Doctor Who: Frontios

Feb 3, 1984

1h 40m

★ 7.8

Overview

"Frontios buries its own dead", or so the saying goes. The Doctor, Turlough and Tegan are forced into landing on the remote planet of Frontios, a human colony where deaths go unaccounted for. What lies beneath the surface, dragging its victims down?

Genres

Drama

Action

Adventure

Science Fiction

TV Movie

Production Companies

BBC

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Cast

The Doctor

Peter Davison

Tegan Jovanka

Janet Fielding

Vislor Turlough

Mark Strickson

Plantagenet

Jeff Rawle

Brazen

Peter Gilmore

Norna

Lesley Dunlop

Range

William Lucas

Cockerill

Maurice O'Connell

Retrograde

Raymond Murtagh

Orderly

Richard Ashley

Deputy

Alison Skilbeck

The Gravis

John Gillett

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