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| {{Infobox TV|
| | ''You could have been loocking for:'' |
| story name= The Sensorites |
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| image=[[Image:Sensorites.jpg|250px]] |
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| series=[[Doctor Who]] -<br/>[[TV stories|TV Stories]] |
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| number= 7 |
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| doctor=[[First Doctor]] |
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| companions= [[Susan Foreman]]<br/>[[Barbara Wright]]<br/>[[Ian Chesterton]] |
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| enemy= [[Second Elder]] |
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| year= [[28th Century]] |
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| writer= [[Peter R. Newman]] |
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| director= [[Mervyn Pinfield]] (episodes 1-4), [[Frank Cox]] (episode 5-6) |
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| producer= [[Verity Lambert]] |
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| broadcast date= [[20th June]] - <br/> [[1st August]] [[1964]] |
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| format= 6 25-minute Episodes |
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| production code= [[G]]|
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| previous story= [[The Aztecs (TV story)|The Aztecs]] |
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| next story= [[The Reign of Terror (TV story)|The Reign of Terror]] }}
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| '''The Sensorites''' was the seventh story of [[Season 1]]. While the dialogue of "[[The Daleks (TV story)|The Daleks]]" and "[[The Keys of Marinus]]" never made it clear if these stories were set in the past, present, or future, this was the first story to be categorically set in the future, and especially the future of [[Earth]]. | | *'''''[[The Sensorites (TV story)|The Sensorites]]''''', an episode of ''[[Doctor Who]]''. |
| | *The '''[[Sensorite]]s''', a race of [[telepathy|telepaths]]. |
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| == Summary ==
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| The Doctor, Ian, Barbara and Susan arrive in the [[TARDIS]] on board a spaceship. Their initial concern is for the ship's [[human]] crew who are suffering from telepathic interference from the [[Sensorites]], but Susan communicates with the Sensorites and finds that the aliens are fearful of an attack from the humans and are just defending themselves. Travelling to the [[Sense Sphere]] (the Sensorites' planet) the Doctor then seeks to cure an illness the Sensorites and Ian have succumbed to, but finds that this has been caused by deliberate poisoning. The political maneuvering of the Sensorite [[City Administrator]] adds an additional threat to the TARDIS crew as he seeks to discredit and implicate them
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| == Plot ==
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| The [[TARDIS]] travellers land on a moving spaceship and find the crew apparently dead. However, one of the crew members, Captain [[Maitland]], regains consciousness and [[Ian Chesterton]] fully revives him and another woman, [[Carol Richmond]]. These two tell the travellers that they are on an exploration mission from [[Earth]] and are orbitting [[Sense-Sphere]]. However, its inhabitants, the [[Sensorite]]s, refuse to let them leave the orbit. The Sensorites visit and stop the travellers from leaving, while sending them on a collision course, which [[First Doctor|the Doctor]] diverts. The travellers then meet [[John]] (whose mind has been broken by the Sensorites) and find out that he is Carol's fiancé.
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| Returning to to plague the crew, the Sensorites freeze Carol and Maitland once more. The Doctor breaks Maitland's mental conditioning, but cannot help John. [[Susan Foreman|Susan]]'s [[telepathy|telepathic]] mind is flooded with the many voices of the Sensorites who remain scared of the [[human]]s and are trying to communicate with her. Meanwhile, the Doctor works out that the Sensorites attacked the human craft because John, a mineralogist, had discovered a vast supply of [[molybdenum]] on Sense-Sphere. Susan reports that the Sensorites want to make contact with travellers, asking the crew to go aboard Sense-sphere and reveal that a previous Earth expedition caused them great misery. The Doctor refuses but Susan, under duress, agrees and departs.
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| The Doctor deduces that the Sensorites need plenty of light, so Ian reduces the lighting on the ship, in a bid to rescue Susan. As a result, Susan returns to the [[spacecraft]]. The Doctor then asks the Sensorites to return his lock and is invited to go to Sense-Sphere to speak with the leader. Susan, Ian, Carol and John join him while [[Barbara Wright|Barbara]] and Maitland stay behind. John is promised that his condition will be reversed. On their journey to Sense-Sphere, the party learn that the previous visitors from Earth exploited Sense-sphere for its wealth, then argued. Half of them stole the spacecraft, which exploded on take-off.
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| The Sensorite Council is divided over the issue of inviting the party to Sense-Sphere: some of the councillors plot to kill them on arrival, but some believe that the humans can help with the disease that is currently killing many Sensorites. Their first plot is foiled by the other Sensorites, but they continue to plot in secret. The humans are not told of the first plot, and John and Carol are cured. In the main conference room, Ian starts vomiting and collapses. Suffering from the disease that has blighted the Sensorites, he is told that he will soon die.
