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* PoorCommunicationKills: Narrowly averted; the Doctor didn't tell the Brigadier that he genuinely intended to set off a nuclear meltdown to force the Silurians back into cryostasis, and the Brigadier and Liz in turn didn't get the chance to tell the Doctor that the Silurians disabled the lifts to the surface, trapping them with a reactor that's about to explode. Fortunately, the Doctor is able to figure out a way to stop the nuclear reaction without blowing the whole place up.
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** In addition to the story still lacking the musical "sting" that leads into the end credits, it's the only Third Doctor story that employs a fade-out on the end credits music (as was done in the First and Second Doctor eras), rather than letting the music come to an end, which had been accomplished on the previous story by shortening and cross-fading the music. The following story saw the debut of both the "sting" and a shortened version of the end credits music.
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* NoPlansNoPrototypeNoBackup: Subverted; the Doctor did write down the formula for his successful plague cure... along with those for his ''un''successful attempts at a cure, forcing Liz to work out which is the one they need to mass-produce after the Silurians kidnap him.
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* UncertainDoom: Miss Dawson is mentioned as being an early victim of the Silurian plague, but it's never stated whether or not the Doctor found the cure in time to save her.
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** Despite most fans who started watching ''Doctor Who'' pre-2005 likely remembering them as such, the Silurians' depiction counts as this, with inhuman faces, guttural, modulated voices, very animated mannerisms, and the ability to project a heat ray that can either subdue or kill others from their third eye. "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS21E1WarriorsOfTheDeep Warriors of the Deep]]" depicted them with a mostly similar design, but instead gave them high-pitched voices, slower and more lumbering movements, and got rid of their heat ray, with the third eye instead being used to indicate which of them was speaking. The Eleventh Doctor's first season would give the Silurians a ''major'' overhaul, with human-like faces, voices, and mannerisms, which has stuck in the years since.
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** Despite most fans who started watching ''Doctor Who'' pre-2005 likely remembering them as such, the Silurians' depiction counts as this, with inhuman faces, guttural, modulated voices, very animated mannerisms, and the ability to project a heat ray that can either subdue or kill others from their third eye. "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS21E1WarriorsOfTheDeep Warriors of the Deep]]" depicted them with a mostly similar design, but instead gave them high-pitched voices, slower and more lumbering movements, and got rid of their heat ray, with the third eye instead being used to indicate which of them was speaking. The Eleventh Doctor's first season would give the Silurians a ''major'' overhaul, with human-like faces, voices, and mannerisms, which has stuck in the years since.[[note]](Their debut story did specify that this was a different sub-species to the one seen in this story and "Warriors of the Deep", but the original design is probably unlikely to ever be revisited due to the post-2005 showrunners' preference for alien designs that allow actors' facial features to be visible)[[/note]]
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* GodzillaThreshold: The threat of the Silurians rendering Earth uninhabitable is enough for the Doctor to have Liz set off an overload of the nuclear reactor, and he confirms afterwards to the Brigadier that he wasn't bluffing and that the reactor really is going to explode. Unfortunately, no-one had the opportunity to tell the Doctor that the Silurians had disabled the lifts to the surface, forcing him to figure out a way to shut down the reactor.
* GoingCritical: Downplayed; while the Doctor talks about the reactor potentially turning into a "massive nuclear bomb" early in the story, when he deliberately sets up a meltdown in the climax the characters talk as if the explosion will kill anyone in the immediate vicinity, but won't be powerful enough to cause any real damage to the nearby Silurian base, which the Brigadier later blows up with conventional explosives.
* GoingCritical: Downplayed; while the Doctor talks about the reactor potentially turning into a "massive nuclear bomb" early in the story, when he deliberately sets up a meltdown in the climax the characters talk as if the explosion will kill anyone in the immediate vicinity, but won't be powerful enough to cause any real damage to the nearby Silurian base, which the Brigadier later blows up with conventional explosives.
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** The rest of the UNIT regulars beyond the Brigadier and Liz still aren't present at this stage, resulting in Captain Hawkins filling the role that Benton or Yates would occupy in other Third Doctor stories.
