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Original release / air date: 13 December 1975
Runtime: 24 minutes
Season: 13
Episode: 16
Country / region: United Kingdom
Original language: English
Network / broadcaster: BBC1
Production company / studio: British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
ASFR type: Built
Character type: Android, Robot Double

Overview

The Kraal invasion reaches the real Space Defence Station as android duplicates replace key personnel, including an artificial copy of the Doctor himself.

ASFR Content

Part Four contains multiple duplicate reveals and a mass android shutdown. The Doctor discovers that several UNIT personnel are artificial replacements, has the station's radar reconfigured to disable the androids, and secretly reprograms his own duplicate. Styggron shoots the apparent Doctor, only for the real Doctor to emerge and reveal that the 'victim' was the reprogrammed android double.

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ASFR Scenes

Scene 2
Key ASFR scene

UNIT personnel are exposed as android replacements

The Doctor discovers that familiar figures at the Defence Station, including Benton and others, have been replaced by human-looking android copies.

Scene 3
Key ASFR scene

The radar signal disables the androids

The Doctor has the station's radar realigned and activates it against the Kraal duplicates, shutting down the invasion force.

Scene 4
Key ASFR scene

The Doctor reprograms his own duplicate

The real Doctor secretly turns the Kraal copy to his advantage and sends the artificial duplicate against Styggron.

Character(s): Fourth Doctor Android
Scene 5
Key ASFR scene

Styggron shoots the duplicate and the real Doctor reveals the trick

Styggron shoots what appears to be the Doctor; the real Doctor then emerges, proving that the damaged figure was the android copy.

Character(s): Fourth Doctor Android
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