Skaro

Skaro from space (from the 1996 Doctor Who television movie)
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Universe	Whoniverse
Notable Races	Daleks Kaled Thal
Notable People	Davros
Creator	Terry Nation
Genre	Science fiction television

Skaro is a fictional planet from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who created by the writer Terry Nation as the home planet of the Daleks and, at times, the centre of the Dalek Empire. Download high resolution version (878x666, 240 KB)The plant Skaro, home to the Daleks, from the 1996 Doctor Who television movie, Enemy Within. ... Doctor Who is a long-running British science fiction television programme (and 1996 television movie) produced by the BBC. The programme shows the adventures of a mysterious time-traveller known as the Doctor, who explores time and space in his TARDIS timeship with his companions, solving problems and righting wrongs. ... Doctor Who is a television movie based on the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... // The Whoniverse, a portmanteau of Doctor Who and universe, is the fictional universe in which Doctor Who, Torchwood and other related stories take place. ... The Daleks (pronounced DAH-lecks; IPA: ) are a fictional extraterrestrial race of mutants from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... The Kaleds (or Dals) are a fictional race of humanoid aliens from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who and the forebears of the Daleks. ... The Thals are a fictional race of humanoid aliens from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, originating on the planet Skaro. ... Davros is a character from the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who, responsible for the genesis of the Doctors deadliest enemies, the Daleks. ... Terry Nation (August 8, 1930 – March 9, 1997) was a British television screenwriter and is probably best known for creating the villainous Daleks for the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... This is a list of planets, fictional or otherwise, that are mentioned in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... Doctor Who is a long-running British science fiction television programme (and 1996 television movie) produced by the BBC. The programme shows the adventures of a mysterious time-traveller known as the Doctor, who explores time and space in his TARDIS timeship with his companions, solving problems and righting wrongs. ... Terry Nation (August 8, 1930 – March 9, 1997) was a British television screenwriter and is probably best known for creating the villainous Daleks for the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... The Daleks (pronounced DAH-lecks; IPA: ) are a fictional extraterrestrial race of mutants from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... The Dalek city on Skaro, from The Daleks. ...

Skaro was a planet of roughly the same mass and dimensions as Earth, and the twelfth planet from its sun. It had a single continent that was divided into east and west halves of almost equal size. When the Doctor first visited the planet in the 1963 serial The Daleks, Skaro was a nuclear wasteland, whose principle features were a petrified forest, a lake containing ferocious failed Dalek mutations, and the Dalek city. The Daleks (also known as The Mutants, among other titles, see below) is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast weekly from 21 December 1963 to 1 February 1964. ...

History

Prior to the rise of the Daleks, Skaro was the home of a humanoid species with two races, the Kaleds (or Dals) and the Thals. Both races went to war with each other, and the resulting mutations set in motion by the nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons used were soon seen by Kaled scientists as being the end of their species in its (ideologically defined) "pure" form. In the serial, Genesis of the Daleks, the Kaled chief scientist, Davros, accelerated the mutations and placed the results in tank-like "travel machines". These cyborgs then became the successors to the Kaleds, the dreaded Daleks (an anagram of Kaleds). The shells made the mutants mobile and kept them alive from outside force, but also made them incredibly powerful. The Kaleds (or Dals) are a fictional race of humanoid aliens from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who and the forebears of the Daleks. ... The Thals are a fictional race of humanoid aliens from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, originating on the planet Skaro. ... The mushroom cloud of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, 1945, rose some 18 kilometers (11 mi) above the hypocenter. ... Dressing the wounded during a gas attack by Austin O. Spare, 1918. ... Biological warfare, also known as germ warfare, is the use of any organism (bacteria, virus or other disease_causing organism) or toxin found in nature, as a weapon of war. ... Genesis of the Daleks is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was originally broadcast in six weekly parts from March 8 to April 12, 1975. ... Davros is a character from the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who, responsible for the genesis of the Doctors deadliest enemies, the Daleks. ... For other uses, see Cyborg (disambiguation). ... An anagram (Greek ana- = back or again, and graphein = to write) is a type of word play, the result of rearranging the letters of a word or phrase to produce other words, using all the original letters exactly once; e. ...

