Doctor Who - The Invisible Enemy

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Michael Sheard (Laurence Scarman) as usual does a good job as Lowe, although it's a thankless part. The One With… a killer shrimp. Also, we meet a beloved tin dog note (as long as your name isn't Tom Baker). Early Region 2 versions of the box set feature a fault on The Invisible Enemy disc. A scene from half way through episode 3 is skipped and appears after the closing credits. 2|entertain was aware of the problem but decided to go on with the release as planned. They fixed the problem for later copies of the DVD box set.

John Leeson later reprised his role as the Nucleus of the Swarm in the audio story Revenge of the Swarm in 2014. Bi-Al Members - Leslie Bates, Ken Sedd, Alan Clements, Cy Town, Derek Hunt, Margot Gordon ( DWM 271) Good bits? The debate over the right to exist or be conquered, exploring instinct vs intellectual, and comparing humans to a plague. Unfortunately though, the story just misses inspiring the viewer to more deeply contemplate these issues. Nu Speling: Used for signage throughout. An exit sign on Titan is clearly marked "Imurjinsee Egsit", the entrance lobby of the hospital has a doorway designated "Shutle Airlok", the hospital ward where the Doctor is treated is labelled "Isolayshun", and so on.K9 stuns Marius so the Doctor has time to examine his own blood and discover that Leela's clone has left him with antibodies against the virus. He replicates the antibodies and cures Marius, who can replicate the cure for his staff. The Doctor plans to eradicate the virus spawning on Titan, but Leela insists they simply blow it up. When the cure is ready, the Doctor borrows K9 from the Professor and heads for Titan Base. The suggestion that English spelling will get more literal in the future is a good one, well predicting the effects of technology has on language

Shrink Ray: The Doctor and Leela are shrunk with a shrink ray based on the same technology as lets the TARDIS be bigger on the inside, allowing a bit of handwaving about the issues of shrinking living things. contribution to the series had been the previous season's The Hand Of Fear. Their starting point was a Easter Egg: K9 appears on Larry Grayson's Generation Game. To access this hidden feature, press left at Visual Effect on the Special Features menu to reveal a hidden Doctor Who logo.

As for the rest of Invisible Enemy, where do we start? Well, there's the plot, which is stuffed with enough bad science to get Einstein revolving in his grave on high rotate. It'd take us all day to list all of it, but particularly enraging is the witless way they deal with their Fantastic Voyage ripoff. So the Doctor and Leela clones go on a day excursion inside the Doctor's brain, do they? Uh huh. How, exactly, are they breathing in there? And why is it when they disappear they leave various bits and pieces, like Leela's knife, behind? (Not a particularly good idea in itself, we'd have thought. Any sudden movements and the Doctor's going to get a needle through the synapse.)

The Invisible Enemy is the second serial of the 15th season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts on BBC1 from 1 to 22 October 1977. The serial introduced the robot dog K9, voiced by John Leeson. In the serial, an intelligent virus intends to spread across the universe after finding a suitable spawning location on the moon Titan. This story was released on DVD on 16 June 2008 in the K9 Tales Box Set. It was released in the box set alongside K9 and Company. On top of this the detail of the story is weak. It is a bit of a 'base under siege' affair in some ways but mostly it doesn't really work in the first half. In the second half it just gets daft. The Doctor's clone enters his own head – and not in a theoretical way which one could go with, but in a real 'Innerspace / Fantastic Voyage' way. This element is daft in the concept, and really doesn't work at all in the execution. The design standards don't help but it doesn't do much interesting in there – or at least not interesting enough to cover for the weaknesses. The nucleus itself is a sight to see – a mix of a prawn, a rat, and one of those inflatable dancing men you see outside North American car showrooms. It is hard to take serious, particularly as it is forcibly wheeled around the place. Speaking of which, K9 makes an appearance here, and as much nostalgic charm as he/it brings, it is hard not to notice the limitations of the character even in the first outing. I do look forward to seeing how they manage to find a use for him moving forward.Love the haphazard way the crazy German Doctor scoops cloned Doctor and Leela into his syringe. How are they not crushed and drowned?

Originally, the Nucleus' emergence into the macroscopic world was to trigger the transformation of its infected victims into similar creatures.

In the Titan Base and Bi-Al Foundation sets, all signage is written phonetically in what the script calls "Finglish" — thus, for example, signs read "IMURJINSEE EGSIT" and "ISOLAYSHUN WARD" instead of "Emergency Exit" and "Isolation Ward". ( INFO: The Invisible Enemy) Bob Baker and Dave Martin got the idea for a sentient virus as the antagonist from a newspaper article on virus mutations. The idea of diseases impacting the mind and imagination came from an article in Scientific American. The introduction of K9 Mark I marks the beginning of an almost seven-year span of stories featuring at least one non-human companion which lasted until the departure of Turlough, a native of Trion, and the destruction of Kamelion, a shape-shifting android, in Planet of Fire in 1984. Malevolent Masked Men: The infected shuttle crew have their space helmets when going to kill those on the base. On lifting the visors, we see how the Virus has altered them. John Leeson is credited as "Nucleus Voice" for part one, while for parts two to four he is billed as "Nucleus & K9 Voice" on-screen and as "Nucleus Voice and K9" in Radio Times.