This Week in New Zealand
Doctor Who And The Silurians: Episode 3
Last updated 13 January 2025
6:30pm NZST (06:30 GMT) < > « »
Prime (adverts during broadcast)
Featuring: Jon Pertwee, Nicholas Courtney, Caroline John, Fulton Mackay, Peter Miles
The creature from the caves, wounded and dangerous, is on the loose on Wenley Moor. Dr Quinn attempts to recover it and is unwilling to listen to the Doctor's warnings.
Synopsis Source: Doctor Who Guide
Broadcast notes:
Was expected to be broadcast in colour, but was a black and white print instead.
Broadcast Source: TWiDW
Report from the This Week in Doctor Who Archive:
Friday 22nd September 2000:
Prime TV New Zealand
http://www.tetrap.com/drwho/nzdwfc/
http://www.primetv.co.nz/
Sun-Tue 6:30PM Spearhead From Space eps 2 - 4 of 4
Last rerun in 1991. The Brigadier offers the 3rd Doctor a job as scientific advisor, but has no intention of letting the Doctor have the key to the TARDIS back. In other news, General Scorby's plastic replica is completed.
Wed-Fri 6:30PM Doctor Who And The Silurians eps 1 - 3 of 7
Last rerun in 1991. Never before seen in colour in New Zealand. The Doctor and Liz join the Brigadier on the site of an experimental underground nuclear power plant. Seems that something is alive in the caves that the plant was built into. The something or somethings are millions of years old.
Prime TV New Zealand
http://www.tetrap.com/drwho/nzdwfc/
http://www.primetv.co.nz/
Sun-Tue 6:30PM Spearhead From Space eps 2 - 4 of 4
Last rerun in 1991. The Brigadier offers the 3rd Doctor a job as scientific advisor, but has no intention of letting the Doctor have the key to the TARDIS back. In other news, General Scorby's plastic replica is completed.
Wed-Fri 6:30PM Doctor Who And The Silurians eps 1 - 3 of 7
Last rerun in 1991. Never before seen in colour in New Zealand. The Doctor and Liz join the Brigadier on the site of an experimental underground nuclear power plant. Seems that something is alive in the caves that the plant was built into. The something or somethings are millions of years old.
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