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Classic Who S6 • Serial 3 · (6/8 episodes intact)

The Invasion

Other variations of this story: The Invasion (Animated Reconstruction), The Invasion (BBC Audio Soundtrack)

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First aired Saturday, November 2, 1968
Production Code VV
Directed by Douglas Camfield
Runtime 200 minutes
Time Travel Present
Tropes: (Potential Spoilers!) Earth Invasion Robots
Locations Earth England London
Synopsis

The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe return to Earth and meet up with an old friend, former Colonel and now Brigadier, Lethbridge-Stewart - now in charge of the newly formed UNIT who are investigating electronics manufacturer International Electromatics. IE's managing director, Tobias Vaughn, is working with the Cybermen. He is planning to transmit a hypnotic signal through IE's products, leaving the Earth paralysed and allowing the Cybermen to emerge from the London sewers and take over...

8 Episodes:

First aired Saturday, November 2, 1968
Runtime 25 minutes
Directed by Douglas Camfield
UK Viewers 7.3 million
Appreciation Index 55

Synopsis

The Doctor and the newly formed UNIT must stop a Cybermen Invasion and a Sinister Industrialist in league with them

First aired Saturday, November 9, 1968
Runtime 25 minutes
Directed by Douglas Camfield
UK Viewers 7.1 million
Appreciation Index 53

Synopsis

The Doctor and Jamie are taken prisoner by their mysterious observers and have a reunion with an old friend while Zoe and Isobel carry out their own investigation of IE.

First aired Saturday, November 16, 1968
Runtime 25 minutes
Directed by Douglas Camfield
UK Viewers 7.1 million
Appreciation Index 54

Synopsis

The Doctor and Jamie return to the IE factory in search of Zoe and Isobel, where they meet with Professor Watkins and fall foul of Vaughn.

First aired Saturday, November 23, 1968
Runtime 25 minutes
Directed by Douglas Camfield
UK Viewers 6.4 million
Appreciation Index 51

Synopsis

The Doctor and Jamie enlist the help of UNIT to rescue Zoe and Isobel before trying to find out what Vaughn is really up to.

First aired Saturday, November 30, 1968
Runtime 25 minutes
Directed by Douglas Camfield
UK Viewers 6.7 million
Appreciation Index 52

Synopsis

The Doctor and Jamie tell the Brigadier about the Cybermen but with Rutledge under Vaughn's control he is powerless to act.

First aired Saturday, December 7, 1968
Runtime 25 minutes
Directed by Douglas Camfield
UK Viewers 6.5 million
Appreciation Index 56

Synopsis

Captain Turner manages to rescue Jamie and the others, while the Doctor begins working on a way to protect everyone from the Cybermen's hypno-sound signal.

First aired Saturday, December 14, 1968
Runtime 25 minutes
Directed by Douglas Camfield
UK Viewers 7.2 million
Appreciation Index 55

Synopsis

With the entire world unconscious apart from the Doctor and his friends, the Cybermen are poised to invade and only Zoe, the Brigadier and a missile crew can stop them.

First aired Saturday, December 21, 1968
Runtime 25 minutes
Directed by Douglas Camfield
UK Viewers 7 million
Appreciation Index 53

Synopsis

The Cybermen have launched their deadly megatron bomb which will destroy all life on Earth unless the Doctor can deactivate the homing signal.

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