Doctor Who (1963) 11.02.X

People, Power and Puppetry: Remembering 'Invasion of the Dinosaurs' (2011)

32 minutes

People in this documentary include

- Matthew Sweet, presenter

- Terrance Dicks, script editor (1969-74)

- Barry Letts, producer (1969-74)

- Peter Miles, Professor Whitaker

- Terence Wilton, Mark

- Paddy Russell, director

- Jon Pertwee, Doctor Who (1970-74)

- Richard Morris, designer

The footage of Jon Pertwee is from an interview he did in the early 1990s

Doctor Who (1963) 11.02.06

Invasion of the Dinosaurs - Part Six

The dinosaur that was threatening the Doctor gets distracted by another dinosaur. The two large reptiles fight while the Doctor escapes. He runs into General Finch who is ready to arrest him when the Brigadier and Sergeant Benton show up. The Brigadier and General Finch argue over who has jurisdiction. The Brigadier wins the argument and takes the Doctor back to the command post.

Butler locks up Sarah in a storeroom but she escapes. She makes it back to the "spaceship". She tries to warn the others but with the exception of Mark they do not believe her. She and Mark, the guy who saw her exit the "airlock", get locked up. One of the leaders on the "spaceship" starts to have doubts and calls Sir Charles Grover.

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Invasion of the Dinosaurs - Part Five

General Finch has the Doctor arrested. The Doctor and the Brigadier learn that Captain Yates is the traitor in UNIT's ranks. It isn't long before the Doctor escapes with some help from Sgt Benton, who stays behind.

Sarah Jane puts her own escape plan into motion. She explores and learns that what they are on is not a spaceship. She leaves the "spaceship" and escapes back to UNIT command post. Hardly anyone is there. Most people are out searching for the Doctor.

The Doctor leads the soldiers on a wild chase into a wooded area. He eventually gets the upper hand and loses the soldiers.

General Finch finds Sarah Jane while she is writing a note for the Doctor. She tries to tell him about what she has discovered, unaware of his role in the minister's plot. She leads him there only to discover her mistake.

The Doctor drives back into London just as more dinosaurs are brought forward from the past.

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Invasion of the Dinosaurs - Part Four

Sarah learns more about the spaceship that she is on and meets a couple more of the passengers. They insist that she has been there on board for three months but she has doubts. When she starts to argue with them and insist that she didn't choose to come aboard the spaceship they insist that she be re-educated.

The Doctor drives around London with a geiger counter looking for the nuclear reactor and the time travel machinery which it powers. He finds the bunker where Whitaker and Butler have been working. It is beneath a subway station. There are surveillance cameras and they see him coming. They bring in a pterodactyl to attack him bu the Doctor escapes the beast.

The Doctor leaves the subway station and finds the Brigadier. He brings him down into the subway station but something has changed. They go to see Sir Charles Grover. He laughs at the Doctor's story and acts as though he must have imagined it all.

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Invasion of the Dinosaurs - Part Three

The Doctor almost gets killed by the dinosaur because the gun he built isn't working the way it was intended. Captain Yates rushes in, removes the device he attached to the gun, and uses it on the dinosaur. The large reptile collapses. UNIT moves the dinosaur while it is still unconscious to a warehouse where the Doctor can observe it.

Captain Yates meets with Whitaker and Butler, once again. When he tells them what the Doctor is planning they send him to sabotage the machinery the Doctor is using to observe the dinosaur.

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Invasion of the Dinosaurs - Part Two

The Doctor and Sarah escape from the soldiers who are too busy dealing with a large dinosaur to notice their prisoners running away. The Doctor and Sarah escape into a garage where the Doctor finds some tools and removes the handcuffs that join them. They encounter a man who seems to come from the distant past. He attacks them but then he disappears. The Doctor thinks he was sucked backward in time.

The Brigadier finds the Doctor and Sarah and takes them back to his command post. He and Sgt Benton explain everything they know about the current situation. They are interrupted by General Finch who doesn't care for the Doctor's theories about what brought the dinosaurs to 20th century London. The Doctor comes up with a plan to capture one of the dinosaurs so that he can study it. 

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Invasion of the Dinosaurs - Part One

The Doctor and Sarah arrive back in London only to find it deserted. The first person they spot almost runs them over in a car. They eventually find a couple more people who also are very unfriendly and try to do them harm.

The Doctor and Sarah find a land rover but they are attacked by a large flying reptile as they are getting into the vehicle. They drive away from the creature but they are stopped by soldiers before they get very far. The soldiers arrest them for looting. The Doctor and Sarah try protesting that they weren't looting but that gets them nowhere.