Spearhead From Space

Written by: Robert Holmes

1st Aired: 3 Jan 70-24 Jan 70

Companions: Brigadier, Liz

Location: England, 1970s A.D

Liz Shaw is recruited as UNIT's Scientific Advisor after a shower of glowing balls lands in Oxley Wood. Arriving the same night is the newly-regenerate Doctor, who collapses an is taken to hospital. The Brigadier eventually accepts the Doctor's identity and enlists his help. The Doctor thinks that UNIT is unable to find the globes because they have been collected and taken somewhere. That somewhere is Auto Plastics, now controlled by Channing and the group mind the invading Nestines. Auto Plastics is making Autons, Nestene-controlled killer automatons. The Doctor and Liz finally get the last remaining Nestene globe to work with but, with an Auton replica impersonating General Scobie and killer mannequins coming to life in shop windows, the Doctor and Liz are running out of time!

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