Kamelion is a fictional character from the long-running British
science fiction television series Doctor Who. A shape-changing android
voiced by Gerald Flood in its default form, it is a companion of the
Fifth Doctor and appears in the television series in two serials
between 1983 and 1984.When first encountered by the Doctor in England,
Earth, 1215 A.D. The King's Demons, Kamelion is a tool of the renegade
Time Lord known as the Master, who is forcing Kamelion to pose as King
John. At the conclusion of the Master's previous encounter with the
Doctor, he was trapped on the planet Xeriphas. When the Master
returns, he has Kamelion with him, calling it a souvenir he had picked
up from there. Although Kamelion is sentient to a degree, it is also
extremely weak-willed, and therefore open to manipulation by any
strong personalities around it. The Doctor frees Kamelion from the
Master's grip, and it joins the Doctor in the TARDIS (much to Tegan's
disapproval). Here it presumably spends all the intervening time
between its two full appearances, out of sight and mindâ€"notably no
reference is even made to the character on-screen otherwise.Kamelion
eventually falls under the Master's influence again in the serial
Planet of Fire. Kamelion finally begs the Doctor to destroy it, and
the Doctor uses the Master's tissue compression eliminator (T.C.E.) on
him, shrinking him and destroying him; the last that is seen of
Kamelion is the doll-sized robot shell lying on the floor, with wires
hanging out of its shoulder. The Kamelion robot's last appearance is
as one of the images of his companions that comes to the Fifth Doctor
during his regeneration scene in The Caves of Androzani.When Kamelion
changed shape, it was played by the actor whose character's form it
took. However, when in its default form, it was a true
computer-controlled robot prop. The reason why the Kamelion robot was
used fully only in two serials was that it was very difficult for the
Doctor Who production team to control. It malfunctioned frequently,
and things were only made worse when its inventor, Mike Power, died in
a boating accident without leaving behind the knowledge of the complex
codes that controlled it. A third appearance by the character in the
serial The Awakening, designed to bridge the gap between its
appearances and to remind viewers of its existence and the fact that
it had been 'hiding' all this time somewhere in the TARDIS, was cut
for timing reasons and was never broadcast. Thought lost forever, this
scene was eventually recovered on a video copy of an early edit of The
Awakening episode one, in the personal archive of the late Doctor Who
producer John Nathan-Turner. Presented to the Doctor Who Restoration
Team, it was included in the documentary Kamelion: Metal Man featured
on the DVD release of The King's Demons.
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