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The below chart is a guide to the "classic series" which ran from 1963 to 1989, and encompasses the adventures of seven different Doctors. The chart is designed to record meaningful events occurring in each episode, as well as to explain how the Doctor was able to overcome each challenge. In other words, these are "spoiler-filled". Nonetheless, the idea was to visually graph the characters, places and times of classic Doctor Who, and to marvel at how he pretty much always comes out on top through his bravery, ingenuity and/or charm (or through his Companions' same qualities).
| 1st Doctor: William Hartnell | |||||
| # | Serial Title | Event | Companions | Creatures/Allies | Timespace |
| 1 | An Unearthly Child | Barbara Wright & Ian Chesterton discover the Doctor's TARDIS and become unwilling companions to Susan Foreman and her grandfather the Doctor. The TARDIS chameleon circuit malfunctions. In 100,000 BC, cavemen tribes fight over the Doctor's ability to create fire. The Doctor escapes by tricking the cavemen into thinking they are dead with the use of flaming skulls. | Susan, Barbara & Ian |
Cavemen | 1963, 76 Totter's Lane, London
/ 100,000 BC |
| 2 | The Daleks | The Doctor and his companions are caught in a conflict between the mechanical Daleks and the primitive Thrals. The Daleks are defeated when their power supply is disrupted. | Susan, Barbara & Ian |
Daleks, Thals |
1964, Skaro |
| 3 | The Edge of Destruction | A faulty switch sends the Tardis into time vortex and causes suspicion inside the travellers' minds. | Susan, Barbara & Ian |
Tardis | 1964, the Tardis |
| 4 | Marco Polo | Marco Polo wants to give the Tardis to the Khan in return for his freedom. The Mongol ambassador travelling with Polo secretly plots against the Khan. Polo prevents the assassination and the travelers are free to leave. | Susan, Barbara & Ian |
Marco Polo, Kublai Khan |
1289, Silk Road, Beijing |
| 5 | The Keys of Marinus | The travelers are forced to search for 5 keys in 5 locales to reactivate a planetary computer. | Susan, Barbara & Ian |
The Voords | 1964, Marinus planet |
| 6 | The Aztecs | In the 15th Century, Barbara poses as an Aztec goddess and tries to abolish the practice of human sacrifice, but only succeeds in alienating the High Priest from his own people. The travelers are locked out of the room containing the Tardis until the Doctor finds a secret passageway and uses a rope and pulley system. | Susan, Barbara & Ian |
The Aztecs | 15th C. Mexico |
| 7 | The Sensorites | The travelers help to resolve a conflict between the mind-controlling (but benevolent) Sensorites and humans in the 28th C. They are opposed by dissident Sensorites and maddened Earth astronauts. | Susan, Barbara & Ian |
The Sensorites | 28th C., the Sense Sphere |
| 8 | The Reign of Terror | The Tardis lands near Paris during Robespierre's Reign of Terror. The travelers ally themselves with an English spy and Robespierre is executed. Napoleon is positioned to take over. | Susan, Barbara & Ian |
Robespierre, Napoleon |
1794 Paris |
| 9 | Planet of Giants | When the Tardis doors open during rematerialization the crew become miniaturized to ant-size. Barbara is poisoned by illegal insecticide. The crew expose the evil scientist and the Doctor sets the Tardis to return them to normal size. | Susan, Barbara & Ian |
Dangerous Pesticide | 1964, England |
| 10 | The Dalek Invasion of Earth | The travelers discover that the Daleks have taken control of the Earth through the use of controlled human Robomen. The Daleks plan to destroy the Earth's core so that they can install an engine and pilot the planet through space. The Doctor defeats the Daleks by commanding the Robomen to turn on their Dalek masters. Susan falls in love with an Earth human and the Doctor decides to leave her behind. | Susan, Barbara & Ian |
Daleks, Robomen | 2164, London |
| 11 | The Rescue | The travelers meet crashed human space explorers Vicki and Bennett on the planet Dido. Bennett masquerades as a native alien in order to hide his criminal activities, but the Doctor sees through his ruse and the Didoans take their vengeance. Vicki joins the Tardis group. | Barbara & Ian, Vicki |
Didoans | 2493, Dido planet |
| 12 | The Romans | Visiting Rome, the Doctor is mistaken for a musician (and assassin) and ends up inspiring Nero to burn Rome. | Barbara & Ian, Vicki |
Caesar Nero | 64, Rome |
| 13 | The Web Planet | The Doctor helps the Menoptra liberate their planet from the evil Animus and it's control of the insect-like Zarbi. | Barbara & Ian, Vicki |
Animus (A Great Old One), Zarbi, Menoptra |
1965, Vortis planet |
| 14 | The Crusade | Barbara is captured by Saracens to be given to Saladin. King Richard gives Ian resources to help free her. | Barbara & Ian, Vicki |
Saladin, King Richard The Lionheart, Saphadin |
1190, Palestine |
| 15 | The Space Museum | The travelers jump a time track and accidentally land in a future timeline where they see themselves captured and embalmed by the war-like Morocks in their museum. Vicki helps the native Xerons start a revolution and repel the Morocks, preventing their deaths. On Skaro, the Daleks monitor the Tardis' departure from Xerons and prepare to pursue them. The Doctor takes a Time & Space Visualizer as a souvenir of the museum. | Barbara & Ian, Vicki |
Xerons, Morocks | 1965, planet Xeros |
| 16 | The Chase | The Dalek Supreme orders a Dalek assassination team to pursue the Tardis thru time. The Daleks create a robot doppelganger of the Doctor to infiltrate the group but the real Doctor pulls out its wires after tricking it with a fake Dalek voice. On Mechanus, the group meet Steven Taylor, a crashed Earth survivor held prisoner by the Mechanoids. During a battle between the Daleks and the Mechanoids the travelers escape. Barbara & Ian use the Daleks' time ship to go home. Steven joins the Tardis crew. | Barbara & Ian, Vicki, Steven |
Daleks, Mechanoids, Aridians, Mirebeasts |
1872-1996 - Aridius/ Empire State Bldg, NYC, 1966/ The Mary Celeste, 1872/ The Festival of Ghana, 1996/ Mechanus |
| 17 | The Time Meddler | Just before William the Conqueror's Norman (Viking) invasion of England, the travelers foil an attempt by another Time Lord to change the course of history and change the outcome of the Battle of Hastings. The Doctor poses him to the native Saxons as a Viking spy and removes the dimensional translator from the Monk's Tardis, making it too small for him to operate and trapping him in 1066. | Vicki, Steven |
The Monk, Vikings | 1066, Saxon North Umbria, England |
| 18 | Galaxy 4 | The Tardis lands on a planet which will soon explode. The racist female Drahvins try to trick the crew into fighting against the peaceful ammonia-breathing Rill creatures and their robot Chumblers, but Vicki discovers the truth and the Drahvins are left behind to die. | Vicki, Steven |
Drahvin Female Warrior Clones,
The Rill |
1965, Galaxy 4 |
| 19 | Mission to the Unknown | On planet Kembel, an Earth ship crashes and discovers Varga plants which are native to Skaro, the Dalek homeworld. The Daleks create an alliance with 6 other races of the Outer Galaxy to conquer the Solar System, starting with Earth. The humans are killed before they are able to send a message back. | Vicki, Steven |
Daleks, Varga Plants |
4000, planet Kembel |
| 20 | The Myth Makers | When captured by the Greeks, the Doctor is forced to design the Trojan Horse for Odysseus' invasion of Troy. Vicki is meanwhile captured by the Trojans and falls in love with the warrior Troilus. During the fall of Troy she elects to stay behind, while the Doctor, Steven and one of the Trojan prophetess Cassandra's handmaidens, Katarina, escape in the Tardis. | Vicki, Steven |
Trojans, Greeks, Odysseus, Katarina |
1200 BC, Troy |
