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91 relations: Aldershot, Barry Letts, BBC One, BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Blue Circle Industries, Brian Hodgson, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, Carnival of Monsters, Caroline John, Casus belli, City of Death, Cliffhanger, Compact disc, Cyril Shaps, Dalek, David Whitaker (screenwriter), Davros, Death to the Daleks, Derek Ware (actor), Derrick Sherwin, Doctor Who, Doctor Who and the Silurians, Doctor Who Magazine, Doctor Who Restoration Team, Doctor Who season 6, Doctor Who season 7, Dudley Simpson, DVD Talk, DVD-Video, Earth, Eponym, Fury from the Deep, Genesis of the Daleks, Geoffrey Beevers, Gerry Anderson, I.B. Tauris, Inferno (Doctor Who), James Chapman (media historian), John Abineri, John Levene, John Moreno, Jon Pertwee, Latex, Liz Shaw, Malcolm Hulke, Marlow Lock, Mars in fiction, Max Faulkner (actor), Michael Ferguson (director), ... Expand index (41 more) »
- 1970 British television episodes
- Third Doctor serials
Aldershot
Aldershot is a town in the Rushmoor district, Hampshire, England.
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Barry Letts
Barry Leopold Letts (26 March 1925 – 9 October 2009) was an English actor, television director, writer and producer, best known for being the producer of Doctor Who from 1969 to 1974.
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BBC One
BBC One is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the BBC.
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BBC Radiophonic Workshop
The BBC Radiophonic Workshop was one of the sound effects units of the BBC, created in 1958 to produce incidental sounds and new music for radio and, later, television.
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Blue Circle Industries
Blue Circle Industries was a British public company manufacturing cement.
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Brian Hodgson
Brian Hodgson (born 1938) is a British television composer and sound technician.
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Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart, fully Brigadier Sir Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart, generally referred to simply as the Brigadier, is a fictional character in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, created by writers Mervyn Haisman and Henry Lincoln and played by Nicholas Courtney.
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Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, often shortened to Captain Scarlet, is a British science fiction television series created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson and filmed by their production company Century 21 Productions for distributor ITC Entertainment.
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Carnival of Monsters
Carnival of Monsters is the second serial of the tenth season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts on BBC1 from 27 January to 17 February 1973. The Ambassadors of Death and Carnival of Monsters are Doctor Who serials novelised by Terrance Dicks and third Doctor serials.
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Caroline John
Caroline Frances John (19 September 1940 – 5 June 2012) was an English actress.
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Casus belli
A casus belli is an act or an event that either provokes or is used to justify a war.
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City of Death
City of Death is the second serial of the seventeenth season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which depicts the adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor.
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Cliffhanger
A cliffhanger or cliffhanger ending is a plot device in fiction which features a main character in a precarious or difficult dilemma or confronted with a shocking revelation at the end of an episode or a film of serialized fiction.
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Compact disc
The compact disc (CD) is a digital optical disc data storage format that was codeveloped by Philips and Sony to store and play digital audio recordings.
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Cyril Shaps
Cyril Leonard Shaps (13 October 1923 – 1 January 2003) was an English actor of radio, television and film, with a career spanning over seven decades.
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Dalek
The Daleks are a fictional extraterrestrial race of extremely xenophobic mutants principally portrayed in the British science fiction television programme Doctor Who.
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David Whitaker (screenwriter)
David Arthur Whitaker (18 April 1928 – 4 February 1980) was an English television writer and novelist who worked on the early years of the science-fiction TV series Doctor Who.
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Davros
Davros is a fictional character from the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.
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Death to the Daleks
Death to the Daleks is the third serial of the 11th season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts on BBC1 from 23 February to 16 March 1974. The Ambassadors of Death and Death to the Daleks are Doctor Who serials novelised by Terrance Dicks and third Doctor serials.
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Derek Ware (actor)
Derek Arthur Ware (27 February 1938 – 22 September 2015) was an English actor and stuntman, active from the late 1950s through the 1990s.
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Derrick Sherwin
Derrick George Sherwin (16 April 1936 – 17 October 2018) was an English television producer, writer, story editor and actor.
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Doctor Who
Doctor Who is a British science fiction television series broadcast by the BBC since 1963.
