8.5
Doctor Who: The Monster of Peladon (1974)
April 27, 19742h 30mEN
5.5
4 votes
Overview
The Doctor returns to Peladon fifty years after his last visit, to find Queen Thalira, daughter of the late King Peladon, on the throne. A tense labour dispute between Pel nobility and miners is worsened when apparitions of their deity Aggedor attack and kill several miners. The Galactic Federation desperately needs trisilicate for its war against Galaxy 5 and sends in brutal Ice Warrior troopers to ensure production. The Doctor discovers a devious plot at the heart of Aggedor's appearances.
Director
Lennie MayneWriters
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Status
Released
Original Language
English
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Production Companies
BBC
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6.0Some fifty years after the "Doctor" (now Jon Pertwee) helped the King of "Peladon" lift a terrible curse, he and "Sarah Jane" (Elisabeth Sladen) return to it's citadel to find the new queen (Nina Thomas) being controlled by her chancellor "Ortron" (Frank Gatliff) and facing a rebellion from her oppressed mineworkers who are fed up being used as glorified slaves. Added to her misery is the fact that the planet is caught up in some intergalactic furore over that which they are mining - a rare mineral called "Trisilicate" that only exists on "Peladon". Thanks to the help of the miners' leader "Ge…
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