Original title
Doctor Who
Released
11/23/1963
Origin country
GB
Genre
Action & Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Production companies
BBC
Status
Ended
Number of seasons
26
Number of episodes
694
The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores the universe in his TARDIS, a sentient time-traveling spaceship. Its exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. Along with a succession of companions, The Doctor faces a variety of foes while working to save civilizations, help ordinary people, and right many wrongs.
The Doctor’s past incarnations are being snatched out of time and space and transported to the Death Zone on Gallifrey, where they are reunited with some old friends and pitted against their deadliest enemies in the Game of Rassilon. Someone is manipulating the Doctor and his companions in order to claim the most ancient and powerful secret of the Time Lords, but can they survive the challenges and uncover the traitor before it is too late?
The first episode, "An Unearthly Child", was originally recorded a month before full recording on the series began. However, the initial recording was bedevilled with technical problems and errors made during the performance. Two versions of the scene set in the TARDIS were recorded, along with an aborted first attempt to start the second version.
The Rani draws the Doctor's First and Second incarnations into a time tunnel and traps his other incarnations in a time loop in Albert Square, bouncing back and forth between 1973, 1993 and 2013.
The Rani plans to transfer her time tunnel to the centre of the Earth's time meridian, and use her store of genetic codes and brain prints of every living creature to control evolution itself.
An extended cut version of 30 Years in the TARDIS was released on BBC Video in 1994, where it was retitled More than 30 Years in the TARDIS and restored many interviews that had to be cut for the BBC broadcast, and added several new minisodes and "skits" as well as extended footage of those already present in the televised cut.
An extended edit of The Five Doctors originally released in 1995, fully restored and with surround sound.
“Even Time Lords die...” When a dissident Time Lord group inadvertently caused the destruction of an entire civilisation through interference, its members vowed to repent by serving the Universe not as gods of Time but as mere men. Many years later, this peaceful resolve is severely tested when two of their number are killed -- and the Doctor’s seventh incarnation becomes embroiled in the struggle against the apparently unstoppable General Tannis. Plagued by ominous portents, the Doctor and his companion Antimony must race across the Universe, taking in the Santine Republic, the Great Orion Nebula and the frozen heart of the Canisian Empire. Meanwhile, the mysterious Minister of Chance battles his own inner demons, and former TARDIS traveller Ace finds herself in training for a destiny she never dreamed possible. Matters reach a terrible climax when Tannis’ next target for subjugation is identified. Exactly how much is the Doctor prepared to sacrifice in order to save Earth?
“Even Time Lords die...” When a dissident Time Lord group inadvertently caused the destruction of an entire civilisation through interference, its members vowed to repent by serving the Universe not as gods of Time but as mere men. Many years later, this peaceful resolve is severely tested when two of their number are killed -- and the Doctor’s seventh incarnation becomes embroiled in the struggle against the apparently unstoppable General Tannis. Plagued by ominous portents, the Doctor and his companion Antimony must race across the Universe, taking in the Santine Republic, the Great Orion Nebula and the frozen heart of the Canisian Empire. Meanwhile, the mysterious Minister of Chance battles his own inner demons, and former TARDIS traveller Ace finds herself in training for a destiny she never dreamed possible. Matters reach a terrible climax when Tannis’ next target for subjugation is identified. Exactly how much is the Doctor prepared to sacrifice in order to save Earth?
“Even Time Lords die...” When a dissident Time Lord group inadvertently caused the destruction of an entire civilisation through interference, its members vowed to repent by serving the Universe not as gods of Time but as mere men. Many years later, this peaceful resolve is severely tested when two of their number are killed -- and the Doctor’s seventh incarnation becomes embroiled in the struggle against the apparently unstoppable General Tannis. Plagued by ominous portents, the Doctor and his companion Antimony must race across the Universe, taking in the Santine Republic, the Great Orion Nebula and the frozen heart of the Canisian Empire. Meanwhile, the mysterious Minister of Chance battles his own inner demons, and former TARDIS traveller Ace finds herself in training for a destiny she never dreamed possible. Matters reach a terrible climax when Tannis’ next target for subjugation is identified. Exactly how much is the Doctor prepared to sacrifice in order to save Earth?
“Even Time Lords die...” When a dissident Time Lord group inadvertently caused the destruction of an entire civilisation through interference, its members vowed to repent by serving the Universe not as gods of Time but as mere men. Many years later, this peaceful resolve is severely tested when two of their number are killed -- and the Doctor’s seventh incarnation becomes embroiled in the struggle against the apparently unstoppable General Tannis. Plagued by ominous portents, the Doctor and his companion Antimony must race across the Universe, taking in the Santine Republic, the Great Orion Nebula and the frozen heart of the Canisian Empire. Meanwhile, the mysterious Minister of Chance battles his own inner demons, and former TARDIS traveller Ace finds herself in training for a destiny she never dreamed possible. Matters reach a terrible climax when Tannis’ next target for subjugation is identified. Exactly how much is the Doctor prepared to sacrifice in order to save Earth?
“Even Time Lords die...” When a dissident Time Lord group inadvertently caused the destruction of an entire civilisation through interference, its members vowed to repent by serving the Universe not as gods of Time but as mere men. Many years later, this peaceful resolve is severely tested when two of their number are killed -- and the Doctor’s seventh incarnation becomes embroiled in the struggle against the apparently unstoppable General Tannis. Plagued by ominous portents, the Doctor and his companion Antimony must race across the Universe, taking in the Santine Republic, the Great Orion Nebula and the frozen heart of the Canisian Empire. Meanwhile, the mysterious Minister of Chance battles his own inner demons, and former TARDIS traveller Ace finds herself in training for a destiny she never dreamed possible. Matters reach a terrible climax when Tannis’ next target for subjugation is identified. Exactly how much is the Doctor prepared to sacrifice in order to save Earth?
A special 107 minute omnibus edit of Doctor Who and the Silurians.
There has been a series of mysterious vanishings on the desert planet Chronos in the 33rd century. Survey teams working for a university seem to have simply vanished amongst the pyramids on the planet. Alongside two other survey teams and an expert on cybernetics, the Doctor and Evelyn learn the deadly truth: that the planet Chronos is being used as a base for one of the Doctor's oldest and deadliest foes — the Cybermen.
A Special 96 minute omnibus edition of Inferno.
There has been a series of mysterious vanishings on the desert planet Chronos in the 33rd century. Survey teams working for a university seem to have simply vanished amongst the pyramids on the planet. Alongside two other survey teams and an expert on cybernetics, the Doctor and Evelyn learn the deadly truth: that the planet Chronos is being used as a base for one of the Doctor's oldest and deadliest foes — the Cybermen.
An extended edit of episode 5 including previously deleted scenes.
There has been a series of mysterious vanishings on the desert planet Chronos in the 33rd century. Survey teams working for a university seem to have simply vanished amongst the pyramids on the planet. Alongside two other survey teams and an expert on cybernetics, the Doctor and Evelyn learn the deadly truth: that the planet Chronos is being used as a base for one of the Doctor's oldest and deadliest foes — the Cybermen.
90-minute movie version edited by Barry Letts in consultation with Christopher Barry, for a repeat screening just after Christmas 1971.
There has been a series of mysterious vanishings on the desert planet Chronos in the 33rd century. Survey teams working for a university seem to have simply vanished amongst the pyramids on the planet. Alongside two other survey teams and an expert on cybernetics, the Doctor and Evelyn learn the deadly truth: that the planet Chronos is being used as a base for one of the Doctor's oldest and deadliest foes — the Cybermen.
A mysterious phantom armed with futuristic weaponry appears at Auderly House, where Sir Reginald Styles prepares for a vital peace conference. Called in to investigate, the UNIT team—led by the Third Doctor and Jo Grant—discover evidence of time travel and a potential plot to sabotage the conference.
There has been a series of mysterious vanishings on the desert planet Chronos in the 33rd century. Survey teams working for a university seem to have simply vanished amongst the pyramids on the planet. Alongside two other survey teams and an expert on cybernetics, the Doctor and Evelyn learn the deadly truth: that the planet Chronos is being used as a base for one of the Doctor's oldest and deadliest foes — the Cybermen.
The Doctor learns the intruders are guerrillas from a war-torn 22nd century, convinced that Styles will ignite a global conflict. When Jo is accidentally transported to their devastated future, the Doctor follows—only to find Earth enslaved by the Daleks and patrolled by brutal Ogrons.
There has been a series of mysterious vanishings on the desert planet Chronos in the 33rd century. Survey teams working for a university seem to have simply vanished amongst the pyramids on the planet. Alongside two other survey teams and an expert on cybernetics, the Doctor and Evelyn learn the deadly truth: that the planet Chronos is being used as a base for one of the Doctor's oldest and deadliest foes — the Cybermen.
In the Dalek-ruled future, the Doctor is captured by the human Controller and interrogated under Dalek orders. Escaping with the guerrillas, he learns their mission: travel back and kill Styles before the peace conference. But their actions may be dooming history rather than saving it.
The most dangerous book in the universe has been stolen.
Racing back to the present, the Doctor realises the explosion blamed on Styles is destined to be caused by the guerrillas themselves. As Shura prepares to detonate his bomb at Auderly House, the Doctor must avert catastrophe, ensuring the peace conference survives—and erasing the Dalek-ruled timeline forever.
The most dangerous book in the universe has been stolen.
The most dangerous book in the universe has been stolen.
A special omnibus edition of The Sea Devils, first broadcast in December 1972.
The most dangerous book in the universe has been stolen.
A longer edit featuring the Delaware version of the theme music. It is presented unrestored and includes a countdown clock.
The most dangerous book in the universe has been stolen.
The 90-minute omnibus especially edited for a repeat screening over Christmas 1973
The most dangerous book in the universe has been stolen.
A Special omnibus edit of Planet of the Spiders.
The Doctor's TARDIS materialises in the village of Lannet in Lancashire. An annoyed Doctor, who has apparently been transported here against his will. He discovers the village silent, its inhabitants all living in fear except for a barmaid, Alison Cheney. The alien Shalka have taken up residence beneath Lannet in preparation for a wider invasion. Despite his initial reluctance, the Doctor finds himself having to save the world again, aided by Alison and an enemy who has become an ally.
A truncated 70-minute omnibus version aired in 1975.
The Doctor's TARDIS materialises in the village of Lannet in Lancashire. An annoyed Doctor, who has apparently been transported here against his will. He discovers the village silent, its inhabitants all living in fear except for a barmaid, Alison Cheney. The alien Shalka have taken up residence beneath Lannet in preparation for a wider invasion. Despite his initial reluctance, the Doctor finds himself having to save the world again, aided by Alison and an enemy who has become an ally.
A 90-minute omnibus version specially edited by Philip Hinchcliffe and David Maloney for a repeat screening just after Christmas in 1975.
The Doctor's TARDIS materialises in the village of Lannet in Lancashire. An annoyed Doctor, who has apparently been transported here against his will. He discovers the village silent, its inhabitants all living in fear except for a barmaid, Alison Cheney. The alien Shalka have taken up residence beneath Lannet in preparation for a wider invasion. Despite his initial reluctance, the Doctor finds himself having to save the world again, aided by Alison and an enemy who has become an ally.
The Doctor's TARDIS materialises in the village of Lannet in Lancashire. An annoyed Doctor, who has apparently been transported here against his will. He discovers the village silent, its inhabitants all living in fear except for a barmaid, Alison Cheney. The alien Shalka have taken up residence beneath Lannet in preparation for a wider invasion. Despite his initial reluctance, the Doctor finds himself having to save the world again, aided by Alison and an enemy who has become an ally.
A special omnibus edition of Pyramids of Mars
The Doctor's TARDIS materialises in the village of Lannet in Lancashire. An annoyed Doctor, who has apparently been transported here against his will. He discovers the village silent, its inhabitants all living in fear except for a barmaid, Alison Cheney. The alien Shalka have taken up residence beneath Lannet in preparation for a wider invasion. Despite his initial reluctance, the Doctor finds himself having to save the world again, aided by Alison and an enemy who has become an ally.
A special omnibus edition of The Brain of Morbius
The Doctor's TARDIS materialises in the village of Lannet in Lancashire. An annoyed Doctor, who has apparently been transported here against his will. He discovers the village silent, its inhabitants all living in fear except for a barmaid, Alison Cheney. The alien Shalka have taken up residence beneath Lannet in preparation for a wider invasion. Despite his initial reluctance, the Doctor finds himself having to save the world again, aided by Alison and an enemy who has become an ally.
A special omnibus edition of the Seeds of Doom
Based on the original broadcast version, this special edition is restored from the original film negatives and features brand new special effects, as well as a Dolby Atmos soundtrack. This release, created for the "Doctor Who - The Collection: Season 20" Blu-ray, is accompanied by a new audio commentary with Peter Davison, Janet Fielding, and Mark Strickson.
Part Three is available to view in a slightly extended form, containing a small amout of footage excised from the transmitted version.
An array of rare archive footage from the missing stories of Doctor Who as well as presenting the incredible stories that recount their discovery from Nigeria to Australia. There are the moments considered too frightening for Australian audiences, a six minute extract from Galaxy 4: Four Hundred Dawns and pristine film footage from The Dalek's Master Plan, all carefully reconstructed and restored aurally and visually.
The Doctor arranges to meet his old foe the Master on the planet Tersurus. But when the Doctor arrives, the Master has prepared a series of hideous tortures for him and his lovely assistant, Emma. Horrible tortures. Evil, nasty and decidedly unpleasant tortures…
As the Doctor and the Master attempt to outwit one another a bizarre odyssey unfolds, featuring treacherous trapdoors and foul-smelling sewers. Then the Daleks get involved…
Betrayed by the Master, the Doctor and Emma are taken prisoner by the Daleks. A confrontation with the Master has fatal consequences…
A series of mishaps trigger the Doctor's regeneration cycle, leading to the biggest and most exciting adventure of his lives!
The feature-length presentation from the 2017 DVD and Blu-ray release.
An unedited studio recording of the pilot "An Unearthly Child", including all takes of the second part of the show. Released as part of "The Beginning" DVD box set.
Members of the original cast and crew talk about the Doctor's unique time and space ship, the TARDIS.
With deleted sequences re-integrated.
A look inside the BBC Radiophonic Workshop through interviews with the musicians and technicians who brought composer Ron Grainer's Doctor Who theme to life using electronic music. Features interviews with Dick Mills, Brian Hodgson, Verity Lambert and the late Delia Derbyshire.
This BBC documentary examines the history of Doctor Who through a compilation of clips from the show. The clips were linked by an anorak with a voiceover (credited as the "Voice of the Anorak").
An array of rare archive footage from the missing stories of Doctor Who as well as presenting the incredible stories that recount their discovery from Nigeria to Australia. There are the moments considered too frightening for Australian audiences, a six minute extract from Galaxy 4: Four Hundred Dawns and pristine film footage from The Dalek's Master Plan, all carefully reconstructed and restored aurally and visually.
This special one-off drama travels back in time to 1963 to see how Doctor Who was first brought to the screen. Actor William Hartnell felt trapped by a succession of hard-man roles. Wannabe producer Verity Lambert was frustrated by the TV industry's glass ceiling. Both of them were to find unlikely hope and unexpected challenges in the form of a Saturday tea-time drama. Allied with a team of unusual but brilliant people, they went on to create the longest running science fiction series ever made.
The Doctor, Tegan, and Turlough are drawn off course by a mysterious time corridor linking 20th-century London to a derelict space station in the far future. On Earth, a police squad investigates brutal murders near the corridor’s exit. Meanwhile, on the space station, a Dalek task force prepares to break through quarantine and free their creator Davros from cryogenic suspension. The Doctor decides to investigate the corridor’s origin — and narrowly avoids a Dalek ambush.
The Sixth Doctor (Colin Baker) is working the controls in the TARDIS, and he accidentally teleports his former companion Tegan Jovanka (Janet Fielding) on board. She is less than happy about this, and reluctantly agrees to help the Time Lord. He reveals that two Sontarans are on board, and they possess a powerful vitrox bomb with which they intend to blow up the time machine.
On the space station, the Doctor and his companions are captured by human troopers battling the Daleks. The Daleks release a deadly virus to wipe out the humans, forcing the Doctor to bargain for his life. On Earth, disguised Dalek duplicates infiltrate the police force, killing and replacing key personnel. The Doctor learns the Daleks’ plan: to retrieve Davros to cure them of a lethal space plague and help them conquer the galaxy. Davros, awakening from centuries of stasis, secretly schemes to overthrow the Dalek Supreme.
Davros begins manipulating the station crew, turning them against the Dalek Supreme’s forces. The Daleks unleash more duplicates on Earth, planning to replace the entire High Command. The Doctor is coerced into creating duplicate versions of himself and his companions, destined to assassinate members of The High Council of the Time Lords. Tegan and Turlough sabotage the duplication machinery, but the Daleks regain control of the station and capture Davros, intent on transporting him to their fleet.
Chaos erupts as Davros releases the Movellan virus, killing the Daleks and loyal station troops alike. The Doctor tries to stop both sides, but Davros escapes in an escape pod, vowing to build a new Dalek army under his command. The Doctor destroys the station to prevent the spread of the virus, barely escaping with Tegan and Turlough. Returning to London, Tegan, shaken by the relentless death and destruction, tells the Doctor she can no longer travel with him. The Doctor watches silently as she walks away.
Alternative Omnibus edition of the story.
The documentary features interviews with actors, the director, local residents, and crew. All of the locations used in the episode are reviewed, and include archival footage shot during the original shooting in 1971.
Including low quality timecoded footage from earlier edits of Vengeance on Varos, enhanced with music and sound effects, to provide an alternative viewing experience.
The Brigadier and Sarah Jane Smith investigate New World University, a sinister school run by none other than Victoria Waterfield and a gateway to Earth Great Intelligence which has taken her over.
Including low quality timecoded footage from earlier edits of Vengeance on Varos, enhanced with music and sound effects, to provide an alternative viewing experience.
An early edit, including material cut before broadcast as well as an alternate TARDIS scene.
Re-edited for Doctor Who: The Collection Season 22, A special mini-episode broadcast 02/03/85. Includes optional audio commentary with Colin Baker, Janet Fielding and Gareth Jenkins.
An early edit of the first episode containing material cut before broadcast.
The Seventh Doctor becomes the Eighth. And on the streets of San Francisco – alongside new ally Grace Holloway - he battles the Master.
It's time to encounter the Daleks once again, but this time in a way you've never seen them before. Originally transmitted in December 1963 to February 1964, the seven original episodes of the first Dalek story have received a cosmic makeover, dazzlingly colourised and weaved together into a 75-minute blockbuster. With brand new sound and a brand new score created by Mark Ayres, The Daleks has been gloriously updated, whilst ensuring the original story remains as thrilling as it was in 1963
Join Russell T. Davies, Editor Benjamin Cook, Executive Producer Phil Collinson, and the colourization artists for a look at their work on turning the seven Hartnell episodes of The Daleks into "The Daleks In Colour."
In 2986 AD, aboard the space liner Hyperion III, Doctor and Mel arrive responding to a distress call; communications officer Edwardes is found incapacitated, and the Hydroponics labs are hiding strange plant pods. The Doctor and Mel begin investigating missing pieces: “Demeter seeds” have been stolen, and someone deep in the ship is trying to keep secrets. Suspicion mounts when a passenger whose identity seems familiar dies under strange circumstances.
More people disappear or are killed; the plant pods have been tampered with and the Vervoids—sentient plant creatures—are unleashed. Mel gathers clues via the hydroponics centre; the Doctor uncovers evidence of sabotage among the scientists Bruchner, Doland, and Professor Lasky. Alongside the plant threat, tensions rise among the native species aboard the ship (the Mogarians), and the threat becomes existential: the Vervoids intend to eliminate animal life for their own survival.
The Doctor and Mel strive to find a solution as the Vervoids rampage. Ruth Baxter, once human, is revealed to be partially transformed by the Vervoid biology. Lasky attempts negotiation but is betrayed; the Vervoids claim to have no alternative but to kill—or be killed. On top of that, mutinous activity among the crew and alien collaborators threatens the ship. The Doctor works toward a radical plan involving rare metal vionesium.
Designer Raymond Cusick recalls his work on The Keys of Marinus.
With the Vervoids’ threat fully unleashed, the Doctor uses vionesium to force the plants into their natural death cycle under light and oxygen. The final confrontation sees the Vervoids withering and dying; those survivors aboard Hyperion III escape the carnage. The Doctor and Mel depart in the TARDIS, leaving a ship badly shaken but saved—and the moral cost of extinguishing a sentient species unspoken in this version.
In a newly recorded exclusive documentary, actors John Ringham (Tlotoxl), Ian Cullen (Ixta) and Walter Randall (Tonila) discuss their memories of making this story.
The TARDIS is attacked by the Rani, causing a crash‐landing on Lakertya. As the Sixth Doctor regenerates into his Seventh incarnation, he falls victim to post-regenerative confusion and is tricked by the Rani—disguised as Mel—into helping repair mysterious machinery. Meanwhile, Mel is separated and makes first contact with Lakertya natives, including the rebellious Ikona, while trying to flee from the Rani’s minions.
The history of the Aztecs, Montezuma and Cortez, as told by Valerie Singleton from an edition of Blue Peter originally broadcast on 21/09/70 on BBC1.
Still suffering from amnesia and deception, the Doctor is manipulated by the disguised Rani—forced to fix her machine without knowing its purpose. Mel and Ikona attempt to uncover more of the Rani’s plot, navigate through traps, and rescue local allies. The true nature of the machine begins to come to light: kidnapped geniuses, strange matter, and a time-manipulating brain.
A look at the digital remastering process, including VidFIRE which restores much of the original video appearance to archive film recordings, and has been used on all four episodes of this story. Includes footage from Terror of the Autons and The Krotons.
Mel is captured; the Doctor is drawn deeper into the Rani’s scheme as he comes to distrust the false “Mel.” He discovers the Rani’s fixed-trajectory rocket aimed at a strange-matter asteroid. The machine, powered by the minds of trapped scientists and guided by this collision, could transform Lakertya into a Time Manipulator with catastrophic consequences. The stakes rise as trust is betrayed, and Beyus makes difficult choices to delay catastrophe.
Designer Barry Newbery looks back on his contribution to the Aztecs.
The Doctor and Mel rally the Lakertyans to sabotage the Rani’s doomsday machine before it reshapes time itself.
Tlotoxl and Tonila show you how to make this special Aztec drink.
The Doctor and Mel arrive at the stylish Paradise Towers expecting luxury, only to find gangs, filth, and murderous robots lurking in its broken halls.
John Julius Norwich's 1969 retelling of the story of the Spanish conquest of Mexico and the Aztecs. Hernan Cortes was the first and greatest of the Conquistadors of New Spain. His confrontation with Montezuma and the empire of the Aztecs in Mexico in 1519 was the moment when for the very first time, in all their power and might, the Old World and the New stood face to face. Cortes's achievement was extraordinary - no less than the defeat of an entire civilisation with only 400 soldiers at his command. But his victory would have been impossible but for one incredible fact - Montezuma believed that Cortes was his God, the Feathered Serpent Quetzalcoatl. John Julius Norwich recounts the extraordinary interplay of mythology and mounted warfare, of human sacrifice and brilliant strategy which led ultimately to the creation of Mexico.
The Doctor is condemned under bizarre caretaker rules, while Mel encounters cannibal elder residents and the building's decay grows ever more grotesque.
A skit with the late Clive Dunn as a scientist demonstrating his new space rocket to Michael Bentine.
Mel and Pex evade the deadly cleaners; the Doctor unravels the mystery of Kroagnon and the fate of Paradise Towers’ architect.
A fascinating 55-minute documentary, detailing the creation of Doctor Who. Looking at the factors that led to the birth of the programme, it includes a rare interview with the programme's creator, the late Sydney Newman, and new interviews with producer Verity Lambert, directors Waris Hussein and Richard Martin, actors William Russell and Carole Ann Ford, title sequence designer Bernard Lodge, and TARDIS sound effect creator Brian Hodgson.
Over the Edge is a BBC documentary on the making of The Edge of Destruction. It was released on the DVD of the serial and hence in The Beginning box set.
Toby Hadoke goes in search of the enigmatic Peter R Newman.
Future Memories is a BBC documentary on the making of the Doctor Who serial The Dalek Invasion of Earth. It was released on the DVD for the serial.
Future Visions is a BBC documentary on the designs of Spencer Chapman for Doctor Who. It was released on the DVD of The Dalek Invasion of Earth.
Now and Then was a multi-episode 2|entertain documentary looking at the filming locations of Doctor Who stories. It looked at the locations at the time of filming and then looked at them in the present. Episodes of Now and Then were released on the DVD of the serial they featured.
Mounting The Rescue was a 2|entertain DVD documentary about the making of the Doctor Who serial, The Rescue. As a general overview of the production of the serial, it covered many topics.
Roma Parva is a BBC documentary in which Christopher Barry demonstrates the use of a model on set. It was released on the DVD of The Romans and hence it is in the box set alongside The Rescue.
United against a common enemy, the Kangs, Rezzies, Caretakers and the Doctor attempt to stop Kroagnon’s murderous automation before the Towers fall completely.
What has "The Romans" ever done for us? was a 2|entertain DVD documentary looking at the fact and fiction of the Doctor Who serial The Romans. It was comprised of interviews with cast, crew and historians.
The Doctor and Mel join an intergalactic tour to 1959 Wales, where the last Chimeron queen flees the ruthless Bannermen army.
Tales of Isop was a BBC documentary on the making of the Doctor Who serial The Web Planet. It focused on the attempt to make the insects of Vortis as memorable as the Daleks. It was released on The Web Planet DVD in 2005 and was produced by 2|entertain.
As the Bannermen close in, the Doctor hides Delta and her newly hatched child while sabotage and betrayal threaten the holiday camp.
The tricks of putting together a television show drama 'as live' are discussed by vision mixer Clive Doig.
The Doctor and Mel lead a desperate stand at Shangri-La to outwit the Bannermen and secure the Chimeron race’s survival.
Clive Doig reveals the truth behind the mysterious background voices in The Sensorites.
The Doctor, Mel, and Sabalom Glitz arrive on the icy world of Iceworld, where rumours of a hidden treasure draw dangerous attention.
A revealing documentary examines the troublesome making of The Reign of Terror with actors William Russell, Carole Ann Ford and production assistant Tim Combe; Special thanks to The Sound Company, Richard Bignell, Ed Stradling, Derek Hantley, Andrew Pixley, Tim Combe, Julia Filsell, Hannah Lucas and The Oxford Mail; Camera: Jeremy Bishop and Mark Thompson; Runner: James Dawson; Archive Researcher: Martin Wiggins; Assistant Editor: Andy Byron; Dubbing Mixer: Peter Groom; Editor: Richard Atterson; Executive Producer for Pup Ltd: Dan Hall; Producer and Director: Chris Chapman.
As Glitz schemes and the sinister Kane hunts them, the Doctor befriends rebellious waitress Ace while searching for the dragon-guarded treasure.
Cusick in Cardiff was a 2|entertain DVD documentary in which Raymond Cusick, designer of the Daleks, visited the studios of the new series in Cardiff. It shows him as he visits sets and examines props along with Edward Thomas and Peter McKinstry.
The Doctor uncovers Kane’s true plan to escape Iceworld, sacrificing the “dragon” to stop him as Ace decides to join the Doctor’s travels.
Daleks Beyond the Screen was a 2|entertain DVD documentary looking at the many merchandising options the Daleks presented.
The Doctor and Ace return to 1963 Shoreditch, where rival Daleks battle for a mysterious Time Lord artefact.
Daleks Conquer and Destroy was a 2|entertain DVD documentary looking at the long-lasting appeal of the Daleks.
As the Dalek civil war erupts, the Doctor manipulates military allies while Ace takes on a deadly Dalek patrol.
Last Stop White City was a 2|entertain DVD documentary looking at the story of Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright in Doctor Who.
The Doctor lures the Imperial Daleks into a trap while uncovering the depth of the Dalek factions’ hatred.
Shawcraft - The Original Monster Makers was a 2|entertain DVD documentary looking at the contribution of Shawcraft Models to Doctor Who. In particular, it looked at Bill Roberts' founding of the company.
The Doctor tricks the Dalek Emperor into self-destruction, ending the Dalek civil war and leaving Ace pondering their next fight.
The Thrill of The Chase was a 2|entertain DVD documentary looking at the making of the Doctor Who serial, The Chase. The documentary consisted of Richard Martin looking back at this story's production.
The Doctor and Ace arrive on Terra Alpha, where enforced cheer masks disappearances under Helen A’s rule.
Doctor Who's original producer looks back on her time on the series in the second part of this interview recorded for The Story of Doctor Who.
Ace joins rebels while the Doctor exposes Helen A’s tyranny and uncovers the sinister Kandyman’s deadly sweets.
A look back at the First Doctor's colourful comic strip adventures.
As the regime crumbles, the Doctor topples Helen A’s reign and frees Terra Alpha from enforced happiness.
A look at the creation of the Dalek's unique voices, with contributions from David Graham, Brian Hodgson, Nicholas Smith and Peter Hawkins.
The Doctor and Ace race to 1988 Windsor to stop the return of the deadly Cybermen and the legendary Nemesis statue.
An innovative animated demonstration of how the final episode was recorded using the camera script, clips, and the original designer's floorplans, demonstrating how the cameras followed the action.
As Cybermen, Nazis, and Lady Peinforte battle for control of the statue, the Doctor manipulates their rival schemes.
An audio-only presentation of this radio drama from 1993, written by Adrian Mourby and featuring Jane Asher as the Doctor's granddaughter, Susan Foreman.
The Doctor turns the Nemesis against the Cybermen, annihilating their fleet while Ace revels in the chaos left behind.
From an edition of Blue Peter screened on 03/02/65, Valerie Singleton shows us how to make Dalek cakes!
A 55 Minute Special, with 5.1 surround Sound.
Go to the 'Special Features' menu. Click on the hidden Doctor Who logo to the left of the '40th Anniversary Celebration'.
Go to the 'Special Features' menu. Click on the hidden Doctor Who logo to the left of the 'Whatever Happened to... Susan?
A look at writer Dennis Spooner's work on Doctor Who. With actors William Russell and Peter Purves.
An affectionate look back at the sixties Who-Girls. With actors Carole Ann Ford (Susan), William Russell (Ian), Peter Purves (Steven), Anneke Wills (Polly), Deborah Watling (Victoria), Frazer Hines (Jamie), Jean Marsh (Sara) and Honor Blackman (Professor Lasky)
The Doctor and Ace visit the Psychic Circus, where sinister clowns hide a deadly secret behind the big top.
The Blue Peter team hold a Roman banquet in the studio. Featuring Lesley Judd, John Noakes, Peter Purves and Valerie Singleton.
As Ace flees murderous robots, the Doctor probes the circus’s eerie performers and its ominous ringmasters.
William Russell reads the short story form the first Doctor Who Annual.
The Doctor uncovers that the audience are the godlike Gods of Ragnarok, feeding on fear and entertainment.
A popular toy of the 1960s and 70s was the Chad Valley Give-a-Show Projector, where images from cartoon slides could be projected onto a wall or screen. A set of Doctor Who slides was released in 1965), based on The Web Planet
The Doctor defeats the Gods of Ragnarok with their own power, freeing the Psychic Circus from their grip.
Girls! Girls! Girls! is a BBC documentary produced by 2|entertain. A multi-part Doctor Who DVD featurette, it looks at the story of the Doctor's female companions in each decade. In addition, Caroline John (Liz Shaw) and Katy Manning (Jo Grant) join Louise Jameson to recall their time as companions.
New Series writer Robert Shearman provides a personal and robust defence of this somewhat forgotten story.
A 36-minute feature looking at the role that UNIT had in the world of Doctor Who, from its inception in the Patrick Troughton years, through to the end of Jon Pertwee's first year as the Doctor. With contributions from UNIT creator Derrick Sherwin, Barry Letts, Terrance Dicks, Nicholas Courtney, Caroline John, John Levene and Derek Ware.
Jessica Carney talks about the career of her grandfather, William Hartnell.
The second instalment of our series looking at the Doctor's years on Earth as scientific advisor to the United Nations Intelligence Taskforce and the strong family bonds created during that time. With Katy Manning, Barry Letts, Terrance Dicks, actors Nicholas Courtney, John Levene, Richard Franklin and Fernanda Marlowe, stuntman Derek Ware.
Spoof comedy recollections of sixties Doctor Who starring Christopher Green as actress Ida Barr.
The concluding part of the series looking at the stories featuring the United Nations Intelligence Taskforce. With actors Tom Baker, Nicholas Courtney, Katy Manning, John Levene and Richard Franklin, producer Barry Letts and script editor Terrance Dicks.
Stripped for Action was a series of 2|entertain DVD documentaries examining the comic strips of each Doctor. The Seventh Doctor, released on Delta and the Bannermen
Twelve seconds from the fourth episode of The Time Meddler are still missing, excised by overseas censors prior to recovery of the print. This short item uses an off-air audio recording and the original script to place the cut material in context within the story.
The episode saw Sarah discovering a boxed K9 Mark III, a gift from the Doctor. The plot which followed involved a strange mixture of occult spookery and mundanity, with robed pagans chanting "Hecate!" and the supposed goddess being revealed as a person in a mask.
A consise essay looking back over the career of one of Doctor Who's co-creators.
The Making of The Trial of a Time Lord: Part One - Mysterious Planet was the first of four documentaries in the Making of The Trial of a Time Lord series. As the name suggested, it concerned itself with the making of The Mysterious Planet. It was by far the longest of the four parts. It was the only one of the four documentaries which did not bear the full name of the serial under discussion, and the only one not co-executive produced by Ed Stradling.
A featurette showing 'before and after' examples of techniques used during the restoration.
Tombwatch was a documentary featuring highlights of the BAFTA screening of the Doctor Who story The Tomb of the Cybermen in April 1992.
Cast and crew recall the making of both Peladon stories. Part One opens with a look at the socio-political climate in the UK in the early 1970s and its influence on the storylines. With actors Katy Manning, Donald Gee, Nina Thomas and Ralph Watson, producer Barry Letts, script editor Terrance Dicks, production assistant Chris D'Oyly-John, sound designer Brian Hodgson, visual effects designer Peter Day, costume designer Sylvia James and make-up supervisor Elizabeth Moss. Narrated by David Hamilton.
