1963-1964
William Hartnell
An Unearthly Child
Where Ian and Barbara really should have left things to Social Services
1 episode
100,000BC
Where the Doctor nearly commits murder and the secret of fire is found
3 episodes
The Daleks
Where the cost of nuclear war leads to sink plungers and eye make up
7 episodes
Inside the Spaceship
Where the TARDIS stops and the crew go slightly mad
2 episodes
Marco Polo
Where the Doctor learns of the evil of gambling
7 episodes
The Keys of Marinus
Where the crew play hunt the keys and dodge the Voord
6 episodes
The Aztecs
Where the Doctor makes cocoa and gets engaged
4 epsiodes
The Sensorites
Where first contact comes from the Lucretia Borgia school of diplomacy
6 episodes
The Reign of Terror
Where the Doctor gets to play Scarlet Pimpernel
6 episodes
Season 2
1964-1965
William Hartnell
Planet of Giants
Where the crew have a short adventure
3 episodes
The Dalek Invasion of Earth
Where the Daleks invade the Earth and Susan is left behind (to get married and have 2.4 children probably)
6 episodes
The Rescue
Where Vicki joins the crew after Barbara kills her pet
2 episodes
The Romans
Where the Doctor & co romp with slave traders and watch while Nero engages in some infernal lyre playing
4 episodes
The Web Planet
Where the Zarbi and the Menoptra battle for Vortis and the crew encounter ‘giant’ insects for the second time this season
6 episodes
The Crusade
Where the crew find out what the Lionheart was doing while John taxed the peasants and played the lute
4 episodes
The Space Museum
Where the crew become exhibits and prevent a hostile take over
4 episodes
The Chase
Where the Daleks chase the TARDIS on a whistle stop tour of time and space. Ian and Barbara leave and Stephen joins while the Daleks meet the Mechanoids and the Doctor has double trouble
6 episodes
The Time Meddler
Where the Doctor meets a fellow ‘countryman’ and Harold gets one in the eye
4 episodes
Season 3
1965-1966
William Hartnell
Galaxy 4
Where the crew learn the lesson that beauty is only skin deep
4 episodes
Mission to the Unknown
Where the Doctor & co don’t actually appear but the Daleks do laying the foundations of their masterplan…
1 episode
The Myth Makers
Where the Doctor builds a horse and Troy falls. Vicki leaves as Cressida and Katarina joins
4 episodes
The Dalek Masterplan
Where the solar system is betrayed to the Daleks and their allies and only the Doctor & co can save the day. Katarina chooses to sacrifice herself for the greater good then Sarah Kingdom joins only to be killed in the last episode
12 episodes
The Massacre of
St Bartholomew’s Eve
Where the Huguenots are massacred and the Doctor has some more double trouble. Dodo joins
4 episodes
The Ark
Where the last survivors of Earth are subjugated by their Monoid servants aided by Dodo’s cold. Two stories in one as the TARDIS leaves and returns some years into the future
4 episodes
The Celestial Toymaker
Where forced to play for their lives the Doctor certainly has a hand in their success
4 episodes
The Gunfighters
Where the Doctor gets a toothache and realises that Tombstone, Arizona is not the best place to look for a dentist
4 episodes
The Savages
Where civilisation comes at a cost and Stephen decides to stay behind
4 episodes
The War Machines
Where the TARDIS lands in present day London in time for the Doctor to thwart the plans of the WOTAN machine to rule the Earth. Dodo stays behind but Polly and Ben join the Doctor
4 episodes
Season 4
1966-1967
William Hartnell
The Smugglers
Where the Doctor gets involved in a deadly treasure hunt with Capt. Pike and his pirate crew (no singing this time)
4 episodes
The Tenth Planet
Where the Doctor encounters the Cybermen for the first time and we witness the miracle of Time Lord regeneration
4 episodes
1st regeneration
Where the new Doctor encounters some old enemies
6 episodes
Patrick Troughton
The Highlanders
Where the Doctor rescues survivors of the Battle of Culloden from being sold into slavery. Jamie joins
4 episodes
The Underwater Menace
Where the Doctor witnesses the destruction of Atlantis at the hands of Professor Zaroff
4 episodes
The Moonbase
Where the Cybermen launch an attack on the Earth via the weather control centre on the Moon
4 episodes
The Macra Terror
