Orcini penetrates Davros's lair, and apparently kills Davros, but Orcini realises that the kill was too easy.

Davros, on the other hand, is all too eager to give the Daleks the upper hand.

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

However, for instance, Big Finish was no longer allowed to use the character of Davros following his return to the series in 2008, although this ban has been lifted and Davros returned to Big Finish in The Curse of Davros, released in January 2012.

By the final episode, he had mutated into a tyrannical character reminiscent of Doctor Whos Davros ( though " just different enough not to infringe any copyright laws ").

Padbury has appeared in Doctor Who audio adventures from Big Finish Productions, first as a character other than Zoe in the full-cast audio Davros, and then as Zoe in Fear of the Daleks, part of the " Companion Chronicles " talking book series.

* Davros — the character

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

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.

In the season four finale, Davros returned, played by Julian Bleach, revealed to be the main antagonist of the season.

Physically this resembles the Resurrection Gauntlet from Torchwood and Davros ' gauntlet from the Series 4 finale, but this may be coincidental.

Skaro appears in the Big Finish Doctor Who audio stories The Mutant Phase and Davros ( where we learn that Skaro had two moons: Falkus and Omega Mysterium, names drawn from a chart of Skaro's solar system in a 1976 Marks and Spencer tie-in book-Falkus is there revealed to be an artificial planet created by the Daleks as a last refuge ), and was where the Emperor Dalek operated from in The Genocide Machine, and features prominently in the I, Davros spin-off series, looking at Davros's life and the events that led to him creating the Daleks.

The Emperor is revealed to be Davros who announces his plans for his Daleks to overthrow the Time Lords.

However, the figure is revealed to be a kidnapped schoolgirl, and the imperial faction are commanded by Davros.

The Doctor Who Magazine comic strip story Emperor of the Daleks ( DWM # 197 -# 202 ) also attempts to fill in this gap, with Davros conquering Skaro and also explaining how his remains came to be housed in the Emperor Dalek shell while the Big Finish Productions audio adventure The Juggernauts presents an alternate version of Davros's activities in the period between Revelation and Remembrance.

The later Big Finish Productions audio play Terror Firma contradicted this and also gave an alternate account of what Davros did after the events of this story ( Although it should be noted that Terra Firma features Davros suffering from multiple personality disorder that may affect his memory ).

Despite Lytton's reservations, Davros demands that he remain on the prison ship while working on the virus, as it may be necessary for him to be refrozen.

Davros will be placed in cryogenic suspension and taken to Earth to stand trial for his crimes.

When Davros is revived and asked by the head of an Earth corporation to use his great genius to work for good ends, the Kaled scientist seems to be playing along.

The Sixth Doctor arrives and insists that Davros cannot be trusted, that he is " one of – no, actually, the most evil being this galaxy has ever produced!

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.

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 creates an army of Dalek mutants by manipulating DNA extracted from humans on the planet Necros, where the terminally ill and the dead are being stored in suspended animation.

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 was created by screenwriter Terry Nation.

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.

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.

In this serial Davros was again played by Molloy, his appearance as Davros was the same with very minor changes.

The concluding episodes of the fourth season, " The Stolen Earth "/" Journey's End ", reveal that Davros was thought to have died during the first year of the Time War, when his command ship " flew into the jaws of the Nightmare Child " at the Gates of Elysium, despite the Doctor's failed efforts to save him.

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 ".

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.

At the conclusion of War, Davros was seemingly disintegrated by a Spider Dalek on the order of the Dalek Prime.

However, Davros had previously recruited one of the Spider Daleks as a sleeper agent for just such an eventuality, and even he was not certain in the end if he was being disintegrated or being teleported away to safety, leaving the possibility open for his return.

On the November 26, 2007, a Davros boxset was released featuring the following TV stories ;

Some time afterward, the Daleks abandoned Skaro, though the planet was later reoccupied by the Imperial Dalek faction, apparently at the behest of Davros.

After an attempt to change history ( in Day of the Daleks ) is unsuccessful, they terraform the planet Antalin to resemble Skaro and manipulate Davros and the Doctor into ensuring that Antalin was destroyed in the original's place.

In truth, he was laying a trap for the Daleks and their creator, Davros.

This was the last appearance of Davros and the Daleks in the original run of Doctor Who ; after a brief appearance in the 1996 television film the Daleks would return in the 2005 episode " Dalek ".

However, the Daleks ' ability to defy gravity was first implied as far back as The Chase ( 1965 ); a Dalek was seen hovering with the aid of an " anti-gravitational disk " in the 1973 adventure Planet of the Daleks and both Davros and the Daleks were seen to hover in Revelation of the Daleks ( 1985 ).

* The Eighth Doctor Adventures novel, War of the Daleks by John Peel, claimed that Skaro had not been destroyed after all ; having discovered records of Skaro's destruction during their invasion of Earth, the Daleks moved Davros to another planet while he was in stasis after terraforming it to resemble Skaro, thus allowing the destruction of ' Skaro ' to take place on their terms.

* The 2006 four part audio series I, Davros depicts Davros ' early life, from his childhood, right up to a few weeks before Genesis of the Daleks.

* This story influenced the production of the four part Big Finish series I, Davros.