Cast and crew recall the making of both Peladon stories. Part Two looks at the characters and monsters featured in the stories. With actors Katy Manning, Donald Gee, Nina Thomas, Ralph Watson, Stuart Fell, Sonny Caldinez and Nick Evans, producer Barry Letts, script editor Terrance Dicks, production assistant Chris D'Oyly-John, sound designer Brian Hodgson and make-up supervisor Elizabeth Moss. Narrated by David Hamilton.
A history of the Cybermen, presented by writer and broadcaster Matthew Sweet.
The Making of The Trial of a Time Lord: Part Two - Mindwarp was the second of four documentaries in the Making of The Trial of a Time Lord series. As the name suggested, it concerned itself with the making of Mindwarp.
The Lost Season is a BBC documentary on the proposed 23rd season of Doctor Who. After the show was called off for 18 months, the stories were lost. They are individually detailed in this documentary, which was released on the DVD of Terror of the Vervoids. Narration was provided by Colin Baker, with Eric Saward and Philip Martin appearing.
The Making of The Trial of a Time Lord: Part Three - Terror of the Vervoids was the third of four documentaries in the Making of The Trial of a Time Lord series. As the name suggested, it concerned itself with the making of Terror of the Vervoids.
Now, Get Out of That was a 2|entertain DVD documentary about the nature of cliffhangers on both BBC and BBC Wales Doctor Who.
Dalekmania was an independent documentary video release that looked at the making and marketing of the two Doctor Who "Dalek films" released in the 1960s.
The Making of The Trial of a Time Lord: Part Four - The Ultimate Foe was the fourth and final documentary in the Making of The Trial of a Time Lord series. As the name suggested, it concerned itself with the making of The Ultimate Foe.
Barry Letts is perhaps most famous as a producer of Doctor Who, but he was also responsible for directing some of the show's best-loved stories. Barry looks back on his career as a director in this documentary.
A look back at the challenges the show faced during Colin Baker's tenure.
Director Ken Grieve recalls his time on Destiny of The Daleks.
Michael Ferguson, the director of The Claws of Axos, talks about his memories of working on the story in this 15-minute documentary.
DWASocial V interview panel featuring Jacqueline Hill (Barbara), Carole Ann Ford, Adrienne Hill (Katarina) and Michael Craze (Ben Jackson), recorded 6 April 1985.
A trio of maritime experts discuss the disappearance of real ships, including the most famous maritime mystery of all time, the Mary Celeste. With the University of London's Professor Roger Luckhurst, Merseyside Maritime Museum's Ian Murphy and The National Maritime Museum's John McAleer. Thanks to: The National Maritime Museum, Rob Semenoff; Camera: Steve Broster; Colourist: Jonathan Wood; Executive Producer: Dan Hall; Producer: Stella Broster.
What separates one-off monsters such as the Monoids from eternal favourites like the Daleks? This short documentary tries to answer this question, with help from Dominic Sandbrook, Matthew Sweet, Kim Newman, and author Jacqueline Rayner.
Mark Strickson takes Peter Davison, Janet Fielding and Sarah Sutton back to Amsterdam to revisit locations and reminisce about Season 20 and their time on the programme.
Peter Davison, Janet Fielding and Sarah Sutton embark on a road trip to a German Doctor Who convention. And we're going along for the ride...
The First Doctor was the kind of scientist and adventurer popularised by the novels of H.G. Wells. But how much does Doctor Who owe to the ‘Father of Science Fiction'? This documentary features writers and historians Matthew Sweet and Dominic Sandbrook, author and critic Kim Newman, literary editor Graham Sleight, and Anthony Keen of the Open University. Researcher: Simon Guerrier; Camera/Editor: Thomas Guerrier; Special Thanks To: The National Portrait Gallery; Executive Producer: Dan Hall; Producer/Director: Thomas Guerrier.
Matthew Sweet takes actor Peter Purves back to the studio that hosted numerous Doctor Who productions in the 1960s. This documentary also features the director of The Ark, Michael Imison. Writer/Presenter: Matthew Sweet; Researchers: Simon Guerrier, Jim Sangster; Executive Producer: Dan Hall; Producer/Director: Thomas Guerrier.
With Maureen O'Brien (Vicki), Peter Purves, and Lisa Bowerman (Karra/Benny). Hosted by Emily Cook.
Once the nation's favourite, by its third year Doctor Who was in trouble. With changes afoot in the production office and increasing problems with its lead actor, the programme was heading for the Last Chance Saloon. This new documentary includes contributions from actors Maureen O'Brien (Vicki), Anneke Wills (Polly) and Peter Purves (Steven), script editor Donald Tosh, new series writer Gareth Roberts, and long-term viewer Ian Levine.
A look at how these four episodes were restored and remastered. Narrator: Anneke Wills. Telecine Transfer & Grading: Jonathan Wood. Video Restoration: SVS Resources. Audio Restoration: Mark Ayres. Colourist: Chris Packham. Executive Producer: Dan Hall. Producer: Steven Bagley.
A look at the locations used in the making of the story, comparing how they were in 1966 with how they are today. Narrated by Simon Ockenden.
Politician and ex-Postmaster General Tony Benn investigates the history of the Post Office Tower and is allowed up to the now-defunct revolving restaurant and onto the roof, in this extract from the BBC2 show. Broadcast: 19/05/98.
A compilation of features relating to the story from the children's magazine show. Valerie Singleton shows new stamps of the Post Office Tower; Christopher Trace goes to visit the tower and shows viewers how to build a model of it; a War Machine visits the Blue Peter studio; and schoolchildren bring in a Dalek they built.
The Underwater Menace
The cast and crew of Doctor Who including Tom Baker sit down and watch S14E1-4 'The Masque of Mandragora'. Found on the box set 'Doctor Who: The Collection - Season 14'
A collection of BBC1's continuity TV spots advertising the upcoming fourteenth season of Doctor Who starring Tom Baker and Elisabeth Sladen and each subsequent episode of 'The Masque of Mandragora'. Found on the box set 'Doctor Who: The Collection - Season 14'
The cast and crew of Doctor Who including Tom Baker sit down and watch S14E5-8 'The Hand of Fear. Found on the box set 'Doctor Who: The Collection - Season 14'
"Behind the Sofa: Carnival of Monsters" refers to a special feature from the Doctor Who: The Collection Blu-ray box sets, where cast and crew watch the 1973 classic serial "Carnival of Monsters" and share their memories and reactions.
Dressing Doctor Who: James Acheson was a DVD documentary that was originally released on 31 January 2011. It was focused on what went into designing the costumes for the cast members of Doctor Who. Found on the box set 'Doctor Who: The Collection - Season 14'
The Gallifreyan Candidate was a BBC documentary which looked at Richard Condon's novel The Manchurian Candidate. It was included on the DVD of The Deadly Assassin and examined the novel's influences on the serial, including the political paranoia of the Cold War and fears of brainwashing. Found on the box set 'Doctor Who: The Collection - Season 14'
The cast and crew of Doctor Who including Tom Baker sit down and watch S14E9-12 'The Deadly Assassin'. Found on the box set 'Doctor Who: The Collection - Season 14'
Contemporary news coverage of the William Hartnell era is examined in this new documentary presented by Mary Tamm.
A look at what the papers said about Doctor Who during Patrick Troughton's time in the TARDIS. Presented by Caroline John.
The on-going series looking at the press coverage of Doctor Who reaches the Jon Pertwee era. Presented by Peter Purves.
Our on-going series looking at the press coverage of Doctor Who reaches the Tom Baker era. Presented by Wendy Padbury.
The ongoing series looking at the press reaction to Doctor Who through the years reaches the Fifth Doctor's era. Presented by Frazer Hines.
The ongoing series examines how the press reacted to Colin Baker's Doctor. Presented by Sarah Sutton.
Series looking at Doctor Who press coverage reaches the Sylvester McCoy era. Presented by Anneke Wills.
A look back at contemporary coverage of Doctor Who The Movie in newspapers and other publications. Presented by Nicholas Courtney.
Writers Joe Lidster and Simon Guerrier discuss how they stopped worrying and learned to love Doctor Who The Movie with comedian Josie Long.
Our continuing series looking at the programme through the eyes of the fans who love it. With comedian Josie Long and writers Joe Lidster and Simon Guerrier.
Comedienne Josie Long once again joins writers Joe Lidster and Simon Guerrier in order to continue their therapeutic fan discussion so that the three of them can stop worrying and learn to love Dragonfire.
Writers Joseph Lidster and Simon Guerrier take an affectionate look at The Krotons in the latest instalment in our continuing series.
Girls! Girls! Girls! is a BBC documentary produced by 2|entertain. A multi-part Doctor Who DVD featurette, it looks at the story of the Doctor's female companions in each decade, in this instance the 1980s.
Actor Frazer Hines reminisces about his time on the series in an interview originally recorded in 2003 for the BBC's Story of Doctor Who.
The second part of an interview conducted with Frazer in 2004 for the BBC Special The Story of Doctor Who.
A "Making of" documentary on Season 14's 'The Robots of Death.' With Tom Baker, Louise Jameson, Pamela Salem, David Collings (Poul), Brian Croucher (Borg), Michael E Briant, Philip Hinchcliffe and Elizabeth Waller (Costumes).
Tom Baker talks about his work on the series in this interview originally recorded for 2003's The Story of Doctor Who.
Love Off-Air was a tribute to the people dedicated enough to capture the soundtracks of Doctor Who in the 1960s, enabling the recreated episodes on the DVD release of The Invasion.
Serial Thrillers is a retrospective documentary looking at Philip Hinchcliffe's three year tenure as Doctor Who producer. Found on the box set 'Doctor Who: The Collection - Season 14'
A live panel featuring David Bailie, David Collings, Russell Hunter, Louise Jameson and Chris Boucher from 2nd September 2000 as they reminisce about Doctor Who and what went into making and appearing in the stories of that time. Found on the box set 'Doctor Who: The Collection - Season 14'
Robophobia was a 2|entertain DVD documentary about robots in science fiction, particularly Doctor Who. It was presented by Toby Hadoke and includes various shots showing Vocs and Dums assisting him about his home. Found on the box set 'Doctor Who: The Collection - Season 14'
Directing Who with Michael Hayes was an instalment of the DVD documentary series Directing Who.
Veteran television director Peter Moffatt looks back with affection on his work on The Visitation, as well as his other Doctor Who stories.
The cast and crew of Doctor Who including Tom Baker sit down and watch S14E17-20 'The Robots of Death'. Found on the box set 'Doctor Who: The Collection - Season 14'
Writers, directors, actors and other people associated with Doctor Who discuss Patrick Troughton's time as the Second Doctor, from his first appearance at the end of The Tenth Planet to his final appearance in The War Games.
The Last Hurrah was a 2|entertain DVD documentary about the making of the Doctor Who serial, The Talons of Weng-Chiang. Tom Baker and Philip Hinchcliffe meet to discuss their final story together. Also featuring Louise Jameson, Trevor Baxter (Professor Lightfoot), Christopher Benjamin, David Maloney, Roger Murray-Leach and John Bloomfield (Costumes). Found on the box set 'Doctor Who: The Collection - Season 14'
The cast and crew of Doctor Who including Tom Baker sit down and watch S14E20-26 'The Talons of Weng-Chiang'. Found on the box set 'Doctor Who: The Collection - Season 14'
Monsters Who Came Back For More! was a 2|entertain DVD documentary in which Nicholas Briggs and Peter Ware examined the reasons why monsters returned for further adventures.
Regeneration, the key to longevity for both the Doctor and the show, is explored this new documentary by actors Peter Davison and Kate O'Mara, and writers Rob Shearman, Joseph Lidster, Clayton Hickman and Gareth Roberts.
A Dandy and a Clown: The Life of Jon Pertwee was a Blu-ray documentary that was released on 15 July 2013. It celebrated the life and career of Third Doctor actor Jon Pertwee and was released on the Blu-ray edition of Spearhead from Space.
The Foe from the Future was a DVD documentary that was released on 4 October 2010 which goes over in more detail the inspiration behind the iconic enemy. Found on the box set 'Doctor Who: The Collection - Season 14'
Carry On: The Life of Caroline John was a Blu-ray documentary that was released on 15 July 2013. It celebrated the life and career of Liz Shaw actress Caroline John and was released on the Blu-ray version of Spearhead from Space.
A mini documentary originally released on 4 October 2010, which goes over some of the influences behind 'The Talons of Weng-Chiang'. Found on the box set 'Doctor Who: The Collection - Season 14'
Music Hall: The Talents of Ones who Sang was a DVD documentary that was released on 4 October 2010. Found on the box set 'Doctor Who: The Collection - Season 14'
Moving On was a DVD documentary that was released on 4 October 2010. It features Philip Hinchcliffe going over his ideas for what he wanted a supposed fifteenth series of Doctor Who to contain at the fourteenth series wrapped production. Found on the box set 'Doctor Who: The Collection - Season 14'
Limehouse: A Victorian Chinatown was a DVD documentary that was released on 4 October 2010. It features Matthew Sweet amongst other noted figures who explain in more detail the setting and location of where 'The Talons of Weng-Chiang' was produced. Found on the box set 'Doctor Who: The Collection - Season 14'
Presenter Toby Hadoke reunites surviving members of the HAVOC stunt team and trains with them to perform a stunt himself. Will he survive to become an honorary member of HAVOC? With stunt arranger Derek Ware and stunt men Roy Scammell, Derek Martin and Stuart Fell.
Life After Who: Philip Hinchcliffe was a DVD documentary that was released originally on 9 January 2012. It explains Hinchcliffe's acceptance into Doctor Who and his rise to prominence as a showrunner. Found on the box set 'Doctor Who: The Collection - Season 14'
On 23rd March 2009, former Doctor Who producer Philip Hinchcliffe sat down with Tom Baker to discuss 'The Talons of Weng-Chiang.' Originally recorded for the "Making of" documentary, this version includes over ten minutes of unseen additional footage. Found on the box set 'Doctor Who: The Collection - Season 14'
Intrepid comedian and Who fan Toby Hadoke heads to Salisbury to spend the weekend with one of Doctor Who's most iconic and unusual actors. John Levene played Sergeant Benton on-screen for nearly a decade, but these days is a very enigmatic figure. Now Toby has 48 hours to really get to know the man and figure out what makes him tick.
Over the years, many fans have tried to rationalise the chronological setting of the UNIT stories from clues within the narrative, despite the obstacles seemingly put in their way by the production team. Narrator Toby Hadoke explains why dating the stories is so difficult, assisted by Terrance Dicks, Dave Owen, Nicholas Briggs and Ben Aaronovitch.
A trailer that accompanied the release of Season 14 on Blu-Ray in May 2020. Found on the box set 'Doctor Who: The Collection - Season 14'
A brief history of the Ice Warriors in Doctor Who by the people who designed and brought them to life. With actors Sonny Caldinez, Alan Bennion and Bernard Bresslaw (voice only), producer Barry Letts, script editor Terrance Dicks, director Michael Ferguson, make-up designer Sylvia James, sound designer Brian Hodgson and visual effects designer Peter Day. Narrated by Donald Gee.
Now and Then was a multi-episode 2|entertain documentary looking at the filming locations of Doctor Who stories. It looked at the locations at the time of filming and then looked at them in the present. Episodes of Now and Then were released on the DVD of the serial they featured. This episode is based on S14E1-6 'The Talons of Weng-Chiang' and is found on the box set 'Doctor Who: The Collection - Season 14'
A look back at one of the most fondly remembered Doctor/Companion pairings in the show's history - Jon Pertwee's Third Doctor and Katy Manning's UNIT agent, Jo Grant.
Cast and crew recall the making of The Three Doctors in this brand-new documentary. With contributions from Katy Manning (Jo Grant), Stephen Thorne (Omega), producer Barry Letts, script editor Terrance Dicks and co-writer Bob Baker.
Four fans of the classic series defend traditional claims that the programme was nothing more than a quarry-bound romp with wobbly sets and dodgy effects.
An informative series of interviews with the cast and crew chronicling the making of the serial TV: Carnival of Monsters. Points of discussion include the writer of the script Robert Holmes and the origins of the idea for the episode, filming on the SS Robert Dundas (the boat used to represent the SS Bernice in the story), filming on location in Essex, the creation of the Drashigs, interviews with guest stars Cheryl Hall and Peter Halliday and the fond and fun memories the cast had on working on what they consider to be a wonderful story.
A tongue-in-cheek look at gadgets and gizmos in Doctor Who over the years. Narrated by Paul Jones.
A tribute to Barry Letts, who was one of the longest-serving and most influential producers of Doctor Who (1963).
Cast and crew look back at the making of Frontier in Space. Featuring actors Katy Manning, Vera Fusek and Michael Hawkins, visual effects designers John Friedlander and Mat Irvine.
The team behind the reconstruction of episodes 3 and 4 of Planet of Giants explain how it was put together.
Carole Ann Ford talks about her role as the Doctor's granddaughter and the first companion in the TARDIS in this interview originally recorded for The Story of Doctor Who.
A reconstructed version of the original and later condensed third episode of Planet of Giants (1964) with William Russell and Carole Ann Ford reprising their roles of Ian and Susan with soundalikes taking the place of the remaining cast members (all deceased). Uses the surviving footage plus reconstructed visuals. Featured on the Planet of Gianrts DVD and laster Season 2 Collection bluray
In the far future, the remaining population of an oxygen-depleted planet Earth lies in enforced stasis in The Field of Dreams. Looking for ideas to help him re-connect to his captive audience, Zed, a young scenariosmith, turns to the world of Doctor Who for inspiration... Featuring interviews with actors Katy Manning (Jo Grant), Janet Fielding (Tegan), Vera Fusek (The President) and Michael Hawkins (General Williams), producer Barry Letts, script editor Terrance Dicks, visual effects designers John Friedlander and Mat Irvine. With Rich Batsford, Mick Broster, Tony Broster, Henry Dunn and Paul Ewing, and the voices of Steve Broster, David Harley and Cathryn Miller.
A reconstructed version of the original and later condensed fourth episode of Planet of Giants (1964) with William Russell and Carole Ann Ford reprising their roles of Ian and Susan with soundalikes taking the place of the remaining cast members (all deceased). Uses the surviving footage plus reconstructed visuals. Featured on the Planet of Gianrts DVD and laster Season 2 Collection bluray
Continuing his search of inspiration, Zed resumes his studies of twentieth century television's Doctor Who. What he finds will have a profound effect... Featuring interviews with actors Katy Manning (Jo Grant), Jane How (Rebec), Janet Fielding (Tegan), Bernard Horsfall (Taron) and Tim Preece (Codal), producer Barry Letts, script editor Terrance Dicks. With Rich Batsford, Mick Broster, Tony Broster and Paul Ewing, and the voices of Steve Broster, David Harley and Cathryn Miller.
This presentation is a condensed version of the lost 7-part story, "Marco Polo". It was included on the The Beginning DVD set.
Elisabeth Sladen talks about her role on the programme in this interview shot for 2003's The Story of Doctor Who.
The cast and crew of Doctor Who including Tom Baker sit down and watch S12E1-4 'Robot.'
A biography of actor Roger Delgado, featuring previously unseen photographs, rare excerpts from his many BBC TV appearances and interviews with those who knew and loved him. With his wife, Kismet Marlowe, producer Barry Letts, script editor Terrance Dicks, director Christopher Barry, actors Katy Manning, Linda Thorson, Harry Towb, Frazer Hines, William Gaunt and Damaris Hayman, and stunt coordinator Derek Ware. Narrated by Stephen Greif.
The story revolves around the lost planet Shada, on which the Time Lords built a prison for defeated would-be conquerors of the universe. Skagra, one such inmate, needs the help of one of the prison's inmates. He finds nobody knows where Shada is anymore except one aged Time Lord who has retired to Earth, where he is a professor at St. Cedd's College, Cambridge. Luckily for the universe, Skagra's attempt to force the information out of Professor Chronotis coincides with a visit by the professor's old friend, the Doctor.
The cast and crew look back at the making of Planet of The Daleks. Featuring actors Katy Manning, Jane How, Bernard Horsfall and Tim Preece, director David Maloney and designer John Hurst.
The Doctor and Ace battle the time traveller Lady Peinforte and the Cybermen for possession of the incredibly powerful Nemesis statue, which is on its way back to the planet Earth to rendezvous with a destiny set in stone by the Doctor himself. An Extended Version as presented on the 1993 VHS
Cast and crew look back at the making of The Green Death. With actors Katy Manning and Stewart Bevan, director Michael Briant, producer Barry Letts, script editor Terrance Dicks, assistant floor manager Karilyn Collier and visual effects assistant Colin Mapson.
As hostilities break out between factions vying for ownership of the comet, the Doctor goes after the worst of the lot - Cybermen, using Ace's upgraded boom box to flood Cyber Communications with jazz music while trying to locate the whereabouts of the fleet beyond this mere scouting party. As Presented on the 1993 VHS
Global Conspiracy? was a parody of the documentary genre (although not of Doctor Who itself), and as it introduced the concept of BOSS and Stevens having survived the events of The Green Death — continuity of which has been concurred by other stories — it is evident that this mini-episode is a meaningful Doctor Who story proper.
With the Cyber Fleet poised nearby, the Doctor may have no choice but to let them have Nemesis. Meanwhile, Lady Peinforte and Richard navigate modern society, De Flores encounters an open betrayal, and Ace combats Cybermen with a slingshot. As Presented on the 1993 VHS
Before home video and DVD, fans re-lived the Doctor's television adventures through the immensely popular Target books. The first in a series of features on the Target range looks at the work of writer Malcolm Hulke. With authors Terrance Dicks, Gary Russell and David J Howe, and artist Chris Achilleos.
Over 35 minutes of raw footage recorded during the 'Robot' readthrough, for a documentary that was ultimately unfinished.
A featurette exploring the novelisations of 'Robot' author Terrance Dicks.
A title sequence featurette with graphic designer Bernard Lodge.
The cast and crew of Doctor Who including Tom Baker sit down and watch S12E5-8 'The Ark In Space.'
A "Making Of Documentary" on Season 12's 'The Ark In Space,' featuring actors Wendy Williams (Vira) and Kenton Moore (Noah) alongside crew members Philip Hinchcliffe, Rodney Bennett (Director), and Roger Murray-Leach (Designer).
'The Ark In Space' designer in conversation.
The cast and crew of Doctor Who including Tom Baker, Philip Hinchcliffe, and Louise Jameson sit down and watch S12E9-10 'The Sontaran Experiment.'
Sontaran documentary featuring contributions from actors Elisabeth Sladen, Colin Baker (The Doctor) and Nicola Bryant (Peri), writers/script editors Terrance Dicks, Eric Saward and Anthony Read, writer Bob Baker and stuntman Stuart Fell.
A "Making Of Documentary" on Season 12's 'Robot,' featuring actors Tom Baker, Elisabeth Sladen, Patricia Maynard (Miss Winters), michael Kilgarriff (Robot), Edward Burnham (Kettlewell) and Alec Linstead (Jellicoe), alongside crew members Terrance Dicks, Barry Letts (Producer), Philip Hinchcliffe (Producer), George Gallacio (Production Manager) and Christopher Barry (Director).
A "Making Of Documentary" on Season 12's 'The Sontaran Experiment," featuring actors Tom Baker, Elisabeth Sladen, Donald Douglas (Vural), Peter Walshe (Erak), Co-writer Bob Baker, crew members Barry Letts, Philip Hinchcliffe, Roger Murray-Leach and aficionado Toby Hadoke.
A look at Ian Marter's popular contributions to the Target books range.
Tom Baker looks back on his adventures in two 90-minute programmes made for VHS release and unavailable since 1991.
Tom Baker looks back on his adventures in two 90-minute programmes made for VHS release and unavailable since 1991.
A "Making Of Documentary" on Season 12's 'Genesis of the Daleks," featuring actors Tom Baker, Elisabeth Sladen, Peter Miles, Michael Wisher (Davros), James Garbutt (Ronson), Guy Siner (Ravon), Dennis Chinnery (Gharman), Roy Skelton (Dalek voice). Also, crew members Philip Hinchcliffe, Barry Letts, Terrance Dicks, David Maloney, Sylvia James (Make-Up Designer), Dick Mills (Sound Designer), Duncan Brown (Lighting) and Dalek operators Cy Town & John Scott Martin.
The cast and crew of Doctor Who including Tom Baker, Philip Hinchcliffe, and Louise Jameson sit down and watch S12E11-16 'Genesis of the Daleks.'
An expanded version of 2018's "Making Of Documentary" on Season 12's 'Revenge of the Cybermen." This new cut of this documentary features Tom Baker, Christopher Robbie (Cyber Leader), Barry Letts, Philip Hinchcliffe, Roger Murray-Leach and Director Michael E. Briant.
BBC News interviews Tom Baker on location at Wookey Hole caves during filming/taping of Season 12's 'Revenge of the Cybermen.'
The cast and crew of Doctor Who including Tom Baker, Philip Hinchcliffe, and Louise Jameson sit down and watch the final four episodes of Season 12.
Documentary examining the underground world of video tape trading, from a time when episodes of Doctor Who were not readily available to fans.
A documentary examining Season 12 in the context of other 1970s television.
A frank and revealing new one-hour interview recorded for the Season 12 Collection, conducted by Matthew Sweet
A "Making Of Documentary" on Season 14's 'The Masque of Mandragora,' featuring actors Gareth Armstrong, Tim Pigott-Smith (Marco), Antony Clark (Rossini) and John Laurimore (Federico) plus Philip Hinchcliffe, Chris D'Oyly John, Barry Newbery (Designer) and Rodney Bennett (Director).
A visit to the original Portmeirion locations, comparing their present-day appearance to how they looked onscreen in 1976 in Season 14's Doctor Who tale, 'The Masque of Mandragora.'
A special 50-minute documentary that looks at the making of Season 14's 'The Hand of Fear,' and also examines the special relationship between the Doctor and his companion, Sarah Jane Smith. With contributions from actors Tom Baker, Elisabeth Sladen, Glyn Houston, Rex Robinson and Stephen Thorne, producers Barry Letts and Philip Hinchcliffe, script editor Terrance Dicks, writer Bob Baker and visual effects designer Colin Mapson.
Elisabeth Sladen recalls her time with the Fourth Doctor in this 2003 interview
Created for the Doctor Who Season 14 Collection, this tribute features friends, family and colleagues looking back on the life and career of Elisabeth Sladen. Contributors include Tom Baker, Philip Hinchcliffe, David Tennant (The Doctor, 2005-2010), Louise Jameson (Leela), Phil Collinson (Producer 2004-2008) and Tommy Knight (Luke in 'The Sarah Jane Adventures').
Noel Edmonds interviews Tom Baker and Elisabeth Sladen on Feb 10, 1976, the morning of 'The Hand of Fear's' debut episode
What exactly is Doctor Who's 'Frighten Factor'? A diverse panel of experts try to answer the question. With producer Barry Letts, script editor Terrance Dicks, education psychologist Lucy Lewis, church minister Peter Cavanna, Doctor Who Magazine's editor Tom Spilsbury and assistant editor Peter Ware, Doctor Who Adventures magazine editor Moray Laing and head writer Annabel Gibson, writer John Dorney, television archivist Jim Sangster and Doctor Who expert Alex Lydiate. Narrated by Simon Ockendon.
Tom Baker and Louise Jameson's September 26, 1976 appearance on 'Nationwide,' promoting Leela's upcoming debut.
Cast, crew and critics look back at the making of Season 14's 'The Deadly Assassin.' With actors Tom Baker and Bernard Horsfall, producer Philip Hinchcliffe, director David Maloney, designer Roger Murray-Leach, founding president of the Doctor Who Appreciation Society Jan Vincent-Rudzki, and the founder of the National Viewers and Listeners Association Mary Whitehouse. Narrated by Sarah Griffiths.
A "Making of" documentary on Season 14's 'The Face of Evil.' Contributors include Louise Jameson, Anthony Frieze (Xoanon Voice), Pennant Roberts (Director), Philip Hinchcliffe, Austin Ruddy (Designer) and Mat Irvine (Visual Effects).
The cast and crew of Doctor Who including Tom Baker and Louise Jameson sit down and watch S14E13-16 'The Face of Evil.'
Nine minutes of trims retrieved from the cutting room floor, providing a behind-the-scenes glimpse at studio work. The soundtrack no longer exists.
Forty-two minutes of mute film trims from Season 14's story, 'The Face of Evil,' taken from the cutting room floor.
Black and white timecoded recordings of the original model film inserts used in Season 14's 'The Robots of Death.'
Noel Edmonds interviews Louise Jameson on December 2nd, 1977, the morning of the airing of Part Two of 'The Robots of Death.'
An interview with Tom Baker, screened on 'Look East' on January 14th, 1977. Available to view with the finished, mixed sound or with the raw location audio. Found on Season 14: The Collection boxed set.
Philip Hinchcliffe's appearance on March 31st, 1977 during the broadcast of 'The Talons of Weng-Chiang."
A brand new interview with the Mr. Sin actor who has enjoyed a long and varied career in film and television, recorded for the Season 14 Collection.
Rare black-and-white footage from the studio recording of Season 14's 'The Talons of Weng-Chiang.'
The former producer sits down with Matthew Sweet to discuss his work on Doctor Who.
The vintage documentary presented by Melvyn Bragg, screened on BBC2 on March 4th, 1977, the day after transmission of Part Six of 'The Talons of Weng-Chiang." Featuring behind-the-scenes footage from rehearsal and recording sessions, and interviews with Tom Baker and Philip Hinchcliffe. New HD transfer available on the "Season 14: The Collection" boxed set.
Toby Hadoke meets the cast and crew of 'Whose Doctor Who,' including producer Tony Cash, to discuss the making of this landmark documentary.
This documentary features on the DVD release of The Two Doctors: Part One (1985) and looks at the work of the series' most popular writer, Robert Holmes, talking to some of the writers, script editors and producers who worked with him.
54 years after its original BBC television broadcast, BBC Studios will premiere a new production of Mission to the Unknown, a missing Doctor Who episode that has been faithfully recreated by a team of students, graduates and staff of the University of Central Lancashire in the UK.
The cast and crew of The Time Warrior look back on the making of this story, in this newly produced featurette. Partially shot on location at Peckforton Castle, the original location used in this story, it features contributions from Elisabeth Sladen (Sarah), Donald Pelmear (Rubeish), Jeremy Bulloch (Hal), Barry Letts (producer), Terrance Dicks (script editor) and Keith Cheetham (designer).
The Doctor and Tegan meet again and remember their terrifying adventure against the Cybermen to save the Earth… and the friend they lost along the way.
Jamie and Zoe meet again and remember their encounter with robots, clockwork soldiers and Medusa in a Land of Fiction governed by a mysterious master.
The Doctor and Peri meet again and remember their conflict on the mining planet Varos: a world that entertains its people with sadistic TV broadcasts.
Jo Jones and Clyde Langer meet again as she remembers when the Time Lords summoned three Doctors to fight an awesome adversary from Gallifrey’s past.
Steven and Vicki meet again and remember their first adventure battling a time-travelling Monk about to change the course of history in 1066.
The Doctor and Ace meet again and remember their battle against an ancient evil in World War Two where a Viking curse is bringing the dead back to life.
PanoptiCon 93 was the recording of an on-stage interview – sometimes called a "panel" — at PanoptiCon, a fan convention. It was recorded on 4 September 1993, but remained largely un-released until it was featured on the DVD release of The Three Doctors. It principally involved Jon Pertwee and Katy Manning reminiscing to interviewer Steven Wickham about their time on Doctor Who. Nicholas Courtney was apparently meant to take a larger role in the interview, but his late arrival meant that he was onstage for only about five minutes. Among the things revealed in the interviews were: details about how Pertwee's involvement in audio Doctor Who had been arranged the then-current status of the Whomobile which story neither Jon nor Katy really liked details of Jon and Katy's one and only real fight while working on Doctor Who
Was an interview that was conducted regarding his work on the monsters in Doctor Who
An exclusive DVD documentary, charting the development and creation of this story, plus the unique reactions it prompted from viewers. With contributions from Peter Davison, Sarah Sutton, Matthew Waterhouse, Peter Grimwade, Eric Saward and David Banks amongst others.
Peter Moffatt, a regular director on Doctor Who (1963) from 1980 until 1985, talks about his work on the series for the special features of the DVD release of The Visitation: Part One (1982).
The unreleased episode from the television episode pack for "The Claws of Axos"
Making of Feature for the Mark of the Rani Doctor who adventure was released on the BBC DVD release of the same Name.
The Third Doctor drives into a circus ring in his Whomobile, accompanied by Gabriella Smart, where they meet Gabriella's brother, junior ringmaster David Smart.
The Doctor and Romana have unfinished business in Cambridge, 1979, with the elderly Professor Chronotis.
The cast and crew of Invasion of the Dinosaurs reflect on the making of this epic story. Featuring actors Jon Pertwee (The Doctor), Peter Miles (Whitaker) and Terence Wilton (Mark), joined by Paddy Russell (Director), Barry Letts (Producer), Terrance Dicks (Script Editor) and Richard Morris (Designer), presented from the story's London locations.
'Beware the sphere. Beware Skagra. Beware Shada. The secret is in the...' What can the Professor's cryptic last message mean?
Cast and crew look back on the making of Death to The Daleks. With actor Arnold Yarrow, Julian Fox, Michael E Briant, Richard Leyland, L Rowland Warne and fan and Dalek voice artist Nick Briggs.
Without the Professor, the Doctor and Romana are forced to think on their feet. But what large invisible object lurks nearby?
Dalek operators John Scott Martin and Nicholas Evans recall their time on the show, in these interviews originally shot for 2003’s The Story of Doctor Who.
The Doctor, Chris and K9 race to rescue Romana from Skagra. Claire makes a startling discovery about the Professor's rooms.
During production of the colour feature film in 1965, ITV's Movie Magazine was allowed access to the Shepperton Studios set to film a behind-the-scenes story. Although the programme itself no longer exists, the unused film trims were archived and form the basis of this feature. Hammer Films historian Marcus Hearn is joined by the director's son and now Hollywood actor Jason Flemyng, first assistant director Anthony Waye and Dalek operator Bryan Hands to tell the story...
