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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.
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Checked Jul 22, 2026
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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.
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Episode 1
Earth'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…
Directed by Pennant RobertsWritten by Johnny ByrneGuest stars Nitza Shaul, Nigel Humphreys, Ian McCulloch, Ingrid Pitt, James Coombes, Tom Adams, Stuart Blake, Martin Neil
Episode 2
Just 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?
Directed by Pennant RobertsWritten by Johnny ByrneGuest stars Nitza Shaul, Nigel Humphreys, Ian McCulloch, Ingrid Pitt, Tom Adams, Stuart Blake, Martin Neil, Tara Ward
Episode 3
As 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.
Directed by Pennant RobertsWritten by Johnny ByrneGuest stars Ingrid Pitt, Tom Adams, Stuart Blake
Episode 4
With 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.
Directed by Pennant RobertsWritten by Johnny ByrneGuest stars Tom Adams, Stuart Blake
Episode 5
The 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...
Directed by Michael Owen MorrisWritten by Eric PringleGuest stars Polly James, Glyn Houston, Denis Lill, Jack Galloway
Episode 6
The 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.
Directed by Michael Owen MorrisWritten by Eric PringleGuest stars Polly James, Glyn Houston, Denis Lill, Keith Jayne, Jack Galloway, Frederick Hall
Episode 7
The 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…
Directed by Ron JonesWritten by Christopher H. BidmeadGuest stars William Lucas
Episode 8
Following 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.
Directed by Ron JonesWritten by Christopher H. BidmeadGuest stars William Lucas
Episode 9
Trying 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.
Directed by Ron JonesWritten by Christopher H. BidmeadGuest stars Lesley Dunlop, William Lucas, Peter Gilmore, Jeff Rawle
Episode 10
The 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?
Directed by Ron JonesWritten by Christopher H. BidmeadGuest stars William Lucas
Episode 11
London'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?
Directed by Matthew RobinsonWritten by Eric SawardGuest stars Rula Lenska, Rodney Bewes, Terry Molloy, Maurice Colbourne, Royce Mills, Chloe Ashcroft, Philip McGough, John Scott Martin
Episode 12
As 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.
Directed by Matthew RobinsonWritten by Eric SawardGuest stars Rula Lenska, Rodney Bewes, Terry Molloy, Maurice Colbourne, Royce Mills, Chloe Ashcroft, Leslie Grantham, Philip McGough
Episode 13
Lanzarote, 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?
Directed by Fiona CummingWritten by Peter GrimwadeGuest stars Edward Highmore, Peter Wyngarde, Dallas Adams, Barbara Shelley, Anthony Ainley, James Bate, Jonathan Caplan, Michael Bangerter
Episode 14
While 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.
Directed by Fiona CummingWritten by Peter GrimwadeGuest stars Edward Highmore, Peter Wyngarde, Dallas Adams, Barbara Shelley, Anthony Ainley, James Bate, Simon Sutton, Jonathan Caplan
Episode 15
Sarn 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.
Directed by Fiona CummingWritten by Peter GrimwadeGuest stars Edward Highmore, Dallas Adams, Barbara Shelley, Anthony Ainley, James Bate, Jonathan Caplan
Episode 16
While 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.
Directed by Fiona CummingWritten by Peter GrimwadeGuest stars Edward Highmore, Peter Wyngarde, Dallas Adams, Barbara Shelley, Anthony Ainley, James Bate, Jonathan Caplan, John Alkin
Episode 17
The 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?
Directed by Graeme HarperWritten by Robert HolmesGuest stars Christopher Gable, Robert Glenister, John Normington, Maurice Roëves, Roy Holder, David Neal, Barbara Kinghorn
Episode 18
The 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?
Directed by Graeme HarperWritten by Robert HolmesGuest stars Christopher Gable, Robert Glenister, John Normington, Maurice Roëves, Roy Holder, David Neal, Barbara Kinghorn
Episode 19
The situation on Androzani Minor is building toward a violent confrontation, and the Doctor and Peri are slowly succumbing to spectrox toxemia.
Directed by Graeme HarperWritten by Robert HolmesGuest stars Christopher Gable, Robert Glenister, John Normington, Maurice Roëves, Roy Holder, David Neal, Barbara Kinghorn
Episode 20
Events on Androzani reach a bloody climax. Will the Doctor and Peri survive the carnage? And at what cost?
Directed by Graeme HarperWritten by Robert HolmesGuest stars Colin Baker, Mark Strickson, Matthew Waterhouse, Sarah Sutton, Christopher Gable, Robert Glenister, John Normington, Maurice Roëves
Episode 21
Earth, 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?
Directed by Peter MoffattWritten by Anthony StevenGuest stars Kevin McNally, Maurice Denham, Edwin Richfield, Helen Blatch, Dennis Chinnery, Oliver Smith
Episode 22
The 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.
Directed by Peter MoffattWritten by Anthony StevenGuest stars Kevin McNally, Maurice Denham, Edwin Richfield, Dennis Chinnery
Episode 23
The 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.
Directed by Peter MoffattWritten by Anthony StevenGuest stars Kevin McNally, Maurice Denham, Edwin Richfield, Seymour Green, Oliver Smith, John Wilson
Episode 24
The 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.
Directed by Peter MoffattWritten by Anthony StevenGuest stars Colin Baker, Kevin McNally, Maurice Denham, Edwin Richfield, Seymour Green, Oliver Smith
Episode information updated Jul 24, 2026
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