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| rdfs:label | - Spearhead from Space (TV story)
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| rdfs:comment | - The story also introduced the Doctor's binary vascular system, which would become an oft-repeated feature of Time Lord physiology thereafter. Moreover, it premiered the Nestene and the Autons, who would reappear in future stories. Russell T Davies would later use this story as a template as he wrote the first episode of the 2005 series. It also had some commonality with Steven Moffat's first story as producer, in that both this story and The Eleventh Hour would introduce a new Doctor and new companion after the departure of those from the previous story, effectively making a "clean break" from the previous era of the show.
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| Enemy | - The Nestene Consciousness, Channing, Autons
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| Clip | - The Nestene Attacks the Doctor! - Spearhead from Space - BBC
- The Autons Activate - Doctor Who - Spearhead from Space - BBC
- The Doctor in the Shower! - Spearhead from Space - BBC
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| Setting | - Oxley Woods, UNIT HQ, Ashbridge Cottage Hospital, Auto Plastics and London
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| NEXT | - Doctor Who and the Silurians
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| novelisation | - Doctor Who and the Auton Invasion
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| abstract | - The story also introduced the Doctor's binary vascular system, which would become an oft-repeated feature of Time Lord physiology thereafter. Moreover, it premiered the Nestene and the Autons, who would reappear in future stories. Russell T Davies would later use this story as a template as he wrote the first episode of the 2005 series. It also had some commonality with Steven Moffat's first story as producer, in that both this story and The Eleventh Hour would introduce a new Doctor and new companion after the departure of those from the previous story, effectively making a "clean break" from the previous era of the show. It was also the first Doctor Who story to be broadcast in colour. Behind the scenes, it was the last contribution of Derrick Sherwin and Peter Bryant to Doctor Who, as the BBC transferred them both to another programme in the middle of principal photography. The latter stages of the story were actually produced, uncredited, by Barry Letts. On top of this complication, the BBC employees who operated videocameras decided to strike between the time of location filming and studio recording, since they believed they should get more money for operating the technically more sophisticated colour cameras. This required Sherwin to commit the story to 16mm film, since the film cameramen were in a different union, and therefore not on strike. Spearhead from Space thus became not only the first colour Doctor Who story, but also the only story to ever be shot entirely on 16mm film. Over forty years later, Sherwin's decision to switch to film made it possible for Spearhead to easily adapt to new media. It is the first and currently only Doctor Who story of the classic era to be released in the Blu-ray format.
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