Doctor Who: The Krotons

01/18/1969

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1hr 40min

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Science Fiction

,Drama

,Adventure

STORY

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 & CREW

    Cast

  • Patrick Troughton
  • Frazer Hines
  • Wendy Padbury
  • James Copeland
  • James Cairncross

    Director

  • David Maloney

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • BBC

    Production Countries

  • United Kingdom

LANGUAGES

  • English