The Mutants

(Series 9, Episodes 15-20)

Summary: The Time Lords continue to use the Doctor as their intergalactic yo-yo for freeing oppressed races.  This time it’s the people of Solos, who are being turned into insectoid mutants who like to hang out in psychedelic caves.  Or so it seems…  The Doctor invents an inside-outy machine whilst Jo teams up with a pair of guards-with-a-conscience and a local native.  Marshal Podgy McPorker is eventually defeated by Ky and his Technicolour Dream-Robes and everyone lives happily ever after.

Watch it because: Alas, poor Stubbsy – I knew him once.

Original Air Date: 8 April – 13 May 1972.

Doctor: Jon Pertwee.

Companions: Jo Grant (Katy Manning).

Writer: Bob Baker and Dave Martin.

Director: Christopher Barry.

Producer: Barry Letts.