The Krotons

Story Code: WW / Season 6	UK Airdate: 28 Dec 1968 to 18 Jan 1969	Doctor: Patrick Troughton
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This story aired in the following countries. They are listed in chronological order according to known airdate. (Refer also to Selling Doctor Who for expanded airdates.)

New Zealand Herald, May 1985. Although it says "repeat" it was the first time the story had screened in NZ

Australia	Aug 70	b/w
Hong Kong	Nov 70	b/w
Singapore	Mar 71	b/w
Gibraltar	May 72	b/w
Nigeria	75 or 76?	b/w

• Hong Kong presumably sent its films to Singapore soon after transmission, as that was the fate of the RTV prints of The Enemy of the World and The Web of Fear.
• The films acquired by Nigeria may have originated from Singapore.
• The ABC in Australia returned its prints to the BBC on 9 June 1976.
• A 16mm b/w print of episode 3 was found in Taiwan in 2013. This may be the print from Gibraltar, returned to and junked by the BBC (see Taiwan Prints for more).
• See also the Troughton Junkings page.

Reissue

• The serial was reissued by the BBC in early 1985, and sold for the first time to:

New Zealand	Apr 85	b/w
United States	from Feb 86	b/w
Canada	1990s	b/w

US TV Guide descriptions

More Information
Title: The Krotons

• Episode 1: The Doctor visits the city of the Gonds, where stranded monsters called Krotons drain the brightest Gonds of their mental energy to use as fuel for the Krotons' spacecraft.
  
• Episode 2:
  
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