Doctor Who: The Krotons [1968 - 1969]

Date(s) of Broadcast: 28 December 1968 - 18 January 1969
Number of Episodes: 4
Average Episode Running Times: 25 mins
Format: black and white
Sound: mono

PRODUCTION
Production Company: BBC
Producer: Peter Bryant

SCRIPT
Script: Robert Holmes
Script Editor: Terrance Dicks

DIRECTION
Director: David Maloney

PHOTOGRAPHY
Studio Lighting: Howard King
Film Camera: Alan Jonas

EDITING AND POST PRODUCTION
Film Editor: Martyn Day

MUSIC
Title Music: Ron Grainer and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Title Music Arranged By: Delia Derbyshire

SOUND
Studio Sound: John Holmes
Special Sounds: Brian Hodgson

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Sylvia James
Costumes: Bobi Bartlett

VISUAL EFFECTS
Visual Effects: Bill King, Trading Post

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Designer: Raymond London

MISCELLANEOUS
Production Assistant: Edwina Verner
Assistant Floor Manager: David Tilley

CAST
Patrick Troughton [Dr Who]
Frazer Hines [Jamie McCrimmon]
Wendy Padbury [Zoe Herriet]
James Copeland [Selris]
Madeleine Mills [Vana]
Gilbert Wynne [Thara]
Philip Madoc [Eelek]
Richard Ireson [Axus]
James Cairncross [Beta]
Terence Brown [Abu]
Bronson Shaw [student]
Maurice Selwyn [custodian]
Roy Skelton, Patrick Tull [Kroton voices]
Robert La Bassiere, Miles Northover [Krotons]
Keith Ashton, Ronnie Chance, Roger Charles, Justine Elliott, Robert Haywood, Alex Hood, Nick Hunter, Mark Johnson, Patricia Matthews, David Melbourne, Reg Nardi, Peter Rann, Nick Rutter, Sylvia Steele, Wendy Wilson [Gonds - uncredited]

On an alien world The Doctor and his companions encounter the Gonds, a race controlled by the crystalline Krotons, who exist in suspended animation. The Krotons need superior mental energy to reconstitute and The Doctor and Zoe can provide it.

Dull, routine variant on the warring races on one planet story. First transmitted script for the show by writer Robert Holmes who would contribute considerably better things.

UK
Television Distributor: BBC
Video Distributor: BBC Video

1968
December
28: UK - Part One television broadcast [on BBC1]

1969
January
4: UK - Part Two television broadcast [on BBC1]
11: UK - Part Three television broadcast [on BBC1]
18: UK - Part Four television broadcast [on BBC1]

1981
November
9: UK - Part One television broadcast [on BBC2 (as part of The Five Faces of Doctor Who)]
10: UK - Part Two television broadcast [on BBC2 (as part of The Five Faces of Doctor Who)]
11: UK - Part Three television broadcast [on BBC2 (as part of The Five Faces of Doctor Who)]
12: UK - Part Four television broadcast [on BBC2 (as part of The Five Faces of Doctor Who)]

BOOKS

Doctor Who: The Television Companion pp.162-165
credits, synopsis, review [by David J. Howe and Stephen James Walker]

OTHER SOURCES

screen
credits

KEYWORDS

aliens, time travel

Last Updated: 21 April, 2008