The Autons march towards human victims and open fire.
Cast
Doctor
Jon Pertwee – Third Doctor
Companion
Caroline John – Liz Shaw
Others
Nicholas Courtney – Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
Hugh Burden – Channing
Derek Smee – Ransome
John Woodnutt – Hibbert
Neil Wilson – Sam Seeley
Betty Bowden – Meg Seeley
Hamilton Dyce – General Scobie
John Breslin – Captain Munro
Clifford Cox – Sergeant
George Lee – Corporal Forbes
Tessa Shaw – UNIT Officer
Antony Webb – Dr. Henderson
Henry McCarthy – Dr. Beavis
Helen Dorward – Nurse
Allan Mitchell – Wagstaffe
Talfryn Thomas – Mullins
Prentis Hancock – 2nd Reporter
Ellis Jones – Technician
Edmund Bailey – Museum Attendant
Production
Directed by
Derek Martinus
Written by
Robert Holmes
Script editor
Terrance Dicks
Produced by
Derrick Sherwin
Executive producer(s)
None
Music by
Dudley Simpson
Production code
AAA
Series
Season 7
Running time
4 episodes, 25 minutes each
First broadcast
3 January 1970 (1970-01-03)
Last broadcast
24 January 1970 (1970-01-24)
Chronology
← Preceded by The War Games
Followed by → Doctor Who and the Silurians
List of Doctor Who episodes (1963–1989)
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 on BBC1 from 3 to 24 January 1970. It was the first Doctor Who serial to be produced in colour and the only one to be made entirely on 16 mm film.[1]
In the serial, which is set in Essex and London, the alien time traveller the Doctor (Jon Pertwee), now exiled to Earth by the Time Lords, joins Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart (Nicholas Courtney) of UNIT and the scientist Liz Shaw (Caroline John) to stop the incorporeal intelligence the Nestenes from colonising the planet through their use of the Autons, killer plastic automatons which act as human duplicates and shop-window mannequins.
The serial introduced Pertwee as the Doctor and was the first to feature the Autons. It also introduces Caroline John as the Doctor's new assistant, Liz. Nicholas Courtney becomes a regular cast member beginning with this serial.
^O'Neill, Phelim (13 July 2013). "Doctor Who: Spearhead From Space: this week's new DVD & Blu-ray". The Guardian. Retrieved 16 July 2013.
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