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the invasion

story 46 : season 6 : serial VV : 8 episodes

Producer: Peter Bryant
Director: Douglas Camfield
Writer: Derrick Sherwin
Writer: Kit Pedler
Script Editor: Terrance Dicks
Designer: Richard Hunt

cast information

Patrick Troughton (Dr. Who); Frazer Hines (Jamie MacCrimmon); Wendy Padbury (Zoe Heriot); Nicholas Courtney (Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart); Kevin Stoney (Tobias Vaughn); John Levene (Benton); Sally Faulkner (Isobel); Murray Evans (Lorry Driver); Walter Randall (Patrolman); Geoffrey Cheshire (Tracy); Peter Halliday (Packer); Ian Fairbairn (Gregory); James Thornhill (Sergeant Walters); Robert Sidaway (Captain Turner); Edward Burnham (Professor Watkins); Sheila Dunn (Phone Operator); Edward Dentith (Major-General Rutlidge); Peter Thompson (Workman); Dominic Allan (Policeman); Stacy Davies (Private Perkins); Pat Gorman (Cyberman); Ralph Carrigan (Cyberman); Charles Finch (Cyberman); John Spradbury (Cyberman); Derek Chaffer (Cyberman); Terence Denville (Cyberman); Peter Thornton (Cyberman); Richard King (Cyberman); Clifford Earl (Major Branwell); Norman Hartley (Sergeant Peters);

crew information

Sue Willis (Assistant Floor Manager); Bobi Bartlett (Costumes); Alan Jonas (Film Cameraman); Martyn Day (Film Editor); Don Harper (Incidental Music); Sylvia James (Make-Up); Chris D'Oyly John (Production Assistant); Brian Hodgson (Special Sounds); Robbie Robinson (Studio Lighting); Alan Edmonds (Studio Sound); Bryan Forgham (Studio Sound); Ron Grainer (Title Music); Bill King (Visual Effects); Trading Post (Visual Effects); Delia Derbyshire (Theme Arrangement);

episode information

  Title First UK Transmission Duration Ratings Archive Status
1 Episode One 2 November 1968 at 17:15 24'32" 7.3mil does not exist
2 Episode Two 9 November 1968 at 17:15 24'26" 7.1mil 16mm telerecording
3 Episode Three 16 November 1968 at 17:15 23'44" 7.1mil 16mm telerecording
4 Episode Four 23 November 1968 at 17:15 24'18" 6.4mil does not exist
5 Episode Five 30 November 1968 at 17:15 24'25" 6.7mil 16mm telerecording
6 Episode Six 7 December 1968 at 17:15 23'20" 6.5mil 16mm telerecording
7 Episode Seven 14 December 1968 at 17:15 24'46" 7.2mil 16mm telerecording
8 Episode Eight 21 December 1968 at 17:15 25'05" 7.0mil 16mm telerecording
  1. Episode One
  2. Episode Two
    » Held by the FVTL when audited in 1978
  3. Episode Three
    » Held by the FVTL when audited in 1978
  4. Episode Four
  5. Episode Five
    » Held by the FVTL when audited in 1978
  6. Episode Six
    » Held by the FVTL when audited in 1978 (incomplete)
  7. Episode Seven
    » Held by the FVTL when audited in 1978
  8. Episode Eight
    » Held by the FVTL when audited in 1978

release information

In Print:
Novelised as: Doctor Who -- The Invasion
Written by: Ian Marter
Number 098 in the Target Doctor Who Library

Versions
1985 Published by W. H. Allen, UK in hardback
With cover artwork by: Andrew Skilleter
ISBN: 0 491 03324 9
10 October 1985 Published by W. H. Allen, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Andrew Skilleter
ISBN: 0 426 20169 8
16 September 1993 Published by Virgin Publishing Ltd, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Alister Pearson
ISBN: 0 426 20169 8

plot synopsis

On the TARDIS scanner, the Doctor and his companions see a vast fleet of ships hidden behind the dark side of the Earth's moon. Materialising on the planet, the TARDIS crew try and find Professor Travers, whom they discover has leant his home to a colleague, Professor Watkins, while he and Anne are away. The Doctor learns from Watkins' niece, Isobel that Watkins is working for magnate Tobias Vaughn who is in reality using the scientist's work to make a device that can induce emotions in Cybermen. Vaughn is helping the aliens orchestrate an invasion of Earth, with their battle fleet waiting behind the moon, and wants the Cerebraton Mentor as a fail-safe to control them. As the Doctor tries to prevent his plans, he once again meets Lethbridge-Stewart, now a Brigadier, who has set up the United Nations Intelligence Taskforce (UNIT) to counter attack such threats. The two Join forces to try and save mankind

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