DOCTOR WHO
EPISODE GUIDE

Series 1: 1963-1964
Regular cast: William Hartnell [the Doctor], William Russell [Ian Chesterton], Jacqueline Hill [Barbara Wright], Carole Ann Ford [Susan Foreman].
Producer: Verity Lambert
Associate Producer: Mervyn Pinfield
Story Editor: David Whitaker

001. AN UNEARTHLY CHILD [1 episode, 0:23:10]
written by Anthony Coburn; directed by Waris Hussein
An Unearthly Child [23/11/63]: Two teachers find one of their pupils lives in a time machine with her mysterious grandfather.

002. 100,000 B.C. [3 episodes, 1:12:36]
written by Anthony Coburn; directed by Waris Hussein
Main cast: Derek Newark [Za], Alethea Charlton [Hur], Jeremy Young [Kal], Eileen Way [Old Mother].
The Cave of Skulls [30/11/63]: The travellers are captured by a Stone Age tribe that has lost the secret of making fire.
The Forest of Fear [07/12/63]: The travellers escape their grisly prison but are recaptured after helping Za.
The Firemaker [14/12/63]: Ian succeeds in making fire for the tribe.

003. THE MUTANTS [7 episodes, 2:51:45]
written by Terry Nation; directed by Christopher Barry
Main cast: John Lee [Alydon], Philip Bond [Ganatus], Virginia Wetherell [Dyoni], Gerald Curtis [Elyon].
The Dead Planet [21/12/63]: The travellers discover a futuristic city at the edge of a petrified forest.
The Survivors [28/12/63]: The travellers are captured by the Daleks, mutated survivors of a nuclear war.
directed by Richard Martin
The Escape [04/01/64]: Susan meets a Thal named Alydon and arranges a meeting between his people and the Daleks.
directed by Christopher Barry
The Ambush [11/01/64]: The travellers escape but are unable to prevent the Daleks ambushing the Thals.
The Expedition [18/01/64]: Ian incites the Thals into taking action against the Daleks.
directed by Richard Martin
The Ordeal [25/01/64]: Ian and Barbara accompany a Thal expedition through mountains behind the Dalek city.
The Rescue [01/02/64]: The Daleks are defeated before they can detonate a nuclear bomb.

004. INSIDE THE SPACESHIP [2 episodes, 0:47:15]
written by David Whitaker; directed by Richard Martin
The Edge of Destruction [08/02/64]: The travellers lose their memories after an explosion plunges the Tardis into darkness.
directed by Frank Cox
The Brink of Disaster [15/02/64]: The Tardis tries to alert the crew to impending disaster.

005. MARCO POLO [7 episodes, 2:50:44]
written by John Lucarotti; directed by Waris Hussein
Main cast: Mark Eden [Marco Polo], Derren Nesbitt [Tegana], Zienia Merton [Ping-cho], Martin Miller [Kublai Khan].
The Roof of the World [22/02/64]: The travellers meet Marco Polo who insists on making them join his caravan.
The Singing Sands [29/02/64]: The caravan's water supplies are sabotaged whilst crossing the Gobi Desert.
Five Hundred Eyes [07/03/64]: Barbara follows Tegana to the Cave of Five Hundred Eyes.
directed by John Crockett
The Wall of Lies [14/03/64]: Polo confiscates the Doctor's spare Tardis key.
directed by Waris Hussein
Rider from Shang-tu [21/03/64]: The caravan is attacked by bandits.
Mighty Kublai Khan [28/03/64]: The caravan arrives in Peking.
Assassin at Peking [04/04/64]: The Doctor loses the Tardis to Kublai Khan in a game of backgammon.

006. THE KEYS OF MARINUS [6 episodes, 2:27:50]
written by Terry Nation; directed by John Gorrie
Main cast: George Coulouris [Arbitan], Robin Phillips [Altos], Katharine Schofield [Sabetha], Fiona Walker [Kala].
The Sea of Death [11/04/64]: Arbitan forces the travellers to search for hidden microchips.
The Velvet Web [18/04/64]: The travellers arrive in what appears to be a luxurious citadel, but appearances are deceptive.
The Screaming Jungle [25/04/64]: Ian and Barbara find the second microchip in a lab threatened by mutated plantlife.
The Snows of Terror [02/05/64]: The quest is nearly thwarted by a murderous fur-trapper.
Sentence of Death [09/05/64]: Ian is accused of murder in the city of Millennium.
The Keys of Marinus [16/05/64]: The Doctor proves Ian's innocence and the travellers return with the microchips.

007. THE AZTECS [4 episodes, 1:39:04]
written by John Lucarotti; directed by John Crockett
Main cast: John Ringham [Tlotoxl], Keith Pyott [Autloc], Ian Cullen [Ixta], Margot van der Burgh [Cameca].
The Temple of Evil [23/05/64]: Barbara is hailed as a reincarnated Aztec High Priest and tries to stop a human sacrifice.
The Warriors of Death [30/05/64]: The Doctor helps Ixta win a fight, not realising Ixta's opponent is Ian.
The Bride of Sacrifice [06/06/64]: The Doctor finds a way for Ian to get back to the Tardis.
The Day of Darkness [13/06/64]: Barbara is forced to preside over a sacrifice whilst her companions make their escape.

008. THE SENSORITES [6 episodes, 2:29:30]
written by Peter R.Newman; directed by Mervyn Pinfield
Main cast: Stephen Dartnell [John], Ilona Rogers [Carol], Lorne Cossett [Captain Maitland].
Strangers in Space [20/06/64]: The travellers find a silent spaceship and an apparently dead crew.
The Unwilling Warriors [27/06/64]: The ship comes under attack from the telepathic Sensorites.
Hidden Danger [11/07/64]: Leaving Barbara on the ship, the others are taken to the Sense-Sphere.
A Race Against Death [18/07/64]: The Doctor finds a cure for Ian's poisoning and sets off to find the cause.
directed by Frank Cox
Kidnap [25/07/64]: The Doctor finds survivors from a previous Earth expedition are poisoning the Sensorites' water supplies.
A Desperate Venture [01/08/64]: Carol is rescued from her kidnapper.

009. THE REIGN OF TERROR [6 episodes, 2:27:32]
written by Dennis Spooner; directed by Henric Hirsch
Main cast: Jack Cunningham [Jailer], James Cairncross [Lemaitre], Edward Brayshaw [Leon Colbert], Keith Anderson [Robespierre].
A Land of Fear [08/08/64]: The Tardis arrives near Paris during Robespierre's Reign of Terror.
Guests of Madame Guillotine [15/08/64]: Ian, Barbara and Susan are imprisoned and sentenced to execution.
A Change of Identity [22/08/64]: The Doctor masquerades as a provincial governor in order to free his companions.
The Tyrant of France [29/08/64]: The Doctor meets Robespierre, Susan is recaptured and Ian enters a trap.
A Bargain of Necessity [05/09/64]: The Doctor rescues Susan from prison whilst Ian is rescued from Colbert's trap.
Prisoners of Conciergerie [12/09/64]: Ian and Barbara witness the first act in Napoleon's rise to power.


Series 2: 1964-1965
Regular cast: William Hartnell [the Doctor], William Russell [Ian Chesterton], Jacqueline Hill [Barbara Wright], Carole Ann Ford [Susan Foreman].
Producer: Verity Lambert
Associate Producer: Mervyn Pinfield
Story Editor: David Whitaker

010. PLANET OF GIANTS [3 episodes, 1:13:30]
written by Louis Marks; directed by Mervyn Pinfield
Main cast: Alan Tilvern [Forrester], Frank Crawshaw [Farrow], Rosemary Johnson [Hilda Rowse], Fred Ferris [Bert Rowse].
Planet of Giants [31/10/64]: The travellers find themselves shrunken to an inch tall and witness a murder.
Dangerous Journey [07/11/64]: The travellers find their way into the murderer's house.
directed by Mervyn Pinfield & Douglas Camfield
Crisis [14/11/64]: The travellers engineer an explosion which goes off in Forrester's face.

011. THE DALEK INVASION OF EARTH [6 episodes, 2:28:24]
written by Terry Nation; directed by Richard Martin
Main cast: Peter Fraser [David Campbell], Bernard Kay [Carl Tyler], Ann Davies [Jenny], Allan Judd [Dortmun].
World's End [21/11/64]: The Tardis materialises in a deserted and devastated London.
The Daleks [28/11/64]: The travellers join forces with a resistance group and attack a Dalek saucer.
Day of Reckoning [05/12/64]: The travellers and resistance fighters are forced to flee London.
The End of Tomorrow [12/12/64]: Ian arrives at a huge mine in Bedfordshire on board a Dalek saucer.
The Waking Ally [19/12/64]: As the others arrive and are captured, Ian hides inside a massive Dalek bomb.
Flashpoint [26/12/64]: The Doctor engineers a rebellion against the Daleks and realises Susan wants to stay with David.

Regular cast: William Hartnell [the Doctor], William Russell [Ian Chesterton], Jacqueline Hill [Barbara Wright], Maureen O'Brien [Vicki].
Story Editor: Dennis Spooner

012. THE RESCUE [2 episodes, 0:50:51]
written by David Whitaker; directed by Christopher Barry
Main cast: Ray Barrett [Bennett].
The Powerful Enemy [02/01/65]: Barbara meets the survivors of a spaceship crash who are being terrorised by the evil Koquilion.
Desperate Measures [09/01/65]: The Doctor finds Koquilion is Bennett in disguise and offers Vicki a place onboard the Tardis.

013. THE ROMANS [4 episodes, 1:36:55]
written by Dennis Spooner; directed by Christopher Barry
Main cast: Derek Francis [Nero], Brian Proudfoot [Tigilinus], Kay Patrick [Poppaea], Barry Jackson [Ascaris].
The Slave Traders [16/01/65]: Whilst the Doctor and Vicki travel to Rome, Ian and Barbara are captured by slave traders.
All Roads Lead to Rome [23/01/65]: Barbara is sold to the imperial household whilst Ian escapes a sinking galley.
Conspiracy [30/01/65]: The Doctor gives a performance on the lyre, an instrument he cannot play.
Inferno [06/02/65]: The Doctor unwittingly gives Nero the idea of burning down Rome.

Associate Producer: position terminated

014. THE WEB PLANET [6 episodes, 2:26:35]
written by Bill Strutton; directed by Richard Martin
Main cast: Roslyn de Winter [Vrestin], Martin Jarvis [Hilio], Jolyon Booth [Prapilius], Arne Gordon [Hrostar].
The Web Planet [13/02/65]: The Tardis is forced to land on a seemingly deserted planet.
The Zarbi [20/02/65]: The Doctor, Ian and Vicki are captured by the Zarbi, whilst Barbara makes contact with the Menoptera.
Escape to Danger [27/02/65]: Ian escapes and is saved from recapture by Vrestin.
Crater of Needles [06/03/65]: Barbara and Hrostar try to warn the Menoptera of a Zarbi ambush.
Invasion [13/03/65]: The Doctor and Vicki return to the Zarbi base with a weapon against the Zarbi's controller.
The Centre [20/03/65]: The travellers and their Menoptera allies are drawn towards the evil Animus.

015. THE CRUSADE [4 episodes, 1:36:55]
written by David Whitaker; directed by Douglas Camfield
Main cast: Julian Glover [King Richard], Bernard Kay [Saladin], Walter Randall [El Akir], George Little [Haroun].
The Lion [27/03/65]: The Tardis arrives in the midst of a skirmish between Crusaders and Saracens, and Barbara is captured.
The Knight of Jaffa [03/04/65]: Whilst Ian goes to rescue Barbara, the Doctor gets drawn into Richard's plottings.
The Wheel of Fortune [10/04/65]: Barbara is rescued from the evil El Akir but is eventually forced to give herself up.
The Warlords [17/04/65]: The Doctor and Vicki are forced to flee Richard's court whilst Ian frees Barbara.

016. THE SPACE MUSEUM [4 episodes, 1:31:26]
written by Glyn Jones; directed by Mervyn Pinfield
Main cast: Richard Shaw [Lobos], Jeremy Bulloch [Tor], Peter Craze [Dako].
The Space Museum [24/04/65]: After the Tardis jumps a time track, the travellers find they are to become exhibits in a museum.
The Dimensions of Time [01/05/65]: The Doctor is captured by the Moroks whilst Vicki makes contact with the rebel Xerons.
The Search [08/05/65]: Ian attempts to rescue the Doctor.
The Final Phase [15/05/65]: The rebellion started by Vicki saves the travellers from becoming exhibits.

017. THE CHASE [6 episodes, 2:28:05]
written by Terry Nation; directed by Richard Martin
Main cast: Ian Thompson [Malsan], Hywel Bennett [Rynian], Al Raymond [Prondyn], Peter Purves [Morton Dill].
The Executioners [22/05/65]: Pursued by the Daleks, the Tardis materialises on the desert planet of Aridius.
The Death of Time [29/05/65]: Ian and Vicki are captured by the Aridians, then the Daleks arrive.
Flight Through Eternity [05/06/65]: The Tardis makes short stops in the Empire State Building and on the Mary Celeste.
Journey Into Terror [12/06/65]: Vicki gets separated after a visit to a haunted house.
The Death of Doctor Who [19/06/65]: The travellers arrive on the jungle planet of Mechanus.
Regular cast: William Hartnell [the Doctor], William Russell [Ian], Jacqueline Hill [Barbara], Maureen O'Brien [Vicki], Peter Purves [Steven Taylor].
The Planet of Decision [26/06/65]: The travellers escape whilst the Mechanoids and Daleks battle for supremacy.

Regular cast: William Hartnell [the Doctor], Maureen O'Brien [Vicki], Peter Purves [Steven Taylor].
Story Editor: Donald Tosh

018. THE TIME MEDDLER [4 episodes, 1:37:32]
written by Dennis Spooner; directed by Douglas Camfield
Main cast: Peter Butterworth [the Monk], Alethea Charlton [Edith], Peter Russell [Eldred], Michael Miller [Wulnoth].
The Watcher [03/07/65]: The Tardis arrives on a beach in Northumbria in 1066.
The Meddling Monk [10/07/65]: The Doctor is captured by a fellow time traveller.
A Battle of Wits [17/07/65]: The Doctor finds the Monk intends to prevent the Norman Conquest.
Checkmate [24/07/65]: The villagers defeat a Viking attack whilst the Doctor sabotages the Monk's Tardis.


Series 3: 1965-1966
Regular cast: William Hartnell [the Doctor], Maureen O'Brien [Vicki], Peter Purves [Steven Taylor].
Producer: Verity Lambert
Story Editor: Donald Tosh

019. GALAXY FOUR [4 episodes, 1:36:18]
written by William Emms; directed by Derek Martinus
Main cast: Stephanie Bidmead [Maaga], Marina Martin, Susanna Carroll, Lyn Ashley [Drahvins].
Four Hundred Dawns [11/09/65]: The travellers meet the ruthless Drahvins on a planet that is about to explode.
Trap of Steel [18/09/65]: The Doctor and Vicki investigate the ship belonging to the hideous Rills.
Air Lock [25/09/65]: Vicki finds that despite their appearance, the Rills are really peaceful and benign.
The Exploding Planet [02/10/65]: The Doctor transfers power from the Tardis to the Rill ship.

Regular cast: William Hartnell [the Doctor] (credited but didn't appear).

020. MISSION TO THE UNKNOWN [1 episode, 0:24:42]
written by Terry Nation; directed by Derek Martinus
Main cast: Edward de Souza [Marc Cory], Jeremy Young [Gordon Lowery], Barry Jackson [Garvey].
Mission to the Unknown [09/10/65]: Secret agent Marc Cory discovers a hidden Dalek army on the deadly planet Kembel.

Regular cast: William Hartnell [the Doctor], Maureen O'Brien [Vicki], Peter Purves [Steven Taylor].
Producer: John Wiles

021. THE MYTH MAKERS [4 episodes, 1:39:32]
written by Donald Cotton; directed by Michael Leeston-Smith
Main cast: Ivor Salter [Odysseus], Francis de Wolff [Agamemnon], Max Adrian [Priam], Barrie Ingham [Paris], James Lynn [Troilus].
Temple of Secrets [16/10/65]: The Doctor is hailed as the god Zeus by Achilles.
Small Prophet, Quick Return [23/10/65]: The Trojans capture the Tardis and hail Vicki as the prophetess Cressida.
Death of a Spy [30/10/65]: The Doctor reluctantly designs a wooden horse for the Greeks.
Horse of Destruction [06/11/65]: The Greeks massacre the Trojans and Vicki elects to stay with Troilus.

