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The Sontaran Experiment: Part Two
- Episode aired Mar 1, 1975
The Doctor learns that Styre has been experimenting on the Galsec crewmembers to pave the way for a Sontaran invasion of Earth and decides the only way to halt his plans is to challenge him ... Read all The Doctor learns that Styre has been experimenting on the Galsec crewmembers to pave the way for a Sontaran invasion of Earth and decides the only way to halt his plans is to challenge him to a duel. The Doctor learns that Styre has been experimenting on the Galsec crewmembers to pave the way for a Sontaran invasion of Earth and decides the only way to halt his plans is to challenge him to a duel.
- Rodney Bennett
- Dave Martin
- Sydney Newman
- Elisabeth Sladen
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- Sarah Jane Smith
- Harry Sullivan
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- Trivia Kevin Lindsay found the Sontaran costume very demanding to wear. His discomfort was exacerbated by a heart condition which would result in his death just six months later.
- Goofs When The Doctor leaps onto Styre from behind, the machete goes flying out of Styre's hands, obviously to land fairly far away, but in the next shot it's right beside Styre's hand as he gets up.
- Connections Referenced in RetroBlasting: Who's the Doctor: Talking Outside the Box - Episode 3: The Sontaran Experiment (2020)
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The Sontaran Experiment
Average audience: 10.75 million average ai: 28.
Arriving on a desolate and windswept Earth the Doctor starts realigning the transmat refractors while Sarah and Harry go off to explore. Harry slips and falls into a pit and Sarah runs back to the Doctor to get help. The Doctor, however, has been captured by a trio of shipwrecked Galsec space travellers who were lured to Earth by a phoney distress call. Sarah, unable to find the Doctor, makes friends with a fourth space traveller, Roth, who tells her of the alien in the rocks who is experimenting on them. Before long, Sarah and Roth are recaptured by a robot and dragged off to the rocks.
Harry finds his own way out of the pit via a series of underground tunnels and emerges close to an outcrop of rock. He watches as Sarah and Roth are presented to the alien who turns out to be a Sontaran.
Field-Major Styre is part of the Sontaran G3 Military Assessment Survey, experimenting on the humans to try and determine their resistance to battle as Earth had now taken on a strategic importance in the Sontarans' ongoing war with the Rutans. The Doctor interrupts Styre's experiments and challenges him to unarmed combat. The Sontaran readily agrees but has not realised that Earth's unfamiliar gravity will give the agile Doctor the advantage. While the Doctor is keeping Styre occupied, Harry enters the alien's spacecraft and removes the terrulium diode bypass transformer, so that when Styre, exhausted by the fight, returns to revitalise himself, he is instead destroyed, drained of all his energy.
As a final warning to the main Sontaran fleet, the Doctor sends a message to them, telling of their emissary's destruction and warning that without Styre's report they cannot know the strength of human resistance and so had better look elsewhere - brinkmanship at its most effective.
The Doctor and his friends use the transmat with the intention of returning to the beacon - they have good news for Vira.
Synopsis from Doctor Who: The Fourth Doctor Handbook by David J. Howe, Mark Stammers and Stephen James Walker, reprinted with permission; further reproduction is not permitted. Available from Telos
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The Sontaran Experiment – 1975 – S12 – E3/5
Number : Season 12, serial 3 of 5.
Which One : A lone Sontaran warrior, experiments on captured humans; on an de-populated Earth.
Cast : The Doctor : Tom Baker Sarah-Jane : Liz Sladen Harry : Ian Marter Styre / The Marshal : Kevin Lindsay Vural : Donald Douglas Krans : Glyn Jones Erak : Peter Walshe Roth : Peter Rutherford Zake : Terry Walsh Prisoner : Brian Ellis
Written By : Bob Baker, Dave Martin.
Produced By : Philip Hinchcliffe
First UK Broadcast : 22 February – 1 March 1975.
Length : 2 x 25 minute episodes.
Plot : The Doctor, Sarah and Harry; beam down to Earth from space-station Nerva. To fix the transmat relay but are captured, by a lone Sontaran Warrior.
What’s good : Return of the Sontarans.
What’s bad : Short. It could have easily been – a 4-episoder.
Review With Spoilers : The Sontaran Experiment was a short two-part episode, between the Doctor leaving space-station Nerva; at the end of The Ark In Space . Before getting sidetracked, in Genesis Of The Daleks and finally returning to Nerva; in a different time period, in Revenge Of The Cybermen .
