Doctor Who and the Silurians: Episode 5

Episode aired Feb 28, 1970
TV-PG
24m

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7.7/10

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Doctor Who and the Silurians: Episode 5 (1970)

Adventure Drama Family Sci-Fi

Worried about the Old Silurian's growing friendship with the Doctor, the Young Silurian has the scientist infect Baker with a virus and then release him.Worried about the Old Silurian's growing friendship with the Doctor, the Young Silurian has the scientist infect Baker with a virus and then release him.Worried about the Old Silurian's growing friendship with the Doctor, the Young Silurian has the scientist infect Baker with a virus and then release him.

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7.7/10

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Trivia
The color master tape of this episode was wiped by the BBC in the 1970s and the BBC only held a 16mm black and white telerecording. The episode remained only in black in white until the 1990s, when the color signal from a domestic NTSC recording and the black and white telerecording were used to create a new color master on D3 digital tape.

Goofs
When Major Baker gets up off the cave floor, the large rock on which he was lying wobbles violently, revealing it to be made of a lightweight material.

Connections
Featured in Going Underground (2008)

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9/10

An evil plan is put into action.

The Doctor does his best to reach a peaceful agreement between The humans and Silurians, but there is dissent among the ranks.

I thought the conflict among the Silurians was very good, never mind the race, there is always conflict and plotting, it was a nice touch, meaning the Silurians are a complex race, not one dimensional like The Daleks or Cybermen. They have an order, a culture, a history and a social order.

The plan used by the rogue Silurians is a nasty one, Major Baker's illness is pretty grim. It seems both races mostly want the destruction of the other.

This was excellent, with quite a surprisingly high death count. 9/10