Regular cast: William Hartnell [the Doctor], Peter Purves [Steven Taylor].

022. THE DALEK MASTERPLAN [12 episodes, 4:50:58]
written by Terry Nation; directed by Douglas Camfield
Main cast: Kevin Stoney [Mavic Chen], Nicholas Courtney [Bret Vyon], Jean Marsh [Sara Kingdom], Adrienne Hill [Katarina], Maurice Browning [Karlton].
The Nightmare Begins [13/11/65]: The Doctor seeks medical help for Steven on the planet Kembel.
Day of Armageddon [20/11/65]: The Doctor steals the Taranium Core from Mavic Chen and the Daleks.
Devil's Planet [27/11/65]: Bret and the travellers escape from Kembel but are forced to land on the prison planet Desperus.
The Traitors [04/12/65]: Katarina is killed as the travellers leave Desperus, Bret is killed when they arrive on Earth.
Counter Plot [11/12/65]: The Doctor and Steven are transported to the jungle planet Mira along with Bret's killer, Sara Kingdom.
written by Dennis Spooner
Coronas of the Sun [18/12/65]: The Doctor, Steven and Sara escape Mira in a Dalek ship and return to Kembel.
written by Terry Nation
The Feast of Steven [25/12/65]: The travellers visit Liverpool on Christmas Day and get chased on a Hollywood film lot.
written by Dennis Spooner
Volcano [01/01/66]: The travellers encounter the Monk before seeing in the New Year in Trafalgar Square.
Golden Death [08/01/66]: The Monk follows the Tardis to ancient Egypt, as do the Daleks and Mavic Chen.
Escape Switch [15/01/66]: The Doctor is forced to hand over the Taranium Core to the Daleks.
The Abandoned Planet [22/01/66]: The Tardis returns to Kembel where the Dalek control centre seems to have been abandoned.
Destruction of Time [29/01/66]: The Doctor uses the Time Destructor to eradicate the Daleks, but it also ages Sara to death.

023. THE MASSACRE [4 episodes, 1:39:13]
written by John Lucarotti; directed by Paddy Russell
Main cast: Eric Thompson [Gaston], Annette Robinson [Anne Chaplette], Leonard Sachs [Admiral de Coligny], William Hartnell [Abbot of Amboise].
War of God [05/02/66]: The Doctor leaves Steven to fend for himself in a Paris on the verge of religious genocide.
The Sea Beggar [12/02/66]: The Huguenots learn of a Catholic plot to assassinate the Admiral de Coligny.
Priest of Death [19/02/66]: The assassination attempt fails but Steven thinks the Doctor has been killed.
Regular cast: William Hartnell [the Doctor], Peter Purves [Steven Taylor], Jackie Lane [Dodo Chaplet].
Story Editor: Gerry Davies
written by John Lucarotti, Donald Tosh
Bell of Doom [26/02/66]: The Doctor and an angry Steven leave Paris just as the Massacre is beginning.

024. THE ARK [4 episodes, 1:37:56]
written by Paul Erickson & Lesley Scott; directed by Michael Imison
Main cast: Eric Elliott [Commander], Inigo Jackson [Zentos], Brian Wright [Dassuk], Eileen Helsby [Venussa].
The Steel Sky [05/03/66]: Dodo's cold threatens to wipe out refugees from a doomed Earth on a huge spaceship.
The Plague [12/03/66]: The Doctor finds a cure for the virus.
The Return [19/03/66]: The travellers return to the Ark at the end of its 700 year journey, but things have changed.
The Bomb [26/03/66]: Steven locates a bomb the Monoids have set to destroy the Ark and its human inhabitants.

Producer: Innes Lloyd
025. THE CELESTIAL TOYMAKER [4 episodes, 1:37:32]
written by Brian Hayles; directed by Bill Sellars
Main cast: Michael Gough [Toymaker], Campbell Singer [Joey/Clown/Sgt.Rugg/King of Hearts], Carmen Silvera [Clara/Mrs.Wiggs/Queen of Hearts], Peter Stephens [Cyril].
The Celestial Toyroom [02/04/66]: The travellers are captured by the Toymaker and forced to play a series of deadly games.
The Hall of Dolls [09/04/66]: Steven and Dodo take part in a lethal game of Musical Chairs.
The Dancing Floor [16/04/66]: Steven and Dodo play Hunt the Thimble then go dancing.
The Final Test [23/04/66]: Steven and Dodo survive a deadly game of Ludo and the Doctor tricks the Toymaker.

026. THE GUNFIGHTERS [4 episodes, 1:35:32]
written by Donald Cotton; directed by Rex Tucker
Main cast: Anthony Jacobs [Doc Holliday], John Alderson [Wyatt Earp], William Hurndell [Ike Clanton], Laurence Payne [Johnny Ringo].
A Holiday for the Doctor [30/04/66]: The Doctor is mistaken for Doc Holliday in Tombstone in 1881.
Don't Shoot the Pianist [07/05/66]: The Doctor is locked up for his own safety by Wyatt Earp.
Johnny Ringo [14/05/66]: Earp saves Steven from a lynching and Johnny Ringo arrives in town.
The O.K.Corrall [21/05/66]: The Earps recruit the Doctor for the forthcoming showdown with the Clantons.

027. THE SAVAGES [4 episodes, 1:37:18]
written by Ian Stuart Black; directed by Christopher Barry
Main cast: Frederick Jaeger [Jano], Norman Henry [Senta], Ewen Solon [Chal], Peter Thomas [Edal].
Episode 1 [28/05/66]: The travellers visit a highly advanced civilisation.
Episode 2 [04/06/66]: The Doctor discovers the Elders are harvesting the primitive Savages for their life-force.
Episode 3 [11/06/66]: Steven and Dodo attempt to rescue the Doctor from Senta's mind-transference machine.
Episode 4 [18/06/66]: Influenced by the Doctor's life force, Jano helps the Savages destroy Senta's laboratory.

Regular cast: William Hartnell [the Doctor], Jackie Lane [Dodo Chaplet], Anneke Wills [Polly], Michael Craze [Ben Jackson].

028. THE WAR MACHINES [4 episodes, 1:35:10]
written by Ian Stuart Black, story by Kit Pedler; directed by Michael Ferguson
Main cast: John Harvey [Professor Brett], Alan Curtis [Major Green], William Mervyn [Sir Charles Summers], John Cater [Professor Krimpton].
Episode 1 [25/06/66]: The Doctor detects an evil force at work in the newly opened Post Office Tower.
Episode 2 [02/07/66]: The Doctor releases Dodo from WOTAN's control and sends her away to recover.
Regular cast: William Hartnell [the Doctor], Anneke Wills [Polly], Michael Craze [Ben Jackson].
Episode 3 [09/07/66]: Ben discovers powerful War Machines are being built by workers controlled by WOTAN.
Episode 4 [16/07/66]: The Doctor helps the Army destroy the War Machines.


Series 4: 1966-1967
Regular cast: William Hartnell [the Doctor], Anneke Wills [Polly], Michael Craze [Ben Jackson].
Producer: Innes Lloyd
Story Editor: Gerry Davis

029. THE SMUGGLERS [4 episodes, 1:36:35]
written by Brian Hayles; directed by Julia Smith
Main cast: George A.Cooper [Cherub], Paul Whitsun-Jones [Squire], Michael Godfrey [Captain Pike], John Ringham [Blake].
Episode 1 [10/09/66]: Ben and Polly are amazed to find themselves in 17th century Cornwall with smugglers and pirates.
Episode 2 [17/09/66]: Ben discovers a secret passage used by the smugglers.
Episode 3 [24/09/66]: The smugglers and Pike's pirates compete for Avery's hidden gold.
Episode 4 [01/10/66]: The Doctor reveals the location of the treasure as the smugglers and pirates are rounded up.

030. THE TENTH PLANET [4 episodes, 1:33:56]
written by Kit Pedler; directed by Derek Martinus
Main cast: Robert Beatty [General Cutler], Dudley Jones [Dyson], David Dodimead [Barclay], Steve Plytas [Wigner].
Episode 1 [08/10/66]: A routine spaceshot is endangered by the arrival of a new planet, Mondas.
Episode 2 [15/10/66]: Cybermen from Mondas take over the Space Tracking base.
Episode 3 [22/10/66]: Cutler plans to fire a nuclear missile at Mondas.
Episode 4 [29/10/66]: Mondas drains too much energy from Earth and burns up. Back in the Tardis the Doctor begins to change...

Regular cast: Patrick Troughton [the Doctor], Anneke Wills [Polly], Michael Craze [Ben Jackson].

031. THE POWER OF THE DALEKS [6 episodes, 2:25:30]
written by David Whitaker; directed by Christopher Barry.
Main cast: Peter Bathurst [Governor Hensell], Nicholas Hawtrey [Quinn], Bernard Archard [Bragen], Robert James [Lestersen], Pamela Ann Davy [Janley].
Episode 1 [05/11/66]: A long lost Dalek army is discovered on an Earth colony planet.
Episode 2 [12/11/66]: The Doctor tries to warn the colonists of the danger posed by the Daleks.
Episode 3 [19/11/66]: Rebel colonists plan to use the Daleks to seize power.
Episode 4 [26/11/66]: The Daleks trick Lestersen into giving them the means to make more Daleks.
Episode 5 [03/12/66]: Hensell is killed as Bragen seizes power with help from the Daleks.
Episode 6 [10/12/66]: The Doctor manages to cut off the Daleks' power.

Regular cast: Patrick Troughton [the Doctor], Anneke Wills [Polly], Michael Craze [Ben Jackson], Frazer Hines [Jamie McCrimmon].

032. THE HIGHLANDERS [4 episodes, 1:35:32]
written by Elwyn Jones & Gerry Davis; directed by Hugh David
Main cast: Donald Bisset [Colin McLaren], Hannah Gordon [Kirsty], Michael Elwyn [Lieutenant Ffinch], David Garth [Gray].
Episode 1 [17/12/66]: The Doctor and Ben are captured by Redcoats mopping up after the Battle of Culloden.
Episode 2 [24/12/66]: The Doctor discovers Grey is transporting Highlanders to the West Indies as slaves.
Episode 3 [31/12/66]: Ben and Jamie are forced to sign away their freedom.
Episode 4 [07/01/67]: The Doctor helps the Highlanders escape to France.

033. THE UNDERWATER MENACE [4 episodes, 1:36:47]
written by Geoffrey Orme; directed by Julia Smith
Main cast: Joseph Furst [Professor Zaroff], Catherine Howe [Ara], Noel Johnson [Thous], Paul Anil [Jacko], P.G.Stephens [Sean].
Episode 1 [14/01/67]: The travellers find themselves in the lost city of Atlantis.
Episode 2 [21/01/67]: The Doctor discovers Zaroff intends to destroy the planet.
Episode 3 [28/01/67]: Sean and Jacko persuade the Fish People to go on strike.
Episode 4 [04/02/67]: The Doctor and Ben flood Zaroff's laboratory.

034. THE MOONBASE [4 episodes, 1:38:33]
written by Kit Pedler; directed by Morris Barry
Main cast: Patrick Barr [Hobson], Andre Maranne [Benoit], Michael Wolf [Nils], John Rolfe [Sam].
Episode 1 [11/02/67]: The travellers find a lunar base stricken by a mystery virus.
Episode 2 [18/02/67]: The Doctor discovers the truth about the virus.
Episode 3 [25/02/67]: Ben, Polly and Jamie fight off a Cyberman invasion of the base.
Episode 4 [04/03/67]: The Doctor uses the Gravitron to deflect the Cybermen and their fleet off the Moon.

035. THE MACRA TERROR [4 episodes, 1:34:24]
written by Ian Stuart Black; directed by John Davies
Main cast: Peter Jeffrey [Pilot], Ian Fairbairn [Questa], Terence Lodge [Medok], Gertan Klauber [Ola].
Episode 1 [11/03/67]: Medok confirms the Doctor's suspicions that all it not as it seems on a holiday camp-like planet.
Episode 2 [18/03/67]: A brainwashed Ben betrays his companions after they see the Macra.
Episode 3 [25/03/67]: The Doctor, Polly and Jamie are sent to quarry the gas the Macra depend on.
Episode 4 [01/04/67]: The Doctor persuades the Pilot of the truth and Ben blows up the gas pumps.

Associate Producer: Peter Bryant

036. THE FACELESS ONES [6 episodes, 2:23:59]
written by David Ellis & Malcolm Hulke; directed by Gerry Mill
Main cast: Colin Gordon [Commandant], George Selway [Meadows], Wanda Ventham [Jean Rock], Pauline Collins [Samantha Briggs], Madalena Nicol [Nurse Pinto].
Episode 1 [08/04/67]: Polly witnesses a murder in a hanger used by Chameleon Tours and is then kidnapped.
Episode 2 [15/04/67]: Samantha Briggs arrives looking for her missing brother.
Episode 3 [22/04/67]: Further investigations uncover evidence of alien involvement in the disappearances.
Episode 4 [29/04/67]: The Commandant discovers none of Chameleon's aircraft ever arrive at their destinations.
Episode 5 [06/05/67]: Jamie finds the missing passengers in an alien space station.
Episode 6 [13/05/67]: The aliens are forced to surrender, Ben and Polly return home and the Tardis is stolen.

Regular cast: Patrick Troughton [the Doctor], Frazer Hines [Jamie McCrimmon].
Associate Producer: position terminated

037. THE EVIL OF THE DALEKS [7 episodes, 2:53:14]
written by David Whitaker; directed by Derek Martinus
Main cast: John Bailey [Edward Waterfield], Marius Goring [Theodore Maxtible], Brigit Forsyth [Ruth], Gary Watson [Terral], Sonny Caldinez [Kemel].
Episode 1 [20/05/67]: The Doctor and Jamie search for the stolen Tardis.
Regular cast: Patrick Troughton [the Doctor], Frazer Hines [Jamie McCrimmon], Deborah Watling [Victoria Waterfield].
Episode 2 [27/05/67]: The Doctor and Jamie are transported back to Maxtible's mansion in 1866.
Episode 3 [03/06/67]: With the Doctor acting suspiciously, Jamie tries to rescue Waterfield's daughter Victoria.
Episode 4 [10/06/67]: Jamie teams up with Kemal whilst the Doctor works with the Daleks to isolate the "Human Factor".
Episode 5 [17/06/67]: Jamie and Kemal rescue Victoria, the Doctor and Waterfield install modified brains into three Daleks.
Episode 6 [24/06/67]: The Doctor warns the Emperor Dalek on Skaro that the "humanised" Daleks will start a rebellion.
Episode 7 [01/07/67]: The Doctor tricks more Daleks into becoming humanised and a destructive civil war breaks out.


Series 5: 1967-1968
Regular cast: Patrick Troughton [the Doctor], Frazer Hines [Jamie McCrimmon], Deborah Watling [Victoria Waterfield].
Producer: Peter Bryant
Story Editor: Victor Pemberton

038. THE TOMB OF THE CYBERMEN [4 episodes, 1:36:18]
written by Kit Pedler & Gerry Davis; directed by Morris Barry
Main cast: George Pastell [Klieg], Shirley Cooklin [Kaftan], Aubrey Richards [Professor Parry], Cyril Shaps [Viner].
Episode 1 [02/09/67]: An archæological expedition uncovers the lost tombs of the Cybermen.
Episode 2 [09/09/67]: The Cybermen are revived by Klieg who plans to use them to take over Earth.
Episode 3 [16/09/67]: The Cybermen send Cybermats to attack the expedition.
Episode 4 [23/09/67]: Klieg fails to control the Cybermen and the tombs are resealed.

Producer: Innes Lloyd
Story Editor: Peter Bryant

039. THE ABOMINABLE SNOWMEN [6 episodes, 2:22:58]
written by Mervyn Haisman & Henry Lincoln; directed by Gerald Blake
Main cast: Jack Watling [Professor Travers], Norman Jones [Khrisong], David Spenser [Thonmi], Wolfe Morris [Padmasambhava], Charles Morgan [Songsten].
Episode 1 [30/09/67]: The Doctor returns a sacred relic to a remote Tibetan monastery.
Episode 2 [07/10/67]: The Doctor finds that the Yeti threatening the monastery are really robots.
Episode 3 [14/10/67]: A captured Yeti's control unit goes missing.
Episode 4 [21/10/67]: The Doctor tries to find where the Yeti are being controlled from.
Episode 5 [28/10/67]: The Yeti attack the monastery and Songsten tells the monks to leave.
Episode 6 [04/11/67]: The Doctor enters the Inner Sanctum and releases Padmasambhava from the Intelligence's control.

