• About Me
  • TV Marathons
    • Doctor Who
    • Star Trek TOS
    • Star Trek TAS
    • Star Trek TNG
    • Blake’s 7
    • Red Dwarf
    • Star Trek Continues
    • Chef!
  • All My Vinyl
  • Favorites
  • Archives
  • Contact Me
Recent Posts
  • Bounty May 8, 2025
  • Breakdown May 7, 2025
  • Project Avalon May 6, 2025
  • Duel May 5, 2025
  • Yes – 90125 May 5, 2025
Skip to content
A Cup of JoeA Cup of Joe

Observations, rants, and musings by Joe Siegler.

  • About Me
  • TV Marathons
    • Doctor Who
    • Star Trek TOS
    • Star Trek TAS
    • Star Trek TNG
    • Blake’s 7
    • Red Dwarf
    • Star Trek Continues
    • Chef!
  • All My Vinyl
  • Favorites
  • Archives
  • Contact Me
    • Doctor Who Marathon

The Krotons

  • byJoe Siegler
  • Posted on April 5, 2022June 30, 2024
  • 1 minute read
0
0
0

The Krotons

This Story: Season 6, Story 4. Production Code WW
Overall: Story 47, Episodes 228-231
Airdates: 28 Dec 1968 to 18 Jan 1969
Written by Robert Holmes.  Directed by David Maloney

Links

[ Wikipedia | Tardis Data Core | SPS Historium | Amazon US DVD | Amazon UK DVD ]

#DoctorWhoMarathon Ep 228 - The Krotons 1/4 (Serial WW, Story 47) - 28 Dec 1968. #DoctorWho 1/2

This is a story that has a very bad reputation. I never understood that. The actual Krotons themselves are a bit of a letdown, but other than that the story was fine. Was written by pic.twitter.com/PNQuA3084s

— jᎾᎬ sᎥᎬᎶᏞᎬᏒ (@JoeSiegler) April 3, 2022

#DoctorWhoMarathon Ep 228 - The Krotons 1/4 (Serial WW, Story 47) - 28 Dec 1968. #DoctorWho 2/2

long time Doctor Who legend Robert Holmes. The Krotons are discovered to be killing local residents who always believed them to be their benefactors. The Doctor decides to interviene. pic.twitter.com/nIneifGKIb

— jᎾᎬ sᎥᎬᎶᏞᎬᏒ (@JoeSiegler) April 3, 2022

#DoctorWhoMarathon Ep 229 - The Krotons 2/4 (Serial WW, Story 47) - 4 Jan 1969. #DoctorWho 1/2

We're into the final year of black & white Doctor Who now with the first episode in 1969. The leader of the Gonds has a problem whether to tell his people they've been misled by the pic.twitter.com/UdXjZZqMH4

— jᎾᎬ sᎥᎬᎶᏞᎬᏒ (@JoeSiegler) April 4, 2022

#DoctorWhoMarathon Ep 229 - The Krotons 2/4 (Serial WW, Story 47) - 4 Jan 1969. #DoctorWho 2/2

Krotons for ages, or lie to them about their people being killed. Zoe outwits the Doctor which is funny. The Doctor/Zoe enter & escape the ship, while progressing on his research. pic.twitter.com/htY7Mpnjf4

— jᎾᎬ sᎥᎬᎶᏞᎬᏒ (@JoeSiegler) April 4, 2022

#DoctorWhoMarathon Ep 230 - The Krotons 3/4 (Serial WW, Story 47) - 11 Jan 1969. #DoctorWho 1/2

We get a good bit of the Krotons in this ep. They're my least fav part of the story. Not in concept, but in execution - their arms reminded me of the Robot from Lost in Space. pic.twitter.com/7dSwlSuUKE

— jᎾᎬ sᎥᎬᎶᏞᎬᏒ (@JoeSiegler) April 5, 2022

#DoctorWhoMarathon Ep 230 - The Krotons 3/4 (Serial WW, Story 47) - 11 Jan 1969. #DoctorWho 2/2

The Krotons seemingly destroy the Tardis. The Gonds overthrow their leader and plan on attacking the Krotons by sabotaging support beams for their ship, causing an rock collapse. pic.twitter.com/rdr3teiVYC

— jᎾᎬ sᎥᎬᎶᏞᎬᏒ (@JoeSiegler) April 5, 2022

#DoctorWhoMarathon Ep 231 - The Krotons 4/4 (Serial WW, Story 47) - 18 Jan 1969. #DoctorWho 1/2

I didn't think it possible, but the Krotons look even worse in Episode 4 - there's a shot of this in one of the screenshots in this tweet. pic.twitter.com/7g0ODvcGW5

— jᎾᎬ sᎥᎬᎶᏞᎬᏒ (@JoeSiegler) April 6, 2022

#DoctorWhoMarathon Ep 231 - The Krotons 4/4 (Serial WW, Story 47) - 18 Jan 1969. #DoctorWho 2/2

The ending of this story is kind of predictable in how the Krotons are defeated - by dropping acid on their machine. This is a Robert Holmes story, and doesn't feel like one. pic.twitter.com/KQVX24Kidg

— jᎾᎬ sᎥᎬᎶᏞᎬᏒ (@JoeSiegler) April 6, 2022

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Donate

Why is this here?

Me


Follow @JoeSiegler
Archives by Date
Featured Posts
  • History of PC Sidescrollers
    • September 27, 2016
  • The Story of Rise of the Triad
    • March 14, 2017
  • My Story of 3D Realms / Apogee Part III
    • November 2, 2020
Me


Follow @JoeSiegler
Donate
Why am I asking? I don't have any advertisements on this site anymore. I used to, but removed them. You can read why here. Please consider donating.

Twitter Feed
Archives
Created with Wordpress. Using ShadeGarden Theme by Dany Duchaine | Mastodon.
Swim, Swim, Hungry!