Destination: Skaro (TV story)
Destination: Skaro was a televised minisode broadcast on 17 November 2023 on BBC One and written by Russell T Davies[1] as part of the 60th anniversary celebrations and Children in Need.
It featured the Fourteenth Doctor arriving on Skaro, which was hinted at in the final instalment of the Doctor Who Magazine comic strip Liberation of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Liberation of the Daleks (comic story)"].
Publisher's summary
In this special Children in Need episode, the Doctor hurtles through space and time to a crucial point in the Daleks’ history.
Plot
Davros and his assistant, Mr. Castavillian, are building the first iteration of a mutant-housing Mark III Travel Machine. The assistant tries coming up with a new name for this machine, using different anagrams of Kaled. Hearing a request from Nyder, Davros leaves. There is an inexplicable wheezing, groaning sound.
Suddenly, the TARDIS crashes into the room, smashing into a wall. The Fourteenth Doctor opens the door and says "Hello!". He realises his violent landing accidentally smashed off a part of a machine, a multi-dextrous claw, and apologies. Then he sees the machine, and says in terror "That's a Dalek." The assistant notes down this name. Hurriedly, he legs it back to the TARDIS, retrieves a plunger, and throws it to Castavillian. The Doctor runs back into the TARDIS and tells the assistant he was "Never here". The TARDIS dematerialises. Panicking, the assisstant sticks the plunger onto the machine in place of the claw.
Davros re-enters and sees the plunger stuck onto the Dalek. The assistant looks at his boss nervously, yet he approves, "I like it."
Cast
- The Doctor - David Tennant[1]
- Mr Castavillian - Mawaan Rizwan[1]
- Davros - Julian Bleach
- Voice of the Daleks - Nicholas Briggs
- Dalek Operator - Barnaby Edwards
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Worldbuilding
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Continuity
- The title Destination: Skaro was only given by Russell T Davies on a post on his Instagram.[2]
- This minisode references the fact that, in-universe, an hour has passed since his regeneration; this aligns with Davies's intent that Liberation of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Liberation of the Daleks (comic story)"], set after The Power of the Doctor [+]Loading...["The Power of the Doctor (TV story)"], takes places over the course of a single hour.
- This story is a prequel to Genesis of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Genesis of the Daleks (TV story)"], positing that several parts of Dalek culture were introduced by the Doctor via a bootstrap paradox. This story also refers to the creation of the Daleks as the "genesis of the Daleks", a name for the event that had previously been used in various spin-offs.
- One of the anagrams Castavillian proposes is "Klade"; the Klade, as seen in several BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures novels such as Father Time [+]Loading...["Father Time (novel)"], were often hinted at being the future evolutions of the Daleks.
- This is not the only time they've been alluded to on-screen, as the episode The Satan Pit [+]Loading...["The Satan Pit (TV story)"] mentioned the Kaled God of War, a god which the Klade were also shown to worship in Father Time.
Home media releases
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Gallery
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