The Sontaran Experiment | Doctor Who

[@LloydEWatson1983]

I think it's a shame Harry Sullivan stopped being a companion after Terror of the Zygons. The 4th Doctor, Sarah Jane and Harry were brilliant together.

[@SephoraBloons]

Harry was my fav companion. So sad he died so young 🥺

[@pollyg562]

dying will do that

[@LloydEWatson1983]

@@pollyg562 A bit disrespectful. Plus Ian Marter died in 1986.

[@houseofno]

"Mind the traffic..." LOL.

[@SephoraBloons]

@@LloydEWatson1983 what was disrespectful?

[@DalekPrimeProductions]

Such a classic story, this entire series is iconic!

[@emilywhitfield2780]

I wish they would have shown more of the conflict between the Sontarans and the Rutans!! The Rutans have that alien jellyfish look!! Love the show! Thanks for posting!!

[@ashleytuchin7693]

I've been saying for years that the Rutans need to come back. They could really benefit from an updated design.

[@doctormew9399]

@@ashleytuchin7693 So could many things. But after the Horror of Fang Rock, I'm quite surprised there hasn't been an episode with both of them in it. That needs to happen.

[@disneyboy3030]

​@@doctormew9399there was a video game.

[@Eltonlaleham]

@@doctormew9399 I do say I wish Harry had not left the TARDIS crew, at the end of Terror of the Zygons but sadly Hinchcliffe wanted the Doctor and Sarah to travel in the TARDIS on their own .

[@julianaylor4351]

I'm not surprised Tom Baker hurt himself filming on Dartmoor, the whole area is strewn with boulders left over from the Ice Age, many half buried.

[@darrenbennett1053]

Always loved Sarah Jane . The fourth Doctor has always been my favorite Doctor :)

[@brianartillery]

Famously, Tom Baker fell and broke his collarbone whilst filming on Dartmoor. Stuntman Terry Walsh doubled for Tom during the fight scenes. Tom Baker had his arm in a sling, which was disguised by his scarf in subsequent scenes. Sadly, this was the last time Kevin Lindsay played a Sontaran - he died of a heart condition in April, 1975, a few months after the broadcast of this story.

[@striker1938]

Wow great bit of info

[@jacobcurle8964]

“Never throw anything away, Harry.” “It’s a mistake to clutter one’s pockets, Harry.” Honestly the Fourth Doctor had such a fun relationship with Harry

[@frankshailes3205]

Great dialogue in that story. DOCTOR: Good. Well, now he's gone, any chance of a cup of tea? TANE: What! DOCTOR: Or coffee. My friend and I have had a very trying experience. Haven't we had a trying experience, Harry? HARRY: Very trying, Doctor. TANE: Step into the security scan. DOCTOR: What, no tea? TANE: Let me point out to you that you have no rights whatsoever. I have full authority to torture and kill any prisoner who does not comply absolutely with my orders. That is your first and last warning. DOCTOR: No tea, Harry.

[@cindydott452]

Best line? (After Tom Baker's Doctor found out that Harry attempted to unstrap a booby trapped cyber bomb from him while he was unconscious) "Harry Sullivan is an imbecile!" (Yelled at the top of his lungs;) 😆

[@octaviusfooks7194]

Later…. “HARRY SULLIVAN IS AN IMBECILE!!!”

[@wibblywobblytimeywimey4669]

The first EVER classic story I watched! Absolutely loved it!

[@williamriley1458]

I can say the same, first one I ever watched! Very nice two parter!

[@DanielJChilvers]

Brilliant little story. I always loved the robot design

[@thatbritishguitarist9254]

Always loved how Sarah thought the sontaran was Lynx from The time monster

[@astrosleep9625]

@@thatbritishguitarist9254 time warrior, the time monster was earlier

[@LateClover]

This episode always drives nostalgia to me, as after re watching it I can recall when I would sit down and watch doctor who with my dad who started watching doctor who around when Tom baker started. This episode imp articular seems to be the one I remember the most as I had re watched it countless times. Such a great story, yes the effects weren't as good as they are now but when watching this as a child it was the best thing I had ever seen.

[@alanculbert5146]

Such a lovely memory for you. I can relate to it, I remember my dad watching it when Tom was the Doctor. Thinking about it, it was the later stories of his, somewhere around 1978/79. I was quite young, 6 or 7ish. But happy memories indeed 😊

[@nedd.8479]

I love mid-70s Who (it's one of the high points of the whole show), but The Sontaran Experiment has aged better than a lot of the other serials from that era. It's doesn't suffer from unnecessary padding, the special effects aren't overdone, and it's grittier than most stories up to that point.

[@Shan_Dalamani]

Ian Marter did the novelization and added some original material to flesh out the story.

