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The Silurians are a fictional race of reptile-like humanoids in the long-running British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. The species first appeared in ''Doctor Who'' in the 1970 serial ''Doctor Who and the Silurians'', and were created by Malcolm Hulke. The first Silurians introduced are depicted as prehistoric and scientifically advanced sentient humanoids who predate the dawn of man; in their backstory, the Silurians went into self-induced hibernation to survive what they predicted to be a large geological upheaval caused by the Earth capturing the Moon. The Silurians introduced in the 1970 story are broad, three-eyed land-dwellers. The 1972 serial ''The Sea Devils'' also by Hulke introduced their amphibious cousins, the so-called 'Sea Devils'. Both Silurians and Sea Devils made an appearance in 1984's ''Warriors of the Deep''. After ''Warriors of the Deep'', the Silurians did not appear in the show again before its 1989 cancellation. Heavily redesigned Silurans were reintroduced to the series in 2010, following the show's 2005 revival, and have recurred frequently since then. Commonly called Silurians, the creatures have also been referred to by other names. The terms "Silurians" and "Eocenes" are human misnomers, as the creatures date from a period between those times. The name ''Homo reptilia'' (itself a taxonomic misnomer, placing the species in the same genus as humans) is first used to describe the creatures in a novelisation of ''Doctor Who and the Silurians'' by Malcolm Hulke, and is first used in the series proper in the episode "The Hungry Earth" (2010). ==Creation== Producers Peter Bryant and Derrick Sherwin, drawing on the ideas of the Quatermass serials, decided that for the series' seventh season, the show's protagonist the Doctor should be restricted to contemporary Earth and work alongside the UNIT organisation, featured prominently in the sixth season's serial ''The Invasion''. Producer Barry Letts and script editor Terrance Dicks, inheriting this new vision for the series, also wanted their stories for the seventh season to have a serious, deeper subtext. They approached Malcolm Hulke, co-writer of the Patrick Troughton serials ''The Faceless Ones'' (1967) and ''The War Games'' (1969), to write a serial for this new season. Hulke saw limitations with this earthbound format – he believed there would be two types of stories, one featuring mad scientists and the other alien invasions. Terrance Dicks claims credit for thinking of the idea of creatures that had been there all along; however, other sources give Hulke credit for deliberately thinking his way outside of his earlier preconceptions. While planning stories for ''Doctor Whos ninth season, Dicks and Letts decided to revive the Silurian concept, this time with the twist of these new Silurians originating in the sea. Originally dubbed "Sea Silurians", they were rechristened "Sea Devils" for dramatic effect as the scripts were edited. Johnny Byrne, writer of the Peter Davison serial ''Warriors of the Deep'' (1984), notes that the Myrka creature was created to absolve the Silurians from the guilt of genocide, using the creature as a weapon of last resort. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Silurian (Doctor Who)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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