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[@MarkSW]

Favourite line - I’m not here is your prisoner Davros! But your executioner. One of the best Doctor and Davros confrontations.

[@brucesimmons5517]

I really like Tegan's reasoning for leaving. We always think of traveling with the Doctor as this big wonderful adventure, but if it's not fun anymore, why stay?

[@ShamrockParticle]

Considering everything that happened to Tegan up until now and that was comparatively fun?!

[@Polyglot85to90]

Reckon she had PTSD, which is an issue that isn't really touched on enough in Doctor Who. Still breaks my heart more than any other companion departure

[@whobp8]

To be fair to Tegan, going to a cricket match in the 1920's, then going to a fancy dress party and dancing the Charleston was probably more of a hoot than the carnage of this story. Her departure is abrupt, but makes sense and is played well by Fielding and Davison. You might have noticed that Leela was left out of the flashbacks to former companions. A clip of Leela had been selected for the montage, but was left out by accident.

[@alexfletcher5192]

It's easy to forget, watching via streaming services over months rather than years or decades, just how long people hung around. Tegan's sudden departure masks the fact that Janet Fielding is (if only in terms of years) one of the longer-running companions. She made her debut in 'Logopolis' part one on 28th February 1981 and 'Resurrection of the Daleks' part 2 went out on 15th February 1984. That's an impressive stretch by modern standards. And for those of us who had more or less grown up with her, it marked a turning point. Things, for various reasons, were never going to be the same again...

[@goblin457]

Don't worry she'll be back in 2022 😂

[@thomasjohnson8391]

Also the sad departure of Tegan and I enjoyed this dalek story very doctor.

[@benbastianiartmusic1421]

A ridiculously specific detail but I like how they cut away from the Doctor when it got to Pertwee and then had a scene in between in hopes we wouldn't notice that the remaining flashbacks Zoe onwards were mysteriously in black and white xD

[@Tyrconnell]

Also in that gap must be when the show the Doctor and companions from season 6b 😉

[@Eltonlaleham]

@@Tyrconnell I do say the fashback scenes were awesome in billions of ways and it was a shame in billions of ways, Leela was left out of them. I also say the scene of the Doctor threatening to kill Davros was scary, I like millions of Dr Who fans knew there was no way on earth or mars the Doctor would ever go through with killing Davros like the 4th Doctor could not go through with killing the Daleks in Genesis of the Daleks when he was outside the incubation chamber where the Dalek creatures were been born to be placed in the travel machines Davros named the Daleks. The 4th Doctor was afraid of committing murder and genocide despite the fact he knew what the Daleks would evolve, into in the future .

[@mark-s]

When they started showing the past companions and doctors it looked like a regeneration story but we were safe but we lost tegan(brave heart tegan) times were changing at least she is back in new who this year 10 out of 10 this story

[@geoffmason7215]

Farewell Tegan...see you in 38 years

[@joelakat]

There are so many things going on in this story, I saw it a few times before it all made sense in my head. It had a huge guest cast, and nearly all of them died! This was the first story I recorded on VHS so I watched it quite a bit. It's relentlessly bleak -- but I do love it. 9/10 seems about right.

[@Jamestopboy]

Davros is always at his best when he’s having one of his *SUPREME POWAH!* rants. You cannot have Davros without a *SUPREME POWAH!* rant. It is a crime if you do.

[@blakesliberator3197]

At the time, how Davros survived was a mystery to us as well when he reappeared. We felt sure that that was the end of him - killed by a virus, then blown to smithers. Frankly, I don't see the point of killing him off here, only to resurrect him later on.

[@seanryan3020]

Yeah, that's one of the most annoying motifs in Doctor Who: an enemy gets destroyed apparently beyond any hope of escape only to reappear, usually without any explanation. This trend was even worse with the Master! At least in the Pertwee era, the Master was given an escape at the end of each story, so we knew we could expect him to return!

[@NyderOfSkaro]

To be fair the last time we see him he's right next to an open escape pod, so it's not totally out of left field.

