Auton 2: Sentinel (home video)

Auton 2: Sentinel
Main character(s):	Sally Arnold Lockwood
Featuring:	UNIT
Main enemy:	Autons
Main setting:	Sentinel Island
Key crew
Publisher:	BBV Productions
Writer:	Nicholas Briggs
Director:	Nicholas Briggs
Producer:	Bill Baggs
Release details
Release date:	1998
Format:	57 minute, VHS
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Synopsis

"We have been colonising other planets for a thousand million years..."

Two years have passed since the Nestene creature vanished from UNIT's top secret Warehouse...

Suddenly and without warning the Nestene strikes, once again using Autons as its deadly foot soldiers. As mysterious UNIT operative Lockwood struggles to unearth the Nestene plan, he finds himself drawn to remote Sentinel Island. There, the population have been caught up in a bizarre frenzy of religious activity.

Lockwood is joined by Natasha Alexander, a new scientific advisor with her own, sinister agenda. To defeat the Nestene menace, they must face the terrifying power of a creature from before the dawn of Mankind...

Plot

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Cast

• Lockwood - Michael Wade
• Winslet - George Telfer
• Natasha Alexander - Jo Castleton
• Sergeant Ramsay - Andrew Fettes
• Colonel Wilson - John Wadmore
• Dr Sally Arnold - Bryonie Pritchard
• Daron - Warren Howard
• Charlotte - Patricia Merrick
• Dave - David Rowston
• Mike - Nicholas Briggs
• Hardgraves - John Hawkins
• Davis - John Hansell
• UNIT soldiers - Jayson Bridges, Keith Brooks, Stephen Bradshaw, Vaughan Groves, Mark Moore, Gabriel Mykaj, Richard Smith, Blaine Coughlan
• Villagers - Steven Friel, Peter Trapani, Pete Cox, Rod Horne, Alexander Wylie, John Walker, Mark Jende, Matthew Bradford, Ian Taylor, Philip Clarke, Randalph Edwards, Loraine Malby, Peter Frankum, Keith Burton, Robert Dunlop, Caroline O'Sullivan, Thomas O'Sullivan, Andrew Hasley

Production crew

• Directed by - Nicholas Briggs
• Written by - Nicholas Briggs
• Auton and Nestene concepts created by - Robert Holmes
• UNIT concept created by - Derrick Sherwin
• Produced by - Bill Baggs
• Original Music by - Alistair Lock
• Makeup Artists - Claire Fisher and Kelly Jones
• First Assistant Director - Blane Coughlan
• Second Assistant Directors - Patricia Merrick and David Rowston
• Sound Designer - Alistair Lock
• Sound - Darko Mocilnikar and Raymond Turner
• Special Effects by - Benjamin Smith
• Assistant Camera - Michael Baggs and David Haynes
• Lighting Technician - Martyn Welch
• Armourer - Mike Parry

References

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Story notes

• This story features some impressive CGI work of the Nestene Consciousness.
• Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart's call sign, Greyhound Leader, previously used by Lockwood in Auton, is used here by Colonel Wilson.
• The transportation docket bearing Lockwood's signature, as shown to Lockwood and Dr Sally Arnold by Colonel Wilson, bears the line 'Operative 8954B, Codename Lockwood' – indicating that Lockwood is actually a codename for the UNIT operative, and not his real name after all.

Myths

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Filming Locations

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Discontinuity, Plot Holes, Errors

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Continuity

• The Autons first appeared in TV: Spearhead from Space. The Autons appear again in HOMEVID: Auton 3: Awakening. Following this their next on-screen appearance is in TV: Rose.

DVD and Video releases

• First released direct-to video in 1998, with a Making Of (previously aired on the Sci-Fi Channel, per the cover)
• Reissued in 2007 with a number of bonus features:
  • Picture Gallery
  • Auton Diaries - a skit produced specifically for this release, about an unemployed Auton actor who attempts to land a role in the new series
  • The Green Man, a 2002 audio spin-off about the Krynoids from TV: The Seeds of Doom by Zoltán Déry

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  DVD

External links

• Doctor Who Reference Guide: Detailed Synopsis - Auton 2: Sentinel