Answers come thick and fast, but no explanation can prepare the Doctor, Chris and K9 for what they find on Shada.
Where Are They Now? was a piece "presented" by the 25th anniversary celebrations which documented the lives of the Doctor's companions after they left his company. Tegan Jovanka is still an air stewardess and tells two pilots to learn how to fly their plane properly, Katarina is still in space comforted by the fact that the Doctor always rescues his companions and Leela serves roasted Gallifreyan President to her husband Andred.
Things look desperate. Skagra is almost within grasp of Salyavin's power. Can the Doctor save the day with his special helmet?
After five years playing the Doctor, Jon Pertwee had decided to move on... and with him the production team that had guided the show throughout his time with Doctor Who. With actors Jon Pertwee and Richard Franklin, producer/director Barry Letts, script editor Terrance Dicks, designer Rochelle Selwyn, visual effects assistant Mat Irvine and actor and author Mark Gatiss.
A documentary looking at the Doctor Who (1963) work of writer Terry Nation. This appears as an extra on the 'Destiny of the Daleks' DVD.
Created for the 2009 DVD release of the Black Guardian Trilogy, this new 75-minute edit of Enlightenment was supervised by original director Fiona Cumming, and features all new CGI effects and a Dolby 5.1 Surround Sound mix.
John Kane played the gentle, slow-witted Tommy, reborn through the power of the Metebelis crystal. Now an accomplished writer and series creator, Kane looks back on his memories of the story.
A brand new documentary, featuring Louise Jameson and archive contributions from director Paddy Russell.
The director of several popular Doctor Who stories - including Horror of Fang Rock - talks about her career.
Louise Jameson (Leela), Colin Baker (The Doctor), Katy Manning (Jo), Sarah Sutton (Nyssa), Janet Fielding (Tegan), Matthew Waterhouse (Adric), Betsan Roberts (wife of late director Pennant Roberts), and Toby Hadoke watch and comment on Season 15's opening serial, Horror of Fang Rock.
A look back at the work of prolific writer, Terrance Dicks.
Louise Jameson (Leela), Colin Baker (The Doctor), Katy Manning (Jo), Sarah Sutton (Nyssa), Janet Fielding (Tegan), Matthew Waterhouse (Adric), Betsan Roberts (wife of late director Pennant Roberts), and Toby Hadoke watch and comment on the Season 15 serial, The Invisible Enemy.
This featurette, produced for the 2024 Season 15 collection, includes material from a 2013 interview with John Leeson.
Rare black-and-white footage from the studio recording of Season 15's 'The Invisible Enemy.'
Cast and crew recall making of The Invisible Enemy, including Louise Jameson, John Leeson, director Derrick Goodwin and co-writer Bob Baker.
The visual effects team discuss the making of The Invisible Enemy.
Contributors include Louise Jameson, Wanda Ventham, Edward Arthur, script editor Anthony Read and visual effects designer Colin Mapson.
A short featurette considering the influences of horror films on Doctor Who stories over the years, featuring interviews with former Shivers editor David Miller, author Jonathan Rigby, script editors Terrance Dicks and Anthony Read, and featuring an archive interview with Tom Baker.
Tom Baker discusses live, the universe, and everything.
Deleted and extended scenes for Image of the Fendahl, taken from two reels of black and white videotape dubbed from the master tapes. These recordings contain all the original material filmed on location at Stargrove Manor in August 1977.
Louise Jameson (Leela), Colin Baker (The Doctor), Katy Manning (Jo), Sarah Sutton (Nyssa), Janet Fielding (Tegan), Matthew Waterhouse (Adric), Betsan Roberts (wife of late director Pennant Roberts), and Toby Hadoke get to grips with a mysterious skull, an alien menace, and a priory full of mad scientists.
A retrospective look at the making of The Sun Makers and the science behind it. With Louise Jameson, Michael Keating, Pennant Roberts, writer and historian Dominic Sandbrook and astronomer Marek Kukula.
Louise Jameson (Leela), Colin Baker (The Doctor), Katy Manning (Jo), Sarah Sutton (Nyssa), Janet Fielding (Tegan), Matthew Waterhouse (Adric), Betsan Roberts (wife of late director Pennant Roberts), and Toby Hadoke watch and discuss The Sun Makers.
Matthew Sweet chats to the Leela actress about her life, career, and time in Doctor Who.
Forty eight minutes of raw footage recorded for the colour separation overlay (CSO) scenes from Underworld.
Using timecoded Shibaden and U-matic video recordings, we are given a rare glimpse inside the studio during the recording of Underworld, much of which involved the use of bluescreen virtual studio techniques.
A look at the complex production of Underworld and the difficulties of achieving the bluescreen virtual studio sets, with Jonathan Newth (Orfe), Norman Tipton (Idas), writers Bob Baker and Dave Martin, script editor Anthony Read, designer Dick Coles, video effects designer AJ Mitchell, and producer Graham Williams.
Louise Jameson (Leela), Colin Baker (The Doctor), Katy Manning (Jo), Sarah Sutton (Nyssa), Janet Fielding (Tegan), Matthew Waterhouse (Adric), Betsan Roberts (wife of late director Pennant Roberts), and Toby Hadoke watch and discuss Underworld.
The cast and crew look back at the making of The Invasion of Time, with Chris Tranchell (Andred), Milton Johns (Castellan Kelner) and Colin Mapson (Visual Effects Designer).
Louise Jameson talks about her role on the programme in this interview shot for 2003's The Story of Doctor Who.
Six minutes of deleted scenes from The Invasion of Time, all shot on film for episodes five and six.
A look at the history of the Time Lords and their home planet, exploring how each has changed over the years.
Terrance Dicks and Anthony Read shed light on this pseudonym used for several stories during the Graham Williams' era of Doctor Who.
A compilation of 1978 news items from BBC Belfast’s ‘Scene Around Six’ news show, featuring Tom Baker on a promotional tour of Ireland, visiting children in schools and hospitals.
Louise Jameson returns as Leela for a special minisode shot in 2023 to celebrate the release of Season 15. As found on "Doctor Who: The Collection - Season 15," includes 5.1 surround and Dolby Atmos audio options.
A live panel featuring Louise Jameson and John Leeson from 21nd September 1997 as they reminisce about Doctor Who and what went into making and appearing in the stories of that time. Found on the box set 'Doctor Who: The Collection - Season 15'
Louise Jameson (Leela), Colin Baker (The Doctor), Katy Manning (Jo), Sarah Sutton (Nyssa), Janet Fielding (Tegan), Matthew Waterhouse (Adric), Betsan Roberts (wife of late director Pennant Roberts), and Toby Hadoke visit Gallifrey to watch Leela's final story.
Louise Jameson, Katy Manning & Sophie Aldred chat with Matthew Sweet on 23rd November 2013 at the Doctor Who 50th Celebration in London. Appears on Doctor Who: The Collection - Season 15.
Friends, family, and colleagues remember Doctor Who producer, Graham Williams.
For the special features of the official DVD release of the story, cast and crew look back at the making of The Tenth Planet: Episode 1 (1966).
Seventh Doctor actor Sylvester McCoy takes us back to the William Hartnell years, with clips and three episodes - The Pilot Episode, The Wheel of Fortune and The Final Test.
Patrick Troughton's close friend and successor Jon Pertwee looks back at his predecessor's time on Doctor Who featuring clips and three episodes - The Abominable Snowmen: 2, The Web of Fear: 1 (then the only known surviving episode) and The Space Pirates: 2
Jon Pertwee looks back at his time as Doctor Who, featuring clips and three episodes, including his personal favourite - Inferno: 7, Frontier in Space: 6 and The Daemons: 5 (in black and white as it hadn't been recoloured at the time)
Fifth Doctor Peter Davison looks back at the black and white era of the Daleks with interviews, clips and three episodes - CounterPlot, Escape Switch and The Evil of the Daleks: 2
Sixth Doctor Colin Baker looks back at the black and white era of the Cybermen with interviews, clips and four episodes - The Moonbase: 2 & 4 and The Wheel in Space: 3 & 6.
A mini recon of the four part William Hartnell story which incorporates the surviving episode 3 - Airlock. Originally featured on The Aztecs - Special Edition DVD.
Collectables expert Justin Pressland and Doctor Who expert David J. Howe speak to fans about their Doctor Who memorabilia collections in a pastiche of Antiques Roadshow (1979-ongoing).
Roundel Publishing interviewed fans at Whooverville 13 and asked them to share their personal views and highlights of the Philip Hinchcliffe era.
Justin Johnson interviews Philip Hinchcliffe on January 6, 2024 for Roundel Publishing.
For the first time, these original episodes have been meticulously colourised and enhanced with updated visual effects edited into a new, 90-minute feature-length experience. In addition, the episode will also feature the Second Doctor's never-before-seen regeneration into the Third Doctor (Jon Pertwee), alongside recovered footage not seen since the original broadcast. Originally aired in 1969, The War Games marked the end of an era for the Second Doctor (Patrick Troughton), following him and his companions Zoe and Jamie as they land in a battlefield that appears to be a World War I military zone -- but all is not as it seems. They soon discover that soldiers from different historical periods have been abducted and are being manipulated in a cruel game. As they work to uncover the mystery behind the War Lord and his twisted experiments, the Doctor faces one of hist most difficult challenges.
Since the birth of Doctor Who in the 1960s, it has shared an almost symbiotic relationship with the long-running BBC children's magazine show Blue Peter. In this special documentary, some of those involved look back over the history of that relationship. Presented by Gethin Jones, with new series executive producer Russell T Davies, Blue Peter editors Biddy Baxter and Richard Marson, former presenters Peter Purves and Janet Ellis, writers Robert Shearman and Clayton Hickman, and competition winner Steve Thompson.
A cut down reconstruction of Episodes 2 and 3 of The Ice Warriors which featgured on the 1998 VHS and later as a special feature on the 2013 DVD/ Produced by Lord Montague
The second part of this documentary, exploring the special relationship between Doctor Who and Blue Peter during the 'new series years'. With Russell T Davies, Richard Marson, Edward Russell, Robert Shearman, Clayton Hickman, William Grantham and John Bell. Presented by Gethin Jones.
Warrant Officer John Benton, a long-serving member of the United Nations Intelligence Taksforce (UNIT), is distracted from his mission to deliver valuable radioactive material to UNIT HQ by ghostly visions of his father, who was killed during World War 2, and his brother Chris, who died as a result of a childhood game that went wrong. Can Benton face these demons of his past and recover to prevent the theft of the radioactive material?
Three alien beings - a Sontaran officer, a Draconian nobleman and a Human mercenary - find themselves transported to a remote asteroid by a mysterious alien who wants to test their worthiness for his race's masterplan...
Sequel to "Mindgame" (1998) which follows the fate of the three prisoners after their escape from their asteroid prison cell. Sontaran Sarg faces death against overwhelming odds on a desolate battleground, Draconian Merq faces trial after receiving an unusual "gift" and the human pilot finds herself stranded in space in a crippled fighter and a rapidly depleting oxygen supply.
The time travelling Foot Doctor discovers that the Cyberons and Autons are ineffectually trying to invade the Earth yet again. Can he and a helpful salesman save the day or will his arch enemy The Licensor defeat him for good?
Trapped in an isolated cottage, Captain Cavendish thinks he is seeing ghosts. The only person who might understand and help is Kate Lethbridge-Stewart ... but when she arrives, she realises that Cavendish is key in a plot to summon the Daemons back to the Earth. With time running out, Kate discovers that sometimes even the familiar can turn out to be your worst nightmare.
In a top-secret UNIT warehouse Dr Sally Arnold is studying a Nestene energy unit with little success. Until she subjects it to cosmic signals that activate it and it awakens several dormant Autons stored in the facility.
Two years after the incident at the UNIT warehouse a lorry transporting Autons from there to another UNIT facility is hijacked by it's cargo. Lockwood and another psychic, Natasha, trace the Autons to Sentinel Island.
Lockwood and Natasha have returned to the mainland from Sentinel Island but find that the population of the town of Millhampton have vanished. The pair discover that the nearby hospital is the Nestene base of operations.
The space solar yacht Tiger Moth under the command of no-nonsense Captain Lisa Deranne is on a cruise taking some rich misfits on a voyage through space. Unfortunately on their travels they have picked a stowaway, a shape-changing Rutan, a race that has been at war with another race, the Sontarans, since the dawn of time. The Rutan has important news regarding the war and the Sontarans, and upon hearing the news, attack the Tiger Moth and take it over. The Rutan hides itself among the crew and one by one the Sontarans and the human crew are murdered by the Rutan. The Sontarans plan to destroy all life on the Tiger Moth. Can Lisa find out who the Rutan is before the Sontarans destroy her ship and her life?...
When Dr Lauren Anderson agrees to Thomas Mordley testing his experimental new drug Cyberon on her brain damaged patients she expects little benefit. But Cyberon is going to revolutionize medicine and maybe even the world.
They've been stranded on Earth for 20 years, so Zygon commander Kritakh, and his second, Torlakh, have had plenty of time to re-create their world. The trouble is that Kritakh, aka engineer Mike Kirkwood, has lost his sense of purpose. Can Torlakh, aka mass murderer Bob Calhoun, get him back on track. Enter sexy Psychiatrist Lauren Anderson, first, to be tempted by her innermost desires and then to face her greatest challenge. Can a violent heart really be tamed by love and what is the ultimate price to be paid?
The Doctor sits in his TARDIS and introduces an evening of pure entertainment to an unseen party whilst sharing anecdotes and details of his past. He hopes to be of some use to us all in his old age.
Beginning with the first episode of Doctor Who, An Unearthly Child, the documentary charts the history of the show, analysing the style of the various eras and incarnations of the Doctor. The documentary also shows the opinions of several interviewees about the show. Verity Lambert describes it as "part of growing up", several say whether they believed if Doctor Who should come back, and Tom Baker admits that "the BBC keeps sending me copies of the compilations, and I never look at them".
How to Live Forever was a documentary that was broadcast as part of BBC Two's Doctor Who Night on 13 November 1999.
Carnival of Monsters was a documentary that was broadcast as part of BBC Two's Doctor Who Night on 13 November 1999.
How to Build a TARDIS was a documentary that was broadcast as part of BBC Two's Doctor Who Night on 13 November 1999.
To coincide with a new era for Doctor Who we take a nostalgic look back at the glory days of the programme in a tribute to its unsigned heroes. Ever wondered what it’s like inside a Dalek? How, exactly, of you portray a Fish Person? What was it like recording Doctor Who during its 26 year run? And just how do you get to be a Doctor Who monster? Now you can find out as, for the very first time, we speak to the men and women who ensured we spend out Saturday nights behind the sofa. Their stories are funny, moving, unbelievable and sometimes tragic. Presented by the seventh Doctor, Sylvester McCoy, and containing unique film and newly discovered photographs, this all adds up to an entertaining trip down memory lane – go on treat yourself to a slice of nostalgia!
The first of a five-part series looking at Doctor Who toys. With Verity Lambert, new series creator Russell T. Davies, writers Mark Gatiss, Rob Shearman, Paul Cornell and Joseph Lidster, BBC Worldwide's Richard Hollis and Dave Turbitt, book range editor Steve Cole, AudioGO editor Michael Stevens, Character Options' Alasdair Dewar, Doctor Who Magazine's Jim Sangster and Doctor Who's Winston Churchill Ian McNeice.
A new documentary takes a look at how Doctor Who was kept alive in a range of original novelisations after the end of the classic series in 1989. With new series producer Russell T Davies, Virgin Books editor Peter Darvill-Evans, BBC Books editors Steve Cole and Justin Richards, writers Mark Gatiss, Robert Shearman, Paul Cornell, Gary Russell and Joseph Lidster, journalist David Richardson and actress Lisa Bowerman. Introduced by Ayesha Antoine.
Blue Peter presenter Yvette Fielding takes Peter Davison, Mark Strickson and Janet Fielding on a trip through BBC Television Centre, meeting up with old friends and colleagues as they reminisce on their time spent working in the iconic building. With film traffic supervisor Neville Withers, assistant floor manager Sue Hedden, costume designer Odile Dicks-Mireaux, production assistant Jane Ashford, make-up artists Joan Stribling and Carolyn Perry, BBC producer and writer Richard Marson.
The penultimate instalment of our new five part series looking at how Doctor Who was kept alive in the years between the end of the classic series and the beginning of the new. In this episode we look at the various attempts to bring the show back during that period. With current and former Doctor Who Magazine editors Tom Spilsbury, John Freeman and Gary Russell, former BBC range editor Steve Cole, actor David Burton, writer Adrian Rigelsford, director Graeme Harper and new series executive producer Russell T Davies. Narrated by Zeb Soanes.
Final instalment in our five-part series looking at how Doctor Who was kept alive in the years between the end of the classic series and the beginning of the new. In this unique interview, new series creator Russell T Davies and then BBC Controller of Drama, Jane Tranter, talk about Doctor Who's rebirth on television. Narrated by Zeb Soames.
The Pitch of Fear was a comedy sketch parodying the pitch meeting for, and initial 26-year run of, Doctor Who.
The Web of Caves was a black and white tongue-in-cheek mini-episode. It was a pastiche of classic Doctor Who episodes, it was broadcast as part of BBC Two's Doctor Who Night in 1999.
The Kidnappers was a comedy sketch in which Peter Davison is kidnapped by an enthusiastic Doctor Who fan, broadcast as part of BBC Two's Doctor Who Night.
The Corridor was a black and white comedy sketch produced by Reeltime Pictures, which parodies the first days of filming Doctor Who.
A documentary looking at the genesis of the monsters which would quickly become icons in their own right. From Terry Nation's script, through to the visual design of the creatures and their unique rasping voices, the concepts behind the Daleks are explored. With contributions from Sydney Newman, producer Verity Lambert, director Richard Martin, designer Raymond Cusick, sound designer Brian Hodgson, original Dalek voice David Graham, and original Dalek operator Michael Summerton. Interviewers: Richard Molesworth, Andrew Beech; Camera: Une Herzer; Sound: Angus Anderson; Photographic Research: Derek Handley; Colourist: Andrew Parkinson; Special Sounds: Brian Hodgson; Music: Tristram Carey; Producer: John Kelly.
An eccentric inventor and his companions travel in his TARDIS to the Planet Skaro and battle the evil menace of the Daleks.
Dr. Who and his companions arrive on Earth in the year 2150 AD, only to discover that the planet has been invaded and its population enslaved by the dreaded Daleks.
An interview with writer Ian Briggs, explaining the background to the story and exposing some hitherto unsuspected undertones!
The full-length version of the original theme music coupled with the original 1963 title sequence elements.
Photos with a soundtrack from the televised story and behind the scenes production. Originally on the DVD and also on the Season 2 Bluray box set.
Photos with a soundtrack from the televised story and behind the scenes production. Originally on the DVD boxset 'The Beginning'.
Photos with a sound-effects soundtrack from the televised stories and behind the scenes production. It includes both 'The Edge of Destruction' and 'Marco Polo' with the latter having coloured photos. Originally on the DVD boxset 'The Beginning'.
Photos (B&W and colour) from the televised story and behind the scenes production. Released on 'The Aztecs' DVD.
Carole Ann Ford (Susan), Maureen O'Brien (Vicki), Peter Purves (Steven), Wendy Padbury (Zoe), Sarah Sutton (Nyssa), Janet Fielding (Tegan), Bonnie Langford (Melanie), and Sophie Aldred (Ace) watch this classic story from Doctor Who's formative years.
Photos from the televised story and behind the scenes production. Released on 'The Collection - Season 2' Bluray set.
The Colin Baker Years was a video showcasing episodes from Colin Baker's time as the Doctor. It was presented by Colin Baker and featured clips of nearly all his stories, including his Doctor Who debut as Commander Maxil in Arc of Infinity.
A 55-minute feature, which tells the story of Doctor Who's most iconic villains, as well as providing a history of the 'classic series' Dalek stories along with rare footage from programmes such as Blue Peter and Vision On. With contributions from Timothy Combe, Peter Day, Terrance Dicks, Derek Dodd, Ken Grieve, Graeme Harper, Philip Hinchcliffe, David Maloney, Richard Martin, Royce Mills, Terry Molloy, Eric Saward, Roy Skelton, Cy Town and Anneke Wills. Narrated by 1980s Davros actor Terry Molloy.
Cast and crew look back at the making of Terror of The Zygons. With actors John Levene and John Woodnutt, producer Philip Hinchcliffe, writer Robert Banks Stewart, designer Nigel Curzon, costume designer James Acheson, visual effects assistant Steve Bowman, writer and historian Simon Farquar and the director's son, Joggs Camfield.
The life and work of respected director Douglas Camfield is remembered in this documentary. With actors Celia Imrie, Peter Purves, Jonathan Newth and John Levene, Philip Hinchcliffe, Robert Banks Stewart, director Graeme Harper and Joggs Camfield. Narrated by Glen Allen.
Elisabeth Sladen makes a journey to the North Sea to meet the oil-men who are fishing for our future.
A look at the production of Planet of Evil from an actor's perspective. With contributions from Tom Baker (the Doctor), Elisabeth Sladen (Sarah), Prentis Hancock (Salamar), Tony McEwan (Baldwin) and Graham Weston (De Haan).
A selection of key production personnel look at the making of Planet of Evil, in this 25-minute documentary. With contributions from producer Philip Hinchcliffe, writer Louis Marks, designer Roger Murray-Leach, director David Maloney, and actors Tom Baker (the Doctor), Elisabeth Sladen (Sarah) and Prentis Hancock (Salamar).
A nostalgic look back at the making of Pyramids of Mars, with contributions from actors Elisabeth Sladen (Sarah), Bernard Archard (Marcus Scarman), Michael Sheard (Laurence Scarman), Peter Copley (Dr Warlock), Gabriel Woolf (Sutekh), plus producer Philip Hinchcliffe, director Paddy Russell and designer Christine Ruscoe.
Oh Mummy! was a special mini-episode on the Pyramids of Mars DVD that jokingly told the story of how Sutekh landed the role of himself in the story. It won the Doctor Who Magazine Award for Best DVD Special Feature in 2005.
Cast, crew and local residents look back at the making of The Android Invasion in this documentary presented on location by actor, writer and Dalek voice artist Nicholas Briggs. Featuring actors Milton Johns and Martin Friend, producer Philip Hinchcliffe and director Barry Letts.
An exclusive documentary on the making of a classic slice of gothic Doctor Who, The Brain of Mobius. Contributors include director Christopher Barry, producer Philip Hinchcliffe, writer Terrance Dicks, designer Barry Newbery, composer Dudley Simpson, and actors Philip Madoc (Solon), Cynthia Grenville (Maren), Colin Fay (Condo) and Gillian Brown (Ohica). Narrated by Paul McGann.
The cast and crew of The Seeds of Doom look back on the making of this story. Actors John Challis, Kenneth Gilbert, and Ian Fairbairn (Dr Chester) are joined by producer Philip Hinchcliffe, writer Robert Banks Stewart, production assistant Graeme Harper, designer Jeremy Bear, design assistant Jan Spoczynski, visual effects designer Richard Conway and composer Geoffrey Burgon.
Graeme Harper, the production assistant for The Seeds of Doom, and later Doctor Who Director for stories in the 1980s and 2000s, explains what being a Production Assistant actually entails.
Composer Geoffrey Burgon talks about his contribution to the unique feel of The Seeds of Doom through scoring its music.
A look at the history and design of the TARDIS. With actor Tom Baker, designers Barry Newbery and Matthew Savage, and writers Robert Shearman, Christopher H. Bidmead and Francesca Gavin.
A 60-minute documentary that explores the origins and making of the Key to Time season, and the entirety of Graham Williams' eventful three years as producer of Doctor Who. Featuring contributions from actors Tom Baker (the Doctor), Mary Tamm (Romana), Louise Jameson (Leela), Lalla Ward (Princess Astra/Romana), and John Leeson (K9), plus new series writer Gareth Roberts. Narrated by Toby Longworth.
The cast and crew of The Ribos Operation look back at the making of the story. Featuring interviews with actors Mary Tamm (Romana), Nigel Plaskitt (Unstoffe), Paul Seed (the Graff Vynda-K), Prentis Hancock (the Captain) and stuntman Stuart Fell, plus Doctor Who Magazine's Clayton Hickman.
A 30-minute documentary looking at the writing and production of The Pirate Planet. Featuring an archive interview with writer Douglas Adams, plus contributions from actors Mary Tamm (Romana), John Leeson (K9), Bruce Purchase (Pirate Captain), Rosalind Lloyd (Queen Xanxia) and Primi Townsend (Mula), script editor Anthony Read, director Pennant Roberts, film cameraman Elmer Cossey, visual effects designer Colin Mapson, Douglas Adams' half-brother James Thrift, and Adams' friend and biographer Nick Webb.
A spoof 1970s schools programme looks at some of the science seen in the various stories of the Key to Time season. Featuring David Graham and Mat Irvine, with Stevii the 8-bit super-computer!
Cast and crew look back at the making of The Stones of Blood. Featuring interviews with writer David Fisher, script editor Anthony Read, director Darrol Blake, actors Mary Tamm (Romana), John Leeson (K9) and Susan Engel (Vivien Fay), visual effects designer Mat Irvine, plus Doctor Who Magazine's Clayton Hickman and SFX's Steve O'Brien.
Mary Tamm visits the Rollright Stones used in the story to meet experts on this ancient stone circle.
The cast and crew look back at the making of The Androids of Tara, featuring interviews with actors Paul Lavers (Swordsman Farrah), Mary Tamm (Romana/Princess Strella) and Neville Jason (Prince Reynart), writer David Fisher, script editor Anthony Read and director Michael Hayes.
A brief history of doubles in other Doctor Who stories, with contributions from Doctor Who Magazine editor Tom Spilbury, and Doctor Who Adventures' editor Moray Laing and art editor Paul Lang.
Mary Tamm looks back at her time as the Doctor's companion Romana.
A retrospective of actor Philip Madoc's many roles as a Doctor Who villain, spanning The Krotons (1968-9), The War Games (1969), The Brain of Morbius (1976), and The Power of Kroll (1978), plus spin-off movie Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150AD (1966).
The cast and crew look back at the making of The Armageddon Factor, with interviews from writers Bob Baker and Dave Martin, director Michael Hayes, script editor Anthony Read, designer Richard McManan-Smith, with Mary Tamm, Lalla Ward, Davyd Harries (Shapp) and Barry Jackson (Drax).
A potted history of the many errant Gallifreyans to have appeared in the show, featuring actor Nicholas Courtney, script editor Terrance Dicks, writers Pip and Jane Baker, Doctor Who Magazine editor Tom Spilsbury, Doctor Who Adventures editor Moray Laing and art editor Paul Lang.
A 45-minute look at the making of City of Death, and in particular, the contribution of writer and script editor Douglas Adams. With contributions from Julian Glover (Scarlioni / Scaroth), Catherine Schell (Countess), Tom Chadbon (Duggan), Michael Hayes (director), Anthony Read (former script editor), David Fisher (writer of A Gamble with Time, the original story which was reworked into City of Death), Pennant Roberts (director of Adams’ other Doctor Who stories, The Pirate Planet and Shada), new series writers Steven Moffat and Rob Shearman, and archive footage of Douglas Adams.
Meet Sardoth - the second-to-last of the Jagaroth. Sardoth tries his best to fit into the community of Blatchford and raise money to build a time machine.
Director Christopher Barry, on location in the Wiltshire village of Aldbourne, talks about his career.
A look back at a somewhat troubled production of Nightmare of Eden with three of the behind-the-scenes crew who worked on it. With visual effects designer Colin Mapson, video effects designer A J "Mitch" Mitchell and assistant floor manager Val McCrimmon.
Writer Bob Baker talks about Nightmare of Eden, the only Doctor Who story he wrote without his long-time writing partner, Dave Martin.
Anthony Read, writer of The Horns of Nimon, looks back at the production of the story.
Cast and crew look back at the making of the incomplete story Shada. With actors Tom Baker (the Doctor), Daniel Hill (Chris Parsons), Director Pennant Roberts, Production Manager Ralph Wilton, Production Assistant Olivia Bazalgette and Design Assistant Les McCullum.
Although it's the only Doctor Who story never to be completed, Shada was by no means the only one affected by industrial action. With former companion Nicola Bryant, Liberal Democrat peer Lord Addington, BECTU Union President Tony Lennon and Script Editor/Union Rep Gary Russell. Presented by BBC Political Correspondent Shaun Ley.
An examination of the representation of women in Doctor Who.
Actor Peter Purves talks about his time in Doctor Who in this interview originally shot for the BBC's 2003 documentary The Story of Doctor Who.
Nicholas Courtney's friend and biographer Michael McManus takes the actor most famous for playing Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart on a fond look back at his life in this documentary recorded shortly before his death in 2011. Featuring many clips from his long career in television and a special appearance by the Fourth Doctor himself, Tom Baker.
Actresses Kate O'Mara (the Rani), Camille Coduri (Jackie Tyler) and Tracy-Ann Oberman (Yvonne Hartman) are joined by writers Gareth Roberts and Clayton Hickman to examine the role of the diva in Doctor Who.
A look at the radical changes made to Doctor Who by John Nathan-Turner for his first story as producer, which opened the programme's eighteenth year on BBC1. With contributions from Lovett Bickford, Christopher H Bidmead, John Leeson (Voice of K9), Peter Howell (Music), Sid Sutton (Title Sequence), June Hudson (Costume Designer), Val McCrimmon (Assistant Floor Manager) and archive interviews with Tom Baker and John Nathan-Turner.
Writer David Fisher and script editor Christopher H Bidmead examine the making of The Leisure Hive from the screenwriter's point of view.
Costume designer June Hudson talks about her inspirations for creating the costumes seen in this story.
Graphic designer Sid Sutton and composer Peter Howell recall their creation of the brand-new title sequence and theme arrangement, which was first used on The Leisure Hive.
Writers John Flanagan and Andrew McCulloch revisit some of their old London haunts and meet with script editor Christopher H. Bidmead at his home to discuss Meglos.
Actress Jacqueline Hill was one of the original companions to accompany the Doctor in his early adventures, returning to the show many years later to play Lexa in Meglos. This documentary looks at the life of an actress whose life was taken tragically early by illness. With husband Alvin Rakoff, Doctor Who's first producer Verity Lambert and actors William Russell and Ann Davies.
The Scene Sync Story was a documentary that explained the technology of Scene Sync, a motion control process for improving the composition of shots involving CSO. It interviewed two camera operators, Peter Leverick and Roger Bunce, along with visual effects designer, Stephen Drewett. It was included on the Meglos DVD, since Meglos was the only Doctor Who serial to use Scene Sync.
Dr Philip Trwoga of the University of Westminster looks at the principle of entropy, key to the plot of Meglos.
Cast and crew look back at the making of Full Circle. With actors Lalla Ward (Romana), George Baker (Login), John Leeson (K-9) and Bernard Padden (Tylos), Director Peter Grimwade, Writer Andrew Smith, Script Editor Christopher H Bidmead and Film Cameraman Max Sammett.
A look at the science behind the concept of Exo-Space. With Christopher H Bidmead, Visual Effects Designer (and Fellow of the British Interplanetary Society) Mat Irvine, authors Stephen Baxter and Paul Parsons, planetary scientist Dr Andrew Ball and astronomer and television presenter Sir Patrick Moore. Narrated by Sophie Aldred.
Cast and crew look back at the making of State of Decay, with actors Lalla Ward (Romana), John Leeson (K-9) and Clinton Greyn (Ivo), Director Peter Moffat, Writer Terrance Dicks, Script Editor Christopher H Bidmead and Designer Christine Ruscoe.
A history of vampires in literary fiction. With authors Ramsey Campbell, Stephen Gallagher, Kim Newman, Pete Crowther, Simon Clark, Alison L R Davies, Chris Fowler and vampire specialist Dr Tina Rath. With Nick Scovell reading excerpts from Dracula, I Am Legend, Interview with the Vampire and Anno Dracula. Narrated by Nicholas Briggs.
The cast and crew of Warriors' Gate look back at the making of this story. With actors Lalla Ward, John Leeson, Clifford Rose (Rorvik) and David Weston (Biroc), Director Paul Joyce, Writer Stephen Gallagher, Script Editor Christopher H Bidmead and Visual Effects Designer Mat Irvine.
Actor Matthew Waterhouse, who played the part of Adric, looks back on his time on Doctor Who.
A fun trip through Romana's time on the show via the many costumes actress Lalla Ward wore along the way. With Lalla Ward, costume designers June Hudson and Louise Page, and writers Nev Fountain and Jonathan Morris.
Script editor Christopher H. Bidmead, talked about the initial development of the Master trilogy (as it would later be known). It included The Keeper of Traken, Logopolis and Castrovalva. John Black, the director of The Keeper of Traken, talked about casting Geoffrey Beevers as the Master. The rest of the documentary was devoted to the discussion of the motives, character and the role of the Master, played by Geoffrey Beevers.
A new 30-minute documentary looking at the making of The Keeper of Traken, featuring contributions from actors Sarah Sutton, Sheila Ruskin, Geoffrey Beevers, director John Black, writer Johnny Byrne and script editor Christopher H Bidmead.
A new 50-minute documentary with cast and crew discussing the transition from Tom Baker to Peter Davison, including exclusive behind-the-scenes footage of the regeneration. Featuring actors Tom Baker, Peter Davison, Matthew Waterhouse, Sarah Sutton and Adrian Gibbs, script editor Christopher H Bidmead, and directors Peter Moffatt and John Black.
By the end of Tom Baker's tenure, the TARDIS crew had grown from the usual one companion to three. This featurette examines the reasons behind this change of direction. With contributions from actors Tom Baker, Peter Davison, Sarah Sutton, director John Black and script editor Christopher H Bidmead.
Fiona Cumming talks about her work directing Peter Davison's début story.
A new documentary about the making of Kinda. with actors Janet Fielding (Tegan), Nerys Hughes (Todd), Simon Rouse (Hindle) and Adrian Mills (Aris), director Peter Grimwade, writer Christopher Bailey, script editors Christopher H. Bidmead, Eric Saward and Anthony Root, designer Malcolm Thornton, and award-winning new Doctor Who writer Robert Shearman.