Where the Doctor visits a holiday camp colony secretly run by the mind-controlling giant crablike Macra
4 episodes
The Faceless Ones
Where a visit to Gatwick airport finds a plot by a faceless alien race to usurp the identities of youthful holiday makers. Ben and Polly elect to remain on Earth
6 episodes
The Evil of the Daleks
Where the Doctor is kidnapped through time by a mad Victorian scientist in league with the Daleks. The Daleks plan to identify the ‘human factor’ goes awry and the Doctor offers a home to Victoria after her father’s death
7 episodes
Season 5
1967-1968
Patrick Troughton
The Tomb of the Cybermen
Where an expedition to Telos results in the awakening of an old foe
4 episodes
The Abominable Snowman
Where the Doctor returns a holy relic to a Buddhist monastery in Tibet and comes into conflict with the Great Intelligence and its yeti robots
6 episodes
The Ice Warriors
Where the discovery of a frozen figure results in the attempted takeover of Earth by the survivors of the ‘dead’ Martian race
6 episodes
The Enemy of the World
Where the Doctor finds his double is planning to take over the future Earth. Yes more double trouble for the Doctor
6 episodes
The Web of Fear
Where the Great Intelligence has relocated its yeti to the London Underground. First appearance of Colonel Lethbridge Stewart
6 episodes
Fury from the Deep
Where the Doctor finds that it is not just oil under the North Sea and that seaweed can be defeated by Victoria’s screams. Victoria, probably due to a sore throat, decides to stay behind
6 episodes
sonic screwdriver debuts
The Wheel in Space
Where the Cybermen have plans to invade the Earth (again) by first taking over The Wheel space station. Zoe stows away in the TARDIS
6 episodes
Season 6
1968-1969
Patrick Troughton
The Dominators
Where the Doctor plans to stop the Dominators from turning the peaceful planet Dulkis into a radioactive fuel source.
5 episodes
The Mind Robber
Where the TARDIS is apparently destroyed throwing its crew into the Land of Fiction at the mercy of its Master (but not the Master)
5 episodes
The Invasion
Where the Cybermen are trying to invade the Earth (yet again) via monopolising modern technology. Bill Gates does not appear in this story, surprisingly, but it does see the return of Lethbridge Stewart now a Brigadier and fronting the UK division of the United Nations Intelligence Task force
8 episodes
first appearance of UNIT
The Krotons
Where the tellurium based Krotons plan to re-power their space ship by draining the intelligence from the brightest minds of the unsuspecting Gonds
4 episodes
The Seeds of Death
Where the Ice Warriors take over the Lunar T-Mat control station and plan to use the T-Mat system to distribute deadly spores across the Earth. Foamy fun for everyone
6 episodes
The Space Pirates
Where the Doctor & co get involved in the conflict between the space pirate Caven and the Interstellar Space Corps
6 episodes
The War Games
Where the Doctor is forced to contact his own people (the Time Lords) to help thwart the plans of aliens, aided by a renegade Time Lord, to build an invincible army and take over the galaxy. The Doctor is then put on trial by the Time Lords and sentenced to a forced regeneration and an exile on 20th Century Earth. Jamie and Zoe have their minds wiped and are returned to the point in time where they would have left with the Doctor
10 episodes
Time Lords are revealed as the Doctor’s people
Doctor put on trial for breaking the Time Lord rule of non-intervention
2nd regeneration
1970
Jon Pertwee
Spearhead from Space
Where the Doctor begins his exile on Earth by thwarting the invasion plans of the Nestene Consciousness and their Auton units. The Doctor becomes UNIT’s scientific advisor under Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart and assisted by Liz Shaw
4 episodes
Doctor Who now made and broadcast in colour
Doctor Who and the Silurians
Where an ancient race of humanoid lizards are awaked from hibernation and unleash a plague to remove the upstart ape known as man from their planet Earth
7 episodes
only time ‘Doctor Who’ used in story title
The Ambassadors of Death
Where a manned space flight to Mars returns with an alien crew, who were disappointingly not Ice Warriors.
