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Classic Who S19 • Serial 6 · (4 episodes)

Earthshock

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Doctor Who (1963-1996)
Fifth Doctor

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First aired Monday, March 8, 1982
Production Code 6B
Written by Eric Saward
Directed by Peter Grimwade
Runtime 100 minutes
Story Type Companion Exit
Time Travel Past Future
Tropes: (Potential Spoilers!) Companion Death Spaceship
Synopsis

A conference to unite military powers against the Cybermen is taking place and the Cybermen plot to destroy the Earth by crashing a space freighter into it. The Doctor must stop them, whatever the cost...

4 Episodes:

First aired Monday, March 8, 1982
Runtime 25 minutes
Written by Eric Saward
Directed by Peter Grimwade
UK Viewers 9.1 million
Synopsis

The TARDIS crew arrives on Earth in the 26th Century in a cave system where a military force is investigating the disappearance of a palaentological expedition.

First aired Tuesday, March 9, 1982
Runtime 25 minutes
Written by Eric Saward
Directed by Peter Grimwade
UK Viewers 8.8 million
Synopsis

With her crew vanishing mysteriously, Captain Briggs assumes the Doctor is the guilty party, but the traitor is closer to home… as are the Cybermen.

First aired Monday, March 15, 1982
Runtime 25 minutes
Written by Eric Saward
Directed by Peter Grimwade
UK Viewers 9.8 million
Synopsis

The Cybermen are released from their silos and are on the march, attacking Briggs's crew and ensuring that the freighter remains on course for Earth. But why ?

First aired Tuesday, March 16, 1982
Runtime 25 minutes
Written by Eric Saward
Directed by Peter Grimwade
UK Viewers 9.6 million
Synopsis

The Doctor realises the freighter is now a huge bomb and sends it back through time where it can explode millions of years ago... but Adric is still aboard...

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