Remembrance of the Daleks originally aired near the 25th Anniversary of the show, in October 1988. The story, being one of the better Seventh Doctor adventures, is notable for several reasons. Featuring the Seventh Doctor (Sylvester McCoy) and Ace, we're brought back to the locales of the very first adventure- Coal Hill School and Totters Lane- as the Daleks are digging around for a dangerous artifact the Doctor left behind long ago.
Remembrance is an absolutely thrilling adventure. The Daleks are menacing and unstoppable (as they should be), the Seventh Doctor is at his most Machiavellian, Ace has some great personal moments, and the resolution serves as one of the most chilling moments in the show's history, as the Doctor, almost gleefully, commits genocide.
But perhaps the most memorable scene comes at the end of Part I. The writers take this opportunity to dispel a long-running presumption about Daleks- you can evade or defeat them by just running up stairs, ha ha ha- resulting in one of the most thrilling cliffhangers in the history of the show:
This is a bit out of context, but the above scene was a HUGE DEAL when it aired originally. But it's just one of the reasons why Remembrance is probably the best story in the all-too-brief Seventh Doctor era.
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