[@blakesliberator3197]

@@seanryan3020 Yes. Re. Blakes 7. Its as implausible as Servalan's miraculous survival escaping from the disintegrating Liberator. PS I assume you followed or at least knew of Blakes 7. Many Classic Who fans would.

[@seanryan3020]

@@blakesliberator3197 I just re-watched the whole series earlier this year.

[@joshuaverran9443]

The scene were The Doctor is being mind tortured and flashbacking back to every past Doctors and companions in backwards order if you notice closely in the rewatch they left one companion out Leela as producer John Nathan Turner forgot to add her in there.

[@robert_bbiii]

but it works. I like to think that the Doctor managed to fight the machine and block his memory of her. A Doctor that would not remember Leela would raise suspicion.

[@kalamaike]

@@robert_bbiii oh my god that's actually really clever lmao

[@robert_bbiii]

@@kalamaike it is never a mistake. You just have to explain how it makes sense.

[@kalamaike]

@@robert_bbiii so what do you come up with explanations for every production mistake? including stuff like bad special effects

[@robert_bbiii]

@@kalamaike that wal shook? Shoddy workmanship. Bad special effects are not a mistake in story that is just the times. The classic case where they even did it in show was Robot. There was a strike going on at the time and the crew stopped exactly at a certain time. So the ladder was kept there. No one would touch it. So they just used it in the story. It used to happen in live tv all the time. One of my favorites happened once in an episode of Rosanner. Dan was supposed to be upset and slammed a cabinet shut. It fell off the hinges and wasnt supposed to happen. John Goodman without missing a beat just said well now there is something else I have to fix. Actually it comes from old Marvel Comics they had a No-Prize. sent to anyone who could explain why a mistake was not a mistake. They would send an empty envelope.

[@alexfletcher5192]

Any baffling situation is now met by the average fan with a 'I CAN'T STAND THE CONFUSION IN MY MIND!!' meme. But unlike almost everyone else in this serial, we don't then self-immolate.

[@ihateunicorns867]

I like this story, but it’s definitely one of the darker ones. A lot of horrific death. But I suppose that’s the point. It stopped being fun. It’s kind of nice to have a companion leave because they know their own limits.

[@johnlarro6872]

When Martha left, it felt right because - how could she stay after what she, and her family, went through? So yeah - Tegan leaving after this story made sense...

[@powerspyin2]

We really need more dalek stories that are this dark

[@ShamrockParticle]

Makes me wish The Power of the Daleks existed. That looks like another great bloodbath thanks to scheming Daleks too.

[@CRINOTH]

It was about time for Tegan to go. This was her 19th story with only Jamie, up to this point, having more stories than Tegan - and only Ian, Barbara, Jamie, Sarah Jane and Jo having more episodes than her as a companion. Did you notice that, due to a production error, Leela was missed out of the sequence of past companions? This story is another 8/10 from me (my 4th consecutive one) it's a very consistent season so far. :)

[@owenwildish331]

In a sense leaving out Leela may have been a 'good' error as that could imply the Doctor deliberately blocked out his memories of her as a last line of defence since she is currently on Gallifrey at this time and could probably sense that something was wrong with the Dalek clone Doctor if she encountered the clone & the cloned companions, especially if 'the Doctor' had no memory of her and she could alert the Time Lord of this, note Leela never met the Daleks during her time with the Doctor but the Doctor probably told her about them at some point between adventures... Incidentally, this scene reminded me of a brief but similar scene in Day of the Daleks, I wonder if this was in part a call back to that..?

[@stickytapenrust6869]

I think in terms of broadcast dates of first and last regular episodes, Tegan is the longest. February 1981-February 1984. 3 years. Jamie only did 2-and-a-half years between December 1966 and June 1969, about the same as Jo Grant (January 1971 to June 1973). Sarah-Jane is inbetween, December 1973 to October 1976, 2 years 10 months.

