Doctor Who Season 9’s opening two-parter was stuffed full of vintage Dalek goodness, as well as having both Davros and Missy in play.

It also threw back links to various previous adventures for the Doctor. Here are five classic tales that we recommend you Seek-Locate-Exterminate…

 

‘Genesis of the Daleks’ (1975)

The Fourth Doctor’s first trip to Skaro, despatched by the Time Lords to avert the creation of the Daleks, is surely essential viewing given that this clash between Davros and the Doctor was written as a sequel to that original tale.

Regarded as one of the show’s finest stories, ‘Genesis’ showed the backdrop for the birth of Davros’ malignant mutants whose forbears were trapped in an endless war with the Thals, Skaro’s other inhabitants.

Footage from this story even appeared in the ‘The Magician’s Apprentice’ as the Doctor questioned if he had the right to destroy the Daleks and willingly commit genocide, as well as almost posing the dilemma about killing a child you knew would grow up to be a mass-murdering dictator.

 

‘The Daleks’ (1963)

Of course, the Doctor’s first encounter with the Daleks was on Skaro and there were plenty of visual references to that original story, from the Dalek shaped doors to the look of the city itself.

While he did not run into quite as much trouble as Clara, who has form (sort of), original companion Ian Chesterton also spent some time in a Dalek casing during ‘The Daleks: The Ambush’ when he impersonated one to help his friends flee the city.

 

‘The Stolen Earth’ / ‘Journey’s End’ (2008)

Reintroducing Davros to the modern incarnation of the show, ‘The Stolen Earth’ and ‘Journey’s End’ formed the dramatic finale to David Tennant’s final full season.

As well as drawing together gathering a host of companions from both Doctor Who and its two spin-off shows, the story also managed a Dalek invasion of Earth and a shocking cliff-hanger.

Introducing a red and gold Supreme Dalek, we saw Davros’ children abducting planets in order to fulfil their twisted creator’s insane master-plan, a bomb capable of destroying reality itself.

 

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