040. THE ICE WARRIORS [6 episodes, 2:25:15]
written by Brian Hayles; directed by Derek Martinus
Main cast: Peter Barkworth [Clent], Wendy Gifford [Miss Garrett], Peter Sallis [Penley], Bernard Bresslaw [Varga].
Episode 1 [11/11/67]: An alien Ice Warrior is discovered in a glacier that is threatening a scientific base.
Episode 2 [18/11/67]: The Ice Warrior revives and takes Victoria prisoner.
Episode 3 [25/11/67]: Varga revives more Ice Warriors and finds his ship.
Episode 4 [02/12/67]: The Ice Warriors fear the Ioniser, which Clent daren't use in case the ship's engines explode.
Episode 5 [09/12/67]: The Doctor tries to negotiate with the Ice Warriors.
Episode 6 [16/12/67]: The Doctor turns the Ioniser on the Ice Warriors's ship.

041. THE ENEMY OF THE WORLD [6 episodes, 2:20:27]
written by David Whitaker; directed by Barry Letts
Main cast: Patrick Troughton [Salamander], Mary Peach [Astrid], Bill Kerr [Kent], Colin Douglas [Bruce], Milton Johns [Benik].
Episode 1 [23/12/67]: The Doctor is mistaken for Salamander, a ruthless would-be world dictator.
Episode 2 [30/12/67]: The Doctor agrees to impersonate Salamander whilst Jamie and Victoria are sent to infiltrate his base.
Episode 3 [06/01/68]: Salamander devastates central Europe with a series of earthquakes and Jamie and Victoria's cover is blown.
Episode 4 [13/01/68]: Jamie, Victoria and Astrid manage to escape from Salamander's headquarters.
Episode 5 [20/01/68]: People working for Salamander in a secret underground base begin to suspect they have been duped.
Episode 6 [27/01/68]: Astrid frees the underground workers and Salamander's organisation is destroyed.

Producer: Peter Bryant
Story Editor: Derrick Sherwin

042. THE WEB OF FEAR [6 episodes, 2:27:55]
written by Mervyn Haisman & Henry Lincoln; directed by Douglas Camfield
Main cast: Nicholas Courtney [Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart], Jack Watling [Professor Travers], Tina Packer [Anne Travers], Jack Woolgar [Sergeant Arnold].
Episode 1 [03/02/68]: The Doctor discovers Yeti roaming a deserted London Underground system.
Episode 2 [10/02/68]: Jamie and Victoria meet an old friend whilst soldiers come under attack from Yetis.
Episode 3 [17/02/68]: The Doctor meets Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart, who has been sent to take command of the operation.
Episode 4 [24/02/68]: Yeti infiltrate the base and capture Professor Travers.
Episode 5 [02/03/68]: The Doctor and Anne build a machine that will counter the Intelligence's control.
Episode 6 [09/03/68]: The Intelligence attempts to drain the Doctor's mind.

043. FURY FROM THE DEEP [6 episodes, 2:20:52]
written by Victor Pemberton; directed by Hugh David
Main cast: Victor Maddern [Robson], Roy Spencer [Harris], June Murphy [Maggie Harris], John Gill [Oak], Bill Burridge [Quill].
Episode 1 [16/03/68]: The Doctor discovers strange noises coming from a gas pipeline.
Episode 2 [23/03/68]: Maggie Harris is visited by the mysterious Mr.Oak and Mr.Quill.
Episode 3 [30/03/68]: The Doctor identifies the source of the attacks, and Maggie and Robson disappear.
Episode 4 [06/04/68]: The Control Centre and offshore rigs are attacked by a parasitic seaweed.
Episode 5 [13/04/68]: A possessed Robson kidnaps Victoria to use as a hostage.
Episode 6 [20/04/68]: The weed is destroyed by Victoria's amplified screams.

044. THE WHEEL IN SPACE [6 episodes, 2:20:21]
written by David Whitaker, story by Kit Pedler; directed by Tristan de Vere Cole
Main cast: Michael Turner [Bennett], Anne Ridler [Dr.Corwyn], Clare Jenkins [Tanya Lernov], Eric Flynn [Ryan].
Episode 1 [27/04/68]: The Tardis materialises inside a deserted spaceship.
Regular cast: Patrick Troughton [the Doctor], Frazer Hines [Jamie McCrimmon], Wendy Padbury [Zoe Heriot].
Episode 2 [04/05/68]: The Doctor and Jamie are taken onboard a huge space station known as "The Wheel".
Episode 3 [11/05/68]: Members of the crew are attacked by Cybermats.
Episode 4 [18/05/68]: The Wheel is infiltrated by Cybermen who begin taking over the crew.
Episode 5 [25/05/68]: The Wheel is threatened by meteorite storms.
Episode 6 [01/06/68]: The Cybermen are destroyed by a modified X-ray laser.


Series 6: 1968-1969
Regular cast: Patrick Troughton [the Doctor], Frazer Hines [Jamie McCrimmon], Wendy Padbury [Zoe Heriot].
Producer: Peter Bryant
Script Editor: Derrick Sherwin

045. THE DOMINATORS [5 episodes, 2:00:51]
written by Norman Ashby (Mervyn Haisman & Henry Lincoln); directed by Morris Barry
Main cast: Arthur Cox [Cully], Ronald Allen [Rago], Kenneth Ives [Toba], Walter Fitzgerald [Senex], Felicity Gibson [Kando].
Episode 1 [10/08/68]: Warlike Dominators land on the pacifist world of Dulkis.
Episode 2 [17/08/68]: The Doctor and Jamie are captured and interrogated by the Dominators.
Episode 3 [24/08/68]: The Doctor tries to warn the Dulcians of the Dominator threat.
Episode 4 [31/08/68]: Shafts are sunk for a bomb that will turn Dulkis into nuclear fuel for the Dominator fleet.
Episode 5 [07/09/68]: The Doctor diverts the bomb and secretes it on board the Dominators' ship.

046. THE MIND ROBBER [5 episodes, 1:39:49]
written by Derrick Sherwin (uncredited); directed by David Mahoney
Main cast: Emrys Jones [the Master], Bernard Horsfall [Gulliver], Christine Pirie [Rapunzel], Hamish Wilson [Jamie].
Episode 1 [14/09/68]: Zoe and Jamie are lured into a white void.
written by Peter Ling
Episode 2 [21/09/68]: The travellers find themselves in a place populated by characters from fiction.
Episode 3 [28/09/68]: The Doctor and Zoe face the Minotaur whilst Jamie finds a strange room.
Episode 4 [05/10/68]: The Doctor and Zoe enter the Citadel and meet the Master, who wants the Doctor to replace him.
Episode 5 [12/10/68]: The Doctor and the Master call up heroes from literature to fight a battle of wits.
n.b.The Master in this story is not the same one as in later stories.

Script Editor: Terrance Dicks

047. THE INVASION [8 episodes, 3:13:34]
written by Derrick Sherwin, story by Kit Pedler; directed by Douglas Camfield
Main cast: Nicholas Courtney [Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart], Kevin Stoney [Tobias Vaughn], Sally Faulkner [Isobel Watkins], Edward Burnham [Professor Watkins], John Levene [Corporal Benton].
Episode 1 [02/11/68]: The Doctor and Jamie visit the headquarters of International Electromatics.
Episode 2 [09/11/68]: The Doctor is "recruited" by UNIT to investigate IE.
Episode 3 [16/11/68]: The Doctor and Jamie try to rescue Zoe and Isobel from IE.
Episode 4 [23/11/68]: UNIT rescue the travellers and Isobel from IE.
Episode 5 [30/11/68]: The Doctor and Jamie discover Vaughn is helping a potential Cybermen invasion.
Episode 6 [07/12/68]: The Doctor finds a way of neutralising a hypnotic control device planted in IE machinery.
Episode 7 [14/12/68]: The invasion begins and the Doctor confronts Vaughn.
Episode 8 [21/12/68]: Zoe helps British and Soviet forces to locate and destroy the Cyber fleet.

048. THE KROTONS [4 episodes, 1:30:29]
written by Robert Holmes; directed by David Maloney
Main cast: James Copeland [Selris], Philip Madoc [Eelek], James Cairncross [Beta], Madeleine Mills [Vana].
Episode 1 [28/12/68]: The travellers save Vana from molecular dissolution.
Episode 2 [04/01/69]: Zoe and the Doctor pass the Krotons' test and unwittingly reactivate the Krotons.
Episode 3 [11/01/69]: The Gonds attack the Krotons' inner sanctum.
Episode 4 [18/01/69]: The Doctor destroys the Krotons with sulphuric acid.

049. THE SEEDS OF DEATH [6 episodes, 2:26:11]
written by Brian Hayles; directed by Michael Ferguson
Main cast: Philip Ray [Professor Eldred], Louise Pajo [Gia Kelly], Ronald Leigh-Hunt [Radnor], Christopher Coll [Phipps].
Episode 1 [25/01/69]: Ice Warriors take over T-Mat control on the Moon.
Episode 2 [01/02/69]: The travellers use Eldred's rocket to the Moon to investigate.
Episode 3 [08/02/69]: The Ice Warriors send Martian Seed Pods to Earth by T-Mat.
Episode 4 [15/02/69]: An Ice Warrior T-Mats to Earth.
Episode 5 [22/02/69]: The Ice Warrior takes over a weather control station.
Episode 6 [01/03/69]: The Doctor destroys the seed pods with rain.

Script Editor: Derrick Sherwin

050. THE SPACE PIRATES [6 episodes, 2:24:38]
written by Robert Holmes; directed by Michael Hart
Main cast: Dudley Foster [Caven], Jack May [General Hermack], Gordon Gostelow [Milo Clancey], Lisa Daniely [Madeleine Issigri].
Episode 1 [08/03/69]: The Tardis materialises inside a space beacon which is then stolen by space pirates.
Episode 2 [15/03/69]: General Hermack believes Milo Clancey is responsible for stealing the beacons.
Episode 3 [22/03/69]: The travellers join forces with Clancey and travel to his old base on Ta.
Episode 4 [29/03/69]: The travellers are captured by the real pirates led by Caven.
Episode 5 [05/04/69]: Clancey discovers his former partner, Dom Issigri, is being held hostage by Caven.
Episode 6 [12/04/69]: The Doctor dismantles a nuclear bomb and Warne destroys Caven's ship.

Producer: Derrick Sherwin
Script Editor: Terrance Dicks

051. THE WAR GAMES [10 episodes, 4:01:35]
written by Malcolm Hulke & Terrance Dicks; directed David Maloney
Main cast: David Savile [Lieutenant Carstairs], Jane Sherwin [Lady Buckingham], Noel Coleman [General Smythe], Philip Madoc [War Lord], Edward Brayshaw [War Chief].
Episode 1 [19/04/69]: The travellers are arrested as German spies in what appears to be the Western Front in World War 1.
Episode 2 [26/04/69]: The travellers escape with Carstairs and Lady Buckingham but are attacked by Roman soldiers.
Episode 3 [03/05/69]: The Doctor discovers a map showing the locations of various war zones.
Episode 4 [10/05/69]: The Doctor and Zoe travel to the War Lords' base.
Episode 5 [17/05/69]: Jamie meets rebel soldiers from a variety of wars and they capture a travel machine.
Episode 6 [24/05/69]: Zoe travels to the American Civil War zone to recruit an army of rebels.
Episode 7 [31/05/69]: The rebel base is besieged by German, French and British troops.
Episode 8 [07/06/69]: The Doctor is captured and offered a deal by the War Chief, in truth a fellow renegade time traveller.
Episode 9 [14/06/69]: The rebels defeat the War Lords but the Doctor is forced to contact his people to get the soldiers home.
Episode 10 [21/06/69]: The Doctor is put on trial by the Time Lords and sentenced to exile on Earth.


Series 7: 1970
Regular cast: Jon Pertwee [the Doctor], Caroline John [Dr.Liz Shaw], Nicholas Courtney [Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart].
Producer: Derrick Sherwin
Script Editor: Terrance Dicks

052. SPEARHEAD FROM SPACE [4 episodes, 1:36:53]
written by Robert Holmes; directed by Derek Martinus
Main cast: Hugh Burden [Channing], John Breslin [Captain Munro], John Woodnutt [Hibbert], Hamilton Dyce [General Scobie].
Episode 1 [03/01/70]: A regenerated Doctor arrives on Earth during a mysterious meteor shower.
Episode 2 [10/01/70]: UNIT find a complete meteorite but it is stolen by an Auton.
Episode 3 [17/01/70]: Another complete meteorite turns up, this time UNIT are able to prevent it being stolen.
Episode 4 [25/01/70]: UNIT attacks the Autons' factory whilst the Doctor defeats the Nestene controlling them.

Producer: Barry Letts

053. DOCTOR WHO AND THE SILURIANS [7 episodes, 2:46:47]
written by Malcolm Hulke; directed by Timothy Combe
Main cast: Fulton Mackay [Dr.Quinn], Peter Miles [Dr.Lawrence], Norman Jones [Major Baker], Thomasine Heiner [Miss Dawson], Paul Darrow [Sergeant Hawkins].
Episode 1 [31/01/70]: UNIT is called in to investigate mysterious power losses at an underground nuclear research base.
Episode 2 [07/02/70]: The Doctor discovers dinosaurs in caves near the base.
Episode 3 [14/02/70]: UNIT searches for a Silurian but it is hidden by Dr.Quinn.
Episode 4 [21/02/70]: The Doctor and Liz find the Silurian base where Major Baker is being held prisoner.
Episode 5 [28/02/70]: The Silurians infect Baker with a deadly virus and set him free.
Episode 6 [07/03/70]: The Doctor searches for a cure to the virus which is spreading throughout the country.
Episode 7 [14/03/70]: Although the Doctor negotiates a peace settlement, the Brigadier seals the Silurians in their base.

054. THE AMBASSADORS OF DEATH [7 episodes, 2:51:47]
written by David Whitaker; directed by Michael Ferguson
Main cast: John Abineri [General Carrington], Ronald Allen [Ralph Cornish], William Dysart [Reegan], Cyril Shaps [Lennox].
Episode 1 [21/03/70]: Contact is lost with the Recovery 7 space capsule and the Doctor recognises a strange signal.
Episode 2 [28/03/70]: Recovery 7 returns to Earth but the capsule is hi-jacked from a UNIT convoy.
Episode 3 [04/04/70]: The astronauts are found but are highly radioactive, the Doctor believes the real astronauts are still in space.
Episode 4 [11/04/70]: Liz is kidnapped and forced to work with Dr.Lennox keeping the aliens irradiated.
Regular cast: Jon Pertwee [the Doctor], Caroline John [Dr.Liz Shaw], Nicholas Courtney [Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart], John Levene [Sergeant Benton].
Episode 5 [18/04/70]: Despite Reegan's sabotage, the Doctor travels to Mars Probe 7 on board Recovery 8.
Episode 6 [25/04/70]: The Doctor finds the real astronauts on board an alien space station.
Episode 7 [02/05/70]: The Doctor arranges for the astronauts to be exchanged for the alien "ambassadors".

055. INFERNO [7 episodes, 2:46:43]
written by Don Houghton; directed by Douglas Camfield
Main cast: Olaf Pooley [Professor Stahlman], Derek Newark [Greg Sutton], Sheila Dunn [Petra Williams], Christopher Benjamin [Sir Gold].
Episode 1 [09/05/70]: A rigger at a secret drilling project turns into a violent mutant.
Episode 2 [16/05/70]: A mysterious slime is found to cause the mutations.
Episode 3 [23/05/70]: The Doctor is transported into a parallel world where the project is nearing completion.
Episode 4 [30/05/70]: The Doctor is interrogated by alternative versions of his UNIT friends.
Episode 5 [06/06/70]: Zero hour approaches and massive seismic disturbances devastate the country.
Episode 6 [13/06/70]: Greg and Petra help the Doctor escape the destruction of the parallel world.
Episode 7 [20/06/70]: The Doctor returns in time to prevent penetration zero and the destruction of the planet.