[@martinpugh1008]

As a child growing up in the mid 60s and throughout the 70s I used to rush home on a Saturday evening to watch Dr Who and Tom Baker was my favourite actor playing him Jon Pertwee wasn't bad whatever I was doing or wherever I was it all came to an abrupt halt no matter what it was like some kind of ritual I had to get home in time to see it even now as an adult and a father and grandfather myself I still retain a great deal of fondness of those brilliant days and memories and often rewind and take trips down memory lane and reminisce whilst watching some of the episodes and all the memories come flooding back to me how absolutely bloody wonderful I sometimes wish I could borrow the doctors tardis and go back in time and watch all the original episodes over again 😊😃🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[@leadinglady046]

Liz Sladen was absolutely gorgeous wasn't she 😍 such an amazing actress ❤️

[@JKMMOC]

Obviously the Earth wasn't entirely destroyed in the solar flares. The local branch of Top Shop clearly survived and was thriving. Or how else does Sarah Jane swap her orange wellies for purple hiking boots at the end of this story?

[@stevendocbeck2533]

Harry & Sarah were my favourites from the Fourth Doctor era.

[@IowerthLord]

FINALLY! Exterior video! And it looks good, too!

[@marktaylor6553]

Until this moment, I always thought Sarah was human. Now I know she is part of some unknown turtle race. Thank goodness Harry was around to right her.

[@SamuelBlack84]

I love Sarah's flailing legs 😄

[@jellybabiesarecool4657]

The final battle of this story is superb

[@SephoraBloons]

*"Nobody Loves The Sontarans More Than Me! If you dare challenge me I'll Work you with My... Wok!"*

[@BH-98]

Gets a 7/10 from me, needs more woks

[@RobboRobbo]

You can’t say that anymore, your not evil Dan, you need to change your profile pic to evil Dan

[@SephoraBloons]

@@RobboRobbo please stop saying that

[@SephoraBloons]

@@BH-98 better?

[@RobboRobbo]

@@SephoraBloons in the words of evil Dan “no I don’t think I will, go on shoo! Night night”

[@philliparcher1]

Styre gave me nightmares as a 9 year old

[@pollyg562]

yer but you still made sure you were in by 6 to watch it

[@Trainlover1995]

The episode title had two meanings. The other was that the BBC experimented with using 2” video tapes for a location shoot instead of 16mm film, as was common with British television at the time. Alas, the technology to do so economically wouldn’t be achieved until 1986.

[@memoir4you]

A great little two parter ,Kevin plays another good baddie as Styre.

[@gamers7800]

I enjoyed this, I only wish that they a done more two part story’s arc’s in Bakers time. Some of his stories were dragged out a too much!

[@pollyg562]

im not sure if this is the ep that turner directed but there is one bit where there is an alien that travels like the flash and it looks like footage from 25 years in the future almost CG, i think turner was the classic genius that could have saved the series but rubbed people the wrong way, another weird thing is the oldest person in this episode is the only person still alive

[@forkinhell3545]

Not quite right. Donald Douglas who played Vural is still alive as well as Tom Baker.

[@tyree9055]

"Care for a Jelly Baby?" 🤣👍

[@orchishgrunt7888]

13:28 - "I shall kill you all now... But, actually... I have more important things to do."

[@harrynewiss4630]

The very best Who 2-parter

[@matthewbolitho-jones]

I like The Sontaran Experiment

[@metatronblack]

I remember this show , way back in 1912

[@doctormew9399]

Um...television didn't exist in 1912, never mind Doctor Who. Doctor Who started in 1963. Also, if you were alive in 1912, you'd be over 110 years old. I somehow don't think that's likely.

[@metatronblack]

@@doctormew9399 I know it was a lame joke

[@doctormew9399]

@@metatronblack Ooooooooooh oops

[@metatronblack]

@@doctormew9399 don't worry about it , I knew you were going to comment on my post because Im the Doctor.

[@Spacejupiter1]

Brilliant episode sonta ha

[@tuberworksjones]

So Sontarens run on mutual inductance fed by half wave rectification, and it appears Styre couldn't get the correct level of successive approximation logic ,on his dac and the low pass filter to his brain failed to protect him from the resulting EMP pulse

[@fjccommish]

It's amazing how much better this is than New Who, especially Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrl Who.

[@jamesa.fitzpatrick1566]

GOAT

[@johnlawrence3888]

This 2 episode one is brilliant. I saw it when I must have been 4 or 5 n it was frightening

[@ericmadsen7470]

The Sontaran are the potato heads of the galaxy.

[@sinjin88]

1st Doctor Who story I ever watched, and Genesis of the Daleks was 2nd.

[@fucheduck]

sage. the surviving plant. great for breakfast sausage in 100,000 AD. I'll just bring the hogs from upstairs!

[@gregoryjohnson9733]

Ah, ancestors.

[@doctormew9399]

Sontarans don't have ancestors. They're a clone race, and as you can see, they're easily confused!

[@GiovanniMaddalena2]

Microstoria trasmessa in Italia da venerdì 15 febbraio a sabato 16 febbraio del 1980 alle 19 e 20. 2 parti

[@thomasstevens2746]

Not my favorite story I'll admit

[@triggerfingerstudios]

Int Deflated joke.exe

[@Tophat-RylanGang]

sus first