Autons

Androids made of plastics and inhabited by the Nestene consciousness.  The first generation of Autons were made to look like store dummies, and were equipped with deadly wrist-blasters.  A more advanced type of Auton were the humanoid replicas.   During their second invasion, in addition to the deadly dummy-like Autons, the Nestene also controlled a murderous range of plastic items such as a chair, a doll, a telephone cord, and plastic daffodils activated by short-wave radio.

NESTENE: A billion-year old collective intelligence who abandoned their physical bodies to become a single entity of pure mind, made of energy. The Nestene's original shape was a tentacled creature, with a large, single eye, combining features of the crab and the octopus. The Nestene first arrived on Earth in plastic meteors. (They have a special affinity for plastics.) They took over the mind of the managing director of Autoplastics, Ltd., Hibbert, and used him to manufacture deadly Autons, as well as replicas of VIPs. Their invasion failed because the portion of their consciousness which had been incorporated on Earth was short-circuited by the Third Doctor and Liz Shaw. The Nestene were summoned back to Earth by the Master, who helped them take over the Farrel plastics factory. During their second invasion, in addition to the deadly, dummy-like Autons, the Nestene also controlled a murderous range of plastic items, such as a chair, a doll, a telephone cord and millions of plastic daffodils, which needed the arrival of more Nestene before they could be activated. The Third Doctor managed to convince the Master that the Nestene would destroy him too, and the two Time Lords cooperated to banish them back to outer space before they could fully materialize.