DOCTOR WHO PROGRAM LISTING
Note: The years shown are for the program transmission dates,
rather than recording years. Much of the information was
obtained or verified using Peter Haining's "Doctor Who: A
Celebration" and "Doctor Who: 25 Glorious Years" and˙ various copies of "Doctor Who Magazine." Many episodes of
Doctor Who are unaccounted for, all from the program's˙ first six years and thus in black and white (a reason for˙ their loss due to BBC videotape archiving policy in the˙ early 1970's). A number of Jon Pertwee episodes are˙ missing 625VT (U.K. broadcast standard) recordings but˙ exist in other (e.g. U.S.) formats.
The Doctor: William Hartnell (1908-1975)
1963 - Season One
An Unearthly Child (The Tribe of Gum) (4 episodes)
- Introduction of Susan (Carole Ann Ford), Ian (William˙ Russell), and Barbara (Jacqueline Hill)
- The Doctor premiered on BBC 1 Sat. Nov. 23, 1963
The Daleks (7 episodes)
- the almost verbatim basis of the first Dr. Who movie with˙ Peter Cushing in the title role and in color
1964
Beyond the Sun (The Edge of Destruction) (2 episodes)
- the only adventure that takes place entirely within the˙ Tardis
Marco Polo (7 episodes, all missing)
The Keys of Marinus (6 episodes)
The Aztecs (4 episodes)
The Sensorites (6 episodes)
The Reign of Terror (6 episodes, #4 and #5 missing)
Season Two
Planet of Giants (3 episodes)
The Dalek Invasion of Earth (6 episodes)
- Susan leaves the program
1965
The Rescue (2 episodes)
- Vicki (Maureen O'Brien) joins the TARDIS
The Romans (4 episodes)
The Web Planet (6 episodes)
The Crusade (4 episodes, #1, 2 and 4 missing)
The Space Museum (4 episodes)
The Chase (6 episodes)
- Ian and Barbara return home
- Steven Taylor (Peter Purves) joins the TARDIS
The Time Meddler (4 episodes)
Season Three
Galaxy Four (4 episodes, all missing)
Mission to the Unknown (1 episode, missing)
- A story that does not feature the Doctor or any of the
TARDIS crew; it is a lead-in story to the "Master Plan"
The Myth Makers (4 episodes, all missing)
- Vicki leaves, and Katrina (Adrienne Hill) joins the TARDIS
The Daleks' Master Plan (12 episodes, all but #5 and #10 missing)
- Katrina is killed
- The longest Dr. Who serial
- Nicholas Courtney, who later appeared as Lethbridge-Stewart,˙ stars as Bret Vyon
1966
The Massacre (4 episodes, all missing)
- Dodo Chaplet (Jackie Lane) joins the TARDIS
The Ark (4 episodes)
The Celestial Toymaker (4 episodes; #1, 2 and 3 missing)
The Gun Fighters (4 episodes)
The Savages (4 episodes, all missing)
- Steven Taylor leaves
The War Machines (4 episodes)
- Dodo Chaplet leaves
- Polly (Anneke Wills) and Ben Jackson (Michael Craze) join
Season Four
The Smugglers (4 episodes, all missing)
The Tenth Planet (4 episodes, #4 missing)
The Doctor: Patrick Troughton (1920-1987)
The Power of the Daleks (6 episodes, all missing)
The Highlanders (4 episodes, all missing)
- Jamie McCrimmon (Frazer Hines) joins
1967
The Underwater Menace (4 episodes, all but #3 missing)
The Moonbase (4 episodes, #1 and #3 missing)
The Macra Terror (4 episodes, all missing)
The Faceless Ones (6 episodes, all but #1 and #3 missing)
- Ben and Polly leave
The Evil of the Daleks (7 episodes, all but #2 missing)
- Victoria Waterfield (Deborah Watling) joins
Season Five
The Tomb of the Cybermen (4 episodes, all missing)
The Abominable Snowmen (6 episodes, all but #2 missing)
The Ice Warriors (6 episodes, #2 and #3 missing)
The Enemy of the World (6 episodes, all but #3 missing)
1968
The Web of Fear (6 episodes, all but #1 missing)
- Introduction of then-Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart (Nicholas˙ Courtney)
Fury from the Deep (6 episodes, all missing)
- Victoria leaves
The Wheel in Space (6 episodes, all but #3 and #6 missing)
- Zoe Herriott (Wendy Padbury) joins
Season Six
The Dominators (5 episodes)
The Mind Robber (5 episodes)
The Invasion (8 episodes, #1 and #4 missing)
- Brigadier Alastair Lethbridge-Stewart returns with Benton˙ (John Levene)
The Krotons (4 episodes)
1969
The Seeds of Death (6 episodes)
The Space Pirates (6 episodes, all but #2 missing)
The War Games (10 episodes)
- The Doctor, whose origin is finally "explained", is put on
trial by the Time Lords and banished to 20th-century Earth
with his memory of operating the TARDIS suppressed.
