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Doctor Who The Power of Kroll TV Story

The Power of Kroll Synopsis

The search for the fifth segment of the Key to Time brings the Doctor and Romana to the swampy terrain of the third moon of the planet Delta Magna. Almost immediately, they become separated. The Doctor draws fire when he is mistaken for Rohm-Dutt, a notorious gunrunner wanted for supplying firearms to the Swampies, an aboriginal people who were displaced to the marshy moon when human colonists took possession of Delta Magna. A small team from Delta Magna are now developing a refinery in the Swampies’ promised territory, but the Swampies are confident that, properly armed, they can drive the humans away.

Meanwhile, Romana has been captured by the Swampies and prepared as a sacrificial offering to their god, the mighty Kroll. Thwarting the sacrifice (in which the god was nothing more than a Swampie priest in fancy dress), the Doctor and Romana have incurred the wrath of Ranquin, a fanatical high priest to Kroll.

Legendary or not, something is stirring beneath the swamp floor and, if the refinery’s instrument readings are correct, it measures five miles across!

Story Order

  • Story 102 from Doctor Who
  • Story 5 of 6 from Season 16

Episodes

Saturday
23rd December 1978
6:15PM
BBC 1 (23 mins)

Doctor Who - The Power of Kroll - Part One

Searching for the Key to Time lands the Doctor and Romana in trouble on the third moon of Delta Magna.

Saturday
30th December 1978
6:30PM
BBC 1 (23 mins)

Doctor Who - The Power of Kroll - Part Two

Things look bleak for the Doctor and Romana, particularly when Kroll awakes.

Saturday
6th January 1979
6:25PM
BBC 1 (21 mins)

Doctor Who - The Power of Kroll - Part Three

The massive Kroll is awake and killing anyone in its path. And the swampies are determined to appease it.

Saturday
13th January 1979
6:25PM
BBC 1 (21 mins)

Doctor Who - The Power of Kroll - Part Four

The Doctor and Romana are trapped between the monstrous Kroll and the insane refinery commander.

Credits

The Power of Kroll

Credits
  • Writer Robert Holmes
  • Director Norman Stewart
  • Producer Graham Williams
  • Script Editor Anthony Read
  • Doctor Who Tom Baker
  • Romana Mary Tamm
  • Thawn Neil McCarthy
  • Ranquin John Abineri
  • Fenner Philip Madoc
  • Rohm-Dutt Glyn Owen
  • Varlik Carl Rigg
  • Skart Frank Jarvis
  • Dugeen John Leeson
  • Harg Grahame Mallard
  • Mensch Terry Walsh