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Doctor Who and the Silurians
Doctor Who and the Silurians is the second serial of the seventh season in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. The Ambassadors of Death and Doctor Who and the Silurians are 1970 British television episodes and third Doctor serials.
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Doctor Who Magazine
Doctor Who Magazine (abbreviated as DWM) is a magazine devoted to the British science fiction television series Doctor Who.
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Doctor Who Restoration Team
The Doctor Who Restoration Team is a loose collection of Doctor Who fans, many within the television industry, who restore Doctor Who episodes for release on a variety of formats.
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Doctor Who season 6
The sixth season of British science fiction television series Doctor Who began on 10 August 1968 with the first story of season 6 The Dominators and ended Patrick Troughton's reign as the Doctor with its final story The War Games.
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Doctor Who season 7
The seventh season of British science fiction television series Doctor Who began on 3 January 1970 with Jon Pertwee's first story Spearhead from Space and ended with Inferno. The Ambassadors of Death and Doctor Who season 7 are third Doctor serials.
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Dudley Simpson
Dudley George Simpson (4 October 1922 – 4 November 2017) was an Australian composer and conductor.
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DVD Talk
DVD Talk is a home video news and review website launched in 1999 by Geoffrey Kleinman.
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DVD-Video
DVD-Video is a consumer video format used to store digital video on DVDs.
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Earth
Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life.
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Eponym
An eponym is a person, a place, or a thing after whom or for which someone or something is, or is believed to be, named.
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Fury from the Deep
Fury from the Deep is the completely missing sixth serial of the fifth season in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which originally aired in six weekly parts from 16 March to 20 April 1968.
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Genesis of the Daleks
Genesis of the Daleks is the fourth serial of the twelfth season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. The Ambassadors of Death and Genesis of the Daleks are Doctor Who serials novelised by Terrance Dicks.
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Geoffrey Beevers
Geoffrey Beevers (born 15 January 1941) is a British actor who has appeared in many stage and screen roles.
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Gerry Anderson
Gerald Alexander Anderson (14 April 1929 – 26 December 2012) was an English television and film producer, director, writer and occasional voice artist, who is known for his futuristic television programmes, especially his 1960s productions filmed with "Supermarionation" (marionette puppets containing electric moving parts).
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I.B. Tauris
I.B. Tauris is an educational publishing house and imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing.
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Inferno (Doctor Who)
Inferno is the fourth and final serial of the seventh season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in seven weekly parts on BBC1 from 9 May to 20 June 1970. The Ambassadors of Death and Inferno (Doctor Who) are 1970 British television episodes, Doctor Who serials novelised by Terrance Dicks and third Doctor serials.
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James Chapman (media historian)
James Chapman (born 1968) is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Leicester.
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John Abineri
John Abineri (18 May 1928 – 29 June 2000) was an English actor.
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John Levene
John Anthony Woods (born 24 December 1941), known professionally as John Levene, is an English actor, producer, entertainer and singer.
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John Moreno
John Moreno (born 4 March 1939) is a retired British actor, probably best known for his role as Luigi Ferrara in the 1981 James Bond feature film For Your Eyes Only.
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Jon Pertwee
John Devon Roland Pertwee (7 July 1919 – 20 May 1996), known professionally as Jon Pertwee, was an English actor.
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Latex
Latex is an emulsion (stable dispersion) of polymer microparticles in water.
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Liz Shaw
Elizabeth "Liz" Shaw is a fictional character played by Caroline John in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who and its spin-offs.
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Malcolm Hulke
Malcolm Ainsworth Hulke (21 November 1924 – 6 July 1979) was a British television writer and author of the industry "bible" Writing for Television in the 70s.
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Marlow Lock
Marlow Lock is a lock and weir situated on the River Thames in the town of Marlow, Buckinghamshire, England, about 300m downstream of Marlow Bridge.
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Mars in fiction
Mars, the fourth planet from the Sun, has appeared as a setting in works of fiction since at least the mid-1600s.
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Max Faulkner (actor)
Max Faulkner was an English stuntman and actor.
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Michael Ferguson (director)
Michael Ferguson (14 June 1937 – 4 October 2021) was a British television director and producer.
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Michael Wisher
Andrew Michael Wisher (19 May 1935 – 21 July 1995) was an English actor.
