History Recap / DoctorWhoS6E3TheInvasion

'''Production code:''' VV

Written by Creator/DerrickSherwin. This eight-episode serial first aired from November 2 to December 21, 1968.

"The Invasion" presaged the shape of many ''Doctor Who'' stories to come, featuring an alien invasion of Earth aided and abetted by a corrupt industrialist, with UNIT providing cannon fodder and the military connections to fight back. As you might guess, it was conceived partially as a proof-of-concept for the [[Creator/JonPertwee Third Doctor]]'s Earthbound era. It is the only eight-part story in the show's history; only "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E7TheWarGames The War Games]]" from the same season (10 episodes) and "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E4TheDaleksMasterPlan The Daleks' Master Plan]]" from three seasons back (12 episodes) are longer.[[note]]Although some consider the entirety of Season 23 to be a single 14-episode story under the title "The Trial of a Time Lord".[[/note]]

-->-- '''Professor Watkins''' tells it like it is.

* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: Unlike most [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Corrupt Corporate Executives]], Vaughn believes in a greater good that justifies what he's doing. He allies with and manipulates the Cybermen into taking over the world for him, so he can then doublecross them and create a utopia where all ideological disputes cease and unity is attained. Unfortunately for Vaughn, the Cybermen were one step ahead and doublecrossed him first, leading him to [[EnemyMine ally with the Doctor]] to take down the threat that he himself had led to the Earth in the first place.

* WholePlotReference: The plot is similar to ''Series/QuatermassII'', though not as much as some other stories.

* YouHaveFailedMe: Bye-Bye, Gregory.

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The one with the WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck Cyberman.

** Viewers may remember Kevin Stoney from his former role as [[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E4TheDaleksMasterPlan Mavic Chen.]] His hamminess has seen no decrease whatsoever.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: The story is virtually a direct sequel to "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS5E5TheWebOfFear The Web of Fear]]", but has sewer-dwelling Cybermen invading London substituting for Underground-dwelling Yeti invading London, and replaces Professor Travers and Miss Travers with a similar MadScientist & MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter pair. This was because the producer fell out with the creator of the Yeti and the Traverses and wanted to pay them as little as possible. The one returning character created by them is Lethbridge-Stewart, because Douglas Camfield wanted Creator/NicholasCourtney back and having a Suspiciously Similar Substitute played by the ''same actor'' would just be begging for a lawsuit, and even he gets a promotion from his previous role and is mostly referred to by that rank.

* UncannyValley (InUniverse): The Doctor notices that Vaughn doesn't blink as often as a human should, a sign that he has a cyborg body.

* OohMeAccentsSlipping: In his first story as Benton, John Levene is battling valiantly with his West Country rhoticism (particularly the word "car").

* StockEpisodeTitles: 40 uses.