracted to the script, her role was meant to go to Miriam Margolyes.
She was a PlaySchool presenter, a programme I often watched as a kid at the time.
The area with the high walkways is called Shad Thames.
This story was shown as two 45 minute episodes to give the BBC extra time to cover the 1984 Olympics
Resurrection is SO close to being a classic for me. It's a brutal, dirty, grimey story & the atmosphere is unmatched in 80's who, but there's literally about half a dozen plots all fighting for screen time at once and it's just too much
It's also just too bloodthirsty in killing off basically every character in the story, it's trying too hard to be dark and edgy and brutal. Just so many random scenes of random people getting gunned down for no reason.
@@lucasdolding6924 as we mostly know now Eric Saward said himself afterwards that it wasn’t his best work.
@@sg-zd8eb At least he can acknowledge that tbf
Some people forget without the Daleks Dr. Who would had ended back in 1963.
Back In the classic era the stories with the Daleks always stepped up and more money was spent but the chemical warfare that the Daleks use on boarding the station is horrific this went out originally earlier evening was shocking back then.
I saw this story for the first time myself about...a month ago I want to say. I didn't quite know what to make of it to be honest, but I did love Davros, The Daleks with their new voices, and the Doctor. Fit to burst is how I would describe it, but in a fun way in a way. 🙂Terry Molloy's take on Davros is my favourite as well. He's so chilling and unnerving, Molloy brings the best out of this character. 🙂I hope Christmas treated you well. 😊
Dave Ross shouting his wish for galactic domination like old times.
One of the most highest body counts in any other Doctor Who episodes even more than "RoboCop" or "Total Recall" and I wish they had this kind of violence in NuWho.
Happy holidays, Jess!
The Winter Olympics necessitated the show be transmitted as two 45 minute episodes, broadcast on consecutive Wednesdays on BBC1 back in February 1984.
BATTLE SPEED.
I remember the poison gas effects scared 10 year old me when I saw this episode when It was first broadcast.
You prob know this already, but the next season keeps this format for all its stories, 2 parters each 45 mins long
This is proper Dr. Who i'm sorry call me old-fashioned but I really hate the term "TARDIS team" it sounds like a rugby league football match it's just the Doctor and his companions I love Jodie Whittaker's Doctor but the one thing I hated about her era was the introduction of the term "TARDIS team" or "Fam".
There was once a list of violent movies compared to this story and Earthshock in terms of numbers of on screen deaths. Earthshock had 36 and Resurrection of the Daleks was top on 76, while Reservoir Dogs had just 9!
"My vision is impaired - I cannot see!" A line which will be oft- repeated and played with in New-Who but we hear it here first!
Surely it originates from "Planet of the Daleks"? The scene where 3 and Codal escape from their cell?
I like the idea of doing a ranking of the Dalek stories. Of course, you should wait until after the classics wrap up, but it's something to work on.
Ahh, you're getting to see the brilliance of Terry Molloy as Davros!
Currently I’m in the rewatch process of all of Classic Doctor Who and I’m currently rewatching The Dalek Invasion Of Earth 🌎, but I’ll be happy when I eventually reach this serial and beforehand reading the Eric Saward novelization!
I do say Seska this Dalek story was intended to bring back the Dalek Emperor who had last appeared in the second Dr story Evil of the Daleks, but instead we got the black Dalek Supreme back who had last appeared in Planet of the Daleks. I also when I first saw this story was shocked that Stein Rodney Bewes, was a Dalek agent and the sets on both the Dalek battle cruiser and the space station are well awesome and this story is like the Cyberstory Earthshock and also there are awesome locations in the area of London too.
😂 Aww man! I was hoping you'd see this is technically a two parter and accidentally give us four parts worth of DW in one video! So as not to break with your "2 parts a week" format. Haha! Merry Christmas and New Years and everything for this week!
