Terror Of The Autons

One of the Doctor's own people has arrived on Earth, and he immediately enlists, by the use of hypnosis, the help of a circus owner to steal the dormant Nestene energy pod. He re-activates it by using a radar telescope.

U.N.I.T. are called in by the scientists at the radar telescope centre when they discover one of their colleagues is missing. The Doctor goes up to the radar controls, and is warned by a fellow Time Lord that the Master is visiting Earth, and that he has left a trap.

The Master manages to hypnotise the owner of a plastics factory and starts an Auton factory. The Master hands out a lot of plastic daffodils. The Doctor finds that they are activated by a radio signal, and only just manages to prevent Jo from being suffocated.

The Doctor steals the Master's dematerialisation circuit from his TARDIS, but finds it will not work in his own. The Doctor convinces the Master that the Nestenes would not accept him as their leader, and together they use the radar telescope to fling the Nestene Consciousness into space. The Master tries to escape, but he is also stranded on Earth like the Doctor.

• The Master: Roger Delgado;
• Rex Farrel: Michael Wisher;
• Luigi Rossini (Lew Russell): John Baskcomb (1-2);
• Professor George Philips: Christopher Burgess (1-2);
• James McDermot: Harry Towb (1-2);
• Time Lord: David Garth (1);
• Radio Telescope Director: Frank Mills (1);
• Albert Goodge: Andrew Staines (1);
• Museum Attendant: Dave Carter (1);
• Mary Farrel: Barbara Leake (2-3);
• John Farrel: Stephen Jack (2);
• Toby: Roy Stewart (2);
• Auton Leader: Pat Gorman (3-4);
• Auton Voice: Haydn Jones (3-4);
• Brownrose: Dermot Tuohy;
• Telephone Mechanic: Norman Stanley (3);
• Policeman: Bill McGuirk (3 - credited but does not appear);
• Auton Policeman: Terry Walsh (3);


• UNCREDITED CAST:
• Auton Doll: Tommy Reynolds (2-3);
• Autons: Bob Blaine, Les Clark, Ian Eliott, Nick Hobbs, Tom O'Leary, Charles Pickless, Mike Stevens;
• Soldier: Les Conrad (3);
• Extras: Eve Aubrey, Mike Austin, Max Diamond, Duke Dupree, Brian Gough, Stuart Harwood, Gordon Howes, Sylvia Lane, Mario, Jack Murray, Gregory Powell, Sheila Power, Bobby Roberts, Mac Russell, Steve Sullivan, E Turner, Edward Vaughn, Paul Warren;
• Stuntmen: Marc Boyle, Alan Chuntz, Stuart Fell, Brian Gilmanm, Stan Hollingsworth, Bill Horrigan, Dinny Powell, Roy Scammell, Mike Stevens, Roy Street, Derek Ware, Terry Walsh;