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The Sontaran Experiment: Part One
Broadcast: Sunday 31st October 1999
7:30am-8:00am EST (12:30 GMT) < > « »
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Featuring: Tom Baker, Ian Marter, Elisabeth Sladen, Kevin Lindsay

The Doctor, Harry and Sarah find Earth is a desolate wilderness. They meet a group of stranded human colonists who are being hunted by a robot and experimented upon by its master.


Synopsis Source: Doctor Who Guide
Broadcast Source: TWIDW
 

Report from the This Week in Doctor Who Archive:

Friday 29th October 1999:
SPACE: The Imagination Station
http://www.hwcn.org/~an933/spacedw.htm
http://www.spacecast.com/
Sat 7:30AM EDT The Ambassadors of Death ep 7 of 7
Sun-Mon 7:30AM EST The Sontaran Experiment eps 1-2 of 2
Tue-Fri 7:30AM EST An Unearthly Child eps 1-4 of 4 (An Unearthly Child, The Cave Of Skulls, The Forest Of Fear, The Firemaker)


One week - three Doctors. On Saturday, the 3rd Doctor races to try to stop General Carrington's address to the world about the 'alien menace'. As the clocks go back to Standard Time, the 4thDoctor finds himself on post-solar flare Earth, checking to see if the planet is ready to be re- inhabited. It already is. To finish the week, it's the original Doctor Who story from 1963. Two schoolteachers, concerned about their pupil Susan, follow her home to a junkyard. Inside the junkyard is a blue telephone box ...