** Despite most fans who started watching ''Doctor Who'' pre-2005 likely remembering them as such, the Silurians' depiction counts as this, with inhuman faces, guttural, modulated voices, very animated mannerisms, and the ability to project a heat ray that can either subdue or kill others from their third eye. "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS21E1WarriorsOfTheDeep Warriors of the Deep]]" depicted them with a mostly similar design, but instead gave them high-pitched voices, slower and more lumbering movements, and got rid of their heat ray, with the third eye instead being used to indicate which of them was speaking. The Eleventh Doctor's first season would give the Silurians a ''major'' overhaul, with human-like faces, voices, and mannerisms, which has stuck in the years since.
** The rest of the UNIT regulars beyond the Brigadier and Liz still aren't present at this stage, resulting in Captain Hawkins filling the role that Benton or Yates would occupy in other Third Doctor stories.
** Despite most fans who started watching ''Doctor Who'' pre-2005 likely remembering them as such, the Silurians' depiction counts as this, with inhuman faces, guttural, modulated voices, very animated mannerisms, and the ability to project a heat ray that can either subdue or kill others from their third eye. "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS21E1WarriorsOfTheDeep Warriors of the Deep]]" depicted them with a mostly similar design, but instead gave them high-pitched voices, slower and more lumbering movements, and got rid of their heat ray, with the third eye instead being used to indicate which of them was speaking. The Eleventh Doctor's first season would give the Silurians a ''major'' overhaul, with human-like faces, voices, and mannerisms, which has stuck in the years since.
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[[WMG:[[center:[-''[[Series/DoctorWho Doctor Who]]'' [[Recap/DoctorWho recap index]]\\
'''Third Doctor Era'''\\
'''Season 7:''' [[Recap/DoctorWhoS7E1SpearheadFromSpace 1]] | '''2''' | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS7E3TheAmbassadorsOfDeath 3]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS7E4Inferno 4]]\\
'''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E1TheDominators <<< Season 6]]''' | '''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS8E1TerrorOfTheAutons Season 8 >>>]]''']]-]]]
!Doctor Who and the Silurians
'''Third Doctor Era'''\\
'''Season 7:''' [[Recap/DoctorWhoS7E1SpearheadFromSpace 1]] | '''2''' | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS7E3TheAmbassadorsOfDeath 3]] | [[Recap/DoctorWhoS7E4Inferno 4]]\\
'''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E1TheDominators <<< Season 6]]''' | '''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS8E1TerrorOfTheAutons Season 8 >>>]]''']]-]]]
!Doctor Who and the Silurians
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->Written by Creator/MalcolmHulke\\
Directed by Timothy Combe\\
'''Production code:''' BBB\\
'''Air dates:''' 31 January - 14 March 1970\\
'''Number of episodes:''' 7
Directed by Timothy Combe\\
'''Production code:''' BBB\\
'''Air dates:''' 31 January - 14 March 1970\\
'''Number of episodes:''' 7
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'''The Doctor:''' Brigadier, at all costs we must avoid a pitched battle.\\
'''The Brigadier:''' You don't still think we can co-exist with the Silurians, do you?
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'''The Doctor:''' Brigadier, at all costs we must avoid a pitched battle.\\
'''The Brigadier:''' You don't still think we can co-exist with the Silurians, do you?
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'''Young Silurian:''' I disagree! We must destroy them!\\\
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'''The Brigadier:''' You don't still think we can co-exist with the Silurians, do you?
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'''The Doctor:''' Brigadier, at all costs we must avoid a pitched battle.\\
'''The Brigadier:''' You don't still think we can co-exist with the Silurians, do you?
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Written by Creator/MalcolmHulke. This seven-episode serial first aired from January 31 to March 14, 1970.
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* FreakOut: Peter Miles gives a ''truly amazing'' one, going from CreepyMonotone to ham in .01 seconds.
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* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: The Silurians' accents are all over the place. The Old Silurian leader appears to be going for a slightly Russian accent while his subordinates sound like they're speaking in a rhotic form of BBC English. [[TropesAreNotBad It actually works to emphasise how alien and ancient the Silurians are compared to the humans.]]
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* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: The Silurians' accents are all over the place. The Old Silurian leader appears to be going for a slightly Russian accent while his subordinates sound like they're speaking in a rhotic form of BBC English. [[TropesAreNotBad [[Administrivia/TropesAreNotBad It actually works to emphasise how alien and ancient the Silurians are compared to the humans.]]
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* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: The Silurians' accents are all over the place. The Old Silurian leader appears to be going for a slightly Russian accent while his subordinates sound like they're speaking in a rhotic form of BBC English. [[TropesAreNotBad It actually works to emphasise how alien and ancient the Silurians are compared to the humans.]]