| 21 | The Daleks' Master Plan | Captain Bret is investigating the disappearance of the Earth team on Kembel and discovers the Daleks. The Tardis lands and the Doctor, impersonating an ambassador at the Daleks' conference, learns that Mavic Chen, Protector of the Solar System, has betrayed the Earth and given the Daleks Taranium, which will enable the Daleks to use their Time Destructor. The Doctor and his companions escape in Mavic Chen's ship, but the Daleks force them on down on Desperus, where a prison inmate stows away before they are able to take off again. Once in space, Katarina opens the airlock, blowing the inmate and herself into outer space, killing them both. On Earth, Mavic Chen has turned Bret and the Doctor into wanted criminals. Earth agent Sara Kingdom pursues them and kills Bret (who happens to be her brother). The Doctor, Steven and Sara are caught in a transporter beam experiment and end up on Mira. After evading Daleks & invisible Visian creatures, the Doctor returns to Kembel (& the Tardis) in a Dalek ship and tricks the Daleks into receiving a fake Taranium capsule. They briefly return to Liverpool, 1965 (and Hollywood, 1921) to celebrate Christmas. The Daleks find that the Doctor has tricked them and pursues them in a timecraft. At the same time, the Meddling Monk tries to trap the travelers on the volcanic planet Tigus, but fails. The Tardis is pursued to the Egyptian pyramids in ancient times by the Monk and the Daleks. The Doctor steals the Monk's Tardis' directional unit to enable his own Tardis to return to Kembel (before it overloads), but not before being forced to give Mavic Chen the stolen real Taranium. The Monk is forced to wander spacetime out of control with his Tardis crippled. On Kembel, the Daleks execute Mavic Chen when Chen attempts to assert too much power. The Doctor confronts the Daleks in their underground base and activates the Time Destructor, ageing everything in the area into dust, including the entire army of 5000 Daleks. Sadly, Sara fails to make it to the Tardis on time and becomes a skeleton. | Steven | Daleks, Sara Kingdom, Mavic Chen, The Monk, Katarina |
1921-4000: Kembel, 4000/ Desperus, 4000/ Central City, Earth, 4000/ Mira, 4000/ Liverpool, 25 December 1965/ Hollywood, 1921/ London, 21st century/ Tigus Egypt c. 2500 BC/ Unnamed ice planet |
| 22 | The Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Eve | The travelers accidentally become involved in the political struggle between the Protestants and Catholics on the eve of the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre. After escaping Paris, Steven considers leaving the Doctor because he didn’t try to prevent the massacre, but when landing in Wimbledon Common, 1966, an English girl, Dodo Chaplet, enters the Tardis thinking it's a Police box, and decides to join the crew. | Steven, Dodo |
Huguenots & Catholics | 1572, Paris/England 1966 |
| 23 | The Ark | The Tardis lands inside an ark in space, travelling to a new home for Earthmen after the Earth explodes. However the Monoids, fellow travelers in the space ark used as servants eventually (over the course hundreds of years) overpower the humans and make them slaves. When the ark lands on Refusis II, the advanced invisible inhabitants help the humans establish a truce with the Monoids. | Steven, Dodo |
The Monoids, The Refusians | 10,000,000, The Ark/Refusis II |
| 24 | The Celestial Toymaker | The travelers are sucked into a bizarre limbo by an immortal gamemaster and forced to play lethal children's games in order to win their release. The toymaker tries to destroy them before they can escape but the Doctor imitates his voice to foil the trap. | Steven, Dodo |
Celestial Toymaker | 1966, Celestial Toyroom |
| 25 | The Gunfighters | The Doctor has his tooth extracted by Doc Holliday just before the climactic shoot out at the OK Corral between the Earps and the Clantons. | Steven, Dodo |
Wyatt Earp, Doc Holiday, Johnny Ringo |
1881, Tombstone City/OK Corral |
| 26 | The Savages | The Tardis lands on a planet where the technologically advanced humans siphon life force from less civilized humans in order to support their culture and way of life. When life energy is stolen from the Doctor and transferred to one of the leaders, the leader begins to gain a conscience. Steven stays behind to help the two societies reintegrate. | Steven, Dodo |
Jano, The Elders | unknown future, unknown planet |
| 27 | The War Machines | A new supercomputer, WOTAN, attempts to eradicate mankind by hypnotizing humans into building robot super-tanks. The Doctor captures and rewires one of the war machines and sends it to destroy its controller. Dodo stays behind in London to recover from hypnosis. A scientist's assistant Polly and her sailor friend Ben help the Doctor and join him in the Tardis. | Dodo, Polly & Ben |
Wotan, The War Machines |
1966, London |
| 28 | The Smugglers | The Doctor, Ben and Polly become involved with a pirate's secret treasure, but the curse of the gold disposes of the pirates. | Polly & Ben | Pirates | 17th C. Cornwall |
| 29 | The Tenth Planet | The Cybermen, from a twin Earth called Mondas, have replaced their organic parts with artificial enhancements, removing their emotions as well. They attempt to drain the Earth of its energy to restore Mondas, but Mondas disintegrates instead, rendering the Cybermen powerless. The Doctor regenerates for the first time. | Polly & Ben | Cybermen | 1986, South Pole station |
| 2nd Doctor: Patrick Troughton | |||||
| 30 | The Power of the Daleks | Human scientists discover deactivated Daleks crashlanded on Vulcan. They bring them back to life and the Daleks pretend to be subservient. However they secretly begin reproducing and create an independent power supply. When a colony revolt breaks out, they rebel and massacre most of the colonists. The Doctor uses the colony's power supply to cause a circuit overload which shorts the Daleks out. | Polly & Ben | Daleks | 2020, Earth colony on Vulcan |
| 31 | The Highlanders | The Doctor saves Scottish Highlanders from bonded servitude (slavery) by sending them to France. Scottish musician Jamie joins the group in 1746. | Polly & Ben, Jamie |
Highlanders, Red Coats |
1746, Scotland |
| 32 | The Underwater Menace | A mad scientist uses humans mutated into fish people in a project designed to raise sunken Atlantis, however in reality he plans to destroy the world by flooding the Earth's core. The Doctor and his friends help a rebellion among the fish people and the scientist is killed when Atlantis is flooded. | Polly & Ben, Jamie |
Professor Zaroff, Atlantean Fish People |
1968 (post) Atlantis |
| 33 | The Moonbase | Cybermen attempt to take control of a weather control device, the Gravitron, based on the moon. Polly uses acid to damage the Cybermen's chestplates, and the Doctor uses the Gravitron to repel the Cybermen from the surface of the planet. | Polly & Ben, Jamie |
Cybermen | 2070, The Moon |
| 34 | The Macra Terror | The crab-like Macra infiltrate a human colony and force them to mine gas for them. They are exposed and Ben kills the Macra by damaging the gas pumps. | Polly & Ben, Jamie |
The Macra | 2366, An Earth colony |
| 35 | The Faceless Ones | Alien Chameleons kidnap youths in order to take their identities. The Doctor tricks the aliens and the youths are released. | Polly & Ben, Jamie |
The Chameleons | 1966, July, Gatwick Airport and Earth orbit |
| 36 | The Evil of the Daleks | The Daleks kidnap Jamie and the Doctor from 1966 to 1866, where their human allies, Waterfield and Maxtible, have accidentally imported Daleks using their time cabinet invention. The Daleks put Jamie through tests in order to investigate the Human Factor which has enabled humanity to triumph over the Daleks in the past. The Doctor implants a capsule distillation of the Human Factor into some Daleks and they become friendly and questioning. Later, on Skaro, the Doctor learns from the Dalek Emperor that the experiment has also created the Dalek Factor, which the Daleks plan to implant on all humanity with the help of the Doctor and his Tardis. The Doctor sabotages the Dalek conversion machine and creates even more humanized Daleks. The humanized Daleks rebel and the Dalek Emperor is destroyed. Victoria, daughter of one of the Daleks' human allies, joins the Tardis crew. | Jamie, Victoria |