7 episodes
Inferno
Where a trip to a totalitarian parallel Earth enables to Doctor to prevent the fiery destruction of our Earth. The one with the Brigadier’s eye patch. Liz departs to set up a chocolate company (perhaps..)
7 episodes
Season 8
1971
Jon Pertwee
Terror of the Autons
Where the Doctor’s best enemy the Master plots with the Nestene Consciousness to take over the Earth with the aid of Auton daffodils. Dirty Den was not killed during this story but Jo Grant did become the Doctor’s new assistant
4 episodes
first appearance of the Master played by Roger Delgado
The Mind of Evil
Where the Master attempts to steal a nuclear missile and start World War III by using of an alien mind parasite to enslave inmates at Stangmoor Prison
6 episodes
The Claws of Axos
Where the Doctor’s warning that all that glitters is not gold is ignored and only a truce with the Master can stop Axos getting its claws into the Earth
4 episodes
Colony in Space
Where the Time Lords send the Doctor to the planet Uxarieus to retrieve the Doomsday Weapon file stolen by the Master.
6 episodes
The Dæmons
Where the Master becomes a priest, the Doctor meets a white witch (don’t mention that on a Pagan forum) and the Dæmon Azal threatens to destroy the planet as a failed experiment, don’t tell the mice.
5 episodes
Season 9
1972
Jon Pertwee
Day of the Daleks
Where time travelling guerrillas arrive in the present in an attempt to prevent the Daleks taking over the future Earth
4 episodes
Ogrons debut
Curse of Peladon
Where the Doctor is mistaken for an Earth diplomat overseeing the admittance of the feudal planet Peladon to the Galactic Federation
4 episodes
The Sea Devils
Where the sea dwelling branch of Earth Reptiles are awoken by the imprisoned Master. Guest appearances by the Royal Navy and the Clangers
6 episodes
The Mutants
Where the Time Lords send the Doctor to deliver a message to someone on the planet Solos. Once there, the Doctor gets caught up in the breakdown of an empire and the evolution of a race
6 episodes
The Time Monster
Where the Master’s experiments with TOMTIT (ooo-err!!) result in the destruction of Atlantis (again) and the release of the extra-temporal being Kronos
6 episodes
Season 10
1972-1973
Jon Pertwee
The Three Doctors
Where the Time Lords send the Doctor’s first two selves to help his third unravel the plot of the forgotten Time Lord – Omega – from the other side of a black hole. As a reward the Time Lords lift the Doctor’s exile
4 episodes
10th anniversary story
Carnival of Monsters
Where the Doctor and Jo become trapped as specimens in a ‘miniscope’ used as a carnival side show
4 episodes
Frontier in Space
Where the Master (working for the Daleks) is using Ogrons to ferment unrest between the space empires of Earth and Draconia
6 episodes
Planet of the Daleks
Where the Doctor pursuing the Daleks arrives on the planet Spirodon where the Daleks have learnt invisibility from the natives and are planning galactic domination (again)
6 episodes
The Green Death
Where a trip to Wales finds trouble down the pits in the form of giant maggots and glowing green slime. Jo decides to leave UNIT and marry the leader of the local ecological activist community
6 episodes
Season 11
1973-1974
The Time Warrior
Where the Doctor takes a trip to the middle ages to counter the plans of crashed Sontaran,Linx. Along for the ride is feminist journalist Sarah Jane Smith
4 episodes
Invasion of the Dinosaurs
Where the Doctor and Sarah find London deserted apart from the odd rampaging dinosaur.