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* AgonyBeam: The Silurians inflict this on their captives with a flashing red light in their foreheads.
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*ShootTheDogStepfordSmiler: Dr. Quinn appears jovial and friendly when he first meets the Doctor and Liz, but is harbouring a secret: He is working with the Silurians and is [[IncitingIncident the reason for the power drainage issues]].
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* IRejectYourReality: Dr. Lawrence falls into this hard as the serial progresses, constantly refusing to believe there is anything out of the ordinary despite mounting evidence to the contrary. Even when infected with the Silurian Plague, he insists that he is fine despite being visibly sick. He even begins ranting that everything that os happening is just a plot to discredit his work with the reactor.
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* IRejectYourReality: Dr. Lawrence falls into this hard as the serial progresses, constantly refusing to believe there is anything out of the ordinary despite mounting evidence to the contrary. Even when infected with the Silurian Plague, he insists that he is fine despite being visibly sick. He even begins ranting that everything that os is happening is just a plot to discredit his work with the reactor.
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[[caption-width-right:320:"Who is this '[[Creator/JonPertwee Pertwee]]' guy? ''[[ActorAllusion I was promised]] [[Film/DrWhoAndTheDaleks Peter]] [[Creator/PeterCushing Cushing!]]''"]]
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[[caption-width-right:320:"Who is this '[[Creator/JonPertwee Pertwee]]' guy? ''[[ActorAllusion I was promised]] [[Film/DrWhoAndTheDaleks Peter]] [[Creator/PeterCushing Cushing!]]''"]]Cushing]]!''"]]
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* AssholeVictim: Doctor Quinn, Major Baker.
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That's not what The Danza means.
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[[caption-width-right:320:"Who is this '[[Creator/JonPertwee Pertwee]]' guy? ''[[ActorAllusion I was]] [[TheDanza was promised]] [[Film/DrWhoAndTheDaleks Peter]] [[Creator/PeterCushing Cushing!]]''"]]
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The only Doctor Who TV story to be officially titled "Doctor Who and...", discounting brief references to the character as "Doctor Who" in an episode of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E8TheChase "The Chase"]] (specifically the title of part 5, "The Death of Doctor Who") and the next episode preview for [[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E9TheSavages "The Savages"]]. Legend has it this was due to an error by the first-time director in having the script prefix added to the onscreen titles (the title format stuck for the Target Literature/DoctorWhoNovelisations, and was parodied by Creator/BigFinish Productions a few times). While [[IAmNotShazam "Doctor Who" isn't his name]] (not that anyone told [[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E10TheWarMachines WOTAN]]), the actor was credited as playing "Dr. Who" until 1970 and "Doctor Who" until 1981 (and again in 2005), and the character is frequently referred to in outside media as "Doctor Who" even to this day (likely to avoid confusion with other fictional doctors), so the WordOfGod on the subject is clearly a bit suspect. On another point of trivia, this was also the very last ''Doctor Who'' serial to be filmed in TheSixties; location filming began in November of 1969. [[Recap/DoctorWhoS7E3TheAmbassadorsOfDeath The next serial]] would be the first to actually be taped in the same decade it was aired, starting location filming in January of 1970.
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The only Doctor Who ''Doctor Who'' TV story to be officially titled "Doctor Who and...", discounting brief references to the character as "Doctor Who" in an episode of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E8TheChase "The Chase"]] (specifically the title of part 5, "The Death of Doctor Who") and the next episode preview for [[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E9TheSavages "The Savages"]]. Legend has it this was due to an error by the first-time director in having the script prefix added to the onscreen titles (the title format stuck for the Target Literature/DoctorWhoNovelisations, and was parodied by Creator/BigFinish Productions a few times). While [[IAmNotShazam "Doctor Who" isn't his name]] (not that anyone told [[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E10TheWarMachines WOTAN]]), the actor was credited as playing "Dr. Who" until 1970 and "Doctor Who" until 1981 (and again in 2005), and the character is frequently referred to in outside media as "Doctor Who" even to this day (likely to avoid confusion with other fictional doctors), so the WordOfGod on the subject is clearly a bit suspect. On another point of trivia, this was also the very last ''Doctor Who'' serial to be filmed in TheSixties; location filming began in November of 1969. [[Recap/DoctorWhoS7E3TheAmbassadorsOfDeath The next serial]] would be the first to actually be taped in the same decade it was aired, starting location filming in January of 1970.
