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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 21
Episodes
E01
Episode 1
★ 5.1Warriors of the Deep (1)
1984-01-05 · 25mEarth'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…
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E02
Episode 2
★ 5.3Warriors of the Deep (2)
1984-01-06 · 25mJust 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?
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E03
Episode 3
★ 5.5Warriors of the Deep (3)
1984-01-12 · 25mAs 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.
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E04
Episode 4
★ 5.3Warriors of the Deep (4)
1984-01-13 · 25mWith 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.
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E05
Episode 5
★ 6.6The Awakening (1)
1984-01-19 · 26mThe 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...
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E06
Episode 6
★ 5.8The Awakening (2)
1984-01-20 · 25mThe 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.
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E07
Episode 7
★ 6.8Frontios (1)
1984-01-26 · 25mThe 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…
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E08
Episode 8
★ 7.1Frontios (2)
1984-01-27 · 25mFollowing 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.
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E09
Episode 9
★ 7.1Frontios (3)
1984-02-02 · 25mTrying 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.
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E10
Episode 10
★ 7.1Frontios (4)
1984-02-03 · 25mThe 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?
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E11
Episode 11
★ 8.3Resurrection of the Daleks (1)
1984-02-08 · 46mLondon'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?
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E12
Episode 12
★ 8.0Resurrection of the Daleks (2)
1984-02-15 · 46mAs 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.
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E13
Episode 13
★ 6.6Planet of Fire (1)
1984-02-23 · 25mLanzarote, 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?
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E14
Episode 14
★ 6.8Planet of Fire (2)
1984-02-24 · 25mWhile 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.
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Episode 15
★ 6.7Planet of Fire (3)
1984-03-01 · 24mSarn 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.
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E16
Episode 16
★ 6.5Planet of Fire (4)
1984-03-02 · 25mWhile 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.
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E17
Episode 17
★ 8.5The Caves of Androzani (1)
1984-03-08 · 25mThe 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?
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E18
Episode 18
★ 8.6The Caves of Androzani (2)
1984-03-09 · 26mThe 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?
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E19
Episode 19
★ 8.6The Caves of Androzani (3)
1984-03-15 · 25mThe situation on Androzani Minor is building toward a violent confrontation, and the Doctor and Peri are slowly succumbing to spectrox toxemia.
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E20
Episode 20
★ 8.8The Caves of Androzani (4)
1984-03-16 · 26mEvents on Androzani reach a bloody climax. Will the Doctor and Peri survive the carnage? And at what cost?
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E21
Episode 21
★ 4.9The Twin Dilemma (1)
1984-03-22 · 25mEarth, 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?
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E22
Episode 22
★ 5.7The Twin Dilemma (2)
1984-03-23 · 26mThe 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.
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E23
Episode 23
★ 5.2The Twin Dilemma (3)
1984-03-29 · 25mThe 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.
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E24
Episode 24
★ 5.1The Twin Dilemma (4)
1984-03-30 · 26mThe 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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Sylvester McCoy
The Doctor
Sophie Aldred
Ace