The Invasion - Story Locations - The Locations Guide to Doctor Who, Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures

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The Invasion

8 episodes, broadcast: 2 Nov - 21 Dec 1968

The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe arrive on present day Earth, and soon become involved in the search for missing scientist Professor Watkins, last known to be working for International Electromatics under the entrepeneur Tobias Vaughn. As their investigations continue they meet up with an old ally - Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart, now Brigadier for a new organisation called UNIT. Vaughn in under close scrutiny, and slowly his real motivations are uncovered ... as an orchestrator of an invasion of Earth by the Cybermen!

Locations filmed for the story:

RAF Fairford Fairford, Gloucestershire Filmed: 3 Sep 1968 UNIT's Mobile Headquarters parked at an airbase	Willamstrip Farm Coln St Aldwyn, Gloucestershire Filmed: 3 Sep 1968 The TARDIS has landed in a field, and then turned invisible!
Hatherop Road Coln St Aldwyn, Gloucestershire Filmed: 4 Sep 1968	Kingston Minerals Kempsford Road, Kempsford, Gloucestershire Filmed: 5 Sep 1968
Sovereign Place (formerly Associated British Maltsters) Wallingford, Oxfordshire Filmed: 6 Sep 1968 International Electromatics Factory (roof)	Millbank Tower Millbank, London Filmed: 7 Sep 1968 Vaughn's London Headquarters
Australia House Aldwych, London Filmed: 8 Sep 1968 A quiet London morning ...	Cumberland Terrace Regent's Park, London Filmed: 8 Sep 1968 A quiet London morning ...
Ludgate Hill London, EC4 Filmed: 8 Sep 1968 A quiet London morning ...	Knightrider Street London, EC4 Filmed: 8 Sep 1968 The Invasion has begun!
Fore Street London Filmed: 8 Sep 1968	Distaff Lane London, EC4 Filmed: 8 Sep 1968 People succumb to the Cybermen's control signal as their invasion begins.
Queen Victoria Street London, EC4 Filmed: 8 Sep 1968 The Invasion has begun!	St. Peter's Steps London, EC4 Filmed: 8 Sep 1968 The Invasion has begun!
BBC (Victoria Road) (formerly TCC Condensers) Acton Filmed: 9,10,12 Sep 1968 Vaughn's Factory, and the base for the Cybermen!	St. James's Gardens Shepherd's Bush Filmed: 11 Sep 1968 The home of Professor Watkins.
Princedale Road Notting Hill, London Filmed: 11 Sep 1968 The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe are dropped off in London.	Heathfield Street Notting Hill, London Filmed: 11 Sep 1968 Having left Vaughn's London headquarters, the Doctor and Jamie realise they are being followed, and then surrounded.
Walmer Road Notting Hill, London Filmed: 11 Sep 1968 Having left Vaughn's London headquarters, the Doctor and Jamie realise they are being followed.	Diageo (Park Royal) (formerly Guinness Brewery) Park Royal Filmed: 11 Sep 1968 Vaughn's Headquarters.
Regent's Canal Maida Vale, London Filmed: 13 Sep 1968 The Doctor and Jamie paddle into the sewers to access Vaughn's base.	Denham Aerodrome Denham, Buckinghamshire Filmed: unverified

In Studio:

»	Ealing Film Studios, Ealing Green, Ealing (31 Aug, 13 Sep 1968)
»	Lime Grove Studios (Studio D), Lime Grove, London (20,27 Sep, 4,11,18,25 Oct, 1,8 Nov 1968)
»	Lime Grove Studios (Studio D), Lime Grove, London (20,27 Sep, 4,11,18,25 Oct, 1,8 Nov 1968)

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