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Doctor Who Classic Series Panel

Omnicon

March 30, 2019 Cookeville, Tennessee

Presented By

Christopher L. Augustus

Tennessee Technological University Alumni Former Alpha Psi Phi Member

http://www.knology.net/~augustus/

Three Distinct Eras of Doctor Who

• Classic Series

1963 to 1989

• Wilderness Years 1990 to 2004
• New Series

2005 to Present

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To Prevent Information Overload

• Almost No Spoilers!
• Talk Mostly About Broadcast TV Stories
• Keep Name Dropping to Minimum
• Will Name the Actors Who Played Doctors
• Call Companions by Character Names
• Watch "An Adventure in Space and Time"
• Part of the 50th anniversary celebration.
• Starred David Bradley as the First Doctor
• He also played the Doctor in Twice Upon a Time
• Not 100% accurate, but a good dramatization.

Doctor Who Season 1

Story Title Episodes Missing An Unearthly Child 4 None The Daleks 7 None The Edge of Destruction 2 None Marco Polo 7 All The Keys of Marinus 6 None The Aztecs 4 None The Sensorites 6 None The Reign of Terror 6 2

• Dates: November 23, 1963 to September 12, 1964
• Episodes Planned:

42

• Episodes Broadcast:

42

• Episodes Missing:

9

• Episodes Existing:

33

• How episodes were made:
• Film: exteriors and Limegrove Studios
• Rehearse a week
• Record on video tape one day.
• Each episode had individual titles.
• The story names:
• Working titles.
• Old publication assumed story names were the first

episode

• The topic of the story.
• Talk about missing episodes
• Usually a mix of Science Fiction and Historical

stories.

Doctor Who Season 2

Story Title Episodes Missing Planet of Giants 3* None The Dalek Invasion of Earth 6 None The Rescue 2 None The Romans 4 None The Web Planet 6 None The Crusade 4 2 The Space Museum 4 None The Chase 6 None The Time Meddler 4 None*

• Dates: October 31, 1964 to July 24, 1965
• Episodes Planned:

40; Episodes Broadcast: 39

• Episodes Missing:

2; Episodes Existing: 37

• Planet of the Giants 3 and 4 became one episode
• The Urge to Live
• The Chase
• Has Daleks.
• Has the Beatles (but not on US DVD).
• Time Meddler missing 12 seconds.

Doctor Who Season 3

Story Title Episodes Missing Galaxy Four 4 3 Mission to the Unknown 1 All The Myth Makers 4 All The Dalek Masterplan 12 9 The Massacre 4 All The Ark 4 None The Celestial Toymaker 4 3 The Gunfighters 4 None The Savages 4 All The War Machines 4 None*

• Dates: September 11, 1965 to July 16, 1966
• Episodes Planned:

45; Episodes Broadcast: 45

• Episodes Missing:

28; Episodes Existing: 17

• Mention sizable clip existing of Galaxy Four
• Mention what is Mission to the Unknown.
• Why one episode?
• The big Dalek Masterplan.
• The Gunfighters.
• Fan opinion increased after DVD release.
• The Savages ceased having individual episode titles.
• The War Machines missing scenes.

Doctor Who Season 4

Story Title Episodes Missing The Smugglers 4 All The Tenth Planet 4 1 The Power of the Daleks 6 All The Highlanders 4 All The Underwater Menace 4 2 The Moonbase 4 2 The Macra Terror 4 All The Faceless Ones 6 4 The Evil of the Daleks 7 6

• Dates: September 10, 1966 to July 1, 1967
• Episodes Planned:

43; Episodes Broadcast: 43

• Episodes Missing:

33; Episodes Existing: 10

• The Doctor regenerates at the end of The Tenth

Planet.

• Patrick Troughton is the Doctor in Power of the

Daleks.

• Jamie is introduced in the Highlanders.
• Evil of the Daleks was supposed to be the final

Doctor Who story featuring the Daleks.

• Not one complete story exists from this season!

Doctor Who Season 5

Story Title Episodes Missing The Tomb of the Cybermen 4 None The Abominable Snowmen 6 5 The Ice Warriors 6 2 The Enemy of the World 6 None The Web of Fear 6 1 Fury from the Deep 6 All The Wheel in Space 6 4

• Dates: September 2, 1967 to June 1, 1968
• Episodes Planned:

40

• Episodes Broadcast:

40

• Episodes Missing:

18

• Episodes Existing:

22

• Called the Monster Season as all but one story

featured a monster.

• Cybermen twice
• Yeti twice
• Ice Warriors
• Seaweed Creatures
• Tell story about the recovery of Enemy of the World

and most of The Web of Fear.

