Doctor Who and the Silurians

052 – *Doctor Who and the Silurians*
052 – Doctor Who and the Silurians
Doctor Who serial
	One Silurian from the story
Cast
	Doctor Jon Pertwee – Third Doctor;
	Companion Caroline John – Liz Shaw;
	Others Nicholas Courtney – Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart; Fulton Mackay – Dr. Quinn; Peter Miles – Dr. Lawrence; Ian Cunningham – Dr. Meredith; Norman Jones – Major Baker; Thomasine Heiner – Miss Dawson; Ian Talbot – Travis; Geoffrey Palmer – Masters; John Newman – Spencer; Bill Matthews – Davis; Roy Branigan – Roberts; Gordon Richardson – Squire; Nancie Jackson – Doris Squire; Brendan Barry – Hospital Doctor; Paul Darrow – Captain Hawkins; Richard Steele – Sergeant Hart; Alan Mason – Corporal Nutting; Harry Swift – Private Robins; Derek Pollitt – Private Wright; Dave Carter – Old Silurian; Nigel Johns – Young Silurian; Pat Gorman – Silurian Scientist; Dave Carter, Pat Gorman, Paul Barton, Simon Cain, John Churchill – Silurians; Peter Halliday – Silurian Voices;
Production
Directed by	Timothy Combe
Written by	Malcolm Hulke
Script editor	Terrance Dicks
Produced by	Barry Letts
Music by	Carey Blyton
Production code	BBB
Series	Season 7
Running time	7 episodes, 25 minutes each
First broadcast	31 January 1970
Last broadcast	14 March 1970
Chronology
← Preceded by; Spearhead from Space	Followed by →; The Ambassadors of Death

Doctor Who and the Silurians is the second serial of the seventh season in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It was first broadcast in seven weekly parts on BBC1 from 31 January to 14 March 1970.

The serial is set in an English moorland, the cave system below it, and London. In the serial, the Third Doctor (Jon Pertwee) attempts to broker peace between humanity and the Silurians, an intelligent bipedal race of reptilians that ruled Earth before humans. This effort becomes undone by a xenophobic usurper Silurian, along with gung-ho human soldiers.

The story is the first appearance of the Silurians, for whom the Silurian hypothesis in science is named.

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