6 episodes
Death to the Daleks
Where the Doctor and Sarah get stuck on the planet Exxilon along with an Earth exploration mission when a Dalek ship lands
4 episodes
The Monster of Peladon
Where the Doctor returns to Peladon with Sarah to find trouble down the mines (again) and traitors in the Federation
6 episodes
Planet of the Spiders
Where the Doctor finds that collecting crystals can have consequences and giant spiders can spin big webs
6 episodes
3rd regeneration
1974-1975
Tom Baker
Robot
Where the newly regenerated Doctor gets a doctor (Dr Harry Sullivan) and Sarah gets to play Fay Wray to a Giant Robot
4 episodes
The Ark in Space
Where a confused Harry accompanies the Doctor and Sarah to a space station filled with frozen humans and something rather nasty
4 episodes
The Sontaran Experiment
Where the Doctor, Sarah and Harry check out the Ark’s transmat and get caught up in the sadistic experiments of Sontaran Field Major Styre
2 episodes
Genesis of the Daleks
Where the Doctor, Sarah and Harry are sent by the Time Lords to Skaro at the inception of the Daleks
6 episodes
Davros debuts
Revenge of the Cybermen
Where the Doctor & co are returned to Nerva Beacon before it became the Ark just as the Cybermen plan to use it to destroy Voga the planet of gold
Good timing for the Time Lords!!
4 episodes
Season 13
1975-1976
Tom Baker
Terror of the Zygons
Where the Doctor returns to Earth and finds the last of the Zygons plotting to use their Loch Ness monster to take over. Harry decides to return to UNIT
4 episodes
Planet of Evil
Where the Doctor and Sarah answer a distress call from Zeta Minor and find themselves in a conflict between the worlds of matter and anti-matter
4 episodes
Pyramids of Mars
Where the Doctor and Sarah arrive in the year 1911 and engage Sutekh, the last Osiran, in a race to Mars; the prize is the Earth itself
4 episodes
The Android Invasion
Where the Doctor stumbles upon an attempt by the Kraal to infiltrate the Earth with android doubles carrying a deadly virus. Yet more double trouble for the Doctor
4 episodes
The Brain of Morbius
Where the Doctor and Sarah are guests of Dr Solon who has plains for the Doctor’s head. Oh and there is a monster with a brain in a plastic bubble
4 episodes
The Seeds of Doom
Where the Doctor and Sarah encounter a pair of carnivorous Krynoid seedpods. One at the North Pole and one in England (where else)
6 episodes
Season 14
1976-1977
Tom Baker
The Masque of Mandragora
Where the TARDIS picks up a hitchhiker and a trip to renaissance Italy empowers the cult of Demnos with deadly energies
4 episodes
The Hand of Fear
Where the find of a fossilized hand possesses Sarah and after a trip to the heart of a nuclear reactor leads the Doctor to a long dead planet. In response to a telepathic summons the Doctor returns Sarah to Earth and heads home to Gallifrey
4 episodes
The Deadly Assasin
Where the Doctor runs for president of the Time Lords and a game of cat and mouse ensues in the virtual world of the Matrix. One with a cliff-hanger to make you hold your breath
4 episodes
Peter Pratt takes over as the decaying Master
The Face of Evil
Where a visit to a jungle world finds the Doctor caught between the tribe of the Sevateem, the Tesh and the mad god Xoanon who bares an uncanny resemblance to the Doctor. Yes even more double trouble, only this time its heads only. Leela of the Sevateem decides to join the Doctor in his travels
4 episodes
The Robots of Death
Where the crew of a sandminer fall victim to its robot crew and the Doctor discovers that not all robots are as dumb as they seem
4 episodes
The Talons of Weng-Chiang
Where a visit to a Victorian music hall results in murder, mayhem and encounters with a mad god, a pig brained dwarf and a very big rat
6 epsiodes
Season 15
1977-1978
Tom Baker
Horror of Fang Rock
Where a turn of the century lighthouse plays host to a shape-changing alien, the survivors of a shipwreck and the Doctor & Leela. Oh and its very very foggy
4 episodes
The Invisible Enemy
Where jumped up virus tries to conquer the galaxy. Luckily the Doctor & Leela make a house call. The one with the giant prawn and the tiny clones. The Doctor gains his faithful robot dog, K-9
4 episodes
Image of the Fendahl
Where an ancient skull acts as the means of invasion by the Fendahl. Luckily, the Doctor takes tales of Fendahl might with a pinch of salt. K-9 breaks down
4 episodes
The Sun Makers
Where living on the terraformed planet Pluto is a problem if you cannot pay your taxes. The Doctor however knows how to deal with the IRS
4 episodes
Underworld
Where the Minyan spacecraft R1C is searching for the lost P7E and the Minyan race banks. The Doctor helps them overcome problems with a mad computer (another one) and endless tunnels of bad CSO. Probably Mike Baldwin’s favourite story, unless he was thinking of the Greek original
