Until the Daleks universal supremacy is established, Davros can't allow himself the luxury of death. It suggests strongly that the whole thing behind her regenerating is she's come to really LIKE him, would like to get along with him more, and maybe even become more like him. Final Analysis: Destiny of the Daleks seems to polarise opinion, but as it was the first Dalek story where I was old enough to follow the plot in full, I didn’t care about how tatty the props looked or that the central point about a robotic impasse shouldn’t have worked because Daleks aren’t robots. Davros vows to make the Daleks invincible, and the supreme power of the Universe. However, the nova device was revealed to be a "dud" – a decoy used to lure the Doctor. It was the final televised story to be written by Terry Nation, who had contributed scripts since 1963. At the same time it isn’t the Dalek spectacular that should have opened the season and could have done with double the budget thrown at it and the script given another once over to iron out any conflicts in tone that keep cropping up. 5J — Season 17, Serial 1 He gives up, realising that her mind is made up, and agrees to let her resemble Astra. comment. All Episodes (696) Next. The Doctor detonates the explosive remotely, and the explosion seems to take a Dalek with it. The Doctor and a newly-regenerated Romana arrive on Skaro to find that the Daleks are using explosive charges and a group of humanoid slave workers to mine the planet in search of their creator, Davros. Premiere network: The Doctor threatens to kill Davros with a makeshift explosive he has just concocted. However this is not Astra at all: it is Romana, and she has regenerated into a form which she has modelled on the princess. Producer: (01 Sep 1979). The Armageddon Factor She backs away, only to fall down a rubble chute, losing consciousness. Shannon Sullivan's A Brief History of Time (Travel), the preponderance of stories in other media, An Incident Concerning the Continual Bombardment of the Phobos Colony, Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe, https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Destiny_of_the_Daleks_(TV_story)?oldid=3094595. He's terrible! This was presumably written in something of a hurry, released roughly two months after the broadcast of ‘Destiny of the Daleks’ (3). The Doctor and a newly-regenerated Romana arrive on Skaro and discover that the Daleks are using explosive charges and a group of humanoid slave workers to mine the planet in search of their creator, Davros. On closer inspection, they find that this deceased fellow is not what they thought: he is from the planet Kantra, a tropical paradise. Romana then tries an extremely tall, willowy and serious-looking female form, which the Doctor dismisses as being too tall. The Doctor and Romana escape the Movellan ship. Documentary about writer Terry Nation, creator of the Daleks, and his work on Doctor Who. This is currently the only story since 1973's. Destiny Of The Daleks Episode One. Destiny of the Daleks Last update -- 06-19-2020. The story opens with the regeneration of Romana into her new body. It took until REVELATION OF THE DALEKS for it to happen on the show (and then, it was so badly shot you couldn't even tell what was happening), and REMEMBRANCE OF THE DALEKS before they finally "got it right", when one of them followed Sylvester McCoy up a flight of stairs. In the same scene, Davros hits the side of the door on his way out, causing it to visibly shudder. Ken Grieve Graham Williams As the Doctor frantically tries to dig her out, Romana appears and explains that she feigned death in order to escape. Other attempts at humour occur in. First and foremost, the basic concept of the Daleks is entirely muddled in this story, as if Nation had forgotten the same premise that he himself created in 1963 and fleshed out so spectacularly in 1975 with this story's forerunner, "Genesis of the Daleks." You are our prisoner – do not move. Williams had to cope with many pressures during his time on the show, including orders from above to tone down the more violent aspects of the show, budget cuts and an increasingly difficult main star. 4 "Destiny of the Daleks" is one of those thankfully few times when this wonderful show flirts with greatness only to fumble and drop the ball. Davros shall be placed in Cryogenic suspension and taken to Earth to stand trial for his crimes. 4x25-minute episodes Episode One I hid the story’s author and title credit from Sue, and I was pretty subtle about it too. Novelised as: 4 of 6 people found this review helpful. 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