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Nicholas Courtney
William Nicholas Stone Courtney (16 December 1929 – 22 February 2011) was an Egyptian-born British actor.
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Obverse Books
Obverse Books is a British publisher initially known for publishing books relating to the character Iris Wildthyme, and currently for the Black Archive series of critical books on Doctor Who, and two sister series - the Gold Archive, focusing on Star Trek, and the Silver Archive, featuring other genre shows.
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Outpost Gallifrey
Outpost Gallifrey was a fan website for the British science fiction television series Doctor Who.
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Peter Bryant
Peter Bryant (27 October 1923 – 19 May 2006) was an English television producer, script editor and former actor.
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Peter Halliday
Peter Halliday (2 June 1924 – 18 February 2012) was a Welsh actor.
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Planet of the Spiders
Planet of the Spiders is the fifth and final serial of the 11th season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in six weekly parts on BBC1 from 4 May to 8 June 1974. The Ambassadors of Death and Planet of the Spiders are Doctor Who serials novelised by Terrance Dicks and third Doctor serials.
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Radio Times
Radio Times (currently styled as RadioTimes) is a British weekly listings magazine devoted to television and radio programme schedules, with other features such as interviews, film reviews and lifestyle items.
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Remembrance of the Daleks
Remembrance of the Daleks is the first serial of the 25th season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who.
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Robert Cawdron
Robert Cawdron (29 December 1921 – 14 September 1997) was a French-born British film and television actor.
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Robert Robertson (actor)
Robert Robertson (3 July 1930 – 17 January 2001) was a British actor and director, born in Scotland.
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Ronald Allen
Ronald John Allen (16 December 1930 – 18 June 1991) was an English actor.
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Roy Scammell
Royston Edwin Scammell (28 July 1932 – 15 May 2021) was a British stuntman and actor.
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Science fiction on television
Science fiction first appeared in television programming in the late 1930s, during what is called the Golden Age of Science Fiction.
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Sergeant Benton
Sergeant John Benton is a fictional character in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, played by John Levene.
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SFX (magazine)
SFX is a British magazine covering the topics of science fiction and fantasy.
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Silurian (Doctor Who)
The Silurians are a race of reptilian humanoids in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who, who first appeared in Doctor Who in the 1970 serial Doctor Who and the Silurians, and were created by Malcolm Hulke.
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Southall Gas Works
Southall Gas Works is a former gas works site of around in Southall, west London, which is currently being redeveloped for mixed-use including 3,750homes as part of Berkeley Group's The Green Quarter.
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Target Books
Target Books is a British publishing imprint, established in 1973 by Universal-Tandem Publishing Co Ltd, a paperback publishing company.
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Terrance Dicks
Terrance William Dicks (14 April 1935 – 29 August 2019) was an English author and television screenwriter, script editor and producer.
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Terror of the Autons
Terror of the Autons is the first serial of the eighth season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. The Ambassadors of Death and Terror of the Autons are Doctor Who serials novelised by Terrance Dicks and third Doctor serials.
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The A.V. Club
The A.V. Club is an online newspaper and entertainment website featuring reviews, interviews, and other articles that examine films, music, television, books, games, and other elements of pop-culture media.
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The Androids of Tara
The Androids of Tara is the fourth serial of the 16th season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts on BBC1 from 25 November to 16 December 1978. The Ambassadors of Death and the Androids of Tara are Doctor Who serials novelised by Terrance Dicks.
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The Black Archive
The Black Archive is a series of critical monographs about selected individual Doctor Who stories, from the series' earliest history to the present day.
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The Dominators
The Dominators is the first serial of the sixth season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which originally aired in five weekly parts from 10 August to 7 September 1968.
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The Highlanders (Doctor Who)
The Highlanders is the completely missing fourth serial of the fourth season in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from 17 December 1966 to 7 January 1967.
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The Invasion (Doctor Who)
The Invasion is the partly missing third serial of the sixth season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in eight weekly parts from 2 November to 21 December 1968.
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The Keeper of Traken
The Keeper of Traken is the sixth serial of the 18th season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts on BBC1 from 31 January to 21 February 1981. The Ambassadors of Death and the Keeper of Traken are Doctor Who serials novelised by Terrance Dicks.