[@Joey15811]

@@owenwildish331 Dodo never met Daleks but Hartnell mentionrd them to her in the War Machines. Zoe also was shown Daleks to decide joining the Tardis is what she wanted. I would expect every companion of the Doctor to have met the Daleks themselves or heard of them from the Doctor or another companion. Even Katarina and Sara met Daleks despite being in 1 or 2nd stories each

[@phantomsidious2934]

The tears at the end of this episode from Tegan were real....

[@13dronid]

Just so you know, no spoilers here but it'll be helpful for the future, they start changing the length of episodes. Doctor Who had moved from a Saturday slot and was now twice weekly on Thursdays and Fridays with 25 min episodes. This 45 min episode structure was done for Resurrection of the Daleks as the normal timeslot clashed with Olympics events. It's then taken up next season regularly before returning back to 25 mins for the following seasons.

[@benbastianiartmusic1421]

One of the highest body counts ever apparently!

[@elliottnoad1270]

Iirc higher than either, the first Terminator film (think it was this one tbh) or the first two terminator films, though either way definitely higher than the first film

[@peterelliott3015]

not surprised Tegan left at the end of this story. their was more deaths in this story then the terminator. cant wait to see her return in 2022AD

[@AubreySciFi]

This is a nine out of ten for me as well. It's a great story. A great new actor playing Davros (Terry Molloy) and the first time seeing Daleks since "Destiny" in season 17! This story was voted the most violent of all time with more on screen deaths than any story so far.

[@joshuajoshua2732]

This might sound terrible but I wish we had more Dalek stories like this in the modern era because it shows how dangerous and deadly the Daleks can be and as an audience I feel threatened watching this which is how you meant to feel there was alot of body count which shows real life situations that you may or may not get out of alive. As you probaly would know by now it is no surprise that Davros always gets out somehow as we saw him betrayed and exterminated by the Daleks back in "Genesis" only to survive in "Destiny". I was very sad to see Tegan as she was the last connection to Tom but to be fair she was in it for 3 years and was the third longest serving companion after Jamie and Sarah Jane Smith so she had quite a good run. Terry Molloy kills it as Davros he was superb and chilling and that speech is just terrifying.

[@sixstanger00]

I agree. I'm in the minority of considering _Evolution of the Daleks_ and _Victory of the Daleks_ two of the best modern era Dalek stories, as both more closely capture the essence of a Dalek DW story. Most of the original series Dalek stories provided a motivation for the Daleks' actions - digging up Davros in _Destiny of the Daleks,_ for example. The modern era has often relied simply on, "Daleks invade Earth again because...Daleks."

[@robertkramer2271]

This was a very controversial story when it aired. It was controversial because of how violent it was. All the humans died, all the Daleks died, Tegan leaves basically because she has PTSD and can't deal with it. Think about it, at one point even The Doctor picked up a gun and goes to murder Davros.

[@elainemusselwhite2325]

I was sad that Tegan left at this point, it would have been nice for her to have had a bit of a longer leaving scene. I loved the 5th Doctor too. I do like this story, my husband however feels it is very messy. We both love Season 21.

[@Joey15811]

Even Katarina appeared in the companions thing and yet Kamelion didn’t

[@eclecticdog2k901]

I love this story so much. I’ve said my reasons why in the first reaction to this story but I had to mention again just how much I love it lol. Classic Who in general has trouble with properly building up to companion exits and I think Tegan’s shows that, but is also quite strong still, in the writing of that scene but especially in the performance. Poor Tegan goes through hell in this one.

[@conscienceaginBlackadder]

Tegan was in 19 stories ! Fourth of the epic 3 season woman companions who ran for most of the time from Jo. Because the stories were shorter in this period, she is behind Jo + Sarah in episode count (NB her googled episode count of 64 is a wrong comparison, because you need to convert 5 Doctors and this story into 25-min episodes, which adds 5, = 69, ahead of Romana.) But in number of stories, to here Tegan is actually top ! The woman companion, + second to Jamie the companion, in the longest serving number of stories. Jamie 20, Tegan 19, Sarah 18, Barbara + Ian 16, Romana in both faces 16, Jo 15. That's how important she is.

