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Doctor Who: The Krotons (1969)
Directed by David Maloney
Science Fiction, Drama, Adventure · 1h 40m
The TARDIS arrives on the unnamed planet of the Gonds, who are ruled and taught in a form of self-perpetuating slavery by the alien Krotons — crystalline beings whose ship, the Dynatrope, crash-landed there thousands of years earlier after being damaged in a space battle. The Krotons are in suspended animation, in a crystalline slurry form, awaiting a time when they can be reconstituted by absorption of mental energy. Periodically, the two most brilliant Gond students are received into the Dynatrope, nominally to become "companions of the Krotons", but in truth to have their mental energy drained, after which they are killed.
Cast
Patrick Troughton
Frazer Hines
Wendy Padbury
James Copeland
Gilbert Wynne
Philip Madoc
Richard Ireson
Crew
- Director
- David Maloney
- Writer
- Robert Holmes
- Original Music Composer
- Brian Hodgson
- Editor
- Martyn Day
- Producer
- Peter Bryant
Details
- Release date
- 1969-01-18
- Runtime
- 1h 40m
- Genres
- Science Fiction, Drama, Adventure
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Production
- BBC