Zaroff
Name:
Zaroff
Species:
Human
Place of Origin:
Earth
Appearance:
Main Actor:
Joseph Fürst
source TARDIS Wikia
Professor Zaroff was a scientist who lived during the 20th century. He was well-known for producing cheap food from the sea. He went missing, and was reported as dead, but in reality he had found the submerged city of Atlantis and was living there.
When the Second Doctor and his companions were about to be sacrificed to the Atlantean goddess Amdo,
Zaroff explained his plan to The Doctor, which involved draining the ocean. He knew his plan would destroy the world, which was, as he saw it, the scientist’s ultimate dream of power.
Atlantis’s leader, Thous, betrayed
Zaroff tried to start his experiment, but
PERSONALITY
Zaroff was very arrogant. He was willing to die in his experiment just to prove himself successful. When he claimed that his experiment was already under way,
BEHIND THE SCENES
In the novelisation, he is given the first name of Hermann. His desire to blow up the world is explained as the result of madness from the death of his wife and daughter.
According to The Doctor: His Lives and Times, his first name was Hans and he had a secretary named Heidi von Herzog.
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