The Thals were eventually driven from Skaro by the Daleks. The inheritors of Skaro ruled a devastated planet, its seas dead and its surface devoid of almost all life. However, Skaro was rich in minerals which the Daleks used to build armies to conquer and destroy other worlds, building an interstellar empire. Some time afterward, the Daleks also abandoned Skaro. It was later reoccupied by the Imperial Dalek faction, apparently at the behest of Davros. The Dalek city on Skaro, from The Daleks. ... The new Dalek from the 2005 series revival There are several variant models of the Daleks, a fictional alien race in the long-running BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...

Skaro was apparently destroyed sometime in the 30th Century through the actions of the Seventh Doctor, when the stellar manipulator device known as the Hand of Omega triggered a supernova in Skaro's sun (Remembrance of the Daleks). The Seventh Doctor is the name given to the seventh incarnation of the Doctor seen on screen in the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. ... The Hand of Omega is a fictional device from the British science-fiction television series Doctor Who. ... Remembrance of the Daleks is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from October 5 to October 26, 1988. ...

At the start of the 1996 Doctor Who television movie, the Master was put on trial on Skaro by the Daleks and exterminated. Presumably this took place in the relative past of Skaro's timeline before its destruction, as the Eighth Doctor does not comment on it. Doctor Who is a television movie based on the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... The Master is a supporting fictional character in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... The Eighth Doctor is the name given to the eighth incarnation of the Doctor seen on screen in the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. ...

In the 2005 series episode Dalek, it was revealed that the last great Time War was fought between the Time Lords and the Daleks, ending in the obliteration of both sides and with only two apparent survivors; the Doctor and a lone Dalek that had somehow fallen through time and crashed on Earth. At the conclusion of that episode, that surviving Dalek self-destructed, leaving the Doctor believing that he was the sole survivor of the Time War. However, the subsequent episodes Bad Wolf and The Parting of the Ways revealed that the Dalek Emperor had also survived, and had bred a new race of Daleks from human genetic material. This new Dalek army was annihilated, together with the Emperor, by the Doctor's companion Rose. Skaro was not mentioned by name in any of the Dalek appearances in the 2005 series, but the Ninth Doctor does mention a "Dalek Homeworld" in The Parting of the Ways. Dalek is an episode in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who that was first broadcast on April 30, 2005. ... The last great Time War, as depicted on the BBC Doctor Who website. ... The Daleks (pronounced DAH-lecks; IPA: ) are a fictional extraterrestrial race of mutants from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... Adjectives: Terrestrial, Terran, Telluric, Tellurian, Earthly Atmosphere Surface pressure: 101. ... Bad Wolf is an episode in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast on June 11, 2005. ... The Parting of the Ways is an episode in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast on June 18, 2005. ... The new Dalek from the 2005 series revival There are several variant models of the Daleks, a fictional alien race in the long-running BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... Rose Tyler is a fictional character played by Billie Piper in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... The Ninth Doctor refers to the ninth official incarnation of the fictional character known as the Doctor, in the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. ... The Parting of the Ways is an episode in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast on June 18, 2005. ...

More Daleks, however, appeared in the Tenth Doctor episode Army of Ghosts, having escaped the end of the Time War by leaving the universe entirely, hiding in the Void between dimensions. In Doomsday, it was revealed that four of these Daleks belonged to the Cult of Skaro. In Daleks in Manhattan, a surviving Dalek remarks that their home planet had been destroyed in "a great war"; in the same episode the Doctor utters the word "Skaro" upon finding the home planet of a piece of alien tissue. In Evolution of the Daleks the Cult of Skaro threaten to turn the Earth into 'New Skaro'. The Tenth Doctor is the name given to the tenth and current incarnation of the Doctor seen on screen in the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. ... Army of Ghosts is an episode of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who which was first broadcast on 1 July 2006. ... This is a list of planets, fictional or otherwise, that are mentioned in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... Doomsday is an episode in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... The new Dalek from the 2005 series revival There are several variant models of the Daleks, a fictional alien race in the long-running BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... Daleks in Manhattan is an episode of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... Evolution of the Daleks is an episode of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...