A look at the career of Peter Grimwade: writer, director, and the name behind the eponymous robot phobia syndrome. This documentary features Peter Grimwade himself alongside actors Janet Fielding and Nerys Hughes, writer Christopher Bailey, script editor Eric Saward, production assistant Margot Hayhoe, designer Malcolm Thornton, production secretary Jane Judge, script consultant Ian Levine, and Target Books editor Nigel Robinson. It is presented by Mark Strickson (Turlough).
Former companion Mark Strickson (Turlough) whisks Peter Davison, Janet Fielding and Sarah Sutton back to the filming locations for The Visitation. Also remembering their time on the story are key guest cast and crew including Michael Melia (Terileptil leader).
The writer of The Visitation, Eric Saward, details the story's origins and examines the changes made between script and screen for this, his debut Doctor Who script.
Composer Paddy Kingsland discusses in detail his musical score for The Visitation with fellow composer Mark Ayres.
Adric has survived the spaceship crash into prehistoric Earth, (TV: Earthshock) but will he survive the age of the Dinosaurs? And is that Cyberman truly dead?
Jurassic Larks was a documentary featuring behind-the-scenes action from the studio recording sessions of the Doctor Who story Time-Flight.
Actress Janet Fielding talks about playing the role of the popular character Tegan Jovanka and her time on Doctor Who.
This new documentary, partially shot on location in Amsterdam, looks at the making of Arc of Infinity. Featuring actors Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Sarah Sutton, Ian Collier, Paul Jerricho and Alistair Cumming, script editor Eric Saward, writer Johnny Byrne and narrator Sophie Aldred.
Writers and actors look at the character and motivation of the renegade Time Lord, Omega. Featuring co-creator Bob Baker, actors Stephen Thorne and Ian Collier, and writers Johnny Byrne and Nev Fountain, who has continued Omega's story in an audio play from Big Finish.
Under Arc Lights was a documentary featuring behind-the-scenes action from the studio recording sessions of the Doctor Who story Arc of Infinity.
Cast and crew look back at the making of Snakedance. With actors Peter Davison and Janet Fielding, director Fiona Cumming, writer Christopher Bailey, script editor Eric Saward, designer Jan Spoczynski, and new series writer Robert Shearman.
The cast and crew of Mawdryn Undead look back at the making of the story. With actors Peter Davison (the Doctor), Nicholas Courtney (the Brigadier), Mark Strickson (Turlough), David Collings (Mawdryn) and Lucy Benjamin (Young Nyssa), director Peter Moffatt, script editor Eric Saward and plastic surgeon Dr Simon Withey.
Liberty Hall was an in-universe interview with the character Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart at Brendon Public School.
Cast and crew look back at the making of Terminus. With actors Peter Davison, Mark Strickson, Sarah Sutton and Martin Potter (Eirak), director Fiona Cumming, writer Stephen Gallagher, designer Dick Coles, camera supervisor Alec Wheal and sound supervisor Scott Talbott. Narrated by Floella Benjamin.
Sir Patrick Moore and Dr John Mason take a look at the science behind the Big Bang and the origins of the universe.
Cast and crew look back at the making of Enlightenment. With actors Peter Davison, Mark Strickson, Janet Fielding (Tegan), Keith Barron (Striker), Christopher Brown (Marriner) and Leee John (Mansell), director Fiona Cumming, writer Barbara Clegg, costume designer Dinah Collin and camera supervisor Alec Wheal. Narrated by Floella Benjamin.
Who - or what - are the Guardians? With Robert Luckham (son of the late White Guardian, Cyril Luckham), Sarah Leppard (daughter of the late Black Guardian, Valentine Dyall), Doctor Who Magazine editor Tom Spilsbury and Doctor Who Adventures editor Moray Laing.
Writer Barbara Clegg looks back on her career and the writing of Enlightenment.
The production team responsible for the new version of Enlightenment discuss how they are going to approach the task in hand.
Sarah Sutton looks back over her acting career.
What exactly was the Magna Carta and what is its relevance both throughout history and to our lives today? With Dr Conrad Leyser, Dr Richard Goddard and Michael McManus. Narrated by Sara Griffiths.
A short history of the Doctor's robotic companion. With Peter Davison and Nicola Bryant, script editor Eric Saward and Kamelion co-creator Chris Padmore.
The Ties that Bind Us was a documentary that examined the continuity links that were mentioned in the The Five Doctors. It was narrated by Paul McGann. The documentary was included on the DVD release of The Five Doctors 25th Anniversary Edition.
Five Doctors, One Studio was a documentary featuring raw video footage of the only studio recording session in which Peter Davison, Jon Pertwee, Patrick Troughton and Richard Hurndall were all together during the filming of the Doctor Who story The Five Doctors.
A lookback at Doctor Who's 20th anniversary celebrations in 1983. Featuring Peter Davison, Elisabeth Sladen, Nicholas Courtney, Mark Strickson, Janet Fielding, Carole Ann Ford, John Leeson, Richard Franklin, Caroline John, Terrance Dicks, Peter Moffatt, Mike Kelt, Paul Cornell, Gareth Roberts, Andrew Beech, Ian Levine, Richard Molesworth and James Goss. Presented by Colin Baker.
The production team and cast recall their experiences of working on Warriors of the Deep. Featuring director Pennant Roberts, writer Johnny Byrne, actors Peter Davison, Janet Fielding, Ian McCulloch, James Coombes and John Asquith, visual effects designer Mat Irvine, continuity advisor Ian Levine and documentary producer Ed Stradling. Narrated by David Harley.
A featurette covering the realisation of the Silurians, the Sea Devils and the Myrka. Featuring Pennant Roberts, Peter Davison, Johnny Byrne, Mat Irvine, with actors William Perrie and John Asquith.
Director Michael Owen Morris, actors Janet Fielding and Keith Jayne and script editor Eric Saward return to the three villages that played host to the locations for The Awakening. Along with local villagers, they reminisce about a memorable shoot.
Visual effects designer Tony Harding and model maker Richard Gregory are reunited with the Malus prop they built for the story. Current owner Paul Burrows is on hand to describe the reality of living with a giant stone monster on the lounge wall.
The cast and crew of Frontios reflect on the making of this story. Actors Peter Davison (The Doctor), Mark Strickson (Turlough), Jeff Rawle (Plantagenet) and John Gillett (The Gravis) are joined by script editor Eric Saward, writer Christopher H. Bidmead and designer David Buckingham in their analysis of this story's creation.
Actor and comedian Toby Hadoke interviews five of the actors who worked on Resurrection of The Daleks about their careers and their experiences on the show. With Roger Davenport (Trooper), Del Henney (Colonel Archer), Leslie Grantham (Kiston), Jim Findlay (Mercer) and William Sleigh (Galloway).
A special retrospective of Peter Davison's tenure as the Fifth Doctor. With actors Peter Davison, Janet Fielding and Mark Strickson, producer John Nathan-Turner, executive producer Barry Letts, director Fiona Cumming, script editors Christopher H. Bidmead, Eric Saward and Anthony Root, BBC Head of Series and Serials David Reid and new series head writer Steven Moffat. Presented by David Tennant.
Cast and crew recall the production of Planet of Fire. With actors Peter Davison, Nicola Bryant, Mark Strickson, director Fiona Cumming, designer Malcolm Thornton and film cameraman John Walker. Narrated by Simon Ockendon.
Director Fiona Cumming and designer Malcolm Thornton return to Lanzarote to revisit some of the locations used during filming of the story. Narrated by Simon Ockendon.
A look back at the life of the actor who played the Master from 1981 to 1989.
Designer Malcolm Thornton talks about his inspirations for the production design of Planet of Fire.
Extended, movie length presentation from the DVD release
Extended VHS presentation.
The Doctor brings Ace to the eerie Gabriel Chase mansion, where strange evolutions and Victorian secrets stir.
As the house’s occupants unravel, the Doctor uncovers the alien Light’s experiments on Earth’s lifeforms.
The Doctor outwits Light’s destructive plan, forcing him to collapse while Ace confronts her fear of Gabriel Chase.
Extended, movie length presentation from the DVD release
Extended VHS Presentation of the Story.
The cast and crew of The Caves of Androzani look back on the making of a legendary story. Actors Peter Davison, Nicola Bryant, Maurice Roëves (Stotz), Robert Glenister (Salateen) and Martin Cochrane (Chellak) join Director Graeme Harper, script editor Eric Saward, production designer John Hurst and composer Roger Limb in their analysis of this story's creation.
Graeme Harper is currently the only director to have worked on the classic series run of Doctor Who and its newer run of stories. Here he adds his unique insight in discussing the different production techniques particular to each era of the programme.
Behind the Scenes - The Regeneration was a DVD documentary that was released on 18 June 2001.
An interview with Doctor Who title sequence designer Sid Sutton.
Colin Baker and comedian Amy Lamé discuss the Doctor's various costumes over the years.
Cast and crew look back at the making of Attack of The Cybermen. With actors Colin Baker, Nicola Bryant, Terry Molloy and Sarah Berger, writer Eric Saward, director Matthew Robinson, continuity advisor Ian Levine and film cameraman Godfrey Johnson. Narrated by Stephen Greif.
A brief history of the Cybermen in the classic series. With director Morris Barry, writer Eric Saward, costume designers Sandra Reid and Dinah Collins, Cyberman actor Mark Hardy, voice artiste Roy Skelton and Professor Kevin 'Human Cyborg' Warwick.
An interview with Professor Kevin Warwick, who has used himself as a human guinea pig for cybernetic implant experimentation.
A gallery of Cybermen throughout the history of the series
Presenter Matthew Sweet looks at the making of Vengeance on Varos. With Nabil Shaban (Sil), Sheila Reid (Etta), Philip Martin (Writer), Eric Saward (Script Editor) and Jonathan Gibbs (Composer).
A look at how Doctor Who has incorporated the medium of television within its narrative.
The Silurian Disruption[1] is a short parody sketch that was filmed for French & Saunders, but never aired. It was released on VHS with The Curse of Fatal Death and DVD with Vengeance on Varos: Special Edition.
A specially-recorded interview with The Mark of The Rani's composer, Jonathan Gibbs.
Gary Downie, production manager on The Two Doctors, details what it is a production manager does on programmes like Doctor Who, and offers his insight into the pitfalls and problems encountered during the making of this story.
A 25-minute look at the studio recording of The Two Doctors.
Beneath the Sun was a 2|entertain DVD documentary looking at the location filming of the Doctor Who serial The Two Doctors. The documentary is comprised of clips from the serial's filming.
A new 25-minute documentary looking at the making of Timelash. Featuring contributions from Colin Baker, Nicola Bryant, Paul Darrow, David Chandler, Robert Ashby, script editor Eric Saward, writer Glen McCoy and Paul Lang from Doctor Who Adventures magazine. Narrated by Terry Molloy.
The cast and crew of Revelation of the Daleks look back on the making of this story. With contributions from writer Eric Saward, director Graeme Harper, designer Alan Spalding, visual effects designer John Brace, costume designer Pat Godfrey, composer Roger Limb, and actors William Gaunt, Clive Swift, Terry Molloy, Roy Skelton, Trevor Cooper, Colin Spaull, Hugh Walters and Alexei Sayle.
Wogan was a 1986 episode of Wogan with Colin Baker as a guest being interviewed about Doctor Who.
Children in Need 1985 was a segment of the BBC One Children in Need telethon. It featured many Doctor Who actors as themselves and at the end a cheque for £1,000 was presented by Colin Baker and a further cheque for £100 was presented by Patrick Troughton from the Doctor Who Appreciation Society.
An unnamed sketch aired on the British comedy series The Lenny Henry Show featuring Lenny Henry portraying a seventh incarnation of the Doctor. The sketch used official props from the main series.
A compilation of media footage reporting the 'resting' of the show in 1985.
Doctor in Distress was a charity record released within two weeks of the announcement of Doctor Who's "cancellation" on 25 February 1985.
During the mid-1980s, senior BBC executives had doubts about whether Doctor Who should continue. In 1987, the programme was given one final chance... Cast and crew give their impressions of working in this particularly fraught time for Doctor Who. With contributions from Sylvester McCoy and Kate O'Mara (The Rani), John Nathan-Turner (Producer), Andrew Morgan (Director), Pip and Jane Baker (Writers), Andrew Cartmel (Script Editor), Jonathan Powell (BBC Head of Series and Serials) and Oliver Elmes (graphic designer). Written by Nev Fountain and narrated by Richard Heffer.
Colin Mapson (Visual Effects Designer), Mike Tucker (Visual Effects Assistant) and Dave Chapman (Video Effects Designer) take us behind-the-scenes and examine the impressive visual effects used in Time and the Rani.
Oliver Elmes (Graphic Designer) and Gareth Edwards (Animator) discuss the creation of the first Computer Generated Image (CGI) based title sequence to be used in Doctor Who.
Mark Ayres presents a look at the making of Paradise Towers. With actors Richard Briers, Howard Cooke and Catherine Cusack, writer Stephen Wyatt, script editor Andrew Cartmel, and composers David Snell and Keff McCulloch.
Jigsaw producer Clive Doig explains his relationship with Sylvester McCoy and his role in the actor's casting as the Seventh Doctor.
An interview with Hugh Lloyd MBE about his career and his work on Delta and the Bannermen.
An episode of Clown Court featuring Sylvester McCoy aired on The Noel Edmonds Saturday Roadshow. Although borrowing the format of Clown Court, it had no narrative connection to previous episodes, instead functioning as a standalone take-off on Doctor Who.
The cast and crew of Dragonfire reflect on the making of this integral story. Actors Sylvester McCoy (the Doctor), Sophie Aldred (Ace) and Edward Peel (Kane) are joined by script editor Andrew Cartmel, writer Ian Briggs and director Chris Clough in their analysis of this story's creation.
Cast and crew talk about the influences and references to other Doctor Who adventures that are spread throughout Remembrance of The Daleks.
Cast and crew talk about the making of the story accompanied by rare behind-the-scenes material. With actors Sylvester McCoy, Sophie Aldred, Simon Williams (Ian Gilmore) and Karen Gledhill (Alison), writer Ben Aaronovitch, script editor Andrew Cartmel, director Andrew Morgan, Doctor Who Adventures journalists Moray Laing and Paul Lang.
Writers and actors discuss the life, motives and actions of Davros throughout the televised stories and audio plays. The subjects speculate about his death. Some of the answers refer to events in the television stories. Davros Connections features I, Davros writer Gary Hopkins, Big Finish Productions producer/director Gary Russell and archival interview with Michael Wisher who first played Davros. Peter Miles, who played Nyder, director Ken Grieve, David Gooderson, the second actor to play Davros, script editor Eric Saward, Terry Molloy, the third actor to play Davros and writers Joseph Lidster and Ben Aaronovitch also appear.
The cast and crew of The Happiness Patrol reflect on the making of this intriguing story. Actors Sophie Aldred (Ace) and David John Pope (The Kandy Man) are joined by script editor Andrew Cartmel, writer Graeme Curry and director Chris Clough in their analysis of this story's creation.
BBC Political Editor Shaun Ley explores what happens when Doctor Who enters the world of politics. Contributors Barry Letts (1970s producer), Terrance Dicks and Andrew Cartmel (script editors), Bob Baker, Graeme Curry and Gareth Roberts (Doctor Who writers), and Steven O'Brien (cult media journalist) examine the morals and ideologies of the Doctor over time.
The cast and crew of Silver Nemesis look back on the creation of Doctor Who's 25th Anniversary tale. Actors Sylvester McCoy, Sophie Aldred and Gerard Murphy (Richard) join director Chris Clough, writer Kevin Clarke, script editor Andrew Cartmel, stunt arranger Nick Gillard and musician Courtney Pine in their analysis of the story.
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Cast and crew look back on the making of The Greatest Show in The Galaxy. With actors Sophie Aldred and Ian Reddington, producer John Nathan-Turner, director Alan Wareing, script editor Andrew Cartmel, designer David Laskey and visual effects assistant Mike Tucker.
Cast and crew talk about the making of Battlefield. With Actors Sylvester McCoy (the Doctor), Sophie Aldred, Nicholas Courtney, Jean Marsh (Morgaine), Angela Bruce and Marcus Gilbert (Ancelyn), director Michael Kerrigan, writer Ben Aaronovitch and script editor Andrew Cartmel.
Ben Aaronovitch and Andrew Cartmel look back at how Battlefield was commissioned and written, with comments from Sylvester McCoy, Sophie Aldred, Nicholas Courtney, Angela Bruce and Michael Kerrigan.
A look back at the making of Ghost Light, and an examination of the complexities of the script. With contributions from Sylvester McCoy (The Doctor), Sophie Aldred (Ace), Michael Cochrane (Redvers), Sharon Duce (Control), Ian Hogg (Josiah), Katharine Schlesinger (Gwendoline), Mark Ayres (composer) and Andrew Cartmel (script editor).
A unique look at the studio recording process.
A look at Mark Ayres working on the Special Edition of The Curse of Fenric.
The cast and crew reunited at a 1990 Doctor Who convention
A two-part documentary covering the making of the last ever classic Doctor Who story, Survival. With contributions from Sylvester McCoy (the Doctor), Sophie Aldred (Ace), Lisa Bowerman (Karra), Will Barton (Midge), Sakuntala Ramanee (Shreela), Adele Silva (Squeak), Andrew Cartmel (script editor), Alan Wareing (director), Mike Tucker (visual effects), Dominic Glynn (composer), and Ken Trew (costume design). Narrated by Paul Ewing. This first 30-minute programme covers the set-up and pre-production process of this story.
A two-part documentary covering the making of the last ever classic Doctor Who story, Survival. With contributions from Sylvester McCoy (the Doctor), Sophie Aldred (Ace), Lisa Bowerman (Karra), Will Barton (Midge), Sakuntala Ramanee (Shreela), Adele Silva (Squeak), Andrew Cartmel (script editor), Alan Wareing (director), Mike Tucker (visual effects), Dominic Glynn (composer), and Ken Trew (costume design). Narrated by Paul Ewing. The second 30-minute programme looks at the location recording and post-production of Survival.
A retrospective look at the development of Sophie Aldred's character, Ace, from her first story, Dragonfire through to her last, Survival. With Sophie Aldred, character creator Ian Briggs, and script editor Andrew Cartmel.
A 45-minute documentary that takes a detailed look at the reasons why Doctor Who ended in 1989, and what plans were being made by the Production Team had there been a twenty-seventh season of the series in 1990. With contributions from actors Sylvester McCoy (the Doctor), Sophie Aldred (Ace), Andrew Cartmel (script editor), Ben Aaronovitch (writer), Colin Brake (Eastenders), Mike Tucker (visual effects), Mark Ayres (composer), and for the first time ever, Peter Cregeen (BBC Head of Series), the man who cancelled Doctor Who. Narrated by Paul Ewing.
Search Out Space was a special crossover episode between Search Out Science, a children's education programme, and Doctor Who that aired on BBC Two in 1990. It was written by Lambros Atteshlis and Berry-Anne Billingsley. It was also produced by the former and directed by the latter.
Ed Stradling documents Philip Segal's quest to return Doctor Who to the screen. Featuring Philip Segal (Executive Producer), Jo Wright (Executive Producer), Peter Cregeen (BBC Director of Programmes), Alan Yentob (BBC1 Controller), Matthew Jacobs (Writer) and long-time Doctor Who director Graeme Harper. Narrated by Amanda Drew.
In the years between the end of the classic series and the broadcast of Doctor Who The Movie, Doctor Who survived in print, video and audio, kept alive by fans who were determined not to let it die. With Peter Cregeen, John Freeman, Tom Spilsbury, Peter Darvill-Evans, Justin Richards, Andrew Cartmel, Keith Barnfather, Bill Baggs, Kevin Davies and Jason Haigh-Ellery. Narrated by Glen Allen.
Behind-the-scenes personnel discuss the making of the first ever Doctor Who animation. With executive producer Martin Trickey, producers Muirinn Lane Kelly and Jelena Djordjevic, animation director Jon Doyle, writer Paul Cornell and researcher Daniel Judd. Presented by James Goss, one of the story's executive producers.
In this part, the era of the First Doctor, William Hartnell, is considered. We take a look at TV production in the sixties, and how Doctor Who came to be made before looking in depth at two of my favourite stories of this era.
In this part, the era of the Second Doctor, Patrick Troughton, is considered. We take a look how the decision to recast the lead was made, and how social concerns influenced the development of a key enemy, before looking in depth at two of what I consider standout stories from this era.
In this part, the era of the Third Doctor, Jon Pertwee, is considered. We explore how Doctor Who had to change to meet the demands of seventies' television and how it grew to more overtly reflect social and ecological concerns, before looking, in depth, at select stories from this era.
In this part, the era of the Fourth Doctor, Tom Baker, is considered. We explore the 'Golden Era' of Doctor Who, looking at how the show developed into a far darker and scarier version, influenced by the Gothic Horror genre, and the resultant backlash from self-appointed 'moral guardians'. We also consider the economic troubles of the late seventies and their effect on the show before its regeneration just in time for the eighties. Along the way, three stand out stories are looked at in depth with plenty of clips from the full seven-year Baker tenure!
In this part, the era of the Fifth Doctor, Peter Davison, is considered. We explore how the television landscape changed as the show entered the eighties and how changes to the format ensured a renewed interest. Two stand-out stories are looked at in detail and we take a look at how the show celebrated its twentieth anniversary before preparing itself for an even more radical change.
In this part, the era of the Sixth Doctor, Colin Baker, is considered. We take a look at how Peter Davison's departure spurred John Nathan-Turner to gamble with the creation of an incarnation wildly different from what went before. We consider how social hysteria informed one of the stand-out stories of the era before moving on to look at how the show came under fire from an executive who had no love for science-fiction.
In this part, the era of the Seventh Doctor, Sylvester McCoy, is considered. We look at how producer, John Nathan-Turner, was forced to undertake the unpleasant task of replacing the lead and how he came to choose the eccentric McCoy for the role. The pressure of TV execs and protest groups to tone down the show's violent excesses and how this led to a rather tame and camp version of what went before is looked at before we consider how the show finally regained its stride, producing some of the best ever episodes before its untimely demise.
In this part, the fourteen-year period following the cancellation of Classic Doctor Who is examined. We look at how the Doctor Who mythos refused to die and how it continued in novel and comic forms whilst various production companies tried their utmost to take control of the show's future on the small and silver screens. We glimpse at the horror that was 'Dimensions in Time' before taking a comprehensive and detailed look at the long-gestating TV Movie starring Paul McGann, how it ultimately failed to reboot the show, and what came next...
Doctor Who's first producer, Verity Lambert, looks back at the early days of the programme in this interview also shot for The Story of Doctor Who.
The cast and crews remembrances of the making of The Underwater Menace.
An interview with production designer Chris Thompson about his work on the Doctor Who (1963) story "The Evil of the Daleks" (1967).
Face to Face with the Faceless Ones was a making-off documentary for the animated reconstruction of The Faceless Ones, included on disc 3 of the DVD, Blu-ray and steelbook releases. It interviewed many members of the animation team and showed how they carried out their work.
The cast and crews remembrances of the making of The Moonbase.
The continuing series of features focussing on the Doctor's comic strip adventures looks at the Second Doctor. With former Doctor Who Magazine editors Alan Barnes and Gary Russell, and comics historians Jeremy Bentham and John Ainsworth.
The series looking at the Doctor's comic book adventures reaches his third incarnation. With contributions from former Doctor Who Magazine editors Gary Russell and Alan Barnes, comic historians John Ainsworth and Jeremy Bentham, and author Paul Scoones.
A look at the Fourth Doctor's comic strip adventures in the early days of Doctor Who Magazine. Featuring former DWM editors Dez Skinn, Gary Russell and Alan Barnes, writer Pat Mills, artist Dave Gibbons and consultant Jeremy Bentham.
A look at the Fifth Doctor's comic strip adventures. Featuring interviews with artist Dave Gibbons, and former Doctor Who Magazine editors Alan McKenzie, Gary Russell and Alan Barnes.
A look at the Sixth Doctor's comic strip adventures in Doctor Who Magazine. Featuring interviews with artist John Ridgway, writer Simon Furman, and former Doctor Who Magazine editors Alan McKenzie, Gary Russell, and Alan Barnes.
A documentary about the comic strip adventures of the Seventh Doctor, featuring writer and editor Scott Gray, writers Simon Furman, Paul Cornell and Andrew Cartmel, artist Lee Sullivan, and former Doctor Who Magazine editors John Freeman, Gary Russell and Alan Barnes.
The final part of the series looking at the Doctor's adventures in comic-strip form. With Scott Gray, Gary Russell, Alan Barnes, Clayton Hickman, Lee Sullivan, Martin Geraghty, Roger Langridge, Paul Scoones and Jeremy Bentham.
The ongoing series looking at the Doctor's comic book adventures focuses on his deadliest foes - the Daleks. With TV producer Gerry Anderson, former Doctor Who Magazine editors Alan Barnes and Clayton Hickman, comic historian Jeremy Bentham and author Paul Scoones.
A look at the making of the Doctor Who (1963) story "The Evil of the Daleks" (1967).
During filming of the story, 'The Evil of the Daleks', at Ealing Film Studios, BBC designer Tony Cornell shot a silent 8mm behind-the-scenes film called 'The Last Dalek'. 'The Final End' features extracts from this film coupled with the original programme soundtrack and is intended to give some indication as to how the climactic Dalek battle scenes may have appeared.
During filming of the previous story, 'The Evil of the Daleks', at Ealing Film Studios, BBC designer Tony Cornell shot a silent 8mm behind-the-scenes film called 'The Last Dalek'. 'The Final End' features extracts from this film coupled with the original programme soundtrack and is intended to give some indication as to how the climactic Dalek battle scenes may have appeared.
A short extract from the BBC magazine programme featuring a clip from The Power of the Daleks.
A look behind the scenes of the animated Ice Warrior episodes. Producers Chris Chapman and Niel Bushnell, together with animation director Chris Chatterton lift the lid on the process used to bring Varga and his Warriors back to life.
Documentary charting the making of The Ice Warriors. With actors Frazer Hines, Deborah Watling, Sonny Caldinez, designer Jeremy Davies and James Bresslaw, son of the late actor Bernard Bresslaw.
Going Underground: The Making of The Web of Fear is a documentary exploring the making of The Web of Fear.
Recovering the Past: The Search for "The Enemy of the World" was a documentary included on the Special Edition DVD release of the Doctor Who story The Enemy of the World. Philip Morris, the missing-episode hunter responsible for recovering the serial, told how he tracked the last surviving film copies in Nigeria.
Sir Christopher Frayling and Dr Debbie Challis examine the ancient Egyptian origins to the story of the Cybermen's tomb on Telos.
The Lost Giants was a DVD documentary that was released on 13 February 2012.
Comedian and fan Toby Hadoke embarks on a mission to uncover brand new information about The Enemy of the World, in this fascinating, entertaining and ultimately moving documentary. Along the way he meets with Frazer Hines, Mary Peach, David Troughton, Sylvia James, Sarah Lisemore and Rchard Bignell, with archive material from Deborah Wattling and Barry Letts.
Archive Interviews with John Woodnutt and Angus Lennie
Q&A with Philip Hinchcliffe hosted by Matt Charlton
Evolution takes a look at the making of the eight-episode epic, with interlinking narration from Frazer Hines, and memories of the serial being given from cast and crew members of the story.
A featurette about the creation of the animated episodes, including interviews with the team at Cosgrove Hall.
Frazer Hines takes an informal look back at his time in Doctor Who as Jamie McCrimmon, his connections to the programme, and his career away from the TARDIS.
A look back at the creation of the Ice Warriors, and their reappearance in The Seeds of Death. With actors Wendy Padbury and Frazer Hines, director Michael Ferguson, script editor Terrance Dicks, costume designer Bobi Bartlett and TV historian Richard Bignell. Narrated by Katherine Mount.
The locations of The War Games, forty years on.
A new documentary about the making of The Dominators. Featuring actors Frazer Hines, Felicity Gibson, Giles Block and Arthur Cox, script editor Derrick Sherwin, co-writer Mervyn Haisman, designer Barry Newbery, makeup artist Sylvia James, and Brian Hodgson of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Narrated by Stephen Greif.
The War Games saw the end of black-and-white Doctor Who. This documentary examines the artistic limitations - and advantages - of monochrome. With actors Frazer Hines, Wendy Padbury and Jane Sherwin, script editors Terrance Dicks and Derrick Sherwin, director Timothy Combe, production designer Roger Cheveley, graphic designer Bernard Lodge and sound designer Brian Hodgson. Narrated by Gerard Murphy.
The cast and crew of The Mind Robber look back on the making of this story, which had more than its fair share of challenges and memorable moments. With contributions from Frazer Hines (Jamie), Wendy Padbury (Zoe), Hamish Wilson (Jamie), Christopher Robbie (the Karkus), David Maloney (director), Peter Ling (writer), Derrick Sherwin (script editor and writer) and Evan Hercules (designer)
The facts behind the fiction - historians discuss the reality behind the various conflicts featured in The War Games. With political historian Martin Farr, military historian Crispin Swayne, Newcastle University's Lindsay Allison-Jones, and author Susan-Mary Grant.
A new documentary about the making of The War Games. Featuring actors Frazer Hines, Wendy Padbury, Bernard Horsfall, Jane Sherwin and Graham Weston, director David Maloney, producer Derrick Sherwin, writer Terrance Dicks, designer Roger Cheveley, Doctor Who Magazine editor Tom Spilsbury, and new series writers Paul Cornell, James Moran and Joseph Lidster.
April 12, 1969
An all-new 25-minute feature about the on-screen realisation of the Ice Warriors themselves, and the making of The Seeds of Death. Includes contributions from Ice Warrior actors Alan Bennion, Sonny Caldinez and Bernard Bresslaw, plus make-up supervisor Sylvia James.
Make-up designer Sylvia James talks about her work on Patrick Troughton's Doctor Who stories.
The Second Doctor has been partially regenerated by the Time Lords as punishment for breaking the non-interference policy, but the process is stopped halfway, leaving the Doctor an amalgam of his second and as-of-yet future incarnation. The Doctor is sent on a mission which involves battling Daleks, where he sees many people die. Afterwards, he is sent to a void by a pair of Time Lords, where he finds his TARDIS. Inside he tries to leave, but finds the ship not working. He is suddenly granted by an old man in a suit, who reveals himself to be the Third Doctor — the man who the Doctor was meant to turn into. The Doctor prepares himself for the rest of his regeneration, and collapses in a chair. There, he completes his transformation. Awakening, he is greeted by one of the Time Lords on the TARDIS' viewing screen, who wipes the Doctor's mind of his knowledge of time travel and sends the TARDIS to Earth. There, the Doctor exits the TARDIS and collapses outside.
A special 35-mlnute documentary that looks at the making of Inferno. With contributions from Caroline John (Liz Shaw), Nicholas Courtney (the Brigadier), John Levene, (Benton), Ian Fairbairn (Bromley), Barry Letts (producer), Terrance Dicks (script editor) and Derek Ware (stunt arranger).
In 1996, a Doctor Who TV movie was envisioned to lead the franchise into an exciting new future with a fresh direction but was met only by an outcry from disapproving fans. Now, follow the film’s screenwriter, Matthew Jacobs, as he is pulled back into the world of the Doctor Who fandom, where he unexpectedly finds himself a kindred part of this close-knit, yet vast, family of fans.
Behind-the-scenes stories from the long-running sci-fi drama. There are tales of stunts that went dangerously wrong and secrets of how the crew brought monsters to life, as well as revelations about how some storylines proved to be so scary the BBC were forced to re-edit episodes.
At the end of 1969, Doctor Who faced a very uncertain future. Ratings had slumped and Patrick Troughton had left the show. In a brave move, producer Derrick Sherwin re-invented the show as a fast-paced, Earth-bound colour series for the 1970s. Cast and crew look back at the making of this story and how a strike at the BBC studios inadvertently created the only classic series story to be made entirely on film. With actor Jon Pertwee, producers Derrick Sherwin and Barry Letts, script editor Terrance Dicks, costume designer Christine Rawlins and assistant script editor (and inadvertent Auton actor) Robin Squire.
The story's producer, director and designer discuss the problems of shooting underground caves and cave-dwelling monsters in the confines of a TV studio. Featuring Barry Letts, Timothy Combe, Barry Newbery, Terrance Dicks, Caroline John, Nicholas Courtney and Peter Miles.
Cast and crew look back at the making of the story. With director Michael Ferguson, script editor Terrance Dicks, stuntmen Derek Ware and Roy Scammell and assistant floor manager Margot Hayhoe.
Spearhead from Space marked not only the arrival of a new Doctor but also the transition from black and white to colour as the show moved into a new decade. This documentary looks at the challenges faced by programme makers during this period, with actors Frazer Hines and Wendy Padbury, producer Derrick Sherwin, script editor Terrance Dicks, directors Timothy Combe, Christopher Barry and Michael Ferguson, designer Roger Cheveley and graphic designer Bernard Lodge.
Comparing and contrasting locations used in the story during production with how they appear today. Narrated by Geoffrey Palmer.
A fascinating featurette explaining how the story was restored to its present glory using a combination of black and white film prints, off-air American Betamax video recordings and modern video processing technology. Narrated by IT Williams.
A look at an extraordinary era of musical experimentation within Doctor Who, with special emphasis on the musical scores for Doctor Who and the Silurians and The Sea Devils. Featuring producer Barry Letts, composer Mark Ayres and directors Timothy Combe, Christopher Barry and Michael Briant, with an archive appearance from Radiophonic composer Malcolm Clarke.
Ever thought about joining UNIT, even with the high death count?
A documentary showing how the socio-political climate of the late 1960s helped shape this Doctor Who story. Featuring director Timothy Combe, producer Barry Letts, script editor Terrance Dicks, actors Caroline John, Nicholas Courtney and Peter Miles, new series writer Paul Cornell and former MP Roy Hattersley. Narrated by Geoffrey Palmer.
Cast and crew look back at the making of the story. With actors Katy Manning, Paul Grist, Bernard Holley and Derek Ware, director Michael Ferguson, co-writer Bob Baker, script editor Terrance Dicks.
Actors Katy Manning and John Levene take a personal trip back to the picturesque village of Aldbourne, 50 years after they recorded the Doctor Who story The Daemons there.