[@robalexander8065]

Janet Fielding's actual tenure from late Feb 1981 to mid Feb 1984 was a record... only recently beaten by Mandip Gill.

[@bananasaregood8655]

No wonder tegan had enough, this was a brutal story. I think it has a higher body count then the terminator.

[@barryfitzsimmons89]

I really enjoyed your videos. The reason it was in 2 parts instead of 4 because at the time the BBC were showing the winner Olympics so they changed the schedules.

[@t123a698]

This is the anti-TheDoctorDances: “Everybody died, Tegan. Every body died.”.

[@seanryan3020]

Like Hamlet!

[@gus4u2c]

Lytton and the fake police lived

[@GrilloTheFlightless]

It’s just crossed my mind that this would have been the first Dalek story I ever saw, not counting the Dalek in 5 Doctors. That being said, I already knew what Daleks were, so it’s possible I saw the edited re-run of Genesis in 1982, although if I did I don’t remember. I used to have a recurring childhood dream that I had an adventure in those old brick warehouses. Then I’d enter an ornate wooden cabinet at the bottom of the stairs in one of the buildings which turned out to be TARDIS. I’d almost forgotten about that! Hell, your reactions are triggering some memories! Interestingly, in this episode Davros knows about the Doctors TARDIS, and knows of the TIme Lords well enough to know that the Doctor is “like all time lords”. How does he know? The first time we meet Davros he doesn’t even know about life on other planets. Then the Daleks leave him for dead in the ruins of the Kaled city for who knows how long. Then he’s revived, but shortly after gets frozen in suspended animation for 90 years. Then he’s revived here, and knows about the TARDIS, which he’s never seen, and the Time Lord, who he’s never encountered or even heard of before. Never mind - I still love this story.

[@Eltonlaleham]

Hi Marie-Clare in this Dalek serial the way the Daleks are killed off, with the Movellan virus which causes foam to come out I imagine it was foam rom Fire Extinguishers , and also the amount of people killed off in this serial is similar to what happened in the Cyberstory Earthshock when several humans soldiers and civilians were killed off and slain by the Cybermen and even their black androids . In both stories there is a high bodycount, of people been killed off here and there. The war between the Daleks Davros,s Daleks and the black Supreme Dalek Daleks was a lift from the Evil of the Daleks with the 2nd Doctor when he engineered the civil war between humanised Daleks and normal Daleks. I also notice with the flashback scene it was similar to the mind analysis machine the Daleks strapped the 3rd Doctor to and in that story we saw images of the first and second Doctors here we see images of the previous Doctors and their companions as well. I could not blame Tegan for running away at the end of this story given how upset and disgusted at the violence and the deaths she had seen . The male villain Lytton survived and went back into his police Sergeants uniform and rejoined his police buddies.

[@SpyroCynderFan]

I was more upset about Tegan leaving than I was about Nyssa.

[@seanryan3020]

Understandable: Nyssa left the Doctor's team to fulfill a noble purpose. Tegan burned out (albeit rightfully so).

[@GavinBollard]

Why are they doing that. 1. Because the story was supposed to go out as the last part of the 20th Anniversary but slipped to the next season. 2. Because it's a callback to Day of the Daleks when that happened to the third doctor.

[@Adeodatus100]

I have some reservations about "Resurrection". Unremittingly grim and extremely violent, for me it's always felt a bit off-key for Doctor Who.

[@gumdeo]

It does fit the Daleks, though.

[@ianbuckley2347]

I love this story although I know it is a little bit muddled. I think it needed to be a little bit longer to properly explain all of the Daleks plans. Tegan has a great leaving scene and The Doctor / Davros confrontation is fantastic. It's a 9.5 for me and rates as my second favourite Dalek story out of all of Who. Genesis just beats it.😀

[@kierenevans2521]

I'm a little mixed on this one. I find it a bit too messy plot wise and grim. The Dalek action is best we've had for ages though. Probably 7 or 7.5 out of 10. 4:58 'Action requires courage - something you lack.' Well, we'll see about that.

