Spearhead from Space is the first serial of the seventh season in the
British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first
broadcast in four weekly parts on BBC1 from 3 to 24 January 1970. It
was the first Doctor Who serial to be produced in colour and the only
one to be made entirely on 16 mm film.In the serial, which is set in
Essex and London, the alien time traveller the Third Doctor (Jon
Pertwee), now exiled to Earth by the Time Lords, joins Brigadier
Lethbridge-Stewart (Nicholas Courtney) of UNIT and the scientist Liz
Shaw (Caroline John) to stop the incorporeal intelligence the Nestenes
from colonising the planet through their use of the Autons, plastic
killers which act as human duplicates and shop-window mannequins.The
serial introduced Pertwee as the Doctor and was the first to feature
the Autons. It also introduces Caroline John as the Doctor's new
assistant, Liz. Nicholas Courtney becomes a regular cast member
beginning with this serial.The Doctor collapses outside his TARDIS and
is taken to Ashbridge Cottage Hospital in Epping, where his unusual
anatomy confounds doctors. Spearhead from Space Biography, NetWorth, Height, Age, Weight, Family, Married, Son, Daughter