Series 8: 1971
Regular cast: Jon Pertwee [the Doctor], Katy Manning [Jo Grant], Nicholas Courtney [Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart], Roger Delgado [the Master], John Levene [Sergeant Benton], Richard Franklin [Captain Mike Yates].
Producer: Barry Letts
Script Editor: Terrance Dicks

056. TERROR OF THE AUTONS [4 episodes, 1:35:02]
written by Robert Holmes; directed by Barry Letts
Main cast: Michael Wisher [Rex Farrel], Christopher Burgess [Professor Phillips], Stephen Jack [Farrel], John Baskcomb [Rossini].
Episode 1 [02/01/71]: The Nestenes are brought back to Earth by the Master, an old enemy of the Doctor's.
Episode 2 [09/01/71]: The Master starts Auton production at Rex Farrel's plastics factory.
Episode 3 [16/01/71]: The country is flooded with deadly plastic daffodils.
Episode 4 [23/01/71]: The Master is "persuaded" to help the Doctor repel the Nestene invasion.

057. THE MIND OF EVIL [6 episodes, 2:26:32]
written by Don Houghton; directed by Timothy Combe
Main cast: Neil McCarthy [Barnham], Pik Sen-Lim [Chin Lee], William Marlowe [Mailer], Simon Lack [Professor Kettering].
Episode 1 [30/01/71]: The Doctor voices concern over the Keller Machine, designed to pacify violent criminals.
Episode 2 [06/02/71]: Yates is given the task of escorting and dumping a nerve gas missile.
Episode 3 [13/02/71]: Masquerading as Professor Keller, the Master organises a prison mutiny.
Episode 4 [20/02/71]: The Master's army ambushes the convoy and hi-jacks the missile.
Episode 5 [27/02/71]: The machine goes out of control, forcing the Doctor to help the Master restrain it.
Episode 6 [06/03/71]: The Brigadier triggers the missile's self-destruct mechanism, destroying the Keller Machine in the explosion.

058. THE CLAWS OF AXOS [4 episodes, 1:37:15]
written by Bob Baker & Dave Martin; directed by Michael Ferguson
Main cast: Donald Hewlett [Sir George Hardiman], David Savile [Winser], Peter Bathurst [Chinn], Paul Grist [Bill Filer], Bernard Holley [Axon man].
Episode 1 [13/03/71]: The Axons arrive on Earth with promises of unlimited wealth and prosperity.
Episode 2 [20/03/71]: American agent Filer is incarcerated with the Master, who tells him the Axons are parasites.
Episode 3 [27/03/71]: The Doctor is forced to give the Axons the secret of time travel.
Episode 4 [03/04/71]: The Doctor traps Axos in a time loop.

Regular cast: Jon Pertwee [the Doctor], Katy Manning [Jo Grant], Nicholas Courtney [Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart], Roger Delgado [the Master].

059. COLONY IN SPACE [6 episodes, 2:25:53]
written by Malcolm Hulke; directed by Michael Briant
Main cast: John Ringham [Ashe], Morris Perry [Dent], Helen Worth [Mary Ashe], Tony Caunter [Morgan], Bernard Kay [Caldwell].
Episode 1 [10/04/71]: The Doctor is sent to a failing colony planet to stop the Master gaining control of a Doomsday Weapon.
Episode 2 [17/04/71]: The Doctor finds proof that the Interplanetary Mining Corporation is trying to force the colonists off the planet.
Episode 3 [24/04/71]: Dent sends for an Adjudicator whilst colonists plan to attack the IMC ship.
Episode 4 [01/05/71]: The Doctor and Jo are captured by primitive natives, and the Master arrives masquerading as an Adjudicator.
Episode 5 [08/05/71]: The Master forces the Doctor to take him to the Primitives' citadel by holding Jo hostage.
Episode 6 [15/05/71]: The Doctor activates the Doomsday Weapon's self-destruct mechanism whilst the colonists defeat IMC.

Regular cast: Jon Pertwee [the Doctor], Katy Manning [Jo Grant], Nicholas Courtney [Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart], Roger Delgado [the Master], John Levene [Sergeant Benton], Richard Franklin [Captain Mike Yates].

060. THE DÆMONS [5 episodes, 2:02:21]
written by Guy Leopold (Barry Letts & Robert Sloman); directed by Christopher Barry
Main cast: Damaris Hayman [Miss Hawthorn], Don McKillop [Bert], Rollo Gamble [Squire Winstanley], Stephen Thorne [Azal].
Episode 1 [22/05/71]: The Doctor tries to stop an archaeological dig in the village of Devil's End.
Episode 2 [29/05/71]: The village is enclosed by a heat barrier.
Episode 3 [05/06/71]: The Doctor reveals that the dig has awakened Azal, last of the Dæmons, who is likely to destroy mankind.
Episode 4 [12/06/71]: The Doctor is accused of witchcraft and Jo tries to stop a sacrifice.
Episode 5 [19/06/71]: Jo's act of self-sacrifice confuses Azal, who self-destructs.


Series 9: 1972
Regular cast: Jon Pertwee [the Doctor], Katy Manning [Jo Grant].
Producer: Barry Letts
Script Editor: Terrance Dicks

061. DAY OF THE DALEKS [4 episodes, 1:36:03]
written by Louis Marks; directed by Paul Bernard
Main cast: Nicholas Courtney [Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart], John Levene [Sergeant Benton], Richard Franklin [Captain Yates], Aubrey Woods [Controller], Anna Barry [Anat].
Episode 1 [01/01/72]: The house of an important diplomat is attacked by guerrillas from the future.
Episode 2 [08/01/72]: Jo is transported into the future where Daleks have changed history and conquered Earth.
Episode 3 [15/01/72]: The Doctor is captured and meets the Controller, in truth a Dalek puppet.
Episode 4 [22/01/72]: The Doctor realises one of the guerrillas caused the explosion which led to the Dalek conquest.

062. THE CURSE OF PELADON [4 episodes, 1:37:42]
written by Brian Hayles; directed by Lennie Mayne
Main cast: David Troughton [King Peladon], Geoffrey Toone [Hepesh], Henry Gilbert [Torbis], Alan Bennion [Izlyr].
Episode 1 [29/01/72]: The Doctor is sent to Peladon to ensure it joins the Federation.
Episode 2 [05/02/72]: The Doctor suspects the Ice Warriors are trying to sabotage Peladon's accession.
Episode 3 [12/02/72]: The Doctor is forced to take on the King's champion in a fight to the death.
Episode 4 [19/02/72]: The real saboteur is uncovered and Hepesh makes one last desperate stand.

063. THE SEA DEVILS [6 episodes, 2:26:53]
written by Malcolm Hulke; directed by Michael Briant
Main cast: Roger Delgado [the Master], Clive Morton [Trenchard], Edwin Richfield [Captain Hart], Donald Sumpter [Lieutenant Ridgway].
Episode 1 [26/02/72]: The Doctor and Jo visit the Master in his high security prison.
Episode 2 [04/03/72]: The Doctor is menaced by a Sea Devil in an offshore sea fort.
Episode 3 [11/03/72]: Hart dispatches a submarine to locate the Sea Devil's base.
Episode 4 [18/03/72]: The Sea Devils capture the submarine and free the Master.
Episode 5 [25/03/72]: The Doctor and the submarine crew escape after the Sea Devil's base is attacked by the Navy.
Episode 6 [01/04/72]: The Sea Devil's base is destroyed but the Master escapes.

064. THE MUTANTS [6 episodes, 2:25:41]
written by Bob Baker & Dave Martin; directed by Christopher Barry
Main cast: Paul Whitsun-Jones [the Marshal], Christopher Coll [Stubbs], Rick James [Cotton], Garrick Hagon [Ky], John Hollis [Sondergaard].
Episode 1 [08/04/72]: The Time Lords send the Doctor to a space station with an important package.
Episode 2 [15/04/72]: The Marshal plans to alter Solos' atmosphere to make it habitable for humans.
Episode 3 [22/04/72]: The Doctor gives Ky the casket as they take refuge underground.
Episode 4 [29/04/72]: Sondergaard discovers the mutations are a natural part of the Solonians' biology.
Episode 5 [06/05/72]: The Marshal's plan malfunctions and threaten to make Solos totally uninhabitable.
Episode 6 [13/05/72]: The Marshal is exposed and Ky is transformed into a superbeing.

065. THE TIME MONSTER [6 episodes, 2:27:27]
written by Robert Sloman; directed by Paul Bernard
Main cast: Nicholas Courtney [Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart], Roger Delgado [the Master], John Levene [Sergeant Benton], Richard Franklin [Captain Yates], Ingrid Pitt [Queen Galleia].
Episode 1 [20/05/72]: Masquerading as Professor Thascales, the Master demonstrates a time trans-mat machine.
Episode 2 [27/05/72]: The Doctor suggests the Master might be trying to gain control over Kronos.
Episode 3 [03/06/72]: The Master manages to prevent Kronos from appearing.
Episode 4 [10/06/72]: The Doctor attempts to persuade the Master to cease his activities.
Episode 5 [17/06/72]: The Master travels to Atlantis in search of the Crystal of Kronos.
Episode 6 [24/06/72]: Kronos breaks free and Atlantis is destroyed.


Series 10: 1972-1973
Regular cast: Jon Pertwee [the Doctor], Katy Manning [Jo Grant].
Producer: Barry Letts
Script Editor: Terrance Dicks

066. THE THREE DOCTORS [4 episodes, 1:38:26]
written by Bob Baker & Dave Martin; directed by Lennie Mayne
Main cast: William Hartnell [1st Doctor], Patrick Troughton [2nd Doctor], Nicholas Courtney [Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart], John Levene [Sergeant Benton], Stephen Thorne [Omega].
Episode 1 [30/12/72]: The Time Lords bring all three Doctors together to resolve a crisis of universal proportions.
Episode 2 [06/01/73]: The Doctor and Jo are transported into the Anti-Matter Universe.
Episode 3 [13/01/73]: The Doctors and companions are captured by Omega, a figure from Time Lord legend.
Episode 4 [20/01/73]: The Doctors trick Omega into annihilating himself.

067. CARNIVAL OF MONSTERS [4 episodes, 1:37:56]
written by Robert Holmes; directed by Barry Letts
Main cast: Leslie Dwyer [Vorg], Cheryl Hall [Shirna], Michael Wisher [Kalik], Terence Lodge [Orum], Tenniel Evans [Major Daly].
Episode 1 [27/01/73]: The Tardis materialises onboard a 1920s steamer where time appears to be going in circles.
Episode 2 [03/02/73]: The Doctor realises they are actually inside a MiniScope, a banned fairground attraction.
Episode 3 [10/02/73]: Drashigs break out of their circuit, causing terminal damage to the MiniScope.
Episode 4 [17/02/73]: Restored to full size, the Doctor shuts down the MiniScope and returns its exhibits home.

068. FRONTIER IN SPACE [6 episodes, 2:23:43]
written by Malcolm Hulke; directed by Paul Bernard
Main cast: Roger Delgado [the Master], Vera Fusek [President], Michael Hawkins [General Williams], Peter Birrel [Draconian Prince], Harold Goldblatt [Professor Dale].
Episode 1 [24/02/73]: The Tardis arrives on an Earth freighter which is immediately raided by Ogrons.
Episode 2 [03/03/73]: The Doctor tries to tell Earth that someone is trying to provoke war with the Draconian Empire.
Episode 3 [10/03/73]: The Doctor is sentenced to life imprisonment on the Moon.
Episode 4 [17/03/73]: Jo and the Doctor are freed by the Master who fears they will ruin his plans.
Episode 5 [24/03/73]: The Doctor, Jo and the Master are captured by the Draconians.
Episode 6 [31/03/73]: War between Earth and Draconia is averted when the Daleks are revealed to be behind the plot.

069. PLANET OF THE DALEKS [6 episodes, 2:20:42]
written by Terry Nation; directed by David Maloney
Main cast: Bernard Horsfall [Taron], Prentis Hancock [Vaber], Tim Preece [Codal], Jane How [Rebec].
Episode 1 [07/04/73]: In pursuit of the Daleks, the Tardis materialises on the jungle planet of Spiridon.
Episode 2 [14/04/73]: The Doctor helps a Thal expedition seek out the Daleks.
Episode 3 [21/04/73]: The Doctor and the Thals discover a massive Dalek army kept in cold storage.
Episode 4 [28/04/73]: The Daleks prepare a bacteriological culture to wipe out the Thals and rebel Spiridons.
Episode 5 [05/05/73]: The Doctor and the Thals plan an attack on the Dalek base.
Episode 6 [12/05/73]: The Thals trigger an icecano eruption which buries the Daleks in tons of ice.

070. THE GREEN DEATH [6 episodes, 2:34:16]
written by Robert Sloman; directed by Michael Briant
Main cast: Nicholas Courtney [Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart], John Levene [Sergeant Benton], Richard Franklin [Captain Yates], Stewart Bevan [Professor Jones], Jerome Willis [Stevens].
Episode 1 [19/05/73]: A miner emerges from a disused mine, dead and glowing green.
Episode 2 [26/05/73]: The Doctor and Jo discover giant maggots in a pool of green slime in the mine.
Episode 3 [02/06/73]: The Doctor finds the slime is industrial waste pumped into the mine by Global Chemicals.
Episode 4 [09/06/73]: The maggots break out of the mine and Jo accidentally provides Professor Jones with an antidote.
Episode 5 [16/06/73]: The Doctor finds Global is controlled by a megalomaniac computer called BOSS.
Episode 6 [23/06/73]: A reformed Stevens causes BOSS to self-destruct. Jo and the Professor decide to get married.


Series 11: 1973-1974
Regular cast: Jon Pertwee [the Doctor], Elisabeth Sladen [Sarah-Jane Smith].
Producer: Barry Letts
Script Editor: Terrance Dicks

071. THE TIME WARRIOR [4 episodes, 1:36:52]
written by Robert Holmes; directed by Alan Bromly
Main cast: Nicholas Courtney [Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart], Kevin Lindsay [Linx], David Daker [Irongron], Donald Pelmear [Professor Rubeish], Jeremy Bulloch [Hal].
Episode 1 [15/12/73]: The Doctor investigates missing scientists from a secret research base.
Episode 2 [22/12/73]: The Doctor traces the scientists to a robber baron's castle in the Middle Ages.
Episode 3 [29/12/73]: The Doctor helps defend Wessex Castle from an attack.
Episode 4 [05/01/74]: The Doctor rescues the scientists whilst Hal kills Linx.

072. INVASION OF THE DINOSAURS [6 episodes, 2:27:15]
written by Malcolm Hulke; directed by Paddy Russell
Main cast: Nicholas Courtney [Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart], John Levene [Sergeant Benton], Richard Franklin [Captain Yates], Peter Miles [Professor Whitaker], John Bennett [General Finch].
Episode 1 [12/01/74]: The Doctor and Sarah find London deserted except for looters and soldiers...and dinosaurs!
Episode 2 [19/01/74]: The Doctor's attempt to capture a dinosaur is sabotaged by Yates.
Episode 3 [26/01/74]: The Doctor saves Sarah from one trap, but she walks into another.
Episode 4 [02/02/74]: Sarah apparently ends up on a spaceship whilst the Doctor finds a secret base.
Episode 5 [09/02/74]: Sarah escapes from the fake spaceship and the Doctor is framed.
Episode 6 [16/02/74]: The Doctor prevents Whitaker from reversing time.

073. DEATH TO THE DALEKS [4 episodes, 1:37:56]
written by Terry Nation; directed by Michael Briant
Main cast: Duncan Lamont [Galloway], Arnold Yarrow [Bellal], Julian Fox [Hamilton], Joy Harrison [Jill Tarrant].
Episode 1 [23/02/74]: The Tardis is forced to land on Exxilon after suffering a total power loss.
Episode 2 [02/03/74]: Affected by the power drain, the Daleks agree to work with the Earth expedition.
Episode 3 [09/03/74]: The Doctor and Bellal enter the City.
Episode 4 [16/03/74]: The City is destroyed and power restored. Galloway blows up himself and the Dalek ship.

