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Spearhead From Space: Episode 1
Broadcast: Wednesday 13th October 1999
7:30am-8:00am EDT (11:30 GMT) < > « »
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Featuring: Jon Pertwee, Nicholas Courtney, Caroline John, Hugh Burden

The TARDIS takes the newly regenerated Doctor to Earth to begin his exile. Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart leads a UNIT investigation into a mysterious meteorite shower.


Synopsis Source: Doctor Who Guide
Broadcast Source: TWIDW
 

Report from the This Week in Doctor Who Archive:

Friday 8th October 1999:
SPACE: The Imagination Station
http://www.hwcn.org/~an933/spacedw.htm
http://www.spacecast.com/
Sat-Tue 7:30AM EDT The War Games eps 7 - 10 of 10
Wed-Fri 7:30AM EDT Spearhead From Space eps 1 - 3 of 4


As the week, begins, Pat Troughton's Who run ends. The humans begin to fight back against the people running The War Games, but it will take outside help to bring an end to this evil. Classic scene - Arturo Villar's entrance to the resistance headquarters in episode 8. Later in the week, Jon Pertwee appears in the 1st colour Who story. Marooned on Earth with partial amnesia, the 3rdDoctor finds himself increasingly involved in UNIT's investigation of outlandish meteor showers. The evidence begins to point towards an alien invasion. Classic scene - the Doctor escapes his captors and wheelchairs his way across the hospital grounds.