THE HUMAN TRAP!

Arriving on the slag-heap world of the Gonds, the Doctor and his companions Zoe and Jamie are soon caught in a life or death struggle against the mysterious alien species known as the Krotons, who are making the most of the human community to their own means whilst operating within their unique spacecraft.

The first Patrick Troughton story I ever saw during the BBC's epic The Five Faces of Doctor Who season in 1981, I have great fondness for The Krotons - a tightly written and paced story from then newcomer Robert Holmes, who quickly proved to be one of the show's greatest assets by the time it entered its hugely successful colour era...

Great VHS release cover art by Alister Pearson from the early 1990s.