Michael Ferguson, the director of The Claws of Axos, talks about his memories of working on the story in this 15-minute documentary.
Cast and crew look back at the making of the story. With Katy Manning, Bernard Kay, Michael Briant, Barry Letts, Terrance Dicks and Graeme Harper.
A new documentary about the making of Terror of the Autons. Actors Katy Manning and Richard Franklin, both of whom made their debuts in this story, recount the production with the help of Jon Pertwee (through an archive interview), Script Editor Terrance Dicks and Producer Barry Letts who, along with new series Producer Phil Collinson, discuss how the series' production regimes differed between the new series and the old.
A look back at the Dungeness locations used in 1970 for the recording of this story, comparing and contrasting them to how they appear nearly 35 years later. Narrated by Katy Manning.
The latest in our long-running series visits the filming locations used in the story to see how they have changed over the years.
How did the writers of Doctor Who and other programmes take something as everyday as plastic and turn it against us? With writers Francesca Gavin, Robert Shearman and new series designer Matthew Savage.
Season 8 Blu-ray trailer
The cast and crew took back at the making of the story. With actors Katy Manning, Richard Franklin and Damaris Hayman, director Christopher Barry, producer and co-writer Barry Letts, script editor Terrance Dicks and assistant floor manager Sue Hedden. Narrated by Hannah Lucas.
Doctor Who directors Michael Briant, Graeme Harper and Tim Combe take an epic road trip to all the filming locations from Season 8 as they discuss directing the show in the early 1970s.
With the introduction of the Master, the Doctor now had his very own Moriarty, who would be the dark figure behind every story in Season 8, and many more beyond that. This documentary discusses the enduring appeal of the character. With actor Katy Manning, producer Barry Letts, script editors Terrance Dicks and Christopher H. Bidmead and writers Robert Shearman and Joe Lidster.
Shot back in 2009 on location at Dover Castle, this look at the making of the story is made unexpectedly poignant by the appearance of Nicholas Courtney and Barry Letts, who both passed away in the intervening years. Featuring actors Nicholas Courtney, Pik-Sen Lim and Fernanda Marlowe, director Timothy Combe, producer Barry Letts and script editor Terrance Dicks. Narrated by Cameron McEwan.
Peter Day Interview
A 10-minute documentary which looks at the restoration of this story for DVD. How did NTSC colour videotapes supplied to Canada in the 1970s enable this story to be released completely in colour?
Producer Barry Letts and vision mixer Mike Catherwood talk about the art of vision mixing on a multi-camera studio show like Doctor Who.
Professor Jim Al-Khalili looks at the science behind The Time Monster. Featuring interviews with Barry Letts, Katy Manning (Jo Grant) and Richard Franklin (Captain Mike Yates).
Cast and crew look back on the making of this story. With actors Katy Manning, Jimmy Winston and Anna Barry, producer Barry Letts, script editor Terrance Dicks, monster maker John Friedlander, Dalek operator Ricky Newby, Dalek voice artiste Nicholas Briggs, classic series writer Ben Aaronovitch, new series writer Paul Cornell and Doctor Who Magazine writer Dave Owen.
The trials and tribulations faced during the making of this story are discussed by the cast and production team. Featuring producer Barry Letts, script editor Terrance Dicks, director Michael Briant, actors Katy Manning and Donald Sumpter and stuntman Stuart Fell, along with Royal Navy personnel who appeared as extras during location filming. Narrated by David Cann.
Cast and crew lookback at the making of the story. With actor Garrick Hagon, producer Barry Letts, director Christopher Barry, co-writer Bob Baker, script editor Terrance Dicks and designer Jeremy Bear.
A visit to the locations used in Day of the Daleks to see how they have changed over the years. Narrated by Toby Hadoke.
Noel Clarke narrates a documentary looking at the representation of non-white actors in Doctor Who and on British TV as a whole. With writer and critic Bidisha, writer Stephen Bourne, actor Fraser James, and Doctor Who Magazine's assistant editor Peter Ware.
Special Edition producer Steve Broster tries to discover why the reality of Day of the Daleks doesn't quite live up to the memory he has of first seeing it, aged six. With psychologist Dr Sarita Robinson, Nicholas Briggs and Ben Aaronovitch.
Producer Steve Broster guides us through the creation of his Special Edition of this story. With voice artiste Nicholas Briggs, audio engineer Mark Ayres, cameraman John Kelly, Dalek build Toby Chamberlain, UNIT soldier Kevan Loosely and Ogron Nick Nicholson.
Cast and crew recall the making of both Peladon stories. Part One opens with a look at the socio-political climate in the UK in the early 1970s and its influence on the storylines. With actors Katy Manning, Donald Gee, Nina Thomas and Ralph Watson, producer Barry Letts, script editor Terrance Dicks, production assistant Chris D'Oyly-John, sound designer Brian Hodgson, visual effects designer Peter Day, costume designer Sylvia James and make-up supervisor Elizabeth Moss. Narrated by David Hamilton.
A look at the making of the Doctor Who story "The Time Monster", featuring John Levene and Katy Manning revisiting some of the locations with Toby Hadoke.
Presenter Peter Purves remembers his time as a companion and is joined in the studio by a trio of Daleks.
A Conversation with Doctor Who Weekly Editor and UK Comics Legend Dez Skinn
Interview with Writer Mark Griffiths
Conversation with Sutekh Writer Ian Winterton
Interview with Stephen Gallagher
Discussion Between Stephen Gallagher & Gods and Monsters Writer Ian Winterton
Why is this dark tale of a doomed Earth such a treasured and revered piece of Doctor Who? Director SEAN MASON asked fans and guests at Derby's 2023 WHOOVERVILLE convention that very question and the results were quite revealing!
Interview with Gary Russell
ARCHIVE CONVENTION FOOTAGE OF SHEILA DUNN, IAIN FAIRBURN and DEREK NEWARK! The much missed actors behind our beloved PETRA and GREG, donated by our good friend (and Hollyoaks icon) ANNIE WALLACE, with special thanks to David Mudie and David Bickerstaff, in a rare convention appearance 30+ years ago, this is a truly rare chance to see the INFERNO guest leads recall their time on Doctor Who
An Introduction to Lytton with Eric Saward
Barry Renshaw Interview
Archive Panel of Philip Martin talking about Gangsters with the BFI’s Dick Fiddy in Manchester, 2015
New sketch from The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre for the Lytton Comic Issue 3
Eric Saward Interview
Easter Egg featuring Eric Saward
in Conversation
Louise Jameson in Conversation
Graeme Harper In Conversation
Andrew Cartmel in Conversation
Vworp 4 Panel
In Conversation with Stephen Wyatt
Kangs Are Best Featurette
Behind the Sofa was a series of videos included in each release of The Collection Blu-ray sets featuring cast and crew members from the show watching serials from the correspondent season.
Behind the Sofa was a series of videos included in each release of The Collection Blu-ray sets featuring cast and crew members from the show watching serials from the correspondent season.
Behind the Sofa was a series of videos included in each release of The Collection Blu-ray sets featuring cast and crew members from the show watching serials from the correspondent season.
Behind the Sofa was a series of videos included in each release of The Collection Blu-ray sets featuring cast and crew members from the show watching serials from the correspondent season.
Behind the Sofa was a series of videos included in each release of The Collection Blu-ray sets featuring cast and crew members from the show watching serials from the correspondent season.
Behind the Sofa was a series of videos included in each release of The Collection Blu-ray sets featuring cast and crew members from the show watching serials from the correspondent season.
Behind the Sofa was a series of videos included in each release of The Collection Blu-ray sets featuring cast and crew members from the show watching serials from the correspondent season.
Behind the Sofa was a series of videos included in each release of The Collection Blu-ray sets featuring cast and crew members from the show watching serials from the correspondent season.
Behind the Sofa was a series of videos included in each release of The Collection Blu-ray sets featuring cast and crew members from the show watching serials from the correspondent season.
Behind the Sofa was a series of videos included in each release of The Collection Blu-ray sets featuring cast and crew members from the show watching serials from the correspondent season.
Behind the Sofa was a series of videos included in each release of The Collection Blu-ray sets featuring cast and crew members from the show watching serials from the correspondent season.
Behind the Sofa was a series of videos included in each release of The Collection Blu-ray sets featuring cast and crew members from the show watching serials from the correspondent season.
Behind the Sofa was a series of videos included in each release of The Collection Blu-ray sets featuring cast and crew members from the show watching serials from the correspondent season.
Behind the Sofa was a series of videos included in each release of The Collection Blu-ray sets featuring cast and crew members from the show watching serials from the correspondent season.
Behind the Sofa was a series of videos included in each release of The Collection Blu-ray sets featuring cast and crew members from the show watching serials from the correspondent season.
Behind the Sofa was a series of videos included in each release of The Collection Blu-ray sets featuring cast and crew members from the show watching serials from the correspondent season.
Behind the Sofa was a series of videos included in each release of The Collection Blu-ray sets featuring cast and crew members from the show watching serials from the correspondent season.
Behind the Sofa was a series of videos included in each release of The Collection Blu-ray sets featuring cast and crew members from the show watching serials from the correspondent season.
Behind the Sofa was a series of videos included in each release of The Collection Blu-ray sets featuring cast and crew members from the show watching serials from the correspondent season.
An informative series of interviews with the cast and crew chronicling the making of the serial TV: Carnival of Monsters. Points of discussion include the writer of the script Robert Holmes and the origins of the idea for the episode, filming on the SS Robert Dundas (the boat used to represent the SS Bernice in the story), filming on location in Essex, the creation of the Drashigs, interviews with guest stars Cheryl Hall and Peter Halliday and the fond and fun memories the cast had on working on what they consider to be a wonderful story.
Investigative reporter Terry Scanlon interviews people about the aftermath of the pollution in Llanfairfach decades previously.
Cast and crew recall the making of The Three Doctors in this brand-new documentary. With contributions from Katy Manning (Jo Grant), Stephen Thorne (Omega), producer Barry Letts, script editor Terrance Dicks and co-writer Bob Baker.
Katy Manning and Stewart Bevan return to the Welsh locations used in The Green Death.
In the far future, the remaining population of an oxygen-depleted planet Earth lies in enforced stasis in The Field of Dreams. Looking for ideas to help him re-connect to his captive audience, Zed, a young scenariosmith, turns to the world of Doctor Who for inspiration... Featuring interviews with actors Katy Manning (Jo Grant), Janet Fielding (Tegan), Vera Fusek (The President) and Michael Hawkins (General Williams), producer Barry Letts, script editor Terrance Dicks, visual effects designers John Friedlander and Mat Irvine. With Rich Batsford, Mick Broster, Tony Broster, Henry Dunn and Paul Ewing, and the voices of Steve Broster, David Harley and Cathryn Miller.
Continuing his search of inspiration, Zed resumes his studies of twentieth century television's Doctor Who. What he finds will have a profound effect... Featuring interviews with actors Katy Manning (Jo Grant), Jane How (Rebec), Janet Fielding (Tegan), Bernard Horsfall (Taron) and Tim Preece (Codal), producer Barry Letts, script editor Terrance Dicks. With Rich Batsford, Mick Broster, Tony Broster and Paul Ewing, and the voices of Steve Broster, David Harley and Cathryn Miller.
The cast and crew look back at the making of the story. Featuring actors Katy Manning, Jane How, Bernard Horsfall and Tim Preece, director David Maloney and designer John Hurst.
Cast and crew look back at the making of this story. With actors Katy Manning and Stewart Bevan, director Michael Briant, producer Barry Letts, script editor Terrance Dicks, assistant floor manager Karilyn Collier and visual effects assistant Colin Mapson.
Cast and crew look back at the making of the story. Featuring actors Katy Manning, Vera Fusek and Michael Hawkins, visual effects designers John Friedlander and Mat Irvine.
The cast and crew of The Time Warrior look back on the making of this story, in this newly produced featurette. Partially shot on location at Peckforton Castle, the original location used in this story, it features contributions from Elisabeth Sladen (Sarah), Donald Pelmear (Rubeish), Jeremy Bulloch (Hal), Barry Letts (producer), Terrance Dicks (script editor) and Keith Cheetham (designer).
Cast and crew look back on the making of this story. With actor Arnold Yarrow, Julian Fox, Michael E Briant, Richard Leyland, L Rowland Warne and fan and Dalek voice artist Nick Briggs.
Barry Letts is perhaps most famous as a producer of Doctor Who, but he was also responsible for directing some of the show's best-loved stories. Barry looks back on his career as a director in this documentary.
Cast and crew recall the making of both Peladon stories. Part Two looks at the characters and monsters featured in the stories. With actors Katy Manning, Donald Gee, Nina Thomas, Ralph Watson, Stuart Fell, Sonny Caldinez and Nick Evans, producer Barry Letts, script editor Terrance Dicks, production assistant Chris D'Oyly-John, sound designer Brian Hodgson and make-up supervisor Elizabeth Moss. Narrated by David Hamilton.
The cast and crew of Invasion of the Dinosaurs reflect on the making of this epic story. Featuring actors Jon Pertwee (The Doctor), Peter Miles (Whitaker) and Terence Wilton (Mark), joined by Paddy Russell (Director), Barry Letts (Producer), Terrance Dicks (Script Editor) and Richard Morris (Designer), presented from the story's London locations.
Return to where dinosaurs once terrorised London, and witness how the locations used in 1974 have changed over the last four decades.
A trip back to some of the locations used during production of the story.
Return to where dinosaurs once terrorised London, and witness how the locations used in 1974 have changed over the last four decades.
John Kane played the gentle, slow-witted Tommy, reborn through the power of the Metebelis crystal. Now an accomplished writer and series creator, Kane looks back on his memories of the story.
Elisabeth Sladen talks about her role on the programme in this interview shot for 2003's The Story of Doctor Who.
Keith Miller from the Doctor Who Fan Club interviews key cast and crew during production of Genesis of the Daleks Part Three. Due to the archive nature of this amateur audio recording, quality is variable.
A selection of key production personnel look at the making of Planet of Evil, in this 25-minute documentary. With contributions from producer Philip Hinchcliffe, writer Louis Marks, designer Roger Murray-Leach, director David Maloney, and actors Tom Baker (the Doctor), Elisabeth Sladen (Sarah) and Prentis Hancock (Salamar).
Designer Barry Newbery talks about how he achieved the distinctive look of The Brain of Morbius.
An exclusive documentary on the making of a classic slice of gothic Doctor Who. Contributors include director Christopher Barry, producer Philip Hinchcliffe, writer Terrance Dicks, designer Barry Newbery, composer Dudley Simpson, and actors Philip Madoc (Solon), Cynthia Grenville (Maren), Colin Fay (Condo) and Gillian Brown (Ohica). Narrated by Paul McGann.
A look back at the locations used in 1975 for the recording of this story, comparing and contrasting them to how they appear now, nearly thirty years later. Narrated by Michael Sheard.
Return to Athelhampton House, Reigate and BBC television centre itself to explore the locations filmed for the programme as they appear 24 years on.
A nostalgic look back at the making of Pyramids of Mars, with contributions from actors Elisabeth Sladen (Sarah), Bernard Archard (Marcus Scarman), Michael Sheard (Laurence Scarman), Peter Copley (Dr Warlock), Gabriel Woolf (Sutekh), plus producer Philip Hinchcliffe, director Paddy Russell and designer Christine Ruscoe.
A look at the production of Planet of Evil from an actor's perspective. With contributions from Tom Baker (the Doctor), Elisabeth Sladen (Sarah), Prentis Hancock (Salamar), Tony McEwan (Baldwin) and Graham Weston (De Haan).
The cast and crew of The Seeds of Doom look back on the making of this story. Actors John Challis, Kenneth Gilbert, and Ian Fairbairn (Dr Chester) are joined by producer Philip Hinchcliffe, writer Robert Banks Stewart, production assistant Graeme Harper, designer Jeremy Bear, design assistant Jan Spoczynski, visual effects designer Richard Conway and composer Geoffrey Burgon.
Composer Geoffrey Burgon talks about his contribution to the unique feel of The Seeds of Doom through scoring its music.
The life and work of respected director Douglas Camfield is remembered in this documentary. With actors Celia Imrie, Peter Purves, Jonathan Newth and John Levene, Philip Hinchcliffe, Robert Banks Stewart, director Graeme Harper and Joggs Camfield. Narrated by Glen Allen.
Cast and crew look back at the making of this story. With actors John Levene and John Woodnutt, producer Philip Hinchcliffe, writer Robert Banks Stewart, designer Nigel Curzon, costume designer James Acheson, visual effects assistant Steve Bowman, writer and historian Simon Farquar and the director's son, Joggs Camfield.
Graeme Harper, the production assistant for this story, and later Doctor Who Director for stories in the 1980s and 2000s, explains what being a Production Assistant actually entails.
Cast, crew and local residents look back at the making of The Android Invasion in this documentary presented on location by actor, writer and Dalek voice artist Nicholas Briggs. Featuring actors Milton Johns and Martin Friend, producer Philip Hinchcliffe and director Barry Letts.
This exclusive interview with actor Tom Baker was shot in early 2013. Looking back at his long and varied career as an actor, Tom talks openly about his time as the Fourth Doctor, recalls stories from the set of Doctor Who, reminisces about his on-screen companions and talks about the loyal fans of the series.
Sutekh is walking down the street with an umbrella, wishing a passer-by a good morning, before he enters his pyramid-shaped house. A woman with a fez is cleaning Sutekh's mask, but when he looks at himself in a mirror, he tells the woman that she missed a bit before he kills her. Sutekh talks about how doing "Doctor Who" typecast him before mentioning one of the projects that the BBC had lined up for him: "Seek Sutekh". The premise involved Sutekh hiding in people's houses and jumping out at them while shouting "Grr!", but the show only ran for one episode after Sutekh killed an old woman. Another project was "Sutekh's Swap Shop" which also only ran for one episode after a child swapped a Bunty annual for an Osiran War Missile, with unpleasant results. Sutekh says that he has some photographs of the filming and gets up to get them, revealing a stage hand on his seat which he slaps away before saying to the camera that he's always doing it.
When the cock crows three times before dawn and twelve hens lay addled eggs, Gareth Roberts and Clayton Hickman will be commissioned to make a DVD documentary about The Masque of Mandragora. All they require is a colourful imagination and a glib tongue.
A short featurette comparing and contrasting the locations used in The Androids of Tara as they are today with how they appeared in the story back in 1978.
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The Sixth Doctor and Peri awaken aboard the starship Vipod Moor, where a dual-personality computer has seized control, attempting to propel the vessel back to the universe's dawn and rewrite history. Amidst chaos, they encounter comedy policemen, an art thief, and a captain eager to spread his diseases, while a vicious Maston creature stalks the crew. As the Doctor races to prevent catastrophic temporal disruption, a Gallifreyan council member intervenes, revealing the web of time's intricate safeguards.
Colin Baker, Nicola Bryant, Frazer Hines, Janet Fielding, Sarah Sutton and Terry Molloy (Davros) dare to tackle recipes from the infamous 1985 cookbook, with Toby Hadoke and commentary from India Fisher.
Finding Mark Strickson was a DVD documentary that was released on 10 August 2009.
From Kingdom to Queen: Jean Marsh in Doctor Who was a DVD documentary that was released on the Battlefield DVD.
Danny Hargreaves, the special effects supervisor for the current series of Doctor Who, turns his attention from the latest incarnation of the show to revisit some of the classic series' biggest explosions and discuss how the same effects might be achieved using the technology now available.
A unique insight - the popular and respected Doctor Who composer Dudley Simpson discusses his first five years on the programme.
The concluding part of our look at the career of prolific composer Dudley Simpson, covering his work on the show in the 1970s.
Friends and colleagues remember the life and career of writer and script editor Douglas Adams. Featuring Tom Baker, Lalla Ward, script Editor Christopher H. Bidmead, writer Bob Baker, evolutionary biologist & author Richard Dawkins and BBC Comedy producer John Lloyd.
A look at the technology behind the VidFIRE process, developed specifically for the Doctor Who DVD range in order to restore the original live studio video look to episodes that now only survive as film recordings.
A trip through BBC Television Centre as presenter Yvette Fielding jogs the memories of Peter Davison, Janet Fielding and Mark Strickson about their time working in the iconic building. They run into old friends and colleagues from their time on the programme.
Yvette Fielding continues her tour of the iconic BBC Television Centre with Peter Davison (the Fifth Doctor), Janet Fielding (Tegan) and Mark Strickson (Turlough). They're reunited with former colleagues including Senior Camera Supervisor Alec Wheal, Assistant Floor Manager Sue Hedden, former Blue Peter Producer Richard Marson, Exhibitions Assistant Bob Richardson, Production Assistant Jane Ashford and Videotape Engineer Simon Anthony. Part One of this documentary is available on The Visitation (Special Edition).
A Pebble Mill at One interview by Tony Francis, with Dick Mills and Brian Hodgson looking at Radiophonic music and effects in Doctor Who.
A live panel featuring Caroline John & Elisabeth Sladen with Nicholas Courtney from 2nd September 2000 as they reminisce about Doctor Who and what went into making and appearing in the stories of that time. Found on the box set 'Doctor Who: The Collection - Season 13'
Director Michael Ferguson talks about his experiences disrupting some of Doctor Who's most famous monster stories.
Clip from 'Eye on Blatchford'
The season introduces William Hartnell as the First Doctor, an alien who travels through time and space in his TARDIS, which appears to be a British police box on the outside. Carole Ann Ford is also introduced as the Doctor's granddaughter Susan Foreman, who acts as his companion alongside her schoolteachers Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright, portrayed by William Russell and Jacqueline Hill, respectively. Throughout the season, the Doctor and his companions travel throughout history and into the future. Historical stories were intended to educate viewers about significant events in history, such as the Aztec civilisation and the French Revolution; futuristic episodes took a more subtle approach to educating viewers, such as the theme of pacifism with the Daleks.
After discussing a strange pupil, Susan Foreman, teachers Ian and Barbara follow her to a junkyard. They meet her grandfather, the Doctor, and force their way inside a police box with frightening results.
The enigmatic Doctor, afraid that schoolteachers Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright will reveal his secrets to the people of 20th century Earth, has taken them and his granddaughter Susan back to the dawn of human history. There, the four travellers are dragged into the savage politics of a tribe of cavemen who have lost the secret of making fire…
Prisoners of the earliest humans, the TARDIS crew are caught in a deadly power play for leadership of the tribe.
The TARDIS crew must make fire for the early humans to stay alive. But once they do, they may not be allowed to leave!
Time Unknown, Planet Unknown. The TARDIS lands in an eerie petrified forest overlooking a magnificent steel city. The Doctor wants to explore the city – but what is waiting there?
The dead planet is not uninhabited after all. The Doctor is about to meet what will become his greatest enemies. And he and his crew are dying of radiation sickness.
Imprisoned on Skaro by the scheming Daleks, the Doctor and his companions work to escape their clutches.
The time travellers work desperately to both escape the Dalek city and prevent a bloody massacre.
The time travellers have escaped from the Daleks, but left a vital piece of the TARDIS behind. Getting it back will mean pushing the Thals to mount a dangerous operation.
Ian, Barbara and the Thals struggle through the caves to reach the Dalek city. Will they get there in time? Is there even a way through the treacherous caves? And what are the Daleks planning?
Time is running out as the Doctor and his companions try to defeat the Daleks before they wipe out all life on Skaro.
A mysterious explosion has knocked the TARDIS into void. And in their confusion, the crew are turning on one another.
The TARDIS is adrift, the crew turning on each other. Only by working together can they find their way out before they are destroyed.
The TARDIS experiences a total power failure and is stranded in the Himalayas in the 13th century. The travellers are forced to join the caravan of the famous explorer, Marco Polo, in order to survive -- but Polo, fascinated by their claims that the TARDIS can fly through the air, seizes it on behalf of Kublai Khan in the hope that presenting the Khan with such a fabulous gift will convince him to let Polo return home to Venice. The travellers are forced to accompany Polo on his long trek across Asia to the Khan's court, but their many attempts to reclaim their property are foiled -- not just by Polo, but by the war lord Tegana, who is apparently on a mission of peace but has entirely different plans for dealing with Kublai Khan...
Tegana sabotages the party's water bags, leaving them in dire need of fresh supplies.
The Doctor and Susan are able to supply Marco with condensation that has formed inside the TARDIS, saving the group from dying of thirst. When the group are reunited with Tegana, the travellers begin to suspect he is up to something.
The Doctor's group manage to rescue Barbara from the Mongols but once more Marco remains unaware of Tegana's involvement.
The Doctor and his friends elect to warn Marco of Acomat's attack even though it means losing their chance to gain access to the TARDIS.
The Doctor, Ian and Barbara are forced to surrender to Tegana and Marco, leaving both of them the opportunity to gain possession of the TARDIS.
Tegana finally makes his move to assassinate the Khan, giving the Doctor and his friends an opportunity to thwart his plans and regain the TARDIS.
The alien world of Marinus. Perfect peace has reigned here for decades due to the mind-controlling influence of a machine known as the Conscience. But now a race known as the Voord have developed an immunity and Arbitan, keeper of the machine, has been forced to scatter the vital control keys around the planet. Now he needs the help of the time travellers to get them back - it will be an extraordinary journey, with perils every step of the way...
The Doctor and his friends arrive in the apparently idyllic city of Morphoton but Barbara soon begins to realise there is more to their hosts than meets the eye.
The search for the second key takes the travellers to a jungle where Ian and Barbara come under threat from rapidly growing plants.
Searching for the third key, Ian and Barbara meet with the sinister trapper Vasor before following Susan and the others into a cave system guarded by the mysterious Ice Soldiers.
The group are reunited with the Doctor in the city of Millennius where Ian faces trial for murder after the fourth key is stolen.
The Doctor and his friends must locate the real murderers and the fourth key before heading off for a final confrontation with the Voord
The TARDIS arrives on Earth landing in 16th century Aztec society. Barbara goes off exploring - despite the Doctor's orders not to wander off - and is taken away by the high priest Autloc who believes she is the reincarnation of the goddess Yetaxa. They believe it is a sign that the rains - which are late - will now come. The high priest of sacrifice Tlotoxl recruits Ian to lead their army but he finds he has a rival in Ixta. Ian is less than comfortable with his role when he learns that they are to deliver the human sacrifice to the high priest at the rain ceremony. The Doctor emphasizes that they must not interfere with Aztec rituals, something that does not sit well with Barbara.
Barbara tries to change the course of history - and Ian fights for his life.
While the Doctor tries to find a way back to the TARDIS, Tlotoxl continues to plot Barbara's downfall and sees an opening when Susan questions Aztec custom.
Tlotoxl's machinations result in both Susan and Ian being arrested. With the TARDIS once again trapped inside the tomb, the travellers' only hope for escape lies with Autloc and Cameca.
The 28th century. The TARDIS materialises on a spaceship orbiting a planet known as the Sense-Sphere, whose natives, the Sensorites, have trapped the ship's human crew in a state of paralysis.
The Doctor and his companions are on board an Earth ship trapped in orbit around the Sense-Sphere when it is boarded by the Sensorites, who steal the lock mechanism from the TARDIS.
The Doctor and his companions are escorted to the Sense-Sphere where they attempt to negotiate with the Sensorites for the release of the TARDIS.
With Ian having fallen victim to the Sensorites' plague, the Doctor is desperate to find a cure. But the City Administrator is still determined to rid his world of aliens.
The City Administrator is determined to destroy the Doctor and his friends and his paranoia prevents the Doctor's cure from being distributed.
While the City Administrator's schemes reach their climax, the Doctor and Ian venture into the tunnels under the city to discover the real cause of the Sensorite plague.
The TARDIS lands during the French Revolution, where Ian, Barbara, and Susan become caught up in the politics of the day. When they are arrested and set to be executed, the Doctor must take on the disguise of a public official to try and save their lives.
Susan, Ian and Barbara are sentenced to be guillotined but an encounter with a dying English prisoner may offer Ian a chance of survival.
Susan and Barbara are rescued by Jules and Jean, two members of the escape chain, while the Doctor gains access to the prison by posing as a revolution official.
The Doctor is forced into a meeting with Robespierre while Barbara's attempts to find a physician for Susan result in them being betrayed.
Ian finds himself held prisoner by the treacherous Leon while the Doctor attempts to engineer Susan and Barbara's escape.
Ian finally delivers his message to James Stirling but in order to secure Susan's release he and Barbara are forced into a dangerous spying mission.
Milestones this season included not one but two encore appearances by the Daleks; the departure of the original three companions, Susan Foreman, Barbara Wright and Ian Chesterton; and the first appearance of someone else from the Doctor and Susan's home planet, and the first Time Lord enemy to appear.
When the TARDIS malfunctions and the doors open in the time vortex, the travellers and their Ship shrink to the size of insects. When they arrive on Earth, they uncover a murderous plot involving a new insecticide - but how can they stop the crime in their miniaturised condition ? (Originally broadcast in three parts.)
Ian and Barbara are accidentally taken into Smithers' laboratory and, while the Doctor and Susan face a hazardous journey to reach them, they witness the deadly effects of DN6 first hand.
The Doctor and his friends face a race against time to expose Forrester's plans and return to normal size before Barbara succumbs to the effects of DN6.
Ian and Barbara believe the TARDIS has finally returned to their contemporary London, but soon discover signs of plague and warfare. Their old enemies, the Daleks, have invaded the Earth of the 22nd century. Separated and fighting for their lives, the travellers must try to aid the remaining humans and overthrow the Daleks' cruel tyranny. (Originally broadcast in six parts.)
The Doctor and Ian are taken to the Dalek saucer while Susan and Barbara join the rebels in planning an attack.
The Doctor manages to escape from the Dalek saucer and meet up with Susan and David but Ian is left trapped onboard. Meanwhile, Barbara and her new friends face a dangerous journey across London.
While Susan and David try to find a way out of London, Ian and Larry infiltrate the Dalek mine workings.
The Doctor's party investigate the Daleks' central control in Bedfordshire while Barbara and Jenny's attempt to reach it are derailed when they are betrayed.
The Daleks' plan to transform Earth into a giant spaceship and wipe out its inhabitants is nearing completion and the Doctor and his friends face a race against time to prevent them from destroying the planet's core.
On the planet Dido, the monstrous Koquillion terrorizes Bennett and Vicki, the only survivors of a crashed spaceship. When the TARDIS lands, the Doctor, Ian, and Barbara team up with Vicki to discover what Koquillion is hiding. (Originally broadcast in two parts.)
The Doctor and Ian reach the crashed spaceship and meet up with Barbara and Vicki, where the Doctor uncovers the truth about Koquillion.
The travellers decide to take a holiday near ancient Rome, but after a month the Doctor gets restless. He and Vicki determine to visit Rome, and while they are gone Ian and Barbara are abducted by slave traders. All roads lead to Rome, however, and the travellers find themselves at the mercy of the country's petulant emperor, Nero... (Originally broadcast in four parts.)
While the Doctor and Vicki meet with Nero, Barbara is taken to Rome to be sold while Ian is forced to work as a galley slave.
Ian and Delos are forced to fight each other for their freedom while the Doctor has to perform for Nero's court.
Ian and Delos manage to escape from Sevcheria and Tavius agrees to help Barbara rejoin them.The Doctor's attempts to avoid being thrown to the lions inadvertently result in Nero deciding to burn down Rome.
The TARDIS is drawn by a mysterious force and lands on the alien planet Vortis. There the Doctor, Ian, Barbara and Vicki find themselves caught up in a war between an evil force known as "The Animus", its ant-like Zarbi allies, and the butterfly-like Menoptra race and their allies the subterranean Optera.
The Doctor, Ian and Vicki are captured by the Zarbi while Barbara meets up with the butterfly-like Menoptera who are trying to reclaim the planet.
The Doctor is forced to co-operate with the Animus but Ian uses the opportunity to make an escape attempt.
Ian and Vrestin are captured by the subterranean Optera while Barbara and her Menoptera allies attempt to escape from the slave camp.
Barbara and the surviving Menoptera take refuge in the Temple of Light while the Doctor and Vicki attempt to escape by taking control of a Zarbi.
The Doctor and Vicki are taken before the Animus but the isoptope is left behind in the laboratory.The only hope of victory lies with Barbara and her Menoptera allies.
The TARDIS lands in the Holy Land during the Third Crusade and the crew help save Richard the Lionheart from an ambush, but Barbara is captured and brought before Saladin.
While the Doctor, Ian, and Vicki are drawn into the intrigues of King Richard's court, Barbara has to cope with an impatient Saladin and the vengeful El Akir.
Barbara allies herself with a man whose were murdered by El Akir as the Doctor and Vicki are caught up in Richard's plan to offer his sister's hand in marriage to Saladin's brother.
Ian sets out with a reluctant accomplice to rescue Barbara from El Akir's palace as the Doctor and Vicki try to evade the suspicions of the Earl of Leicester.
The TARDIS arrives on a planet that has been turned into a space museum but the Doctor and his friends are puzzled when they find themselves out of phase with their surroundings.
Now back on their proper time track, the Doctor and his friends must work to avoid the future they saw for themselves.
With the Doctor missing, Ian, Barbara and Vicki find themselves in danger from the Moroks while the Xerons also try to make contact with them.
While Ian tries to force Lobos to release the Doctor from the museum, Vicki joins the Xerons in trying to gain the weapons needed to start a revolution against the occupiers.
The Daleks pursue The Doctor through time and space, with the intentions of exterminating him. Places they land include the Mary Celeste, a haunted house and the empire state building.
While Ian and Vicki are threatened by a Mire Beast, the Doctor and Barbara meet up with the Aridians...who are then ordered to hand them over to the Daleks.
The TARDIS crew's attempts to escape from the Daleks take them to the top of the Empire State Building and a 19th century sailing ship.
The TARDIS lands in a haunted house where the Doctor and his friends are confronted by Dracula and Frankenstein's Monster...and then the Daleks appear.
With Vicki trapped on board the Dalek time machine, the Doctor, Ian and Barbara decide to make their stand on the planet Mechanus.
The Doctor and his friends are taken into the Mechanoid City but their troubles are far from over...especially when the Daleks launch an attack.
The Doctor, Vicki, and Steven Taylor, go to 1066 England, but something doesn't seem right including modern inventions like a Gramaphone and electricity. Could there be another Time Lord?
