Spearhead From Space

A series of what are at first thought to be meteorites are tracked heading towards Earth. They land in Oxley woods where they are soon collected. A local poacher takes one first and hides it away.

U.N.I.T. are soon on the scene, and they manage to find nothing but a fragment of one of the objects, and a police box with an unknown figure laying outside.

The Brigadier has recruited a new scientific advisor, Liz Shaw, to aid them in the current mystery. On hearing about a man being found outside a police box he travels to a college hospital and meets up with the newly regenerated Doctor.

Together the Doctor, Liz and the Brigadier find that the meteorites are in fact energy pods for the Nestene Consciousness. The pods have been collected by Channing, boss of a now automated plastics factory, and are used to create the Autons, creatures with a deadly weapon located in the hand.

The Doctor finds the final pod, and the Nestene Conciousness is complete. Using a radio jamming device the Doctor is able to disable all the Autons, and in turn destroy the Nestene Conciousness.

• Channing: Hugh Burden;
• Captain Munro: John Breslin;
• Sam Seeley: Neil Wilson (1-3);
• Doctor Henderson: Antony Webb (1-2);
• Corporal Forbes: George Lee (1-2);
• Mullins: Talfryn Thomas (1);
• Nurse: Helen Dorward (1);
• UNIT Officer: Tessa Shaw (1);
• Technician: Ellis Jones (1);
• First Reporter (Michael Wagstaffe): Alan Mitchell (1);
• Second Reporter (Jimmy): Prentis Hancock (1);
• George Hibbert: John Woodnutt (2-4);
• Major General Scobie: Hamilton Dyce (2-4);
• John Ransome: Derek Smee (2-3);
• Meg Seeley: Betty Bowden (2-3);
• Doctor Beavis: Henry McCarthy (2);
• Sergeant: Clifford Cox (3);
• Attendant at Waxworks: Edmund Bailey (4);


• UNCREDITED CAST:
• UNIT Car Park Attendant: Derrick Sherwin;
• Voice of Doctor Lomax: Ellis Jones (1);
• Autons: Geoffrey Brightly, Ronald Mayer, Ivan Orton;
• Factory Workers: Christine Bradley, Constance Carling, Denis MacTighe, Brian Nolan, Lindy Russell, Rosemary Turner, Robert Windman;
• UNIT Soldiers: Roy Brent, Alan Cooper, Victoria Croxford, Trevor Cuff, Antonio De Maggio, Dave Dewhurst, Rachel Hipwood, Michael Horsburgh, John Hughes, Marie Johnson, June Johnson, Arthur Judd, Vicky Maxine, Patrick Milner, Dave Mobley, Robert Needham, Iain Smith, Hugh Wood;
• Extras: Barry Ashton, Keith Ashley, Bernadette Barry, David Billa, Joy Burnett, Arnold Chazen, Alan Clements, Diana Collins, Fred Davis, Gary Dean, Grace Dola, Michael Earl, Walter Goodman, Alan Granville, June Gray, Michael Harrison, Denis Haywood, Roger Houghton, Derek hunt, Alfred Hurst, Brian Justice, Vi Kane, Peter Kaukus, Barry Kennington, Leonard Kingston, Sheila Knight, Gideon Kolb, Doris Lang, Kenneth Lindford, Norman Littlejohn, Reg Lloyd, Anthony Maine, Claire Maine. Bill Matthews, David Melbourne, Roger Minnis, Lola Morrice, Robert Murphy, Lesley Pates, Maurice Quick, Henry Rainer, Laurence Ross, Christopher Rushton, Tom Segal, Maurice Selwin, Keith Simon, John Spradbury, Sandy Stel, Cara Stevens, Cy Town, Hein Viljoen, Sonny Willis;