The Invasion (Doctor Who)

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The Invasion is the third serial of the sixth season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast on BBC1 in eight weekly parts from 2 November to 21 December 1968. In the serial, Tobias Vaughn (Kevin Stoney), the head of a successful electronics company, forms an alliance with the Cybermen to conquer Earth. The Doctor (Patrick Troughton) and his companions, Jamie McCrimmon (Frazer Hines) and Zoe Heriot (Wendy Padbury), team up with UNIT, headed by Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart (Nicholas Courtney), to combat the invasion. The serial was conceived by Kit Pedler, after another Cyberman story was ordered by Peter Bryant during the production of The Wheel in Space (1968), a part of the fifth season. A full script was then written by Derrick Sherwin, which was intended to be a follow-up to The Web of Fear (1968), another fifth season serial. Due to the lower budget required for an action based story set on Earth, the serial was envisioned as a pilot to...

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