Doctor Who: The Krotons
1969, English. Directed by David Maloney.
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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- 1h 40m
- Post-credits
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- English
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- 18 January 1969
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Written by
- Robert Holmes
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Doctor Who: The Krotons runs 100 minutes (1h 40m).
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Doctor Who: The Krotons isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 18 January 1969. (Checked 13 November 2026.)
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Who directed Doctor Who: The Krotons?
Doctor Who: The Krotons (1969) was directed by David Maloney and stars Patrick Troughton, Frazer Hines, Wendy Padbury.