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''Genesis of the Daleks'' is the fourth serial of the twelfth season of the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. It was written by Terry Nation and directed by David Maloney, and originally broadcast in six weekly parts from 8 March to 12 April 1975 on BBC1. In the serial, the Fourth Doctor (Tom Baker) and his companions Sarah Jane Smith (Elisabeth Sladen) and Harry Sullivan (Ian Marter) are sent by members of the Doctor's race, the Time Lords, to the time of the Daleks' creation, to avert their future terrorisation of other species. The Doctor faces the dilemma of whether he has the right to do so. ''Genesis of the Daleks'' was originally commissioned under producer Barry Letts and script editor Terrance Dicks, who felt that the outline submitted by Nation was too similar to his previous Dalek adventures, and encouraged him to explore the origin of the Daleks. The story introduces the Daleks' creator Davros (played by Michael Wisher), who had a unique visual design. The script was handed to Letts and Dicks' successors, producer Philip Hinchcliffe and script editor Robert Holmes, who made changes to the original script which gave it a darker tone. Nation, having intentionally modelled the Daleks on the Nazis, further explored the theme in ''Genesis''. It also addresses the moral issues that come with time travelling and genocide. The story was filmed over January and February 1975, with some location filming done in a quarry in Betchworth. ''Genesis of the Daleks'' premiered with 10.7 million viewers and concluded five weeks later with 9.1 million, with the least-watched episode being Part Three with 8.5 million viewers. Since its broadcast it has been widely praised as one of the series' best. The story was novelised in 1976 by Dicks, and released as a condensed LP in 1979, before being released on VHS in 1991 and DVD in 2006. ==Plot== The Doctor is intercepted while travelling from Earth to the Ark by the Time Lords for a mission to interfere in the creation of the Daleks to avert a future time when Daleks would dominate the universe. The Doctor is given a Time Ring to use to return to the TARDIS when the task is complete. The Doctor finds that he is already on the planet Skaro and joins his companions Sarah Jane Smith and Harry Sullivan. They find that Skaro is a war-torn planet; a generations-long war of attrition between the Thals and the Kaleds for dominance of the planet has laid waste to its surface and ecology. In the midst of a poison gas attack by the Thals, the Doctor and Harry are dragged inside the Kaled dome, while Sarah is left outside. She runs into the Mutos, exiled descendants of those mutated by chemical weapons early in the war but they are captured by the Thals. Sarah and the Mutos are forced to load radioactive components into a missile, that is to be launched at the Kaled dome. Sarah attempts to lead an escape by climbing out of the rocket silo but fails. The Doctor and Harry are brought before the Kaled elite: General Ravon, the leader of the Kaled army and Security Commander Nyder. The Doctor attempts to explain that they are aliens but Nyder dismisses this as their greatest scientist, Davros, has stated there is no life outside Skaro. The Doctor and Harry have their possessions, including the Time Ring, taken but another scientist, Ronson, discovers that they really are alien. Davros enters and demonstrates his new "Mark III travel machine", which he later dubs as the next stage of their evolution: a "Dalek". Ronson subsequently confides in the Doctor that he and other scientists believe Davros' research has become immoral, because he using unethical mutations to create the Daleks. The Doctor promises to tell the Kaled leaders about Davros and the Daleks if Ronson helps them to escape. The Doctor meets Mogran and other Kaled Councillors, who agree to halt Davros' experiments. When Davros discovers this through Nyder's spies, he prepares twenty Daleks under computer control and covertly provides the Thal leaders with a chemical to weaken the Kaled dome in order that their rocket will penetrate it. The Doctor and Harry rescue Sarah from the Thal dome but in doing so, the Doctor is captured. He watches helplessly as the Thals launch their rocket and destroy the Kaled dome. At the Kaled bunker, Davros declares the Kaled race is dead, giving birth to the Daleks; he claims Ronson provided the chemical secret to the Thals and has him executed. He instructs the next scientist, Gharman, to remove compassion and pity from the new Dalek mutations and sends them to the Thal dome to exterminate everyone. In the confusion, the Doctor, Sarah and Harry rejoin the few Thal and Mutos survivors and return to the Kaled bunker. The Doctor instructs the Thals and Mutos to try to destroy the bunker, while he and his companions go inside. They are captured by Davros, who becomes aware of the Doctor's knowledge of the Daleks' future. The Doctor is forced to describe all future defeats of the Daleks which Davros records, to ensure that they will never occur, later having a private audience with Davros in a failed attempt to reason with him, before being placed in a cell. The Doctor and his companions are freed by another scientist, while Gharman is making his move to stop Davros; the group using the opportunity to rig explosives in the Dalek incubation room but the Doctor finds himself unable to detonate it, asking "Have I the right?". The Doctor is able to avoid the choice when one of Gharman's followers reveals that Davros appears to have succumbed to their demands and will stop his research, on the condition of a vote among the councillors. While Davros pleads his case the Doctor recovers their possessions, before he and his companions force Nyder to give him the recording of the Dalek defeats, so they can destroy it. At that time, once the remaining Kaled elite are split between him and Gharman, Davros reveals the voting was a ploy to give the Daleks time to arrive and kill the opposing group. The Doctor and his friends learn that the Thals and Mutos have prepared to detonate explosives to seal the Daleks inside the bunker and there is little time to escape. While Sarah and Harry get out, the Doctor returns to destroy the Dalek incubation chamber with a Dalek inadvertently completing the circuit and destroying the room. The Doctor then escapes before the Thal explosives detonate. Acting on their will and impulses, the Daleks start a production line against Davros' wishes, while mercilessly killing his supporters. Davros attempts to activate the bunker's self-destruct but is shot by a Dalek. Though the Daleks know they are trapped, they are confident they will eventually emerge as the superior race and dominate the universe. The Doctor, Sarah and Harry say goodbye to the surviving Thals and Mutos. While the Doctor did not stop the Daleks, he does believe he has hindered their development for perhaps a thousand years and was thus successful in his mission. The three use the Time Ring to return to their own time. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Genesis of the Daleks」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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