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This serial first aired December 28, 1968-January 18, 1969.
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This four-episode serial first aired from December 28, 1968-January 1968 to January 18, 1969.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Behold: ''Another'' failed attempt at replacing the Daleks.]] Take a guess how ''this'' one ends?]]
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* ChekhovsBoomerang: The mica.
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* CrystallineCreature: The Krotons are a race of crystalline aliens in robotic armor from Krosi-Aspai-Core. Having evolved from living tellurium crystals, they are linked through an equivalent of brain waves and can use their crystal-based structure to reshape themselves as needed.
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-->'''Zoe''': But the machine wasn't ''pure'' tellurium!
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* RestrainedResistanceRiskyRebellion: Selris's reluctance to fight the aliens is depicted as entirely sensible given their technological superiority. By contrast, Eelek, who wants to attack the aliens immediately, is depicted as an irresponsible power-hungry villain who will get everyone killed.
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* RestrainedResistanceRiskyRebellion: RestrainedResistanceRecklessRebellion: Selris's reluctance to fight the aliens is depicted as entirely sensible given their technological superiority. By contrast, Eelek, who wants to attack the aliens immediately, is depicted as an irresponsible power-hungry villain who will get everyone killed.
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* RestrainedResistanceRiskyRebellion: Selris's reluctance to fight the aliens is depicted as entirely sensible given their technological superiority. By contrast, Eelek, who wants to attack the aliens immediately, is depicted as an irresponsible power-hungry villain who will get everyone killed.
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* TheQuisling: Subverted with Selris and Eelek. Selris is initially duped by the Krotons, but doesn't go into denial when their evil becomes apparent, and his reluctance to attack them is a realistic appreciation of his people's relative weakness and the fact that the Krotons would probably respond with genocide. Eelek, who in usual examples of this trope would be the heroic leader of a LastStand, is transparently unstable, power-hungry and villainous[[note]]For a start, he's played by Philip Madoc[[/note]].
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* TheQuisling: Subverted with Selris and Eelek. Selris is initially duped by the Krotons, but doesn't go into denial when their evil becomes apparent, and his reluctance to attack them is a realistic appreciation of his people's relative weakness and the fact that the Krotons would probably respond with genocide. Eelek, who in usual examples of this trope would be the heroic leader of a LastStand, is transparently unstable, power-hungry and villainous[[note]]For a start, he's played by Philip Madoc[[/note]].Creator/PhilipMadoc[[/note]].
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[[caption-width-right:350:Behold: The ''Another'' failed attempt at replacing the Daleks.]]
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* StandardFemaleGrabArea: Zoe, Vana and the Doctor are grabbed this way in episode 4. What makes it the standard ''female'' grab area, however, is the fact that the Doctor just shakes his captors off, while the girls don't.
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* StandardFemaleGrabArea: Zoe, Vana and the Doctor are grabbed this way in episode Episode 4. What makes it the standard ''female'' grab area, however, is the fact that the Doctor just shakes his captors off, while the girls don't.
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* WardrobeMalfunction: At the start of episode 4, there's a fairly large rip in Zoe's jacket. In some later scenes, the Doctor [[NoSenseOfPersonalSpace keeps his hand on her shoulder]] -- in reality, to hold the damaged costume together.
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* WardrobeMalfunction: At the start of episode Episode 4, there's a fairly large rip in Zoe's jacket. In some later scenes, the Doctor [[NoSenseOfPersonalSpace keeps his hand on her shoulder]] -- in reality, to hold the damaged costume together.
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* [[SiliconBasedLife Tellurium Based Life]]
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* RedHerring: Intended with the Krotons. The script refers to them as “silver giants” and much is made of the [[ReptilesAreAbhorrent robot snake]] singling out the Doctor, meant to make the viewer think the Cybermen would be the villains. But it doesn’t show up much in the finished product and the reason the Doctor is targeted is obvious (the Krotons’ camera shows him holding an axe).
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* KarmaHoudini: Eelek never receives any comeuppance for betraying the Doctor and Zoe to the Krotons.
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* AlanSmithee: Robert La'Bassiere is actually a pseudonym for Robert Grant, who requested that he be credited under this name for his appearance as one of the Krotons.
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* AlanSmithee: Robert La'Bassiere is actually a pseudonym for Robert Grant, who requested that he be credited under this name for his appearance as one of the Krotons.
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The one with evil cardboard boxes.
The first of many serials written by Creator/RobertHolmes.
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The one with evil cardboard boxes.
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* DeusExMachina: The Hostile Action Displacement System that teleports the TARDIS away when a Kroton tries to destroy it.
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* PeopleInRubberSuits: The Krotons resemble walking cardboard boxes with a (sometimes spinning) cardboard diamond on top.
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* SnarkBall: The Second Doctor, who is usually compassionate, easy-going and as modest as the Doctor ever gets, has one stuffed down his throat by Creator/RobertHolmes and spends most of the serial playing InsufferableGenius, subtly mocking the Krotons and Jamie and bickering with Zoe over whether he knows how to do everything or not. This has the effect of moving his characterisation to be quite close to the Fourth Doctor's, a character Holmes was pivotal in creating.
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* IdiotBall: The Doctor tells Zoe that the learning machines are being used to brainwash the Gonds and tells her not to wander off. She ''immediately'' wanders off and plugs herself into the learning machine to try it out.
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* StarfishAliens: The Krotons are living crystals who resemble robots and power their spaceships with mental energy. Even by ''Doctor Who'' standards, they're pretty weird.
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* ElectricInstantGratification: The Teaching Machines reward correct answers by inducing feelings of pleasure in the user.
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* OurMonstersAreWeird: The Krotons, which have a TinCanRobot appearance but are actually sapient tellurium crystals that are technically immortal, with the closest thing to death that they have being to 'exhaust' (turn into a gaseous state and leave their vessel). The implication (made explicit in the books) is that they can possess any machine into becoming their body. They are blind, power their machines with mathematical aptitude, MindRape people in order to get the power, breathe fluid through hose lines in their chest, and have inexplicable accents.
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DamselInDistress: Vara and later Zoe, when she too is chosen for a "companion".
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* HumanSacrifice: InvokedInvoked. The Doctor rejects this on the grounds they are too civilized.
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* RoyalBloodRoyalBlood: On this world, leadership is hereditary. Selris' objection to being deposed is due to this, and after his death, his son speaks of how he shall have to deal with the other man.
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* SiliconBasedLife: The Krotons are tellurium-based.
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* YourPrizeIsDeath: The people selected to become the Krotons' "companions" are mindsucked and then killed.
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