On location at a BBC training centre in late 1969, popular entertainer and actor Jon Pertwee is introduced to the press as the all-new third incarnation of the Time Lord hero, for a new set of January 1970 onwards airing adventures set on present day Earth. Alongside him would be newcomer actress Caroline John as his assertive scientific assistant, Elizabeth Shaw. Watching the proceedings is producer Derrick Sherwin, the producer for the first story of the new, grittier, Quatermass-inspired season, whose overall seventh year on TV would be widely considered one of the greatest of the entire classic run, launched by the all-filmic four-parter from writer Robert Holmes: Spearhead From Space. This story further notably introduced viewers to the memorable and very creepy plastic-loving alien foes- the Autons.
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