Doctor Who: The Krotons
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.
From the archive
Episodes 5/6 Episode 1Episode 3Episode 4Episode 5Episode 6 It is the last serial to contain missing episodes from the 1960s, which only exists in stills, fragments, or reconstructions. ONLY Episode 2 of this six-part story exists in the BBC Archives as a 35mm black & white film telerecording. Also no tele-snaps are known to exist, leaving only production stills as a visual reference for the missing episodes.
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- Director
- David Maloney
- Starring
- Patrick Troughton, Frazer Hines, Wendy Padbury, James Copeland, James Cairncross, Gilbert Wynne, Philip Madoc, Terence Brown
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