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Doctor Who

  • TV-PG
  • 1963–1989
  • 26 seasons
  • Drama, Action & Adventure
  • 7.9

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.

Episodes

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.

24 episodes
  1. 1Warriors of the Deep (1)

    25 minJan 5, 19845.1

    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…

  2. 2Warriors of the Deep (2)

    25 minJan 6, 19845.3

    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?

  3. 3Warriors of the Deep (3)

    25 minJan 12, 19845.5

    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.

  4. 4Warriors of the Deep (4)

    25 minJan 13, 19845.3

    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.

  5. 5The Awakening (1)

    26 minJan 19, 19846.6

    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...

  6. 6The Awakening (2)

    25 minJan 20, 19845.8

    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.

  7. 7Frontios (1)

    25 minJan 26, 19846.8

    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…

  8. 8Frontios (2)

    25 minJan 27, 19847.1

    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.

  9. 9Frontios (3)

    25 minFeb 2, 19847.1

    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.

  10. 10Frontios (4)

    25 minFeb 3, 19847.1

    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?

  11. 11Resurrection of the Daleks (1)

    46 minFeb 8, 19848.3

    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?

  12. 12Resurrection of the Daleks (2)

    46 minFeb 15, 19848.0

    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.

  13. 13Planet of Fire (1)

    25 minFeb 23, 19846.6

    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?

  14. 14Planet of Fire (2)

    25 minFeb 24, 19846.8

    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.

  15. 15Planet of Fire (3)

    24 minMar 1, 19846.7

    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.

  16. 16Planet of Fire (4)

    25 minMar 2, 19846.5

    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.

  17. 17The Caves of Androzani (1)

    25 minMar 8, 19848.5

    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?

  18. 18The Caves of Androzani (2)

    26 minMar 9, 19848.6

    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?

  19. 19The Caves of Androzani (3)

    25 minMar 15, 19848.6

    The situation on Androzani Minor is building toward a violent confrontation, and the Doctor and Peri are slowly succumbing to spectrox toxemia.

  20. 20The Caves of Androzani (4)

    26 minMar 16, 19848.8

    Events on Androzani reach a bloody climax. Will the Doctor and Peri survive the carnage? And at what cost?

  21. 21The Twin Dilemma (1)

    25 minMar 22, 19844.9

    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?

  22. 22The Twin Dilemma (2)

    26 minMar 23, 19845.7

    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.

  23. 23The Twin Dilemma (3)

    25 minMar 29, 19845.2

    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.

  24. 24The Twin Dilemma (4)

    26 minMar 30, 19845.1

    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.

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Series cast

Tom BakerThe Doctor172 episodes
William HartnellThe Doctor138 episodes
Patrick TroughtonThe Doctor134 episodes
Jon PertweeThe Doctor129 episodes
Nicholas CourtneyBret Vyon111 episodes
Elisabeth SladenSarah Jane Smith98 episodes
Frazer HinesJamie91 episodes
John LeesonDaleks (voice)82 episodes
John LeveneSgt. Benton78 episodes
Katy ManningJo Grant77 episodes
William RussellIan Chesterton77 episodes
Jacqueline HillLexa77 episodes
Janet FieldingTegan Jovanka76 episodes
John Scott MartinMutt75 episodes
Peter DavisonThe Doctor73 episodes
Lalla WardRomana II54 episodes
Louise JamesonLeela52 episodes
Nicola BryantPerpugilliam "Peri" Brown51 episodes

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