Resurrection of the Daleks by Matthew Robinson (1984)
17 March 2008I went on a Dalek kick and picked up basically all of the available DALEK episodes of Dr. Who, and thus also got an intro to a bunch of the Doctors that I didn’t know, and I have just started to get to know, and Peter Davison is one I only recently got to know, and while he is nothing compared to Tom Baker, he and Janet Fielding are an interesting pair, and I enjoyed this return to the Daleks, as it really seems like a sequel to the last Tom Baker Dalek episode Destiny of the Daleks. This is an enjoyable episode though not amazing. The humanoid Daleks seems strange, but do foreshadow what would happen in the current Doctor Who series. Not my favorite Doctor, but it seems, I do enjoy most of Doctor Who, and at least in some way I like all of the Doctors, or maybe I just like the Tardis.
The Doctor (Peter Davison) along with his companions Tegan (Janet Fielding) and Turlough (Mark Stickson) get stuck in a time vortek that is sending them to London in 1984. Meanwhile some strange London police led by Commander Lytton (Maurice Colbourne) gun down some strange humanoids, but two escape Galloway (William Sleigh) and Quartermaster Sergeant Stein (Rodney Bewes), who go into a warehouse, where Galloway is killed. Lytton heads back to a warship in space and prepares to attack a prison space station. The humans on the prison ship have only one Prisoner, and prepare for the attack, setting up what defense that they can. Lytton and his men break into the cell and manage to release Davros (Terry Molloy) from his cryogenic sleep that the fourth doctor put him in. The Doctor and his companions meat Stein, and befriend him. They search the warehouse, and find alien artifacts and Turlough ends up going through the Time Corrider and ends on the Dalek ship.
REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS…
The Supreme Daleks sends a Dalek to the warehouse to capture the Doctor, and attacks them, but the Doctor gets them to blind the Dalek and destroy it, but Tegan is injured and knocked out.
At the Station humans have survived, Styles (Rula Lenska) and Mercer (Jim Findley) and some guards, and they steal Dalek guards unifroms and decide to blow the space station to destroy Davros and the Daleks, since Davros is using a lab in the station to further his plans. Davros plans to use the station, and to take over from the Supreme Dalek, and starts to program guards to be on his side, and damands Daleks to use in his experiments to cleans the Daleks of a virus from the Movellans that is killing Daleks, but he has other plans to take over the Daleks from the Supreme Commander.
The Doctor and Stein head in the Tardis to the end of the Time Corridor, to the Dalek ship, but Stein turns on the Doctor and kidnaps him, as he works for the Daleks. The Daleks take him, but he is not to be killed, as Davros wants to use his mind to help himself.
Turlough finds the human survivors and befriends them.
Stein starts a process to clone the Doctor so they can use him to destroy the Tiem Lords, but the Doctor tries to turn him, as he knows he is human under the Dalek conditioning. And Styles and the guards are killed while trying to destroy the station. Stein eventually frees the Doctor, and goes to destroy Davros, leaving Turlough and Tegan in the Tardis.
Davros starts to kill Daleks with the Virus. And a war between Daleks starts, and the Doctor goes to the warehouse to get the Alien Artifacts filled with the Movellan virus, and use it to kill Daleks.
Davros is seemingly killed by the virus himself, and the Daleks are dead, but the Supreme commander has clones of many humans and plans on using them, but a dyeing Stein destroys the space station and the Dalek ship.
The Doctor plans to leave, but Tegan has had enough of death, so she leaves him, and he and Turlough leave.
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An enjoyable Dalek adventure for Who. I like Peter Davison more than I initially though.