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| Scientific Reform Society | |
| Aliases: | SRS |
| Continuity: | Doctor Who |
| Type: | Secret society |
| Status: | Defunct |
| Leaders: | Hilda Winters |
| Members: | Arnold Jellicoe Jeremiah Kettlewell |
| Allies: | Experimental Prototype Robot K1 National Institute for Advanced Scientific Research |
| Enemies: | Fourth Doctor Sarah Jane Smith Harry Sullivan Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart |
| 1st appearance: | "Robot (Part 1)" |
The Scientific Reform Society is a fictional organization that appeared on the British science fiction programme Doctor Who. It is from the original series and is associated with the Fourth Doctor. It serves as the primary antagonist from the 1974-75 "Robot" storyline and first appeared in "Robot (Part 1)".
Description[]
The Scientific Reform Society was a secret society that wanted to reform the world along rational and scientific lines. It has been described as a "rum pot organization", which had been formed many years ago. Its leadership was determined by the self-appointed elite. In early 1975, scientists Hilda Winters and Arnold Jellicoe had joined their ranks. A roboticist named Jeremiah Kettlewell reluctantly fell in with them, despite the fact that Winters and Jellicoe's work at the National Institute for Advanced Scientific Research laboratory had run counter to his environmentally minded goals.
Through Hilda Winters, the SRS intended on using Professor Kettlewell's Experimental Prototype Robot K1 to steal nuclear launch codes, by which they would blackmail the United Nations into surrendering global control to them under the threat of a nuclear holocaust.
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Notes & Trivia[]
- Doctor Who was created by British TV producer Sydney Newman, with additional material developed by Donald Wilson and C.E. Webber. The original series began airing in the United Kingdom in November 1963 and ran for twenty-six seasons until December 1989. The show was relaunched in 2005 and has since been aired on BBC One and BBC America.
- The Scientific Reform Society's association with the National Institute for Advanced Scientific Research was deeply entrenched, with the SRS serving as the public face of the NIASR laboratory.