Main menuRobert Holmes, Doctor Who - The Krotons
Release details
| Title | Doctor Who - The Krotons | ||||||||
| Artist(s): | Robert Holmes | ||||||||
| Category: | BBC - BBCDVD (Click on this button to view other releases of BBC - BBCDVD DVD's.) | ||||||||
| Label and catalogue number: |  BBC3 - BBCDVD 3480 | ||||||||
| Format: | Disc DVD's | ||||||||
| Country: | UK  | ||||||||
| Released: | 1968 | ||||||||
| Genre: | Dramas - Sci-fi View all other tracks listed as Dramas - Sci-fi. | ||||||||
| Run-off codes: | A0101956448-A911 02 IFPI L556 Sony DADC | ||||||||
| Item deleted? | No | ||||||||
| Distributed / printed by |  2 entertain | ||||||||
| Page views: | 7774 times since 20th May, 2017, global rank is 244, rank in dvds is 28. | ||||||||
| My rating: | ***** | ||||||||
| Guest rating: | ***** | ||||||||
My copies information
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| Detail | Value | ||||||||||
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| Cover condition | Near mint | ||||||||||
| Record condition | Near mint | ||||||||||
| BBC records label code | - | ||||||||||
| Number have | 1 | ||||||||||
| What type of seller was used | Amazon online shop | ||||||||||
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Tracks
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| Side & track no | Track and Artist | Length | |||||||||
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| A1 | Part 1 | 23.00 | |||||||||
| A2 | Part 2 | 23.03 | |||||||||
| A3 | Part 3 | 21.47 | |||||||||
| A4 | Part 4 | 22.39 | |||||||||
| A5 | Second time around | 52.23 | |||||||||
| A6 | Doctor Who stories - Frazer Hinds [part one] | 17.28 | |||||||||
| A7 | The Doctor's strange love - The Krotons | 7.18 | |||||||||
| A8 | Photo gallery | 5.27 | |||||||||
| A9 | Radio Times listings [PDF] | ||||||||||
| A10 | Coming soon - The greatest show in the galaxy | 1.05 | |||||||||
| Total length of media 2:54:10. | |||||||||||
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Reviews
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| My rating | 3 | |
| Guest rating | Current average value is 3. To vote, please select one of these buttons: | |
Extra notes on cover, middle (gatefold sleeve) and any inserts | ||
StarringPatrick Troughton (Second Doctor) Frazer Hines (Jamie McCrimmon) Wendy Padbury (Zoe Heriot) James Copeland - Selris James Cairncross - Beta Gilbert Wynne - Thara Philip Madoc - Eelek Terence Brown - Abu Madeleine Mills - Vana Richard Ireson - Axus Maurice Selwyn - Custodian Bronson Shaw - Student Roy Skelton, Patrick Tull - Kroton Voices Robert La'Bassiere, Miles Northover - Krotons Written byRobert Holmes Produced byPeter Bryant Directed byDavid Maloney SynopsisWhen the TARDIS arrives on the planet Gonds, the Doctor, Jamie and Zoe discover a world ruled and enslaved by the Krotons. The brightest Gonds are always chosen to serve as companions of the Krotons and are never seen again. The Doctor and his friends decide to put a stop to their rule - but in doing so, inadvertently unleash the true power and terror of the Krotons instead ... BackgroundThe Krotons began life as a one-off science fiction script without the Doctor. The idea was rejected by the BBC, but Head of Serials Shaun Sutton suggested that writer Robert Holmes get in touch with the Doctor Who production office with his story pitch instead. Holmes did, but nothing came of it at the time because the robotic creatures in the script where too similar to the Mechanoids in The Chase (1965). However, this was not the end of Holmes' long and successful association with Doctor Who. Under a new production team, the idea was eventually developed as a filler commission in case a script fell through. When this happened during Patrick Troughton's final season as the Second Doctor, The Krotons script was ready and waiting. At one point, The Krotons was the only existing example of a four-part Patrick Troughton story in the BBC archives. As such, it was chosen as part of The Five Faces of Doctor Who, a series of repeats in 1981, shown just ahead of Peter Davison's first story as the new Doctor. Like the Mechanoids that prevented them from appearing a few years earlier, the poor Kroton creatures would never return to Doctor Who on television, although they did go on to appear in an original Doctor Who novel and also an audio adventure. Robert Holmes, however, would return to Doctor Who again and again as writer and later as script editor. He is responsible for creating Autons, Sontarans and many of the most memorable cliffhangers in history of Doctor Who. | ||
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