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.

Director: David Maloney

Cast

Patrick Troughton

The Doctor

Frazer Hines

Jamie McCrimmon

Wendy Padbury

Zoe Heriot

James Copeland

Selris

J

James Cairncross

Beta

Gilbert Wynne

Thara

Philip Madoc

Eelek

T

Terence Brown

Abu