Release Date

18 Jan, 1969

Runtime

01:40: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

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.

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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

Crew

David Maloney

Robert Holmes

Terrance Dicks

Peter Bryant

Brian Hodgson