The Monster of Peladon

073 – *The Monster of Peladon*
073 – The Monster of Peladon
Doctor Who serial
Cast
	Doctor Jon Pertwee – Third Doctor;
	Companion Elisabeth Sladen – Sarah Jane Smith;
	Others Nina Thomas – Queen Thalira; Frank Gatliff – Chancellor Ortron; Rex Robinson – Gebek; Ralph Watson – Ettis; Graeme Eton – Preba; Michael Crane – Blor; Terry Walsh – Guard Captain; Max Faulkner, Roy Evans – Miners; Nick Hobbs – Aggedor; Donald Gee – Eckersley; Stuart Fell – Body of Alpha Centauri; Ysanne Churchman – Voice of Alpha Centauri; Alan Bennion – Ice Lord Azaxyr; Sonny Caldinez – Sskel; Gerald Taylor – Vega Nexos;
Production
Directed by	Lennie Mayne
Written by	Brian Hayles
Script editor	Terrance Dicks
Produced by	Barry Letts
Music by	Dudley Simpson
Production code	YYY
Series	Season 11
Running time	6 episodes, 25 minutes each
First broadcast	23 March 1974
Last broadcast	27 April 1974
Chronology
← Preceded by; Death to the Daleks	Followed by →; Planet of the Spiders
	List of episodes (1963–1989)

The Monster of Peladon is the fourth serial of the 11th season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in six weekly parts on BBC1 from 23 March to 27 April 1974. It was Jon Pertwee's penultimate serial as the Third Doctor.

The serial is set on the mineral-rich planet Peladon 50 years after the 1972 serial The Curse of Peladon. In the serial, the engineer Eckersley (Donald Gee) and the rogue Ice Warrior Commander Azaxyr (Alan Bennion) conspire to take over the planet and sell its minerals to Peladon's enemies in Galaxy Five.