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Synopsis
The TARDIS materialises on the planet Dulkis, currently under threat from two alien Dominators, Rago
(Ronald Allen) and his subordinate Toba, who have landed in a spaceship.
Aided by their robtic servants, the Quarks, and slave workers darwn from the Dulcan population, the Dominators
set about drilling bore holes, through which they plan to fire rockets into the planet's molten core. Their intention
is then to drop an atomic seed capsule into the resulting eruption, turning Dulkis into a radioactive mass - fuel for the
Dominators' space fleet.
The Dulcian Councillors, being pacifists, refuse to retaliate, although Cully, the rebellious son of their
leader Senex, has already joined forces with the time travellers. The Doctor eventually defeats the Dominators by intercepting
the seed capsule as it is dropped and placing it on board their ship, which is then destroyed shortly after take off.
Dulkis suffers only a minor volcanic eruption as a result of the rockets fired into its magma.
Cast
Patrick Troughton (Dr Who), Frazer Hines (Jamie McCrimmon), Wendy
Padbury (Zoe Heriot), Ronald Allen (Rago), Kenneth Ives (Toba), Arthur
Cox (Cully), Philip Voss (Wahed), Malcolm Terris (Etnin), Nicolette Pendrell
(Tolata), Felicity Gibson (Kando), Giles Block (Teel), Johnson Bayly (Balan),
John Hicks (Quark), Gary Smith (Quark), Freddie Wilson (Quark).
Production Team
Writer: Norman Ashby
Director: Morris Barry
Producer: Peter Bryant
Script Editor: Derrick Sherwin
Designer: Barry Newbury
Production Details
Season 6
First Transmitted: Episodes 1 - 5 in August - September 1968
Story Notes
Originally a six-part story, 'The Dominators' was edited at the script stage down to five episodes by script
editor Derrick Sherwin. Authors Mervyn Haisman and Henry Lincoln therefore removed their names from scripts and used
the pseudonym Norman Ashby (later they fell out with the Doctor Who production team over merchandising rights and did not
work on the series again). The working title for the serial was 'The Beautiful People'. The Quarks were portrayed
by school children and had to be accompanied by a chaperone.
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