074. THE MONSTER OF PELADON [6 episodes, 2:25:46]
written by Brian Hayles; directed by Lennie Mayne
Main cast: Donald Gee [Eckersley], Nina Thomas [Queen Thalira], Frank Gatliff [Ortron], Rex Robinson [Gebek].
Episode 1 [23/03/74]: The Doctor returns to Peladon to find Aggedor has reappeared and is killing people.
Episode 2 [30/03/74]: The miners force Alpha Centauri to open the armoury.
Episode 3 [06/04/74]: Hearing that Federation troops have been sent for, the Pels try to work together.
Episode 4 [13/04/74]: Ice Warriors arrive and impose martial law.
Episode 5 [20/04/74]: Sarah discovers both Eckersley and the Ice Warriors are traitors working for Galaxy Five.
Episode 6 [27/04/74]: The Pels unite to defeat the Ice Warriors.

075. PLANET OF THE SPIDERS [6 episodes, 2:27:43]
written by Robert Sloman; directed by Barry Letts
Main cast: Nicholas Courtney [Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart], John Levene [Sergeant Benton], Richard Franklin [Mike Yates], John Dearth [Lupton], Gareth Hunt [Arak].
Episode 1 [04/05/74]: Yates contacts Sarah over mysterious goings-on at a Buddhist retreat.
Episode 2 [11/05/74]: A giant spider from Metebelis 3 gets Lupton to search for the Doctor's blue crystal.
Episode 3 [18/05/74]: The Doctor follows Sarah who follows Lupton to Metebelis 3.
Episode 4 [25/05/74]: Sarah is captured by the spiders.
Episode 5 [01/06/74]: The Doctor helps the villagers rebel against the spiders.
Episode 6 [08/06/74]: The Doctor confronts the Great One but is forced to regenerate.


Series 12: 1974-1975
Regular cast: Tom Baker [the Doctor], Elisabeth Sladen [Sarah-Jane Smith], Ian Marter [Dr.Harry Sullivan]
Producer: Barry Letts
Script Editor: Robert Holmes

076. ROBOT [4 episodes, 1:38:09]
written by Terrance Dicks; directed by Christopher Barry
Main cast: Nicholas Courtney [Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart], John Levene [RSM Benton], Patricia Maynard [Miss Winters], Edward Burnham [Professor Kettlewell], Alec Linstead [Jellicoe].
Episode 1 [28/12/74]: Plans and components for a Disintegrator Gun are stolen from top secret establishments.
Episode 2 [04/01/75]: Sarah discovers a giant robot at the Frontiers of Science research centre.
Episode 3 [11/01/75]: The Doctor gatecrashes a meeting of the Scientific Reform Society.
Episode 4 [18/01/75]: The robot is destroyed after threatening the world with nuclear destruction.

Producer: Philip Hinchcliffe

077. THE ARK IN SPACE [4 episodes, 1:38:29]
written by Robert Holmes, story by John Lucarotti; directed by Rodney Bennett
Main cast: Wendy Williams [Vira], Kenton Moore [Noah], Christopher Masters [Libri], John Gregg [Lycett], Richardson Morgan [Rogin].
Episode 1 [25/01/75]: The travellers arrive on board a deserted space station that seems to have been sabotaged.
Episode 2 [01/02/75]: The Doctor discovers the space station has been invaded by the Wirrn.
Episode 3 [08/02/75]: In his last moments of humanity, Noah implores Vira to evacuate the space station.
Episode 4 [15/02/75]: The Wirrn are forced into a shuttle rocket which Noah deliberately self-destructs.

078. THE SONTARAN EXPERIMENT [2 episodes, 0:49:27]
written by Bob Baker & Dave Martin; directed by Rodney Bennett
Main cast: Kevin Lindsay [Styre], Glyn Jones [Krans], Peter Walshe [Erak], Donald Douglas [Vural].
Episode 1 [22/02/75]: The travellers find a Sontaran conducting experiments on captured humans.
Episode 2 [01/03/75]: The Doctor challenges Styre to a fight.

079. GENESIS OF THE DALEKS [6 episodes, 2:22:34]
written by Terry Nation; directed by David Maloney
Main cast: Michael Wisher [Davros], Peter Miles [Nyder], Guy Siner [Ravon], Dennis Chinnery [Gharman], Harriet Philpin [Bettan].
Episode 1 [08/03/75]: The travellers are diverted to Skaro by the Time Lords to prevent the creation of the Daleks.
Episode 2 [15/03/75]: Davros unveils his prototype Dalek to the Kaled Scientific Elite.
Episode 3 [22/03/75]: Davros gives the Thals a formula to weaken the Kaled dome.
Episode 4 [29/03/75]: The Daleks attack the Thal dome whilst Davros eradicates his opponents.
Episode 5 [05/04/75]: The Doctor is interrogated and Davros faces a rebellion.
Episode 6 [12/04/75]: The Daleks wipe out the remaining Kaleds but are sealed in their bunker by the Thals.

080. REVENGE OF THE CYBERMEN [4 episodes, 1:36:36]
written by Gerry Davis; directed by Michael E.Briant
Main cast: Ronald Leigh-Hunt [Stevenson], David Collings [Vorus], Kevin Stoney [Tyrum], Jeremy Wilkin [Kellman], William Marlowe [Lester].
Episode 1 [19/04/75]: The travellers return to Nerva, but at a much earlier time than before.
Episode 2 [26/04/75]: Harry and Sarah teleport down to Voga whilst the Doctor exposes Kellman as a saboteur.
Episode 3 [03/05/75]: The Cybermen send the Doctor, Stevenson and Lester down to Voga attached to powerful bombs.
Episode 4 [10/05/75]: The Cybermen pack the beacon with bombs and aim it at Voga.


Series 13: 1975-1976
Regular cast: Tom Baker [the Doctor], Elisabeth Sladen [Sarah-Jane Smith], Ian Marter [Harry Sullivan].
Producer: Philip Hinchcliffe
Script Editor: Robert Holmes

081. TERROR OF THE ZYGONS [4 episodes, 1:36:20]
written by Robert Banks Stewart; directed by Douglas Camfield
Main cast: Nicholas Courtney [Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart], John Levene [RSM Benton], John Woodnutt [Duke of Forgill/Broton], Angus Lennie [Angus McRanald], Lillias Walker [Sister Lamont].
Episode 1 [30/08/75]: Something attacks and destroys North Sea oil rigs, and Harry is shot.
Episode 2 [06/09/75]: Harry is captured by the Zygons, aliens from a dying planet who have taken refuge beneath Loch Ness.
Episode 3 [13/09/75]: Sarah rescues Harry from the Zygon ship.
Episode 4 [20/09/75]: Broton lures the Skarasen to London to attack the International Energy Congress.

Regular cast: Tom Baker [the Doctor], Elisabeth Sladen [Sarah-Jane Smith].

082. PLANET OF EVIL [4 episodes, 1:34:05]
written by Louis Marks; directed by David Maloney
Main cast: Frederick Jaeger [Professor Sorenson], Prentis Hancock [Salamar], Ewen Solon [Vishinsky], Graham Weston [De Haan].
Episode 1 [27/09/75]: A Morestran expedition on Zeta Minor is attacked by a mysterious force.
Episode 2 [04/10/75]: The Doctor finds a gateway to the Anti-matter universe.
Episode 3 [11/10/75]: Sorenson begins changing into anti-man.
Episode 4 [18/10/75]: Sarah and Vishinsky are besieged by anti-matter monsters.

083. PYRAMIDS OF MARS [4 episodes, 1:38:39]
written by Stephen Harris (Lewis Griefer & Robert Holmes); directed by Paddy Russell
Main cast: Gabriel Woolf [Sutekh], Bernard Archard [Marcus Scarman], Michael Sheard [Lawrence Scarman], Peter Copley [Dr.Warlock].
Episode 1 [25/10/75]: The Tardis arrives at the home of missing Egyptologist Marcus Scarman.
Episode 2 [01/11/75]: Robot mummies start patrolling the estate, which is surrounded by an impenetrable forcefield.
Episode 3 [08/11/75]: The Doctor masquerades as a mummy to place explosives on Scarman's rocket.
Episode 4 [15/11/75]: The Doctor fails to prevent Sutekh escaping his prison but stops him leaving the Space/Time vortex.

084. THE ANDROID INVASION [4 episodes, 1:38:11]
written by Terry Nation; directed by Barry Letts
Main cast: Ian Marter [Dr.Harry Sullivan], John Levene [RSM Benton], Milton Johns [Guy Crayford], Martin Friend [Styggron], Patrick Newell [Colonel Faraday].
Episode 1 [22/11/75]: The Doctor and Sarah arrive near to what appears to be an ordinary village.
Episode 2 [29/11/75]: An android duplicate of Sarah is sent to trap the Doctor.
Episode 3 [06/12/75]: The Doctor is captured by the Kraals.
Episode 4 [13/12/75]: The android duplicates infiltrate the real space base on Earth.

085. THE BRAIN OF MORBIUS [4 episodes, 1:39:36]
written by Robin Bland (Terrance Dicks); directed by Christopher Barry
Main cast: Philip Madoc [Solon], Cynthia Grenville [Maren], Gilly Brown [Ohica], Colin Fay [Condo].
Episode 1 [03/01/76]: The Tardis is forced down on Karn, where Solon is making a new body for tyrant Time Lord Morbius.
Episode 2 [10/01/76]: Sarah saves the Doctor from being burnt at the stake.
Episode 3 [17/01/76]: The Doctor restores the Sisterhood's Sacred Flame to its former glory.
Episode 4 [24/01/76]: The Doctor defeats Morbius in a mental battle.

086. THE SEEDS OF DOOM [6 episodes, 2:24:33]
written by Robert Banks Stewart; directed by Douglas Camfield
Main cast: Tony Beckley [Harrison Chase], John Challis [Scorby], Mark Jones [Keeler], Sylvia Coleridge [Amelia Ducat].
Episode 1 [31/01/76]: Two seed pods are discovered in Antarctica. One germinates and infects a scientist.
Episode 2 [07/02/76]: The infected scientist turns into a Krynoid, a carnivorous alien plant.
Episode 3 [14/02/76]: The Doctor traces the stolen second pod to the home of wealthy botanist Harrison Chase.
Episode 4 [21/02/76]: Chase's man Keeler is infected by the second pod and begins changing.
Episode 5 [28/02/76}: The Krynoid grows to giant proportions and begins to control the surrounding plantlife.
Episode 6 [06/03/76}: Now larger than Chase's mansion, the Krynoid is bombed by the RAF before it can germinate.


Series 14: 1976-1977
Regular cast: Tom Baker [the Doctor], Elisabeth Sladen [Sarah-Jane Smith].
Producer: Philip Hinchcliffe
Script Editor: Robert Holmes

087. THE MASQUE OF MANDRAGORA [4 episodes, 1:38:34]
written by Louis Marks; directed by Rodney Bennett
Main cast: Gareth Armstrong [Duke Giuliano], Jon Laurimore [Count Federico], Tim Pigott-Smith [Marco], Norman Jones [Hieronymous].
Episode 1 [04/09/76]: The Doctor accidentally transports the Mandragora Helix to Renaissance Italy.
Episode 2 [11/09/76]: Federico attempts to overthrow his nephew, Duke Giuliano.
Episode 3 [18/09/76]: The Doctor persuades Federico to act against Hieronymous and the Brotherhood.
Episode 4 [25/09/76]: Giuliano stages a masque and the Doctor drains Mandragora's power.

088. THE HAND OF FEAR [4 episodes, 1:39:00]
written by Bob Baker & Dave Martin; directed by Lennie Mayne
Main cast: Glyn Houston [Professor Watson], Rex Robinson [Dr.Carter], Judith Paris [Eldrad], Frances Pidgeon [Miss Jackson].
Episode 1 [02/10/76]: Sarah is taken over by the will of Eldrad, a long dead Kastrian war criminal.
Episode 2 [09/10/76]: Eldrad's hand forces Sarah to walk into a nuclear research station's reactor.
Episode 3 [16/10/76]: A fully regenerated Eldrad persuades the Doctor to return him home.
Episode 4 [23/10/76]: Eldrad fails to regenerate his race and the Doctor receives a summons to return to Gallifrey.

Regular cast: Tom Baker [the Doctor]

089. THE DEADLY ASSASSIN [4 episodes, 1:34:47]
written by Robert Holmes; directed by David Maloney
Main cast: Peter Pratt [the Master], Angus Mackay [Cardinal Borusa], Bernard Horsfall [Chancellor Goth], George Pravda [Castellan Spandrell], Erik Chitty [Co-ordinator Engin].
Episode 1 [30/10/76]: Despite his best efforts, the Doctor fails to prevent the Time Lord President being assassinated.
Episode 2 [06/11/76]: The Doctor enters the APC Net to try and discover the identity of the assassin.
Episode 3 [13/11/76]: The Doctor finds his opponent in the Net is Chancellor Goth, who is being controlled by the Master.
Episode 4 [20/11/76]: The Doctor foils the Master's attempt to destroy Gallifrey.

Regular cast: Tom Baker [the Doctor], Louise Jameson [Leela].

090. THE FACE OF EVIL [4 episodes, 1:39:22]
written by Chris Boucher; directed by Pennant Roberts
Main cast: Leslie Schofield [Calib], David Garfield [Neeva], Brendan Price [Tomas], Leon Eagles [Jabel].
Episode 1 [01/01/77]: The Doctor is captured by the Sevateem, a primitive tribe which refers to him as the Evil One.
Episode 2 [08/01/77]: Leela helps the Doctor pass the Test of the Horda.
Episode 3 [15/01/77]: The Doctor and Leela find their way through the Black Wall.
Episode 4 [22/01/77]: The Doctor removes his personality print from Xoanon, restoring the computer to sanity.

091. THE ROBOTS OF DEATH [4 episodes, 1:35:54]
written by Chris Boucher; directed by Michael E.Briant
Main cast: Russell Hunter [Uvanov], Pamela Salem [Toos], David Bailie [Dask], David Collings [Poul], Gregory de Polnay [D84].
Episode 1 [29/01/77]: The Doctor and Leela are suspected of a murder on board a massive Sandminer.
Episode 2 [05/02/77]: More crewmembers are murdered and the Sandminer's controls are sabotaged.
Episode 3 [12/02/77]: The Doctor hunts for the hidden workshop of the person reprogramming the robots to kill.
Episode 4 [19/02/77]: Dask's plans to lead a robot revolution are foiled by a canister of helium.

092. THE TALONS OF WENG-CHIANG [6 episodes, 2:23:51]
written by Robert Holmes; directed by David Maloney
Main cast: John Bennett [Li H'sen Chang], Michael Spice [Magnus Greel], Trevor Baxter [Professor Litefoot], Christopher Benjamin [Henry Gordon Jago], Deep Roy [Mr.Sin].
Episode 1 [26/02/77]: The Doctor and Leela hear a murder in the backstreets of Victorian London.
Episode 2 [05/03/77]: Greel, a war criminal from the future, traces the Time Cabinet to Litefoot's house.
Episode 3 [12/03/77]: Leela follows Greel whilst the Doctor begins a search of the sewers.
Episode 4 [19/03/77]: The Doctor and Leela go to see Li's performance at Jago's theatre.
Episode 5 [26/03/77]: Litefoot and Jago are captured by the Tong.
Episode 6 [02/04/77]: The Doctor manages to stop Greel reactivating the Time Cabinet.


Series 15: 1977-1978
Regular cast: Tom Baker [the Doctor], Louise Jameson [Leela].
Producer: Graham Williams
Script Editor: Robert Holmes

093. HORROR OF FANG ROCK [4 episodes, 1:35:21]
written by Terrance Dicks; directed by Paddy Russell
Main cast: John Abbott [Vince], Colin Douglas [Reuben], Sean Caffrey [Lord Palmerdale], Alan Rowe [Skinsale], Annette Woolett [Adelaide].
Episode 1 [03/09/77]: A remote lighthouse at the turn of the 20th Century suffers inexplicable power failures.
Episode 2 [10/09/77]: Survivors from a crashed yacht are taken in.
Episode 3 [17/09/77]: After sealing off the lighthouse, the Doctor realises the killer is already inside.
Episode 4 [24/09/77]: With everybody else killed by the Rutan, Leela kills the alien whilst the Doctor destroys its mothership.

