Episode
Doctor Who: Spearhead from Space (3)
Overview
Ransome manages to escape from the plastics factory and alert UNIT, prompting the Doctor and the Brigadier to start an investigation.
Details
- Series
- Doctor Who
- Season
- Season 7
- Episode
- Episode 3
- Air date
- 1970-01-17
- Runtime
- 25 min
Episode context
Spearhead from Space (3) is Episode 3 in Season 7 of Doctor Who. It aired on 1970-01-17. The runtime is 25 min.
Previous / Next
Episode 2: Spearhead from Space (2)
UNIT's attempts to locate the meteorites are hampered by the mysterious plastic Autons, being constructed by Channing at a nearby factory, while the Doctor makes another attempt to escape from the hospital.
Episode 4: Spearhead from Space (4)
With UNIT's investigation being blocked by the Replica of Scobie, the Doctor and Liz visit Madame Tussaud's to try and find out more as Channing prepares to activate the Autons.
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Episode 1: Spearhead from Space (1)
As the newly-regenerated Doctor arrives on Earth, so does the Nestene too.
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Episode 6: Doctor Who and the Silurians (2)
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Episode 7: Doctor Who and the Silurians (3)
The Silurians contact Quinn for help in retrieving the creature while the Doctor and the Brigadier organise a search of the moors.
Episode 8: Doctor Who and the Silurians (4)
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Episode 9: Doctor Who and the Silurians (5)
Worried about the Old Silurian's growing friendship with the Doctor, the Young Silurian has the scientist infect Baker with a virus and then release him.
Episode 10: Doctor Who and the Silurians (6)
While the Doctor and Liz try to find a cure to the virus spread by Baker, the Young Silurian kills the Old Silurian and takes control of his people.
Episode 11: Doctor Who and the Silurians (7)
While Liz distributes the cure to the virus, the Doctor discovers the Silurians now plan to wipe out humanity by destroying the Van Allen Belt.
Episode 12: The Ambassadors of Death (1)
While the Brigadier investigates a loss of contact with Mars Probe 7, the Doctor realises signals coming from the probe are of extra-terrestrial origin.
Episode 13: The Ambassadors of Death (2)
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