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- THE INVASION. Written by Derrick Sherwin. 8 episodes.
- 2nd November - 21st December 1968.
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- COMPANIONS:- Jamie and Zoe.
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- The Doctor returns to the 20th century and goes to visit his old friend,
- Professor Travers. He finds the Professor's house has been let to a
- Professor Watkins and his daughter Isobel. Watkins has disappeared after
- visiting International Electromagnetics, major supplier of the worlds'
- computers and circuitry.
- Visiting I.E. the Doctor takes an instant distrust to its director,
- Tobias Vaughn (superbly portrayed by Kevin Stoney) and upon leaving is
- taken captive. All is not as it seems though and his "captors" are in fact
- working for Lethbridge-Stewart, now a Brigadier in command of U.N.I.T,
- the United Nations Intelligence Task Force. It seems that several of the
- country's leading scientists have also disappeared after visiting I.E.
- Zoe and Isobel follow the Doctor and Jamie to I.E. and are captured by
- Vaughn, who is forcing the Professor to work on the Cerebration Mentor, a
- device to induce emotions. Vaughn plans to use this device to control his
- commanders - the Cybermen.
- The Cybermen are planning to use devices planted by Vaughn in his
- companies electrical appliances to control the population of Earth prior to
- invading. This they manage to do and their hidden armies emerge from the
- sewer system and take control of London in some of the most striking
- imagery used in Dr Who history.
- The Doctor has discovered Vaughn's plan and perfected a device which
- blocks the impulses from the Cyber circuitry. He gives the device to the
- U.N.I.T personnel and then uses a guided missile to destroy the Cybermen's
- signal relay on the dark side of the moon.
- With their fleet destroyed the final Cyber ship approaches Earth to
- drop a megaton bomb on the planet but the Doctor and a reformed Vaughn
- manage to thwart them. Vaughn is killed in the process.
- This story was scripted from an idea by Kit Pedler and was the last
- story to feature the Cybermen for seven years.
- Although episodes one and four are missing, BBC Video have released the
- story as a special twin-pack with linking narration by Nicholas Courtney.
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