- Jamie and Zoe are sent to their own times, their memories of
their travels with the Doctor erased
The Doctor: Jon Pertwee (1919- )
1970 - Season Seven
- Season Seven was the first to be transmitted in color
Spearhead from Space (4 episodes)
- Liz Shaw (Caroline John) is introduced; Lethbridge-Stewart˙ and the personnel of U.N.I.T. become `regulars'
Dr Who & the Silurians (7 episodes)
- Paul Darrow, later Avon on "Blake's 7", appears as Capt.˙ Hawkins
The Ambassadors of Death (7 episodes)
Inferno (7 episodes)
- Liz Shaw leaves
1971 - Season Eight
Terror of the Autons (4 episodes)
- Jo Grant (Katy Manning, who later posed nude with a Dalek) ˙ joins
- Introduction of the Master (Roger Delgado)
- Introduction of Captain Mike Yates (Richard Franklin)
The Mind of Evil (6 episodes)
The Claws of Axos (4 episodes)
Colony in Space (6 episodes)
The Daemons (5 episodes)
1972 - Season Nine
The Day of the Daleks (4 episodes)
The Curse of Peladon (4 episodes)
The Sea Devils (6 episodes)
The Mutants (6 episodes)
The Time Monster (6 episodes)
1973 - Season Ten
The Three Doctors (4 episodes)
- The Doctor is once again allowed to travel in space and time
Carnival of Monsters (4 episodes)
Frontier in Space (6 episodes)
Planet of the Daleks (6 episodes)
The Green Death (6 episodes)
- Jo Grant leaves
- Last Delgado appearance as the Master before his death in an˙ auto accident in Turkey; the plan for a penultimate˙ encounter between the Doctor and the Master had to be˙ scrapped.
1974 - Season Eleven
The Time Warrior (4 episodes)
- Sarah Jane Smith (Elizabeth Sladen) is introduced
- Introduction of the Sontarans
Invasion of the Dinosaurs (6 episodes)
- The first episode of this story exists as a black-and-white
film print only; the color print was destroyed by accident
by an archivist at the BBC instead of part one of the 1968
Troughton story "The Invasion", which was eventually
erased.
Death to the Daleks (4 episodes)
The Monster of Peladon (6 episodes)
Planet of the Spiders (6 episodes)
The Doctor: Tom Baker (1934- )
Season Twelve
Robot (4 episodes)
- Lt. Harry Sullivan M.D. (Ian Marter) is introduced
1975
The Ark in Space (4 episodes)
- The most watched original airing of a Dr. Who serial in the˙ U.K., for reasons unknown.
The Sontaran Experiment (2 episodes)
Genesis of the Daleks (6 episodes)
- Introduction of Davros, the Daleks' creator
Revenge of the Cybermen (4 episodes)
1976 - Season Thirteen
Terror of the Zygons (4 episodes)
- Harry Sullivan stays on Earth
Planet of Evil (4 episodes)
Pyramids of Mars (4 episodes)
The Android Invasion (4 episodes)
- Harry Sullivan, the Brigadier, Benton, and U.N.I.T. return
- the last U.N.I.T. story with the original members
The Brain of Morbius (4 episodes)
The Seeds of Doom (6 episodes)
Season Fourteen
The Masque of Mandragora (4 episodes)
The Hand of Fear (4 episodes)
- Sarah Jane is returned to Earth
The Deadly Assassin (4 episodes)
- The only serial where the Doctor has no companion; it˙ featured the first appearance of the Master (Peter Pratt)˙ since the death of Roger Delgado
1977
Face of Evil (4 episodes)
- Introduction of Leela (Louise Jameson)
The Robots of Death (4 episodes)
- Brian Croucher, Travis of "Blake's 7", appears as Borg
The Talons of Weng Chiang (6 episodes)
Season Fifteen
Horror of Fang Rock (4 episodes)
The Invisible Enemy (4 episodes)
- Introduction of K-9 (with the voice of John Leeson)
Image of the Fendahl (4 episodes)
The Sun Makers (4 episodes)
- Michael Keating appears as a character much like his Vila in˙ "Blake's 7"
1978
Underworld (4 episodes)
The Invasion of Time (6 episodes)
- Leela stays on Gallifrey with K-9 Mk I
- Introduction of K-9 Mk II (in a cardboard box)
Season Sixteen
The Key to Time:
The Ribos Operation (4 episodes)
- Introduction of Romana (Mary Tamm)
The Pirate Planet (4 episodes)
The Stones of Blood (4 episodes)
The Androids of Tara (4 episodes)
The Power of Kroll (4 episodes)
1979
The Armageddon Factor (6 episodes)
- Lalla Ward stars as Princess Astra
Season Seventeen
Destiny of the Daleks (4 episodes)
- Romana regenerates (Lalla Ward, who later married Mr. Baker)
City of Death (4 episodes)
The Creature from the Pit (4 episodes)
Nightmare of Eden (4 episodes)
The Horns of Nimon (4 episodes)
1980
Shada (6 episodes)
- A story by Douglas Adams, of "Hitchhiker's Guide" fame;
