GALLERY
CAST
Regular Cast
David Tennant (The Doctor), Mawaan Rizwan (Mr Castavillian), Julian Bleach (Davros), Nicholas Briggs (Voice of the Daleks/Nyder), Barnaby Edwards (Dalek Operator)
CREW
Written by | Russell T. Davies |
Directed by | Jamie Donoghue |
Produced by | Scott Handcock |
SYPNOSIS
In this special Children in Need episode, The Doctor hurtles through space and time to a crucial point in The Daleks’ history.
PLOT
A pre-disfigured Davros and his assistant, Mr Castavillian, are building the first iteration of a mutant-housing Mark III Travel Machine. The assistant tries coming up with a new name for this machine, using different anagrams of Kaled, none of which Davros likes. Hearing a request from Nyder, Davros leaves. There is an inexplicable wheezing, groaning sound.
Suddenly, the TARDIS crashes into the room, smashing into a wall. The Fourteenth Doctor opens the door and says “Hello!”. He mentions that he regenerated from a “really brilliant woman” an hour ago and has somehow ended with an old face. He realises his violent landing has accidentally smashed off a part of the Machine, a multi-dextrous claw, and apologises. Then he sees the machine, and says in terror, “That’s a Dalek.” The assistant notes down this name approvingly. He notes that he was lucky that he wasn’t “exterminated” before realising that he must have accidentally travelled to the “genesis of the Daleks“. Hurriedly, he legs it back to the TARDIS, retrieves a plunger, and throws it to Castavillian. The Doctor runs back into the TARDIS and tells the assistant he was “Never here”. The TARDIS dematerialises. Panicking, the assistant sticks the plunger on to the machine in place of the claw.