Spearhead from Space

(Series 7, Episodes 1-4)

Summary: Oh, my eyes – all this colour!  Exiled to Earth by the Time Lords, Jon Pertwee’s Third Doctor starts a trend in stealing clothes from hospitals and brings us Doctor Who’s very first steamy shower scene.  The newly minted Third Doctor is also a shoe fetishist and enjoys a good flirt with his eyebrows.  He’s got some competition from the Brigadier, though his flirting is conducted with a considerably stiffer upper lip.  The object of their amour is new companion Liz Shaw, a brilliantly sarcastic and sceptical scientist, brought in by UNIT to investigate some strange plastic meteorites that have fallen from the sky.  Life in plastic – it’s fantastic.

Watch it because: There’s always been something terrifying about shop window dummies…

Original Air Date: 3 – 24 January 1970.

Doctor: Jon Pertwee.

Companions: Liz Shaw (Caroline John).

Writer: Robert Holmes.

Director: Derek Martinus.

Producer: Derrick Sherwin.

Available on DVD? Yes.