Original air dates Janurary through March 1970. Starts with two men caving, soon turns into a creature feature.
The Doctor’s working on his replacement car when Liz comes in and has a message from the Brigadier. They’re to report forthwith, and do so in the Doctor’s flamboyuant yellow car.
There is a meeting with a grumpy man.
They explore the cyclotron, and find the nucelar reactor that runs it could go unstable and explode if power fluctuates during a critical junction.
Two of the staff are conspiring about something.
The Doctor finally visits the caves, dressed sensibly for the excursion, if by himself. He sees the creature, and cowers as the credits roll.
They’re quite annoyed and about to search the caves for the missing Doctor when he turns up. They send a search party down to investigate. They find the big dinosaur and a smaller lizard man, who runs away.
We get some lizard-man-cam footage with heavy breathing.
Doctor Quinn is in the caves, where he goes to a hidden control room and has a converstation with a voice. He asks them to stop stealing power from the cyclotron, and they refuse. They demand he return the wounded one to them.
UNIT searches, Dr. Quinn finds. The wounded lizardman is brought back to Quinn’s home. The Doctor suspects Quinn is up to something, but hasn’t got enough data on what. He snoops. Credits roll over him discovering the Siluran.
There’s a moment of quiet where the Doctor asks questions and almost gets replies. A car pulls up outside, scaring the Siluran off.
The Silurans are not as peaceful as the Doctor wishes, and intend to get their planet back. The Silurans trap the UNIT troops.
With an hour and some left in the serial, I’ve got to go to bed. The mighty Pause button will let me.
Some of the SIlurans are willing to share Earth; others want to Kill All The Humans. The Doctor advises sharing.
Kill All The Humans runs an experiment with bacterial weapons. He argues with the Share The Earth.
Brigadier shows up above and tells his story. He is not strongly believed.
The Doctor shows up. He points out the sick man. The sick man is taken to the hospital, dies. They quarrantine things, and the Doctor does science.
The official from parliment has snuck out and leaves via train, inecting people as he goes.
The Doctor finds a cure. The Silurans try and stop him, in the nick of time. They steal the Doctor. He tells them he’s got a cure. They have an alternate plan, but it needs power from the humans, which have shut down the base.
The Silurans take the base and get the doctor to start the nuclear reactor. He overloads it and the Silurians run away from the exploding reactor. Problem: Reactor is going to explode and there’s no way out of the base. The Doctor fiddles with wires to try and fix it.
The Doctor goes down to revive them, and goes off to get other scientists. The Brigadier blows the base up instead. The Doctor is not best pleased.
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