4 episodes
The Invasion of Time
Where he Doctor sells out the Time Lords to the Vardans. Unfortunately, when the tin foil is pulled aside the Sontarans are revealed. The Doctor finds the key to their defeat in Gallifreyan history. Leela elects to stay on Gallifrey and marry the captain of the guard, Andred (no relation to a certain goddess),
K-9 decides to stay with her
6 episodes
Season 16
1978-1979
Tom Baker
The quest for the Key to Time
The Doctor is charged by the White Guardian with locating the 6 segments of the Key to Time before the evil Black Guardian can get his mits on them. The Doctor is joined by Romana, a fellow Time Lord (or should that be Time Lady) and his newly built K-9 Mk2
All 6 stories of this season are linked
First appearance of the Guardians of Time
The Ribos Operation
Where the Doctor & co must locate the first segment before a pair of con men ‘sell’ the planet Ribos to the Graff Vynda-K
4 episodes
The Pirate Planet
Where the TARDIS arrives on the planet where the second segment is located, except that planet is no longer there. Will the Earth be next to disappear? (Still no singing)
4 episodes
The Stones of Blood
Where the Doctor’s search for the third segment leads to an ancient stone circle and K-9 finds that sausage sarnies are not enough to stop the ogri
4 episodes
The Androids of Tara
Where androids and sword fights get in the way of the hunt for the forth segment. Tripple trouble for Roman in this
4 episodes
The Power of Kroll
Where swampies go green and the fifth segment is the subject of a fishy secret
4 episodes
The Armageddon Factor
Where the Black Guardian finally makes a stand and Romana almost meets her double
6 epsiodes
Season 17
1979-1980
Tom Baker
Destiny of the Daleks
Where the Daleks return for Davros and the Movellans show what fun beaded hair can be. Romana regenerates once or thrice
4 episodes
City of Death
Where a trip to Paris finds the Mona Lisa’s fate linked to the creation of life on Earth
4 episodes
The Creature from the Pit
Where a rather suggestive creature is helped by the Doctor. Yes more pits, more troubles
4 episodes
Nightmare of Eden
Where a crash in space reveals the source of an addictive drug and that flares are never out of fashion
4 episodes
The Horns of Nimon
Where a maze on the planet Skonnos seems familiar for students of Hellenic myth
4 episodes
Shada
Where a renegade Time Lord (yes another one) is tracked down by a renegade scientist (ditto) to take over the universe (again). Cancelled due to a strike at the BBC but later clips appeared in the Five Doctors, a half complete video release and a craftily rewritten webcast
0 episodes
Season 18
1980-1981
Tom Baker
The Leisure Hive
Where K-9 breaks down (again) and a holiday on Argolis results in much re-creation
4 episodes
Meglos
Where a giant cactus impersonates the Doctor – yes more double trouble (with spines)
4 episodes
Full Circle
Where the TARDIS falls into E-Space and the survivors of a crash find they history a little muddled. Adric stows away on the TARDIS
4 episodes
E-Space trilogy
State of Decay
Where the Doctor does Hammer and we learn the secret history of the Time Lord bowships
4 episodes
E-Space trilogy
Warriors’ Gate
Where arriving at the middle of nowhere the Doctor finds lion men and robots. Romana and K-9 Mk 2 go through the mirror and stay there
4 episodes
E-Space trilogy
The Keeper of Traken
Where the Doctor and Adric find the Source of peace under threat from the decaying Master
4 episodes
Geoffrey Beavers as the Master
Logopolis
Where the Master holds the universe to ransom and the Doctor meets his future. Nyssa of Traken and Tegan of Australia join
4 episodes
Anthony Ainley as the Master
4th regeneration
K-9
& Company <TOP>
K-9 mkIII
&
Sarah Jane Smith
A Girls Best Friend
Where a gift from the Doctor helps Sarah and her cousin Brendan thwart the darkest arts of witchcraft (well sort of)
1 episode
(pilot)
Season 19
1982
Peter Davison
Where a newly regenerated Doctor rearranges the TARDIS and the Master shows an appreciation for Escher
4 episodes
Four to Doomsday
Where Tegan reveals an artistic bent and the Doctor finds a new use for a cricket ball. Four of what we still don’t know
4 epsiodes
Kinda
Where Nyssa sleeps and Tegan has the nightmare
4 episodes
The Visitation
Where the Terileptils find that Pudding Lane is not the best place to store highly flammable chemicals
4 episodes
sonic screwdriver destroyed
Black Orchid
Where a costume party leads to even more double trouble and a match of cricket
2 episodes
Earthshock
Where the Doctor finds out just what did happen to the Dinosaurs and the Cybermen travel steerage.
