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the android invasion

story 83 : season 13 : serial 4J : 4 episodes

Producer: Philip Hinchcliffe
Director: Barry Letts
Writer: Terry Nation
Script Editor: Robert Holmes
Designer: Peter Lindley

cast information

Tom Baker (Doctor Who); Elisabeth Sladen (Sarah Jane Smith); Ian Marter (Harry Sullivan); John Levene (RSM Benton); Martin Friend (Styggron); Max Faulkner (Corporal Adams); Milton Johns (Guy Crayford); Peter Welch (Morgan); Dave Carter (Grierson); Roy Skelton (Chedaki); Stuart Fell (Kraal); Patrick Newell (Colonel Faraday); Hugh Lund (Matthews); Heather Emmanuel (Tessa);

crew information

Felicity Trew (Assistant Floor Manager); Barbara Lane (Costumes); Terry Walsh (Fight Arranger); Ken Newson (Film Cameraman); Mike Stoffer (Film Editor); Dudley Simpson (Incidental Music); Sylvia Thornton (Make-Up); Marion McDougall (Production Assistant); Janet Radenkovic (Production Unit Manager); Dick Mills (Special Sounds); Duncan Brown (Studio Lighting); Alan Machin (Studio Sound); Delia Derbyshire (Theme Arrangement); Ron Grainer (Title Music); Len Hutton (Visual Effects);

episode information

  Title First UK Transmission Duration Ratings Archive Status
1 Part One 22 November 1975 at 17:45 24'21" 11.9mil PAL 2 inch colour videotape
2 Part Two 29 November 1975 at 17:45 24'30" 11.3mil PAL 2 inch colour videotape
3 Part Three 6 December 1975 at 17:45 24'50" 12.1mil PAL 2 inch colour videotape
4 Part Four 13 December 1975 at 17:45 24'30" 11.4mil PAL 2 inch colour videotape
  1. Part One
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  2. Part Two
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  3. Part Three
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  4. Part Four
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release information

In Print:
Novelised as: Doctor Who and the Android Invasion
Written by: Terrance Dicks
Number 002 in the Target Doctor Who Library

Versions
1978 Published by W. H. Allen, UK in hardback
With cover artwork by: Roy Knipe
16 November 1978 Published by W. H. Allen, UK in paperback
With cover artwork by: Roy Knipe
ISBN: 0 426 20037 3
January 1980 Published by Pinnacle Books, USA in paperback
With cover artwork by: David Mann

plot synopsis

The TARDIS lands in the picturesque village of Devesham, which has a space defence centre stationed nearby. The Doctor soon realises something is wrong with the behaviour of the local people, and discovers that they are all android duplicates, and that they're not on Earth at all. The Kraals of the planet Oseidon have laid their own world to waste, and are planning to stage an invasion of Earth, spearheading the way with the androids, which include Benton and Harry. The Doctor has to stop them when they arrive on Earth, before a lethal plague can be unleashed that will eradicate mankind

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