The Doctor is being held prisoner by the Monk and Steven and Vicki's search for him brings them to the Saxon village.But a greater danger threatens when a Viking raiding party arrives.
The Doctor manages to escape from his cell and get the upper hand on the Monk but his plans are derailed when Sven and Ulf arrive at the monastery.
The Doctor finally discovers what the Monk is up to and must move fast to prevent his opponent from altering the course of history.
At twelve episodes, The Daleks' Master Plan was the longest story in the show's history until superseded by the fourteen-episode The Trial of a Time Lord in 1986. The season also had the greatest number of different companions (seven) and producers (three). This was the longest season in the history of the franchise to date, at 45 episodes. It also featured the first appearance of actor Nicholas Courtney, although not in his most famous role as the Brigadier. The Daleks' Master Plan also saw the return of Peter Butterworth as the Monk, who became the second Doctor Who enemy to make a return (after the Daleks themselves) to the show. This was also the season of The War Machines, to date the only televised story in which the taboo of never referring to the Doctor directly by the name "Doctor Who" is broken, with the exception of Missy's teasing in World Enough and Time.
After an encounter with a hostile robot called a Chumblie, the Doctor and his companions are rescued by a group of female Drahvins.
With the knowledge that the planet will be destroyed in two days, the Drahvins instruct the Doctor to help them steal the Rills' ship.
The Doctor and Vicki encounter the Rills and learn the situation is more complex than they thought while Steven finds the Drahvins' hospitality ever more perilous.
The Doctor and Vicki enlist the aid of the Chumblies to rescue Steven from the Drahvins and then find a way off the planet before its destruction.
Whilst The Doctor, Steven and Vicki are traveling to their next destination. On the planet Kembel, Marc Cory, a Space Security Service agent discovers The Daleks are attending a secret meeting with their allies. Where Cory discovers the Dalek's evil plan, which sets the stage for the epic 12-part adventure "The Dalek Master Plan".
The TARDIS lands in the middle of the Trojan War, where the Doctor is mistaken for the god Zeus.
While Odysseus forces the Doctor to find a way to win the war, Steven decides to get himself taken prisoner in order to enter Troy and find Vicki and the TARDIS.
With Steven and Vicki being held prisoner by the Trojans, the Doctor's only hope of seeing them again is to suggest the idea of the Trojan Horse.
The Doctor waits inside the Trojan Horse for a chance to reach his companions but Steven's assumed identity as a Greek soldier and Vicki's growing feelings for Troilus endanger their escape.
The Doctor runs afoul of the Daleks and Special Security Agent Bret Vyon on the planet Kembel.
The Doctor infiltrates the Daleks' conference to try and discover their plans, leaving Steven, Katarina and Bret to find a way off the planet.
The Doctor and his friends escape Kembel in the Spar ship but the Daleks force them down on the planet Desperus, where they are threatened by a group of convicts.
With Katarina being held hostage, the Doctor, Steven and Bret are in danger of having to given in to Kirksen's demands, while, on Earth, Chen has them listed as traitors.
The Doctor, Steven and Sara are accidentally transported to the planet Mira where Chen sends the Daleks after them.
The Doctor, Steven and Sara escape Mira in a Dalek pursuit ship but when they find the ship is returning to Kembel, they are forced to come up with a new plan to avoid the Daleks.
The Doctor, Steven and Sara visit a Liverpool police station on Christmas Day and a Hollywood film set during the 1920s.
The Daleks realise the Doctor has given them a fake Taranium Core while, on the planet Tigus, the Doctor encounters the Meddling Monk.
The Doctor, Steven and Sara travel to Ancient Egypt, pursued by both the Daleks and the Meddling Monk.
Steven, Sara and the Monk are captured by the Daleks in order to force the Doctor to hand over the Taranium Core.
The Doctor, Steven and Sara reach Kembel where they find the Daleks have betrayed their allies and imprisoned them.
With the Daleks poised to invade the solar system, the Doctor decides his only option is to activate the Time Destructor prematurely, threatening the entire planet.
The TARDIS lands in sixteenth century Paris and Steven becomes involved with a group of Huguenots.
While trying to find the Doctor, Steven discovers a conspiracy to assassinate a man known as the Sea Beggar.
Steven has discovered the identity of the Sea Beggar, but can he warn the Huguenots in time?
Steven rejoins the Doctor and they leave Paris just ahead of the massacre, leaving Anne behind.
The Doctor, Steven and Dodo arrive on a giant spaceship millions of years in the future, transporting the last humans away from the doomed Earth.
With the Ark infected with a cold virus, the Doctor must convince the Guardians to trust him so he can find a cure.
The Doctor, Steven and Dodo have travelled 700 years into the future and find that the Ark is now under the control of the Monoids as it approaches Refusis.
The Monoids abandon the Ark, leaving Steven and the Guardians to die, but a mutiny in their ranks may give the Doctor a chance to bring about peace.
The Doctor, Steven and Dodo arrive in the realms of the Celestial Toymaker, who forces them to play his deadly games.
While the Doctor continues to play the Trilogic Game with the Toymaker, Steven and Dodo are involved in a deadly game of musical chairs.
Steven and Dodo are forced to cross the dancing floor, where the Toymaker's dolls plan to force them to dance for eternity.
As the Doctor nears the end of his game against the Toymaker, Steven and Dodo take on Cyril in a lethal game of hopscotch to try and recover the TARDIS.
The TARDIS arrives in Tombstone, Arizona in 1891. Where the Doctor is looking for a dentist when he has a toothache, where The Doctor finds the local dentist is the famous Doc Holliday who is in a feud with The Clanton Brothers and their hired gunfighter Johnny Ringo, whilst local sheriff Wyatt Earp is trying to keep the peace. The Doctor, Steven and Dodo find themselves joining forces with The Clanton Brothers and Sheriff Wyatt Earp.
With the Clantons believing the Doctor to be Doc Holliday, Wyatt Earp takes him into protective custody but this leaves Steven and Dodo in danger.
Earp comes to Steven's rescue and arrests Phineas Clanton, prompting the Clantons to decide to enlist the help of Johnny Ringo.
The Clantons have shot Warren Earp, leading to a showdown between the two families with the Doctor powerless to prevent bloodshed.
The Doctor, Steven and Dodo arrive in the far future and are welcomed by the advanced civilisation of the Elders but soon begin to suspect they are hiding a secret.
The Doctor, Steven and Dodo investigate why there are Savages in the Elders' city and uncover the true price of the Elders' perfect society.
The Doctor has been subjected to the Elders' extraction process and Steven and Dodo must return to their city to rescue him.
The Doctor urges the Savages to finally bring an end to the Elders' oppression and enlists the help of an unlikely ally.
The Doctor and Dodo return to London in the present day where the Doctor becomes concerned about WOTAN, a new super-computer installed in the Post Officer Tower.
Dodo is under the control of WOTAN and attempts to lure the Doctor into a trap, while the rest of WOTAN's slaves begin construction on its robotic War Machines.
Ben tries to escape from the warehouse but is captured by Polly, who is now also under WOTAN's control, and forced to work on construction the War Machine.
The first War Machine is defeated but the Doctor only has a matter of hours to destroy WOTAN before the rest of its army is activated.
This season was a season of major changes for Doctor Who, including some that have influenced the series and franchise ever since. Most notably, season 4 saw William Hartnell's First Doctor hand off the baton to Patrick Troughton's Second Doctor in the very first regeneration. When Hartnell announced his plans to leave the series, the show's writers came up with the idea of having the Doctor change his appearance and personality. In 1966, while it was not uncommon for actors to change in ongoing TV and film roles, this was possibly the first time a change in appearance was written into the very nature of the character.
The Doctor discovers Polly and Ben aboard the TARDIS shortly before the ship arrives in 17th century Cornwall, where the local churchwarden gives the Doctor a cryptic message shortly before being murdered.
Pike is convinced that the Doctor knows the location of Avery's treasure while Polly and Ben try to convince the locals they were not responsible for Longfoot's murder.
Polly and Ben are placed in the custody of Blake, who reveals he also has his suspicions about the Squire, while the Doctor and Kewper are forced to team up to escape from Pike's ship.
The Doctor and his friends are at the mercy of Cherub, who is now seeking Avery's treasure for himself, while Pike prepares to attack the village.
In 1986 a new planet appears in the Solar System which turns out to be a long-lost twin of Earth's named Mondas. Its inhabitants are the Cybermen.
The Doctor's warnings are ignored and the Cybermen take over the base, hampering the crew's efforts to help Zeus IV.
With the Doctor out of action, it is up to Polly, Ben and Barclay to stop Cutler using the Z-Bomb and devastating half the world.
The Cybermen take over the base again, apparently to stop the humans using the Z-Bomb, but then the Doctor realises they intend to use it themselves to destroy Earth.
The TARDIS arrives on the Earth colony of Vulcan where the newly-regenerated Doctor assumes the identity of an Earth Examiner.
While the Doctor worries about the inert Daleks in the capsules, Lesterson makes plan to reactivate one of them.
The Doctor fails to convince the colonists of the danger posed by the Daleks and soon the other two are also reactivated.
With Polly being held prisoner by the rebels, the Doctor and Ben decide to investigate them, while Lesterson discovers the Daleks are reproducing.
The Doctor and Quinn attempt to escape in order to stop Bragen using the Daleks to take over the colony.
With Bragen having taken over, the Daleks trick the rebels into turning them loose and only the Doctor can stop them wiping out the entire colony.
The Doctor, Polly and Ben arrive in 1746, in the aftermath of the Battle of Culloden, and are captured by a group of Highlanders shortly before they themselves are captured by redcoats.
Polly and Kirsty capture Lieutenant Ffinch to try and enlist his help while the Doctor tricks Grey in order to escape.
With the Highlanders imprisoned aboard Trask's ship, the Doctor attempts to expose Grey's plan.
Ben manages to join up with the Doctor, Polly and Kirsty and together they work to free the Highlanders from Trask's ship before Grey sells them into slavery.
The TARDIS materialises on a deserted beach where the Doctor and his friends are captured by primitive warriors and taken to the fabled city of Atlantis.
While Ara tries to save Polly from being turned into a Fish Person and Ben and Jamie try to escape from the mines, the Doctor discovers the full extent of Zaroff's plans.
The Doctor and Ramo are sentenced to be sacrificed to the goddess Amdo and must escape to put a stop to Zaroff's plan.
With Zaroff's plan nearing completion, the Doctor and Ben realise the only way to save the world is to destroy Atlantis.
The TARDIS arrives on the Moon in the year 2070.When Jamie is injured, the other travellers are forced to seek the help of a moonbase afflicted with a space plague.
The Doctor and his friends attempt to convince the Moonbase crew that the Cybermen are responsible for the disappearances and find a cure for the plague.
The Cybermen take over the Moonbase and begin using the Gravitron to attack Earth but Polly, Ben and Jamie come up with a way to fight back.
With the Cybermen preparing to launch a full attack, the Doctor and his friends must keep the Moonbase and the Gravitron out of their hands until help arrives from Earth.
The TARDIS arrives at a holiday camp company with the crew worried by a prediction of giant crabs and the Doctor becomes interested in the apparent madman Medok's stories of creatures that roam the colony at night.
The Doctor is unable to convince the colonists that the Macra exist and an attempt to brainwash his companions results in Ben betraying his friends.
The Doctor, Polly and Jamie are sentenced to work in the pits and an escape attempt sees Ben's loyalties called into question again.
The Doctor and Polly manage to save Jamie from the Macra and then try to show the Pilot who is really in charge of the colony.
The TARDIS materialises on the runway of Gatwick Airport, where Polly witnesses a murder only to be kidnapped before she can report it.
With Polly having apparently forgotten them, the Doctor, Ben and Jamie decide to carry out their own investigation of Chameleon Tours.
The Doctor, Jamie and Sam manage to convince Crossland to trust them and he persuades the Commandant to let them continue their investigation.
When Spencer attempts to kill them, the Doctor, Jamie and Sam become convinced Chameleon Tours are hiding something and Sam decides to book a ticket on one of their flights.
Jamie finds himself aboard the Chameleons' satellite and meets their Director while the Doctor forces the Chameleon Meadows to tell him the aliens' plans.
The Doctor and Pinto are captured by the Chameleons but the Doctor manages to use their dependence on their human originals to create dissent in their ranks.
Trying to find the stolen TARDIS, the Second Doctor and Jamie are lured into a trap by the Doctor's old enemies the Daleks.
The Doctor and Jamie investigate Waterfield's antiques shop, where they are knocked unconscious and transported back to the 19th century.
As part of the Daleks' experiment, the Doctor manipulates Jamie into attempting to rescue Victoria.
Jamie and Kemel team up to try and find Victoria, while the Doctor and the Daleks continue to monitor their progress.
With the experiment at an end, the Doctor begins to suspect the key to rescuing Jamie, Victoria and Kemel from the Daleks lies with Terrall.
The Doctor, Jamie and Waterfield follow the Daleks to Skaro, where they discover an unforeseen consequence to their experiment.
The Daleks are poised to spread the Dalek Factor throughout the history of Earth and begin by implanting the Doctor.
No complete stories from the season were known to have survived until the early-1990s when archivists recovered a complete version of The Tomb of the Cybermen. A second complete story, The Enemy of the World was recovered in 2013, along with a nearly complete recovery of the story that followed it, The Web of Fear. The season is also notable for having Patrick Troughton play a double-role as both the Doctor and Salamander in The Enemy of the World.
The Doctor, Jamie and Victoria arrive on Telos, where an archaeological group are exploring the Tomb of the Cybermen. But are the Cybermen as dormant as they believe?
The archaeologists learn they are stranded on Telos and Klieg suggests they use the opportunity to explore the Cybermen's tombs.
The Cybermen have been revived and plan to convert the archeologists into their own kind, prompting Hopper to attempt a rescue.
Klieg attempts to do a deal with the Cybercontroller while the Doctor tries to find a way to refreeze the Cybermen permanently.
When the TARDIS materialises in the Himalayas, the Doctor decides to pay a return visit to the nearby Det-Sen monastery only to be accused of murder.
Jamie and Victoria make their way to the monastery shortly before it is attacked by the Yeti.
While the Doctor and Jamie return to the TARDIS for equipment, the control sphere Jamie brought to the monastery is reactivated.
The Yeti escapes from the monastery and Victoria and Thonmi are accused of assisting it, while the Doctor and Jamie endure a perilous journey back across the mountains.
Victoria falls under the mental influence of Padmasambhva as the Yeti attack in order to drive the monks from the area.
With the Great Intelligence on the verge of becoming corporeal, the Doctor challenges Padmasambhva to a mental battle in order to defeat it.
The Doctor, Jamie and Victoria are brought to a base which is attempting to halt the flow of the Second Ice Age.
Varga revives and takes Victoria hostage as he works to revive his crew while the Doctor and Jamie find Penley stealing medical supplies.
Jamie and Arden venture out to rescue Victoria only to find the rest of the Ice Warriors are now active.
The Doctor leaves the base to try and find Jamie and Victoria while Storr tries to do a deal with the Ice Warriors.
The Doctor and Victoria are both held prisoner by the Ice Warriors as Varga decides to take over Brittanicus.
The Doctor and Victoria attempt to force the Ice Warriors to surrender control of the ioniser before the ice flow destroys them.
After the Doctor is attacked by a group of mysterious gunmen, he discovers he is the physical double of the famous scientist Salamander.
Jamie and Victoria agree to accompany Astrid to Hungary to observe Salamander's activities.
Jamie and Victoria join Astrid into attempting to rescue Denes but Salamander becomes suspicious of them.
Fariah brings the Doctor and Kent evidence of Salamander's activities but then they come under attack from Benik.
The Doctor persuades Bruce to help him infiltrate Salamander's research centre while Salamander takes drastic action to prevent Swann finding out the truth.
The Doctor discovers the true link between Salamander and Kent while Astrid tries to convince the shelter inhabitants they have been lied to.
The TARDIS becomes trapped in space before ending up in an underground station of a mysteriously deserted London.
Jamie and Victoria are reunited with Travers before Jamie joins the soldiers in attempting to find out what has happened to the Doctor.
The Doctor and Victoria are taken back to the Goodge Street base by Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart where the Doctor becomes convinced there is a traitor in their midst.
With Travers having been captured by the Yeti, the Doctor attempts to find a way to gain control of the robots while Lethbridge-Stewart tries to recover the TARDIS.
Victoria and Travers are held prisoner by the Great Intelligence, who is planning to drain the Doctor's mind.
The Doctor and his friends are held prisoner by the Intelligence and their only hope lies with Jamie, Arnold and a reprogrammed Yeti.
The Doctor, Jamie and Victoria are taken prisoner by the staff of a gas refinery, who have lost contact with their drilling rigs and experienced mysterious drops in pressure.
Harris asks for the Doctor's help with Maggie, while Van Lutyens and the Chief Engineer attempt to find out what is blocking the impeller.
While the Doctor begins his investigation into the weed creatures, Robson is attacked by one at the refinery.
Van Lutyens' investigation of the base of the impeller places the Doctor and Jamie in danger from the Weed Creature.
With the Weed Creature poised to burst out of the pipeline and attack the base, an encounter with Oak and Quill gives the Doctor a vital clue about its weakness.
The Doctor and Jamie rescue Victoria from Robson and realise they can destroy the Weed Creature with sound waves.
The Doctor and Jamie arrive on a mysterious spacecraft whose only occupant is a dangerous Servo Robot.
The Doctor and Jamie are brought aboard the Wheel where Jamie is horrified to learn the crew plan to destroy the Silver Carrier with the TARDIS on board.
Jamie sabotages the Wheel's x-ray laser, unknowingly giving the Cybermen an opportunity to reach the Wheel.
The Cybermen instruct their human slaves to smuggle them onto the Wheel while the Doctor attempts to convince Bennett of the threat they pose.
The Cybermen gain control of more members of the Wheel crew and the Doctor realises the only way to stop them is for Jamie and Zoe to make a dangerous space walk.
Jamie and Zoe attempt to recover the time vector generator while the Cybermen realise the Doctor is on the Wheel and make him their prime target.
This season featured the first ever UNIT story, The Invasion, which showcased the return of Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart. It also featured the first official appearance of Time Lords and the as yet unnamed Doctor's home planet (another member of Susan and the Doctor's race, the Monk, had appeared previously, but without much elaboration and without using the term "Time Lord"). It also marked the tenure of Patrick Troughton as the Second Doctor. It consisted of seven serials and forty-four episodes, including two epic-length storylines: the eight episodes of The Invasion and the ten-episode The War Games.
The TARDIS arrives on the planet Dulkis where the Doctor, Zoe and Jamie decide to have a quiet holiday. Only to find the Evil Dominators and their robotic slaves, The Quarks have arrived on a radioactive island, where they plan to detonate a bomb in the planet's core, which will turn the entire planet as source of radioactive fuel for their invasion fleet.
The Doctor and Jamie are captured by the Dominators, who subject them to an intelligence test, while Zoe and Cully attempt to convince the Dulcian council of the threat.
Zoe and Cully are captured by the Dominators and put to work alongside the survey team while the Doctor and Jamie decide to return to the island to help.
The Doctor and Zoe are interrogated by Rago, who is planning to present his terms to the Dulcian council, while Jamie and Cully try to find a way to strike back against the Quarks.
Jamie and Cully manage to rescue the Doctor's party and together they try to find a way to stop the Dominators before they destroy the entire planet.
The TARDIS arrives in a white void, having made an emergency take-off to escape the volcanic eruption on Dulkis. The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe find themselves in the Land of Fiction, where characters from the imagination come to life, and The Master, the mysterious ruler, chooses the Doctor to take his place.
With the TARDIS destroyed, the Doctor, Jamie and Zoe find themselves in a strange forest patrolled by mysterious soldiers.
The Doctor realises that the travellers are trapped in a world where fiction is real and where creatures are a threat if people believe in them.
The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe reach the citadel at the centre of the land, where they finally encounter the Master of the Land of Fiction.
With Jamie and Zoe having been turned into fiction, the Doctor must find a way to save them without suffering the same fate or becoming part of the Master Brain.
The Doctor and the newly formed UNIT must stop a Cybermen Invasion and a Sinister Industrialist in league with them
The Doctor and Jamie are taken prisoner by their mysterious observers and have a reunion with an old friend while Zoe and Isobel carry out their own investigation of IE.
The Doctor and Jamie return to the IE factory in search of Zoe and Isobel, where they meet with Professor Watkins and fall foul of Vaughn.
The Doctor and Jamie enlist the help of UNIT to rescue Zoe and Isobel before trying to find out what Vaughn is really up to.
The Doctor and Jamie tell the Brigadier about the Cybermen but with Rutledge under Vaughn's control he is powerless to act.
Captain Turner manages to rescue Jamie and the others, while the Doctor begins working on a way to protect everyone from the Cybermen's hypno-sound signal.
With the entire world unconscious apart from the Doctor and his friends, the Cybermen are poised to invade and only Zoe, the Brigadier and a missile crew can stop them.
The Cybermen have launched their deadly megatron bomb which will destroy all life on Earth unless the Doctor can deactivate the homing signal.
When the TARDIS arrives on the planet of the Gonds, the Doctor, Jamie and Zoe discover a world ruled and enslaved by the Krotons. The brightest Gonds are always chosen to serve as companions of the Krotons and are never seen again...
Zoe is selected as a companion for the Krotons and the Doctor insists on joining her.
Jamie is held prisoner by the Krotons who intend to recapture the Doctor and Zoe for their mental energy.
Selris succeeds in drawing the Krotons out of the Dynatrope but Eelek agrees to hand the Doctor and Zoe over to them in return for their leaving the planet.
21st century Earth is entirely dependent on the T-Mat transport system but the control centre on the moon has stopped functioning. Meanwhile, the Doctor, Jamie and Zoe meet the one man who can solve the crisis.
Eldred agrees to supply a rocket for travel to the moon and the Doctor, Jamie and Zoe volunteer to crew it.
The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe make it to the moon and join forces with Phipps but the Ice Warriors have gained control of T-mat.
The Ice Warriors' seed pods beginning materialising all over the globe while Slaar decides to kill the Doctor by T-matting him into space.
The Doctor and his allies manage to return to Earth via T-mat only to find the Ice Warrior has attacked the weather control station.
The Doctor manages to create a rain storm to destroy the Martian fungus before trying to find a way to stop the Ice Warriors' invasion fleet.
Space beacons are being destroyed by pirates, who are salvaging the argonite metal. When the Doctor, Jamie and Zoe arrive on one of the beacons, they are mistaken for pirates.
With the Doctor, Jamie and Zoe trapped on a beacon segment, Hermack becomes suspicious of the unruly prospector Milo Clancey.
The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe flee from the Space Corps with Clancey, who decides to seek refuge on Ta.
The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe are held prisoner by the space pirates while Caven comes up with a plan to throw suspicion onto Clancey.
Madeleine is revealed to be working with Caven, who comes up with a way to kill the Doctor and his friends whilst framing them for the piracy.
With Clancey and Issigri trapped aboard the LIZ, the Doctor, Jamie and Zoe try to convince Madeleine to help them before Caven destroys Ta.
The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe realise they have arrived in the trenches of the First World War, where the sinister General Smythe accuses them of espionage.
The Doctor and Zoe manage to escape from Ransom and attempt to rescue Jamie from the military prison.
The Doctor and his friends realise the area is divided into different time zones and decide to return to the château to obtain a map from Smythe.
The Doctor and Zoe are transported to the control centre of the war games while Jamie and Lady Jennifer fall foul of American Revolution soldiers.
The Doctor attempts to rescue Zoe and Carstairs while Jamie and Lady Jennifer try to convince the resistance of the true nature of Von Weich and the others.
The scientist examines the captured resistance fighters and realises Jamie is a new arrival on the planet while the Doctor, Zoe and Carstairs try to rescue their friends.
The Doctor, Jamie and Carstairs manage to return to the 1917 zone only to be captured by Smythe, who orders the Doctor executed.
The Doctor and the processing machine have been taken by the Aliens but the resistance are making plans to attack the control centre.
To prove his loyalty to the Aliens, the Doctor is ordered to reprocess his friends while the Security Chief finally uncovers evidence of the War Chief's treachery.
The TARDIS is drawn to the planet of the Time Lords where both the Doctor and the War Lord are placed on trial.
It was the first series produced and broadcast in colour and the first set entirely in one time period and almost entirely on Earth (the latter of these factors would later be repeated for Season 26 and Series 1, although in those two cases there was no attempt at an in-universe explanation for confining the Doctor to the planet). Although the series did not have an overall story arc, it did feature a recurring subplot of the Doctor trying to adjust to life as an exile while trying to circumvent the restrictions placed upon him by the Time Lords, and began the process where the Doctor would try to gain more control over his TARDIS. Beginning with this series and continuing for the next few years, most storylines involve the Doctor working with UNIT.
As the newly-regenerated Doctor arrives on Earth, so does the Nestene too.
UNIT's attempts to locate the meteorites are hampered by the mysterious plastic Autons, being constructed by Channing at a nearby factory, while the Doctor makes another attempt to escape from the hospital.
Ransome manages to escape from the plastics factory and alert UNIT, prompting the Doctor and the Brigadier to start an investigation.
With UNIT's investigation being blocked by the Replica of Scobie, the Doctor and Liz visit Madame Tussaud's to try and find out more as Channing prepares to activate the Autons.
The Doctor and Liz are summoned to the Wenley Moor Research Centre by the Brigadier, after several staff members suffer nervous breakdowns.
The Doctor attempts to convince people there are monsters in the caves, prompting Major Baker to start shooting at a reptile man.
The Silurians contact Quinn for help in retrieving the creature while the Doctor and the Brigadier organise a search of the moors.
With Quinn dead, the Brigadier decides to take an armed party into the caves, prompting the Doctor to contact the Silurians himself.
Worried about the Old Silurian's growing friendship with the Doctor, the Young Silurian has the scientist infect Baker with a virus and then release him.
While the Doctor and Liz try to find a cure to the virus spread by Baker, the Young Silurian kills the Old Silurian and takes control of his people.
While Liz distributes the cure to the virus, the Doctor discovers the Silurians now plan to wipe out humanity by destroying the Van Allen Belt.
While the Brigadier investigates a loss of contact with Mars Probe 7, the Doctor realises signals coming from the probe are of extra-terrestrial origin.
UNIT retrieve the returned Recovery 7 but then Carrington hijacks it while the Doctor and Liz try to decode the signal he sent.
Carrington is holding the astronauts at a secret location but when he takes the Doctor, Liz and the Brigadier there they find they have been kidnapped.
Liz has been captured by Reegan's men and the Doctor begins to suspect Taltalian is more involved than he appeared.
The Doctor decides to take Recovery 7 back into space to search for the missing astronauts but Reegan sabotages the launch.
The Doctor speaks with the alien captain and learns the astronauts sent to Earth were ambassadors. However, before he can alert the authorities he is kidnapped by Reegan.
Carrington is planning to expose the aliens on live television and call for an interplanetary war and the Brigadier must rescue the Doctor and Liz in time to stop him.
England, the near future. UNIT is providing security and scientific support for the Stahlman project, an attempt to tap the Earth's core for energy. But things are already going wrong…
Strange deaths, men changing into monsters, hot green slime pouring out of the waste pipes – but Professor Stahlman is determined to press ahead with the Inferno project no matter what the cost!
The Doctor has vanished from the Inferno project… or has he? He finds himself in the same place, but everyone has changed… and the drilling is closer to its deadly conclusion.
In a parallel England, the Doctor tries desperately to convince his captors of the immense peril they are in. But they are convinced he is a spy. And penetration zero is getting close…
The parallel Inferno has broken through the Earth's crust, unleashing terrible seismic forces and dooming the planet. The Doctor hopes to return and save his world. But the bestial primords are closing in...
The Doctor is trapped in a parallel world that is going up in flames. Can he escape in time to save Earth in his own universe?
The Doctor has escaped the catastrophic destruction of a parallel world. But can he stop Stahlman before he destroys this one?
As of 2017, season 8 remains notable for being the season with the most number of regular characters. Not only did it see a new companion in the form of Jo Grant, but it featured a regular enemy — The Master — who was the first regular Time Lord enemy of the Doctor to appear more than twice, and an expanded regular UNIT cast that now included Sergeant Benton and Mike Yates in most episodes. Adding in returning regulars Jon Pertwee and Nicholas Courtney, the regular cast swelled to six.
When a Nestene Energy Unit is stolen and a radio telescope sabotaged, the Doctor is contacted by a Time Lord who tells him his old rival the Master is responsible.
Attempting to find out where Jo encountered the Master, the Doctor heads to the circus where he falls foul of Rossini.
The Doctor and the Brigadier head to Farrel's factory but the Master and the Autons have already left and are distributing plastic daffodils around the country.
The Doctor discovers the plastic daffodils are designed to fire a spray that asphyxiates people, causing havoc prior to the Nestene's arrival, but before he can alert anyone he and Jo are captured by the Master.
The Doctor and Jo head to Stangmoor Prison to investigate the Keller Machine, which drains the evil impulses from prisoners' minds, while UNIT are handling security at the first world peace conference.
The Doctor is recalled by UNIT to help investigate Cheng-Tiek's murder but is unaware that Chin-Lee is under the control of the Master.
Realising Chin-Lee has been using the power of the Keller Machine to carry out assassinations, the Doctor heads back to Stangmoor, only to find the Master has teamed up with Mailer to stage another riot.
With the Doctor and Jo being held prisoner, the Master convinces Mailer to help him steal the Thunderbolt.
The Doctor is forced to help the Master control the mind parasite while Yates finds out where the Thunderbolt has been taken only to be captured by the Master's men.
The Brigadier has recaptured Stangmoor but the Master still has control of the Thunderbolt and the Doctor must find a way to stop him and destroy the Keller Machine.
When a mysterious object lands near the Nuton power complex, UNIT investigate and encounter the Axons, a group of aliens who offer the mineral axonite, which can duplicate matter, as a gift.
The Doctor and Winser begin to analyse axonite while Chinn plots to secure its use exclusively for Britain.
The Doctor and Jo are being held prisoner by Axos while Chinn is forced to organise the worldwide distribution of axonite and the Master returns to the power complex to try and steal the TARDIS.
The Doctor and Jo escape from Axos but then the Doctor offers the Master a deal; if he helps him repair the TARDIS, they can flee Earth together.
The Time Lords take control of the TARDIS and the Doctor and Jo arrive on an Earth Colony in the 25th century, where a ruthless mining company are using a dinosaur-like creature to force the colonists to leave the planet.
The Doctor discovers an Interplanetary Mining Corporation ship has landed on the planet in order to mine its duralinium, while Norton begins causing trouble at the colony.
The Doctor makes it back to the colony and warns Ashe what Dent is up to but when Jo and Winton try to find proof they are captured.
The Doctor descends into the Primitive city to try and find Jo while the colonists receive a visit from the Adjudicator.
The Master offers to help the colonists in exchange for information on the Primitive city and forces the Doctor to act as a guide by taking Jo hostage.
The Doctor and the Master are taken into the Primitive city, where the Master hopes to find the doomsday weapon, while Dent forces the colonists to leave the planet even though their ship is likely to explode.
Earth, the near future. When an archaological dig at the village of Devil's End goes disastrously wrong, an ancient power begins to revive. Can even the Doctor withstand the power of the Daemons? And just what is the local vicar up to in his spare time?
With the Doctor frozen by the energy release from the barrow, Jo calls Yates and Benton for help, but when the Brigadier tries to join them he finds the village surrounded by a heat barrier.
The Doctor explains to his friends that the Master is trying to gain the power of the last of the Daemons, a race who influenced Earth's development, while the Master brings the rest of the village under his control.
The Master orders Bert to set a trap for the Doctor at the village while a concussed Jo makes for the cavern.
The Master decides to sacrifice Jo to Azal and when the Doctor and his friends try to intervene they come under attack from Bok.
It was noted for being the beginning of the end of the Doctor's exile on Earth, with the Doctor's TARDIS still under the control of the Time Lords (The Mutants) and restricted freedom (The Curse of Peladon and The Time Monster), as well as UNIT and the Master appearing less frequently in compared to the previous two series. As well as the return of the Daleks and the Ice Warriors, this series also introduced Alpha Centauri, Aggedor and the Silurians' aquatic cousins the Sea Devils.
When someone tries to assassinate diplomat Sir Reginald Styles, UNIT investigate the possibility his attacker came from the future.
Jo uses the guerrillas' time machine to travel to the 22nd century where the Controller tricks her into telling the Daleks where she's come from.
The Doctor forces the guerrillas to take him to the 22nd century where he is soon captured by the Controller.
The guerrillas infiltrate the Daleks' base to rescue the Doctor and Jo and ask them to return to their own time and alter history before the 20th century is plunged into a Third World War.
The Doctor and Jo arrive on the medieval planet Peladon, where the Doctor is mistaken for the Earth Delegate of the Galactic Federation and Jo is mistaken for a princess.
The Doctor is convinced the Ice Warriors are trying to sabotage the conference but his attempts to prove it see him accused of sacrilege.
The Doctor is sentenced to fight Grun to the death and his attempt to escape leads to an encounter with Aggedor.
Hepesh's plan has been exposed but he is still determined to prevent Peladon joining the Galactic Federation by leading a rebellion against the King.
The Doctor and Jo visit the Master at his island prison where the Doctor becomes curious about a number of ships sinking in the area.
The Doctor and Jo are trapped on the fort by a Sea Devil while the Master convinces Trenchard to help him steal some electronic components.
The Doctor is held prisoner by Trenchard while the Master attempts to contact the Sea Devils.
The Sea Devils attack the island prison and rescue the Master, prompting the Doctor to venture underwater to try and contact them.
The Doctor is taken to the Sea Devils' underwater colony where he tries to make peace with the creatures, only for the navy to attack the base.
The Sea Devils take over the naval base and the Doctor is forced to help the Master find a way to revive their colony.
The Doctor and Jo arrive on the planet Solos, on a assignment by the Time Lords, where they learn that the native Solonians are mutating into ant-like mutant creatures...
Ky transports himself and Jo down to Solos and the Marshal only agrees to help her if the Doctor assists Professor Jaeger in altering Solos' atmosphere.
The Doctor and Varan travel down to Solos to search for Jo and Ky but the Marshal orders his men to pursue them.
