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Doctor Who: Frontios

1984-02-03 · 100 min · ★ 7.8

Drama · Action · Adventure · Science Fiction · TV Movie

"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?

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Directors
Ron Jones
Production companies
BBC
Countries
United Kingdom
Status
Released

Top Cast

Peter DavisonPeter DavisonThe Doctor
Janet FieldingJanet FieldingTegan Jovanka
Mark StricksonMark StricksonVislor Turlough
Jeff RawleJeff RawlePlantagenet
Peter GilmorePeter GilmoreBrazen
Lesley DunlopLesley DunlopNorna
William LucasWilliam LucasRange
Maurice O'ConnellMaurice O'ConnellCockerill
Raymond MurtaghRetrograde
Richard AshleyOrderly
Alison SkilbeckAlison SkilbeckDeputy
John GillettThe Gravis
William BowenTractator
George CampbellTractator
Heidi KhursandiTractator
Michael MalcolmTractator
Stephen SpeedTractator

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