Auton V. British Columbia
The Autons are an artificial life form from the United Kingdom, British science fiction on television, science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'' and adversaries of The Doctor (Doctor Who), the Doctor. They were originally created by scriptwriter Robert Holmes (scriptwriter), Robert Holmes for Jon Pertwee's first serial as the Doctor, ''Spearhead from Space'' (1970), and were the first monsters to be presented in colour on the series. They returned for the following season's ''Terror of the Autons'' (1971), which also introduced the character of The Master (Doctor Who), the Master, but they did not appear again in the original series. Holmes intended to feature the Autons for Doctor Who (season 23), season 23 of ''Doctor Who'' in 1986 in a story entitled ''Yellow Fever and How to Cure It'', which featured the Master and The Rani (Doctor Who), the Rani, but it was abandoned due to the programme being put on an 18th-month hiatus. Autons are essentially life-sized plastic d ...
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Spearhead From Space
''Spearhead from Space'' is the first serial of the seventh season in the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'', which was first broadcast in four weekly parts on BBC1 from 3 to 24 January 1970. It was the first ''Doctor Who'' serial to be produced in colour and the only one to be made entirely on 16 mm film. In the serial, which is set in Essex and London, the alien time traveller the Doctor (Jon Pertwee John Devon Roland "Jon" Pertwee (; 7 July 1919 – 20 May 1996) was an English actor, comedian, entertainer, cabaret performer and TV presenter. Born into a theatrical family, he served in the Royal Navy and the Naval Intelligence Division during ...), now exiled to Earth by the Time Lords, joins Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart (Nicholas Courtney) of UNIT and the scientist Liz Shaw (Caroline John) to stop the incorporeal intelligence the Nestenes from colonising the planet through their use of the Autons, plastic killers which act as human duplicates and sh ...
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