The Doctor and his friends are led to safety by Professor Sondergaard, who tries to help the Doctor translate the tablets.
The Marshal's premature use of Jaeger's experiment is threatening to destroy Solos' atmosphere and the Doctor returns to Skybase to try and correct the damage.
The Doctor is forced to help the Marshal cover up his actions with the Investigator but Jo and the others attempt to escape to expose him.
UNIT are invited to observe a demonstration of the new TOMTIT machine, unaware its creator, Professor Thascales, is actually the Master.
The Doctor realises the Master is trying to harness the power of Kronos, last of the Chronovores, but is unaware Percival is harbouring him at the institute.
The Master enlists the help of Krasis to control Kronos while Yates tries to bring the TARDIS to the institute only to come under attack from dangers from the past.
The Master prepares to travel back to Atlantis but the Doctor links his TARDIS to the Master's to try and stop him.
Both TARDISes reach Atlantis, where the Doctor befriends King Dalios while the Master enlists the help of Queen Galleia to try and obtain the crystal of Kronos.
The Doctor enters the labyrinth to try and protect Jo from the minotaur but the Master has seized control of Atlantis and prepares to summon Kronos again.
William Hartnell returned in a cameo as the First Doctor and Patrick Troughton in a more substantial role as the Second Doctor in The Three Doctors. This story marked the end of the Doctor's exile on Earth, opening up the series to more off-world adventures and beginning a gradual reduction of UNIT-related stories.
England, the near future. A strange anti-matter creature arrives on Earth and attacks UNIT HQ. It seems to be specifically seeking the Doctor out - but why? With the Time Lords themselves unable to help, it seems the only person who can help the Doctor is himself - or selves...
The third Doctor and Jo find themselves on an artificial world inside the black hole while the second Doctor tries to find a way to control the organism.
The Time Lord Omega reveals himself to the third Doctor along with plans for vengeance against his own kind.
Omega reveals the purpose behind bringing the Doctor to his antimatter world, but the Doctor(s) discover a startling fact about Omega that he didn't know himself and eventually strike a bargain.
The Doctor attempts to test his new dematerialisation circuit by taking Jo to Metebelis Three but instead the TARDIS arrives in the hold of a 1920s cargo ship.
The Doctor and Jo attempt to find a way out of the Scope but, when Vorg attempts to entertain the Minorans, the crew of the Bernice suddenly become a lot more dangerous.
The Doctor and Jo return to the Bernice to try and aid their escape but find themselves pursued by the Drashigs.
The Doctor escapes from the Scope and joins forces with Vorg to try and save its inhabitants but Kalik is still determined to use the Drashigs to start a rebellion.
The Doctor and Jo land on a spaceship in the far future as it is attacked by Ogrons, which the human crew see as Draconians. The Doctor and Jo are taken to Earth as spies.
The Doctor and Jo are taken to Earth, where both humans and Draconians believe them to be a spy for the other side.
The Doctor is sentenced to life imprisonment at a lunar penal colony while Jo encounters an old enemy.
The Master rescues the Doctor from the lunar penal colony, aiming to take him and Jo to the Ogrons' planet, and the Doctor's attempt to escape leaves him stranded in space.
The Doctor, Jo and the Master are taken to Draconia, where the Doctor tries to convince the Draconians of the truth.
The Doctor, Williams and the Draconian Prince head to the Ogrons' planet to find evidence of the Master's actions but the Master tricks Jo into leading them into a trap.
The planet Spiridon, the year 2540. The Doctor and Jo arrive on the trail of the Daleks, and find unexpected allies in the shape of a Thal suicide squad. But what has brought the Daleks here in the first place?
The Doctor is captured by the Daleks, while Jo is rescued by a friendly Spridon named Wester.
The Doctor and Codal escape from their cell and meet up with the Thal commandos who are trying to get into the Dalek base.
The Doctor and his friends escape from the Dalek base, prompting the Daleks to devise a plan to wipe them out.
The Doctor and his friends ambush two Daleks as part of their plan to get back into the city, but the Daleks are on the verge of unleashing their virus.
The Doctor and his friends prepare to refreeze the Dalek army but the Dalek Supreme has arrived on the planet determined to destroy them all.
While the Doctor plans a holiday to Metebelis Three, Jo and the Brigadier are intrigued by a mysterious death at a coal mine in Llanfairfach, which is being blamed on local company Global Chemicals.
The Doctor and the Brigadier attempt to rescue Jo and Bert from the mine but Global Chemicals prove distinctly uncooperative.
The Doctor and Jo manage to escape from the mine with a maggot egg but Stevens is determined to stop them analysing it.
The Brigadier calls in a full UNIT force to deal with the giant maggots while the Doctor infiltrates Global Chemicals to find out what is really going on.
The Doctor manages to escape from BOSS with help from Yates and discovers Cliff has been infected by a giant maggot.
The Doctor attempts to destroy the giant maggots and cure Cliff but the real threat is BOSS, who is poised to take over all the world's computers.
It was Jon Pertwee's final season as the Doctor and included, very briefly, the first appearance of Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor. The Time Warrior, the season opener, introduced Sarah Jane Smith, who was a frequently featured character in the Doctor Who universe decades after her departure in Season 14. The same story also, for the first time, named the Doctor's homeworld as Gallifrey. UNIT also began to be phased out of the series during this season.
England, the 12th century. Robber baron Irongron is recruited by Linx, a Sontaran warrior whose starship has been forced down on Earth. Linx is forced to use a time-travel device to steal resources and scientists from the future to repair his ship, but in doing so involves UNIT and the Doctor...
The Doctor tracks the missing scientists to Irongron's castle, where Linx is using them to repair his spaceship and construct advanced weapons for Irongron.
The Doctor escapes the castle with Sarah and Hal and must persuade Sir Edward to trust him before Irongron launches an attack on them.
The Doctor attempts to return the scientists to their own time, before Linx tries to use his spaceship and destroys the entire castle.
The Doctor and Sarah return to London in the present day only to find the city strangely deserted, while nearby UNIT are dealing with a series of monster appearances.
The Doctor attempts to solve the mystery of the monster invasion. His first move - the capture of a dinosaur.
Yates sabotages the Doctor's equipment to stop him finding the location of Whitaker's base but then the tyrannosaur escapes, placing Sarah in danger.
Sarah attempts to find a way off the spaceship while the Doctor tries to track down the source of the time displacements.
The Doctor has been framed as the monster maker by Finch and is on the run from the army, while Sarah attempts to alert UNIT to what Grover is up to.
The Doctor is rescued from Finch by the Brigadier and Benton and tries to persuade them to stop Grover before millions of people are erased from history.
The barren planet Exxilon, some time in the future. The TARDIS is forced down by a total power failure and the Doctor and Sarah meet a stranded Earth crew who came here to mine for priceless medical supplies. But what is causing the power failures? And why have the Daleks come here too?
The Doctor and the MSC crew join forces with the Daleks to mine the parrinium, only to come under attack from the Exxilons.
The Doctor and Sarah meet up with Bellal, who helps them escape from the Daleks and explains the origin of the City.
The Doctor and Bellal continue to penetrate the City's defences while Sarah and Jill try to stop the Daleks leaving with the parrinium.
The planet Peladon, some time in the future. Mining disputes threaten the peace of the planet, and as the Doctor and Jo arrive, it seems that the ghost of Aggedor walks once more...
The Doctor is rescued by Gebek, prompting him to try and help the miners, but his advice results in Ettis launching another attack on the armoury.
The Doctor and Sarah pacify Aggedor and the Doctor encourages the Queen to make peace with the miners, but Ortron soon has him under arrest again.
The Ice Warriors take control of the planet and force the miners to return to work but Ettis takes the opportunity to try and destroy the citadel.
Sarah and Alpha Centauri decide to try and alert the Federation to what the Ice Warriors are up to but first they have to escape from the throne room.
The Doctor turns the Aggedor spirit against the Ice Warriors to aid the Peladonians in their battle but Eckersley attacks him with the security system.
While the Doctor carries out an investigation into ESP, Mike Yates asks Sarah to look into some strange goings on at a meditation centre he's attending.
Lupton forms an alliance with the spider to steal the Doctor's blue crystal, while Sarah and Mike attempt to alert people to what they've seen.
The Doctor and Sarah head to the meditation centre to try and get the crystal back while Lupton prepares to return it to Metebelis Three. But all their plans are disrupted when it is stolen by Tommy.
Sarah is captured by the spiders' guards while the Doctor tries to help Arak and the others strike back against the spiders.
The Doctor escapes from the spiders' larder only to encounter the Great One, while Sarah makes a deal with the Queen Spider.
K'Anpo persuades the Doctor he must face his fear and return the crystal to the Great One.But first they need to get past Barnes and his men.
All the stories in this season were interconnected, several forming a loose story arc relating to Space Station Nerva. The Cybermen returned to the series for the first time since The Invasion. Genesis of the Daleks, a story which introduced Davros and showed the creation of the Daleks, is one of the most famous of all Doctor Who serials.
The Doctor changes form again. Before he has fully re-covered, something of colossal strength steals a secret weapon, and the convalescent Doctor starts to investigate.
The Doctor and Sarah Jane become convinced Think Tank are behind the electronic component thefts but are unable to stop them carrying out another raid.
Sarah Jane and Kettlewell infiltrate an SRS meeting to try and find out what Miss Winters is up to but there is a surprise in store.
UNIT attempt to get into the bunker to stop Miss Winters setting off the world's nuclear missiles but first they have to get past the K1.
The Doctor's attempt to give Harry a trip in the TARDIS sees the two of them and Sarah Jane arriving onboard a space station in the far future, with some rather deadly security mechanisms.
The Doctor and Harry revive the Ark's medtech, Vira, to help Sarah Jane. But when station commander Noah is revived, he becomes suspicious of the newcomers.
Knowing that Noah has been infected by the Wirrn, the Doctor persuades Vira to halt the reviving of her people, knowing it will place them in danger as well.
The Doctor tries to protect the humans still in cryogenic suspension from the Wirrn, who are determined to use Earth as their new breeding ground.
The Doctor, Sarah Jane and Harry teleport to Earth to ensure the planet is safe for the survivors on board Nerva Beacon to return and reinhabit their world. A Sontaran named Styre has captured a group of humans and is conducting experiments on them to discover the human body's weaknesses, as part of the Sontaran's goal for domination of the galaxy.
The Doctor learns that Styre has been experimenting on the Galsec crewmembers to pave the way for a Sontaran invasion of Earth and decides the only way to halt his plans is to challenge him to a duel.
The planet Skaro, the distant past. The Time Lords divert the Doctor, Sarah Jane and Harry to this war-torn world, and give the Doctor a mission: the evil of the Daleks is about to be born here, and the Doctor is to try to ensure they evolve into less lethally aggressive beings - or, failing that, to avert their creation altogether. But has even the Doctor the right to commit genocide?
The Doctor and Harry are taken to the Kaled bunker where Davros is preparing to demonstrate the Daleks, while Sarah Jane is captured by the Thals and taken to their city as a slave worker.
The Doctor and Harry head to the Kaled city to alert the authorities to Davros' plans while Sarah Jane and Sevrin are forced to work on the completion of the Thals' rocket.
The Doctor fails to prevent the Thals from destroying the Kaled city but they don't have long to enjoy their victory before the Daleks attack.
The Doctor is forced to give Davros full details of future Dalek victories but opposition to Davros' plans is growing among the Kaleds and soon there is open rebellion.
Gharman tries to convince the Kaleds to vote against the Dalek project but Davros has a trick up his sleeve, while the Doctor works to destroy the tape recording of Dalek victory and the Thals plan an intervention of their own.
The orbit of Jupiter, the 25th century. Arriving back on the Nerva Beacon much earlier in history, the Doctor and his friends discover the satellite beset by space plague while its crew struggles to keep space traffic away from Voga, the newest moon of Jupiter. But what is the connection between Voga, the plague, and some old enemies of the Doctor?
The Doctor transmits Sarah Jane and Harry down to Voga to cure Sarah Jane of the Cybermat's poison but Kellman's sabotage means he is unable to bring them back.
The Cybermen force the Doctor, Stevenson and Lester to carry bombs to the centre of Voga while Sarah Jane, Harry and Tyrum decide to contact Vorus.
The Doctor, Harry and Lester try to destroy the Cybermen's relay device, while the Vogans prepare to destroy Nerva even though Sarah Jane is still on board.
It was during this season that the Doctor cut ties to UNIT (after Terror of the Zygons, the Brigadier would not appear again until Mawdryn Undead in 1983, and The Seeds of Doom marked the last occasion to date that the Doctor was explicitly said to be working for UNIT - as opposed to working with them as occasions warranted). Several of the serials in this season, particularly Pyramids of Mars and The Brain of Morbius, are among the best-known of the 1970s-era storylines. Though it was aired as a part of Season 13, Terror of the Zygons was actually filmed as part of the previous season; this holdover allowed the series to switch back to an autumn season start.
Scotland, the near future. Something is smashing oil rigs off the Scottish coast, and UNIT have been called in to investigate. The Brigadier summons the Doctor to Earth to help in the investigation, but it soon becomes clear some kind of alien presence is at work...
The Zygon traps the Doctor and Sarah Jane in a decompression chamber while Harry is taken to the aliens' underwater ship.
The Doctor and the Brigadier begin to realise who the Zygon imposters among them are while Sarah Jane discovers a secret tunnel to the underwater ship.
UNIT attempt to track down the Zygon ship while Broton prepares to have the Skarasen attack London.
The Doctor and Sarah answer a distress call and find themselves on Zeta Minor, the last planet of the known universe, where a Morestran expedition has gone missing.
The Doctor realises that Zeta Minor lies on the boundary between the universes of matter and anti-matter and something on the planet won't let the Morestrans leave.
The Doctor makes a deal with the Anti-Matter Beast to return all the anti-matter to the planet but Sorenson is determined to continue his research.
The Doctor tries to convince Sorenson to sacrifice himself for the rest of the crew but Salamar's attempt to deal with the situation causes their problems to multiply.
The Doctor and Sarah are drawn off course and, instead of UNIT HQ, they arrive on the same site in 1911.
The Doctor, Sarah and Laurence try to find a way to sever Sutekh's link to the mummies while poacher Ernie Clements finds the priory surrounded by a forcefield.
The Doctor and Sarah try to destroy Sutekh's rocket but the Osiran's mental powers prove too great for them.
Sutekh forces the Doctor to transport Scarman and a mummy to Mars, where the Doctor and Sarah try to stop them destroying the Eye of Horus.
The Doctor and Sarah return to Earth in the present day to find a strangely deserted village and woods stalked by white-clad figures.
The Doctor suspects Crayford brought something to Earth in his rocket, as he and Sarah find themselves hunted by UNIT.
The Doctor is captured by Styggron and left to die in the destruction of the fake village but Sarah escapes from the disorientation chamber to try and rescue him.
The Doctor and Sarah reach Earth and try to warn the research centre about the Kraal invasion before Styggron unleashes his virus.
The storm-lashed planet Karn. Near a graveyard of crashed starships, the demented surgeon Solon hides in his castle, the last acolyte of the Time Lord despot Morbius. He only needs one final item to make his master live again... and then the Doctor and Sarah arrive...
The Doctor is captured by the Sisterhood, and Sarah Jane is blinded freeing him. The Doctor has no choice but to go back for a cure, unaware that he is leaving Sarah Jane in the hands of a treacherous Dr. Solon and the renegade Time Lord Morbius.
While the Doctor goes to confront the Sisterhood to seek a cure for Sarah Jane's blindness, Solon realizes that he must transfer Morbius' brain into a new body before it is too late.
Morbius lives once more, but as a rampaging beast. The Doctor is forced to ally with Dr. Solon to bring him to heel, but the two disagree about what should happen to Morbius.
The Antarctic, the near future. A strange seed-pod is unearthed from 20-thousand-year-old ice. The Doctor and Sarah go to investigate, but are too late to prevent the pod infecting a scientist and unleashing a threat to all animal life on Earth...
Two employees of the millionaire Harrison Chase arrive at the Antarctic base, and they will stop at nothing to get hold of the second seed-pod.
The Doctor and Sarah Jane return to England after their Antarctic ordeal and Chase tries to eliminate them, but they escape and track him down at his estate, where he is preparing to open the Krynoid pod.
The Doctor is captured by Chase, who plans to breed the stolen Krynoid pod. He is placed in an automated compost hopper and only Sarah Jane can save him... but will she make it before the Krynoid grows to fruition ?
The Krynoid grows to a monstrous size and traps the Doctor and the others in a cottage. The creature demands they turn over the Doctor, while Chase seeks to make an alliance with the alien vegetation.
The Doctor, Sarah Jane, and Scorby are trapped in the manor as a possessed Chase stalks them from within, while the gigantic Krynoid prepares to crush them from without. Worse, the alien plant is ready to germinate, spreading its seeds across England.
The season is notable for the departure of Sarah Jane Smith in The Hand of Fear and for The Deadly Assassin, a story set entirely on Gallifrey which expounded greatly upon the culture and history of the Time Lords, and the Eye of Harmony and Rassilon are mentioned for the first time. The Deadly Assassin also featured the return of the Decayed Master in a degenerated form and had the Doctor without a companion for an entire story for the first time in the history of Doctor Who. This story is also the first time the limit of regenerations is set.
The Doctor and Sarah arrive in Renaissance Italy unaware that they have brought a deadly alien energy force with them.
The Mandragora energy joins forces with the secret Brotherhood of Demnos. Count Federico plots to steal the Dukedom of San Martino from his nephew, Giuliano.
Tempted by the promises of ultimate power offered by Mandragora, Hieronymous plots to eliminate the threat posed by the Doctor and uses an unwitting Sarah as his weapon.
As the leading scholars of the era assemble in the palace for the masque, Mandragora prepares to attack, intent on sending the world into a new dark age.
England, the near future. The TARDIS materialises in a quarry and Sarah is trapped under a rockfall. But what is the origin of the fossilised hand she is found gripping ? And who is the Eldrad she keeps mumbling about ?
The Doctor and Professor Watson struggle to stop first Sarah Jane and then Driscoll from obeying the strange and dangerous orders of the stone hand, which has suddenly come to life.
The energy of the reactor has returned the mysterious Eldrad to life. The Doctor agrees to take her back to Kastria. But what is waiting for them there?
The Doctor and Sarah race to save the mortally wounded Eldrad. But they find that everything is not quite as she told them.
Gallifrey, planet of the Time Lords. Summoned home by a premonition of murder, the Doctor discovers a dark conspiracy at the highest levels of Time Lord society... and his oldest enemy, who poses a threat to the existence of Gallifrey itself...
The President of the High Council has been killed and the Doctor is the prime suspect. The Time Lords are eager to dispense quick justice and the Doctor must race agains the clock to discover the truth... and an old enemy.
The Doctor has entered the computation Matrix to prove his innocence. But his opponent is prepared for him and the two engage in a mental duel to the death.
The Doctor has won his fight in the Matrix and revealed the assassin. But the Master is not defeated and sets a plan in motion that could destroy the Time Lords.
An unnamed planet, the distant future. Arriving in a place that seems oddly familiar, the Doctor finds the savage Sevateem tribe battling to free their captive god, Xoanon, from the Evil One and his Tesh servants. But can the whole situation really be the Doctor's fault?
The Sevateem launch another attack to try to free Xoanon as the Doctor tries to figure out his role in their past. But his only chance to win their trust is to face a deadly test.
The Doctor has broken through the barrier and found the Tesh. But he comes to an awful realisation about Xoanon.
The Doctor tries to fix the mad computer Xoanon. But it is determined to stop him – even if it must destroy the entire world!
An unnamed world, an unknown time. A vast mining vessel trawls a sea of mineral sand for valuable ores, the tiny human crew served by an army of humanoid robots. But as the Doctor and Leela arrive, one of the crew is found murdered... and if they didn't do it, who did?
The Doctor and Leela are suspected of murder. But the real foe is using robots to cut down the crew – and even sabotage the sand miner itself!
One of the crew is the insane Taren Capel, who is using robots to carry out the murders. The Doctor discovers that there are also others who aren't what they appear to be either.
The Doctor and the surviving humans fight for their lives against Taren Capel and his growing army of deadly robots.
London, the 1890s. As magician Li H'Sen Chang captivates audiences, a spate of disappearances amongst young women goes largely unnoticed. But almost upon their arrival, the Doctor and Leela find themselves confronting the feared Tong of the Black Scorpion, and a menace from another time. And there's something fishy in the sewers, too...
The Doctor and Leela investigate the strange events in Victorian London. But a mysterious masked figure lurks in the shadows.
As Li H'Sen Chang works to secure the time cabinet, Leela pursues and investigates his master – the mysterious and murderous Weng-Chiang.
The Doctor and Leela attend Li H'Sen Chang's performance, hoping to confront the magician. But his master Weng-Chiang has other plans…
The Doctor and his allies try to track down Weng-Chiang before he can activate the time cabinet and possibly destroy London.
The Doctor and Weng-Chiang have their final confrontation in the mysterious House of the Dragon -- watched by the evil duplicitous Mr. Sin.
This season introduced K9 to the series and saw the departure of Leela. It was originally intended to include Terrance Dicks' story The Vampire Mutations but, due to a major BBC production of Dracula, it was postponed. It later became Season 18's State of Decay. To replace it, Dicks quickly scripted the season opener, Horror of Fang Rock. The season took a two week transmission break over the 1977 Christmas period, between the broadcast of part four of The Sun Makers and part one of Underworld.
The English channel, the 1900s AD. The TARDIS lands on barren Fang Rock, inhabited until now only by three lighthouse keepers. But what is the strange fog covering the island, and can it be connected to the falling star sighted earlier that night?
The survivors of a wrecked ship are stranded with the lighhouse crew on Fang Rock as a deadly menace slithers through the fog. Has the Beast of Fang Rock returned?
The Doctor barricades everyone in the lighthouse to protect them from the mysterious deadly creature in the fog. But it may already be inside, biding its time…
The Rutan starts picking off the surviving humans one by one as the Doctor and Leela struggle to defeat not only the alien but an entire fleet waiting to occupy Earth.
Deep space, 5000AD. An Earth supply shuttle is infected by a strange sentient space-borne virus, which quickly spreads to the crew of the refuelling station on the moon Titan. Even worse, the Doctor himself falls victim. But why is Leela immune, and what is the virus's ultimate goal?
Leela and Lowe take the Doctor to the Bi-Al Foundation for help. But how can they cure an infection of the mind?
Miniaturised clones of the Doctor and Leela are injected into his brain. But they must now fight the virus on its own level. And its servants are closing in around them.
The Nucleus, now grown to human size, is determined to spawn and take over the Galaxy. Only the Doctor and Leela can stop it.
England, the late 1970s. At Fetch Priory, Dr Fendelman's experiments with the new Time Scanner are disrupted by the mysterious death of a hiker, nearby. Then there's the mysterious skull, also being used as part of his work. A skull that seems to predate the evolution of mankind. What is the true role of the Fendahl in humanity's evolution?
The mystery surrounding the strange skull deepens. Thea is slowly succumbing to its influence while the Doctor prepares to battle a creature from mythology.
While Max prepares to tap supernatural forces beyond imagining, the Doctor and Leela investigate the legend of the Fendahl.
The Fendahl is returning to life, ready to consume everything in its path. Can the Doctor find a way to kill death itself?
Pluto, the distant future. The planet has been terraformed and is now orbited by artificial suns, provided by the rapacious company who ruthlessly exploit the relocated human workforce. The Doctor, Leela, and K9 arrive and befriend a luckless drone worker, but they must flee with him to the dark undercity...
The Doctor has been captured by the Gatherer. Leela works to free him but the Gatherer is already laying his own plans…
Now Leela is the prisoner of the Collector. He knows of the Doctor and is determined to rid himself of both of them.
The Doctor now moves to completely overthrow the Company. But the Collector has one last trump card to play.
Deep space, an unknown time. The Doctor encounters the Minyans, survivors of a race the Time Lords unwittingly obliterated early in their own history. The Minyans are searching for their race's lost gene banks, a quest which takes them to the edge of the galaxy…
After 100,000 years, the Minyans have found the long-lost P7E. But what awaits them on the ship, long buried in the core of a newborn planet?
The Minyans have, at long last, found the P7E. But a host of guards and robotic seers stand between them and the race banks.
The Minyons struggle to gain the precious race banks from the Oracle. But perhaps it is giving in a little too easily ...
Gallifrey, world of the Time Lords. The Doctor returns and claims the vacant presidency. But his behaviour is erratic and his motives mysterious.
The Doctor is made president of the Time Lords. He immediately orders K-9 to lower the planet's defences and has Leela banished to the wilderness.
The Doctor has betrayed his own people and enabled a Vardan invasion of Gallifrey. Leela joins forces with the Outsiders and prepares to strike back against the aliens.
The Doctor works to free his planet of the Vardan menace. How can he defeat an enemy who can read his very thoughts? And does their invasion conceal a greater menace?
The Sontarans have invaded Gallifrey, seeking to seize the incredible power of the Time Lords. The Doctor's first step is to cut them off from their fleet. But Kelner is helping the enemy…
The Sontarans finally invade the TARDIS itself, seeking the Great Key. The Doctor, however, has other uses for this powerful object…
This season saw the introduction of the Black and White Guardians as well as the companion Romana, who became only the second female Time Lord companion since Susan. This season is sometimes colloquially known as The Key to Time season after the story arc involving the Key to Time. Although not the first season to consist of linked stories (Season 8 in 1971 was the first, as all the stories that year featured the Master), it was the first to be recognised as having a series long arc. Although multi serial arcs would occur again, such a full- season experiment wouldn't be attempted again until Season 23. The arc has a number of similarities to the Season 1 story The Keys of Marinus. The storyline was originally proposed for Season 15, but it required more planning.
The Magellanic Clouds, the planet Ribos, an unknown time. Ordered by the White Guardian to collect the pieces of the omnipotent Key to Time, The Doctor, K-9 and his new assistant Romana arrive. Collecting the first segment is not going to be easy…
Trying to obtain the first segment of the Key to Time, the Doctor and Romana are swept up in an elaborate con. The target – the homicidal Graff Vynda K.
Prisoners of the maniacal Graff Vynda K, the Doctor and Romana must break out and pursue the first segment – even as Unstoff takes it into the most dangerous place on Ribos.
Trapped in the catacombs between a mad warlord and ravenous monsters, the Doctor and Romana work desperately to obtain the segment of the Key to Time - and escape alive.
Planet Zanak, unknown time. The Doctor and Romana are seeking the planet Calufrax where the second segment waits. They are in the right place and the right time… but on the wrong planet.
The Doctor begins to investigate the mysteriously wealthy planet Zanak. Mentiads, a deranged Captain, strange omens, miraculous mines – what does it all mean? And what does it have to do with the Key to Time?
The Mentiads take the Doctor, Romana and Kimus to a reunion with K9 and Mula, where they set about trying to defeat the Captain.
The Captain and Xanxia work toward their secret goals. Both depends on the pirate planet consuming one more victim - Earth.
England, the late 1970s. The Doctor and Romana arrive in search of the third segment. But the Tracer readings are erratic and something ominous is happening with an ancient stone circle...
The quest for the Third Segment has landed the Doctor and Romana in the midst of a druidic cult centred on a stone circle. But the stones are not what they seem, and somewhere out there is a blood-thirsty Celtic goddess.
Chased by blood-thirsty stones, the Doctor must find a way to rescue Romana. What awaits him in the theoretical absurdity of hyperspace?
Facing a sentence of death from merciless justice machines, the Doctor must play for time while Romana tries to discover just who Vivian Fey really is.
Arriving on Tara, Romana locates the fourth segment of the Key to Time with ease. But getting it away proves more difficult, as she is captured by the scheming Count Grendel who wants the throne of Tara for himself.
The Doctor must employ a desperate gambit to keep the evil Grendel off the throne. And the Count has a new pawn to play - Romana.
The battle for control of Tara turns into a duel of wits between the Doctor and Grendel. But the Count shows he has more treacherous tricks up his sleeve.
Grendel plans two weddings and a funeral to cement his hold over Tara. The Doctor and K-9 race to foil him and save the Time Lady's life.
The Third Moon of Delta Magna, The Future. The Doctor and Romana arrive in search of the fifth segment and are immediately swept up in a conflict between the crew of a new refinery and the embittered natives…
The Doctor and Romana try to avoid being sacrificed to Kroll – just in time for the real monster to appear.
The massive Kroll is awake and killing anyone in its path. And the swampies are determined to appease it – by sacrificing the Doctor and Romana.
The Doctor and Romana are trapped between the monstrous Kroll and the insane refinery commander. And there is no sign of the fifth segment of the Key to Time.
Searching for the sixth segment, the Doctor and Romana land in the midst of a brutal nuclear war between the planets Atrios and Zeos.
Swept up in an apocalyptic war, the Doctor must help the Marshal defend his planet. But who or what controls the Marshal?
The Doctor meets a new enemy – the Shadow – who wants the Key to Time. And the Atrian-Zeon war is approaching an awful climax.
The Doctor is forced into a desperate gambit to prevent a massacre. But it is getting harder to tell friend from foe.
The Doctor and Romana finally venture into the Shadow's lair. The Shadow appears to hold all the cards but the Doctor has found an old friend.
The Doctor and the Shadow have their final confrontation to take control of the Key to Time. Completing it may entail an awful sacrifice. And the Black Guardian will do anything to obtain it and plunge the Universe into chaos.
It consisted of five stories, plus the incomplete Shada, unfinished as a result of an industrial strike. Lalla Ward joined as Romana II, and the season is notable for the involvement of Douglas Adams in the writing department. This was the last season to use the traditional Delia Derbyshire "Doctor Who theme" arrangement.
Skaro, the Dalek homeworld, some time in the future. The TARDIS lands in the irradiated ruins of the old Kaled city and something is moving underneath the wasted surface of the planet…
Romana has been captured by the Daleks, the Doctor is the guest of the Movellans. The Daleks are drilling deep into Skaro for something and the Doctor has an awful suspicion about their objective…
The Daleks have awoken Davros in the heart of Skaro. Only the Doctor and the Movellans stand between them and their objective. But are the Movellans really on the Doctor's side?
Trapped between the Movellans and the Daleks, the Doctor must find a way to defeat both. Meanwhile, vast space fleets await new orders.
Paris, 1979. The Doctor and Romana are here on holiday, but something is disturbing the flow of time. Could the time travel experiments of Count Scarlioni be to blame?
Captured by the Count, the Doctor and Romana uncover an elaborate plan to steal the Mona Lisa. But there is more to Scarlioni's plans than a simple theft.
The Doctor and Romana unwrap an intricate plot involving aliens, time travel and the Mona Lisa. How is Count Scarlioni living in two times at once? And what does he want?
Scaroth is determined to go back 400 million years in time to prevent a mistake. But the Doctor must stop him – because the consequences would be disastrous.
The planet Chloris. Drawn here by a mysterious distress signal, the Doctor becomes the prisoner of the ruthless Adrasta. A strange and deadly pit awaits those who displease her.
The Doctor is in a pit with a deadly creature. And Adrasta has plans for Romana and K-9.
The Doctor has come face to face with a massive green creature. Adrasta goes into the mines to kill the monster. But everything is not as it appears…
The truth about the creature is revealed. But its imprisonment may have already set in motion a terrible revenge.
The orbit of the holiday planet, Azure, the year 2116. The starships Empress and Hecate are fused together after an accident in hyperspace. Naturally the Doctor thinks he can find a solution, but has the accident unleashed a far more deadly menace?
Two ships have collided above Azure but that may be the least of the Doctor's problems. Monsters and drug smugglers are loose on the ship. And it all seems to tie in with Tryst's electronic zoo…
The Doctor and Romana begin to uncover the truth about the strange events aboard the luxury liner Empress. They first have to separate the two ships from each other, but they've got Mandrells, drug smugglers and police chasing after them.
The Doctor finally discovers the truth about the drug smuggling ring. But the villains are still one step ahead.
Deep space, an unknown time. The TARDIS encounters a disabled Skonnon battlecruiser transporting Anethan 'tribute'. The co-pilot is determined to reach Skonnos at any cost.
Having reached Skonnos, Romana is sent with the Anethians to face the deadly Nimon.
The Doctor and Romana are trapped in the Nimon's lair. Is he really the last of his race? What are his real intentions toward Skonnos?
Romana is trapped on a ruined planet. The Nimons are launching their invasion of Skonnos. Can the Doctor stop the 'Great Journey of Life' ?
The season featured a story arc involving E-Space and the return of the Master who had stolen a new body rather than regenerate. The stories were darker and more adult in tone than those during the Graham Williams era. They also attempted to emphasise science, much to the satisfaction of both script editor Christopher H. Bidmead and executive producer Barry Letts. Notably, this season revolves around the theme of entropy, linking together all of its stories in a rare phenomenon for the show (while other story arcs would be linked together via people, objects, etc, the use of an overarching theme for a season was unprecedented). This theme would eventually foreshadow and culminate in the Doctor's regeneration at the end of the season.
The planet Argolis, around the year 2290. The Argolins live in a huge shielded city, protected from the irradiated wasteland outside. The planet's survival depends on the tourists their Leisure Hive attracts. But a series of horrific deaths seems to jeopardise that future - can the Doctor and Romana find a solution?
Another man is found dead, strangled by the Doctor's scarf, so the Doctor is put on trial. By some of the archaic rules of law, he's made to "prove" his innocence by becoming a test subject in a new tachyon experiment with time. The result will prove his innocence or guilt, so they say.
With the Doctor suffering from the time experiment, the clandestine schemes of others start coming to light, along with the secreted purposes to which the tachyonic generator has been used.
With the saboteur and murderer revealed and arrested, peace should now be restored, but a new threat emerges - a war-monger who's both ready and eager to aggress upon other worlds with a newly manufactured warrior army.
The desert planet Zolpha-Thura, the 1980s. Giant intelligent megalomaniac cactus Meglos is planning to conquer the galaxy but first it needs the dodecahedron, a powerful energy source currently on the planet Tigella. To get it back Meglos recruits a band of galactic mercenaries and hatches a cunning scheme requiring it to impersonate the Doctor...
With the TARDIS occupants trapped in a chronic histeratic loop (forever reliving the same moment in time), the devious Meglos - disguised as the Doctor - gains the trust of the Tigellans along with full and private access to their power chamber.
