This series of four shows is on classic Doctor Who on Netflix. It aired
in 1979 and was the start of the seventh season and introduced the
third Doctor played by John Pertwee. This show also introduces the
Autons and the Nestene Consciousness. The Nestene have a power over
plastics, and so this is the first Doctor Who show in which plastic
comes to life. It eventually brings to life all the store dummies, and
not only do they come to life, they shoot and kill. The goal of the
Nestene is to colonize Earth, and destroy whatever is already there.
The Doctor has a new face, but he becomes a part of UNIT, an
organization responsible to investigate aliens. They are investigating
the mysterious landing of comets in a pattern. These individual comets
have held the consciousness in different parts. They have all been
gathered but one, which was found and hid by a farmer. It is this move
that keeps the Consciousness from becoming fully complete, and starting
the conquest of the world. The Doctor works with Liz Shaw (Caroline
John) and Brigadier Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart (Nicholas Courtney).
The Doctor is able to study the last part of the consciousness, and they
discover a wax museum with new dummies of prominent world leaders. The
Nestene steal the last piece, and complete themselves, and begin the
takeover of the world. Can the Doctor use what he has learned to make a
weapon to combat the Consciousness, because a bullet has no effect on
the plastic dummies.
This is a really good, old Doctor Who. I hate the ones were the dummies come to life.
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