Daleks | 1866-1966, England/Skaro |
| 37 | The Tomb of the Cybermen | An Earth expedition and the Doctor discover a sealed tomb of frozen Cybermen and their Cybermats. One of the explorers wakes the Cybermen expecting to lead them in personal conquest, but he is destroyed and the Cybermen try to convert the humans. The Doctor is able to reverse the conversion of one human victim, turning him against the Cybermen. The tomb is sealed once again, though a Cybermat escapes. | Jamie, Victoria |
Cybermen | 25th C., Telos |
| 38 | The Abominable Snowmen | A monastery is plagued by Yeti robots when the Great Intelligence possesses the monastery Buddha (an old friend of the Doctor's) during astral projection. The Intelligence's attempt to materialize on Earth is thwarted when the Doctor instructs Jamie to destroy a crystal pyramid gateway. | Jamie, Victoria |
The Great Intelligence, Yeti |
1935, Himalayan monastery |
| 39 | The Ice Warriors | Scientists at an environmental control ice station, designed to prevent a new Ice Age, discover and unfreeze Martian Ice Warriors. The Ice Warriors attack the base in order to gain supplies for their ship, but the Doctor modifies the Ice Warriors' own gun to repel them. The scientists destroy the Ice Warriors' ship and an encroaching glacier by using the environmental control laser. | Jamie, Victoria |
The Ice Warriors | 34th C. Brittanicus Base |
| 40 | The Enemy of the World | A scientist politician named Salamander is a doppelganger of the Doctor. He manipulates his followers into creating false natural disasters so that he can gain power. The Doctor exposes him by impersonating him. When Salamander tries to steal the Tardis, he forgets to close the door and is sucked out into the time vortex while in flight. | Jamie, Victoria |
The Doctor's Doppelganger | 2018, Australia and Europe |
| 41 | The Web of Fear | Robot Yeti use the subway tunnels to invade London. The Doctor is able to reprogram a Yeti to turn on its master, but the Great Intelligence escapes destruction. | Jamie, Victoria, Brigadier |
Great Intelligence, Yeti | 1975, London Underground |
| 42 | Fury from the Deep | After defeating an invasion of weed creatures with high pitched screaming, Victoria decides to remain in England. | Jamie, Victoria |
Weed Creature | 1968, England |
| 43 | The Wheel in Space | The Doctor uses a laser to repel Cybermen who are attempting to take over a space station named the Wheel. A scientist, Zoe, joins the Tardis crew. | Jamie, Zoe |
Cybermen | 21st C. Space Station W3 |
| 44 | The Dominators | Two alien Dominators and their robotic Quarks attempt to turn planet Dulkis into a radioactive waste so that it can be exploited as rocket fuel. The Doctor instead places the explosive in the aliens' own ship and they perish in the explosion. | Jamie, Zoe |
The Quarks, Dominators | 1968, Dulkis |
| 45 | The Mind Robber | While escaping lava from an erupting volcano, the Doctor sends the Tardis into a void between dimensions, and ends up in a timeless "Land of Fiction". The Master Brain of this realm tests the group with fictional characters in order to force the Doctor to become it's new mental power source. Jamie and Zoe overload the Master Brain's controls and they escape. | Jamie, Zoe |
White Robots, Master Brain |
1968, Land of Fiction |
| 46 | The Invasion | Electronics manufacturer Tobias Vaughn plots to use the Cybermen to take control of the Earth. When the Cybermen turn against him he helps the Doctor and UNIT destroy the Cybermen's forces. | Jamie, Zoe, Brigadier |
Cybermen, Tobias Vaughn |
1968, London |
| 47 | The Krotons | Hibernating crystalline Krotons exploit the natives of a planet in order to sustain their life-forces. When the Doctor reanimates the Krotons, he uses impure sulphuric acid to defeat them. | Jamie, Zoe |
Krotons, Eelek | 1969, Gond planet |
| 48 | The Seeds of Death | Ice Warriors on the Moon use Trans-Mat devices to send seeds to Earth to terraform the atmosphere. The Doctor destroys the pods with weather-induced water, and sends the Martian Ice Warrior fleet into the sun. | Jamie, Zoe |
Ice Warriors | 21st C. London, the Moon |
| 49 | The Space Pirates | The travelers are caught in a conflict between space pirates and the Interstellar Space Corps. | Jamie, Zoe |
Caven | 1969, Space Beacon Alpha 4 |
| 50 | The War Games | The Doctor discovers a Time Lord helping an alien race collect warriors from throughout time. The aliens are defeated when the Doctor aids a band of resistance fighters. With no way to return the warriors to their own times, the Doctor calls on the Time Lords for aid. After discovering the Doctor's activities throughout time, they exile him to Earth (by disabling his Tardis) and force him to regenerate. Jamie and Zoe are returned to their own times with much of their memories edited. | Jamie, Zoe |
Time Lord (War Lords) |
309, 906, Gallifrey |
| 3rd Doctor: Jon Pertwee | |||||
| 51 | Spearhead from Space | The Doctor, joined by Liz Shaw from UNIT, discover plastic Autons manipulated by the extraterrestrial Nestene Conciousness. Liz uses an electroshock weapon created by the Doctor to shut down the Autons. The Doctor becomes scientific advisor to UNIT and begins driving an antique roadster, Bessie. | Liz, Brigadier |
Autons, Nestene Conciousness |
1970 England |
| 52 | The Silurians | Underground researchers awaken millions-year old slumbering Silurians. The Silurians plot to retake Earth by killing humans with disease and radiation but the Doctor tricks them into returning to their caves by scaring them with a radiation overload. UNIT destroys their base. | Liz, Brigadier |
Silurians | 1970 England, underground |
| 53 | The Ambassadors of Death | A rogue General attempts to create an interplanetary conflict by kidnapping space ambassadors but the Doctor exposes him and returns the alien ambassadors safely. | Liz, Brigadier |
General Carrington, Aliens | 1970 England, Mars Probe 7 |
| 54 | Inferno | When scientists begin drilling into the Earth's crust for energy, humans are turned into primal creatures. The Tardis accidentally brings the Doctor to a parallel universe where he sees that the drilling project will cause armageddon. When he returns, he stops the real Earth's drilling project by incapacitating the chief scientist. | Liz, Brigadier |
Primords | 1970 England |
| 55 | Terror of the Autons | Jo Grant joins the Doctor at UNIT. The Master (an evil Time Lord) arrives, reactivates the Autons, and attempts to bring the Nestene Conciousness back to Earth, but once the Doctor convinces him he will be betrayed, they work together to stop the signal drawing the Nestene to Earth. The Doctor steals the dematerialization circuit from the Master's Tardis, trapping him on Earth. | Jo, Brigadier |
The Master, Autons, Nestene |
1971 England |
| 56 | The Mind of Evil | The Master attempts to use a machine (actually a mind parasite) to enlist prisoners to hijack a missile and cause WWIII. The Doctor causes the missile to self-destruct, destroying the mind-control parasite with it. | Jo, Brigadier |
The Master | 1971 England |
| 57 | The Claws of Axos | The alien Axons attempt to drain all energy from Earth. The Doctor tricks it into using the Tardis to dematerialize itself into a time loop. | Jo, Brigadier |
The Master, Axons |
1971 England |
| 58 | Colony in Space | The Doctor is tasked with preventing the Master from acquiring a Doomsday Weapon on Uxarieus. He is caught in a struggle between a mining crew, colonists and the planet's native Primitives, but manages to convince the machine's Guardian to destroy the weapon. | Jo, Brigadier |
