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Spearhead from Space

051 – Spearhead from Space
Doctor Who serial
Spearhead from Space.jpg
The Auton invasion begins.
Cast
Others
Production
Directed by Derek Martinus
Written by Robert Holmes
Script editor Terrance Dicks
Produced by Derrick Sherwin
Executive producer(s) None
Incidental music composer Dudley Simpson
Production code AAA
Series Season 7
Length 4 episodes, 25 minutes each
Date started 3 January 1970
Date ended 24 January 1970
Chronology
← Preceded by Followed by →
The War Games Doctor Who and the Silurians
Doctor Who and the Auton Invasion
Doctor Who and the Auton Invasion.jpg
Author Terrance Dicks
Cover artist Chris Achilleos
Series Doctor Who book:
Target novelisations
Release number
6
Publisher Target Books
Publication date
17 January 1974
ISBN

Spearhead from Space is the first serial of the seventh season in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from 3 January to 24 January 1970. It was the first to be produced in colour. The serial introduced Jon Pertwee as the Third Doctor and was the first to feature the Autons. It also introduces Caroline John as the Doctor's new assistant, Liz Shaw. Nicholas Courtney reprises his role as Brigadier Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart and becomes a regular cast member beginning with this serial.

The Doctor, having had a "change of appearance" forced upon him by the Time Lords (see The War Games), has been exiled to Earth. The Doctor collapses outside his TARDIS and is taken to Ashbridge Cottage Hospital in Epping, where his unusual anatomy confounds doctors.

Simultaneous with the Doctor's arrival, a swarm of meteorites falls on the English countryside, and a poacher discovers a mysterious plastic polyhedron at the crash site. In the meantime, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart of UNIT is trying to recruit Dr. Elizabeth "Liz" Shaw as his scientific advisor and investigate the unusual meteorite falls. Shaw, however, is sceptical of the Brigadier's claims of alien invasion and is resentful of being taken away from her research at Cambridge. Soon, the Brigadier is faced with another mystery; not far from where the meteorite impacts were reported, a man in hospital claims to be the Doctor (whom Lethbridge-Stewart last encountered in The Invasion). However this Doctor looks nothing like the Doctor the Brigadier knew.


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