[@markbelsom3174]

Leaving the Tardis is something Tegan had to do when she had the chance,didn't want yo but had no choice. Terry Malloy Davros looks like he's over acting sometimes, that's because if he spoke normally the thick latex mask wouldn't move with his own mouth.

[@Clayton-S.]

Sad to lose Tegan, I really like her. At least Stein decided whose side he was on...I really enjoyed Rodney Bewes in this. This serial is, dark, violent and very nasty, one of the best classic Who Dalek stories. An easy 10/10.👍☺

[@knavehart]

Did anyone ever let Marie know that this aired in two 45 minute eps so it could air in its entirety before the 1984 Olympics aired on the BBC?

[@Problembeing]

Definitely a story that stuck with me as a kid. Seeing Davros and the Daleks again was great. I was upset to lose Tegan, even if she was a moan-hole :D

[@dannycheesums]

The Doctor forgot Leela in the recap!

[@conscienceaginBlackadder]

At least no Morbius faces, innit.

[@alexfletcher5192]

Popular at the time because it suited many of the emerging tropes of hard sci-fi (guns, explosions, hardware) but downgraded through the decades, it's always interesting how the wheel of fashion pushes down one story and raises up another. And there are more instances of this to come...

[@gumdeo]

I like the grim, bleak tone in this story. The Daleks are actually scary here.

[@Eltonlaleham]

I was not sorry to see Tegan go she was whiny and always fussy and I knew there was no way the Dr could ever literally kill Davros with the laser gun and Davros was right when he said to the dr if I were you I would be dead was quite right

[@charlesclinton3305]

For better or worse, I feel like this story is probably the most "Star Wars" that the classic series ever got. While possibly more visceral than Star Wars for some reason I always associated this story with that franchise.

[@Eltonlaleham]

Eric Saward intended to kill Davros off permanently and replace him with the dome headed Emperor Dalek, and he had no intention of bringing him back but he was overidden by the producer JNT,

[@johng5859]

Well, your hunch that someone would leave at the end was correct, you just got the wrong person! I think it probably was time for Tegan to go - she was one of the longest serving classic series companions, and Janet Fielding certainly felt there wasn’t much space for further character development. Her leaving scene is well done, though does feel a bit tacked on. As the story was originally written for the previous season, it was a late addition and the scripts were not revised to build up to the departure, which is a shame. As for the story, I would probably give it 7.5. It looks good, has a very gritty feel and some nice direction and performances, but the plot is overcomplicated and the Doctor-Davros confrontation, while electrifying, fizzles out disappointingly. Still, for the fourth season in a row the fans got treated to another big flashback sequence, though a pity they forgot about Leela…

[@GreatHealer.]

Not a bad story not the best Dalek story. Terry Malloy is great in this one as Davros. 8/10 for me

[@thecelticdruid7707]

If Stein hadn't interfered with the Doctors memories you might have seen the Morbius and timeless child Doctors...lol.

[@sadako24]

I personally don't have an issue with the Doctor being willing to kill Davros. As he says himself, if the Daleks are able to use his knowledge to become a threat to the universe again, then millions of innocents will die because of it. And imprisoning Davros to a more humane fate has proven to fail already, and would be problematic at best when Davros is in the heart of Dalek territory now. If I have an issue with the scene, it's the way Davros' "you deny what is real" almost sounds like the author's honest opinion of the Doctor as a hopeless pascifist utopianist in denial at how the universe really works. And that's just not what the Doctor was in his first four incarnations.

[@robalexander8065]

Somewhat surprised you didn't remark on Leslie Grantham's appearance, admittedly he doesn't say much. Maybe Terry Molloy's acting as Davros is too compelling in the scenes they share? A 7/10 for me. Decent but not a classic. Would have loved if they had retained the working title - Warhead. For once it would have been good to be surprised by the Daleks like we were by the Cybermen in Earthshock.

[@thomasstevens2746]

I was never fussed about Tegan

[@blakesliberator3197]

8 out of 10 for me. In my opinion, looking back, Michael Wisher set the bar so very high in Genesis, I see further stories featuring him as rather bland by comparison.