The Master, Captain Dent |
2472, Uxarieus |
| 59 | The Daemons | The Master revives an ancient demon (actually an alien) in order to gain its powers and take over the Earth. The alien attempts to kill the Doctor but Jo's willingness to sacrifice her life for the Doctor's causes it to self-destruct. The Master is captured by UNIT. | Jo, Brigadier |
The Master, Azal The Demon |
1971 England, Devil's End |
| 60 | Day of the Daleks | A politician is hunted by time-travelers from the 22nd C. in a mistaken attempt to kill him before his actions cause a Dalek victory in the future. The Doctor lures the Daleks and their allies the Ogrons to the present and they are destroyed by a bomb. | Jo, Brigadier |
Daleks, Ogrons, Controller | 1972, 22nd C., England |
| 61 | The Curse of Peladon | At a committee meeting of alien races to decide on Peladon's application for membership into the Galactic Federation, saboteurs who oppose the union strike. The Doctor exposes the Peladon High Priest as a conspirator. When the High Priest tries to have the monster of Peladon attack the Doctor, it instead kills the priest. | Jo | Arcturus High Priest | 3885, Peladon |
| 62 | The Sea Devils | The Master attempts to revive an amphibious relation of the Silurians, the Sea Devils. The Doctor sabotages the Master's reviving machine and the Sea Devils' base is destroyed. | Jo | The Master, Sea Devils |
1972 England |
| 63 | The Mutants | An Earth satellite Marshal resists orders giving native Solonions independence from Earth, and wants to terraform it to be more hospitable to humans. On the planet, the Doctor finds a crystal which mutates the natives into superbeings. The Doctor then returns to the skybase and sabotages the terraforming machine. | Jo | Marshal Of Solos | 30th C., Solos |
| 64 | The Time Monster | The Master attempts to steal an Atlantean crystal in order to control a time creature he has freed. When the Doctor pursues, Jo is kidnapped, but she initiates a Tardis ramming maneuver and the creature, Kronos is freed. | Jo, Brigadier |
The Master | 1500 BC - 1971, Atlantis - England |
| 65 | The Three Doctors | The renegade Time Lord scientist Omega, trapped in an anti-matter dimension beyond the edge of a black hole, attacks the Time Lords. The High Council sends the Doctor's 2 previous incarnations to help him defeat Omega. The 2nd and 3rd Doctors travel to Omega's world and he is defeated when tricked into exposing the 2nd Doctor's non-anti-matter musical recorder, causing an explosion. | Jo, Brigadier, 1st & 2nd Doctors |
Time Lords, Omega |
1973 England, Gallifrey |
| 66 | Carnival of Monsters | The Tardis materializes inside the compression field of a miniscope and is caught in the miniaturized exhibit of an Earth ship at sea captured from 1928. They inadvertently cause the release of giant Drashig creatures from another exhibit. After the a shipman uses dynamite inside the zoo against the Drashigs, the Doctor is able to leave the miniscope zoo and return all the occupants to their homes with a boost from the Tardis. | Jo | Drashigs, Vorg The Entertainer |
1973, Inter Minor / 1928 Ship nearing Bombay |
| 67 | Frontier in Space | The Master tries to start a war between Earth and the Draconian Empire in order to allow the Daleks rule the remains. The Doctor is captured and promised to the Daleks, but escapes by sabotaging the Master's own Hypnosound device, and once in the Tardis sends a telepathic warning to Gallifrey. The Time Lords send the Tardis to Spiridon. | Jo | The Master, Ogrons, Daleks |
2540, Draconian/ Earth frontier, Ogron planet |
| 68 | Planet of the Daleks | The Daleks have conquered Spiridon in order to learn the natives' power of invisibility. The Doctor and Jo assist a team of Thals attempting to thwart the Dalek army based on the planet. The Daleks attempt to destroy the intruders with a bacteria bomb but a Spiridon native sabotages the weapon. Eventually the Doctor sets off a bomb in the subterranean vault of the Dalek army, causing it to flood with subzero fluid and freezing them solid. | Jo | Daleks, Thals, Spiridons |
26th C., Spiridon |
| 69 | The Green Death | A sentient computer makes its creators (a chemical corporation), into mind-controlled slaves. The pollution from the chemical factory creates giant mutated maggots and a "green slime" virus. The Doctor uses a crystal from Metebelis III to break the computer's mind control and the CEO self-destructs the computer. The maggots are poisoned with fungus. Jo quits UNIT to marry an ecologist. | Jo, Brigadier |
Boss Computer, Giant Maggots |
1973 S. Wales, Metebelis III |
| 70 | The Time Warrior | A Sontaran, crashed in the 13th C., retrieves scientists from 1973 to repair his ship. The Doctor pursues him into the past, while reporter Sarah Jane Smith stows away in the Tardis. The Doctor is able to prevent the Sontaran from changing Earth history with advanced weaponry. The Sontaran and his ship explode when a local archer hits the Sontaran's "weak spot" with an arrow during take off. (The Doctor also first mentions that he came from Gallifrey). | Sarah Jane, Brigadier |
Sontarans | 13th C - 1974, England |
| 71 | Invasion of the Dinosaurs | Two idealistic scientists bring dinosaurs from the ancient past into 20th Century London in order to return Earth to a more natural state. The Doctor changes the time machine settings and they are sent into the ancient past instead. | Sarah Jane, Brigadier |
Dinosaurs | 1974 England |
| 72 | Death to the Daleks | The Tardis, an Earth military ship and a Dalek ship are all stranded when the living city of Exxilon siphons energy from around the planet. The Daleks temporarily ally with the humans but soon devise new, non-energy based weapons and enslave the humans and native Exxilons. The Doctor infiltrates the living city and sabotages it's brain processor, while one of the humans destroys the Daleks by setting off a bomb inside the ship before it releases a plague bomb. | Sarah Jane | Daleks, Exxilons |
2600?, Exxilon |
| 73 | The Monster of Peladon | Ice Warriors in league with Galaxy 5 attempt to exploit the natural resources of Peladon. The Doctor uses a heat ray on the Ice Warriors, and the Monster of Peladon helps track down the conspirators. | Sarah Jane | Ice Warriors | 40th C., Peladon |
| 74 | Planet of the Spiders | The Doctor is killed by lethal radiation absorbed while confronting a giant queen spider and with the help of another renegade Time Lord, regenerates. | Sarah Jane, Brigadier |
Giant Mutated Spiders, The Great One, Abbott K'anpo Rimpoche |
1974 England, Metebelis III |
| 4th Doctor: Tom Baker | |||||
| 75 | Robot | A doomsday think-tank creates a giant robot to carry out thefts in order to start a nuclear war. The Doctor uses notes by the robot's inventor to create a metal-eating liquid virus and destroys the robot. | Sarah Jane, Harry, Brigadier |
Kettlewell Robot | 1974 England |
| 76 | The Ark in Space | The Doctor, Sarah and Harry Sullivan (UNIT medic) land on a space station with its population in suspended animation. Unfortunately it has also been infiltrated by insect-like Wirrn who absorb human bodies. The Doctor protects the frozen humans with an electric barrier and the Wirrn are destroyed when they are led into a shuttle which explodes after take off. | Sarah Jane, Harry |
The Wirrn | 30th C., the Nerva Ark (Beacon) |
| 77 | The Sontaran Experiment | The travelers go down to Earth to repair a transmat receiver but discover other human colonists being experimented on by a Sontaran scout. The Doctor engages the Sontaran in single combat while Harry sabotages the Sontaran ship, destroying it. | Sarah Jane, Harry |
Sontarans | 30th C., Earth |
