Broadcast
The entire season was broadcast from 3 January to 20 May 1970. Peter Bryant and Derrick Sherwin had originally envisaged replacing Doctor Who with a Quatermass style serial with Nigel Kneale involved, however this fell through when Kneale refused to write for the show, it however had a hangover effect on the programme with the Doctor exiled to a near future earth as UNIT's Scientific advisor.
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