Name: Doctor Who - The Krotons
Brand: BBC3
SKU: BBCDVD3480
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Doctor Who - The Krotons (Robert Holmes)

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Release details

Detail			Value
Catalogue number			BBCDVD 3480
Title			Doctor Who - The Krotons
Artist(s)			Robert Holmes
Cover condition			Near mint
Record condition			Near mint
BBC records label code			-
Item deleted?			No
Released			1968
Distributed / printed by			2 entertain
Country of origin			UK
Media type			Primary
Media genre			Dramas - Sci-fi View all other tracks listed as Dramas - Sci-fi.
Run-off codes / Shop bar codes			A0101956448-A911 02 IFPI L556 Sony DADC
My rating			*****
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Label

Side & track	Track and Artist	Length
Tracks Below is a list of tracks for this release.
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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Extra notes on cover, middle (gatefold sleeve) and any inserts
Starring Patrick 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 by Robert Holmes Produced by Peter Bryant Directed by David Maloney Synopsis When 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 ... Background The 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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BBC Radio Enterprises Ltd and BBC Enterprises Ltd, predecessors of BBC Worldwide / BBC Worldwide Ltd., the BBC's commercial arm. Formed 1968 and 1979 respectively, they were a subsidiary wholly owned by the BBC and merged into BBC Worldwide in 1995. In that time, there were companies set up within or structured brands as part of the company to deal with separate parts of the business, e.g. BBC Records for recorded audio. Sometimes written as BBC Enterprise Ltd. The items shown here are from the "main" BBC Records and Tapes library covering a wide secletion of genres from themes, comedy dramas and others, depending on which format you have selected.