| 78 | Genesis of the Daleks | The Time Lords send the Doctor to Skaro to alter or prevent the creation of the Daleks. The Doctor and his companions become embroiled in the war between the Thals and the Kaleds, while the Kaled scientist Davros rebels against his own people and creates the genetically-pitiless Daleks. The Daleks eventually turn on their creator, while the Doctor helps destroy a generation of Dalek embryos. The Daleks are trapped underground when the Thals blow up the exit from the Kaled bunker. | Sarah Jane, Harry |
Daleks, Davros | 760?, Skaro |
| 79 | Revenge of the Cybermen | The Cybermen attempt to use Nerva Beacon as a base to destroy the nearby gold asteroid Voga. The Vogans launch a rocket which destroys the Cybermen ship and the Doctor prevents the Beacon from crashing into the asteroid. | Sarah Jane, Harry |
Cybermen, Vogans |
30th C., the Nerva Ark (Beacon) |
| 80 | Terror of the Zygons | Shapeshifting Zygons plan to use a cyborg-enhanced Loch Ness Monster (the Skarasen) to conquer the Earth. The Doctor sabotages their spaceship and the Zygon leader is killed by UNIT forces. The Skarasen is repelled when the Doctor throws the control device down its throat. Harry Sullivan decides to stay behind when the Tardis leaves. | Sarah Jane, Harry, Brigadier |
Zygons, Skarasen |
1975, Scotland, Loch Ness |
| 81 | Planet of Evil | A Morestran scientist collecting antimatter rock samples is infected by the antimatter which turns him into a killer with glowing red eyes. Meanwhile a creature from the antimatter side of an interdimensional gateway generates phantoms which also kill. The Doctor makes a bargain with the antimatter creature and drops the scientist and his rock samples into the gate and the exploration rescue ship escapes. | Sarah Jane | Anti-Matter Planet |
37166, Zeta Minor |
| 82 | Pyramids of Mars | The Doctor fails to prevent Sutekh from destroying his imprisonment crystal on Mars, but is able to destroy him by sabotaging his temporal transference gate. | Sarah Jane | Sutekh, Robots |
1911, England, Mars |
| 83 | The Android Invasion | The Kraals create android duplicates of humans to aid them in an invasion of Earth. The Doctor defeats them by reprogramming his own double. | Sarah Jane | The Kraals | 1975, Devesham, Oseidon |
| 84 | The Brain of Morbius | The Time Lords send the Doctor to Karn to prevent the bio-engineer Solon from reassembling the evil Time Lord Morbius. He fails, and the Doctor is fatally injured in a mind-bending duel with Morbius. However, the Sisterhood of Karn drive Morbius over a cliff and the leader, Maron, sacrifices her share of the Elixir of Life so that the Doctor can live. | Sarah Jane | Morbius, Sisterhood Of Karn |
3120?, Karn |
| 85 | The Seeds of Doom | Scientists in the Antarctic uncover Krynoid seed pods. When a botanist sends a mercenary team to acquire the pods, one of the two Krynoids is destroyed in an explosion. Back in England the other Krynoid grows to house-size until it is destroyed by airborne missiles. | Sarah Jane | Krynoids | 1976, Antarctica and England |
| 86 | The Masque of Mandragora | The Doctor begins using the "old" control room. The Mandragora Helix attempts to use a cult to destroy the greatest minds of Europe but the Doctor short-circuits it's power with steel and wire. | Sarah Jane | Mandragora Helix | 15th C., San Martino |
| 87 | The Hand of Fear | The remains of Eldrad, an evil Kastrian scientist, are uncovered in a quarry explosion. The remaining hand regenerates its body in a nuclear power plant and the Doctor brings it back to Kastria - however the entire planet is now dead. After receiving a summons from Gallifrey, the Doctor drops Sarah Jane Smith off on Earth, as humans are not allowed on Gallifrey. | Sarah Jane | Eldrad | 1976, England, planet Kastria |
| 88 | The Deadly Assassin | The Master attempts to frame the Doctor for the assassination of the President of the Timelords. The Doctor exposes the real killer by entering the APC Net Matrix and defeating the Master's ally, the Chancellor, in its virtual world. The Master then acquires the Sash of Rassilon and attempts to unleash the Eye of Harmony (the Gallifreyans' controlled black hole) but the Doctor throws him into a chasm during the destruction and repairs the damage. | The Master | 1976, Gallifrey | |
| 89 | The Face of Evil | The Doctor repairs a mad computer called Xoanon (driven mad by a previous repair by the Doctor himself). The savage Leela joins the Doctor in his travels. | Leela | Xoanon | unknown distant future, planet |
| 90 | The Robots of Death | Robots on a massive sand mining vehicle are being programmed by a rogue scientist into killing off the human crew. The Doctor changes the scientist's voice with helium and the robots rebel against their own creator, not recognizing his voice. | Leela | Robots | 1977, Storm Mine 4 |
| 91 | The Talons of Weng-Chiang | Magnus Greel, a criminal from the future, pretends to be a Chinese god in order to have young women kidnapped so that he can feed on their life-forces. With the aid of a computerized dummy (Mr. Sin), he retrieves his time cabinet from Professor Litefoot's home and tries to return home. However the Doctor arrives and Greel falls into his own life-force extraction machine. | Leela | Mr. Sin, Magnus Greel, Jago, Litefoot |
1890, London |
| 92 | Horror of Fang Rock | A Rutan crashes to Earth in its spacecraft and infiltrates the occupants of a lighthouse. The Doctor kills it with a mortar blast. The Doctor uses a diamond to modify the lighthouse beam to destroy the Rutan mothership. | Leela | Rutans | 1900s, Fang Rock |
| 93 | The Invisible Enemy | The Doctor's body is invaded by the Swarm, a virus-like intelligence on Titan. After shrinking clones himself and Leela and injecting them into his bloodstream, the Doctor is able to repel the Swarm Nucleus. The Doctor prevents the Nucleus from spreading by blowing up the Titan space base. | Lela, K-9 |
The Swarm (Space Virus) |
5000, Titan Base |
| 94 | Image of the Fendahl | Time scanner experiments using a millions-year old skull enable the Fendahl to possess one of the scientists and create the snake-like Fendahleen from other victims. The Doctor uses rock salt against the Fendahl and sets the time scanner to trigger an implosion, destroying the Fendahl and the science lab. | Lela, K-9 |
The Fendahl | 1977, Fetchborough |
| 95 | The Sun Makers | An alien Usurian takes over the humans living on Pluto using economic tools (taxes) and a mind control gas. The Doctor stops the gas, resulting in a rebellion. He the reprograms the Company computer to correct the economic imbalance. | Lela, K-9 |
The Collector | 4 Million, Pluto, Megropolis |
| 96 | Underworld | A computer tasked with guarding the Minyan race banks has gone insane and rules the Minyan survivors in an asteroid. The Doctor allows the computer to be destroyed by its own grenades and the Minyans go into space to fulfill their destiny. | Lela, K-9 |
The Oracle | 1978, spacecraft R1C |
| 97 | The Invasion of Time | On Gallifrey, the Doctor takes the Presidency and pretends to aid the Vardans in taking control of the planet, but actually traps them in a time loop. However a Sontaran force arrives on Gallifrey instead. The Doctor uses the forbidden De-Mat Gun (activated by the Great Key of Rassilon) to repel them. Leela decides to remain on Gallifrey. | Lela, K-9 |
Time Lords, Sontarans, Vardans |
1978, Gallifrey |
| 98 | The Ribos Operation | The White Guardian sends the Doctor on a quest to retrieve the pieces of the Key to Time and has the Time Lady Romana join him. On Ribos the Doctor and Romana discover the first part being used in a scam to sell the planet. Once the scam is foiled the Doctor leaves with the piece. | Romana I, K-9 |
Key To Time, White Guardian |
1978, Ribos |
| 99 | The Pirate Planet | Queen Xanxia uses her planet-sized ship to exploit minerals from other planets. The Doctor allies with the native telepathic resistance fighters, Mentiads, to stop her from targeting Earth, and a Zanak native kills the Queen. | Romana I, K-9 |
Mentiads, Captain, Queen Xanxia |
1978, Zanak/ Callufrax Minor |
