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Doctor Who: The Krotons (1969)

Directed by David Maloney

Overview

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.

Length 100 minutes

Actors

Patrick Troughton | Frazer Hines | Wendy Padbury | James Copeland | James Cairncross | Gilbert Wynne | Philip Madoc | Terence Brown | Madeleine Mills | Richard Ireson | Maurice Selwyn | Bronson Shaw | Roy Skelton | Patrick Tull | Robert La'Bassiere | Miles Northover