Doctor Who - Terror Of The Autons
Those menacing mannequins are back and pulling their strings behind the scenes...well it's only the bloody Master, in it!
The first episode of the eighth season and we have a few changes. Three new characters. The Doctor has a new companion in the young feisty and headstrong Jo Grant (played by Katy Manning). Jo is not afraid to get her hands dirty as is aptly demonstrated in this story but, as we'll see, her ideas usually ends up getting her in deep water.
We also meet the first incarnation of The Master, the rouge Time Lord (played by Roger Delgado) who will feature in all the episodes of this season. Plus we meet a new member of Unit, captain Mike Yates.
The master arrives on Earth and immediately steels the only Nestene energy unit left, and uses it to project a broadcast into space using a radio telescope to call the other aliens.
In a strange scene at the radio telescope the Doctor encounters a visitation from a fellow Time Lord who, while floating aimlessly in mid air, warns him that his old enemy The Master is on Earth.
The Master takes over a near by plastic factory to build an Auton army and as Jo investigates he hypnotises her and sends her back to Unit with a bomb that nearly puts an end to the story there and then.
The Doctor manages to get inside the masters TARDIS and steal the dematerialisation unit.
Autons disguised as carnival characters arrive and start handing out plastic daffodils to the public. Soon all manner of deaths of heart failure and asphyxiation are being reported all over the country.
The master infiltrates UNIT cunningly disguised as a telephone engineer, surely his trademark beard would give him away? No, he installs some kind of living plastic telephone chord which he uses to nearly strangle the Doctor with.
With the rest of the Nestene on there way to Earth, and the Brigadier planning to execute an air strike on the Autons, and, the Doctor and Jo being kidnapped by The Master, the story is in for an explosive end. But one thing is for sure The Master, won't be escaping the confines of earth just jet.
At four episodes this one is nicely paced and is a good follow up to the first Auton story which opened Pertwee's tenure. The addition of the Master brought a regular nemesis that the audience could relate too whose character could be built on as the series continued. It's exactly what the series needed to inject a new lease of life into what was becoming a bit of a tired formulae.
Next time on Doctor Who Rewind a whole new definition of criminal justice in The Mind Of Evil.
The first episode of the eighth season and we have a few changes. Three new characters. The Doctor has a new companion in the young feisty and headstrong Jo Grant (played by Katy Manning). Jo is not afraid to get her hands dirty as is aptly demonstrated in this story but, as we'll see, her ideas usually ends up getting her in deep water.
We also meet the first incarnation of The Master, the rouge Time Lord (played by Roger Delgado) who will feature in all the episodes of this season. Plus we meet a new member of Unit, captain Mike Yates.
The master arrives on Earth and immediately steels the only Nestene energy unit left, and uses it to project a broadcast into space using a radio telescope to call the other aliens.
In a strange scene at the radio telescope the Doctor encounters a visitation from a fellow Time Lord who, while floating aimlessly in mid air, warns him that his old enemy The Master is on Earth.
The Master takes over a near by plastic factory to build an Auton army and as Jo investigates he hypnotises her and sends her back to Unit with a bomb that nearly puts an end to the story there and then.
The Doctor manages to get inside the masters TARDIS and steal the dematerialisation unit.
Autons disguised as carnival characters arrive and start handing out plastic daffodils to the public. Soon all manner of deaths of heart failure and asphyxiation are being reported all over the country.
The master infiltrates UNIT cunningly disguised as a telephone engineer, surely his trademark beard would give him away? No, he installs some kind of living plastic telephone chord which he uses to nearly strangle the Doctor with.
With the rest of the Nestene on there way to Earth, and the Brigadier planning to execute an air strike on the Autons, and, the Doctor and Jo being kidnapped by The Master, the story is in for an explosive end. But one thing is for sure The Master, won't be escaping the confines of earth just jet.
At four episodes this one is nicely paced and is a good follow up to the first Auton story which opened Pertwee's tenure. The addition of the Master brought a regular nemesis that the audience could relate too whose character could be built on as the series continued. It's exactly what the series needed to inject a new lease of life into what was becoming a bit of a tired formulae.
Next time on Doctor Who Rewind a whole new definition of criminal justice in The Mind Of Evil.
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