| 100 | The Stones of Blood | The Doctor discovers the criminal Cessair involved with a druid cult worshipping the blood-drinking stone Ogri. When she takes them to her ship in hyperspace, the Doctor manages to reactivate her Megara jailors who turn her into stone. | Romana I, K-9 |
Cessair Of Diplos, Ogri, Megari |
1978, Cornwall |
| 101 | The Androids of Tara | On Tara, the Doctor and Romana are caught in a conflict between Count Grendel and Prince Reynart and their android doubles. | Romana I, K-9 |
Android Doubles, Count Grendel Of Gracht |
24th C, Tara |
| 102 | The Power of Kroll | The Doctor is caught in a conflict between the native Swampies and the crew of a methane refinery. A giant squid-like creature named Kroll has eaten part of the Key to Time and grown to massive proportions. The Doctor disintegrates Kroll into smaller versions of itself with the Key of Time extraction device. | Romana I, K-9 |
Kroll, Swampies | 1979, methane refinery on moon of Delta III |
| 103 | The Armageddon Factor | The Black Guardian and his ally the Shadow conspire to create a false war between Atrios and Zeos. The Doctor stops the attacks and acquires the final part of the Key to Time (actually Princess Astra). The Black Guardian tries to trick the Doctor into giving the Key to him, but the Doctor instead re-disperses the Key. The Black Guardian vows vengeance, so the Doctor installs a randomizer circuit into the Tardis so he won't know where he is going and neither will the Black Guardian. | Romana I, K-9 |
The Shadow, Black Guardian, Drax |
1979, planet Atrios, Zeos |
| 104 | Destiny of the Daleks | Romana regenerates. The Tardis lands on Skaro where Daleks are digging for the remains of Davros in the hope he can help them in their war against the robotic Movellans. Davros attempts to explode a bomb to destroy the Movellans but the Doctor detonates it early so it will not harm the Movellans. Human rebels deactivate the Movellans. Davros is frozen for transport to trial on Earth. | Romana II, K-9 |
Daleks, Davros, Movellans |
1979, Skaro |
| 105 | City of Death | The alien Scaroth steals the Mona Lisa so that he can finance a project to travel back in time to prevent his ship from exploding in the ancient past. The Doctor realizes that the ship's explosion caused life on Earth to begin, and follows him back in time. Accompanying the Doctor, Inspector Duggan punches out Scaroth before he can change the past. Scaroth is killed by a surprised henchman when he returns to the present. | Romana II, K-9 |
Scaroth | 1505, Florence - 1979, Paris |
| 106 | The Creature from the Pit | On Chloris, the Doctor is forced into confronting a large globular creature, but learns that it is actually a benevolent but imprisoned ambassador from the planet Tython. The evil Chloris matriarch who had originally imprisoned the Tythonian ambassador is brought to justice, but the Tythonians have already launched a neutron star towards Chloris in a retaliatory measure. The Tythonian ambassador weaves an aluminum shell around the approaching neutron star, allowing the Tardis to deflect it with a gravity beam. | Romana II, K-9 |
Adrasta | 1979, Chloris |
| 107 | Nightmare of Eden | When two ships collide, Mandrel creatures from a CET "micro-zoo" (portions of planets stored on electro-magnetic crystals) escape and begin terrorizing passengers. The Doctor discovers that the scientist transporting the CET is using the Mandrels to smuggle drugs. The Doctor uses K9's dog whistle to pacify the creatures and traps them (along with the drug smugglers) in the CET. | Romana II, K-9 |
Mandrels | 2116, Empress |
| 108 | The Horns of Nimon | While the Tardis is sidelined by repairs, Romana is captured by Skonnans planning to offer her as a sacrifice to the horned Nimon of the labyrinth, who has promised great power to the Skonnans (but actually requires their resources to warp his own people over from Skonnos in order to conquer it). When the Skonnans learn the truth they sabotage the Nimon receiving base, trapping the Nimons on their already-consumed planet (Crinoth). | Romana II, K-9 |
Nimon | 1980, Skonnos |
| 109 | The Leisure Hive | On holiday at the Leisure Hive recreation facility, the Doctor stops an attempt by a militaristic Argolan to create a clone army of himself by sabotaging his re-creation generator with part of the Tardis Randomizer. The Doctor is accidentally aged 500 years but is restored by the re-creation generator. | Romana II, K-9 |
Foamasi, Argolans | 1980, Brighton Beach - 2290, Argolis |
| 110 | Meglos | The shape-changing Meglos, last survivor of Zolfa-Thura, impersonates the Doctor in order to steal a power source from the science-religion planet of Tigella to use as a planet-destroying weapon. The Doctor impersonates Meglos and sabotages the weapon to self-destruct. | Romana II, K-9 |
Meglos, Space Mercenaries |
1980, Zolfa-Thura, Tigella |
| 111 | Full Circle | The Tardis gets caught in a space anomaly and is projected into exospace (E-Space). They land on a planet where the inhabitants believe they are survivors of a spacecraft, but are actually descendants of native mutated "marshmen". The Doctor shows them how to operate their ship and the Alzarians take off for parts unknown. The Doctor and Romana are joined by a remaining Alzarian, the mathematically gifted Adric. | Romana II, K-9, Adric |
Marshmen, Marsh Spiders |
1980, E-Space, Alzarius, crashed starliner |
| 112 | State of Decay | The Doctor & Romana are caught in a struggle between descended members of a crashed Earth ship who have been turned into vampires by one of the Time Lords' greatest ancient enemies - planet-consuming giant vampires. The Doctor impales the vampire by sending a shuttle flying into its heart. | Romana II, K-9, Adric |
King Of The Ancient Vampires |
30th C., E-Space planet |
| 113 | Warrior's Gate | Trapped in a shrinking and disintegrating E-Space void, the Doctor helps the once repressive Tharil race rise again, despite attempts by other trapped Earthmen to keep them enslaved. Romana (II) decides to remain in E-Space with the Tharils to help them rebuild their society. K-9 remains with her. | Romana II, K-9, Adric |
Tharils, Slave Ship | 1981, E-Space gateway |
| 114 | The Keeper of Traken | The Master, disguised as the stone Melkur, manipulates the Traken Union into making him Keeper. The Doctor, Adric and Nyssa (daughter of the head scientist Tremas) stop him by manipulating the Source controls, but the Master escapes by taking over councilman Tremas' body. Tremas' daughter Nyssa befriends the Tardis travelers. | Nyssa, Adric |
The Master | 1981, Traken Union |
| 115 | Logopolis | The airline stewardess Tegan boards the Tardis by accident. On Logopolis, the Master (bringing Nyssa with him) hinders efforts to save the universe from entropic death. The Doctor stops him, but falls from a radio telescope gantry. He regenerates into the 5th Doctor. | Nyssa, Adric, Tegan |
The Master | 1981, Logopolis |
| 5th Doctor: Peter Davison | |||||
| 116 | Castrovalva | After a brief accidental side trip to Event One (the beginning of the universe), the Doctor goes to Castrovalva to recuperate from his regeneration, but finds that it is a trap set by the Master. The native people of Castrovalva rebel against the Master when they realize they are being used. | Nyssa, Adric, Tegan |
The Master | 1982, Castrovalva |
| 117 | Four to Doomsday | The Doctor encounters the frog-like Monarch who, with the aid of his human "ambassadors" (from four different ancient Earth civilizations), plans to bring his hibernating race to earth. The Doctor learns that the humans are actually slave androids and that the Monarch plans to wipeout the human race with a virus. The Monarch is killed when exposed to his own bioweapon and the androids go off to find a new home for themselves.. | Nyssa, Adric, Tegan |
Urbankans | 1982, Monarch's ship |
