Doctor Who: The Keys of Marinus

Doctor Who: The Keys of Marinus

1964 · 150 min · ★ 5.9 · Science Fiction, Drama, Adventure

The TARDIS arrives on the planet Marinus on an island of glass surrounded by a sea of acid. The travellers are forced by the elderly Arbitan to retrieve four of the five operating keys to a machine called the Conscience of Marinus, of which he is the keeper. These have been hidden in different locations around the planet to prevent them falling into the hands of the evil Yartek and his Voord warriors, who plan to seize the machine and use its originally benevolent mind-influencing power for their own sinister purposes.

Directed by John Gorrie · Written by Terry Nation

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Cast

William Hartnell The Doctor
Carole Ann Ford Susan Foreman
Jacqueline Hill Barbara Wright
William Russell Ian Chesterton
George Coulouris Arbitan
Martin Cort Voord / Warrior / Ice Soldier / Aydan
Peter Stenson Voord / Ice Soldier / Second Judge
Gordon Wales Voord
Robin Phillips Altos
Katherine Schofield Sabetha
Heron Carvic Voice of Morpho (voice)
Edmund Warwick Darrius

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