Genesis of the Daleks is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which originally aired in six weekly parts from March 8 to April 12, 1975.
Synopsis
The Doctor and his companions, while being teleported, were diverted to the planet Skaro in the distant past. A Time Lord from Gallifrey explains that this was done in reaction to a projected timeline that the Daleks would become the dominant life form in the galaxy of a successful genocidal campaign. To prevent this, the Doctor was given the task of preventing the creation of the Daleks, or otherwise finding some weakness that would reduce the species' threat in the future, like altering their development so they evolve into less aggressive beings.
Featuring the Fourth Doctor with his companions Sarah Jane Smith and Harry Sullivan, it is the most-repeated Doctor Who story on BBC Television, having been re-shown in edited form in 1982 and again in its full form in 1993 and 2000. It has also been regularly transmitted on satellite television station UK Gold, and was released on VHS by BBC Enterprises in 1991. In a 1998 poll of readers by Doctor Who Magazine, over 2500 voters placed it top of a poll to find the greatest Doctor Who stories of all time, and it has regularly featured in the top-tens of other similar polls down the years.
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