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 complicated when the Sixth Doctor uses the device to swap bodies with Davros in an attempt to subvert the Daleks' plans from the inside. At the end, Davros and the Doctor are returned to their original bodies with the aid of the Doctor's new companion Flip Jackson, and Davros is left with an army of Daleks who have had their minds wiped. These Daleks presumably become the "Imperial Daleks", first seen in "Remembrance of the Daleks". In "The Juggernauts", Davros is on the run from the original Daleks. He hatches a plan to add human tissue to robotic Mechanoids, using