Doctor Who - The Invisible Enemy

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The first establishing shot of the Bi-Al Foundation shows it with the damage later caused by the shuttle crash. The One With… a killer shrimp. Also, we meet a beloved tin dog note (as long as your name isn't Tom Baker).

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. The Doctor and Clara faced off against quite an interesting enemy in Flatline, but what made it most interesting and frightening was that the monster was hidden within the walls and was apparently in a different dimension. Is there a factor which makes invisible monsters scarier? Do we know if there actually is a monster in these cases? Let’s take a look at some of the more-or-less hidden monsters in the series, and see if we can answer some of these questions about these evasive beings. Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead At this weekend’s Comic-Con@Home virtual Doctor Who panel, showrunner Chris Chibnall was asked for one word to describe the next series, and he said ‘swarm’. 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.Fantastic Voyage" Plot: At one point, the Fourth Doctor has himself and Leela cloned and shrunk down so he can be injected into his own brain, and fight the monster that's nesting inside it. K9 draws the infected away while the Doctor sneaks up on the spawning tanks. Lowe confronts him and makes him lose the antibodies, but K9 uses the last of his power to shoot Lowe, who is absorbed by the swarm. Leela kills Safran with her knife while the Doctor alters his plan and rigs the refuelling tanks to blow. After the Doctor nearly leaves without Leela or K9, the trio escape the base just in time to see the massive explosion, amplified by the methane in the atmosphere, from orbit. This story featured more extensive model work than any previous Doctor Who story. ( INFO: The Invisible Enemy)

In 2010, Mark Braxton of Radio Times awarded it two stars out of five, contrasting it with the Philip Hinchcliffe era and describing it as "a kidified, Poundland Star Wars". He felt "many of the effects are excellent" but observed a "precarious juxtaposition" between good and bad effects and "the ambition of the serial as a whole". He praised the story as a "romping yarn" which "brings out the best in veteran designer Barry Newbery", but criticised "unbelievably incompetent" action scenes, as well as "harsh lighting" and "pristine white sets". He also commented on Louise Jameson as looking "unsurprisingly ill at ease" despite giving "her usual 100 per cent". [2] DVD Talk's John Sinnott disliked the way K9 was used too conveniently and found the plot too similar to Fantastic Voyage (1966), but less well done. He praised the visual effects of the inside of the Doctor's head, but criticised the other sets. [8] Commercial Releases [ edit ] In print [ edit ] Doctor Who and the Invisible Enemy Inhuman Eye Concealers: The station manager, Lowe, is taken over by The Virus. As the infection manifests with a strange growth around the eyes, Lowe conceals his infection by donning a pair of blast goggles and telling people his eyes had been injured during the explosion, making him very sensitive to light.Parrot Expo What: When the Doctor tries to explain things, Leela keeps repeating words she doesn't understand. Including 'parrot?'. 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. There are a few possible alternatives. Firstly: something brand new that’s impossible to predict (e.g. Skithra revenge fleets, the Master and the Cyber Lords get melded together, an evil version of W.A.S.P from Stingray). It’s probably going to be that really isn’t it?

The Invisible Enemy’ featured great model work as a space virus traveled to a base on Saturn’s moon, Titan. The Nucleus was a fascinating antagonist for the Doctor. Drawn to intelligence, it selected him as its host and entered his brain to learn about Time Lords and how the Doctor would escape its microworld. The virus’ subsequent growth was the exception the Doctor cited to negate the Nucleus’ right to survive and thrive in humans’ macroworld. Up till now, we thought The Web Planet was the worst Who we'd seen. But at least The Web Planet was trying, even if it failed spectacularly. This is just a cynically slapped together mess that spits in the audience's eye. Ugh. Take it away. Leela tells the receptionist that the Doctor is from Gallifrey. The receptionist believes it to be in Ireland.

The Doctor is taken to Professor Marius, an expert in alien diseases, who at first dismisses the Doctor as a spacenik. Lowe fakes an eye injury and infects a doctor with the virus. They begin infecting more staff members. Marius becomes much more interested in the Doctor's case when his robotic dog, K9, reveals the Doctor's extraterrestrial origin and that he is infected by a virus residing in the mind-brain interface. The Doctor wakes himself and discusses the virus with Marius and K9, who was built by the professor to replace Kelso, the dog he left on Earth. They decide that the virus thrives on intellectual activity. Since Leela is an instinctive being, it cannot infect her. Visible Boom Mic: When the Doctor is congratulating himself on blowing up the Swarm, the shadow of a boom mike can be seen. The Doctor suggests a "kind of St. Elmo's fire" is responsible for the halo of light that momentarily surrounds him.