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Doctor Who serialsSpearhead from Space is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which originally aired in four weekly parts from January 3 to January 24, 1970. The serial opened Season 7 of the show and was the first to feature Jon Pertwee as the Third Doctor, and introduces Caroline John as Liz Shaw .
1 Synopsis
The Doctor, having had his regeneration forced by the Time Lords (see The War Games), has been exiled to Earth. A swarm of meteors falls on the English countryside, and a poacher discovers a mysterious plastic polyhedron at the crash site. In the meantime, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart of UNIT is trying to recruit Dr. Elizabeth "Liz" Shaw as his scientific advisor and investigate the unusual meteor falls.
The plastic polyhedron is actually a power unit for a non-physical alienFor the 1979 movie, see Alien (movie). For live organisms which are not from Earth, see Extraterrestrial life Aliens are foreigners to their surroundings. The word is commonly used in law to denote non- citizens of the country of their whereabouts, and in intelligence known as the Nestene Consciousness. Normally disembodied, it has an affinity for plastic, and is able to animate humanoid facsimiles made from that material, known as AutonThe Autons are an artificial life form from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who and adversaries of the Doctor. Appearing in Jon Pertwee's first serial as the Doctor, Spearhead from Space in 1970, they were the first monsters on the shs. The Nestene have taken over a toy factory in LondonLondon is the capital of the United Kingdom and of England, and with over seven million inhabitants in the Greater London area, is the second-most populous conurbation in Europe (after Moscow). From being Londinium the capital of the Roman province of Bri, and plan to replace key government and public figures with Auton duplicates. The Auton in charge of the factory sends other, less human-looking Autons to retrieve the power units from UNIT and the poacher.
The Doctor discovers that his TARDISAcronyms Third Doctor emerging from the TARDIS (from the 1970 serial Spearhead from Space . The TARDIS an acronym of T ime A nd R elative D imensions (or D imension) I n S pace, is a fictional time travelling machine in the British television programme Do has been disabled by the Time Lords and he is trapped on Earth. He convinces Lethbridge-Stewart that he is the same man who aided him before to defeat the YetiThe Yeti is the Western name given to a large primate-like creature reported to live in the Himalayas. Most mainstream scientists and experts consider current evidence of the Yeti's actuality unpersuasive, and the result of hoaxes, legend or misidentifica and the CybermenThe Cybermen are a fictional race of cyborgs who are amongst the most persistent enemies of the Doctor in the British science fiction television series, Doctor Who''. They were created by Dr. Kit Pedler, the unofficial scientific advisor to the programme, despite his change in appearance. Together with Liz, he uncovers the Nestene plot, just as Auton mannequins are activated across London and start killing people. However, the Doctor creates an electroshock device that he believes will disable the Autons.
UNIT attacks the plastics factory, but the Autons are impervious to gunfire. The Doctor and Liz make their way inside and encounter the octopus-like plastic creature that the Nestenes have created with the power units as the perfect form for the invasion. While the Doctor struggles with the creature, Liz manages to use his machine to shut the creature down, and all the Autons "die" as well, being part of the Nestene gestaltGestalt is a German word referring to the concept where an entity's properties cannot be discovered from the total properties of its parts. The more general English equivalents are synergy holism and variations on the phrase the whole is greater than the consciousness.
The Brigadier fears the Nestenes will return and asks for the Doctor's help. The Doctor agrees to join UNIT in exchange for facilities to help repair the TARDIS, and Liz stays on as his assistant.