Adric killed (no cheering at the back!)
4 episodes
Time-Flight
Where a trip on Concorde arrives sooner than expected and the Master shows off another pointless disguise.
Tegan leaves and regrets it
4 episodes
Season 20
1983
Peter Davison
Arc of Infinity
Where the Doctor gets spotty in Amsterdam as Omega tries to build a bridge. Even more double trouble – this time with rice crispies
Tegan rejoins with a change of clothes
4 episodes
Snakedance
Where Tegan finds that sometimes dreams can come true – unfortunately
4 episodes
Mawdryn Undead
Where the Brigadier confuses UNIT chronology even further then goes on to meet himself and save the day.
Turlough joins as an agent of the Black Guardian
4 episodes
Guardian trilogy
Terminus
Where the beginning of the universe has a dept to Norse mythology and Nyssa finds a cure that Thomas Covenant would find handy. Nyssa leaves minus most of her clothes
4 episodes
Guardian trilogy
Enlightenment
Where Turlough comes clean and Tegan goes sailing. The Black Guardian finds that you should be careful what you wish for
4 episodes
Guardian trilogy
The King’s Demons
Where the Doctor and Co find themselves with more double trouble in the time of King John.
Kamelion joins
2 episodes
The Five Doctors
Where two old Doctors and one new Doctor join the 5th Doctor to watch a clip of the 4th Doctor and play the game of Rassilon
1 episode
20th Aniversary special
Season 21
1984
Peter Davison
Warriors of the Deep
Where the Earth Reptiles commit myrka most horrid under the sea
4 episodes
The Awakening
Where a visit to church finds malus aforethought
2 episodes
Frontios
Where the TARDIS goes to pieces and so does Turlough
4 episodes
Resurection of the Daleks
Where the Doctor finds that Daleks are down the corridor and Davros finds that life in prison is not always a bad thing.
Tegan leaves (again)
2 episodes
(50 minutes)
Planet of Fire
Where a trip to the Canaries finds the Doctor gaining Peri, Turlough revealing all (but not as much as some on the beach) and Kamelion finally does something only for the Doctor to shoot him. Meanwhile the Master finds that the universe is bigger than he thought.Turlough leaves, Kamelion is destroyed and Peri joins
4 episodes
The Caves of Androzani
Where the Doctor finally reveals a use for his celery and Peri finds that bat milk can be quite refreshing
4 episodes
5th regeneration
Where a newly regenerated Doctor finds that twins are not twice the fun and an old friend has problems with some slugs
4 episodes
Colin Baker
Season 22
1985
Colin Baker
Attack of the Cybermen
Where the Doctor and Peri find Cybermen in the sewer and cryons in the freezer
2 episodes
All episodes this season 50 mins
Vengeance on Varos
Where the Doctor becomes a TV star and Peri finds out that fame is for the birds
2 episodes
The Mark of the Rani
Where the Rani and the Master open a bath house and the Doctor and Peri find more trouble down t’pit
2 episodes
The Two Doctors
Where the 2nd Doctor and Jamie take a trip to Spain and the 7th Doctor and Peri fall afoul of a Sontaran plot
3 episodes
Timelash
Where the Doctor and Peri find that guest stars can overact and the Skarasen gains some company
2 episodes
Revelation of the Daleks
Where the Doctor and Peri find that there is no peace for the dead when Davros is playing saviour
2 episodes
Season 23
1986
Colin Baker
The Trial of a Time Lord
The Doctor is taken out of time and put on trial by the Valeyard – but can the evidence be trusted even when it comes from the Matrix?
