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An original Silurian head, as used in Doctor Who and the Silurians.. Drawing on the ideas of the Quatermass serials, producer Peter Bryant and producer and script editor Derrick Sherwin decided that for the series' seventh season, the show's protagonist the Doctor should be restricted to contemporary Earth and work alongside the UNIT organisation, featured prominently in the sixth season's ...
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 Silurian (/ s ɪ ˈ lj ʊər i. ən, s aɪ-/ sih-LURE-ee-ən, sy-) [8] [9] [10] is a geologic period and system spanning 24.6 million years from the end of the Ordovician Period, at 443.1 million years ago (), to the beginning of the Devonian Period, 419.62 Mya. [11]
The eponymous Silurians on Doctor Who are a race of reptilian humanoids from Earth's past, making their first appearance in the show in 1970. Frank and Schmidt cite Inherit the Stars, a 1977 novel by J. P. Hogan as containing a similar hypothesis, but also say they were surprised by how rarely the concept was explored in science fiction. [2]
The Latin word Silures is of Celtic origin, perhaps derived from the Common Celtic root *sīlo-, 'seed'.Words derived from this root in Celtic languages (for example Old Irish síl, Welsh hil) are used to mean 'blood-stock, descendants, lineage, offspring', as well as 'seed' in the vegetable sense.
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The Silurians were villains who had previously appeared in the 1970 serial Doctor Who and the Silurians and the 1984 serial Warriors of the Deep. [2] For research, Chibnall read the original novel Doctor Who and the Cave Monsters and watched the original serial, noting the freedom writer Malcolm Hulke took with the novel in things he could not ...
The earlier Doctor Who and the Silurians had resulted in many letters from scientists and geologists who argued that it was impossible for a reptilian lifeform to have existed in the Silurian period. In this story the Doctor admits that the name "Silurian" is inaccurate and states they should more properly be called "Eocenes". [3]