Destiny of the Daleks /

Destiny of the Daleks is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from 1 September to 22 September 1979. The story introduces Lalla Ward as the newly-regenerated Romana. The TARDIS lands the Fourth Doctor and Romana on a strangely familiar planet. There, they meet the android Movellans, who are locked in a war with the Daleks. The planet is Skaro, and in a bunker sits an enemy long thought dead — Davros, creator of the Daleks. The Doctor, following the events of The Armageddon Factor, has installed a "Randomiser" onto the TARDIS to elude the Black Guardian, and is repairing K-9. Meanwhile, Romana regenerates into the form of Princess Astra from the preceding adventure, in spite of the Doctor's disapproval. The TARDIS lands on a rocky planet which has breathable air but dangerously high levels of radioactivity. The Doctor gives Romana tablets to combat the radiation and a beeper-like device to inform her when she must take her pills. They exit the TARDIS and see a group of ragged-looking natives burying one of their dead. They see a spaceship land and half-bury itself into the ground in a valley. Just as the