Season 7
(1970)
Overview
It was the first series produced and broadcast in colour and the first set entirely in one time period and almost entirely on Earth (the latter of these factors would later be repeated for Season 26 and Series 1, although in those two cases there was no attempt at an in-universe explanation for confining the Doctor to the planet). Although the series did not have an overall story arc, it did feature a recurring subplot of the Doctor trying to adjust to life as an exile while trying to circumven…
Cast
as The Doctor
as Liz Shaw
Episodes
Spearhead from Space (1) 8.1
January 3, 1970
As the newly-regenerated Doctor arrives on Earth, so does the Nestene too.
Spearhead from Space (2) 8.3
January 10, 1970
UNIT's attempts to locate the meteorites are hampered by the mysterious plastic Autons, being constructed by Channing a…
Spearhead from Space (3) 8.3
January 17, 1970
Ransome manages to escape from the plastics factory and alert UNIT, prompting the Doctor and the Brigadier to start an …
Spearhead from Space (4) 8.0
January 24, 1970
With UNIT's investigation being blocked by the Replica of Scobie, the Doctor and Liz visit Madame Tussaud's to try and …
Doctor Who and the Silurians (1) 7.2
January 31, 1970
The Doctor and Liz are summoned to the Wenley Moor Research Centre by the Brigadier, after several staff members suffer…
Doctor Who and the Silurians (2) 7.0
February 7, 1970
The Doctor attempts to convince people there are monsters in the caves, prompting Major Baker to start shooting at a re…
Doctor Who and the Silurians (3) 7.0
February 14, 1970
The Silurians contact Quinn for help in retrieving the creature while the Doctor and the Brigadier organise a search of…
Doctor Who and the Silurians (4) 7.5
February 21, 1970
With Quinn dead, the Brigadier decides to take an armed party into the caves, prompting the Doctor to contact the Silur…
Doctor Who and the Silurians (5) 7.0
February 28, 1970
Worried about the Old Silurian's growing friendship with the Doctor, the Young Silurian has the scientist infect Baker …
Doctor Who and the Silurians (6) 7.3
March 7, 1970
While the Doctor and Liz try to find a cure to the virus spread by Baker, the Young Silurian kills the Old Silurian and…
Doctor Who and the Silurians (7) 7.3
March 14, 1970
While Liz distributes the cure to the virus, the Doctor discovers the Silurians now plan to wipe out humanity by destro…
The Ambassadors of Death (1) 7.2
March 21, 1970
While the Brigadier investigates a loss of contact with Mars Probe 7, the Doctor realises signals coming from the probe…
The Ambassadors of Death (2) 7.0
March 28, 1970
UNIT retrieve the returned Recovery 7 but then Carrington hijacks it while the Doctor and Liz try to decode the signal …
The Ambassadors of Death (3) 7.0
April 4, 1970
Carrington is holding the astronauts at a secret location but when he takes the Doctor, Liz and the Brigadier there the…
The Ambassadors of Death (4) 6.5
April 11, 1970
Liz has been captured by Reegan's men and the Doctor begins to suspect Taltalian is more involved than he appeared.
The Ambassadors of Death (5) 6.0
April 18, 1970
The Doctor decides to take Recovery 7 back into space to search for the missing astronauts but Reegan sabotages the lau…
The Ambassadors of Death (6) 6.5
April 25, 1970
The Doctor speaks with the alien captain and learns the astronauts sent to Earth were ambassadors. However, before he c…
The Ambassadors of Death (7) 6.5
May 2, 1970
Carrington is planning to expose the aliens on live television and call for an interplanetary war and the Brigadier mus…
Inferno (1) 7.9
May 9, 1970
England, the near future. UNIT is providing security and scientific support for the Stahlman project, an attempt to tap…
Inferno (2) 7.5
May 16, 1970
Strange deaths, men changing into monsters, hot green slime pouring out of the waste pipes – but Professor Stahlman is …
Inferno (3) 8.0
May 23, 1970
The Doctor has vanished from the Inferno project… or has he? He finds himself in the same place, but everyone has chang…
Inferno (4) 7.0
May 30, 1970
In a parallel England, the Doctor tries desperately to convince his captors of the immense peril they are in. But they …
Inferno (5) 7.5
June 6, 1970
The parallel Inferno has broken through the Earth's crust, unleashing terrible seismic forces and dooming the planet. T…
Inferno (6) 7.3
June 13, 1970
The Doctor is trapped in a parallel world that is going up in flames. Can he escape in time to save Earth in his own un…
Inferno (7) 7.3
June 20, 1970
The Doctor has escaped the catastrophic destruction of a parallel world. But can he stop Stahlman before he destroys th…