Davros (audio story)

 was the forty-eighth monthly Doctor Who audio story produced by Big Finish Productions. It marked the first appearance in an audio story of Davros, played by Terry Molloy opposite Colin Baker's Sixth Doctor.

Publisher's summary
TAI stock has shot up by over fifteen percent on news that galaxy-famous scientist Davros, controversial creator of the Daleks, has been hired to work on unspecified technological projects.

Davros has been given the chance to redeem himself.

Humanity stands on the verge of a new era, but it needs the help of the galaxy's greatest ever scientist. But Davros is dead... isn't he?

From the bunkers and shelters of ancient Skaro to the gleaming domes of the future Earth Empire, Davros has always been a man of destiny. Now he's working for mankind's benefit. But how much do we really know about Davros?

Has Davros really turned over a new leaf? The Doctor certainly doesn't think so. But is the Doctor always right?

Plot
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Cast

 * The Doctor - Colin Baker
 * Davros - Terry Molloy
 * Arnold Baynes - Bernard Horsfall
 * Lorraine Baynes - Wendy Padbury
 * Willis - Eddie de Oliveira
 * Kimberly Todd - Ruth Sillers
 * Shan - Katarina Olsson
 * Scientist Ral - David Bickerstaff
 * Kaled Medics - Louise Falkner, Karl Hansen
 * Pilot - Andrew Westfield

The Doctor

 * The Doctor does not consider mass redundancies and labour relations to be one of his fields.
 * The Doctor requires only one hour of sleep per night. However, he likes to lie-in and has a tendency to snore.

Individuals

 * Lorraine Baynes has a degree in space medicine.
 * Toward the end of the Thousand Year War, no Kaled had died of old age in ten generations.
 * Davros considers himself to be the greatest scientific mind in Skaro's history.
 * Arnold Baynes is the richest man on this side of the galaxy.
 * Davros was grievously wounded by a Thal bombardment of his laboratory in the Kaled Dome which cost him his eyes, left arm and entire lower body. As a result, he was forced to spend the rest of his life confined to a mobile life support system.
 * The Doctor considers Professor Lorraine R. S. Baynes to be a Dalek apologist rather than a reputable historian. He has skimmed her two books on the Daleks: Dalek Genius and The Dark Side of Skaro. Baynes considers his wife to be the foremost authority on Davros. In her personal future, she will teach at Dawkins College in the University of Oxford.
 * Davros considers the Doctor to be his intellectual equal.
 * Peri Brown is on the other side of the galaxy, attending a botany symposium.

Humanity

 * Humanity has colonised more than 60% of the habitable planets in the galaxy and are within a century of colonising the rest.

Astronomical objects

 * Skaro is in the same galaxy as Earth, namely Mutter's Spiral.
 * Skaro has two moons: Falkus and Omega Mysterium. Davros tells Lorraine Baynes that he has never seen them, though presumably he means that he has never seen them from space. In his youth, they could be seen clearly from his stepfather Colonel Nasgard's house on Drammakin Lake. Elsewhere on Skaro, they were obscured by the high levels of radiation in the atmosphere. (AUDIO: Innocence)
 * Willis reported on "that business on Stella Stora" and he "knows what [The Doctor] did there." (TV: Terror of the Vervoids)

Companies

 * TransAllied, Inc (TAI) is one the largest corporations in the galaxy. It is owned and run by Arnold Baynes. It was founded by his ancestor Elias Baynes in the 38th century as a small robot production plant. TAI sells robots, starships, terraformers, medical equipment, explosives, foodstuffs, protective clothing, weft engines, computer brains, recreational narcotics, laser cannons and more.

Daleks

 * The Daleks have not been active in this arm of the galaxy since the end of the last Dalek War a century earlier.
 * Dalek regalia have become collector's items since the last war. Willis' grandfather served in the war. It took his entire squadron to destroy one Dalek and each member took a fragment of the Dalek's casing as a trophy. After his death, it was sold to a collector for a small fortune.

Galactic Law

 * The Treaty of Parlagon prevents private individuals from owning nuclear weapons.

Continuity

 * Lorraine Baynes mentions that Davros himself created his life support chariot. (AUDIO: Guilt)
 * Lorraine Baynes mentions that the Daleks repeatedly betrayed Davros. She believes that the Doctor's presence at these events was incidental to his defeat. (TV: Genesis of the Daleks, Destiny of the Daleks, Resurrection of the Daleks)
 * Davros describes in detail how it felt when he was imprisoned in cryogenic suspension for ninety years. (TV: Destiny of the Daleks, Resurrection of the Daleks)
 * The events surrounding the flashback sequences would later be revisited and explored in more detail in AUDIO: Corruption, in which Katarina Olsson reprises her role as Shan. Councillor Valron, who is mentioned in this story, appears in Corruption as played by Sean Carlsen.
 * This is Davros' first of four known encounters with the Doctor during his sixth incarnation. The others occurred in Tranquil Repose on Necros (TV: Revelation of the Daleks), in Waterloo, Belgium in June 1815 (AUDIO: The Curse of Davros) and on Lethe (AUDIO: The Juggernauts).
 * The Doctor has already visited Stella Stora. This is the reason that Willis, who reported on "that business," has asked for his assistance. (TV: Terror of the Vervoids)