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* IRejectYourReality: Dr. Lawrence falls into this hard as the serial progresses, constantly refusing to believe there is anything out of the ordinary despite mounting evidence to the contrary. Even when infected with the Silurian Plague, he insists that he is fine despite being visibly sick. He even begins ranting that everything that os happening is just a plot to discredit his work with the reactor.
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* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: The Silurians have a pet Tyrannosaurus or whatever.
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* ArbitrarySkepticism: The Brigadier scoffs at the Doctor when he first tells him that there are intelligent reptilian beings living in the caves. Yeah, as if that's any weirder than [[Recap/DoctorWhoS5E5TheWebOfFear robotic yetis]], [[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E3TheInvasion alien cyborgs]] and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS7E1SpearheadFromSpace living plastic mannequins]]...
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* ArbitrarySkepticism: ArbitraryScepticism: The Brigadier scoffs at the Doctor when he first tells him that there are intelligent reptilian beings living in the caves. Yeah, as if that's any weirder than [[Recap/DoctorWhoS5E5TheWebOfFear robotic yetis]], [[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E3TheInvasion alien cyborgs]] and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS7E1SpearheadFromSpace living plastic mannequins]]...
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* BigBad: The Young Silurian. He is technically subordinate to the Old Silurian at first but has the virus intended to kill the humans released entirely on his own authority and, when he finds the Old Silurian has given the Doctor the means to find a cure, [[KlingonPromotion kills him and takes over]].
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* {{Padding}}: The Silurian virus doesn't become a plot element until the fifth episode, to which it then stretches out the plot until the beginning of the final episode. Hulke even admitted on the DVD features that the whole subplot was added late into the script in order to lengthen the serial to the seven episodes required.
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* {{Padding}}: The Silurian virus doesn't become a plot element until the fifth episode, to which it then stretches out the plot until the beginning of the final episode. Hulke even admitted on the DVD features that the whole subplot was added late into the script in order to lengthen the serial to the seven episodes required.
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Written by Creator/MalcolmHulke. The only Doctor Who TV story to be officially titled "Doctor Who and...", discounting brief references to the character as "Doctor Who" in an episode of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E8TheChase "The Chase"]] (specifically the title of part 5, "The Death of Doctor Who") and the next episode preview for [[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E9TheSavages "The Savages"]]. Legend has it this was due to an error by the first-time director in having the script prefix added to the onscreen titles (the title format stuck for the Target Literature/DoctorWhoNovelisations, and was parodied by Creator/BigFinish Productions a few times). While [[IAmNotShazam "Doctor Who" isn't his name]] (not that anyone told [[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E10TheWarMachines WOTAN]]), the actor was credited as playing "Dr. Who" until 1970 and "Doctor Who" until 1981 (and again in 2005), and the character is frequently referred to in outside media as "Doctor Who" even to this day (likely to avoid confusion with other fictional doctors), so the WordOfGod on the subject is clearly a bit suspect. On another point of trivia, this was also the very last ''Doctor Who'' serial to be filmed in TheSixties; location filming began in November of 1969. [[Recap/DoctorWhoS7E3TheAmbassadorsOfDeath The next serial]] would be the first to actually be taped in the same decade it was aired, starting location filming in January of 1970.
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The only Doctor Who TV story to be officially titled "Doctor Who and...", discounting brief references to the character as "Doctor Who" in an episode of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E8TheChase "The Chase"]] (specifically the title of part 5, "The Death of Doctor Who") and the next episode preview for [[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E9TheSavages "The Savages"]]. Legend has it this was due to an error by the first-time director in having the script prefix added to the onscreen titles (the title format stuck for the Target Literature/DoctorWhoNovelisations, and was parodied by Creator/BigFinish Productions a few times). While [[IAmNotShazam "Doctor Who" isn't his name]] (not that anyone told [[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E10TheWarMachines WOTAN]]), the actor was credited as playing "Dr. Who" until 1970 and "Doctor Who" until 1981 (and again in 2005), and the character is frequently referred to in outside media as "Doctor Who" even to this day (likely to avoid confusion with other fictional doctors), so the WordOfGod on the subject is clearly a bit suspect. On another point of trivia, this was also the very last ''Doctor Who'' serial to be filmed in TheSixties; location filming began in November of 1969. [[Recap/DoctorWhoS7E3TheAmbassadorsOfDeath The next serial]] would be the first to actually be taped in the same decade it was aired, starting location filming in January of 1970.
