Season 21 (1984)
Frontios
Last Updated 06 May 2013 by Marcus
Frontios
Story Number: 132 (6N)
Writer: Christopher H Bidmead
Director: Ron Jones
Assistant Floor Manager: Joanna Guritz
Production Assistant: Valerie Letley, Ed Stevenson
Production Unit Manager: June Collins
Special Sound Designer: Dick Mills
Starring: : Peter Davison, Janet Fielding, Mark Strickson, Lesley Dunlop, Peter Gilmore, William Lucas, Jeff Rawle
No of Episodes: 4
First Broadcast: Thu 26 Jan 1984 - Fri 03 Feb 1984
Running Time: 98 minutes 10 seconds
Average Audience: 6.80 Million Average AI: 66
An irresistible force draws the TARDIS to the barren surface of Frontios, where in the far future the last surviving humans cower amongst the ruins of their wrecked spacecraft. Under constant threat from lethal meteorite bombardments, few of the doomed colony members realise that the ground of Frontios itself opens up and devours the unwary. Not permitted to assist, the Doctor’s attempt to leave is thwarted when the unimaginable occurs: the TARDIS is utterly destroyed.
All the while, burrowing undetected below the planet’s crust, sickening alien parasites prepare a gruesome and final fate for all humanity...
All the while, burrowing undetected below the planet’s crust, sickening alien parasites prepare a gruesome and final fate for all humanity...