• At the end of The Wheel in Space, the Evil of the

Daleks was repeated.

• Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart introduced.

Doctor Who Season 6

Story Title Episodes Missing The Dominators 5 None The Mind Robber 5 None The Invasion 8 2 The Krotons 4 None The Seeds of Death 6 None The Space Pirates 6 5 The War Games 10 None

• Dates: August 10, 1968 to June 21, 1969
• Episodes Planned:

44

• Episodes Broadcast:

44

• Episodes Missing:

7

• Episodes Existing:

37

• Final black and white season.
• Very troubled season.
• Patrick Troughton and Jamie were worn out

making episodes most of the year.

• Begged to drop the count of episodes by one half a

year.

• Both ended up leaving at the end of the season.
• The Dominators was shortened from 6 to 5 episodes.
• The Mind Robber:
• Got an extra episode!
• Was an early story not shot one episode a week.
• The Invasion was an experiment – Birth of UNIT
• The Invasion replaced two problems stories.
• The War Games:
• Replaced two problems stories.
• Introduced the Time Lords.
• Almost the final season of Doctor Who!

Doctor Who Season 7

Story Title Episodes Spearhead From Space 4 Doctor Who and the Silurians 7 The Ambassadors of Death 7 Inferno 7

• Dates: January 3, 1970 to June 20, 1970
• Episodes Planned:

25

• Episodes Broadcast:

25

• First color season. Shortened to 25 episodes.
• Only reason the season was made was the producer

(Barry Letts) and script editor (Terrence Dicks) could not come up with a replacement

• New Doctor, Jon Pertwee.
• All stories were UNIT stories.
• Spearhead from Space – production issues.
• All exteriors were shot on 16mm film.
• Union strike.
• All interiors were shot elsewhere on 16mm film
• Broadcast from color 16mm film.
• Of the other 21 episodes, only one exists on original

broadcast video tape. The other are color due to:

• Reverse standards conversion
• Mixing B&W film with off air color tapes.
• Chroma Dot restoration!!!

Doctor Who Season 8

Story Title Episodes Terror of the Autons 4 The Mind of Evil 6 The Claws of Axos 4 Colony in Space 6 The Dæmons 5

• Dates: January 2, 1970 to June 19, 1970
• Episodes Planned:

25

• Episodes Broadcast:

25

• The Master Season
• Every story features a new reoccurring character:

The Master.

• New UNIT:
• Captain Mike Yates.
• Jo Grant
• Colony in Space is not a UNIT story.
• The Dæmons is a cast and fan favorite.
• Only three episodes exist on original video tape.

Doctor Who Season 9

Story Title Episodes The Day of the Daleks 4 The Curse of Peladon 4 The Sea Devils 6 The Mutants 6 The Time Monster 6

• Dates: January 1, 1972 to June 24, 1972
• Episodes Planned:

26

• Episodes Broadcast:

26

• Triumphant return of the Daleks.
• Earliest story retained on original video tape
• The Mutants is not a UNIT story.
• 11 episodes exist on original video tape.

Doctor Who Season 10

Story Title Episodes The Three Doctors 4 Carnival of Monsters 4 Frontier in Space 6 Planet of the Daleks 6 The Green Death 6

• Dates: December 30, 1972 to June 23, 1973
• Episodes Planned:

26

• Episodes Broadcast:

26

• The Three Doctors was the tenth anniversary

special:

• Primarily features second and third Doctors.
• Due to failing health, William Hartnell briefly

appears on film on the TARDIS scanner.

• Frontier in Space and Planet of the Daleks make 12

part story.

• All but one episode exists on original video tape (or

at least a first generation dub)

Doctor Who Season 11

Story Title Episodes The Time Warrior 4 Invasion of the Dinosaurs 6 Death to the Daleks 4 The Monster of Peladon 6 Planet of the Spiders 6

• Dates: December 15, 1973 to June 8, 1974
• Episodes Planned:

26

• Episodes Broadcast:

26

• Logo changed to famous diamond logo.
• Time Warrior
• Introduces Sarah Jane
• Introduces the Sontarans.
• Names the Doctor's home planet as Gallifrey.
• First episode of Invasion of the Dinosaurs:
• Had a story title of "The Invasion".
• Is the last episode not to be retained on a PAL

video tape.

Doctor Who Season 12

Story Title Episodes Robot 4 The Ark in Space 4 The Sontaran Experiment 2 Genesis of the Daleks 6 Revenge of the Cybermen 4

• Dates: December 28, 1974 to May 10, 1975
• Episodes Planned:

26

• Episodes Broadcast:

20

• Blu-ray: Tom Baker Complete Season One
• New Doctor, Tom Baker
• Robot was first story with exteriors video taped.
• The Sontaran Experiment was made 100% on video

tape on location.