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| It turns out that he was actually [[poison]]ed by drinking water from the general aqueduct. The Doctor finds the problem aqueduct and starts work with the Sensorite scientists. The plotting Sensorites impersonate the Sensorite leader and steal the new cure, before it is given to Ian, but a new one is made easily and Ian is cured.
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| Meanwhile, investigating the aqueduct, the Doctor finds strange noises and darkness. He finds and removes [[deadly nightshade]] (the cause of the poisoning), but on going back, meets an unseen monster. Susan and Ian find him unconscious with a ripped coat, but otherwise unharmed. On being recovered, he tells of his suspicion that some Sensorites are plotting to kill them. The plotting Sensorites kill the Second-Cheif and one of them replaces him in his position.
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| John tells the others that he knows the lead plotter, but he is now too powerful, so The Doctor and Carol go down to the aqueduct to find the poisoners. Their weapons and map were tampered with and are useless.
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| Elsewhere, a mysterious assailant abducts Carol and forces her to write saying she has left back for the ship. Neither Susan, John or Barbara believe this so they go to investigate and find her imprisoned. Susan, John and Barbara overpower the guard and release Carol. On finding out about the tampered tools, they go into the aqueduct to rescue the Doctor and Ian. The leader discovers the plotters a little while later.
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| Ian and the Doctor discover that the monsters were actually the survivors of the previous Earth mission, and they had been poisoning the Sensorites. Their deranged Commander leads them to the surface, where they are arrested by the Sesnsorites. The Doctor and his party return to the city, pleading clemency for the poisoners. The leader of the Sensorites agrees and sends them back with Maitland, John and Carol to Earth, for treatment for madness.
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| == Cast ==
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| * [[The Doctor|Dr. Who]] - [[William Hartnell]]
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| * [[Ian Chesterton]] - [[William Russell]]
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| * [[Barbara Wright]] - [[Jacqueline Hill]]
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| * [[Susan Foreman]] - [[Carole Ann Ford]]
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| * [[John (The Sensorites)|John]] - [[Stephen Dartnell]]
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| * [[Carol Richmond]] - [[Ilona Rogers]]
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| * [[Maitland | Captain Maitland]] - [[Lorne Cossette]]
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| * [[First Sensorite]] - [[Ken Tyllsen]]
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| * [[Second Sensorite]] - [[Joe Greig]]
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| * [[Third Sensorite]] - [[Peter Glaze]]
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| * [[Fourth Sensorite]] - [[Arthur Newall]]
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| * [[First Elder]] - [[Eric Francis]]
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| * [[Second Elder]] - [[Bartlett Mullins]]
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| * [[First Scientist]] - [[Ken Tyllsen]]
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| * [[Second Scientist]] - [[Joe Greig]]
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| * [[Warrior]] - [[Joe Greig]]
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| * [[Commander (The Sensorites)|Commander]] - [[John Bailey]]
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| * [[First Human]] - [[Martyn Huntley]]
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| * [[Second Human]] - [[Giles Phibbs]]
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| * [[Sensorite]] - [[Anthony Rogers]] (uncredited)
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| * [[Sensorite]] - [[Gerry Martin]] (uncredited)
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| == Crew ==
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| * [[Writer]] - [[Peter R. Newman]]
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| * [[Director]] - [[Mervyn Pinfield]] (episodes 1-4), [[Frank Cox]] (episodes 5-6)
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| * [[Producer]] - [[Verity Lambert]]
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| * [[Script Editor]] - [[David Whitaker]]
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| * [[Designer]] - [[Raymond Cusick]]
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| * [[Assistant Floor Manager]] - [[Dawn Robertson]]
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| * [[Assistant Floor Manager]] - [[Val McCrimmon]]
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| * [[Associate Producer]] - [[Mervyn Pinfield]]
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| * [[Costumes]] - [[Daphne Dare]]
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| * [[Incidental Music]] - [[Norman Kay]]
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| * [[Make-Up]] - [[Jill Summers]]
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| * [[Make-Up]] - [[Sonia Markham]]
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| * [[Production Assistant]] - [[David Conroy]]
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| * [[Special Sound]] - [[Brian Hodgson]]
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| * [[Studio Lighting]] - [[Peter Murray]]
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| * [[Studio Sound]] - [[Jack Brummitt]]
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| * [[Studio Sound]] - [[Les Wilkins]]
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| * [[Theme Arrangement]] - [[Delia Derbyshire]]
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| * [[Title Music]] - [[Ron Grainer]]
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| == Notes ==
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| * All episodes exist in [[16mm telerecordings]]
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| * Negative film prints of all epsisodes where recovered from [[BBC Enterprises]] in [[1978]]
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| * Jacqueline Hill does not appear in episodes 5 and 6 as she was on holiday while they were filmed
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| * This story was nearly cancelled as a result of a studio dispute
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| * Hidden Danger was postponed for one week due to a sporting event
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| * [[Stephen Dartnell]] appears as John. He had previously appeared as [[Yartek]] in [[The Keys of Marinus]]
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| * [[John Bailey]], later to feature as [[Edward Waterfield]] in [[1967]]'s [[The Evil of the Daleks]] has a role here as the Commander
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| * [[Designer]] [[Raymond Cusick]] used almost all curves in his sets for the [[Sense Sphere]], feeling that this would give a more alien look
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| * [[Russell T. Davies]] has acknowledged the Sensorites as an influence on the basic concept of the [[Ood]] in "[[The Impossible Planet]]" and "[[The Satan Pit]]."