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The Master (Doctor Who)
The Master, or "Missy (short for Mistress)" in their female incarnation, is a recurring character in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who and its associated spin-off works.
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The Power of Kroll
The Power of Kroll is the fifth serial of the 16th season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts on BBC1 from 23 December 1978 to 13 January 1979. The Ambassadors of Death and the Power of Kroll are Doctor Who serials novelised by Terrance Dicks.
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The Quatermass Experiment
The Quatermass Experiment is a British science fiction serial broadcast by BBC Television during the summer of 1953 and re-staged by BBC Four in 2005.
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The Tomb of the Cybermen
The Tomb of the Cybermen is the first serial of the fifth season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was originally broadcast in four weekly parts on BBC1 from 2 to 23 September 1967.
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The War Games
The War Games is the seventh and final serial of the sixth season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which originally aired in ten weekly parts from 19 April to 21 June 1969.
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Third Doctor
The Third Doctor is an incarnation of the Doctor, the protagonist of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who.
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Time travel in fiction
Time travel is a common theme in fiction, mainly since the late 19th century, and has been depicted in a variety of media, such as literature, television, film, and advertisements.
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Trevor Ray
Trevor Ray (?–2019) was a British actor, writer and script editor.
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UNIT
UNIT is a fictional military organisation from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who and its spin-off series Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures.
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VHS
The VHS (Video Home System) is a standard for consumer-level analog video recording on tape cassettes, introduced in 1976 by the Victor Company of Japan (JVC).
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Weir
A weir or low-head dam is a barrier across the width of a river that alters the flow characteristics of water and usually results in a change in the height of the river level.
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William Dysart
William Dysart (26 November 1929 – October 2002) was a Scottish actor, known for his role as Alec Campbell in the 1970s television series Survivors.
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Wired UK
Wired UK is a bimonthly magazine that reports on the effects of science and technology.
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See also
1970 British television episodes
- A Question of Priorities
- A Sentimental Journey (Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased))
- A. Wilson (Manager)?
- Absent Friends (Dad's Army)
- Archaeology Today
- Boots, Boots, Boots
- Close Up (UFO)
- Conflict (UFO)
- Cornish Floral Dance (Dad's Army sketch)
- Destruction (UFO)
- Doctor Who and the Silurians
- Don't Fence Me In (Dad's Army)
- Don't Forget the Diver
- E.S.P. (UFO)
- Election Night Special
- Exposed (UFO)
- Fallen Idol (Dad's Army)
- Identified (UFO)
- Inferno (Doctor Who)
- It's Supposed to be Thicker than Water
- Kill Straker!
- Money to Burn (Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased))
- Mum's Army
- Put That Light Out!
- Robin Redbreast (Play for Today)
- Sgt – Save My Boy!
- Spearhead from Space
- Sub-Smash
- The Ambassadors of Death
- The Big Parade (Dad's Army)
- The Cat with Ten Lives
- The Ghost Talks (Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased))
- The Psychobombs
- The Smile Behind the Veil
- The Square Triangle
- The Test (Dad's Army)
- The Three Sisters (Play of the Month)
- The Trouble with Women (Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased))
- The Two and a Half Feathers
- Twelfth Night (ITV Sunday Night Theatre)
- Uninvited Guests
- Vendetta for a Dead Man
- When the Spirit Moves You
- You Can Always Find a Fall Guy
Third Doctor serials
- Carnival of Monsters
- Colony in Space
- Day of the Daleks
- Death to the Daleks
- Doctor Who and the Silurians
- Doctor Who season 10
- Doctor Who season 11
- Doctor Who season 7
- Doctor Who season 8
- Doctor Who season 9
- Frontier in Space
- Inferno (Doctor Who)
- Invasion of the Dinosaurs
- Planet of the Daleks
- Planet of the Spiders
- Spearhead from Space
- Terror of the Autons
- The Ambassadors of Death
- The Claws of Axos
- The Curse of Peladon
- The Dæmons
- The Five Doctors
- The Green Death
- The Mind of Evil
- The Monster of Peladon
- The Mutants
- The Sea Devils
- The Three Doctors (Doctor Who)
- The Time Monster
- The Time Warrior
References
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