Doctor Who: The Sensorites

The read

It runs long at 2h 30m.

Synopsis

The Doctor, Ian, Barbara and Susan arrive in the TARDIS on board a spaceship. Their initial concern is for the ship's human crew, who are suffering from telepathic interference from the Sensorites, but Susan communicates with the Sensorites and finds the aliens fear an attack by the humans and are just defending themselves. Travelling to the Sense Sphere (the Sensorites' planet) the Doctor seeks to cure an illness to which the Sensorites and Ian have succumbed, but finds it has been caused by deliberate poisoning. The political manoeuvring of the Sensorite City Administrator poses another threat to the TARDIS crew as he seeks to discredit and implicate them.

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Key crew

• Mervyn PinfieldDirector
• Frank CoxDirector
• Peter R. NewmanWriter

Cast

• William HartnellThe Doctor
• Carole Ann FordSusan Foreman
• Jacqueline HillBarbara Wright
• William RussellIan Chesterton
• Stephen DartnellJohn
• Ilona RodgersCarol
• Lorne CossetteMaitland
• John BaileyCommander
• Martyn HuntleyFirst Human
• Giles PhibbsSecond Human
• Peter GlazeThird Sensorite / City Administrator
• Arthur NewallFourth Sensorite

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