ORIGINAL BROADCAST: 30/03/1985
Twenty-five years ago today, the sixth Doctor and his companion Peri were fighting against the Daleks on the planet Necros, where the mercenary Orcini was on a mission to kill their leader Davros. This story starred Colin Baker as the Doctor and Nicola Bryant as Perpugilliam (Peri) Brown. It would be the last story of the original series to be broadcast in 45-minute episodes.
For the first time in the history of Doctor Who, Davros and the Daleks are seen to hover above the ground. In the transmitted version, the camera angles chosen didn't make it entirely clear that the Dalek was hovering, as the base of the creature was never seen. It is never explained how Davros survived the virus which he contracted at the end of Resurrection of the Daleks, although he says that he managed to escape the space station via an escape pod.
When this story was translated into German, it was renamed ‘Planet der Toten’, meaning ‘Planet of the Dead’. This would become the title of a 2009 story, starring David Tennant and Michelle Ryan. The Doctor’s final word of the story was cut, as he was originally going to have said ‘Blackpool’, the location of the planned story ‘The Nightmare Fair’. However, the programme was put on hiatus for eighteen months, and the story was cancelled.
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