The Sontaran Experiment
Joe Siegler
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The Sontaran Experiment
This Story: Season 12, Story 3. Production Code 4B
Overall: Story 77, Episodes 390-391
Airdates: 22 Feb 1975 to 1 Mar 1975
Written by Bob Baker & Dave Martin
Directed by Rodney Bennett
Notes
- This is the second of four two part stories (in 25 min format) in classic Doctor Who. The others are The Rescue (1965), Black Orchid (1982), and The Awakening (1984).
Links
[ Wikipedia | Tardis Data Core | SPS Historium | Amazon US DVD | Amazon UK DVD ]#DoctorWhoMarathon Ep 390 - The Sontaran Experiment 1/2 (Serial 4B Story 77) - 22 Feb 1975. #DoctorWho 1/2
— jᎾᎬ sᎥᎬᎶᏞᎬᏒ (@JoeSiegler) September 4, 2022
An oddity in classic Who - a two parter. Roughly the same length as a modern Who single episode. Given this is just 2 eps, they spend a lot of time in the first ep just on pic.twitter.com/lpn28zpzBV
#DoctorWhoMarathon Ep 390 - The Sontaran Experiment 1/2 (Serial 4B Story 77) - 22 Feb 1975. #DoctorWho 2/2
— jᎾᎬ sᎥᎬᎶᏞᎬᏒ (@JoeSiegler) September 4, 2022
setup. We don't see a Sontaran until the cliffhanger, the rest of the time is spent with an expedition of which we don't know their purpose. Timing odd w/just 2 episodes. pic.twitter.com/OYymd08zKX
#DoctorWhoMarathon Ep 391 - The Sontaran Experiment 2/2 (Serial 4B Story 77) - 1 Mar 1975. #DoctorWho 1/2
— jᎾᎬ sᎥᎬᎶᏞᎬᏒ (@JoeSiegler) September 4, 2022
We find out that the Sontaran has been testing the expedition people. Has something to do with the Earth being uninhabited, although WHY they're testing them we don't really pic.twitter.com/POQ7gU74tT
#DoctorWhoMarathon Ep 391 - The Sontaran Experiment 2/2 (Serial 4B Story 77) - 1 Mar 1975. #DoctorWho 2/2
— jᎾᎬ sᎥᎬᎶᏞᎬᏒ (@JoeSiegler) September 4, 2022
know. The Doctor ends up taking out Styre in combat, & an invasion is stopped. The timing of this was weird as all the "story" was in this ep, could have used more time. pic.twitter.com/97QB0Sr9IG