filming was never completed due to an industrial dispute at
the BBC; some footage surfaced in "The Five Doctors"
Season Eighteen
The Leisure Hive (4 episodes)
Meglos (4 episodes)
- Jacqueline Hill, one of the original companions, stars as˙ Lexa
Full Circle (4 episodes)
- Introduction of Adric (Matthew Waterhouse)
State of Decay (4 episodes)
1981
Warriors' Gate (4 episodes)
- Romana and K-9 Mk II leave
The Keeper of Traken (4 episodes)
- Introduction of Nyssa (Sarah Sutton)
- the Master (Anthony Ainley) returns
Logopolis (4 episodes)
- Introduction of Tegan (Janet Fielding)
The Doctor: Peter Davison (1951- )
1982 - Season Nineteen
Castrovalva (4 episodes)
Four to Doomsday (4 episodes)
Kinda (4 episodes)
The Visitation (4 episodes)
Black Orchid (2 episodes)
Earthshock (4 episodes)
- Adric is killed
Time-Flight (4 episodes)
1983 - Season Twenty
Arc of Infinity (4 episodes)
- Colin Baker guest stars as a Gallifreyan Guard, Maxil, and
shoots the Doctor in one scene
Snakedance (4 episodes)
Mawdryn Undead (4 episodes)
- Introduction of Turlough (Mark Strickson)
- Lethbridge-Stewart, now retired from UNIT, returns again
Terminus (4 episodes)
- Nyssa leaves
Enlightenment (4 episodes)
The King's Demons (2 episodes)
- Introduction of Kamelion
The Five Doctors (1 hour Anniversary Special)
- The late Richard Hurndall plays the first Doctor; Troughton
and Pertwee reprise their roles, as do the actors and˙ actresses playing Susan, Sarah, Jamie, Liz and Zoe; K9 also˙ returns but Tom Baker does not
1984 - Season Twenty-One
Warriors of the Deep (4 episodes)
The Awakening (2 episodes)
Frontios (4 episodes)
Resurrection of the Daleks (4 episodes)
- Tegan leaves
Planet of Fire (4 episodes)
- Turlough leaves
- The Doctor destroys Kamelion at its request
- Peri (Nicola Bryant) joins the TARDIS
The Caves of Androzani (4 episodes)
The Doctor: Colin Baker (1943- )
The Twin Dilemma (4 episodes)
1985 - Season Twenty-Two
Attack of the Cybermen (2 fifty-minute episodes)
Vengeance on Varos (2 fifty-minute episodes)
The Mark of the Rani (2 fifty-minute episodes)
The Two Doctors (3 fifty-minute episodes)
- The 2nd Doctor and Jamie are rescued by the 6th Doctor
- Jacqueline Pearce, who was Servalan in "Blake's 7", stars as˙ Chessene the Androgum
Timelash (2 fifty-minute episodes)
Revelation of the Daleks (2 fifty-minute episodes)
- Last story with Peri
The program was then put on an 18-month "break" by Michael Grade,
BBC1 controller. Fear of the demise of the program brought in
large quantities of fan mail. Grade then put the program "on
trial," so the plot followed suit, while returning to the
original 25-minute episode format. A new companion was˙introduced without explaining what happened to Peri.
1986 - Season Twenty-Three
The Trial of a Time Lord:
The Mysterious Planet (4 episodes)
- Melanie (Bonnie Langford) joins the Doctor
Mindwarp (4 episodes)
Terror of the Vervoids (4 episodes)
The Ultimate Foe (2 episodes)
BBC1 controller Michael Grade saw fit to fire Colin Baker from
his role as The Doctor, and Producer John Nathan-Turner replaced˙him with Sylvester McCoy.
The Doctor: Sylvester McCoy (1944- )
1987 - Season Twenty-Four
Time and the Rani (4 episodes)
Paradise Towers (4 episodes)
Delta and the Bannerman (3 episodes)
Dragonfire (4 episodes)
- Melanie leaves
- Ace (Sophie Aldred) joins the Doctor
1988 - Season Twenty-Five
Remembrance of the Daleks (4 episodes)
The Happiness Patrol (3 episodes)
Silver Nemesis (4 episodes)
- The first episode of this serial aired on Nov. 23, 1988, the˙ 25th anniversary of the Doctor's premiere
The Greatest Show in the Galaxy (4 episodes)
1989 - Season Twenty-Six
Battlefield (4 episodes)
- Lethbridge-Stewart returns yet again
- a U.N.I.T. story with new characters
Ghost Light (3 episodes)
The Curse of Fenric (4 episodes)
Survival (3 episodes)
As of this writing the future of Dr. Who is in doubt since the˙BBC has not yet decided on whether or not it will be renewed. ˙There is talk that an independent production company˙(e.g. Hannah-Barbera, Disney, Fox, Terry Nation) might take it˙over. It is also unclear whether McCoy or Aldred will be back. ˙Given that it is now April 1990 as of this writing, there will be˙no new stories filmed this calendar year.
This is version 2.0, April 1990.
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