Premise: On the planet Necros, Davros is turning humans into Daleks. The Doctor must deal with assassins, morticians and two factions of Daleks to stop Davros's latest insane scheme.
Notes: While Davros explains how he escaped the space station in an escape pod before it explodes in Resurrection of the Daleks, it is never explained how he survived the Movellan virus. The Doctor's final word "Blackpool" was edited out shortly before transmission. It would've lead into the story to start the next season which would've been titled, The Nightmare Fair, and set in Blackpool. However, the show was put on an eighteen month hiatus and the next season revised so the scene was edited to leave it more open ended.
Verdict: A decent story with most of the same flaws that all other stories from Colin Baker's tenure had. Luckily, it is not as continuity obsessed as some of it's predecessors and Davros is very enjoyable in this serial. The second episode is where it all happens with the first being dull and painfully slow, with the romance aspect adding nothing to the overall story 7/10
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