Episode Number:

Episode Title:

Transmission Date:

Duration:

Ratings (in Millions):

1

Episode One

31/1/70

24.15

8.8

2

Episode Two

7/2/70

23.08

7.3

3

Episode Three

14/2/70

23.16

7.5

4

Episode Four

21/2/70

25.00

8.2

5

Episode Five

28/2/70

23.58

7.5

6

Episode Six

7/3/70

24.15

7.2

7

Episode Seven

14/3/70

22.25

7.5

 

Season:

Doctor:

Producer:

Script Editor:

Writer:

Director:

Seven

Jon Pertwee

Barry Letts

Terrance Dicks

Malcolm Hulke

Timothy Combe

 

 

  

Jon Pertwee - (The Doctor)

Caroline John - (Liz Shaw)

Nicholas Courtney - (Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart)

 

  

Fulton Mackay - (Dr. Quinn)

Norman Jones - (Major Baker)

Peter Miles - (Dr. Lawrence)

Thomasine Heiner - (Miss Dawson)

Ian Cunningham - (Dr. Meredith)

Roy Branigan - (Roberts)

John Newman - (Spencer)

Bill Mathews - (Davis)

Paul Darrow - (Captain Hawkins)

Nancie Jackson - (Doris Squire)

Gordon Richardson - (Squire)

Geoffrey Palmer - (Masters)

Richard Steele - (Sergeant Hart)

Ian Talbot - (Travis)

Harry Swift - (Private Robins)

Alan Mason - (Corporal Nutting)

Derek Politt - (Private Wright)

Brendan Barry - (Hospital Doctor)

Pat Gorman, Paul Barton, Simon Cain, John Churchill, Dave Carter - (Silurians)

Pat Gorman - (Silurian Scientist)

Dave Carter - (Old Silurian)

Nigel Johns - (Young Silurian)

Peter Halliday - (Silurian Voices)

 

  

While caving in Derbyshire, two pot-holers are attacked by a huge creature and one is killed. At the nearby Wenley Moor nuclear research centre, which is built into the same caves, there are strange power losses threatening the reactor. Not only is everyone is at a loss to explain these incidents but there is also a high number of breakdowns involving staff members.

 

Now exiled to Earth and working for UNIT, the Doctor and his assistant Liz are sent for. As the surviving pot-holer begins to make cave-paintings in his ward the Doctor discovers not only a Tyrannosaurus Rex but a colony of Silurians - intelligent, walking lizards who have been dormant for millions of years. Now they have awoken to find that mankind has replaced them as the rulers of Earth - and they want it back.

 

Can the Doctor find a way of thwarting their plans or will humanity be wiped out to usher in a new Age of the Lizards?

 

  

Working Title:

The Monsters, Doctor Who and The Silurians.

 

Things to look for:

Coming Soon

 

The Doctor Who Archive:

All 7 episodes exist.

 

Bloopers:

  • Coming Soon

 

  

 

Click for larger image- Doctor Who and The Silurians, episodic format; Released July 1993, PAL (BBC Video cat.#4990).

 

 

Not yet released on DVD.

 

 

Not yet released on Audio.

 

 

- Doctor Who and the Cave-Monsters by Malcolm Hulke, Published 1974 - [Target no.9]

- Doctor Who and the Cave-Monsters by Malcolm Hulke, Published 1975 - [Target no.9]

- Doctor Who and the Cave-Monsters by Malcolm Hulke, Published 1979 - [Target no.9]

- The Silurians by Malcolm Hulke, Published 1992 - [Target no.9]

 

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