• All time classic: Genesis of the Daleks.
• Revenge of the Cybermen was the only Cyberman

story broadcast in the 1970's.

• Season ended early due to moving the broadcast

time up from Winter/Spring to Fall/Winter.

Doctor Who Season 13

Story Title Episodes Terror of the Zygons 4 Planet of Evil 4 Pyramids of Mars 4 The Android Invasion 4 The Brain of Morbius 4 The Seeds of Doom 6

• Dates: August 30, 1975 to March 6, 1976
• Episodes Planned:

26

• Episodes Broadcast:

26

• Season famous for Gothic Horror.
• Featured stories about mummies and Frankenstein.
• Terror of the Zygons originally planned opening

restored on DVD.

Doctor Who Season 14

Story Title Episodes The Masque of Mandragora 4 The Hand of Fear 4 The Deadly Assassin 4 The Face of Evil 4 The Robots of Death 4 The Talons of Weng-Chiang 6

• Dates: September 4, 1976 to April 2, 1977
• Episodes Planned:

26

• Episodes Broadcast:

26

• The Deadly Assassin
• Companion-less story.
• Invents many things about Time Lords still used in

the current series.

• One episode cliffhanger was so violent, the ending

was edited off the master tape after the initial broadcast!

• Featured a wooden TARDIS console room.

Doctor Who Season 15

Story Title Episodes Horror of Fang Rock 4 The Invisible Enemy 4 Image of the Fendahl 4 The Sun Makers 4 Underworld 4 The Invasion of Time 6

• Dates: September 3, 1977 to March 11, 1978
• Episodes Planned:

26

• Episodes Broadcast:

26

• The Horror of Fang Rock was my first complete

Doctor Who story. Watched during Christmas break 1983.

• The Invisible Enemy introduced K-9.

Doctor Who Season 16

Story Title Episodes The Ribos Operation 4 The Pirate Planet 4 The Stones of Blood 4 The Androids of Tara 4 The Power of Kroll 4 The Armageddon Factor 6

• Dates: September 2, 1978 to February 24, 1979
• Episodes Planned:

26

• Episodes Broadcast:

26

• The Key to Time Season
• This season was a quest for the six segments of the

Key to Time

• The Pirate Planet was written by famous Douglas

Adams (Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy).

Doctor Who Season 17

Story Title Episodes Destiny of the Daleks 4 City of Death 4 The Creature from the Pit 4 Nightmare of Eden 4 Horns of Nimon 4 Shada Not Finished

• Dates: September 1, 1979 to January 12, 1980
• Episodes Planned:

26

• Episodes Broadcast:

20

• Douglas Adams was script editor on this season.
• Rewrote City of Death
• Wrote Shada
• Fan favorite: City of Death
• Shada:
• Due to a strike, was never completed.
• Primarily written by Douglas Adams.
• All outdoor scenes were recorded.
• One of three studio blocks recorded.
• Pseudo completed with Tom Baker narrating the

unfinished scenes on VHS in 1992 & DVD in 2013.

• Completed in 2017 with linking animation on DVD

(USA) and Blu-ray (UK).

Doctor Who Season 18

Story Title Episodes The Leisure Hive 4 Meglos 4 Full Circle 4 State of Decay 4 Warriors' Gate 4 The Keeper of Traken 4 Logopolis 4

• Dates: August 30, 1980 to March 21, 1981
• Episodes Planned:

28

• Episodes Broadcast:

28

• Blu-ray: Tom Baker Complete Season Seven
• New producer: John Nathan-Turner.
• Logo changed to neon logo.
• First completely new arrangement of the theme tune.
• Big companion changes.
• E-Space Trilogy
• Another Trilogy – spoilers.

Doctor Who Season 19

• Dates: January 4, 1982 to March 30, 1982
• Episodes Planned:

26

• Episodes Broadcast:

26

• Blu-ray: Peter Davison Complete Season One

Story Title Episodes Castrovalva 4 Four to Doomsday 4 Kinda 4 The Visitation 4 Black Orchid 2 Earthshock 4 Time-Flight 4

• New Doctor: Peter Davison

Doctor Who Season 20

• Dates: January 3, 1983 to March 16, 1983
• Episodes Planned:

26

• Episodes Broadcast:

22 Story Title Episodes Arc of Infinity 4 Snakedance 4 Mawdryn Undead 4 Terminus 4 Enlightenment 4 The King's Demons 2 Story Title Episodes The Five Doctors 1

• Date: November 25, 1983
• Special 90 Minute Episode
• The originally planned season was going to be a

celebration of the show's 20th anniversary.