| 118 | Kinda | On the jungle planet Deva Loka, Tegan is possessed by the snake-like spirit-force, the Mara, but the Doctor is eventually able to trap it in a circle of mirrors. | Nyssa, Adric, Tegan |
The Mara, The Kinda |
1982, Deva Loka |
| 119 | The Visitation | Criminal aliens (Terileptils) who have crashed in Black-Plague-era London, plan to wipe out humanity with a rat-borne plague. The leader's gun explodes, causing the Great Fire of London. | Nyssa, Adric, Tegan |
Terileptils | 1666, London |
| 120 | Black Orchid | At Lord Cranleigh's manor, Cranleigh's deranged brother George menaces the travelers (George had been driven insane by torture from violent indians while searching for the black orchid). George dies in an accidental fall. | Nyssa, Adric, Tegan |
1925, Cranleigh | |
| 121 | Earthshock | When a freighter containing invading Cybermen is sent millions of years into the past, it explodes, causing the extinction of the dinosaurs and killing Adric. The Doctor kills the Cyber Leader using gold from Adric's badge. | Nyssa, Adric, Tegan |
Cybermen | 2526, Briggs' freighter |
| 122 | Time-Flight | The Doctor investigates the disappearance of a jet from Heathrow. He follows it back into the prehistoric past and discovers that the Master has been collecting slaves to help him capture an energy source to repair his Tardis. They discover the energy source is a creature called the Xeraphin and the Doctor tricks the Master into rematerializing his Tardis on the Xeraphins' homeworld, rather than Earth. | Nyssa, Tegan |
The Master, Plasmatons | 140 Million BC |
| 123 | Arc of Infinity | The banished Omega, the first Time Lord, conspires to use the Doctor's biosignature to return from an anti-matter universe. The Doctor is mistakenly accused on Gallifrey, but sabotages Omega's transferral before it is complete. | Nyssa, Tegan |
Time Lords, Omega |
1983, Gallifrey, Amsterdam |
| 124 | Snakedance | The Mara causes Tegan to have nightmares which lead them to the planet Manussa where it can be reborn in a local ceremony. The Mara possesses Tegan and a local prince to facilitate the forbidden ritual, but the Doctor interrupts the materialization of the giant snake god by using a form of meditation to break the connection and destroy the Mara forever. | Nyssa, Tegan |
The Mara | 2482, Manussa |
| 125 | Mawdryn Undead | While investigating a starliner in orbit (and bouncing between 1977 and 1983), the Doctor and the Brigadier discover aliens who have mutated themselves beyond the ability to die with stolen Time Lord equipment. They attempt to blackmail the Doctor into sacrificing his remaining regenerations so that they can die, but when two temporal incarnations of the Brigadier meet at the same time and place, the energy discharge is enough to kill the mutants. Meanwhile, the Black Guardian enlists the alien Turlough to infiltrate the travelers. | Nyssa, Tegan, Turlough |
Brigadier, Mawdryn, Black Guardian |
1977-1983, Mawdryn's ship, England |
| 126 | Terminus | Turlough sabotages the Tardis, eventually causing the travelers to end up at Terminus, a leper hospital. It turns out that Terminus is actually a timeship from another dimension which had caused the Big Bang when it dumped unstable fuel into the void. The explosion had hurled it billions of years into the future. The Doctor and the bear-like Terminus pilot work together to prevent the ship from dumping additional fuel and destroying the universe in another Big Bang. Nyssa decides to stay and help run the leper hospital. | Nyssa, Tegan, Turlough |
Garm, Vanir, Black Guardian |
1983, Terminus |
| 127 | Enlightenment | The White Guardian sends the Tardis to a ship engaged in a space yacht race run by the enigmatic Eternals. The winner is to receive a gift from the Enlighteners (actually the two Guardians). The Doctor prevents a rival ship's pirate queen from destroying his own and ends up winning the race, but refuses the prize. Turlough is given the choice of giving up to the Black Guardian immeasurable riches, or the life of the Doctor. Turlough chooses to save the Doctor and the Black Guardian is banished. | Tegan, Turlough |
Eternals, Black Guardian |
1983, Sol system |
| 128 | The King's Demons | The Master substitutes King John with Kamelion, an android from Xeriphas, with the hope of preventing the signing of the Magna Carta. The Doctor converts Kamelion to his side, and they depart in the Tardis. | Tegan, Turlough |
The Master, Kamelion |
1215, England |
| 129 | The Five Doctors | Gallifrey's President Borusa manipulates the five Doctors, the Master and a squad of Cybermen into breaking into the Tomb of Rassilon so that he can gain immortality for himself with the Ring of Rassilon. However when he puts the ring on, he becomes entombed as part of Rassilon's pedestal. | Tegan, Turlough, 1st-4th Doctors |
Cybermen, The Master, Time Lords, Rassilon |
1973, 1983, Gallifrey Death Zone |
| 130 | Warriors of the Deep | On Earth, a missile base is attacked by Silurians and Sea Devils in order to start a global war between human nations. The Doctor uses ultraviolet light and a poison gas to defeat the ancient creatures, and stops the missiles by "syncing" his brain to the controls. Unfortunately very few human and alien survivors remain in the base in the aftermath. | Tegan, Turlough |
Silurians, Sea Devils |
2084, Sea Base 4 |
| 131 | The Awakening | An ancient psychic creature called the Malus is discovered in an old church. It has its human acolytes arrange reenactments of a historical battle in order to generate enough mental energy for it to become corporeal (especially when the deaths become real). The Doctor uses the Tardis' equipment to divert the mental energy from the battle. The Malus self-destructs in frustration. | Tegan, Turlough |
The Malus | 1984, Little Hodcombe |
| 132 | Frontios | Earth colonists are being captured by caterpillar-like underground burrowing aliens (Tractators controlled by the Gravis) so that they can be used to help create a planet engine. The Tardis is blown apart by a meteor attack by the Tractators. The Doctor tricks the Gravis into reassembling the Tardis and renders the Gravis unconscious by separating it from the Tractators. | Tegan, Turlough |
The Gravis, Tractators |
10 Million, Frontius |
| 133 | Resurrection of the Daleks | The Daleks capture the Doctor and Davros on Earth and on a prison space station. They plan to create a duplicate of the Doctor to infiltrate Gallifrey, and they need Davros to develop an antidote to a virus weapon used by their enemies, the Movellans. The Daleks are defeated when one of the human duplicates rebels against his programming and self destructs the station. When Davros tries to wrest control of the Daleks from the Dalek Supreme using the Movellan virus, he discovers that he is also vulnerable to its effects. Tegan, tired of the bloodshed, decides to remain on Earth. | Tegan, Turlough |
Daleks, Davros | 1984, London, the future, space station prison |
| 134 | Planet of Fire | An artifact discovered in Lanzarote leads to the planet Sarn where Turlough discovers that he is actually a member of a colony of exiles from Trion. The Master tries to use the android Kamelion to siphon power from an erupting volcano, but the is burned up instead due to the Doctor's sabotage. Turlough leaves the travelers to be with his own people. The American Peri (stepdaughter of an archeologist) joins the Doctor. | Turlough, Peri |
The Master, Kamelion |
1984, Sarn, Lanzarote |
| 135 | The Caves of Androzani | Caught in a drug war, the Doctor and Peri become infected with a fatal disease. The Doctor is able to obtain a cure for Peri, but the Doctor himself dies and regenerates. | Peri | Androids | 1984, Androzani Minor and Major |
| 6th Doctor: Colin Baker | |||||
| 136 | The Twin Dilemma | The regenerated but unstable Doctor helps a fellow Time Lord stop a plot by gastropod aliens to explode a planet. | Peri | Gastropods | 2310, Titan III, Jaconda |