As such, it should be treated as a short bridging-story; between these other three epic adventures. However, that’s not to say, that The Sonataran Experiment – is any less worthy, in it’s own right; because of this.
Also, the exclusive use of on-location shooting, with no studio-fills. Gives The Sonataran Experiment , a very organic feel; to any of it’s other counterparts. Apart from – say, previous fully on-location story; Spearhead From Space .
It features the return of the Sontarans, last seen in Pertwee’s; Time Warrior . To be specific, for budgetry reasons – it features the exact same costume and actor; Kevin Lindsay from Time Warrior aswell. Which helps support the notion that all Sontaran’s – are clones.
“As we knew, the Earth has not been repopulated. I have therefore carried out my instructions and lured a group of humans to the planet for testing. The results of my experiment indicate that they are puny beings with little resistance to physical stress, and are totally dependent on organic chemical intake for their energy supply!” Styre
The first thing, that really strikes you about The Sonataran Experiment – is; just how abruptly sadistic Styre is. Especially, when performing various tests on his human-captors. Including; water deprivation, hallucinatory phobias – and drowning experiments.
This makes Styre an uncompromisingly ruthless opponent, for the Doctor. So better realised, than some of the other pantomine villains that the Doctor has faced, over the years. This more pronounced undercurrent of gothic horror, was a facet and theme of new producer; Phillip Hinchcliffe’s tenure.
It ends surprisingly abruptly, with the Doctor managing to outwit Strye – and that’s down to the fact episode’s 1 and 2 – build quite nicely but end sharply. It feels like it could have – at least, managed a 3rd part; as there was definitely more mileage – in this story.
Indeed, the Doctor’s averting of a Sontaran invasion by telling the Sontaran fleet that; Styre’s plans have fell into the hands of the humans; is a little rushed and silly.
However, it’s an entertaining mini-episode distraction; from the space-station Nerva story-arc of season 12 – and it fits in well, with it’s other heavyweight season 12 linked-stories.
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Doctor Who and the Sontaran Experiment
Landing on Earth, now a barren, desolate planet, Sarah, Harry and the Doctor are unaware of the large, watching robot. The robot is the work of Styre, a Sontaran warrior, who uses all humans landing here for his experimental programmes.
What has happened to the other space explorers who have come here? Why is the Sontaran scout so interested in Earth and is brutally torturing humans, including Sarah Jane? Will the Doctor be able to prevent an invasion and certain disaster, and save both Earth and his companions?
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A short, sadistic two-parter shot on Dartmoor, in which Tom Baker broke his collarbone
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Season 12 – Story 77
"Words, Earthling, will never prevail against Sontaran might" - Styre
Storyline The Doctor, Sarah and Harry travel to Earth via the Ark's matterbeam to repair the system's faulty receptors. The planet has become a barren heath, but it is not entirely uninhabited. A spaceship crew from the colony GalSec have been ambushed by Field Major Styre of the Sontaran G3 Military Assessment Survey. Via a series of cruel experiments, he's studying humans' physical limitations, prior to an invasion of the galaxy. The Doctor challenges Styre to a dual in a bid to stymie his plans…
First transmissions Part 1 - Saturday 22 February 1975 Part 2 - Saturday 1 March 1975
Production Location (OB) recording: September/October 1974 at Hound Tor, near Manaton, Dartmoor; and Headland Warren, near Postbridge, Devon
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Cast Doctor Who - Tom Baker Sarah Jane Smith - Elisabeth Sladen Harry Sullivan - Ian Marter Field Major Styre/The Marshal - Kevin Lindsay Vural - Donald Douglas Krans - Glyn Jones Erak - Peter Walshe Roth - Peter Rutherford Zake - Terry Walsh Prisoner - Brian Ellis
Crew Writers - Bob Baker, Dave Martin Incidental music - Dudley Simpson Designer - Roger Murray-Leach Script editor - Robert Holmes Producer - Philip Hinchcliffe Director - Rodney Bennett
RT Review by Patrick Mulkern "Linx…" gasps Sarah, with a shudder, as an alien warrior emerges from a familiar golfball spaceship and removes its helmet to reveal a leering face beneath. A spine-tingling cliffhanger - the perfect blend of direction, performance and music.
