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Doctor Who

1963TV-PG26 seasons7.9 / 10

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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Synopsis

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.

Season 24 episodes

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Episode 1

Time and the Rani (1)

25m4.9 / 10

The alien world of Lakertya. With the aid of the savage Tetraps, the Rani has conquered this planet to allow her to continue her depraved biochemical experiments. But she finds herself needing the Doctor's assistance...

Episode credits

Directed by Andrew MorganWritten by Philip Baker, Jane BakerGuest stars Mark Greenstreet, Kate O'Mara, Donald Pickering, Karen Clegg, Richard Gauntlett

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Episode 2

Time and the Rani (2)

25m5.3 / 10

The Rani's impersonation of Mel backfires badly because Urak can't tell the difference, while the Doctor attempts to learn the secret of the Loyhargil.

Episode credits

Directed by Andrew MorganWritten by Philip Baker, Jane BakerGuest stars Mark Greenstreet, Kate O'Mara, Donald Pickering, Wanda Ventham, Richard Gauntlett

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Episode 3

Time and the Rani (3)

25m5.4 / 10

The solstice nears, making it time for the Rani to bring her plans into fruition. The Doctor's sympathies for Beyus, ruler of the Lykertyans, are rather qualified. Beyus' heart is for his people yet something prompts him to collaborate fully in helping the Rani reach all her objectives. The answer, he's told, lies within the Center of Leisure.

Episode credits

Directed by Andrew MorganWritten by Philip Baker, Jane BakerGuest stars Mark Greenstreet, Kate O'Mara, Donald Pickering, Wanda Ventham, Peter Tuddenham, Richard Gauntlett, John Segal

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Episode 4

Time and the Rani (4)

25m5.2 / 10

The Rani, at last, links the Doctor into her great brain machine, the crowning jewel in her component packet of geniuses brought together to turn Lakertya itself into one vast cerebral mass capable of redirecting time anywhere in the universe, giving her absolute power over all creation.

Episode credits

Directed by Andrew MorganWritten by Philip Baker, Jane BakerGuest stars Mark Greenstreet, Kate O'Mara, Donald Pickering, Wanda Ventham, Peter Tuddenham, Richard Gauntlett

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Episode 5

Paradise Towers (1)

25m5.4 / 10

The legendary Paradise Towers is supposed to be the height of luxury but when the Doctor and Mel arrive, they find it is as far from paradise as possible...

Episode credits

Directed by Nicholas MallettWritten by Stephen WyattGuest stars Brenda Bruce, Richard Briers, Catherine Cusack, Clive Merrison, Elizabeth Spriggs, Julie Brennon, Annabel Yuresha, Howard Cooke

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Episode 6

Paradise Towers (2)

25m6.1 / 10

With the Doctor condemned to death by the caretakers and their bizarre rulebook, Mel faces cannibalistic OAPS. Is Pex going to be the true hero of Paradise Towers?

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Directed by Nicholas MallettWritten by Stephen WyattGuest stars Brenda Bruce, Richard Briers, Judy Cornwell, Catherine Cusack, Clive Merrison, Elizabeth Spriggs, Julie Brennon, Annabel Yuresha

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Episode 7

Paradise Towers (3)

25m6.0 / 10

Mel and Pex play cat and mouse with the lethal cleaner robots while the Doctor and the surviving Kangs learn all about Kroagnon the Great Architect.

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Directed by Nicholas MallettWritten by Stephen WyattGuest stars Brenda Bruce, Richard Briers, Judy Cornwell, Catherine Cusack, Simon Coady, Clive Merrison, Elizabeth Spriggs, Julie Brennon

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Episode 8

Paradise Towers (4)

25m5.9 / 10

Meeting up at the pool, the Doctor leads the surviving Rezzies, Kangs and Caretakers as they draw the line together on the 245th floor against the systematic cleansing of all life by Kroagnon and his robotic Cleaners.