The escapee who gets killed in the opening scenes has the name "Galloway". That seems to be a call-back to an earlier Daleks story, "Death To The daleks" where a character called Galloway generally acts selfishly but ends up saving everyone by sacrificing his life, detonating a bomb while on a Dalek spaceship.
Get your tissues ready for Part 2, that's all I'm going to say
She doesn't like these kind of teases, she's said so in the past like a 1000 times
Just stop
@@maartenvangeffen4508 I'm not the only one who's given a couple of hints where nothing with direct detail has been given away. Get a grip!!!!
@maartenvangeffen4508 excuse me last time I checked I wasn't the only one who's made posts like that. All I said was that she'd need tissues for part 2, that could mean anything. Get a grip
@maartenvangeffen4508 excuse me, I'm not the only one who's left posts like this and they're not exactly packed with information are they. Get a grip
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Back in the day when this aired in Canada, Part Two was missing all of the music and sound effects. It was one of the funniest things I'd ever seen. I wonder where you found these as it's been a four-perter on every home video release so far. Fingers crossed this is the messed-up version.🤣
Doctor Who was going through a lot of problems in those days because Uh they were up against other big shows that were on in England and this episode they ran as a two-parter they're basically made part one longer than part two they did this later on and Colin Bakers error
It wasn’t up against a big show this early. That problem started from S23 when Trial was pitted against The A-Team and then S24-26 were put up against Corrie.
This was edited into two 45-minute episodes because the original slots were taken up by coverage of the 1984 Winter Olympics from Sarajevo.
At this time, Who was up against whatever each ITV region was spewing up which was regional news, Crossroads (a popular soap opera whose popularity had been waning for a good few years by then) or cheap American imports like WKRP In Cincinnati.
Terry Malloy is a little too shouty as Davros. Michael Wisher is still my favourite. I'm not sure they should have ever returned the character at all
As a story, “Resurrection of the Daleks,” is, IMO, pretty much rubbish all the way through!
Eric Saward, the then script editor, could often turn in a half decent script (“The Visitation,”) as well as much better ones (“Earthshock,” “Revelation of the Daleks,”) but his script for this story was all over the place! Its main fault was that it had too many ideas, with none of those ideas being properly thought out nor executed as well as they could have been!
Why did the Daleks need Davros in the first place? If they could already design and implement a germ warfare virus, capable of wiping out everything on Spiridon (“Planet of the Daleks,”) then surely their scientists could have come up with another type of virus, one which could wipe out the virus the Movellan’s made?
Failing that, the Daleks could have operated on themselves to come up with an antidote to the Movellan virus! Of course Davros wasn’t needed in this story but contractually he had to be included in every Dalek story since “Genesis of the Daleks,” on the behest of their creator, Terry Nation, otherwise he had the power to veto any future Dalek story from being made!
The script also had too many characters/guest stars in it, and none of them had anything meaningful to do in the story. Rula Lenska and Rodney Bewes were only cast because of their so called ‘star pulling power,’ and in Lenska’s case she wasn’t given much to do in the story but be there to issue world weary lines about her character and the job she was doing. I loved Rodney Bewes in the hit sitcom, “Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?,” but judging by his performance in this story, dramatic acting was definitely not his forte.
Also, why oh why did JNT think it was a good idea to cast ex Play School and Play Away presenter, Chloe Ashcroft in this? Did he really think her name and past stage performances would get people tuning in specifically to see her in this story? Apart from the three regulars, only Maurice Colbourne as Lytton, the ice cool mercenary for hire, and Terry Malloy as the scheming Davros (2nd best after Michael Wisher’s fantastic performance as Davros in “Genesis of the Daleks,”) were worthy of being cast, and thankfully both were able to raise their performance above the absolute drivel that passed as this story.
3/10 (and only given that based on the performances of the three regulars and the two main guest stars, Colbourne and Malloy!)
I hope that the Daleks eliminate Tegan and Furlough.