(In 1975, I reacted with the same thrill of horror and recognition as Sarah, but I recalled Linx from the year before simply as a "time warrior", so the eponymous "Sontaran" hadn't acted as a spoiler. How marvellously uninformed we could be back then!)
Like the titular troll, this two-parter is short, taut and sadistic. It dovetails with The Ark in Space - in a season so interlinked that Harry doesn't even have time to change his clothes - and serves almost as an al fresco breather before Genesis of the Daleks.
Much of season 12 was pegged out by former producer Barry Letts, with Robert Holmes commissioning and fine-tuning scripts. The latter wanted to reuse his own creations, the Sontarans, so writers Bob Baker and Dave Martin were pretty much handed the monster, the Ark continuity and an all-outdoor setting. The Sontaran Experiment was recorded entirely on location, before The Ark in Space, making it Tom Baker's second production and the debut of producer Philip Hinchcliffe.
Rodney Bennett, also new to Who, takes the unusual step of treating the drama as an OB (outside broadcast), recording all the action straight onto videotape, as opposed to the standard practice of using film cameras on location. It gives the serial a freshness and immediacy. It could almost have been made yesterday.
Part one unfolds like a geography field trip going disastrously wrong. After some amiable banter, our heroes separate on the born-again Earth (Dartmoor). "Trafalgar Square should be that way," says the Doctor, not necessarily in jest. Harry tumbles into a ravine, the Time Lord encounters some grizzled colonists with South African accents, and Sarah is lassoed by a buzzing, burbling robot - a collision between a washing airer and a robot from the Smash potato ads.
The Sontarans have had a makeover. If Linx resembled a jacket potato, Styre and his Marshal are more like pebbles. Despite his heart condition, it's still Kevin Lindsay labouring away under the latex mask, delivering another terrific performance. He gives acid edge to such lines as "Ah, the female of the species", "The moron was of no further use to me" and - my favourite - "Worm!"
In his memoirs, Jon Pertwee described Lindsay as "a very funny and witty man… gay and very camp… who wore the most luxuriant clothes you could possibly imagine." The actor died in April 1975 not long after this story aired.
Stuntman Stuart Fell wore the Sontaran suit for several scenes that didn't require a "performance", just as Terry Walsh stood in for Tom Baker in numerous shots, after Baker fractured his collarbone. Indeed, the impressive final duel between the Doctor and Styre is almost entirely enacted by Walsh and Fell.
Happily, impetus and panache prevail over problems with plot logic. Quite why the Sontarans need to experiment on humans before invading their territories is unclear. Are they just responding methodically to sadistic urges? And the Doctor's dismissal of the Marshal ("Brinkmanship, I think they call it") is less than reassuring. We're left worrying that Vira and her buddies, beaming down from the Ark, may soon have an almighty battle on their hands.
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From their first appearance to the ongoing adventures of Strax, here’s the complete history of the Sontarans ahead of their return in War of the Sontarans !
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Sontaran Field Major Styre is conducting experiments on the survivors of future Earth in preparation of a full-scale Sontaran invasion of the planet. Can the Doctor defeat Styre and save the world?
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Written by cinemaserf on june 24, 2024.
I don't know, maybe the budget was running out or they wanted to film this quickly but this isn't really one of the better outings for the "Doctor" (Tom Baker) and his companions. It follows on, a little, from the previous "Ark in Space" series with them on Earth ensuring the passengers from that vessel are safely ensconced and safe. What they discover, though, is that what humans there are have been captured by a menacing "Sontaran" soldier called "Styre" (Kevin Lindsay - by now a bit of a regular in these leathers). It transpires that he has been sent by his high command to evaluate the stren... read the rest.
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Doctor Who and the Sontaran Experiment was a novelisation based on the 1975 television serial The Sontaran Experiment .
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Publisher's summary [ ]
Landing on Earth , now a barren, desolate planet, Sarah , Harry and the Doctor are unaware of the large, watching robot . The robot is the work of Styre , a Sontaran warrior, who uses all humans landing here for his experimental programmes.
What has happened to the other space explorers who have come here? Why is the Sontaran scout so interested in Earth and is brutally torturing humans, including Sarah Jane? Will the Doctor be able to prevent an invasion and certain disaster, and save both Earth and his companions?
