Destiny of the Daleks Destiny of the Daleks Destiny of the Daleks is the first serial of the 17th season of the British science fiction television series "Doctor Who", which was first broadcast in four weekly parts on BBC1 from 1 September to 22 September 1979. The story introduces Lalla Ward as the newly regenerated Romana. The serial is set on the planet Skaro centuries after events of the 1975 serial "Genesis of the Daleks". In the serial, the Daleks arrive on Skaro to find their creator Davros (David Gooderson) in suspended animation. They seek Davros' guidance to help them beat the Movellan race
Davros Falkus attempts to acquire the Persuasion Machine, a dangerous device that the Seventh Doctor has been tracking with his companions Elizabeth Klein and Will Arrowsmith, but the Doctor is able to trick Falkus into using the reprogrammed Persuasion Machine to destroy himself and his Daleks, while Davros flees in an escape pod. Davros is last shown trapped on the planet Lamuria, faced with the spectral former residents of the planet who sought to punish all criminals in the universe. By the time of the Eighth Doctor audio play "Terror Firma" (set after "Remembrance"), Davros is commanding a Dalek army which