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063 – The Mutants
Doctor Who serial
A mutated Solonian on the planet Solos.
Cast
Doctor
Jon Pertwee (Third Doctor)
Companion
Katy Manning (Jo Grant)
Others
Paul Whitsun-Jones — The Marshal
George Pravda — Jaeger
Christopher Coll — Stubbs
Rick James — Cotton
James Mellor — Varan
Jonathan Sherwood — Varan's Son
Garrick Hagon — Ky
John Hollis — Sondergaard
Geoffrey Palmer — Administrator
Peter Howell — Investigator
David Arlen — Warrior Guard
Roy Pearce, Damon Sanders, Martin Taylor — Guards
Sidney Johnson — Old Man
John Scott Martin — Mutt
Production
Writer
Bob Baker and Dave Martin
Director
Christopher Barry
Script editor
Terrance Dicks
Producer
Barry Letts
Executive producer(s)
None
Production code
NNN
Series
Season 9
Length
6 episodes, 25 minutes each
Originally broadcast
April 8–May 13, 1972
Chronology
← Preceded by
Followed by →
The Sea Devils
The Time Monster
The Mutants is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in six weekly parts from April 8 to May 13, 1972.
The Mutants is also the title used by the production team for the series' second serial, which introduced the Daleks. To distinguish between the two, the earlier serial is usually referred to as The Daleks. Sometimes both stories are referred to as The Mutants, further distinguished by the production codes — (B) for the former and (NNN) for the latter.
Contents
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1 Synopsis
2 Plot
3 Continuity
4 Production
5 Outside references
6 In print
7 Broadcast and commercial releases
8 References
9 External links
9.1 Reviews
9.2 Target novelisation
[edit] Synopsis
It is the 30th century, near the end of the Earth Empire. On the colony world of Solos, something is transforming the human population, turning them into hideous mutants. But as the Third Doctor and Jo find out, that is only the beginning.
[edit] Plot
In the 30th century, the Earth Empire is contracting and plans are being made to decolonise the colony world of Solos. The militaristic Marshal and other human soldiers, known as Overlords, rule it from Skybase One. The Marshal opposes the decolonisation plans outlined to him by Administrator sent from Earth, and is also obsessed with eradicating the Mutants or Mutts that have sprung up on the planet below. The Solonians themselves are a tribal people, split between those who actively oppose the occupation, such as Ky, and those like Varan who collaborate with the imperialists. Indeed, the Marshal and Varan ensure the Administrator is murdered before he can confirm to Ky and other tribal chiefs that the Earth Empire is indeed withdrawing from Solos.
The Third Doctor and Jo arrive on Skybase One, their TARDIS having been transported there by the Time Lords. They have with them a message box which will only open for an intended recipient – and that is not the Marshal or his entourage – but seems to be for Ky, who has been framed for the murder of the Administrator. Jo and Ky flee to the surface of Solos, which seems to be poisonous to humans during daylight hours, and this affects Jo quite soon. Ky saves her with a stolen oxygen mask. The Doctor learns from the Marshal and his chief scientist Jaeger that they are involved in an experiment using rocket barrages to terraform Solos, making the air breathable to humans, regardless of the cost to indigenous life. They continue to bombard the surface with ever more deadly rockets.
Varan by now has discovered the Marshal’s treachery and events make him an outlaw on Skybase. The Doctor makes contact and together they persuade Stubbs and Cotton, the most senior soldiers to the Marshal, that much is wrong on Skybase. He then flees to Solos with Varan, and at the thaesium mine where Ky and Jo are hiding he encounters many Mutts, who are not as hostile as they first appeared. The Doctor passes the message box to Ky, and it opens to reveal ancient tablets and etchings which are written in the language of the Old Ones of the planet. Help in avoiding poisonous gas released by the Marshal is provided by a fugitive human scientist, Sondergaard, who lives in the caves and knows much about Solonian anthropology. Sondergaard explains he tried to inform Earth Control about the Marshal's evil, but he was prevented and forced to flee to the caves, where the radiation seems to have affected him. He interprets the contents of the box as a “lost Solos Book of Genesis”, and the Doctor then calculates a Solonian year to be equivalent to two thousand human years, with natural changes in the population every five hundred years within the cycle. Investigating a more radioactive part of...
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