All stories form one story
First 4 episodes
Where a trip to a strange planet finds the Doctor down the Tube and reveals that the Time Lords have been playing Mornington Crescent –big time
The Mysterious Planet
Second 4 episodes
Where the Doctor goes a little odd and Peri becomes a body doner
Peri dies?
Mindwarp
Third 4 episodes
Where the Doctor and his ‘new’ friend Mel find that even in space you need to do some weeding
Mel appears
Terror of the Vervoids
Last 2 episodes
Where Mr Popplewick is revealed and the Doctor finds that Peri suffered a fate other than death (hope she got some ear plugs)
The Ultimate Foe
1987
6th regeneration
Sylvester McCoy
Time and the Rani
Where the Doctor regenerates and the Rani does Mel. Otherwise it’s a strange matter of bats and brains
4 episodes
Paradise Towers
Where the Doctor and Mel find that high rise living has a high cost in life
4 episodes
Delta and the Bannermen
Where a trip to Wales is no summer holiday and the Chimeron Queen finds a mate
4 episodes
Dragonfire
Where the Doctor goes to Iceworld and goes on a dragon hunt
Mel leaves to make a man of Glitz and time storm marooned Ace joins up
4 episodes
Season 25
1988-1989
Sylvester McCoy
Remembrance of the Daleks
Where the Doctor takes Ace to school and then lends the Daleks a hand
4 episodes
The Happiness Patrol
Where Ace goes on the stage and the Doctor gets finds that jelly babies can grow up
3 episodes
Silver Nemises
Where the Doctor and Ace encounter neo-nazis, Cybermen and a mad woman but fail to meet the Queen
3 episodes
Greatest Show in the Galaxy
Where the Doctor and Ace run away to the circus and find that clowns are not always fun
4 episodes
Season 26
1989
Sylvestor McCoy
Battlefield
Where the Brigadier meets his replacement and Ace nearly gets more than her feet wet
4 episodes
Ghost Light
Where the Doctor and Ace find out where angels fear to tread
3 episodes
The Curse of Fenric
Where a game of chess leads the Doctor to show things are just a matter of faith
4 episodes
Survival
Where the Master shows his teeth and the Doctor and Ace find out that there is no place like home
3 episodes
1996
7th regeneration
Paul McGann
Where the 7th Doctor very nearly leaves his heart in San Francisco and the 8th Doctor sees just who camp the Master can be. Say hi Grace, goodbye Grace
The Doctor has gained a new sonic screwdriver
2005
Christopher Eccleston
8th regeneration (off screen)
Rose
Where Rose loses her job, her boyfriend gets binned (twice) and the Autons give the Doctor a hand.
Rose joins the 9th Doctor
1 episode
The End of the World
Where the Doctor takes Rose to the ends of the Earth and we learn the dangers of cosmetic surgery and excessive tanning
1 episode
The Unquiet Dead
Where the Doctor and Rose visit Victorian Cardiff and find trouble with the gas. Charles Dickens finds that life and death are full of surprises
1 episode
Aliens of London
Where the Doctor takes Rose home, but is way past her bedtime and pigs really do fly, and crash, as the Slitheen infiltrate the government and set a devious trap…
Part 1
World War Three
…Where the Doctor has a shocking surprise for the Slitheen, and Rose joins the Cabinet. Meanwhile Jackie uses a pickle to get out of one and Mickey gets to hack the Slitheen down to size.
Part 2
Dalek
Where a distress signal drives the Doctor over the edge and Rose has an explosive encounter with a nude Dalek.
The Doctor reluctantly allows Adam to travel with him and Rose
1 episode
The Long Game
.Where the Doctor finds that (future) history is not as he remembers it and Adam learns how to have an open mind.
