The second teaser picture (under) is the actually fascinating one. It options actor-writer-comedian Mawaan Rizwan (Juice, Taskmaster), who’s starring with Tennant within the Children in Need scene, as “a mysterious new character”. Except, he’s not totally mysterious, as a result of he’s clearly carrying the uniform of a Kaled, and apparently goes by the identify of Mr Castavillian (cast-a-villain?).
See the little eye-shaped image with the Fascist lightning bolts popping out of it on his lapels? Doctor Who followers have seen that uniform earlier than, on the backs of the Nazi-alike alien race to which Dalek creator Davros belonged. Below, it’s worn by Kaled safety head Nyder (who – not which you can see it on this crop – additionally has just a little Iron Cross round his neck, simply to drive the ‘authoritarian dangerous guys’ level house.)
Davros, to present a really transient overview, was the pinnacle of the Kaled Scientific Elite on the planet Skaro, and the creator of the mutated Dalek race and their journey machines in an try to finish to the raging Khaled/Thal conflict. It kind of labored, however solely in that his creations’ obsession with racial purity led them to exterminate just about everyone – Kaled and Thal alike.
If Mawaan Rizwan is enjoying a Kaled, that factors to a well-known interval within the Doctor Who timeline, and maybe to one in every of Classic Who’s most well-known tales: “Genesis of the Daleks”. The six-part serial initially aired in 1975, and noticed Tom Baker’s Fourth Doctor despatched again to when Davros was first creating the Daleks on Skaro for a sort of ‘kill Hitler as a child/persuade Hitler to not be a child’ mission.
All of which leaves us with the query of when this particular scene matches in to the Fourteenth Doctor’s story? Is this what occurs instantly after that shock regeneration on the finish of “The Power of the Doctor” and earlier than the TARDIS returns to Earth for Donna Noble journey “The Star Beast”? Friday will inform, however should you’ve stored up with Fourteenth Doctor funny story “Liberation of the Daleks”, you might have already got solutions.
Anybody who appears like a refresher forward of the Children in Need particular scene can stream “Genesis of the Daleks” and different Skaro-based episodes within the UK on BBC iPlayer as a part of the streamer’s Whoniverse division. But don’t fear in any respect should you’re not up on all of the backstory, Russell T Davies is assured to make these items accessible to newcomers. It’s what he does.
