Spearhead From Space was awesome. Successfully setting up a new start for Doctor Who and building the extended family of UNIT around Jon Pertwee as the 3rd Doctor. His first season as the Doctor would feature tight focused stories with an undeniable Quatermass vibe. The exiled Doctor, Liz and UNIT would discover more about Earths history, investigate a case of missing astronauts and the Doctor would take a trip sideways into an alternate Earth. Its a great season! Check it out!
For season 8 the Doctor would (mostly) still be confined to Earth. Working with a growing UNIT and new companion. Liz Shaw would leave in between 8 and 9.
Her intelligent, cynical scientist was deemed to be too much like the Doctor and not able to represent the audience in the way previous companions had. She sadly didn't even get to go on a trip in the TARDIS or a farewell scene.
Liz would leave due to being frustrated with her role, saying the Doctor only needed someone to pass test tubes to him and say how great his was. But in would come Jo Grant, who got the job as the Doctors assistant because her uncle pulled some strings. Her first scene says lot about how she differs form Liz. She totally isn't a scientist.....
Along with the enthusiastic but rather ditsy and clumsy Jo, UNIT would have some other regular faces along with the Brig. The loyal and awesome
Sergeant Benton debuted in the first UNIT story, The Invasion, returned and
Captain Mike Yates joined alongside Jo at the start of season 8. Yates was a more suave character, working as the Brigs second in command. Yates and Jo are blates at it in between stories.
Season 8 started with the story, Terror of the Autons, having been popular the Autons had been brought straight back. But they would not be the only villain of the story. The producers of the show had noticed that the relationship between the Doctor and the Brigadier was often like that of Holmes and Watson. They decided it was time to create the Doctors very own Moriarty. The Master was born! Roger Delgado was chosen to play the Doctors shadow and having escaped the Time Lords he was determined to create havoc.
He would feature in every story of season 8, even in a now rare story off Earth (the time lords move the Doctor to deal with him), he hypnotised and disguised himself into, and out, of trouble. He would always find a way to escape UNITs clutches. So as season 8 draws to a close, what does the Master have in store for the Doctor this time?