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Doctor Who: The Dominators, Episode 1

Episode score 7.7 Good

The Dominators, Episode 1

  • 210.
  • Season: 6
  • Episode: 1
  • First Aired: 8/10/1968
  • Prod Code: TT

EPISODE OVERVIEW

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The TARDIS materialises on Dulkis, a world where war has been outlawed. Several years ago, atomic tests were conducted on the Island of Death, but now a survey team from the local university discovers that all of the radioactive fallout has vanished. The Doctor and his friends aren't the only visitors to Dulkis; two Dominators and their robot servants, the Quarks, have landed on the island, and their ship has sucked up all of the radiation into its engines. When the Dominators encounter the members of the survey team, they take them captive and work them to exhaustion, clearing space to drill into the bedrock of the island while testing the Dulcians' suitability as slaves. The Doctor must convince the complacent senate of Dulkis that their world faces a real threat – before the Dominators destroy the entire planet simply to fuel their space fleet. Add a recap »

Writers:
Henry LincolnMervyn Haisman
Director:
Morris Barry
Stars:
Frazer Hines (Jamie)
Patrick Troughton (Dr. Who)
Wendy Padbury (Zoe)
Recurring Role:
Arthur Cox (Cully)
Felicity Gibson (Kando)
Kenneth Ives (Toba)
Ronald Allen (Rago)
Giles Block (Teel)
Johnson Bayly (Balan)
John Hicks (Quark)
Sheila Grant (Quark Voices)
Guest Star:
Malcolm Terris (Etnin)
Nicolette Pendrell (Tolata)
Philip Voss (Wahed)
Gary Smith (II) (Quark)
  • Video: Doctor Who: The Dominators (BBCV 4406) released in September 1990. Released in U.S.A./Canada (Warner Home Video E1264) in August 1994. edit »
  • Novelisation: Doctor Who – The Dominators by Ian Marter (ISBN 0 426 19553 1) first published by W H Allen in 1984. edit »
  • This was commissioned as a six-episode story, but the writers were late delivering their scripts, and script editor Derrick Sherwin cut the number of episodes to five. In protest, the writers took their names off the script, which went out under the pseudonym "Norman Ashby", apparently created from the forenames of the writers' fathers-in-law. edit »
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