Elderly matriarch of the Kinda tribe of the planet Deva Loka. Blind, she was constantly attended by a young woman named Karuna. Only female Kinda had the power of speech.
The Doctor met them both after encountering a party of humans who had come to assess the planet for colonisation. One of their number - Hindle - had suffered a mental breakdown and threatened to destroy their base, which would wipe out the whole area. The Doctor and a scientist named Todd escaped the base and met Karuna, who took them to a nearby cave to see Panna. The old woman was able to show them how the society here passed through a repeated cycle of destruction and rebirth, and this was about to happen again due to the re-emergence of an ancient evil force known as the Mara, which manifested itself in the form of a snake and could possess people.
The strain of showing them mental images was too much, and Panna died. However, her consciousness survived by passing into Karuna.
Played by: Mary Morris. Appearances: Kinda (1982)
- Morris, who died in 1988, lived in Switzerland and drove from there to the UK to appear in the programme.
- She played scientist Professor Madeleine Dawney in A For Andromeda and its sequel The Andromeda Breakthrough.
- She also played the only female No.2 in The Prisoner - in the episode "Dance of the Dead".
- Another appearance with Peter Davison, in his detective series Campion, was screened posthumously.
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