Talk:The Krotons

Idea rediscovery
Later, assistant script editor Terrance Dicks found the story in the production office files when clearing a backlog, and decided to develop it with Holmes as a personal project, in case other scripts fell through.

My DWM collection is miles away, but my recollection of the 1994 Winter Special (devoted to Holmes) is that it reproduces Holmes' 1968 attached submission letter and that a) the story may have been submitted to Donald Tosh rather than Gerry Davis; and b) it was Holmes who rediscovered it in his own files and decided to resubmit it (with a "if it's not suitable, don't bother returning it"). Can anyone check for sure? Timrollpickering 14:55, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Story replaced
According to Frazer Hines in an interview on the CD of The Invasion, the episode that was replaces later evolved into The Worm That Turned on The Two Ronnies.

The story was "The Prison in Space" by (IIRC) Dick Sharples and a synopsis appeared in two issues of Doctor Who Magazine in the late # 190s. Is there any evidence that Sharples took the idea to The Two Ronnies? A future where the gender power balance has been inverted is a relatively common feature in fiction and I wonder if Hines based his comments on anything other than the similarities. Timrollpickering 13:53, 11 October 2007 (UTC)


 * According to the interview, Frazer received information (I think it might have been in a form of the revised script) that the original storyline had been utilised in The Prison in Space. He does not quote the source exactly (and at the moment, I cannot remember the exact phrasing he used), but it does sound like the the source was a reliable one.  He never mentioned the magazine.  Has anyone got a copy of The Invasion CD to hand so that they can listen again to the interview? StephenBuxton 13:43, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 23:17, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Audio
It's not in the article, but hasn't this story been released as an audio recording on CD? I'm not sure why they're releasing these since they exist in the archives in their entirity and have been released on video. Does anyone know why it's been released? And who would want to buy an audio only copy if it's available to be watched? Surely it can't be for the benefit of blind people, otherwise why not release something more popular like Talons of Weng Chiang? I can't imagine why anyone would spend £15 of their money on such a thing - surely these can't be selling well. Either way it needs to be in the article, but I haven't got the exact release date.--Tuzapicabit (talk) 18:11, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

Plot summary is crap
I do not have time or interest in fixing the problem myself—I am a bad Wikipedian. Sorry.

I just finished watching this serial. There are exactly two (2) Krotons. The plot summary refers to the Krotons, plural, being destroyed four times. There are references to forests, pyramids, and a lake of acid, all of which are missing from the actual serial. (The Gond scientist manufactures all the sulphuric acid used in the story.) Perhaps someone else more motivated can use a proper source—maybe TARDIS Index File—to clean up the summary. —  crism ( talk )  05:07, 4 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Two Krotons, yes. It's surprising just how often Patrick Troughton's stories featured just two alien adversaries - two Dominators for example. I suspect that the person writing the plot summary may have read the Target novelisation, which as I recall does have several variations from "what really happened" (this was typical for Target). I would not wish tardis.wikia.com to be used as a source, because it's an open wiki, which fails WP:SPS. But there have been dozens of books published since The Making of Doctor Who kicked them off in 1972. -- Red rose64 (talk) 16:25, 4 August 2012 (UTC)

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