094. THE INVISIBLE ENEMY [4 episodes, 1:33:12]
written by Bob Baker & Dave Martin; directed by Derrick Goodwin
Main cast: Frederick Jaeger [Professor Marius], Michael Sheard [Lowe], Brian Grellis [Safran], Roy Herrick [Parsons], John Leeson [voice of K9].
Episode 1 [01/10/77]: The crew of a methane-cracking plant on Titan is attacked by an intelligent virus.
Episode 2 [08/10/77]: Professor Marius struggles to help an infected Doctor.
Episode 3 [15/10/77]: Miniaturised clones of the Doctor and Leela track down the nucleus of the virus in the Doctor's brain.
Episode 4 [22/10/77]: The Doctor succeeds in destroying the virus's breeding tanks and is given K9 by Marius.

095. IMAGE OF THE FENDAHL [4 episodes, 1:34:16]
written by Chris Boucher; directed by George Spenton-Foster
Main cast: Wanda Ventham [Thea Ransome], Denis Lill [Dr.Fendelman], Scott Fredericks [Maximillian], Edward Arthur [Adam Colby], Geoffrey Hinsliff [Jack Tyler].
Episode 1 [29/10/77]: The Doctor finds a dangerous Time Scanner being used on Earth.
Episode 2 [05/11/77]: The Doctor discovers a strange skull in Fendelman's laboratory.
Episode 3 [12/11/77]: The Doctor realises the Fendahl is gathering enough strength to revive itself.
Episode 4 [19/11/77]: The Fendahl takes over Thea's body but is destroyed when the Time Scanner implodes.

Regular cast: Tom Baker [the Doctor], Louise Jameson [Leela], John Leeson [voice of K9].

096. THE SUN MAKERS [4 episodes, 1:39:50]
written by Robert Holmes; directed by Pennant Roberts
Main cast: Roy Macready [Cordo], Richard Leech [Gatherer Hade], Henry Woolf [the Collector], William Simons {Mandrell].
Episode 1 [26/11/77]: The Doctor finds a heavily taxed society of Earth refugees on Pluto controlled by the Company.
Episode 2 [03/12/77]: The Doctor is captured by the Inner Retinue and taken to the Gatherer.
Episode 3 [10/12/77]: The Others are persuaded to rise up against the system and Leela is sentenced to a steaming.
Episode 4 [17/12/77]: The Company collapses in chaos after the Doctor introduces spiraling inflation into its computer.

Script Editor: Anthony Read

097. UNDERWORLD [4 episodes, 1:29:17]
written by Bob Baker & Dave Martin; directed by Norman Stewart
Main cast: James Maxwell [Jackson], Alan Lake [Herrick], Jonathan Newth [Orfe], Imogen Bickford-Smith [Tala], Norman Tipton [Idas].
Episode 1 [07/01/78]: The Tardis materialises onboard a Minyan ship at the edge of the known Universe.
Episode 2 [14/01/78]: The ship plunges into a new planet populated by descendents of an earlier Minyan mission.
Episode 3 [21/01/78]: The Doctor and Leela save Idas's father from execution and free the Trogs.
Episode 4 [28/01/78]: The Oracle is destroyed by a bomb the Doctor has switched with the Minyan race banks.

098. THE INVASION OF TIME [6 episodes, 2:29:15]
written by David Agnew (Graham Williams & Anthony Read); directed by Gerald Blake
Main cast: Milton Johns [Castellan Kelner], John Arnatt [Chancellor Borusa], Chris Tranchell [Andred], Hilary Ryan [Rodan], Max Faulkner [Nesbin].
Episode 1 [04/02/78]: The Doctor returns to Gallifrey to claim his rights to the presidency.
Episode 2 [11/02/78]: The Doctor destroys Gallifrey's protective barriers to allow the Vardans to invade.
Episode 3 [18/02/78]: Leela and Rodan escape to the Outside.
Episode 4 [25/02/78]: The Doctor reveals he has merely been laying a trap for the Vardans.
Episode 5 [04/03/78]: The Sontarans invade, having used the Vardans to trick the Doctor.
Episode 6 [11/03/78]: K9 and Rodan build a D-Mat Gun, which the Doctor uses to defeat the Sontarans. Leela stays with Andred.


Series 16: 1978-1979
Regular cast: Tom Baker [the Doctor], Mary Tamm [Romanadvoratrelundar], John Leeson [voice of K9].
Producer: Graham Williams
Script Editor: Anthony Read

099. THE RIBOS OPERATION [4 episodes, 1:39:20]
written by Robert Holmes; directed by George Spenton-Foster
Main cast: Iain Cuthbertson [Garron], Nigel Plaskitt [Unstoffe], Paul Seed [Graff Vynda-K], Timothy Bateson [Binro], Cyril Luckham [White Guardian].
Episode 1 [02/09/78]: The Doctor is chosen to search for the Key to Time and given a new companion to help him.
Episode 2 [09/09/78]: Galactic conman Garron tries to sell Ribos to deposed tyrant the Graff Vynda-K.
Episode 3 [16/09/78]: Unstoffe is persued by the Shrieves and the Graff's Levithian troopers.
Episode 4 [23/09/78]: The Graff and his Levithians are buried in ancient catacombs by the Shrieves.

100. THE PIRATE PLANET [4 episodes, 1:41:38]
written by Douglas Adams; directed by Pennant Roberts
Main cast: Bruce Purchase [the Captain], Andrew Robertson [Mr.Fibuli], Rosalind Lloyd [Nurse], David Sibley [Pralix], David Warwick [Kimus].
Episode 1 [30/09/78]: Heading for the planet Calufrax, the Tardis instead lands on Zanak.
Episode 2 [07/10/78]: The Doctor and Romana discover Calufrax is actually inside Zanak.
Episode 3 [14/10/78]: The Doctor learns that Zanak was a prosperous world ruined by Queen Xanxia in her bid for immortality.
Episode 4 [21/10/78]: The Doctor and the Mentiads manage to prevent Zanak materialising around Earth.

101. THE STONES OF BLOOD [4 episodes, 1:35:47]
written by David Fisher; directed by Darrol Blake
Main cast: Beatrix Lehmann [Professor Rumford], Susan Engel [Vivien Fay].
Episode 1 [28/10/78]: The Tardis arrives near a stone circle where sacrifices are still being made.
Episode 2 [04/11/78]: The Doctor and Romana find some of the stones are actually living creatures which feed on blood.
Episode 3 [11/11/78]: Romana and the Doctor are transported to a prison ship in hyperspace.
Episode 4 [18/11/78]: The Doctor persuades the Megara that Vivien Fay is really super-criminal Cessair of Diplos.

102. THE ANDROIDS OF TARA [4 episodes, 1:38:01]
written by David Fisher; directed by Michael Hayes
Main cast: Peter Jeffrey [Count Grendel], Neville Jason [Prince Reynart], Simon Lack [Zadek], Lois Baxter [Madame Lamia], Mary Tamm [Princess Strella].
Episode 1 [25/11/78]: Romana finds the fourth segment but is captured by Count Grendel.
Episode 2 [02/12/78]: The Doctor repairs an android replica of Prince Reynart, heir apparent to the throne of Tara.
Episode 3 [09/12/78]: The Doctor evades capture by Grendel but the Count destroys the replica Prince and recaptures Romana.
Episode 4 [16/12/78]: Grendel is defeated and Reynart crowned King of Tara with Strella as his consort.

103. THE POWER OF KROLL [4 episodes, 1:29:07]
written by Robert Holmes; directed by Norman Stewart
Main cast: Neil McCarthy [Thawn], Philip Madoc [Fenner], Glyn Owen [Rohm-Dutt], John Abineri [Ranquin].
Episode 1 [23/12/78]: The Tardis arrives on the swampy moon of Delta 3 and Romana is sacrificed to Kroll.
Episode 2 [30/12/78]: The real Kroll appears and begins to attack the Swampies and the Refinery.
Episode 3 [06/01/79]: The Doctor, Romana and gun-runner Rohm-Dutt face being stretched to death.
Episode 4 [13/01/79]: Kroll attacks the Refinery.

104. THE ARMAGEDDON FACTOR [6 episodes, 2:30:38]
written by Bob Baker & Dave Martin; directed by Michael Hayes
Main cast: Valentine Dyall [Black Guardian], Lalla Ward [Princess Astra], John Woodvine [the Marshal], William Squire [the Shadow], Drax [Barry Jackson].
Episode 1 [20/01/79]: The Tardis arrives on the ravaged planet of Atrios, currently at war with neighbouring Zeos.
Episode 2 [27/01/79]: The Doctor and Romana suspect the Marshal is being controlled.
Episode 3 [03/02/79]: The Doctor is captured by the Shadow and K9 meets Mentalis, the computer controlling Zeos.
Episode 4 [10/02/79]: The Doctor sets up a time loop to hold off the Marshal's attack on Zeos.
Episode 5 [17/02/79]: The Doctor meets Drax, a renegade Time Lord who built Mentalis.
Episode 6 [24/02/79]: Romana realises Astra is the sixth segment of the Key to Time.


Series 17: 1979-1980
Regular cast: Tom Baker [the Doctor], Lalla Ward [Romanadvoratrelundar].
Producer: Graham Williams
Script Editor: Douglas Adams

105. DESTINY OF THE DALEKS [4 episodes, 1:39:54]
written by Terry Nation; directed by Ken Grieve
Main cast: Tim Barlow [Tyssan], Peter Straker [Sharrel], Suzanne Danielle [Agella], Tony Osoba [Lan], David Gooderson [Davros].
Episode 1 [01/09/79]: The Doctor meets a Movellan military expedition on Skaro.
Episode 2 [08/09/79]: The Doctor and the Movellans try to beat the Daleks to their objective.
Episode 3 [15/09/79]: A fully revived Davros is reunited with the Daleks, and the Doctor discovers the Movellans are robots.
Episode 4 [22/09/79]: Davros and the Doctor realise the Dalek and Movellan war fleets are locked in a stalemate.

106. CITY OF DEATH [4 episodes, 1:39:31]
written by David Agnew (Graham Williams & Douglas Adams); directed by Michael Hayes
Main cast: Julian Glover [Scaroth/Count Scarlioni/Captain Tancredi], Catherine Schell [Countess Scarlioni], Tom Chadbon [Duggan], David Graham [Professor Kerensky].
Episode 1 [29/09/79]: The Doctor and Romana experience time rifts in Paris.
Episode 2 [06/10/79]: The travellers are captured by Count Scarlioni, who is sponsoring experiments in time travel.
Episode 3 [13/10/79]: The Doctor realises that Scarlioni and Tancredi are segments of Scaroth scattered through time.
Episode 4 [20/10/79]: Scaroth fails to prevent the explosion which scattered him through time and created life on Earth.

Regular cast: Tom Baker [the Doctor], Lalla Ward [Romanadvoratrelundar], David Brierley [voice of K9].

107. THE CREATURE FROM THE PIT [4 episodes, 1:35:37]
written by David Fisher; directed by Christopher Barry
Main cast: Myra Frances [Lady Adrasta], Eileen Way [Karela], Geoffrey Bayldon [Organon].
Episode 1 [27/10/79]: The Tardis arrives on Chloris, where people who displease Lady Adrasta are thrown in a pit.
Episode 2 [03/11/79]: The Doctor encounters a large, green amorphous creature in the pit.
Episode 3 [10/11/79]: The creature is Erato, an ambassador from Tythonus who Adrasta imprisoned in the pit.
Episode 4 [17/11/79]: The Doctor and Erato try to divert a neutron star that has been aimed at Chloris.

108. NIGHTMARE OF EDEN [4 episodes, 1:35:38]
written by Bob Baker; directed by Alan Bromly
Main cast: David Daker [Rigg], Lewis Fiander [Tryst], Jennifer Lonsdale [Della], Geoffrey Bateman [Dymond], Barry Andrews [Stott].
Episode 1 [24/11/79]: Two spacecraft become fused after leaving hyperspace at the same time.
Episode 2 [01/12/79]: Savage Mandrells emerge from the interface between the two ships.
Episode 3 [08/12/79]: The Doctor discovers the Mandrells are the source of the dangerously addictive drug Vraxoin.
Episode 4 [15/12/79]: Tryst and Dymond are revealed to be Vraxoin smugglers.

109. THE HORNS OF NIMON [4 episodes, 1:40:52]
written by Anthony Read; directed by Kenny McBain
Main cast: Graham Crowden [Soldeed], Simon Gipps-Kent [Seth], Janet Ellis [Teka], Michael Osborne [Sorak].
Episode 1 [22/12/79]: The Doctor and Romana repair a ship carrying hymetusite and Anethan sacrifices to Skonnos.
Episode 2 [29/12/79]: Romana and the Anethans arrive on Skonnos and are sent to the Nimon.
Episode 3 [05/01/80]: The Doctor and Romana discover the Nimon are planning an invasion.
Episode 4 [12/01/80]: The Doctor traps the Nimon on the doomed planet of Crinoth.


Series 18: 1980-1981
Regular cast: Tom Baker [the Doctor], Lalla Ward [Romanadvoratrelundar], John Leeson [voice of K9].
Executive Producer: Barry Letts
Producer: John Nathan Turner
Script Editor: Christopher H.Bidmead

110. THE LEISURE HIVE [4 episodes, 1:26:58]
written by David Fisher; directed by Lovett Bickford
Main cast: Adrienne Corri [Mena], David Haig [Pangol], John Collin [Brock], Nigel Lambert [Hardin].
Episode 1 [30/08/80]: The famous Tachyon Recreation Generator on the irradiated planet Argolis is sabotaged.
Episode 2 [06/09/80]: The Doctor ages hundreds of years whilst investigating the TRG.
Episode 3 [13/09/80]: Pangol prepares to seize power from the ailing Mena.
Episode 4 [20/09/80]: A Foamasi government agent uncovers a renegade Foamasi plot to buy the Leisure Hive.

111. MEGLOS [4 episodes, 1:26:56]
written by John Flanagan & Andrew McCulloch; directed by Terence Dudley
Main cast: Edward Underdown [Zastor], Jacqueline Hill [Lexa], Crawford Logan [Deedrix], Colette Gleeson [Caris], Bill Fraser [General Grugger].
Episode 1 [27/09/80]: The Tardis gets caught in a Chronic Hysteresis engineered by Meglos.
Episode 2 [04/10/80]: Meglos masquerades as the Doctor to steal the Dodecahedron, helped by Gaztak mercenaries.
Episode 3 [11/10/80]: The Doctor is sentenced to death by the Tigellan High Priestess, Lexa.
Episode 4 [18/10/80]: The Doctor sabotages the Dodecahedron, destroying Meglos and the Gaztaks.

Regular cast: Tom Baker [the Doctor], Lalla Ward [Romanadvoratrelundar], Matthew Waterhouse [Adric], John Leeson [voice of K9].

112. FULL CIRCLE [4 episodes, 1:32:50]
written by Andrew Smith; directed by Peter Grimwade
Main cast: George Baker [Login], Alan Rowe [Garif], Richard Willis [Varsh], June Page [Keara], Tony Calvin [Dexeter].
Episode 1 [25/10/80]: Adric seeks refuge in the Tardis when Mistfall starts on Alzarius.
Episode 2 [01/11/80]: The Tardis is hijacked by the Outlers and attacked by Marshmen.
Episode 3 [08/11/80]: Romana is bitten by a Marsh Spider and Dexeter experiments on a captured Marshman.
Episode 4 [15/11/80]: The Marshmen attack the Starliner and the Alzarians discover their true heritage.

113. STATE OF DECAY [4 episodes, 1:34:47]
written by Terrance Dicks; directed by Peter Moffatt
Main cast: William Lindsay [Zargo], Rachel Davies [Camilla], Emrys James [Aukon], Arthur Hewlett [Kalmar], Thane Bettany [Tarak].
Episode 1 [22/11/80]: The Tardis lands on a medieval-like planet ruled by a triumverate of vampires.
Episode 2 [29/11/80]: The Doctor discovers the Three Who Rule were the original officers on board the Hydrax.
Episode 3 [06/12/80]: The Doctor and Romana discover the Great Vampire lies beneath the Hydrax.
Episode 4 [13/12/80]: The Doctor uses one of the Hydrax's scout rockets to kill the Great Vampire.

