Doctor Who: The Sensorites

Doctor Who: The Sensorites

1964 · 150 min · ★ 5.8 · Drama, Science Fiction, Adventure

The Doctor, Ian, Barbara and Susan arrive in the TARDIS on board a spaceship. Their initial concern is for the ship's human crew, who are suffering from telepathic interference from the Sensorites, but Susan communicates with the Sensorites and finds the aliens fear an attack by the humans and are just defending themselves. Travelling to the Sense Sphere (the Sensorites' planet) the Doctor seeks to cure an illness to which the Sensorites and Ian have succumbed, but finds it has been caused by deliberate poisoning. The political manoeuvring of the Sensorite City Administrator poses another threat to the TARDIS crew as he seeks to discredit and implicate them.

Directed by Mervyn Pinfield · Written by Peter R. Newman

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Cast

William Hartnell The Doctor
Carole Ann Ford Susan Foreman
Jacqueline Hill Barbara Wright
William Russell Ian Chesterton
Stephen Dartnell John
Ilona Rodgers Carol
Lorne Cossette Maitland
John Bailey Commander
Martyn Huntley First Human
Giles Phibbs Second Human
Peter Glaze Third Sensorite / City Administrator
Arthur Newall Fourth Sensorite

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