Doctor Who: Terror of the Vervoids

Doctor Who: Terror of the Vervoids

1986 · 100 min · ★ 4.7 · Drama, Science Fiction, Adventure

As evidence for the defense at his ongoing trial, the Doctor presents an adventure from his future when he is travelling with a computer programmer named Mel. Answering a mysterious distress call from the space liner Hyperion III, they find that the passengers aboard include unscrupulous scientists, secret agents, saboteurs, thieves and a murderer. And lurking in the shadows are the Vervoids, the product of sinister botanical experiments, who will stop at nothing to destroy all non-plant life.

Directed by Chris Clough · Written by Jane Baker

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Cast

Colin Baker The Doctor
Bonnie Langford Mel Bush
Michael Jayston The Valeyard
Lynda Bellingham The Inquisitor
Honor Blackman Professor Sarah Lasky
Michael Craig Commodore Travers
Denys Hawthorne Rudge
Yolande Palfrey Janet
Malcolm Tierney Doland
David Allister Bruchner
Tony Scoggo Grenville
Arthur Hewlett Kimber

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