The doctor first encountered Autons on the seventh series, in the episode Spearhead from Space.
Terror of the Autons, a Third Doctor episode broadcast in 1971.
the daleks cybermen autons etc
Doctor Who - 1963 Terror of the Autons Episode Three 8-3 is rated/received certificates of: Australia:PG UK:PG (DVD rating)
Doctor Who - 1963 Terror of the Autons Episode One 8-1 is rated/received certificates of: Australia:PG UK:PG (DVD rating)
Doctor Who - 1963 Terror of the Autons Episode Two 8-2 is rated/received certificates of: Australia:PG UK:PG (DVD rating)
Doctor Who - 1963 Terror of the Autons Episode Four 8-4 is rated/received certificates of: Australia:PG UK:PG (DVD rating)
Yes. Autons can have different levels of physical and mental specialisation. The Autons in 'The Pandorica Opens' not only looked and acted identically to humans, but even believed they were human up until the Nestene Consciousness asserted its control over them.
I dunno ,but in Doctor Who the episode Rose with Autons and the Nestine Contiousness, she worked in a shop.
Terror of the Autons happened on 1971-01-23.
In the original Series the first villiam was a member of the Tribe of Gum in the story 10,000 B.C although the first villain to be thought of as a villain was the Daleks in the very next Story arc originally called the Mutants. In the New series however the First villain was the autons and Nestene Intellegence originally created for Jon Pertwee's first season.
Because the Nestene Consciousness got mad at The Doctor for destroying his/her planet in the old series where all he did was he couldn't save it from certain destruction. The Consciousness escaped before its planet being destroyed and then chose Earth as its next home world, and with Nestenes powers to control plastic, and all the plastic we own at Earth, what could be a better home world! So to make a new home Nestene had to kill or "Plastify" every human being so nestene brought the autons back which are those plastic people. But when The Doctor told it what really happened Nestene turned his words around by saying that The Doctor saves so many things, & wonders why The Doctor forgot about him. So Nestene raged on a bit, making the autons kill more people when Rose kills Nestene with the Anti-Plastic. So i hope that makes sense!
First Encounter was created on 1971-03-08.