Frontios

132^[1] – *Frontios*
132 – Frontios
Doctor Who serial
Cast
	Doctor Peter Davison – Fifth Doctor;
	Companions Janet Fielding – Tegan Jovanka; Mark Strickson – Vislor Turlough;
	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 by	Ron Jones
Written by	Christopher H. Bidmead
Script editor	Eric Saward
Produced by	John Nathan-Turner
Executive producer(s)	None
Music by	Paddy Kingsland
Production code	6N
Series	Season 21
Running time	4 episodes, 25 minutes each
First broadcast	26 January 1984
Last broadcast	3 February 1984
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.

^ 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.

[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.

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