The Harvesters (Doctor Who)


The Harvesters is an unproduced 1968 Doctor Who adventure serial written by William Emms for the Second Doctor Jamie and Zoe, and was considered as the third serial for the show’s 6th season.

Story

The Doctor, Jamie, and Zoe land on desolated purple planet conquered by “The Masters”, whom plan on taking the purple planet to a solar system, and dispatch their robots known as ‘Roboes’ to invade Earth. The Doctor, eventually, defeats “The Masters” by frightening them with a film of nuclear explosions.

Production

When failing submit The Harvesters for Season 6 unexpectedly, Emms redrafted the story in early 1970 as The Vampire Planet, and was considered as the final serial of Season 7, but was soon dropped in favor of Inferno.