| 137 | Attack of the Cybermen | Cybermen from the future plan to use the Doctor's captured Tardis to cause Halley's Comet to destroy the Earth in 1986 before their home planet Mondas is destroyed in 1987. An agent of another of the Cybermen's victims, the Cryons, destroys the Cybermen's tomb with explosives. | Peri | Cybermen, Cryons |
1985 London - 27th C. Telos |
| 138 | Vengeance on Varos | When the Doctor lands on Varos to replenish supplies for the Tardis, he discovers a government who keeps its populace quiescent through broadcast torture programs. In the end the Doctor reveals that the planet's governor is being cheated of the true value of its commodities and the torture programs are stopped. | Peri | Sil | 23rd C., Varos |
| 139 | The Mark of the Rani | The Rani (an exiled Gallifreyan biochemist) and the Master plan to disrupt the Industrial Revolution by killing major inventors and also kill the Doctor. The Doctor sabotages the Rani's Tardis and sends it out of control into the future. | Peri | The Master, The Rani |
1820s, Killingsworth |
| 140 | The Two Doctors | A scientist allies with Sontarans to capture the 2nd Doctor and Jamie in order to discover the secret to time travel. The 6th Doctor rescues them and one of the scientists' allies kills the scientist. | Peri, 2nd Doctor |
Sontarans | 1985, Space Station Chimera,
Seville, Spain |
| 141 | Timelash | A mutated scientist named Megelen wishes to provoke a war with planet Bandril, so that the radiation will create mutated companions. He punishes his people by throwing them into a time corridor. The Doctor is tricked into retrieving a gem for Megelen in Scotland, but he also retrieves Kontron Crystals with which he kills Megelen's clone. Later he exposes Megelen to a mirror which causes him to fall into the time corridor. He uses the Tardis to deflect incoming missiles from Bandril. | Peri | HG Wells, Bandrils, Morlox, Megelen |
1985, Karfel, 1885, Scotland |
| 142 | Revelation of the Daleks | Davros attempts to use a cryogenics facility to rebuild a new Dalek army for himself. Forces from the Supreme Dalek arrive and imprison him. | Peri | Daleks, Davros | 1985, Tranquil Repose, Necros |
| 143 | The Trial of a Time Lord | The Doctor is subjected to a Time Lord inquiry/trial where several of the Doctor's adventures are recounted in trying to show that he broke Gallifreyan laws and committed genocide. In one Peri is apparently killed by aliens wanting to use her brain as host to an alien leader. The Doctor is unable to save Peri when the Time Lords bring the Doctor to the trial space station (later it is revealed that the records were faked and Peri settled down on Thoros Alpha). In another, the Doctor and future companion Mel save a space liner from an attack of Vervoid plants. The trial is presided over by the Valeyard, later revealed to be a future distillation of the Doctor's dark nature. The Master works behind the scenes to aid the Valeyard take over the Doctor's remaining lives and kill the High Council but the Doctor defeats them by destroying the Matrix archive. | Peri, Mel |
The Master, Time Lords, Valeyard, Sil |
1986, Time Lord space station (Ravalox, Thoros-Beta, space liner Hyperion III) |
| 7th Doctor: Sylvester McCoy | |||||
| 144 | Time and the Rani | The Doctor is forced to regenerate when the Rani attacks the Tardis in mid-flight. The Rani plans to sacrifice a planet in order to create a time manipulator but is stopped by the Doctor, and her bat-like servants turn on their master. | Mel | The Rani | 1987, Lakertya |
| 145 | Paradise Towers | Kroagnon, AI architect of the now-dilapidated high-rise Paradise Towers (populated by cannibals and girl gangs), uses robots to kill off the renters (for "infesting" his creation). One of the residents, deemed a coward, sacrifices his life to trigger a fumbled trap, destroying the Kroagnon. | Mel | Caretakers | 22nd C., Paradise Towers high-rise |
| 146 | Delta and Bannermen | The Doctor helps a Chimeron queen avoid her pursuers, the Bannermen. After the queen's amplified screaming stuns her pursuers she escapes to start a new life. | Mel | Bannermen, Navarinos |
1959, South Wales |
| 147 | Dragonfire | A criminal attempts to reactivate a dormant ship in order to exact revenge on his imprisoners. When the Doctor reveals that his race is no more he kills himself. Ace, a waitress accidentally transported from the past, joins the Doctor. Mel remains on Iceworld with a new friend. | Mel, Ace |
Sabalom Glitz | 2 Million, Iceworld |
| 148 | Remembrance of the Daleks |
Forces of Davros (the Dalek Emperor) and the Dalek Supreme both battle for the Hand of Omega on Earth. The Doctor tricks Davros into destroying Skaro in a display of the Hand's power. | Ace | Daleks, Davros | 1963, 76 Totters Lane, London |
| 149 | The Happiness Patrol | On a planet where sadness is outlawed, the Doctor foments rebellion and the rulers are overthrown. | Ace | Happiness Patrol, Kandyman |
2388, Terra Alpha |
| 150 | Silver Nemesis | The Doctor carries out a plan to play Cybermen, Nazis and a sorceress against each other as they fight for control of Rassilon's Validium statue, which the Doctor uses to wipe out the Cybermen fleet.. | Ace | Cybermen | 1638, 1988 South America, London |
| 151 | The Greatest Show in the Galaxy | The Doctor is invited to a circus on Segonax but learns that the visitors are expected to be the performers for three mysterious audience members. The audience members are revealed to be the "Gods of Ragnarok". The Doctor uses a medallion from a local power well to reflect their power, causing the circus tent to explode. | Ace | Gods Of Ragnarok | 1989, Psychic Circus, Segonax |
| 152 | Battlefield | Morgaine (of King Arthur's Camelot) attempts to steal and use a nuclear missile. The Doctor tells her King Arthur is dead and she surrenders. | Ace | Morgaine | 1997, England |
| 153 | Ghost Light | The occupant of a crashed spaceship is revived and decides to eradicate Earth life because it has evolved so much. The Doctor convinces it that evolution is inevitable. | Ace | The Light | 1883, London |
| 154 | The Curse of Fenric | The use of a code-breaking machine on some ancient church runes releases the ancient evil spirit Fenric. The Doctor manages to turn its vampiric servant from the future, the Ancient Haemovore, against it. | Ace | Fenric | 1943, England |
| 155 | Survival | The Master tries to trap the Doctor on the disintegrating planet of the Cheetah People. He challenges the Doctor to a final battle, but the Doctor refuses and escapes to Earth. Ace returns to Perivale. | Ace | The Master, Cheetah People |
1989, Cheetah People planet. Perivale |
Below is an earlier table with more production information (and includes several seasons of the modern series), but is frankly a pain to read....which is why I created the preceding. I will probably do a similar thing for the modern series at some point...
Scroll down inside the spreadsheet to see newer seasons.
Scroll right to see the time, location & outcome of the episode (spoilers!).
In the 'Classic' column, if there is an 'x' that means this serial was in the Top 50 of Best Episodes of multiple lists (see bottom sources).
You can see the whole sheet on one page here.
Resources:
Wikipedia Doctor Who Episode Guide
Production Notes - A Brief History of Time (Travel)
Synopses - Tardis Data Core, the Doctor Who Wiki
Doctor Who Transcript Project
Chrissie's Transcripts Site
Doctor Who Reference Guide
AHistory: An Unauthorized History of the Doctor Who Universe
Listing "Classic" Episodes:
Every Single Doctor Who Story, Ranked from Best to Worst (io9)
Every Single Doctor Who Story (Correctly) Ranked From Best to Worst (L.M. Myles)
Doctor Who: the 50 greatest stories ever (The Telegraph)
Top 50 Classic Doctor Who episodes (Amazon Reviewer netman)
Who's 50: The 50 Doctor Who Stories to Watch Before You Die — An Unofficial Companion
