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Doctor Who
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.
- Created by:
- Sydney Newman, C. E. Webber, Donald Wilson
- Cast:
- Sylvester McCoy, Sophie Aldred
- Language:
- English
- Country:
- United Kingdom
- Network:
- BBC One, BBC Television
Episode guide
Seasons
Season 18
Episodes
E01
Episode 1
★ 6.5The Leisure Hive (1)
1980-08-30 · 24mThe 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?
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E02
Episode 2
★ 6.2The Leisure Hive (2)
1980-09-06 · 21mAnother 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.
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E03
Episode 3
★ 6.2The Leisure Hive (3)
1980-09-13 · 22mWith 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.
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E04
Episode 4
★ 6.6The Leisure Hive (4)
1980-09-20 · 22mWith 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.
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E05
Episode 5
★ 6.0Meglos (1)
1980-09-27 · 25mThe 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...
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E06
Episode 6
★ 6.2Meglos (2)
1980-10-04 · 22mWith 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.
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E07
Episode 7
★ 6.2Meglos (3)
1980-10-11 · 22mCan Romana escape the Gaztaks? What has become of the Dodecahedron? What pressing appointment awaits the Doctor?
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Episode 8
★ 6.2Meglos (4)
1980-10-18 · 20mWith 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.
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E09
Episode 9
★ 6.7Full Circle (1)
1980-10-25 · 25mDeep 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...
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E10
Episode 10
★ 6.6Full Circle (2)
1980-11-01 · 23mAs 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.
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E11
Episode 11
★ 6.4Full Circle (3)
1980-11-08 · 22mInfection 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.
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E12
Episode 12
★ 6.8Full Circle (4)
1980-11-15 · 25mMarshmen 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.
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E13
Episode 13
★ 7.1State of Decay (1)
1980-11-22 · 23mStill 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...?
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E14
Episode 14
★ 7.0State of Decay (2)
1980-11-29 · 24mThe 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."
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E15
Episode 15
★ 7.0State of Decay (3)
1980-12-06 · 25mThe 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.
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E16
Episode 16
★ 7.0State of Decay (4)
1980-12-13 · 25mThe 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.
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E17
Episode 17
★ 6.3Warriors' Gate (1)
1981-01-03 · 23mThe TARDIS is drawn into an empty white void, somewhere between universes. But they are not the only ones trapped there.
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E18
Episode 18
★ 6.6Warriors' Gate (2)
1981-01-10 · 24mWhen 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.
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E19
Episode 19
★ 6.6Warriors' Gate (3)
1981-01-17 · 23mWhile Biroc leads the Doctor to a view of the Tharil's lordly past, Romana learns more about the damaged freighter and the cold-heartedness 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.
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E20
Episode 20
★ 6.6Warriors' Gate (4)
1981-01-24 · 25mThe 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.
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E21
Episode 21
★ 7.4The Keeper of Traken (1)
1981-01-31 · 25mThe 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?
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E22
Episode 22
★ 7.3The Keeper of Traken (2)
1981-02-07 · 25mTremas 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.
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E23
Episode 23
★ 7.5The Keeper of Traken (3)
1981-02-14 · 24mWith 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.
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E24
Episode 24
★ 7.5The Keeper of Traken (4)
1981-02-21 · 26mWith 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.
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E25
Episode 25
★ 7.6Logopolis (1)
1981-02-28 · 25mDeciding 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.
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Episode 26
★ 7.5Logopolis (2)
1981-03-07 · 25mThe Doctor, aware that his time may soon be ending, travels to the Logopolis where a series of fateful events are set in motion.
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E27
Episode 27
★ 7.5Logopolis (3)
1981-03-14 · 25mWith 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.
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E28
Episode 28
★ 8.3Logopolis (4)
1981-03-21 · 26mWith 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.
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Sylvester McCoy
The Doctor
Sophie Aldred
Ace