The Invasion (Doctor Who)

046 – The Invasion
Doctor Who serial
The Doctor and Tobias Vaughn
Cast
Doctor Patrick Troughton (Second Doctor)
Companions Frazer Hines (Jamie McCrimmon) Wendy Padbury (Zoe Heriot)
Others Edward Burnham — Professor Watkins Sally Faulkner — Isobel Watkins Nicholas Courtney — Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart Kevin Stoney — Tobias Vaughn Peter Halliday — Packer & Cybermen Voice Geoffrey Cheshire — Tracy Ian Fairbairn — Gregory Edward Dentith — Major General Rutlidge Clifford Earl — Major Branwell Robert Sidaway — Captain Turner Norman Hartley — Sergeant Peters James Thornhill — Sergeant Walters John Levene — Corporal Benton Stacy Davies — Private Perkins Sheila Dunn — Phone Operator Murray Evans — Lorry Driver Walter Randall — Patrolman Peter Thompson — Workman Dominic Allan — Policeman Pat Gorman, Ralph Carrigan, Charles Finch, John Spradbury, Derek Chafer, Terence Denville, Peter Thornton, Richard King — Cybermen
Production
Directed by	Douglas Camfield
Written by	Derrick Sherwin, from a story by Kit Pedler
Script editor	Terrance Dicks
Produced by	Peter Bryant
Incidental music composer	Don Harper
Production code	VV
Series	Season 6
Length	8 episodes, 25 minutes each
Episode(s) missing	2 episodes (1 and 4)
Date started	2 November 1968
Date ended	21 December 1968
Chronology
← Preceded by Followed by → The Mind Robber The Krotons

The Invasion

Author	Ian Marter
Cover artist	Andrew Skilleter
Series	Doctor Who book: Target novelisations
Release number	98
Publisher	Target Books
Publication date	10 October 1985
ISBN

Cold Worlds
Soundtrack album
Released	6 June 2014
Genre	Soundtrack
Label	Dual Planet
Doctor Who soundtrack chronology
Doctor Who: The 50th Anniversary Collection (2013) Cold Worlds (2014) Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor/The Time of the Doctor (2014)

The Invasion is the partly missing third serial of the sixth season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in eight weekly parts from 2 November to 21 December 1968. It marks the first appearance of UNIT and, notably, Corporal Benton, later to become a Sergeant. It is the first now-incomplete Doctor Who serial to be released with full-length animated reconstructions of its two missing episodes.

The TARDIS evades a missile fired by a spaceship on the Moon, landing the Doctor, Jamie and Zoe in late twentieth-century England. The visual stabiliser is damaged and renders the TARDIS invisible, so they try to find Professor Edward Travers (of The Abominable Snowmen and The Web of Fear) to seek his assistance. They hitch a lift to London, and the lorry driver talks of International Electromatics, the world's largest electronics manufacturer.

The Doctor discovers that Professor Travers has left for America with his daughter, leaving his London home in the care of Isobel Watkins and her scientist uncle, Professor Watkins, who has mysteriously disappeared while working for the same company, International Electromatics. The Doctor and Jamie go to IE's head office in London, to investigate. When the electronic receptionist refuses them entry, they seek out a back entrance, but are arrested and taken before IE's Managing Director, the sinister Tobias Vaughn, who gives them a cock-and-bull story of Professor Watkins being at a delicate stage of his work and refusing to see anyone. The Doctor is immediately suspicious, noticing that the inhuman Vaughn never blinks once during their meeting.

The Doctor and Jamie are abducted by two strangers, and taken to a military transport aircraft housing a complete operations room, where they are reunited with Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart from The Web of Fear, now promoted to Brigadier, who is in charge of a military taskforce known as UNIT. He explains that he is investigating IE, because whenever people visit the IE offices they are strangely different afterwards. He also reveals that the lorry driver they met is a UNIT operative, and that he has disappeared.