Frontios

132[1]Frontios
Doctor Who serial
Cast
Others
  • Jeff Rawle – Plantagenet
  • Peter Gilmore – Brazen
  • Lesley Dunlop – Norna
  • William Lucas – Range
  • Maurice O'Connell – Cockerill
  • Raymond Murtagh – Retrograde
  • Richard Ashley – Orderly
  • Alison Skilbeck – Deputy
  • John Gillett – The Gravis
  • William Bowen, George Campbell, Hedi Khursandi, Michael Malcolm, Stephen Speed – Tractators
Production
Directed byRon Jones
Written byChristopher H. Bidmead
Script editorEric Saward
Produced byJohn Nathan-Turner
Executive producer(s)None
Music byPaddy Kingsland
Production code6N
SeriesSeason 21
Running time4 episodes, 25 minutes each
First broadcast26 January 1984 (1984-01-26)
Last broadcast3 February 1984 (1984-02-03)
Chronology
← Preceded by
The Awakening
Followed by →
Resurrection of the Daleks
List of episodes (1963–1989)

Frontios is the third serial of the 21st season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four twice-weekly parts on BBC1 from 26 January to 3 February 1984.

Set in the far future, the serial involves the alien Gravis (John Gillett) enslaving the last surviving humans to mine the planet for use as a spaceship for the Gravis.

  1. ^ From the Doctor Who Magazine series overview, in issue 407 (pp26-29). The Discontinuity Guide, which counts the unbroadcast serial Shada, lists this as story number 133. Region 1 DVD releases follow The Discontinuity Guide numbering system.