Movie: Doctor Who: Vengeance on Varos

Top 10 Billed Cast

Colin Baker
Colin Baker

The Doctor

Nicola Bryant
Nicola Bryant

Peri Brown

Martin Jarvis
Martin Jarvis

The Governor

Nabil Shaban
Nabil Shaban

Sil

Nicolas Chagrin
Nicolas Chagrin

Quillam

Jason Connery
Jason Connery

Jondar

Forbes Collins
Forbes Collins

Chief Officer

Stephen Yardley
Stephen Yardley

Arak

Sheila Reid
Sheila Reid

Etta

Geraldine Alexander
Geraldine Alexander

Areta

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    When the TARDIS is in need of repairs, the Doctor and Peri are forced to land on Varos, a mining planet whose population is entertained and enslaved by a sadistic system of public torture and execution, and find themselves the latest unwilling subjects in this most extreme form of reality TV.

  • Release Date

    1985-01-26

  • Average

    7.3

  • Rating:

    3.6 starts
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    English
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