Can Romana escape the Gaztaks ? What has become of the Dodecahedron ? What pressing appointment awaits the Doctor ?
With the Doctor about to be ritualistically sacrificed to appease the god Ti for stealing the dodecahedron, Meglos and the pirates return to Zolfa-Thura with the dodecahedron to fire up an ancient weapon and blast Tigella out of existence.
Deep space, an unknown time - on course for Gallifrey, the TARDIS passes through a strange disruption. When they materialise, the scanner shows the Time Lord homeworld... but the travellers have passed into the negative pocket universe of E-Space and are in fact on the planet Alzarius, where evolution works very differently...
As the humanoid community takes refuge in their crashed spaceship, venomous marsh spiders begin to hatch from the local fruit while bestial marshmen emerge from the waters to walk the land. It is quite apparent that the marshmen desire entry into the spaceship. Meanwhile, as a curious marshchild shadows the Doctor, a group of teen rebels decides to take over the TARDIS.
Infection from a spider bite causes Romana's personality to change. Meanwhile the Doctor, after discovering that the spaceship society is in a perpetual state of repair and upgrade, has morality issues with the ship's leading scientist who readies himself to perform gruesome experiments on the live marshchild while it's fully conscious.
Marshmen invade the Terradonian ship thanks to Romana, who seems to be in communion with them. While the ship's inhabitants flee for their lives, the Doctor discovers a crucial fact why these humanoids can never return to the planet Terradon.
Still trapped in negative E-Space, the TARDIS lands on an unnamed world to find a society sliding back into feudalism. What is the secret of the Three Who Rule? And what ancient enemy of the Time Lords is stirring again on this world...?
The Doctor and Romana are escorted to the tower to meet the royal leaders, hoping they can find answers to why this society evolves backwards. The Doctor recognizes the tower as an old Earth spaceship, and further finds that the old fuel tanks, far from empty, are full - but with blood. Meanwhile, Councilor Aukon senses intelligence in Adric and selects him to be the their first "Chosen One."
The Doctor finds archive material in the TARDIS that tells him he's dealing with an ancient enemy of the Time Lords, a nearly indestructible king vampire who's ready to revive and reenter normal space, spreading death, once again, across the universe.
The Doctor joins the villagers' revolt against their vampire rulers, unsure how to kill the king vampire. Meanwhile Adric is first in line to join the new vampire order while Romana is laid out as a sacrificial Time Lord for the awakening king vampire and his swarm of bats.
The TARDIS is drawn into an empty white void, somewhere between universes. But they are not the only ones trapped there.
When Rorvik learns that Romana is a time sensitive, he takes her prisoner, forcing her to find a way out of the void. The Doctor attempts to discover what lies beyond the mirror.
While Biroc leads the Doctor to a view of the Tharil's lordly past, Romana learns more about the damaged freighter and the coldheartedness of its crew. Meanwhile Commander Rorvik, confounded by the time mirror inside the universal center gateway, ignores evidence that it's no simple mirror and decides to blast it, imperiling the lives of everyone.
The Doctor deduces that the freighter is a slave ship loaded up with Tharils to be sold as time machine components, but the immense weight of Rorvik's damaged ship, designed to contain the Tharils, is now collapsing the fragile void of the micro-universe in which they're all stuck, pulling everything inside ever closer.
The planet Traken. The Traken union is a society living in perfect harmony, watched over by the powerful but benign Keeper. But now the Keeper is dying, and he senses a great evil within his protectorate. Can the Doctor help him discover the secret of the Melkur?
Tremas claims consular privilege to protect the Doctor and Adric from execution, though it binds his fate to theirs if they're found guilty of murder. Melkur strengthens his hold over Kassia while Seron decides to have rapport with The Keeper to learn truth, and Adric finds evidence of another TARDIS in the area.
With Tremas falling under suspicion, due to his association with the Doctor, a new Keeper Nominate is named. Now, with everything in place, Melkur has only a short wait before his full malevolence can unfold.
With the merciless Melkur in control of The Source, the Doctor and his allies have only a slim chance of deposing him, which also puts the peace of the Traken Union in severe jeopardy.
Deciding to repair the TARDIS' chameleon circuit, the Doctor goes to Earth to find a real police box. But an old enemy is one step ahead of him.
The Doctor, aware that his time may soon be ending, travels to the Logopolis where a series of fateful events are set in motion.
With Nyssa from Traken unexpectedly rejoining the group, Adric aids the Monitor of Logopolis in trying to save the Doctor before time runs out. The Master, at liberty to prepare, is finally ready to reveal his true target, which unknowingly sets off the biggest catastrophe of all time.
With the universe collapsing, the Doctor forms an uneasy alliance with the Master to save it. In case all does not go well, the Watcher takes the Doctor's companions to a safe place, but his plans for them don't stop there. The one hope for all lies back on Earth.
Two milestones occurred in Earthshock. Firstly, the Cybermen returned, unannounced, for the first time since Revenge of the Cybermen in 1975 with a completely different design, with David Banks' first appearance as Cyber-Leader, a role he would return to in subsequent stories involving the Cybermen until Silver Nemesis. Secondly, for the first time since The Daleks' Master Plan which had aired in 1965 and 1966, a companion died. Other milestones included Black Orchid, the first non-science fictional historical serial since 1966's The Highlanders, and the destruction of the Doctor's sonic screwdriver in The Visitation. A cliffhanger ending to the series appeared to have left Tegan stranded at Heathrow Airport with the Doctor abandoning her by mistake (the Doctor had spent most of the series trying to get Tegan back to Heathrow, which almost became a running theme).
Southern England, 1981. The universe has been saved, but at the cost of the fourth Doctor's life. The newly-regenerated fifth Doctor must rely on his friends to survive as the regeneration threatens to fail…
The TARDIS is plunging toward destruction. But even if the Doctor can escape, is yet another trap waiting?
The Doctor has arrived in the supposed safety of Castrovalva. But something is odd about the seemingly tranquil city…
The TARDIS crew are caught in a space-time trap. Escaping will mean a final confrontation with the Master.
Deep space, four days from Earth, 1981. The TARDIS materialises aboard a massive Urbankan starship. What is the real agenda of Monarch, master of the vessel?
The Doctor and his companions explore Monarch's vessel. But what is the secret of the ancient Earthlings aboard?
Bigon reveals Monarch's terrible plan to the Doctor. Can he act in time to save Nyssa? And which side is Adric on?
The Doctor has little time left to stop the evil Monarch. But he is losing allies — and the TARDIS is gone.
The TARDIS lands on the jungle planet Deva Loka, where an Earth expedition has been sent to study the Kinda, a tribe of primitive people. Three team members have already vanished. Are the Kinda as primitive as they seem?
Sanders meets Panna and Karuna who leave a lasting impression on him, while the Dukkha does the same on Tegan. When Hindle's breakdown begins, the Doctor and Todd are in danger.
Aris now carries the mark of the Mara and has gained voice, so Panna shows the Doctor and Todd exactly what the past, present and future hold for Deva Loka.
As the Mara finally breaks free of its dream dimension, the Kinda must do everything they can to contain it. Hindle's need to destroy everything and everyone is unstoppable.
As plague sweeps 17th century England, the Doctor discovers a more exotic threat at work - shipwrecked Terileptil convicts, intent on making the planet their own.
To rescue Tegan and Adric, captured and interrogated by the Terileptil fugitive leader, the Doctor must get past the locals under alien control and overcome Death (an android servant dressed up as The Grim Reaper).
The Doctor makes the fugitive Terileptils a rare offer they shouldn't refuse; but, though few in numbers, they have a plan in the works for the quick and complete domination of Earth and mean to see it through.
With Tegan and Richard under alien control, and the manor sealed against anyone leaving or entering, it's a question whether or not the Doctor can get to London before the Terileptils release their improved strain of black death upon the world.
The TARDIS arrives on Earth in 1925 where, due to a case of mistaken identity, the Doctor ends up playing in a local cricket match, but events take on a more sinister tone at the country home of their host Lord Cranleigh.
Ann escapes her Harlequin-clad abductor but it's The Doctor whom she accuses. Strangled bodies mount and The Doctor is arrested along with "accessories" Tegan, Nyssa and Adric. Will Lady Cranleigh's secret come out?
The TARDIS crew arrives on Earth in the 26th Century in a cave system where a military force is investigating the disappearance of a palaentological expedition.
With her crew vanishing mysteriously, Captain Briggs assumes the Doctor is the guilty party, but the traitor is closer to home… as are the Cybermen.
The Cybermen are released from their silos and are on the march, attacking Briggs's crew and ensuring that the freighter remains on course for Earth. But why?
The Doctor realises the freighter is now a huge bomb and sends it back through time where it can explode millions of years ago... but Adric is still aboard...
A Concorde loaded with passengers and crew vanishes into thin air. The still-grieving TARDIS crew arrive at Heathrow Airport in 1981 as the Doctor volunteers his services to solve the mystery.
The Doctor's TARDIS is stolen, and tracking it down reveals the existence of an alien named Kalid controlling events in the past. While the Doctor challenges Kalid's motives for being there, Tegan and Nyssa discover the source of Kalid's power - an even greater threat for the Doctor.
From within their sarcophagus, the gestalt Xeraphin are communicating through Nyssa. But their psychic energy is so powerful it may destroy her body completely.
The Master's TARDIS is repaired and the Doctor must follow him back to 20th century Heathrow, once he has rescued all the passengers and crew from both Concordes.
Structurally, the season retread season 18's formula of including a trilogy of stories bound together by an overarching theme. In this instance, the tripartite tale involved Turlough's attempts to kill the Doctor at the behest of the Black Guardian.
On Gallifrey, someone on the high council is perpetrating a treasonous act - transmitting the Doctor's bio-extract from the space/time matrix to an anti-matter being. On Earth, two English lads spend their last night in Amsterdam sleeping in a crypt where they're attacked by an alien creature under the same anti-matter being's control.
With an anti-matter being trying to enter the universe through the Doctor, risking the destruction of everything, there is only one clear course of action for the High Council of Time Lords to take: execute the Doctor. Meanwhile, Tegan arrives in Amsterdam and hears about what's become of her cousin from his unscathed friend.
Something seemed amiss about the Doctor's execution, so the Castellan has Commander Maxil discreetly but fully look it. Meanwhile, as the Doctor meets the anti-matter being inside the Time Lord Matrix, Tegan and her cousin's friend run afoul of a bird-like alien back on Earth.
The High Council creates a distraction so the Doctor and Nyssa can find Omega on Earth and prevent his reentry into our universe.
Tegan steers the TARDIS to the planet Manussa, without meaning to - but why? And is it a coincidence that the planet is about to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the expulsion of the insidious Mara?
The Doctor talks to Ambril and Chela to try and stop the 500th anniversary celebrations. A possessed Tegan finds herself in Dugdale's Hall of Mirrors to where she summons Lon. The Doctor and Nyssa return to the caves.
The possessed Tegan and Lon try to find the whereabouts of the Great Crystal. The Doctor finds himself in prison, with only Nyssa to try and get him out. Chela tells the Doctor tales of Dojjen.
The Doctor and the original snakedancer Dojjen work to rid the planet of the Mara.
The Doctor discovers a starship trapped in a time warp over Earth. Meanwhile, public schoolboy - and secret alien émigré, Turlough, learns he can have that which he most desires, in return for the murder of the Doctor...
The TARDIS lands on Earth six years out of date, stranding the Doctor in 1983 while leaving Tegan and Nyssa to look for him in 1977. Both parties also encounter former companion, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, though curiously, he has no memory of the Doctor at all.
Mawdryn and his eternal mutants reveal the truth: they are exiles, they are in pain and need the Doctor's future 'lives', as afforded by each of his remaining regenerations.
As the Doctor's ethics are challenged and the two Brigadiers finally meet, Turlough plots with the Black Guardian to bring the Time Lord down once and for all...
Deep space, some time in the future. Still following the Black Guardian's orders, Turlough sabotages the TARDIS, forcing an emergency fusion with an apparently deserted starship. But the ship is headed for the notorious plague colony, Terminus. Surrounded by plague victims and space pirates, is the Doctor too preoccupied to notice the greatest threat of all - a threat connected to the position of Terminus at the exact centre of the universe?
The Doctor's party remains divided and scattered as the immense transport docks at the Terminus space station, which turns out to be a leper colony at the exact centre of the known universe. As they find their way around and investigate, Nyssa shows signs of contracting the disease.
Since the Doctor's party represents neither lazars nor handlers, they're presumed to be investigators, which is enough to spark the disgruntled Valgard into challenging Eirak over leadership of the handlers. Meanwhile, as the giant, dog-like Garm takes a terrified Nyssa off for "treatment," Bor returns from the forbidden zone with interesting news about the ship.
In attempting to reopen a doorway into the TARDIS, Turlough activates Terminus' automated fuel-jettisoning sequence. The first time this sequence was engaged, it flung its first of two massive loads of unstable fuel into the distant past, producing the Big Bang that created the universe. This second sequence - if the Doctor can't find a way to shut it down - will release a second massive load, the explosion of which will entirely negate the effects of the first.
After receiving a warning from the White Guardian, the Doctor initially believes the TARDIS has landed aboard an Edwardian clipper ship - but all is not as it seems. While the time travellers are caught up in the omnipotent Eternals' race for the ultimate prize, the Black Guardian's scheme to destroy the Doctor enters the end-game - but which side is Turlough a pawn of?
Captain Striker and his officers reveal themselves to be Eternals, mind-reading creatures who live outside of time and who require Ephemerals (humans and other "time dwellers") to relieve them of their emptiness. They race against other Eternals for the grand prize of Enlightenment, by which to grant their deepest wishes. That can't be good for the universe, but how can the Doctor strategise against beings adept at reading his every thought?
Turlough's panic puts him aboard a pirate ship where Captain Wrack uses his presence to invite all the other captains over for dinner. She's been picking off a few of her greatest rivals in the race and now sees an opportunity to clear the field once and for all and become the clear winner.
Tegan isn't aware she been outfitted with a device to destroy Captain Striker's ship. While the detonation will merely slip the indestructible Eternals back into the realm of eternity, nothing nearly so elegant or as tidy awaits the Ephemerals aboard the ship.
In 1215 at the castle of Ranulf Fitzwilliam, son Hugh is jousting on a matter of honor against Sir Gillis Estram, the champion of King John, when the TARDIS appears. The Doctor, Turlough and Tegan are immediately hailed as demons and welcomed warmly by the King. Something is wrong with this picture, observes the Doctor.
England, 1215. With the historic signing of the Magna Carta supposedly only days away, the Doctor is startled to find King John apparently intent on provoking civil war - and seemingly in two places at once...
The Twin Dilemma, the first story with Colin Baker as the Sixth Doctor, aired last in the season. This season saw the departure of companions Tegan, Turlough and Kamelion and introduced Peri. Most episodes were the traditional twenty-five minute length. However, due to coverage of the 1984 Winter Olympics, Resurrection of the Daleks was re-edited before airing and shown as two forty-five minute episodes.
Earth's ocean floor, 2084. With two superpowers poised on the brink of a devastating photonic war, a missile base comes under attack from the reptilian Sea Devils and Silurians, intent on eradicating the upstart human race and reclaiming the planet…
Just as the Doctor gains a tentative trust from the humans, a Silurian battle cruiser approaches. The Doctor warns Commander Vorsha to hold his fire and find out what they want, but is the level-headed commander one who'll listen?
As Vorshak's crew are cut down by Sauvix's Sea Devil Warriors, the Doctor is running out of ways to broker a peace between the opposing species.
With Silurians in control of the base, Icthar reveals his plan for a final solution to Earth's human problem, which presents the Doctor a great moral dilemma.
The sleepy English village of Little Hodcombe, 1984. The village re-enactment of the English Civil War is in full swing, but a malign alien presence intends the mock-battles to be rather more realistic than planned...
The Malus, an alien that's purely evil, needs the civil war re-enactments to become authentic so it can feed off the psychic energy of dying and embattled men and fully revive. Not if the Doctor can derail things, of course.
The planet Frontios, in the distant future. Following Earth's destruction, a tiny colony struggles to eke out a life on this desolate world. But where do the bombardments that threaten them originate from? Little does the Doctor suspect that somewhere nearby lurks a power capable of ripping even the TARDIS apart…
Following the destruction of the TARDIS, the only part of it left is the hat stand. So Turlough uses it as a weapon! Plantagenet gets swallowed by the earth, and Norna and Turlough discover the Tractators.
Trying to rescue the Doctor from the Tractator's trap, Tegan lands them both in even more trouble. Turlough goes a bit mad, and reckons he knows the evil of the Tractators from old.
The Doctor tries to deal with the Tractator's cunning plan, despite Turlough's best intervention. They discover the splintered TARDIS in the tunnels beneath the planet's surface, but how will they put it together again?
London's Docklands, 1984. Why are uniformed policemen gunning down strangely-dressed vagrants in broad daylight? A prison ship in the far future - who is the sole prisoner aboard the craft? And why are these two locations linked by the time corridor the TARDIS has been sucked into?
As the surviving station crew work to destroy the space station, Davros consolidates his power and the Daleks launch a fiendish scheme to use the Doctor against the Time Lords.
Lanzarote, 1985. Archaeologist Howard Foster raises a strange metal artefact from the sea floor. But how is it linked to the signal the TARDIS received? Why is Turlough suddenly so worried? And why is Kamelion acting so erratically?
While the Master, victim of his own attempt to improve his TCE weapon, seeks restoration through Sarn's numismaton gas, the truth of Turlough's past comes out at last, though to guarantee the safety of his brother and the Sarn people, Turlough must consider a great personal sacrifice.
Sarn prophesy foretells of an outsider who will come to aid the people. It's a role the Master is more than delighted to fill, which finally presents Timanov, the Sarn religious leader, the unbridled support he's sought in his campaign to cull the faithless from among his people. Turlough's secret past, however, is somehow intricately involved in all this, and the reluctance of its disclosure is enough to threaten all friendly ties with the Doctor.
While the Master, victim of his own attempt to improve his TCE weapon, seeks restoration through Sarn's numismaton gas, the truth of Turlough's past comes out at last, though to guarantee the safety of his brother and the Sarn people, Turlough must consider a great personal sacrifice.
The planet Androzani Minor, the distant future. In the planet's caves war rages between government troops and the android warriors of the mysterious Sharaz Jek. But what makes spectrox, the substance they battle to control, so valuable? And how far will the Doctor go to protect his companion?
The Doctor and Peri have been rescued from the firing squad by the mysterious Sharaz Jek. But he has his own plans for them. And why are they suddenly feeling ill?
The situation on Androzani Minor is building toward a violent confrontation, and the Doctor and Peri are slowly succumbing to spectrox toxemia.
Events on Androzani reach a bloody climax. Will the Doctor and Peri survive the carnage? And at what cost?
Earth, the future. The genius Sylvest twins, child prodigies, are kidnapped by the mysterious Professor Edgeworth and taken to the planet Jaconda. But who is Edgeworth? Why does he serve the giant slug Mestor? And what is Mestor's plan?
The Doctor takes Peri to Titan 3, a desolate hunk of rock in space where he hopes to find some solitude for a while. Instead he finds the lone but unconscious survivor of a recent spaceship crash in sight of a mound-shaped complex where no formalised structure should exist.
The Doctor arrives on Jaconda, once lush and green, to find it completely devastated by giant gastropods. Old legends about the planet's half-human/half-slugs weren't just myths after all. With or without help from the Doctor and his unpredictable mood swings, Lt. Lang is up for rescuing the twins, who are finally informed of the grand purpose they've been brought to Jaconda to accomplish.
The Doctor and Edgeworth deduce that the real plan of Mestor, the gastropod ruler of Jaconda, will not only destroy Jaconda but lead to the devastation of other planets. Together they hope to thwart him despite his formidable ability at slipping into people's minds and controlling them.
With this season the BBC experimented with the format of the series, reducing the number of episodes to thirteen, but making each episode forty-five minutes long. The experiment did not result in improved ratings and at the end of the season the BBC announced it was cancelling the series; uproar from fans resulted in the BBC changing its mind and putting the series on an eighteen-month hiatus instead. This season is notable for featuring the final appearance of Patrick Troughton as the beloved Second Doctor, in a storyline that gave rise to a popular fan theory known as Season 6B.
London, 1985. The alien mercenary Lytton has been stranded here for nearly a year, but now he has a plan to escape. But how does it involve the Doctor's old enemies - and why are they on Earth at this point in history?
On Telos, the Doctor is reintroduced to the Cyber Leader and meets the Cryons, the planet's original inhabitants who will go to any lengths to get their world back!
The former prison planet Varos, the future. The downtrodden population of miners are kept happy by real-life violence and murder broadcast live from the Punishment Dome. But then the TARDIS materialises inside the Dome...
The Governor forces the Doctor to tell him the true value of zeiton-7 but Sil attempts to derail his plans by subjecting Peri and Areta to an enforced mutation.
England, the 1820s. As the Industrial Revolution gathers pace, the village of Killingworth is disturbed by crazed Luddite miners intent on smashing all machinery and engineers. But is there another cause of the situation?
The Master uses The Rani's mind-controlling parasites to keep a meeting of Earth's leading scientists from being cancelled, and helps her plant transformation land mines for The Doctor, as he continues to propose an alliance with her in ruling over Earth.
The alien space station J7, the mid-1980s Earth time. The Time Lords have sent the second Doctor and Jamie here to try to stop dangerous experiments into time travel. But the station comes under attack from the Sontarans and far away in space and time the sixth Doctor goes into psychic shock...
The Doctor and Peri meet Jamie and learn the Second Doctor is with the Sontarans on Earth.
The Sontarans prepare the Second Doctor to trigger their Kartz-Reimer capsule.
The planet Karfel, in the distant future. The tyrannical Borad rules with an iron fist, and any who oppose him are cast into the Timelash - a space-time tunnel leading to the past of an alien world called Earth...
The Borad accepts no opposition and enables Maylin Tekker to expose the rebels and trap Peri with the Morlox. The Doctor tries to avert a war between Karfel and the Bandrils.
The planet Necros, the future. The Doctor arrives for the cryogenic interment of an old friend at Tranquil Repose, a vast repository of bodies in suspended animation. But what does the 'Great Healer' really have in mind for them...?
Davros plans to create an army of Daleks loyal only to him but on Skaro, the Daleks have other plans and head to Necros. Caught in the middle of this, the Doctor must save Peri...
This season had a unique format, never again repeated in the show. Doctor Who had returned to production after a near-cancellation and an eighteen-month production hiatus. For the first time, a season consisted of a single story, The Trial of a Time Lord, although this was made up of four serials from a production perspective: each serial was written by a different person (save for The Mysterious Planet and the first part of The Ultimate Foe, both of which were written by Robert Holmes) and featured a different story presented as evidence, excluding the final two episodes which concluded the ongoing story of the trial; the trial storyline itself acted as a framing device to bracket the first three serials. As a result, whether The Trial of a Time Lord should be considered one story or four has been intensely debated. This single-story format, sometimes referred to as a "miniseries", would later be utilised for the third and fourth series of Torchwood.
The Doctor is taken "out of time" by the Time Lords and made to face an inquiry into his meddling in the affairs of others, overseen by the Inquisitor. The prosecutor, the Valeyard, soon has the proceedings upgraded to a trial for the Doctor's life. Evidence takes the form of recordings of the Doctor's recent adventures, beginning with his visit to the mysterious world of Ravalox and an encounter with Andromedan space pirates...
The Doctor has an appointment with the Immortal, while Peri finds herself caught up with Glitz and the Tribe of the Free. Meanwhile, Merdeen begins to question all he believes.
The Doctor escapes to rejoin Peri on the surface but shortly becomes the prisoner of a surface-dwelling tribe called The Free. Ravalox isn't Ravalox after all, but before the Doctor can learn much more an irresistible agent from UK Habitat comes to fetch him back.
All those on Ravolox are in exponentially greater peril than anyone can comprehend. If anything in the entire universe is to survive, it may come down to the Doctor arguing against machine logic over the value of life.
The Doctor's trial continues. The Valeyard's next piece of evidence for the prosecution concerns the Doctor's recent trip to Thoros Beta. Though originally investigating arms dealing, the Doctor and Peri become embroiled in their old enemy Sil's alarming neurological experiments...
The scientist Crozier keeps making empty promises and Yrcanos and Peri are seemingly betrayed by the addled Doctor who is sure the Matrix is being manipulated...
While the Doctor helps Dr. Crozier transfer Lord Kiv's brain into a new host skull, Peri accompanies King Yrcanos as he searches for the Alpha Resistance fighters whom he feels, most certainly, will follow him into glorious battle against the Mentors and the Doctor.
As the Possidor Ambassador visits, Sil is appalled to realise Crozier has selected Peri to be the Kiv's new host body - a move Yrcanos takes exception to with devastating results.
With the prosecution case concluded, at last the Doctor is able to present his evidence. It takes place in the future with a new companion and new problems.
As the Hyperion III continues its journey, more mysterious deaths occur.
A course change that takes the Hyperion III closer to a black hole could prove unwise when there are so many aboard ship with hidden agendas. Disappearances continue, a murderer remains at large, and one person finally crumbles under the strain of harbouring a guilty secret.
With factions vying for control of the ship, the Vervoids are found to be responsible for the many disappearances. Only the Doctor sees the fundamental but missed point as to why they can't be reasoned with or why they can't be allowed to arrive on Earth.
The Valeyard's true identity is revealed and the trial aborted, but the Doctor and Mel must pursue his new enemy into the Matrix itself, where nothing is quite what is seems…
The final part of this epic adventure. The Doctor and the Valeyard have entered the world of the Matrix. Can the Doctor defeat the evil incarnation of himself ?
Unlike season 23, there was no overall story arc, and the episode allotment - two four-episode stories, two three-episode stories - would be retained for the remainder of the original series. Notably, the season featured the introduction of new companion Ace, who would be a prominent figure in the spinoff fiction that kept the Doctor Who name alive following its cancellation in 1989 and was the final official onscreen companion until Rose Tyler in the revived series.
The alien world of Lakertya. With the aid of the savage Tetraps, the Rani has conquered this planet to allow her to continue her depraved biochemical experiments. But she finds herself needing the Doctor's assistance...
The Rani's impersonation of Mel backfires badly because Urak can't tell the difference, while the Doctor attempts to learn the secret of the Loyhargil.
The solstice nears, making it time for the Rani to bring her plans into fruition. The Doctor's sympathies for Beyus, ruler of the Lykertyans, are rather qualified. Beyus' heart is for his people yet something prompts him to collaborate fully in helping the Rani reach all her objectives. The answer, he's told, lies within the Center of Leisure.
The Rani, at last, links the Doctor into her great brain machine, the crowning jewel in her component packet of geniuses brought together to turn Lakertya itself into one vast cerebral mass capable of redirecting time anywhere in the universe, giving her absolute power over all creation.
The legendary Paradise Towers is supposed to be the height of luxury but when the Doctor and Mel arrive, they find it is as far from paradise as possible...
With the Doctor condemned to death by the caretakers and their bizarre rulebook, Mel faces cannibalistic OAPS. Is Pex going to be the true hero of Paradise Towers ?
Mel and Pex play cat and mouse with the lethal cleaner robots while the Doctor and the surviving Kangs learn all about Kroagnon the Great Architect.
Meeting up at the pool, the Doctor leads the surviving Rezzies, Kangs and Caretakers as they draw the line together on the 245th floor against the systematic cleansing of all life by Kroagnon and his robotic Cleaners.
Wales, 1959. A top-secret US satellite has mysteriously gone missing. This could have something to do with the arrival of a party of alien tourists en route to Disneyland, amongst their number Mel and the Doctor, and the Queen of the Chimerons - who's fleeing the Bannermen and their genocidal leader Gavrok...
Mel's just discovered something very interesting about the life cycle of her new friend and the Doctor has been cornered by an alien bounty hunter wearing blue suede shoes.
As Billy and Ray do what they can to help save Delta and the baby, the Doctor and Goronwy the beekeeper face Gavrok and his Bannermen one last time...
The deep-space trading post of Iceworld, the far future. The Doctor, Mel, their old friend Glitz and time-lost waitress Ace go in search of a fabulous treasure, supposedly guarded by a fire-breathing dragon. But what is the link between the treasure and Iceworld's proprietor, the frosty Mr Kane?
While Mel and Ace run from Glitz's former crewmen (whom he sold to Kane), officers Belazs and Kracauer conspire to overthrow Kane. The Doctor, meanwhile, discovers there really is a dragon in the ice caverns, which turns out to be a bio-mechanoid with a very interesting function.
At last learning the location of the missing key to his spaceship, Kane has the dragon hunted down and Iceworld brutally purged of all visitors; but, the Doctor, visiting the Ice Garden, learns something significant that will put the chagrin on Kane's grand plans for home world vengeance.
As the silver anniversary season, it included several stories noting the milestone: Remembrance of the Daleks, which featured the final "classic series" appearance of the Daleks and Davros and which would feature scenes set at Coal Hill School and 76 Totter’s Lane, both significant locations in the first episode, An Unearthly Child; and Silver Nemesis, the final classic series appearance of the Cybermen, which had its first episode broadcast on the actual 25th anniversary of the series. It also showed the lighter side of the Seventh Doctor's personality fade and be replaced by darker qualities. The Greatest Show in the Galaxy was also the last episode to have the Doctor dressed in bright colours. This would also be the first season that would be recorded with the intention of, and be broadcast in, a stereo mix.
London, 1963. Returning to the scenes of his first televised adventure, the Doctor and new companion Ace play a tricky game of bluff and deceit involving two rival Dalek factions, local soldiers, and the awesomely powerful Gallifreyan artefact, the Hand of Omega...
With two factions of Daleks involved in a race war on Earth, the Doctor takes care of old business by having the Hand of Omega ceremoniously but quietly buried in a churchyard. His actions do not go unobserved, and leaving behind a bored Ace without a purposeful outlet could spell trouble as well.
The Doctor plans to let one of the Dalek factions have the Hand of Omega (but not too easily, of course) while keeping Gilmore and his military men preoccupied in a safe territory, but that plan could be threatened by a mole in their midst and a miscalculation on the Doctor's part.
The Omega device is in jeopardy. A giant Dalek warship hangs above the Earth. London has become a battleground for ruthless alien intelligences.
The Earth colony Terra Alpha, the future. With the aid of her sweet-natured executioner, Helen A, ruler of the planet, has ensured the population is happy - on pain of death! The Doctor and Ace decide to fight for the right to be miserable.
The Doctor and Earl manage to escape from the Kandy Man and join up with the planet's natives, the Pipe People, enlisting their help to rescue Ace.
As the Doctor leads the Pipe People towards reclaiming their world, Helen A faces betrayal from those closest to her.
The Doctor and Ace battle the time traveller Lady Peinforte and the Cybermen for possession of the incredibly powerful Nemesis statue, which is on its way back to the planet Earth to rendezvous with a destiny set in stone by the Doctor himself.
As hostilities break out between factions vying for ownership of the comet, the Doctor goes after the worst of the lot - Cybermen, using Ace's upgraded boom box to flood Cyber Communications with jazz music while trying to locate the whereabouts of the fleet beyond this mere scouting party.
With the Cyber Fleet poised nearby, the Doctor may have no choice but to let them have Nemesis. Meanwhile, Lady Peinforte and Richard navigate modern society, De Flores encounters an open betrayal, and Ace combats Cybermen with a slingshot.
The Doctor and Ace visit the Psychic Circus on the planet Segonax, where they find the standard of judging at the talent contest distressingly astringent.
The Doctor and Ace reach the Psychic Circus, where the Doctor is imprisoned with the other contestants while Ace draws the attention of the Chief Clown.
Mags helps the Doctor escape and Deadbeat leads him to Ace, where Bellboy tells them what happened to the Psychic Circus.
Mags goes to find Ace and Kingpin, pursued by the Chief Clown, while the Doctor confronts the power behind the Psychic Circus.
It was the final season of the "classic" series. Unusually for a Doctor Who season, aside from some scenes in Survival, all the stories took place on Earth. Apart from Battlefield, the stories followed a loose character arc, as Ace came to terms with her past. As for the Doctor, he had become darker in personality, treating others as pawns in the battle between good and evil while dressing in dark clothes to match his personality change. This was the first and so far only season to be produced entirely out of broadcast order.
As UNIT are transporting a nuclear warhead around Carbury, knights in armour arrive to continue waging a war that began thousands of years ago, but in a wholly different dimension.
The Doctor and Ace discover a stone spaceship underneath Warmsley's archaeological dig while Mordred summons Morgaine to Earth's dimension.
The Brigadier rescues the Doctor from the stone spaceship before they set out to locate Morgaine before she gains Excalibur.
Morgaine forces Ace and Shou Yuing to hand over Excalibur by threatening to release the Destroyer, so the Doctor and the Brigadier enter a dimensional portal to stop her.
The Doctor and Ace explore Victorian house Gabriel Chase and realise it hides just as many dark secrets in its drawing room as it does in its dark cellar.
The Doctor manages to rescue Ace from the husks and then tries to uncover the truth about the goings on in Josiah's house.
Only Redvers, still searching for the elusive Saxe-Coburg, seems able to withstand Light and communicate with Control. Ace realises her past actions need to be dealt with.
England, the 1940s. The TARDIS brings the Doctor and Ace to a secret naval base during WWII. There, the time-travellers battle vampiric Haemovores and an ancient Viking curse!
The Doctor and Ace manage to convince Sorin to release them while Millington and Judson attempt to translate the Viking runes.
The Doctor and his friends come under attack from the Haemavores, allowing Millington to retrieve the flask containing Fenric's essence.
Fenric is loose and planning to use the Ancient Haemovore to poison the Earth with chemicals, unless the Doctor can defeat him in their centuries old game.
Perivale, England, the late 1980s. People are vanishing into thin air under the baleful stare of a very strange cat. The Doctor and Ace learn that, in the battle for survival, success can carry a terrible price...
The Doctor and Paterson manage to escape from the Master and join up with Ace and her friends, where the Doctor tries to find a way to get them all off the planet before it explodes.
Ace manages to transport the Doctor and the others back to Perivale but the Master is also there, preparing for a final showdown with the Doctor.
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