[@seanryan3020]

Michael Wisher: The Jeffrey Combs of 70s Doctor Who!

[@stormhawk3319]

The actor playing Davros chewed the scenery somewhat.

[@alan_evans]

It's a shame they didn't keep Mercer on as a companion

[@ivaneames4354]

Thats the first time I have ever heard someone think Pertwee was the worst Doctor. So wrong.

[@davidbull7210]

This story has some great moments but it's let down by some poor acting in episode 1 and the violence is so casual that it loses all impact after a while. It just looks like a load of underpaid extras standing around waiting to be shot, doing a dance routine and collapsing on the floor. What we needed was shots back to the Daleks in which they're holding up scorecards for each performance. "And the winner is Colonel Archer for the Karate Chop Collapse with 7, 8, 6, 9"

[@andrewroberts299]

During the companion’s flashback sequence, did anyone realise that the only companion they didn’t show was Leela? The production team messed up big time there! For me, personally, as a 20 year old in 1984, this was the worst Dalek story I’d seen, since I saw my first one, Day of the Daleks, back in 1972. Death and Destiny were bad, especially as they came before and after the magnificent Genesis, but even those two stories weren’t as poor as this story IMO. The worst culprit was the writer and script editor, Eric Saward, who could usually turn out a half decent script (Visitation, Earthshock), but this one was all over the place! The script had too many ideas, with none of them executed as well as they could be! Why did the Daleks need Davros? If they could 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 an antidote to the Movellan virus themselves? Why did the Daleks need Lytton and his troopers, when we learn in Nu Who’s ‘Dalek’ episode, that one single Dalek could wipe out the 1 million inhabitants of Salt Lake City? The most ludicrous part of the script is having the Daleks wanting the Doctor and his companions duplicates return to Gallifrey to kill the High Council! Why now? Don’t they have enough on their plate, dealing with a virus that can kill them, as well as dealing with opposition Daleks? It’s as if Saward came up with the duplicate story just so JNT could show a companion flashback! The script also had too many characters/guest stars in it, who had nothing meaningful to do, only for all of them to be killed off (except Lytton!) I also never understood why all this death and destruction was the catalyst for Tegan to leave the Doctor! She lost her Aunt to the Master in her first story, saw everyone good die, including her friend Adric, in Earthshock (another high body count story), and saw the same happen in Warriors of the Deep! Oh, and she was twice possessed by the Mara - and it’s only now that she wants to leave? Just think it was a poor way to write her out! Now, had The Awakening followed Resurrection, then Tegan finding her grandfather might have given her a better reason to leave and settle down, but this sudden, abrupt leaving just didn’t make sense at all! Even the Doctor didn’t seem that upset!

[@ShamrockParticle]

The mind copy process was really killing the Doctor? Painful, maybe, but it's not like the process erases his memories or anything. They would have killed him either way, but it seems too melodramatic. It's still a GREAT story when all is said and done, just a bit overreaching IMHO.

[@joestacey6185]

I don't think this is a great story. It's a bit all over the place. With a stronger narrative, the high body count may have been earned, but it wasn't here. Davros is being shoehorned into each dalek story and nothing is really added to either them or him. I was never overly fond of Tegan, but her leaving was emotional. Her reason was good as a rebuke of the Doctor, with a touch of meta narrative about the show. It's probably only a five from me.

[@seedhillbruisermusic7939]

Tegan's gone! Finally! the most complainy companion that ever there was. She says at the end "It's stopped being fun Doctor." When was it ever fun for you Tegan? Both times you were a companion all you ever did was complain. The only time you smiled was when you were possessed by the Mara. You had a sour face in every single adventure. Compare you to Sarah-Jane who simply loved being with the Doctor, Sarah was always smiling. Tegan just complained the whole time. No offence to actress Janet Fielding who created Tegan wonderfully but Tegan never had fun travelling with the Doctor. Maybe it's time to have a companion who enjoys it. We shall see.

[@andrewroberts5999]

Personally, I really like it, but apparently Eric Saward derided his own scripts as some of the worst ever written for the series.