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Zaroff

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Zaroff
Also known as: Hermann Zaroff
Race: Human
Home Planet: Earth
Home Era: 1970
Appearances: DW: The Underwater Menace
Actor: Joseph Fürst

Professor Zaroff was a scientist and leader in the field of producing food from the sea. He disappeared in 1950, having presumably been kidnapped and killed, with the Eastern and Western blocs blaming each other. Zaroff in fact had discovered the remains of the lost city of Atlantis and relocated there. He promised King Thous that he would raise his city above the sea, but secretly planned to drain the ocean into Earth's core, with the resulting superheated steam causing the planet to explode. The Doctor defeated his plans and he drowned when his laboratory flooded. (DW: The Underwater Menace)

In the novelisation, he is given the first name of Hermann.


Aliens and Enemies of Season 4
The Smugglers: Samuel Pike  The Tenth Planet: Cybermen  The Power of the Daleks: Daleks  • Kaled mutants   The Highlanders: Grey  The Underwater Menace: Zaroff  • Fish people  The Macra Terror: Macra   The Faceless Ones: Chameleons   The Evil of the Daleks: Theodore Maxtible  • Daleks   Dalek Emperor  • Humanised Daleks