Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site qubix.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!decvax!decwrl!sun!qubix!msc From: msc@qubix.UUCP (Mark Callow) Newsgroups: net.tv.drwho Subject: Re: cute phrase + query Message-ID: <905@qubix.UUCP> Date: Tue, 13-Mar-84 02:30:35 EST Article-I.D.: qubix.905 Posted: Tue Mar 13 02:30:35 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 8-Mar-84 07:42:32 EST References: <1232@pur-phy.UUCP> Organization: Qubix Graphic Systems, Saratoga, CA Lines: 38 > Also, I can vaguely remember two Dr. Who episodes >seen when I was young. >1) Aliens are being forceably controlled against their > wills to rob banks, kill and such. I remember one scene > in particular where the aliens (exiting from a tunnel) > are confronted by the Doctor and plead with him to > explain why humans are making them do such bad things. > I can't find any Dr. Who story that matches this description. >2) An evil scientist has created jet black "dolls" that > can kill people. One scene stands out: a Ministry > official is driving home with a doll in the back seat. > Heat from the engines activates the doll, but the > driver reaches his destination before the doll can > kill him. Later at home the doll strangles him (a rather > humorous scene as I recall.) This sounds more like an episode of the Avengers. However it is probably "Spearhead from Space" featuring Dr. #3 Jon Pertwee. The synopsis follows. A shower of meteorites falls on Essex and the Brigadier and his newly recruited scientist Liz Shaw, from Cambridge, enlist the aid of a physically changed Dr. to investigate the phenomenon. Factory boss Channing is a Nestene-a member of an alien collective intelligence which colonises planets by inhabiting native life forms. Nestenes have a special ability to control plastic; Channing is making Autons, plastic mannikins able to fight and kill, controlled by the Nestene conciousness. He has also been making plastic facsimiles of Cabinet members to enable him to gain world domination. The Dr. manages to defeat the Nestene as the Autons go on a killing rampage. He agrees to work for UNIT as a scientific advisor, in return for facilities to repair the TARDIS, grounded by the Time Lords on 20th century Earth. The brigadier gave him a sprightly yellow roadster-Bessie. -- From the Tardis of Mark Callow msc@qubix.UUCP, decwrl!qubix!msc@Berkeley.ARPA ...{decvax,ucbvax,ihnp4}!decwrl!qubix!msc, ...{ittvax,amd70}!qubix!msc