4B. The Sontaran Experiment

TRANSMISSION DETAILS:

390. Part One                      22.02.75   5.30pm - 5.55pm  11.0M/18th/---
391. Part Two                      01.03.75   5.30pm - 5.55pm  10.5M/17th/55%

     Compilation             Fri   09.07.76   6.25pm - 7.15pm   8.2M/25th/---

FIELD MAJOR STYRE: Kevin Lindsay; KRANS: Glyn Jones; ERAK: Peter Walshe; VURAL: Donald Douglas; ROTH: Peter Rutherford; ZAKE: Terry Walsh (1); MARSHAL: Kevin Lindsay (2); PRISONER: Brian Ellis (2). UNCREDITED: DOUBLE FOR THE DOCTOR: Terry Walsh; DOUBLE FOR HARRY: Terry Walsh (1); DOUBLE FOR STYRE: Stuart Fell (2)

STORY:

The Doctor, Harry and Sarah transmat down from the Nerva beacon and arrive on Earth in the far future. So much time had passed since the solar flares that Earth has returned to a graceful state with no buildings or animals.

On the planet there was also the crew of a crashed spaceship who were slowly being killed. The killer was a Sontaran who was conducting experiments on humans to see the viability of an invasion.

Sarah was also captured and the experiment was to test her fear threshold. The Doctor challenged the Sontaran to a duel, as is the Sontaran custom.

The Sontaran was not used to the Earth gravity, quickly tired, and returned to his ship to re-energise. Harry had been told by the Doctor how to sabotage the Sontaran energy unit, and instead of re-energising the energy fed off the Sontaran.

LOCATIONS: Hound Tor, Nr. Manaton, Devon

WORKING TITLE: The Destructors

NOTES: Glyn Jones, who here plays Krans, also novelised The Space Museum

NOVELISATION: The Sontaran Experiment Ian Marter

VIDEO: The Sontaran Experiment /Genesis of the Daleks