Revelation of the Daleks by Graeme Harper (1985)
18 March 2008My first Colin Baker adventure (well I remember seeing him as a kid, and being totally disturbed), and I enjoyed it, though it is certainly quite different, but still the Doctor, and still enjoyable. And this is the first time I have seen an American companion with Peri (Nicola Bryant), and it is a great contrast to this more aristocratic doctor. Not an amazing story, but enjoyable.
The Doctor (Colin Baker) and his companion Peri (Nicola Byrant) land on the planet Necros to go to the funeral of an old friend at a suspended animation facility called Tranquil Repose, which is also supplying food to the poor of the galaxy, and so a very important place. They are attacked by a mutant who tells them that someone named the Great Healer experimented on him and caused his genetic mutation. A strange disc jokey (Alexai Sayle) is acting like a 60’s rock DJ, and monitoring what goes on, as he DJ’s for the people in suspended animation. A couple enters the facility looking for the man the Doctor is visiting Arthur Stengos, these are his daughter Natasha (Bridget Lynch-Blosse) and Grigory (Stephen Flynn). They find some experiments, and aDalek casing with a mutant creature inside, who turns out to by Arthur (Alec Linstead) who is becoming a Dalek. A woman named Kara (Eleanor Bron) owns the company, but is under the heal of the Great Healer who turns out to be Davros (Terry Maooloy) who is taking her profits. Kara hires a contract mercenary named Orcini (William Guant) and his squire Bostcok (John Ogwen) who she sends to kill Davros. Meanwhile the Doctor and Peri meet Tasambeker (Jenny Tomasin), and Peri wants to the DJ, and the Doctor finds a statue of himself at the facility as a dead person and it falls on him.
REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS…
Orcini destroys a Dalek and Davors finds out, realizing it was Kara who sent him, so she sends a Dalek to bring her to him.
The Doctor is fine, and Peri goes to find the DJ, but the Doctor is taken by the Daleks and put in a cell with Natasha and Grigory, bu they are rescued by ORcini. ORcini gets into Davros’s lair and he and Bostock attack, and think they kill Davros, but something was too easy. And in fact Davros survived the virus, and has Daleks following him. Orcini and Bostock try to get out, but Orcini is badly hurt. Kara is brought in, and Orcini realizes she was going to use him to blow up Davros, so he kill sher.
Natasha and Gregory go to stop the growing of new Daleks, but the Daleks attack.
The Doctor warns Peri to go back to the Tardis and tell the President not to land with the body of the first lady.
The DJ helps Peri, but they are found, and he uses a sonic weapon to lkill Daleks, but he is killed and Peri is captured. The Doctor and Peri end up in Davros lab, and find out the catacombs are filled with Daleks.
Daleks who hate Davros arrive from Skaro to kill Davros, and the factions end up at war. Davros tries to convince them to kill the Doctor, but they don’t recognize him because of his regeneration, so they take Davros back to Skaro for execution, and the Skaro Daleks decide to continue Davros plan to control famine in the universe and make a huge amount of money and power.
Orcini blows the facility to resotre his honor and the Doctor agrees to take Peri on a vacation.
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Enjoyable, now I want them to start charging more reasonable prices for Doctor Who DVD’s and release seasons instead of stories! Oh well, it will never happen at this point, but I want the whole Doctor who collection, (except I never can because there are so many missing episodes).