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Doctor Who: The Dominators
Starring: Patrick Troughton , Frazer Hines
Directed by: Morris Barry
Produced by: Peter Bryant
Written by: Norman Ashby
Visit Dulkis, a planet of harmony and enlightenment and home to the peaceful Dulcians. Can the second Doctor (Patrick Troughton), Jamie and Zoe save a people who are willing collaborators in their own destruction? Remastered picture and sound. Fascinating "making-of" extras.
Item Number: 15993
- Format:
- DVD Fullscreen
- Region:
- 1 - More Details
- Run time:
- About 2 Hours
- Number of Discs:
- 1
- Special Features:
English Subtitles for the Deaf and Hearing Impaired
• Audio Commentary
• Recharge and Equalize
• Tomorrow's Times - The Second Doctor
• Photo Gallery
• Easter egg
• PDF materials: Radio Times Listings
• Production Notes Subtitle Option
The TARDIS materialises on the planet Dulkis, currently under threat from two alien Dominators, Rago and his subordinate Toba, who have landed in a spaceship.
Aided by their robotic servants, the Quarks, and slave workers drawn from the native Dulcian population, the Dominators set about drilling bore holes, through which they plan to fire rockets into the planet's molten core. Their intention is then to drop an atomic seed capsule into the resulting eruption, turning Dulkis into a radioactive mass - fuel for the Dominators' space fleet.
The Dulcian Councillors, being pacifists, refuse to retaliate, although Cully, the rebellious son of their leader Senex, has already joined forces with the time travellers. The Doctor eventually defeats the Dominators by intercepting the seed capsule as it is dropped and placing it on board their ship, which is then destroyed shortly after take off.
Dulkis suffers only a minor volcanic eruption, as a result of the rockets fired into its magma.
First Transmitted
1 - /08/1968 17:15
2 - /08/1968 17:15
3 - /08/1968 17:15
4 - /08/1968 17:15
5 - /09/1968 17:15
| Patrick Troughton | --- | The Doctor |
| Frazer Hines | --- | Jamie |
| Wendy Padbury | --- | Zoe |
| Johnson Bayly | --- | Balan |
| Alan Gerrard | --- | Bovem |
| John Cross | --- | Council Member |
| Ronald Mansell | --- | Council Member |
| Arthur Cox | --- | Cully |
| Malcolm Terris | --- | Etnin |
| Felicity Gibson | --- | Kando |
| John Hicks | --- | Quark |
| Gary Smith | --- | Quark |
| Freddie Wilson | --- | Quark |
| Sheila Grant | --- | Quark voices |
| Ronald Allen | --- | Rago |
| Walter Fitzgerald | --- | Senex |
| Giles Block | --- | Teel |
| Brian Cant | --- | Tensa |
| Kenneth Ives | --- | Toba |
| Nicolette Pendrell | --- | Tolata |
| Philip Voss | --- | Wahed |
Directed by Morris Barry
Written by Norman Ashby - This was a pseudonym for Mervyn Haisman and Henry Lincoln. Script editor Derek Sherwin also made a significant input to the writing of Episode 5.
Produced by Peter Bryant
Original Music by Ron Grainer and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, arranged by Delia Derbyshire
Film Editing by Chris Hayden
Costume Design by Martin Baugh
There are some impressive explosions on location, perhaps most notably that of Cully's ship in the first episode.
A surprisingly gruesome disintegration effect is used for the Quarks' killing of the Dulcians Etnin and Tolata in the first episode. (A simpler, but still quite horrific, smoke effect was substituted for the later deaths.)
Chris Jeffries doubles for Patrick Troughton in all location-shot scenes featuring the Doctor.
Ronald Allen, then better known for his starring role in the soap opera Compact and for his role in Crossroads, plays Rago, and Kenneth Ives, once a HAVOC stuntman and now a distinguished director, plays Toba.
Brian Cant, better known as a presenter of children's programmes including Play School, returns to Doctor Who - this time playing the minor Dulcian character Tensa.
