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Doctor Who: The Power of Kroll (1979)

01/13/1979 Action, Adventure, Drama, Science Fiction, TV Movie 1h 40m
40%
User
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Overview

The Doctor and Romana arrive on the marsh moon of Delta Magna in search of the next segment of the Key to Time. They are caught in the conflict between the native Swampies and the crew of a chemical refinery. The presence of a gun runner complicates matters; to make things worse, the Swampies intend to awaken Kroll, the giant god that lives beneath the swamps.

Robert Holmes

Writer

Norman Stewart

Director

Top Billed Cast

Tom Baker

Tom Baker

The Doctor

Mary Tamm

Mary Tamm

Romana

Neil McCarthy

Neil McCarthy

Thawn

John Abineri

John Abineri

Ranquin

Philip Madoc

Philip Madoc

Fenner

Glyn Owen

Glyn Owen

Rohm-Dutt

Carl Rigg

Carl Rigg

Varlik

Frank Jarvis

Frank Jarvis

Skart

John Leeson

John Leeson

Dugeen

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Media

Doctor Who | The Key to Time (Season 16) Trailer | Tom Baker

Doctor Who | The Key to Time (Season 16) Trailer | Tom Baker

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf

Written on November 24, 2024

You might get the impression from watching this that the budgets were already a bit stretched for this season, so they just resorted to some green body paint to create a race of rudimentary "Swampies" who are rebelling against some human interlopers who have plonked a drilling rig off their coast. The "Doctor" (Tom Baker) and "Romana" (Lalla Ward) are still continuing their search for the Key to Time when they arrive and find themselves drawn onto this conflict as she finds herself a would-be sacrifice to the eponymous squid-god and he determined to rescue her and find out just why this monstrous tentacled creature is quite so irritable. There are quite a few famous faces popping up in this drama, not least Neil McCathy, Glyn Owen and the usually much higher brow Philip Madoc (who also did...

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