Doctor Who serials that take place on Skaro or feature Skaro prominently are The Daleks, The Evil of the Daleks, Genesis of the Daleks, Destiny of the Daleks and Remembrance of the Daleks. For Destiny of the Daleks exterior scenes meant to take place on Skaro were shot in Winspit quarry. The Daleks (also known as The Mutants, among other titles, see below) is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast weekly from 21 December 1963 to 1 February 1964. ... The Evil Of the Daleks is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which originally aired in seven weekly parts from May 20 to July 1, 1967. ... Genesis of the Daleks is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was originally broadcast in six weekly parts from March 8 to April 12, 1975. ... 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 September 1 to September 22, 1979. ... Remembrance of the Daleks is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from October 5 to October 26, 1988. ... Winspit is an old quarry on the cliffs near Worth Matravers in the Isle of Purbeck, Dorset, England that is no longer in use. ...

Other appearances

In the Eighth Doctor Adventures novel War of the Daleks by John Peel it was revealed that Skaro had not in fact been destroyed. The Daleks, via time travel, had discovered records that showed Skaro's destruction. After an attempt to change history (in Day of the Daleks) was unsuccessful, they terraformed the planet Antalin to resemble Skaro and manipulated Davros and the Doctor into ensuring that Antalin was destroyed in the original's place. The novel also revealed that the name Skaro simply means "home" in the old Kaled language. The novel's canonical status, like all spin-off media, is debatable. In fact, War was so badly received by some fans that they even disavow it within the continuity of the novels. The Eight Doctors was the first novel in the Eighth Doctor Adventures range. ... War of the Daleks is an original novel written by John Peel and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... John Peel (born 1954) is a British writer, best known for his books connected to several television series. ... Time travel is a concept that has long fascinated humanity—whether it is Merlin experiencing time backwards, or religious traditions like Mohammeds trip to Jerusalem and ascent to heaven, returning before a glass knocked over had spilt its contents. ... Day of the Daleks is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which originally aired in four weekly parts from January 1 to January 22, 1972. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

An article by Russell T. Davies in the Doctor Who Annual 2006 states that Skaro, like Gallifrey, was devastated at the end of the Time War. This suggests that the Daleks had managed to rebuild and/or reoccupy their home planet and is somewhat consistent with War of the Daleks. Russell T Davies, interviewed for the documentary series Doctor Who Confidential in 2005. ... A Vardan spaceship approaches Gallifrey from space (from The Invasion of Time). ...

Skaro was also the setting for the Peter Cushing feature film Dr. Who and the Daleks (1965) which is generally regarded as non-canonical. Peter Cushing OBE Cushing (left) in the television adaptation of Nineteen Eighty-Four in the winter of 1954 on BBC Television. ... Dr. Who and the Daleks (1965) was the first of two Doctor Who films made in the 1960s, and was followed by Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150 AD. The film features Peter Cushing as Dr. Who, Roberta Tovey as Susan, Jennie Linden as Barbara, and noted Carry On star Roy Castle... 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1965 calendar). ...

"Let's Go (To Planet Skaro)" was the third single released by UK punk rock band The Shapes and concerned the wedding reception of the Doctor on the planet. Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement beginning around 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified and popularised by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ... The Shapes were an English punk rock group that came into being in the British town of Leamintgon Spa in the latter half of the 1970s. ...

The Time War

The last televised adventure that featured Skaro was Remembrance of the Daleks, (1988). But, Daleks in Manhattan, (2007), one Dalek, of the Cult of Skaro claims "My homeworld was destroyed in a war". According to the Eighth Doctor novel War of the Daleks, which was published before the 2005 revival and thus the Time War story, Skaro was never destroyed (the Doctor blew up the wrong planet, which was part of a grand Dalek plan). While the canonical status of the novels is uncertain, Russell T. Davies has previously intimated that various Dalek stories take place as parts of the Time War, such as Genesis of the Daleks which he refers to as "the first strike".^[1] Remembrance of the Daleks is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from October 5 to October 26, 1988. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Daleks in Manhattan is an episode of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the Anno Domini (common) era. ... The Daleks (pronounced DAH-lecks; IPA: ) are a fictional extraterrestrial race of mutants from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... The new Dalek from the 2005 series revival There are several variant models of the Daleks, a fictional alien race in the long-running BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... The Eighth Doctor is the name given to the eighth incarnation of the Doctor seen on screen in the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. ... War of the Daleks is an original novel written by John Peel and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... Genesis of the Daleks is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was originally broadcast in six weekly parts from March 8 to April 12, 1975. ...

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