Davros then yells out that he will build a new race of Daleks, and they shall once more become the supreme beings.

Davros is the head of the Elite Scientific Division, created to devise new military strategies in order to win the war.

In the Fifth Doctor story Resurrection of the Daleks, a small Dalek force aided by human mercenaries and Dalek duplicates liberates Davros ( now played by Terry Molloy, with a new mask designed by Stan Mitchell ) from his space station prison, needing his expertise to find an antidote for a Movellan-created virus that has all but wiped them out.

Davros emerges as " The Great Healer " of the funeral and cryogenic preservation centre Tranquil Repose on the planet Necros in the Sixth Doctor story Revelation of the Daleks, where he uses frozen bodies to engineer a new variety of Daleks loyal to him, distinguished from the original Daleks by their white and gold livery and slightly changed design.

Davros can now fire electric bolts from his hand, although the hand is shot off shortly before his original creations arrive to defeat the new Daleks and transport Davros to face trial on Skaro.

Davros was pulled out of the Time War by Dalek Caan despite it being time-locked, and bred a new Dalek race using cells from his own body, so that he has little skin and flesh left on his chest and his ribcage and internal organs are visible.

Though Davros talks about his " new empire ", he at one point in time has actually been overthrown by his creatures and is kept prisoner in the Vault, being used for his scientific knowledge.

In 2008, Julian Bleach appeared live as Davros at the Doctor Who Prom, announcing that the Royal Albert Hall would become his new palace, and the audience his " obedient slaves ".

At that moment, Davros enters the laboratory, and demonstrates his new " Mark III travel machine ", which he later dubs as a " Dalek ".

At the Kaled bunker, Davros declares the Kaled race is dead, giving birth to the Daleks ; he orders Ronson's death as a traitor that gave over the chemical secret, instructs the next scientist, Gharman, to remove compassion and pity from the new Dalek mutations, and send a troop of Daleks to the Thal dome to exterminate all those inside.

In Revelation of the Daleks ( 1985 ) Davros engages in creating a new breed of Dalek mutants to command.

Both meet back in Davros ' laboratory where he reveals that he has a new army of Daleks, hidden in catacombs underneath his laboratory.

The Doctor tells him that they can harvest the flowers that grow on the planet and use them as a new food source to replace the product Davros had created from dead bodies.

* Davros creating a new race of Daleks using human tissue is similar to the Dalek Emperor creating a new race of Daleks from human contestants killed on the Game Station, in " The Parting of the Ways ".

By the time of Remembrance of the Daleks, Davros had installed himself as a Dalek Emperor, calling his new breed of Daleks " Imperial Daleks ", with the deposed faction becoming " Renegade Daleks ".

His prophecies guide Davros as he constructs a new Dalek empire using his own Kaled cells.

He manipulated the timelines so that the Tenth Doctor and Donna Noble would meet and destroy both Davros and his new Daleks.

Despite attempts to avoid them altogether, the Time Lords continue to send him on occasional missions, including an attempt to prevent the creation of the Daleks ( Genesis of the Daleks ), during which he also meets a new adversary, Davros.

Davros subsequently uses cells from his own body to create a new Dalek Empire and keeps Caan close at his side because of the latter's prophetic abilities.

" Forced however to work alongside his nemesis, on projects such as famine relief, the Doctor seeks to uncover Davros before he can put new schemes to create a powerbase into effect.

Davros realizes that contamination from the nuclear and biological weapons used in the war is mutating the Kaled race, and artificially accelerates the process to examine the ultimate evolutionary end product.

In earlier episodes, Davros is referred to ( albeit not by name ) twice: first in the episode " Dalek " by the Ninth Doctor, who explains that the Daleks were created by " a genius ... a man who was king of his own little world ", and again by the Tenth Doctor in the episode " Evolution of the Daleks ", where he refers to the Daleks ' creator as believing that " removing emotions made a race stronger ".

However, Davros has been betrayed by Dalek Caan, who having come to the realisation of the evilness of his race after seeing the entirety of time due to his temporal shift, is using his prophecies and influence to cause the Daleks ' destruction.

Vault Daleks form part of the recreated Dalek race each of which, Davros states, has been genetically engineered with cells taken from his own body.

Davros is an archenemy of the Doctor and is the creator of the Doctor's deadliest enemies, the Daleks.

Davros is a megalomaniac who believes that through his creations, the Daleks, he can become the supreme being and ruler of the universe.

Michael Wisher as Davros in Genesis of the Daleks.

Davros first appeared in the 1975 serial Genesis of the Daleks, written by Terry Nation.

Cast in the role of Davros was Michael Wisher, who had previously appeared in several different roles on Doctor Who and had provided Dalek voices in the serials Frontier in Space, Planet of the Daleks and Death to the Daleks.

When he first encounters the Fourth Doctor in Genesis of the Daleks, Davros is the chief scientist of the Kaleds, one of two native sentient races of the planet Skaro.

Davros uses a trick to wipe out those who oppose him, by ordering a vote to decide whether to continue with the project, when the Daleks arrive they kill those who voted against Davros, but ultimately turn on Davros and apparently kill him at the conclusion of the serial.

Davros proved too effective a character to be kept dead and was resurrected four years later in 1979's Destiny of the Daleks ( played by David Gooderson using the mask Friedlander made for Wisher-the mask had to be split into sections and rejoined to get as good a fit as possible ).

Believing his creations to be treacherous, Davros begins using mind control on Daleks and humans, ultimately releasing the virus to kill off the Daleks before they can exterminate him.

The hypothetical creation of a viral weapon that could destroy all living creatures had been the subject of a discussion between the Fourth Doctor and Davros in Genesis of the Daleks.

Davros as the Emperor Dalek, from Remembrance of the Daleks.

Davros appears as the Emperor Dalek in Remembrance of the Daleks, with his white and gold Daleks now based on Skaro and termed " Imperial Daleks ", fighting against the grey " Renegade Dalek " faction.

Davros is a character from the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

Davros was created by screenwriter Terry Nation.

Davros is a mad scientist from the planet Skaro whose people, the Kaleds, were engaged in a bitter thousand-year war of attrition with their enemies, the Thals.

The physical appearance of Davros was developed by visual effects designer Peter Day and sculptor John Friedlander, who based Davros ' chair on the lower half of a Dalek.

Wisher based his performance as Davros on the philosopher Bertrand Russell.

Davros quickly becomes obsessed with his creations, considering them to be the ultimate form of life, superior to all others.

However, the Dalek force is destroyed by the Doctor, and Davros is captured and imprisoned by the humans in suspended animation, before being taken to Earth to face trial.