Terror of the Zygons: Part One

Episode aired Aug 30, 1975
TV-G
22m

IMDb RATING

8.1/10

748

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Adventure Drama Family Sci-Fi

The Doctor, Sarah and Harry return to Earth in response to an emergency space-time telegraph from the Brigadier, who asks them to investigate the destruction of a series of North Sea oil rig... Read allThe Doctor, Sarah and Harry return to Earth in response to an emergency space-time telegraph from the Brigadier, who asks them to investigate the destruction of a series of North Sea oil rigs.The Doctor, Sarah and Harry return to Earth in response to an emergency space-time telegraph from the Brigadier, who asks them to investigate the destruction of a series of North Sea oil rigs.

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IMDb RATING

8.1/10

748

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Trivia
Nicholas Courtney suggested to Philip Hinchcliffe that the Brigadier be killed off in this story, as he had become aware that he would no longer be required in the series' new format. Hinchcliffe turned down the idea, feeling that it would be an inappropriate fate for a character that had been so popular.

Quotes
Huckle: Doctor, do you mind telling us exactly what you're doing?
Doctor Who: A little experiment in orthodontology, Mr Huckle.
Huckle: Orthodontology?
Doctor Who: Teeth. Teeth. The scientific study of teeth.
[Holds up the plaster cast]
Doctor Who: That's that cast of a tooth, wouldn't you say?
Huckle: Teeth? Doctor, you can't be serious.
Doctor Who: Teeth are very serious things, Mr Huckle.
Huckle: Look, let's get this straight, are you saying those rigs were chewed up by a set of giant molars?
Doctor Who: Yes. A set of giant molars that can chew through solid steel as easily as paper.
Brigadier Lethbridge Stewart: Are you suggesting that we're dealing with some kind of sea monster?
Doctor Who: Yes. A monster of frightening size and power.
Zygon: This one they call "Doctor", is a threat to us. Already he has found out too much. He must be... destroyed.

Connections
Featured in The Chronic Rift: Beauty and the Beast (1991)

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Featured review

8/10

Mineral Slime Dependency...

The offshore rigs are all being tumbled, nobody knows quite why and what's making them crumbled, there's an alien with red suckers, who's also a little bit puckered, and has a cunning plan, to avoid being rumbled.