Dr Elizabeth Styles (PROSE: Resurrection of the Daleks) was the medical officer of the Prison Station on which Davros was held as a prisoner.
Biography
Styles had an android nurse named Monda, who greeted Mercer in German as Styles was keen to improve her languages; according to her, Monda would be speaking Terileptil the next month. (PROSE: Resurrection of the Daleks)
Styles was one of the few initial survivors of the Dalek raid on the station.
Along with Mercer, she tried to activate the station's self-destruct mechanism, but was shot and killed by one of Lytton's mercenaries before she could do so. (TV: Resurrection of the Daleks)
Behind the scenes
- Her first name, Elizabeth, is never mentioned on-screen; it is used only in Eric Saward's novelisation.
- Polly Adams, Honor Blackman, Eleanor Bron, Rachel Davies, Judi Dench, Jenny Hanley, Diane Keen, Maureen Lipman, Joanna Lumley, Kate O’Mara, Jacqueline Pearce, Sheila Ruskin, Pamela Salem, Fiona Walker and Penelope Wilton were considered for the role before Rula Lenska was cast.