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* [[Action Girl]]: Sarah tackles a knife wielding thug and stops him from stabbing the doctor.
* [[Anti -Villain]]: Yates becomes a Type III on the [[Sliding Scale of Anti -Villains|scale]].
** Not to mention Grover, and the chosen in Operation Golden Age though they're closer to Type IV.
* [[Being Evil Sucks]]: By siding with Operation Golden Age, Yates not only alienates his friends, but also finds himself reluctantly doing things that would harm them.
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* [[Don't Shoot the Message]]: The gist of the Doctor's speech at the end.
* [[Easily Forgiven]]: Yates is simply removed from UNIT.
* [[EverythingsEverything's Better With Dinosaurs]]
* [[Evil Luddite]]: The villains' motivation.
* [[Face Heel Turn]]: Captain Yates.
* [[Family -Unfriendly Death]]: There is a short but extremely gory shot of the dead looter with half his face ripped off.
* [[Fauxtastic Voyage]]
* [[Five -Bad Band]]
** [[The Big Bad]]: Grover
** [[The Evil Genius]]: Whitaker
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* [[Fridge Brilliance]]: The last time we saw Mike Yates he'd been [[Mind Rape|Mind Raped]] by a corrupt industrialist and nursed back to health in a hippie commune. Little wonder he joined Operation Golden Age.
** The Brigadier is strangely quick to forgive Mike for his betrayal. However, since this is the same man who ordered the total genocide of a sentient, hibernating race (in a story written by the same writer no less) it's easy to see why he would sympathise with Yates's actions.
* [[Have You Told Anyone Else|Have You Told Anyone Else?]]: General Finch to Sarah Jane. She didn't, but she left a note on the desk.
* [[Hit Me Dammit]]: Benton to the Doctor, when Finch orders him to hold the Doctor prisoner.
* [[Horrible Judge of Character]]: Sarah gets captured twice through treating first Grover and then Finch as [[Reasonable Authority Figure|Reasonable Authority Figures]] without noticing their treachery. Particularly bad the second time, as she's incredibly trusting of Finch at a point when she knows anyone could be potentially in on the conspiracy.
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* [[Special Effects Failure]]: A major example. To say the dinosaurs were crap is a bit of an understatement.
* [[Spoiler Title]]: Aversion: Part One of Doctor Who serial "Invasion of the Dinosaurs" was simply titled "Invasion". However, as always ''Radio Times'' printed the full title and spoiled the twist.
* [[Spotlight -Stealing Title]]: The serial's really about Operation Golden Age's schemes. The dinosaurs are secondary to the plot. Malcolm Hulke and Terrance Dicks (writer and script editor receptively) had wanted to name the story ''Timescoop'', but the higher powers vetoed it.
* [[Token Evil Teammate]]: Project Golden Age may not be good guys by any standard but Whitaker probably qualifies as it's strongly implied he's only interested in advancing his research in contrast to his well meaning accomplices, and he's much more willing and quick to use lethal force than they are.
* [[Treacherous Advisor]]: Charles Grover
* [[Utopia Justifies the Means]]/[[Well -Intentioned Extremist]]: Operation Golden Age
* [[Wham Episode]]: The suspenseful tone of the first episode as well as the morally ambiguous villains and the Robber's bloody death heralded the darker tone the series would take in the Robert Holmes era. However, probably the most devastating event in the story is Yates's betrayal, not only marking the first time a regular had outright turned on the Doctor but also shattering the secure, cosy feeling of the UNIT family and heralding the series return to the Doctor's more nomadic lifestyle.
* [[The X of Y]]
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