Terror of the Autons [SEP] series
Terror of the Autons
Terror of the Autons is the first serial of the eighth season of the British science fiction television series "Doctor Who". It was broadcast in four weekly parts on BBC1 from 2 to 23 January 1971.
The serial is set in various locations in England. In the serial, the alien time traveller the Third Doctor (Jon Pertwee) and the organisation UNIT work to stop the time travelling rival of the Doctor's the Master (Roger Delgado) from using a radio telescope to summon an
the center of many people's relationship with the show", and a 2011 online vote at Digital Spy deemed the series the "scariest TV show of all time".
During Jon Pertwee's second series as the Doctor, in the serial "Terror of the Autons" (1971), images of murderous plastic dolls, daffodils killing unsuspecting victims, and blank-featured policemen marked the apex of the show's ability to frighten children. Other notable moments in that decade include a disembodied brain falling to the floor in