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| === Ratings ===
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| * Strangers in Space - 7.9m viewers
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| * The Unwilling Warriors - 6.9m viewers
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| * Hidden Danger - 7.4m viewers
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| * A Race Against Death - 5.5m viewers
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| * Kidnap - 6.9m viewers
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| * A Desperate Venture - 6.9m viewers
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| === Myths ===
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| * The Humans responsible for poisoning the water supplies were part of a group called INEER. ''(The initials INEER were meant to be the end of the word Engineer.)''
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| * Arthur Newall appeared in ''Doctor Who'' as a [[Dalek]]. ''(He in fact appeared in this story as a Sensorite.)''
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| === Location filming ===
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| * This story was filmed at [[BBC Television Centre Studio TC3]], and [[Lime Grove Studio D]]
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| == Continuity ==
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| * Dialogue suggests the Doctor has only 1 heart at this stage of his life.
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| * Despite travelling together for years the Doctor and Susan have never argued.
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| * Dialogue seems to confirm Susan and the Doctor are from the same planet, indicating that she was born on [[Gallifrey]].
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| * Susan has telepathic abilities which the Doctor is not aware of however it is suggested that many of those on Gallifrey have such abilities as the Doctor suggests her skills could be perfected if she gets home.
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| * Gallifrey is similar to [[Earth]] but the sky at night is burnt orange and the tree leaves are bright silver.
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| * The Doctor once argued with [[Henry VIII]] as he wanted to be sentenced to the[[Tower of London]] where the TARDIS was located.
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| * The Doctor and Susan encountered telepathic plants on the planet [[Esto]].
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| == Discontinuity ==
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| * During episode 1 while the Doctor is delivering his lines the camera hits the table in front of him.
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| * The drill marks are visible before Maitland starts to use the drill.
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| * It is stretching credibility to the extreme to suggest that the Sensorites can only recognise each other by the sashes they wear.
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| * Despite this story being set in the [[28th Century]] the astronauts wore contemporary looking space suits. Not a trend which is seen in other stories set in this time period.
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| == Story novelisation ==
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| [[Image:Sensorites target118.jpg|left|75px]]
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| * The story novelisation was published as ''Doctor Who: The Sensorites'' in [[July]] [[1987]] ISBN 0426202953. The story was written by [[Nigel Robinson]] and was number 118 in the series of 156 ''Doctor Who'' novels published by [[Target Books]].
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| == DVD, video, and audio releases ==
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| [[Image:Sensorites bbcvideo-1068-us.jpg|right|75px]]
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| * '''Video Release''' - Released as Doctor Who: The Sensorites
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| ::[[UK]] Release: [[June]] [[2000]] / [[US]] Release: [[October]] [[2003]]
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| ::PAL - [[BBC Video]] BBCV7276
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| ::NTSC - [[Warner Video]] E1852
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| : Released as part of The First Doctor Collection boxset in the UK - BBCV7278.
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| : Released as part of The End of the Universe Collection in the US.
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| == External links ==
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| [http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/episodeguide/sensorites/ BBC Episode Guide Page with video clips]
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| [http://www.drwhoguide.com/who_g.htm Story synopsis at the Doctor Who Reference Guide]
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| [http://www.physics.mun.ca/~sps/serials/g.html A Brief History of Time Travel]
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| [http://www.eofftv.com/episodes/d/doctor_who/1st_doctor/sensorites_main.htm Encylopedia of Fantastic Film and Television]
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| [http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/episodeguide/pasb/sensorites.pdf BBC Production Information]
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| {{Wikipedia|The_Sensorites}} | |
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| [[Category:First Doctor episodes|Sensorites]]
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| [[Category:Stories set in the 28th century|Sensorites, The]]
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