114. WARRIOR'S GATE [4 episodes, 1:33:49]
written by Steve Gallagher; directed by Paul Joyce
Main cast: Clifford Rose [Rorvik], Kenneth Cope [Packard], David Weston [Biroc], Jeremy Gittins [Lazlo].
Episode 1 [03/01/81]: The Tardis is hijacked by a time sensitive Tharil who has escaped from a nearby slaver ship.
Episode 2 [10/01/81]: The Doctor discovers a gateway between E- and N-Space.
Episode 3 [17/01/81]: Romana is rescued from Rorvik's ship by Lazlo, another Tharil slave.
Episode 4 [24/01/81]: The ship's motors destroy itself and the Gateway. Romana elects to stay with the freed Tharils.

Regular cast: Tom Baker [the Doctor], Matthew Waterhouse [Adric], Sarah Sutton [Nyssa].

115. THE KEEPER OF TRAKEN [4 episodes, 1:37:55]
written by Johnny Byrne; directed by John Black
Main cast: Anthony Ainley [Tremas], Sheila Ruskin [Kassia], John Woodnutt [Seron], Geoffrey Beevers [Melkur/the Master].
Episode 1 [31/01/81]: Visiting the peaceful Union of Traken, the Doctor is warned of impending evil.
Episode 2 [07/02/81]: The Doctor and Adric are arrested and placed under Tremas's personal protection.
Episode 3 [14/02/81]: Kassia succeeds as Keeper but is immediately usurped by the Melkur.
Episode 4 [21/02/81]: The Melkur reveals himself to be the Master.

Regular cast: Tom Baker [the Doctor], Matthew Waterhouse [Adric], Sarah Sutton [Nyssa], Janet Fielding [Tegan Jovanka].

116. LOGOPOLIS [4 episodes, 1:38:17]
written by Christopher H.Bidmead; directed by Peter Grimwade
Main cast: Anthony Ainley [the Master], John Fraser [the Monitor].
Episode 1 [28/02/81]: Tegan gets lost in the Tardis as it gets trapped in a gravity bubble.
Episode 2 [07/03/81]: The Doctor, Adric and Tegan meet up with Nyssa on Logopolis.
Episode 3 [14/03/81]: The Master sabotages Logopolis, not realising it spells doom for the entire cosmos.
Episode 4 [21/03/81]: The Doctor manages to counter the Master's sabotage but falls from a gantry...


Series 19: 1982
Regular cast: Peter Davison [the Doctor], Matthew Waterhouse [Adric], Sarah Sutton [Nyssa], Janet Fielding [Tegan Jovanka].
Producer: John Nathan Turner
Script Editor: Eric Saward

117. CASTROVALVA [4 episodes, 1:36:14]
written by Christopher H.Bidmead; directed by Fiona Cumming
Main cast: Anthony Ainley [the Master], Derek Waring [Shardovan], Michael Sheard [Mergrave], Frank Wylie [Ruther].
Episode 1 [04/01/82]: The Master uses Adric to send the Tardis back to Event One.
Episode 2 [05/01/82]: The Tardis lands on Castrovalva where Nyssa and Tegan hope the Doctor can recover.
Episode 3 [11/01/82]: The Doctor realises Castrovalva is an elaborate trap.
Episode 4 [12/01/82]: Shardovan frees Adric and the Master is trapped as Castrovalva implodes.

Script Editor: Antony Root

118. FOUR TO DOOMSDAY [4 episodes, 1:36:48]
written by Terence Dudley; directed by John Black
Main cast: Stratford Johns [Monarch], Philip Locke [Bigon], Paul Shelley [Persuasion], Annie Lambert [Enlightenment], Burt Kwuok [Lin Futu].
Episode 1 [18/01/82]: The Tardis arrives on an Urbankan ship four days out from Earth.
Episode 2 [19/01/82]: The travellers learn that the humans onboard are actually androids.
Episode 3 [25/01/82]: Nyssa is sent to be turned into an android, Tegan tries to escape in the Tardis.
Episode 4 [26/01/82]: Monarch is killed by a poison he intended for the human race.

Script Editor: Eric Saward

119. KINDA [4 episodes, 1:38:33]
written by Christopher Bailey; directed by Peter Grimwade
Main cast: Richard Todd [Sanders], Nerys Hughes [Todd], Mary Morris [Panna], Simon Rouse [Hindle], Adrian Mills [Aris], Sarah Prince [Karuna].
Episode 1 [01/02/82]: The Doctor and Adric meet an Earth expedition on a tranquil planet.
Episode 2 [02/02/82]: Hindle succumbs to paranoia and imprisons the Doctor, Adric and Todd.
Episode 3 [08/02/82]: The Doctor and Todd meet Panna, the wise woman of the Kinda.
Episode 4 [09/02/82]: The Mara is exorcised from Aris and banished.

Script Editor: Antony Root

120. THE VISITATION [4 episodes, 1:36:33]
written by Eric Saward; directed by Peter Moffatt
Main cast: Michael Robbins [Richard Mace], Michael Melia [Terileptil leader].
Episode 1 [15/02/82]: The Tardis arrives near London during the Great Plague.
Episode 2 [16/02/82]: The Doctor discovers evidence of alien interference.
Episode 3 [22/02/82]: The Terileptils plan to release an even more virulent plague virus to wipe out humanity.
Episode 4 [23/02/82]: The Terileptils and their plague rats are destroyed in the Great Fire of London.

Script Editor: Eric Saward

121. BLACK ORCHID [2 episodes, 0:49:37]
written by Terence Dudley; directed by Ron Jones
Main cast: Barbara Murray [Lady Cranleigh], Michael Cochrane [Lord Cranleigh], Moray Watson [Sir Robert Muir], Ivor Salter [Sergeant Markham], Sarah Sutton [Ann Talbot].
Episode 1 [01/03/82]: The travellers are invited to a masked ball at Cranleigh Manor.
Episode 2 [02/03/82]: The Cranleighs' tragic secret is revealed.

Script Editor: Antony Root

122. EARTHSHOCK [4 episodes, 1:37:37]
written by Eric Saward; directed by Peter Grimwade
Main cast: Beryl Reid [Briggs], James Warwick [Lieutenant Scott], Clare Clifford [Professor Kyle], June Bland [Berger], Alec Sabin [Ringway].
Episode 1 [08/03/82]: A military investigation team is attacked by mysterious androids.
Episode 2 [09/03/82]: The Doctor discovers a remote-controlled bomb and traces the transmission source to a space freighter.
Episode 3 [15/03/82]: The Cybermen take over the freighter with the help of Ringway.
Episode 4 [16/03/82]: The freighter is sent back in time and Adric is killed as it hits prehistoric Earth.

Regular cast: Peter Davison [the Doctor], Sarah Sutton [Nyssa], Janet Fielding [Tegan Jovanka].
Script Editor: Eric Saward

123. TIME FLIGHT [4 episodes, 1:37:53]
written by Peter Grimwade; directed by Ron Jones
Main cast: Anthony Ainley [the Master], Nigel Stock [Professor Hayter], Richard Easton [Captain Stapley], Michael Cashman [First Officer Bilton].
Episode 1 [22/03/82]: The Doctor traces a missing Concorde to the Jurassic Period.
Episode 2 [23/03/82]: The travellers find hypnotised Concorde passengers and crew trying to break into a stone sarcophagus.
Episode 3 [29/03/82]: Professor Hayter is taken over by the Xeraphin Consciousness.
Episode 4 [30/03/82]: The Doctor sends the Xeraphin back to their rejuvenated planet with the Master as a prisoner.


Series 20: 1983
Regular cast: Peter Davison [the Doctor], Sarah Sutton [Nyssa], Janet Fielding [Tegan Jovanka].
Producer: John Nathan Turner
Script Editor: Eric Saward

124. ARC OF INFINITY [4 episodes, 1:38:24]
written by Johnny Byrne; directed by Ron Jones
Main cast: Leonard Sachs [President Borusa], Michael Gough [Hedin], Ian Collier [Omega], Colin Baker [Maxil], Neil Dalglish [Damon].
Episode 1 [03/01/83]: Two hitch-hikers witness strange happenings in an Amsterdam crypt.
Episode 2 [05/01/83]: The Doctor is sentenced to dissolution by the Time Lords.
Episode 3 [11/01/83]: Hedin reveals he is helping Omega escape into our universe.
Episode 4 [12/01/83]: The Doctor and Nyssa travel to Amsterdam to confront Omega.

125. SNAKEDANCE [4 episodes, 1:37:59]
written by Christopher Bailey; directed by Fiona Cumming
Main cast: John Carson [Ambril], Colette O'Neil [Tanha], Martin Clunes [Lon], Jonathon Morris [Chela].
Episode 1 [18/01/83]: Tegan is repossessed by the Mara.
Episode 2 [19/01/83]: Through Tegan, the Mara takes over Lon, son of the Federator.
Episode 3 [25/01/83]: Lon shows Ambril a cavern of previously undiscovered treasure.
Episode 4 [26/01/83]: The Doctor prevents the Mara fully materialising.

Regular cast: Peter Davison [the Doctor], Sarah Sutton [Nyssa], Janet Fielding [Tegan Jovanka], Mark Strickson [Vislor Turlough].

126. MAWDRYN UNDEAD [4 episodes, 1:37:41]
written by Peter Grimwade; directed by Peter Moffatt
Main cast: Nicholas Courtney [Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart], Valentine Dyall [Black Guardian], David Collings [Mawdryn], Angus Mackay [Headmaster].
Episode 1 [01/02/83]: The Black Guardian recruits Turlough to kill the Doctor.
Episode 2 [02/02/83]: The Doctor reminds the Brigadier of his past.
Episode 3 [08/02/83]: Mawdryn forces the Doctor to agree to forfeit his future lives.
Episode 4 [09/02/83]: The two Brigadiers meet, releasing an explosion of temporal energy.

127. TERMINUS [4 episodes, 1:39:06]
written by Steve Gallagher; directed by Mary Ridge
Main cast: Valentine Dyall [Black Guardian], Liza Goddard [Kari], Dominic Guard [Olvir], Andrew Burt [Valgard], Martin Potter [Eirak].
Episode 1 [15/02/83]: The travellers find themselves on an apparently deserted spaceship
Episode 2 [16/02/83]: Nyssa contracts Lazar's Disease and is taken for "treatment".
Episode 3 [22/02/83]: The Doctor finds Terminus is an ancient spaceship at the exact centre of the known Universe.
Episode 4 [23/02/83]: Nyssa is cured but realises there must be a safer remedy and stays on Terminus to perfect it.

Regular cast: Peter Davison [the Doctor], Janet Fielding [Tegan Jovanka], Mark Strickson [Vislor Turlough].

128. ENLIGHTENMENT [4 episodes, 1:37:47]
written by Barbara Clegg; directed by Fiona Cumming
Main cast: Valentine Dyall [Black Guardian], Lynda Baron [Wrack], Keith Barron [Striker], Cyril Luckham [White Guardian], Christopher Brown [Marriner].
Episode 1 [01/03/83]: The Tardis arrives onboard what appears to be an ordinary Edwardian racing yacht.
Episode 2 [02/03/83]: The Doctor finds the ship's officers are Eternals engaged in a race for "Enlightenment".
Episode 3 [08/03/83]: Turlough is taken aboard Wrack's pirate ship.
Episode 4 [09/03/83]: The Doctor and Turlough refuse the offer of Enlightenment.

129. THE KING'S DEMONS [2 episodes, 0:49:15]
written by Terence Dudley; directed by Tony Virgo
Main cast: Anthony Ainley [the Master], Frank Windsor [Ranulf Fitzwilliam], Gerald Flood [King John/voice of Kamelion], Isla Blair [Isabella].
Episode 1 [15/03/83]: The travellers are welcomed by King John, but the Doctor is suspicious.
Episode 2 [16/03/83]: The King is revealed to be a shape-changing robot the Master stole from Xeraphas.


20th Anniversary Special: 1983
Regular cast: Peter Davison [the Doctor], Janet Fielding [Tegan Jovanka], Mark Strickson [Vislor Turlough].
Producer: John Nathan Turner
Script Editor: Eric Saward

130. THE FIVE DOCTORS [1 episode, 1:30:23]
written by Terrance Dicks; directed by Peter Moffatt
Main cast: Richard Hurndall [1st Doctor], Patrick Troughton [2nd Doctor], Jon Pertwee [3rd Doctor], Tom Baker [4th Doctor], Nicholas Courtney [Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart], Carole Ann Ford [Susan], Elisabeth Sladen [Sarah-Jane], Lalla Ward [Romana], Frazer Hines [Jamie], Wendy Padbury [Zoe], Caroline John [Liz], Richard Franklin [Captain Yates], Anthony Ainley [the Master], Philip Latham [President Borusa], Dinah Sheridan [Chancellor Flavia], Paul Jerricho [Castellan].
The Five Doctors [25/11/83]: Time Lord President Borusa reactivates Gallifrey's Death Zone in his quest for immortality.
n.b. World premiere on WTTW-TV (Chicago) on 23/11/83


Series 21: 1984
Regular cast: Peter Davison [the Doctor], Janet Fielding [Tegan Jovanka], Mark Strickson [Vislor Turlough].
Producer: John Nathan Turner
Script Editor: Eric Saward

131. WARRIORS OF THE DEEP [4 episodes, 1:37:19]
written by Johnny Byrne; directed by Pennant Roberts
Main cast: Tom Adams [Vorshak], Ingrid Pitt [Solow], Ian McCulloch [Nilson], Nigel Humphreys [Bulic].
Episode 1 [05/01/84]: The Tardis arrives in an underwater base after being fired on by a security satellite.
Episode 2 [06/01/84]: The Silurians and Sea Devils begin an attack on the sea base.
Episode 3 [12/01/84]: The Silurians and Sea Devils break into the base.
Episode 4 [13/01/84]: The Doctor is forced to kill the Silurians and Sea Devils with deadly Hexachromite gas.

132. THE AWAKENING [2 episodes, 0:50:05]
written by Eric Pringle; directed by Michael Owen Morris
Main cast: Denis Lill [Sir George Hutchinson], Polly James [Jane Hampden], Glyn Houston [Colonel Wolsey], Keith Jayne [Will Chandler], Frederick Hall [Andrew Verney].
Episode 1 [19/01/84]: A reconstruction of a Civil War battle awakens an evil alien entity.
Episode 2 [20/01/84]: The Doctor severs the Malus's control over the villagers.

133. FRONTIOS [4 episodes, 1:38:10]
written by Christopher H.Bidmead; directed by Ron Jones
Main cast: Peter Gilmore [Brazen], Lesley Dunlop [Norna], William Lucas [Range], Jeff Rawle [Plantagenet], John Gillett [the Gravis].
Episode 1 [26/01/84]: The Tardis is forced down onto a planet colonised by refugees from a dead Earth.
Episode 2 [27/01/84]: The Doctor tries to find out why Frontios is the target of so many meteor attacks.
Episode 3 [02/02/84]: The Doctor and Tegan find Tractators at work building a gravity motor.
Episode 4 [03/02/84]: The Doctor tricks the Gravis into reforming the Tardis.

134. RESURRECTION OF THE DALEKS [2 episodes, 1:33:16]
written by Eric Saward; directed by Matthew Robinson
Main cast: Rodney Bewes [Stein], Rula Lenska [Styles], Maurice Colbourne [Lytton], Del Henney [Colonel Archer], Terry Molloy [Davros].
Episode 1 [08/02/84]: Davros is rescued from his prison ship by mercenaries working for a rebel Dalek faction.
Episode 2 [15/02/84]: The opposing Dalek factions are wiped out by a Movellan virus.

Regular cast: Peter Davison [the Doctor], Mark Strickson [Vislor Turlough], Nicola Bryant [Peri Brown].

135. PLANET OF FIRE [4 episodes, 1:37:27]
written by Peter Grimwade; directed by Fiona Cumming
Main cast: Anthony Ainley [the Master], Peter Wyngarde [Timanov], Barbara Shelley [Sorasta], James Bate [Amyand], Edward Highmore [Malkon].
Episode 1 [23/02/84]: Turlough saves Peri from drowning and Kamelion hijacks the Tardis.
Episode 2 [24/02/84]: The Tardis arrives on Sarn and Turlough recognises some familiar artefacts.
Episode 3 [01/03/84]: Through Kamelion, the miniaturised Master discovers the source of the Numismaton Gas he needs.
Episode 4 [02/03/84]: Turlough is forced to contact his own people to help evacuate Sarn.

Regular cast: Peter Davison [the Doctor], Nicola Bryant [Peri Brown].

