The Magician's Apprentice (Doctor Who) Doctor's earlier incarnations, ranging from "Genesis of the Daleks" to "The Stolen Earth". Most notably, he shows footage (from "Genesis of the Daleks") of the Fourth Doctor asking the question "if someone who knew the future pointed out a child to you and told you that that child would grow up totally evil, to be a ruthless dictator who would destroy millions of lives, could you then kill that child?" Several different designs of the Daleks from across the series' history reappear in the episode, alongside their creator, Davros, and their home planet, Skaro. The first Dalek shown in the
Vortis (Doctor Who) Vortis (Doctor Who) Vortis is a fictional planet in the (equally fictional) Isop galaxy, created by Bill Strutton and originally featuring in six 1965 BBC episodes of the British science fiction television series "Doctor Who", collectively titled "The Web Planet", and featuring William Hartnell as the First Doctor. It also appeared in an original "Doctor Who" novel, "Twilight of the Gods", one of the Virgin Missing Adventures range. and an audio drama, "Return to the Web Planet", produced by Big Finish Productions. The popularity of "The Web Planet" meant that two of the species inhabiting Vortis, the ant-like Zarbi and