Spearhead From Space
- Category: Season 7
- Written by astoller

PRODUCER | WRITER | SCRIPT EDITOR | DIRECTOR |
| Derrick Sherwin | Robert Holmes | Terrance Dicks | Derek Martinus |
| REGULAR CAST Jon Pertwee - (The Doctor) Caroline John - (Liz Shaw) Nicholas Courtney - (Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart) | GUEST CAST Hugh Burden - (Channing) Neil Wilson - (Seeley) Talfryn Thomas - (Mullins) John Breslin - (Captain Munro) Antony Webb - (Dr. Hendersdon) Helen Dorward - (Nurse) George Lee - (Corporal Forbes) Tessa Shaw - (UNIT Officer) Ellis Jones - (Technician) Alan Mitchell - (Wagstaffe) Prentis Hancock - (2nd Reporter) Hamilton Dyce - (Major General Scobie) Henry McCarthy - (Dr. Beavis) John Woodnutt - (Hibbert) Derek Smee - (Ransome) Betty Bowden - (Meg) Clifford Cox - (Sergeant) Edmund Bailey - (Attendant) |
SYNOPSIS
Exiled to Earth in the late 20th Century by his own people - the Time Lords - the newly regenerated Doctor arrives in Oxley Woods alongside a shower of mysterious meteorites.
Investigating these unusual occurrances is the newly-formed United Nations Intelligence Taskfoce - UNIT for short. Led by Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart, UNIT are soon called into action when people and meteorites start going missing. Most puzzling of all is the attempted kidnapping of a strange hospital patient - a man with two hearts, who insists that he knows the Brigadier...
The new Doctor soon joins forces with his old friends, UNIT and the recently recruited Dr Liz Shaw, but time is running out...
Irregular things are happening at a nearby plastics factory, while faceless creatures lurk in the woods. The Nestenes have arrived, and want to conquer the Earth...