136. THE CAVES OF ANDROZANI [4 episodes, 1:39:46]
written by Robert Holmes; directed by Graeme Harper
Main cast: Christopher Gable [Sharaz Jek], John Normington [Morgus], Robert Glenister [Salateen], Maurice Roeves [Stotz], Martin Cochrane [Chellak].
Episode 1 [08/03/84]: The Doctor and Peri are accused of gun-running and sentenced to the firing squad.
Episode 2 [09/03/84]: The Doctor finds Sharaz Jek is fighting a war against government troops over the supply of Spectrox.
Episode 3 [15/03/84]: The Doctor is captured by the real gun-runners, who he finds are working for Morgus.
Regular cast: Peter Davison [the Doctor], Nicola Bryant [Peri Brown], Colin Baker [the Doctor].
Episode 4 [16/03/84]: The Doctor saves Peri's life but is forced to regenerate again.

Regular cast: Colin Baker [the Doctor], Nicola Bryant [Peri Brown].

137. THE TWIN DILEMMA [4 episodes, 1:39:22]
written by Anthony Steven; directed by Peter Moffatt
Main cast: Maurice Denham [Professor Edgeworth/Azmael], Kevin McNally [Hugo Lang], Edwin Richfield [Mestor], Gavin Conrad [Romulus], Andrew Conrad [Remus].
Episode 1 [22/03/84]: The newly regenerated Doctor decides to become a hermit on Titan 3.
Episode 2 [23/03/84]: The Doctor meets an old friend, who locks him and Peri in a base set to self-destruct.
Episode 3 [29/03/84]: The Doctor, Peri and Hugo follow Edgeworth to Jaconda.
Episode 4 [30/03/84]: The Doctor discovers Mestor intends to infest the galaxy with his eggs.


Series 22: 1985
Regular cast: Colin Baker [the Doctor], Nicola Bryant [Peri Brown].
Producer: John Nathan Turner
Script Editor: Eric Saward

138. ATTACK OF THE CYBERMEN [2 episodes, 1:28:46]
written by Paula Moore (Paula Wolsey); directed by Matthew Robinson
Main cast: Maurice Colbourne [Lytton], Brian Glover [Griffiths], Michael Attwell [Bates], Faith Brown [Flast].
Part 1 [05/01/85]: The Doctor discovers Cybermen have returned to London's sewers.
Part 2 [12/01/85]: The Cyber base is destroyed when Flast sacrifices herself by igniting a powerful explosive.

139. VENGEANCE ON VAROS [2 episodes, 1:29:25]
written by Philip Martin; directed by Ron Jones
Main cast: Martin Jarvis [the Governor], Nabil Shaban [Sil], Jason Connery [Jondar], Forbes Collins [Chief Officer].
Part 1 [19/01/85]: The Tardis lands on a former prison planet in search of Zyton-7 to refuel.
Part 2 [26/01/85]: The Doctor usurps Sil's control over Varos by revealing the true value of its Zyton ore.

140. THE MARK OF THE RANI [2 episodes, 1:29:33]
written by Pip & Jane Baker; directed by Sarah Hellings
Main cast: Anthony Ainley [the Master], Kate O'Mara [the Rani], Terence Alexander [Lord Ravensworth], Gawn Grainger [George Stephenson].
Part 1 [02/02/85]: The Doctor finds the Rani stealing human brain fluid and the Master trying to prevent the Industrial Revolution.
Part 2 [09/02/85]: The Doctor sabotages the Rani's Tardis, trapping her and the Master with a rapidly growing Tyrannosaurus.

141. THE TWO DOCTORS [3 episodes, 2:13:56]
written by Robert Holmes; directed by Peter Moffatt
Main cast: Patrick Troughton [2nd Doctor], Frazer Hines [Jamie McCrimmon], Jacqueline Pearce [Chessene], John Stratton [Shockeye], Laurence Payne [Dastari].
Part 1 [16/02/85]: The Second Doctor is captured by Chessene and Dastari, who are in league with the Sontarans.
Part 2 [23/02/85]: The Doctor, Peri and Jamie travel to Seville to rescue the Second Doctor.
Part 3 [02/03/85]: The Second Doctor is turned into an Androgum by Dastari.

142. TIMELASH [2 episodes, 1:29:36]
written by Glen McCoy; directed by Pennant Roberts
Main cast: JeanAnne Crowley [Vena], Paul Darrow [Tekker], David Chandler [Herbert], Robert Ashby [the Borad].
Part 1 [09/03/85]: The Doctor searches for a Karfelon accidentally sent back through time.
Part 2 [16/03/85]: The Doctor helps the Karfelons overthrow the Borad and prevents a war with the Bandrils.

143. REVELATION OF THE DALEKS [2 episodes, 1:29:57]
written by Eric Saward; directed by Graeme Harper
Main cast: Eleanor Bron [Kara], Clive Swift [Jobel], Jenny Tomasin [Tasambeker], William Gaunt [Orcini], Terry Molloy [Davros].
Part 1 [23/03/85]: Posing as the Great Healer, Davros is turning cryogenically preserved bodies into a loyal Dalek army.
Part 2 [30/03/85]: Davros is captured by Imperial Daleks alerted by Tranquil Repose workers.


Series 23: 1986
Regular cast: Colin Baker [the Doctor], Nicola Bryant [Peri Brown], Lynda Bellingham [the Inquisitor], Michael Jayston [the Valeyard].
Producer: John Nathan Turner
Script Editor: Eric Saward

144. THE TRIAL OF A TIME LORD [14 episodes, 6:49:23]
written by Robert Holmes; directed by Nicholas Mallett.
Main cast: Tony Selby [Sabalom Glitz], Joan Sims [Katryca], Tom Chadbon [Merdeen], Glen Murphy [Dibber].
Part 1 [06/09/86]: The Doctor is brought before a Time Lord court on a charge of cosmic interference.
Part 2 [13/09/86]: The Doctor is summoned by Drathro.
Part 3 [20/09/86]: Drathro decides to destroy all life on Ravolox.
Part 4 [27/09/86]: The Doctor shuts down the black light system which powers Drathro but endangers Ravolox.
written by Philip Martin; directed by Ron Jones.
Main cast: Brian Blessed [King Yrcanos], Nabil Shaban [Sil], Patrick Ryecart [Crozier], Christopher Ryan [Kiv].
Part 5 [04/10/86]: The Doctor and Peri find a rogue surgeon experimenting in brain transference.
Part 6 [11/10/86]: The Doctor begins to behave strangely after being subjected to Crozier's cell discriminator.
Part 7 [18/10/86]: The Doctor abandons Peri and helps Crozier with a brain transplant.
Part 8 [25/10/86]: The Doctor finally helps Yrcanos, but it's apparently too late to save Peri.
Regular cast: Colin Baker [the Doctor], Bonnie Langford [Melanie Bush], Lynda Bellingham [the Inquisitor], Michael Jayston [the Valeyard].
Script Editor: none credited
written by Pip & Jane Baker; directed by Chris Clough.
Main cast: Honor Blackman [Professor Lasky], Michael Craig [Commodore], Malcolm Tierney [Dolland], Yolande Palfrey [Janet].
Part 9 [01/11/86]: The Doctor and Mel answer a mayday call from the spaceliner Hyperion III.
Part 10 [08/11/86]: Grenville is murdered in the ship's lounge.
Part 11 [15/11/86]: The Vervoids break out and start killing passengers and crew.
Part 12 [22/11/86]: The Doctor destroys the Vervoids with vionesium.
written by Robert Holmes.
Main cast: Anthony Ainley [the Master], Geoffrey Hughes [Mr.Popplewick], Tony Selby [Sabalom Glitz].
Part 13 [29/11/86]: The Valeyard is revealed to be a future incarnation of the Doctor.
written by Pip & Jane Baker.
Part 14 [06/12/86]: The High Council is deposed, the Master fails to seize power and the Doctor is acquitted.


Series 24: 1987
Regular cast: Sylvester McCoy [the Doctor], Bonnie Langford [Melanie Bush].
Producer: John Nathan Turner
Script Editor: Andrew Cartmel

145. TIME AND THE RANI [4 episodes, 1:38:21]
written by Pip & Jane Baker; directed by Andrew Morgan
Main cast: Kate O'Mara [the Rani], Mark Greenstreet [Ikona], Donald Pickering [Beyus], Wanda Ventham [Faroon].
Part 1 [07/09/87]: The Doctor regenerates after the Tardis crashes on Lakertya, and is captured by the Rani.
Part 2 [14/09/87]: The Doctor finds the Rani is collecting scientific geniuses.
Part 3 [21/09/87]: Mel is captured by the bat-like Tetraps.
Part 4 [28/09/87]: The Doctor discovers the Rani intends to remould the universe.

146. PARADISE TOWERS [4 episodes, 1:38:03]
written by Stephen Wyatt; directed by Nicholas Mallett
Main cast: Richard Briers [Chief Caretaker/Kroagnon], Clive Merrison [Deputy Chief Caretaker], Howard Cooke [Pex], Annabel Yuresha [Bin Liner], Julie Brennon [Fire Escape].
Part 1 [05/10/87]: The Doctor and Mel find Paradise Towers is not how the brochure depicts it.
Part 2 [12/10/87]: The Doctor joins the Red Kangs.
Part 3 [19/10/87]: Pex rescues Mel from two cannibalistic old ladies.
Part 4 [26/10/87]: Kroagnon and his cleaning robots begin exterminating the inhabitants.

147. DELTA AND THE BANNERMEN [3 episodes, 1:13:32]
written by Malcolm Kohll; directed by Chris Clough
Main cast: Don Henderson [Gavrok], Belinda Mayne [Delta], David Kinder [Billy], Sara Griffiths [Ray], Richard Davies {Burton].
Part 1 [02/11/87]: Delta, Queen of the Chimeron, seeks refuge on a Navarino coach trip to Disneyland.
Part 2 [09/11/87]: The camp is evacuated as Gavrok and his Bannermen arrive.
Part 3 [16/11/87]: The Bannermen are defeated by the amplified ultrasonic screams of Delta's daughter.

Regular cast: Sylvester McCoy [the Doctor], Bonnie Langford [Melanie Bush], Sophie Aldred [Ace].

148. DRAGONFIRE [3 episodes, 1:13:07]
written by Ian Briggs; directed by Chris Clough
Main cast: Edward Peel [Kane], Tony Selby [Sabalom Glitz], Patricia Quinn [Belazs], Tony Osoba [Kracauer], Miranda Borman [Stella].
Part 1 [23/11/87]: The Doctor and Mel encounter Glitz in Iceworld and meet Ace, a waitress with a penchant for explosions.
Part 2 [30/11/87]: Exiled criminal Kane massacres everybody in Iceworld.
Part 3 [07/12/87]: Kane finds his homeworld is long dead and commits suicide.


Series 25: 1988-1989
Regular cast: Sylvester McCoy [the Doctor], Sophie Aldred [Ace].
Producer: John Nathan Turner
Script Editor: Andrew Cartmel

149. REMEMBRANCE OF THE DALEKS [4 episodes, 1:38:10]
written by Ben Aaronovitch; directed by Andrew Morgan
Main cast: Simon Williams [Captain Gilmore], George Sewell [Ratcliffe], Dursley McLinden [Mike], Pamela Salem [Rachel], Terry Molloy [Davros].
Part 1 [05/10/88]: The Doctor finds the Daleks are interested in some of his old haunts.
Part 2 [12/10/88]: The Doctor collects a casket from an undertaker and has it buried.
Part 3 [19/10/88]: The casket, containing a stellar manipulator, is unearthed by Dalek agent Ratcliffe.
Part 4 [26/10/88]: The Doctor tricks Davros, now the Emperor Dalek, into triggering the stellar manipulator.

150. THE HAPPINESS PATROL [3 episodes, 1:14:04]
written by Graeme Curry; directed by Chris Clough
Main cast: Sheila Hancock [Helen A], Lesley Dunlop [Susan Q], Georgina Hale [Daisy K], Richard D.Sharp [Earl Sigma], John Normington [Trevor Sigma].
Part 1 [02/11/88]: The Doctor and Ace arrive on Terra Alpha, where happiness is strictly enforced.
Part 2 [09/11/88]: Trevor Sigma asks Helen A about the rumoured disappearances of her subjects.
Part 3 [16/11/88]: The Doctor leads a rebellion against Helen A's regime.

151. SILVER NEMESIS [3 episodes, 1:13:19]
written by Kevin Clarke; directed by Chris Clough
Main cast: Fiona Walker [Lady Peinforte], Gerard Murphy [Richard], Anton Diffring [De Flores], Martin Yenal [Karl].
Part 1 [23/11/88]: Cybermen, neo-Nazis and Lady Peinforte gather to await the return of the Nemesis.
Part 2 [30/11/88]: De Flores offers the Cybermen a power sharing deal.
Part 3 [07/12/88]: The Doctor reprogrammes the Nemesis to destroy the Cyber fleet.
n.b. Parts 2 & 3 premiered on NZTV (New Zealand) on 25/11/88

152. THE GREATEST SHOW IN THE GALAXY [4 episodes, 1:37:37]
written by Stephen Wyatt; directed by Alan Wareing
Main cast: T.P.McKenna [Captain Cook], Jessica Martin [Mags], Ian Reddington [Chief Clown], Chris Jury [Deadbeat/Kingpin], Ricco Ross [Ringmaster].
Part 1 [14/12/88]: The Doctor and Ace visit the Psychic Circus on the desert planet Segonax.
Part 2 [21/12/88]: The Doctor is ordered to perform in the ring.
Part 3 [28/12/88]: Deadbeat begins to revert back to being Kingpin.
Part 4 [04/01/89]: The Doctor discovers the Circus is being used by the Gods of Ragnarok.


Series 26: 1989
Regular cast: Sylvester McCoy [the Doctor], Sophie Aldred [Ace].
Producer: John Nathan Turner
Script Editor: Andrew Cartmel

153. BATTLEFIELD [4 episodes, 1:36:40]
written by Ben Aaronovitch; directed by Michael Kerrigan
Main cast: Nicholas Courtney [Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart], Jean Marsh [Morgaine], Angela Bruce [Brigadier Bambera], Marcus Gilbert [Ancelyn], Ling Tai [Shou Yuing].
Part 1 [06/09/89]: The Brigadier is called up out of retirement to help deal with a major crisis.
Part 2 [13/09/89]: The Doctor and Ace discover the last resting place of King Arthur.
Part 3 [20/09/89]: Morgaine summons the Destroyer.
Part 4 [27/09/89]: The Doctor persuades Morgaine not to trigger a nuclear missile.

154. GHOST LIGHT [3 episodes, 1:12:32]
written by Marc Platt; directed by Alan Wareing
Main cast: Ian Hogg [Josiah Samuel Smith], John Hallam [Light], Sharon Duce [Control], Sylvia Syms [Mrs.Pritchard], Michael Cochrane [Redvers Fenn-Cooper].
Part 1 [04/10/89]: The Doctor takes Ace to an old house where strange things happen after nightfall.
Part 2 [11/10/89]: Ace and the Doctor encounter Josiah's discarded evolutionary stages in an ancient spaceship.
Part 3 [18/10/89]: Light decides to destroy all life on Earth when he finds his catalogue is outdated.

155. THE CURSE OF FENRIC [4 episodes, 1:36:59]
written by Ian Briggs; directed by Nicholas Mallett
Main cast: Dinsdale Landen [Dr.Judson], Alfred Lynch [Commander Millington], Tomek Bork [Sorin], Nicholas Parsons [Reverend Wainwright], Cory Pulman [Kathleen Dudman].
Part 1 [25/10/89]: The Doctor and Ace visit a top secret World War Two naval base.
Part 2 [01/11/89]: Millington reveals the cipher machine is a trap for the Soviets.
Part 3 [08/11/89]: The base and village come under attack from vampires.
Part 4 [15/11/89]: Ace finds she has been part of Fenric's schemes all her life.

156. SURVIVAL [3 episodes, 1:12:47]
written by Rona Munro; directed by Alan Wareing
Main cast: Anthony Ainley [the Master], Julian Holloway [Sergeant Paterson], Lisa Bowerman [Karra], Will Barton [Midge].
Part 1 [22/11/89]: Ace returns home but finds most of her old crowd have gone missing.
Part 2 [29/11/89]: Ace helps a wounded Karra and begins to be affected by the planet.
Part 3 [06/12/89]: The Doctor faces the Master in a final showdown.