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There's a new monster in town in Planet of the Dead, but the Tritovore are not the first insectoid life-forms the Doctor has encountered…
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Tritovores - Planet of the Dead (2009)
"Tritovores are a new alien race," explains David Tennant. "Paul Kasey - who's played many monsters in the past - plays the head Tritovore and came over to Dubai with us, in the desert, in a rubber head. I don't envy him. The amount of body fluids he must have lost!"
"Actually, it looked a lot hotter than it was," says Kasey. "It went in my favour wearing an animatronic head on top of my own, because my head was shaded from the sun. On breaks between set-ups, the eyes pop off, to let in more air - and my costume is a flight suit, which is very thin, so I didn't have much on underneath."
You've met the Tritovores, now meet the rest…
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Giant ants - Planet of Giants (1964)
The very first Tardis crew were miniaturised in an English garden. Fortunately, the giant ants, worm and fly they discovered had succumbed to insecticide.
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Zarbi et al - The Web Planet (1965)
The Zarbi were simple-minded pantomime ants who shared planet Vortis with the butterfly/bee Menoptra. "We overstretched our resources," confessed then-story editor Dennis Spooner…
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Mutts - The Mutants (1972)
Third Doctor Jon Pertwee encountered these pincered, exoskeleton-covered creatures. They're mobile pupae, basically.
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Giant maggots - The Green Death (1973)
Almost certainly the only Doctor Who monster
to be made from inflated condoms. One of the
maggots hatched out into a (short-lived) giant fly.
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Wirrn - The Ark in Space (1975)
Described by Fourth Doctor Tom Baker as "gigantic sort of grasshoppers", they lay eggs in a living host. A Wirrn larva is green and made of bubblewrap.
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Tractators - Frontios (1984)
Oversized woodlice with powers over gravity. "It was an impossible task to foist upon the limited budget," admitted writer Christopher H Bidmead.
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Malmooth - Utopia (2007)
Friendly insectoid people. The last surviving Malmooth, Chantho, assisted Derek Jacobi's Professor Yana (the
Master in disguise).
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Vespiforms - The Unicorn and the Wasp (2008)
Shape-shifting creatures, whose natural form is a giant wasp. Just like real wasps, they're vulnerable to water. Donna (Catherine Tate) drowned one in a lake. She had more trouble shaking a manipulative Time Beetle off her back in Turn Left (2008).
Back to the Planet of the Dead section…
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