Episode Number:

Episode Title:

Transmission Date:

Duration:

Ratings (in Millions):

1

Episode One

22/11/75

24.21

11.9

2

Episode Two

29/11/75

24.30

11.3

3

Episode Three

6/12/75

24.50

12.1

4

Episode Four

13/12/75

24.30

11.4

Season:

Doctor:

Producer:

Script Editor:

Writer:

Director:

Thirteen

Tom Baker

Philip Hinchcliffe

Robert Holmes

Terry Nation

Barry Letts

 

  

Tom Baker - (The Doctor)

Elisabeth Sladen - (Sarah-Jane Smith)

 

  

Ian Marter - (Harry Sullivan)

John Levene - (RSM Benton)

Milton Johns - (Guy Crayford)

Peter Welch - (Morgan)

Max Faulkner - (Corporal Adams)

Dave Carter - (Grierson)

Patrick Newell - (Colonel Faraday)

Hugh Lund - (Matthews)

Heather Emmanuel - (Tessa)

Roy Skelton - (Chedaki)

Stuart Fell - (Kraal)

Martin Friend - (Styggron)

 

  

When the TARDIS materialises just outside a sleepy English village, it appears the Doctor and Sarah Jane are nearly "home" at last. But all is not as it seems in rural paradise. White-suited, gun-wielding guards stalk the countryside, while the village itself is eerily deserted. As the Doctor and Sarah look on, a UNIT member leaps over a cliff to his death and, as the clock strikes twelve, the local pub is suddenly filled with strange robotic villagers. The UNIT member is amongst them, very much alive. What exactly is happening here?

 

The Doctor is mystified, setting off for UNIT HQ in search of answers. There, with the Brigadier away, Senior Defence Astronaut Guy Crayford holds court. But just who is his shadowy master, the Thraal, Styggron? Indeed, who are the Thraals and what have they got in store for the Earth? Why has the TARDIS dematerialised seemingly of its own accord?

 

The Doctor must move quickly to find the truth, for the very future of mankind hangs in the balance...

 

  

Working Title:

The Enemy Within, The Kraals

 

Things to look for:

  • Tom Baker's husky voice, owing to a bad throat during filming.

The Doctor Who Archive:

All 4 Episodes exist.

 

Bloopers:

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Title Information:

  • The Android Invasion
  • Episodic format
  • UK PAL - Released March 1995
  • BBC Video cat.#5526

 

 

Not yet released on DVD.

 

 

Not yet released on Audio.

 

 

Title Information:

  • Doctor Who and The Android Invasion
  • Written by Terrance Dicks
  • Manufactured by Target
  • Published 1978
  • No.2 in the Target, Doctor Who Library.

**For further information on the Target Books, please visit On Target.

 

 

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