Doctor Who and the Silurians (a two-part Eleventh Doctor story from 2010), in 'The Monster Collection' series, specifically "The Silurians" entry. Doctor Who and the Silurians 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 serial is set in an English moorland, the cave system below it, and London. In the serial, the alien time traveller the Third Doctor (Jon Pertwee) attempts to broker peace between humanity and the Silurians, an intelligent bipedal race
The Doctor (Doctor Who) Time Lords a fixed number of twelve regenerations, meaning that every Time Lord had a total of thirteen incarnations including the original. The plot of "The Time of the Doctor" involves the Doctor receiving a new cycle of regenerations from the Time Lords before his expected demise, triggering the regeneration into the Twelfth Doctor, played by Peter Capaldi. The origins of the programme were explored in the docudrama "An Adventure in Space and Time" as part of the 50th anniversary celebrations of "Doctor Who", which starred David Bradley as William Hartnell. Although Time Lords resemble humans, their physiology differs in