GB
  
You are currently viewing the United Kingdom version of the site.
Would you like to switch to your local site?
216 MIN READ TIME

The Power of Kroll

FEATURE BY DAVID BRYHER

THE FACT OF FICTION

Scratching beneath the surface of Doctor Who’s most fascinating tales...

Poor The Power of Kroll. Written in haste, spurned by its first director, plagued by illness behind the scenes, and filmed in what Mary Tamm called “a dreadful marsh somewhere” (when interviewed in DWM 99). Even its signature special effect – “the biggest monster ever seen on Doctor Who” – was the very messy victim of crossed wires.

Read the complete article and many more in this issue of Doctor Who Magazine
Purchase options below
If you own the issue, Login to read the full article now.
Single Digital Issue 497
 
£4.99 / issue
This issue and other back issues are not included in a new subscription. Subscriptions include the latest regular issue and new issues released during your subscription. Doctor Who Magazine
Annual Digital Subscription £54.99 billed annually
Save
39%
£4.23 / issue
PRINT SUBSCRIPTION? Available at magazine.co.uk, the best magazine subscription offers online.
 

This article is from...


View Issues
Doctor Who Magazine
497
VIEW IN STORE

Other Articles in this Issue


Editor’s Letter
Letter from the Editor
I wasn’t particularly planning for this issue to be a
FEATURES
“ I came back to life before your eyes. I held back death...”
The most important thing you need to know about the
INTERVIEWS
POSITIVITY TINGED WITH REALISM
By the mid-1990s, Doctor Who was an ex-series. It had
A LITTLE EDUCATION
‘‘I was unaware of what was going on around me,”
THE BIG PICTURE
When Yee Jee Tso was cast as Chang Lee in
FINDING AN AUDIENCE
Tom Baker was really my Doctor,” reveals Jo Wright, who
THE BEST DRESSED!
The Master thinks he’s God, and sometimes God has to
SNAKE EYES
I’m probably going to get in trouble for this,” admits
REGULARS
Ask STEVEN MOFFAT
CLIVE WINTERBOTTOM asks: In 52 years of Doctor Who, which
Steven Moffat receives the OBE
Steven Moffat, Doctor Who’s head writer and executive producer, has
Limited-Edition Blu-ray steelbooks
Doctor Who: The Complete Ninth Series is set to be
Essential: Time Lords
■ The latest addition to The Essential Doctor Who series
David Warner’s Doctor returns!
This summer, Bernice Summerfield returns in a brand-new box set
New authors write for Lethbridge-Stewart
Sadie Miller, the daughter of the late Elisabeth Sladen, has
Doctor Who – top rated!
Doctor Whohas been voted number four in a list of
Beyond the TARDIS
▗ Peter Capaldi and John Hurt supported the #WearYourNHS English
Galaxy FORUM
Last month, the news broke that Steven Moffat would be
The Daft Dimension
Witch Hunt Part One
Opening the Eye
Doctor Who is now being enjoyed by a whole new
True colours
The continuing mission to watch all 826 episodes of Doctor
The Churchill Years
The latest Doctor Who episodes and products reviewed by our
Wave of Destruction
The fifth run of Fourth Doctor adventures plunges us straight
Black Dog
What, or who, is God? It’s the question that’s been
The Isos Network
This year’s series of The Early Adventures has been very
The Sins of Winter
Let’s not beat about the burning bush: Doctor Who is,
The Waters of Amsterdam
Set shorly after the 1983 TV story The Arc of
The Witch Hunters
The Witch Hunters, BBC Audio’s latest offering in its range
Torchwood: Forgotten Lives
That’s not me being grumpy. It’s a catchphrase, of sorts
Dinosaurs on a Spaceship
Looking back at the Doctor’s past glories that recently aired
The Complete Ninth Series
IN A NUTSHELL: A box set featuring all 12 Doctor
365 Days of Memorable Moments and Impossible Things
IN A NUTSHELL: A chronicle of memorable Doctor Who moments
Death to the Daleks
IN A NUTSHELL: The Doctor and Sarah must risk their
Shadow in the Glass
IN A NUTSHELL: Half-glimpsed demons watch from the shadows as
Doom Coalition 2
IN A NUTSHELL: The Eighth Doctor returns in four more
BACK ON TV!
Doctor Who Explained, Doctor Who: The Companions, Doctor Who: The
WOTCHA!
We’re only a few weeks into 2016, and already that