The Dominators

044 – The Dominators
Doctor Who serial
The Dominator Toba flanked by two Quarks
Cast
Doctor Patrick Troughton (Second Doctor)
Companions Frazer Hines (Jamie McCrimmon) Wendy Padbury (Zoe Heriot)
Others Ronald Allen — Rago Kenneth Ives — Toba Arthur Cox — Cully Felicity Gibson — Kando Giles Block — Teel Johnson Bayly — Educator Balan Walter Fitzgerald — Director Senex Alan Gerrard — Bovem Brian Cant — Chairman Tensa John Cross, Ronald Mansell — Council Members Malcolm Terris — Etnin Nicolette Pendrell — Tolata Philip Voss — Wahed John Hicks, Gary Smith, Freddie Wilson — Quarks Sheila Grant — Quark Voices
Production
Directed by	Morris Barry
Written by	"Norman Ashby" (Mervyn Haisman and Henry Lincoln)
Script editor	Derrick Sherwin
Produced by	Peter Bryant
Executive producer(s)	None
Incidental music composer	None
Production code	TT
Series	Season 6
Length	5 episodes, 25 minutes each
Date started	10 August 1968
Date ended	7 September 1968
Chronology
← Preceded by Followed by → The Wheel in Space The Mind Robber

The Dominators

Author	Ian Marter
Cover artist	Andrew Skilleter
Series	Doctor Who book: Target novelisations
Release number	86
Publisher	Target Books
Publication date	19 July 1984
ISBN

The Dominators is the first serial of the sixth season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which originally aired in five weekly parts from 10 August to 7 September 1968.

An alien craft bearing the ruthless Dominators arrives on the peaceful planet of Dulkis. The craft lands on the Island of Death, a nuclear test site housing an anti-war museum, and soon absorbs all the radiation on the island. The robotic Quarks are sent out by the Dominators to prepare boreholes into the planet’s crust in order to convert the planet into rocket fuel. Toba uses the Quarks to fire on and kill three adventure seekers who stumble across his project. Their pilot Cully, however, survives by hiding himself away, though the craft that brought him to the island is destroyed. Rago is furious that these potential slaves have just been wasted.

The TARDIS arrives on another part of the island and the Second Doctor and his companions Jamie and Zoe begin to look around when they hear the explosion of the craft being destroyed. They take shelter in the museum building and meet three other newly arrived Dulcians, Educator Balan and his young charges Teel and Kando. All are puzzled that the radiation reading on the Island reads nil, since it should be radioactive after the nuclear explosion 172 years earlier. Cully arrives too, and tells them about the murderous Dominators and their robots. Balan does not accept this: he knows the son of the Director of the ruling council is well known as a con artist.

The Quarks have meanwhile begun work on drilling the outer boreholes. The Doctor and Jamie are captured by a patrol of Quarks and taken to the Dominator ship for questioning and scanning. A scan of Jamie is presumed to apply to them both and to the Dulcian race as a whole, who are thus described as possible but not definite for conversion into a slave force. During an intelligence test Doctor feigns stupidity to prove their worthlessness. He also fails to use a weapon from the Dulcian museum, falsely claiming such military technology has been lost to the Dulcians. The Doctor and Jamie are freed as worthless idiots.