Doctor Who (1963)
Overview
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.
Featured Cast
Sylvester McCoy
The Doctor
Sophie Aldred
Ace
Seasons & Episodes
Season 1
42 episodesThe season introduces William Hartnell as the First Doctor, an alien who travels through time and space in his TARDIS, which appears to be a British p...
Aired: Nov 23, 1963
Season 2
39 episodesMilestones this season included not one but two encore appearances by the Daleks; the departure of the original three companions, Susan Foreman, Barba...
Aired: Oct 31, 1964
Season 3
45 episodesAt twelve episodes, The Daleks' Master Plan was the longest story in the show's history until superseded by the fourteen-episode The Trial of a Time L...
Aired: Sep 11, 1965
Season 4
43 episodesThis season was a season of major changes for Doctor Who, including some that have influenced the series and franchise ever since. Most notably, seaso...
Aired: Sep 10, 1966
Season 5
40 episodesNo complete stories from the season were known to have survived until the early-1990s when archivists recovered a complete version of The Tomb of the...
Aired: Sep 02, 1967
Season 6
44 episodesThis season featured the first ever UNIT story, The Invasion, which showcased the return of Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart. It also featured the first o...
Aired: Aug 10, 1968
Season 7
25 episodesIt was the first series produced and broadcast in colour and the first set entirely in one time period and almost entirely on Earth (the latter of the...
Aired: Jan 03, 1970
Season 8
25 episodesAs of 2017, season 8 remains notable for being the season with the most number of regular characters. Not only did it see a new companion in the form...
Aired: Jan 02, 1971
Season 9
26 episodesIt was noted for being the beginning of the end of the Doctor's exile on Earth, with the Doctor's TARDIS still under the control of the Time Lords (Th...
Aired: Jan 01, 1972
Season 10
26 episodesWilliam Hartnell returned in a cameo as the First Doctor and Patrick Troughton in a more substantial role as the Second Doctor in The Three Doctors. T...
Aired: Dec 30, 1972
Season 11
26 episodesIt was Jon Pertwee's final season as the Doctor and included, very briefly, the first appearance of Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor. The Time Warrior,...
Aired: Dec 15, 1973
Season 12
20 episodesAll the stories in this season were interconnected, several forming a loose story arc relating to Space Station Nerva. The Cybermen returned to the se...
Aired: Dec 28, 1974
Season 13
26 episodesIt was during this season that the Doctor cut ties to UNIT (after Terror of the Zygons, the Brigadier would not appear again until Mawdryn Undead in 1...
Aired: Aug 30, 1975
Season 14
26 episodesThe season is notable for the departure of Sarah Jane Smith in The Hand of Fear and for The Deadly Assassin, a story set entirely on Gallifrey which e...
Aired: Sep 04, 1976
Season 15
26 episodesThis season introduced K9 to the series and saw the departure of Leela. It was originally intended to include Terrance Dicks' story The Vampire Mutati...
Aired: Sep 03, 1977
The Key to Time
26 episodesThis season saw the introduction of the Black and White Guardians as well as the companion Romana, who became only the second female Time Lord compani...
Aired: Sep 02, 1978
Season 17
20 episodesIt consisted of five stories, plus the incomplete Shada, unfinished as a result of an industrial strike. Lalla Ward joined as Romana II, and the seaso...
Aired: Sep 01, 1979
Season 18
28 episodesThe season featured a story arc involving E-Space and the return of the Master who had stolen a new body rather than regenerate. The stories were dark...
Aired: Aug 30, 1980
Season 19
26 episodesTwo milestones occurred in Earthshock. Firstly, the Cybermen returned, unannounced, for the first time since Revenge of the Cybermen in 1975 with a co...
Aired: Jan 04, 1982
Season 20
22 episodesStructurally, the season retread season 18's formula of including a trilogy of stories bound together by an overarching theme. In this instance, the t...
Aired: Jan 03, 1983
Season 21
24 episodesThe Twin Dilemma, the first story with Colin Baker as the Sixth Doctor, aired last in the season. This season saw the departure of companions Tegan, T...
Aired: Jan 05, 1984
Season 22
13 episodesWith this season the BBC experimented with the format of the series, reducing the number of episodes to thirteen, but making each episode forty-five m...
Aired: Jan 05, 1985
The Trial of a Time Lord
14 episodesThis season had a unique format, never again repeated in the show. Doctor Who had returned to production after a near-cancellation and an eighteen-mon...
Aired: Sep 06, 1986
Season 24
14 episodesUnlike season 23, there was no overall story arc, and the episode allotment - two four-episode stories, two three-episode stories - would be retained...
Aired: Sep 07, 1987
Season 25
14 episodesAs the silver anniversary season, it included several stories noting the milestone: Remembrance of the Daleks, which featured the final "classic serie...
Aired: Oct 05, 1988
Season 26
14 episodesIt was the final season of the "classic" series. Unusually for a Doctor Who season, aside from some scenes in Survival, all the stories took place on...
Aired: Sep 06, 1989
