Doctor Who Vs. Invasion

This low-budget British sci-fi film was one

of the last double features to be made at

Merton Park Studios. Roger Marshall's script

was based on a storyline from Robert

Holmes, who later re-used elements for

Spearhead from Space. 

Here, female aliens crash land in woods out-

side London. The injured humanoid Lystrians

are taken to a rural hospital where they raise

a forcefield.

Released by Anglo-Amalgamated in late

1965, the thriller was shown on Talking

Pictures TV today - it featured Edward Judd,

and these seven Doctor Who cast and crew

connections:

• Barrie [Stanton] Ingham (Muncaster) played Alydon (pictured) in Dr. Who and the Daleks, then Prince Paris in The Myth Makers
• Glyn [born Glyndwr Desmond] Houston (Draycott) was Professor [Owen] Watson in The Hand of Fear, and Colonel Ben Wolsey in The Awakening
• Stephanie Bidmead (Elaine) was Maaga in Galaxy 4
• Tony Wall (Ted) was Napoleon Bonaparte in (episode 6 of) The Reign of Terror
• Peter [Ellerby] Thomas (Harry) was Captain Edal in The Savages
• Norman Mitchell (Driver) was a Policeman in The Daleks' Master Plan (7)
• Jack Kine (1921-2005) co-founded the BBC Visual Effects Depart- ment in 1954 with Bernard Wilkie - together they provided special effects on The Mind Robber - Kine was seen on posters as the 'Big Brother' type leader of the parallel Earth in Inferno