Adam betrays the Doctor and is dumped back at home
1 episode
Father’s Day
Where Rose commits an act of love that results in a wound in time. Not even the Doctor can help when the Reapers come to the wedding
1 episode
The Empty Child
Where a rescue mission lands the Doctor in the Blitz where a strange child is looking for his mummy. Meanwhile Rose falls for Captain Jack ...
Part 1
The Doctor Dances
...Where the source of the plague is revealed and the child finds his mummy. The Doctor rescues Jack from self sacrifice and welcomes him aboard the TARDIS
Part 2
Boom Town
Where Mickey's trip to Cardiff finds a reunion with more than the TARDIS crew. A Slitheen survivor gets under the Doctor's skin and its down to the TARDIS to bare its soul
1 episode
Bad Wolf
Where the TARDIS is hijacked and its crew get to play some very dangerous games. Human development has been derailed (thanks to the Doctor) and some very unwelcome old 'friends' are waiting in the wings....
Part 1
The Parting of the Ways
..Where the Dalek Emperor plays his hand and the Doctor betrays Rose for her own good. While the population of Earth are slaughtered the Doctor finds he can not do what he must. Rose has an epiphany and luckily Bad Wolf trumps the Dalek God.
Jack
is exterminated and then restored but gets left behind when the
Doctor takes Rose to safety.
Poisoned by the vortex
energies of Bad Wolf the Doctor regenerates.
Part 2
2005 -
9th regeneration
David Tennant
The Chrismas Invasion
Where the Doctor crashes Jackie's Christmas and finds himself in her bed while Santas come to visit along with a tree that does more than drop its needles. The Sycorax find a use for Britain's latest space probe and it falls to the Doctor to take a hand, or three, in their defeat. However all is not cosy with the PM who invokes Torchwood to despatch the defeated and so incurs the wrath of the newly regenerated Doctor. Phew so much in 60 minutes...
60 minute Christmas Special shown Christmas Day 2005
New Earth
Where a visit to New New York finds cat nuns curing people while hiding a dark secret in their basement. Meanwhile Cassandra plays musical bodies and both Rose and the Doctor find themselves playing host.
1 episode
Tooth and Claw
Where a trip to 1979 leads to meeting Queen Victoria in 1879 and a trap within a trap for a non-terrestrial werewolf. The Doctor gets knighted, Rose becomes a Dame and the Queen, who is definitely not amused, initiates the foundation of the Torchwood Institute; to guard against threats like the Doctor!
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School Reunion
Where Rose and the Doctor go back to school as dinner lady and physics teacher respectively and Sarah Jane Smith investigates. While Rose and Sarah bitch, the Krillitane are seeking godhood and K-9 Mk3 gets to show his metal. K9 Mk3 is destroyed but K9 Mk4 picks up the baton. Mickey asks to join the Doctor and Rose in their travels.
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The Girl in the Fireplace
Where the Doctor falls in love but runs out of time and clockwork people from the 51st Century seek the head of Mme du Pompadour. In the 18th.
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Rise of the Cybermen
Where the TARDIS dies in a strange new England and Mickey finally meets Ricky (yes double trouble makes its return). Meanwhile Rose finds her other self a bitch and the Cybermen crash Jackie's party...
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set on a parallel Earth
The Age of Steel
...Where
Lumic and Jackie both get a makeover and Pete is revealed as a
secret hero. The Cybermen take over but the Doctor with Mickey's
help, returns their emotions and drives them mad.
Ricky is
killed and Mickey decides to replace him in this parallel world.
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The Idiot's Lantern
TV perhaps? By Mark Gatiss – so could be another spooky one
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The Impossible Planet
Hope its not too impossible for The Mill to realise
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The Satan Pit
Hmmmmm Devil worship perhaps? As long as they don't besmirch modern Pagans
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Love and Monsters
And in the green corner the mighty Azorbaloff. Fresh from winning the design a monster competion on Blue Peter
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Fear Her
Hmmm set around 2012 mayhap an olympian bathed in fire and became immortal?
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Army of Ghosts
Probably has an army of ghosts – may be its the Gelth again – gas does tend to repeat. But it does feature Trisha, Derek Acorah and Barbera Windsor as Peggy Mitchell ye gods its Bad Wolf all over again.
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