DVD: Doctor Who Invasion and Sontaran Experiment due out in March

Here are the two latest vintage Doctor Who adventures, due out March 6 in the U.S.


Featuring Patrick Troughton as the Doctor, "The Invasion" first aired in November and December 1968. The first and fourth episodes of the adventure are missing and have been recreated for this DVD release in black-and-white animated form. You can see clips from the animated sections here.

Plot details from the official BBC episode guide entry:

The TARDIS materialises in England in the 1970s and the time travellers meet a girl named Isobel whose uncle, computer scientist Professor Watkins, has recently gone missing. The Doctor offers to help track him down, starting at the place where he last worked - the London HQ of International Electromatics, the world's major supplier of electronic equipment.

His initial suspicions about IE's managing director, Tobias Vaughn, are confirmed after he becomes reacquainted with Lethbridge-Stewart, now promoted to Brigadier and in charge of the British branch of the United Nations Intelligence Taskforce (UNIT), and learns that there have been other disappearances at IE premises.

He discovers that Vaughn is in league with the Cybermen in a plan to invade Earth, but is also plotting against them with the aim of seizing power for himself. Watkins is being forced by Vaughn to develop the cerebration mentor, a machine designed to generate emotional impulses as a weapon against the Cybermen.


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Starring Tom Baker as the Doctor, "The Sontaran Experiment" first aired in February and March 1975.

Plot details from the official BBC episode guide entry:

The Doctor, Sarah and Harry arrive on a desolate and apparently deserted Earth to discover that a group of shipwrecked astronauts from a human colony, GalSec, have been lured there by a fake distress call. One of their number, Roth, tells Sarah of an alien conducting gruesome experiments on him and his crewmates. The alien turns out to be a Sontaran, Field-Major Styre, who is compiling a report on human physical and mental capabilities as a prelude to an invasion of Earth.

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