Making the news in 1975 were (clockwise from top left) Field-Major Styre (from The Sontaran Experiment), the Daleks and Davros (from Genesis of the Daleks), the Wirrn (from The Ark in Space), Doctor Who (played by Tom Baker) and the eponymous Robot.
Anew Doctor always takes some getting used to, and several newspapers were unsure what to make of Tom Baker’s boggle-eyed livewire after five years of the dandy action-man played by Jon Pertwee.