Episode credits

Directed by Nicholas MallettWritten by Stephen WyattGuest stars Richard Briers, Judy Cornwell, Catherine Cusack, Clive Merrison, Julie Brennon, Annabel Yuresha, Howard Cooke

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Episode 9

Delta and the Bannermen (1)

25m5.5 / 10

Wales, 1959. A top-secret US satellite has mysteriously gone missing. This could have something to do with the arrival of a party of alien tourists en route to Disneyland, amongst their number Mel and the Doctor, and the Queen of the Chimerons - who's fleeing the Bannermen and their genocidal leader Gavrok...

Episode credits

Directed by Chris CloughWritten by Malcolm KohllGuest stars Don Henderson, Ken Dodd, Stubby Kaye, Richard Davies, Keff McCulloch, Belinda Mayne, Morgan Deare, David Kinder

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Episode 10

Delta and the Bannermen (2)

25m5.2 / 10

Mel's just discovered something very interesting about the life cycle of her new friend and the Doctor has been cornered by an alien bounty hunter wearing blue suede shoes.

Episode credits

Directed by Chris CloughWritten by Malcolm KohllGuest stars Hugh Lloyd, Don Henderson, Stubby Kaye, Richard Davies, Belinda Mayne, Morgan Deare, David Kinder, Sara Griffiths

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Episode 11

Delta and the Bannermen (3)

25m5.1 / 10

As Billy and Ray do what they can to help save Delta and the baby, the Doctor and Goronwy the beekeeper face Gavrok and his Bannermen one last time...

Episode credits

Directed by Chris CloughWritten by Malcolm KohllGuest stars Hugh Lloyd, Don Henderson, Stubby Kaye, Richard Davies, Belinda Mayne, Morgan Deare, David Kinder, Sara Griffiths

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Episode 12

Dragonfire (1)

25m6.5 / 10

The deep-space trading post of Iceworld, the far future. The Doctor, Mel, their old friend Glitz and time-lost waitress Ace go in search of a fabulous treasure, supposedly guarded by a fire-breathing dragon. But what is the link between the treasure and Iceworld's proprietor, the frosty Mr Kane?

Episode credits

Directed by Chris CloughWritten by Ian BriggsGuest stars Sophie Aldred, Sean Blowers, Patricia Quinn, Edward Peel, Shirin Taylor, Tony Selby, Stuart Organ, Tony Osoba

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Episode 13

Dragonfire (2)

25m6.5 / 10

While Mel and Ace run from Glitz's former crewmen (whom he sold to Kane), officers Belazs and Kracauer conspire to overthrow Kane. The Doctor, meanwhile, discovers there really is a dragon in the ice caverns, which turns out to be a bio-mechanoid with a very interesting function.

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Directed by Chris CloughWritten by Ian BriggsGuest stars Sophie Aldred, Patricia Quinn, Edward Peel, Daphne Oxenford, Tony Selby, Tony Osoba, Nigel Miles-Thomas, Leslie Meadows

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Episode 14

Dragonfire (3)

25m7.0 / 10finale

At last learning the location of the missing key to his spaceship, Kane has the dragon hunted down and Iceworld brutally purged of all visitors; but, the Doctor, visiting the Ice Garden, learns something significant that will put the chagrin on Kane's grand plans for home world vengeance.

Episode credits

Directed by Chris CloughWritten by Ian BriggsGuest stars Sophie Aldred, Sean Blowers, Patricia Quinn, Edward Peel, Shirin Taylor, Daphne Oxenford, Tony Osoba, Tony Selby

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Episode information updated Jul 24, 2026

More about Doctor Who

Cast

William HartnellThe Doctor
Jon PertweeThe Doctor
Patrick TroughtonThe Doctor
Katy ManningJo Grant
Roger DelgadoThe Master
Tom BakerThe Doctor
Peter DavisonThe Doctor
Sylvester McCoyThe Doctor

Credits

Created by
Verity Lambert, Sydney Newman, Donald Wilson, C. E. Webber

Production details

Status
Ended
Series type
Scripted
Episodes
694
Original language
English

Networks & production

  • BBC OneUnited Kingdom
  • BBC TelevisionUnited Kingdom
  • BBCUnited Kingdom

Themes

admiringaliencomfortingexcitedhistorical revisionismhumanoidnonlinear narrativeparallel universe