• The Black Guardian Trilogy
• A strike forced the cancellation of a Dalek story

named "Warhead".

• BBC granted a special 90 minute episode to

celebrate the 20th anniversary.

• Technically made as part of the season 21

recording block.

• Featured three of the four surviving Doctors.
• The first Doctor was played by another actor.
• Tom Baker refused to appear, so two scenes were

utilized from the Shada footage.

• Probably one of the worst stories to show new

Doctor Who fans!

Doctor Who Season 21

• Dates: January 5, 1984 to March 30, 1984
• Episodes Planned:

26

• Episodes Broadcast:

24 Story Title Episodes Warriors of the Deep 4 The Awakening 2 Frontios 4 Resurrection of the Daleks 2* Planet of Fire 4 The Caves of Androzani 4 The Twin Dilemma 4

• Season switched from being made on two inch to
• ne inch video tape.
• Due to the 1984 Winter Olympics, Resurrection of

the Dalek was edited into two 45 minute episodes.

• The Caves of Androzani:
• Peter Davison regenerates.
• One of the best stories of the 1980s.
• The Twin Dilemma:
• New Doctor: Colin Baker
• Possibly one of the worst stores of the 1980s.

Doctor Who Season 22

• Dates: January 5, 1985 to March 30, 1985
• Episodes Planned:

13

• Episodes Broadcast:

13

• Episode Length:

45 Minutes Story Title Episodes Attack of the Cybermen 2 Vengeance on Varos 2 Mark of the Rani 2 The Two Doctors 3 Timelash 2 Revelation of the Daleks 2

• Due to the successful broadcast of two episodes

edited together in 45 minute slots, this whole season was produced this way.

• The story lines are very violent. Not recommended

for younger kids.

• The Two Doctors featured Patrick Troughton as the

second Doctor with Jamie.

• The show was put onto hiatus for 18 months.

Doctor Who Season 23

• Dates: September 6, 1986 to December 6, 1986
• Episodes Planned:

14

• Episodes Broadcast:

14 Story Title Episodes The Trial of a Timelord 14 Working Story Titles Episodes The Mysterious Planet 4 Mindwarp 4 Terror of the Vervoids 4 The Ultimate Foe 2

• Doctor Who returned after 18 months.
• BBC management said Doctor Who was on trial and

could very well be canceled if this season was not better.

• Returns to 25 minute episodes.
• Season was shortened to 14 episodes.
• Got new arrangement of the theme tune.
• The season was broadcast as one story where the

Doctor was on trial for violating the laws of time.

• There were four separate productions.
• The long time script editor left leaving episode 14

unwritten.

• Episode 14:
• Was transmitted as a 35 minute episode.
• Has a huge continuity error.
• Colin Baker was fired as the Doctor.

Doctor Who Season 24

• Dates: September 7, 1987 to December 7, 1987
• Episodes Planned:

14

• Episodes Broadcast:

14 Story Title Episodes Time and the Rani 4 Paradise Towers 4 Delta and the Bannermen 3 Dragonfire 3

• New Doctor: Sylvester McCoy.
• Some consider this the worst season of Doctor Who.
• I find the fan dislike Delta enjoyable.
• Dragonfire has maybe the worst cliffhanger of the

whole show!

Doctor Who Season 25

• Dates: October 5, 1988 to January 4, 1989
• Episodes Planned:

14

• Episodes Broadcast:

14 Story Title Episodes Remembrance of the Daleks 4 The Happiness Patrol 3 Silver Nemesis 3 The Greatest Show in the Galaxy 4

• 25th anniversary season. Featured Daleks and

Cybermen.

• In general, the season was better received.
• Silver Nemesis:
• 25th anniversary story.
• I camped out on a mountain to watch and record

this story in Northern Georgia

• First season broadcast in stereo.

Doctor Who Season 26

• Dates: September 6, 1989 to December 6, 1989
• Episodes Planned:

14

• Episodes Broadcast:

14 Story Title Episodes Battlefield 4 Ghost Light 3 The Curse of Fenric 4 Survival 3

• Battlefield:
• Had a lot of potential.
• The Curse of Fenric:
• Best story of the 1980s!
• Perfect mix of history (WWII), science fiction, and

mythology.

• DVD is out of print and very $$$.
• I watched and recorded this story on a mountain in

North Georgia.

• Survival:
• Final broadcast story of Doctor Who.
• I also watched and recorded this story on a

mountain in North Georgia, this time during a thunderstorm!

• Doctor Who was never formally canceled, BBC

management did not commission a new season.

• Rumored to be released on Blu-ray this year.

December 6, 1989: The End of Classic Doctor Who 1990: The Wilderness Years Began

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