Chapter titles [ ]
- Unknown Enemies
- The Experiment
- Mistaken Identities
- The Challenge
- Duel to the Death
- A Surprise and a Triumph
Deviations from televised story [ ]
- Unlike the televised story, in which the Doctor, Sarah, and Harry use Space Station Nerva 's transmat to come down to Earth, they arrive in the TARDIS, which is then accidentally returned to Nerva by the transmat.
- Nerva is consistently referred to by the Doctor and other characters as "Terra Nova".
- Despite being called Styre on the back cover, within the text the Sontaran refers to himself as Sontaran Military Assessor Styr.
- After falling down a hole, the Doctor has a dream about rats chewing their way into the TARDIS.
- Harry initially believes the Sontaran to be a Golem.
- The Sontarans are described as cyborgs with reptilian skin and talon-like claws.
- The Sontaran robot is called a Scavenger and is described as hovering and octopus-like. It is much more sophisticated than the version seen in the televised story.
- Styr's energy weapon is built into his armour, and described as "concealed" by the armour.
- The Sontaran ship is much larger than the ones seen in the televised version, and a description of its interior as multi-chambered is given. It is also apparently patrolled by smaller versions of the Scavenger.
- Inside the Sontaran ship, Harry discovers two more Sontarans, apparently hibernating.
- Sarah destroys one of the patrol robots with the Doctor's sonic screwdriver .
- Much of Erak and Krans 's parts are exchanged, making Krans the more aggressive character. (He is described as big and burly, whereas on-screen he is below average height.)
- The Doctor falls down the crevice when the Scavenger lassos Sarah and Roth while they are lowering him with his scarf.
- Zake dies when the Scavenger stops him short with a lasso and causes him to break his neck, rather than falling down a crevice.
- Styr is referred to several times as having an inky black breath.
- Styr's experiment on Sarah is more elaborate within the budget-free constraints of the novelisation, with her hallucinating drowning, being burned alive in a desert and attacked by a horde of ants. She is imprisoned in a cave rather than tied to a rock, and when Harry enters the cave he is affected too, imagining himself being attacked by a demonic Sarah. The experiment has already begun when Harry first finds her.
- There is an extra scene of the Doctor meeting Harry and finding out about the Sontarans before going off to find Sarah. (A version of this was scripted for the televised version, but apparently never filmed.) The Doctor is briefly trapped in the force-field at the cave mouth.
- Styr's superior is referred to as the Controller rather than the Marshal . It is revealed that Styr is delaying submitting his report because he is enjoying the experiments.
- On-screen, Roth refers to two GalSec crewmen killed in the experiments as Heath and Splear . Here, both Roth and Krans refer to Warra and Henk instead.
- The Doctor and Styr start their fight unarmed and both later use the gravity bar as a weapon.
- Styr kills Vural by knocking him over a cliff edge rather than stabbing him. He then throws the Doctor off the edge but he survives because part of the Scavenger's levitation system slows his fall.
- The Doctor weakens Styr during the fight by pouring the contents of a hip-flask into his probic vent .
- The Doctor speculates that the Sontarans are trying to occupy Earth for its terullian deposits formed by the solar flares and later discovers it is part of an alliance with another cloned race, the Hyperioi . There is no mention of the war with the Rutan as on-screen.
Writing and publishing notes [ ]
- Ian Marter suggested novelising this two-parter which no-one else was interested in doing.
- Marter also portrayed the character of Harry Sullivan in the story. He had previously adapted The Ark in Space , in which he had also appeared. These two books are unique as being, to date, the only examples of a Doctor Who actor adapting his own TV stories. Marter would go on to write numerous other novelisations for Doctor Who before his death in 1986 (with posthumous publications continuing for more than a year thereafter).
- This was the first time a two-episode story was adapted for a novel. It established it was possible to expand the somewhat scant material of a two-parter into a full-length novel, opening the door for later adaptations of the other two-parters in the series.
Additional cover images [ ]
British publication history [ ]
First Publication:
Audiobook [ ]
This Target Book was released as an audiobook on 7 July 2016 complete and unabridged by BBC Physical Audio and read by Jon Culshaw .
The cover blurb and thumbnail illustrations were retained in the accompanying booklet with sleevenotes by David J. Howe . Music and sound effects by Simon Power .
The audiobook version was reissued as part of The Second Monsters Collection on 28 January 2021 .
External links [ ]
- On Target a comprehensive guide to the Target novelisations by Tim Neal
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