Doctor Who

Doctor Who

The adventures in time and space of the Doctor, a Time Lord who changes appearance and personality by regenerating when near death, and is joined by companions in battles against aliens and other megalomaniacs.

Genre: AdventureDramaFamily

Cast:William HartnellPatrick TroughtonJon PertweeTom BakerFrazer HinesNicholas CourtneyPat GormanElisabeth SladenJacqueline HillWilliam RussellKaty ManningJohn Scott MartinJohn LevenePeter DavisonJanet FieldingJohn LeesonTerry WalshGerald Taylor


1Season 17

S17.E1 ∙ Destiny of the Daleks: Episode One

Sat, Sep 1, 1979

The Doctor and Romana find themselves on Skaro and forced to be military advisers to the Daleks' enemy, Movellans, while the Daleks revive Davros.

2Season 17

S17.E2 ∙ Destiny of the Daleks: Episode Two

Sat, Sep 8, 1979

While the Daleks assign Romana to their excavation detail, the Doctor and an escaped prisoner help the Movellans' attempt to beat the Daleks.

3Season 17

S17.E3 ∙ Destiny of the Daleks: Episode Three

Sat, Sep 15, 1979

The Doctor reaches Davros first, but can he hang on to him? Meanwhile, the Movellans test a bomb to incinerate the planet.

4Season 17

S17.E4 ∙ Destiny of the Daleks: Episode Four

Sat, Sep 22, 1979

To break the centuries-old stalemate in their war, the Movellans need the Doctor, as do the Daleks Davros. The solution is simple, but neither side can see it, nor would the Doctor upset this perfect and unplanned peace they've achieved. Davros, though, is another matter.

5Season 17

S17.E5 ∙ City of Death: Part One

Sat, Sep 29, 1979

While sightseeing in Paris, the Doctor and Romana find themselves repeatedly reliving the same moments in time. A visit to the Louvre Museum leads the Doctor to suspect an alien plot to steal the Mona Lisa.

6Season 17

S17.E6 ∙ City of Death: Part Two

Sat, Oct 6, 1979

Count Scarlioni has the Doctor, Romana and Duggan locked in his basement but the trio manage to escape and learn of the Count's experiments with time travel. Even more surprising are his multiple genuine copies of the Mona Lisa.

7Season 17

S17.E7 ∙ City of Death: Part Three

Sat, Oct 13, 1979

Travelling back in time to 1505 Florence in search of Leonardo da Vinci, the Doctor is surprised to instead find Count Scarlioni under a different name. Back in 1979, Romana and Duggan attempt to stop the Count's heist but arrive too late.

8Season 17

S17.E8 ∙ City of Death: Part Four

Sat, Oct 20, 1979

Count Scarlioni reveals his true form as Scaroth, the last of the Jagaroth and uses his time machine to go back in time and rewrite history. The Doctor, Romana and Duggan take to the Tardis in a race against time to stop him.

9Season 17

S17.E9 ∙ The Creature from the Pit: Part One

Sat, Oct 27, 1979

The Tardis lands on the overgrown jungle planet of Chloris where the Doctor examines an unusual giant eggshell but soon he and Romana are taken prisoner by the guards of Lady Adrasta, the planet's cruel ruler.

10Season 17

S17.E10 ∙ The Creature from the Pit: Part Two

Sat, Nov 3, 1979

Descending into the pit, the Doctor meets the banished astrologer Organon who tells him of Lady Adrasta's monopoly over the planet's supply of metal. Back on the surface, Romana tries to prevent Adrasta from destroying K9.

11Season 17

S17.E11 ∙ The Creature from the Pit: Part Three

Sat, Nov 10, 1979

Trapped face to featureless face with the alien creature, the Doctor tries his best to communicate with it. Meanwhile, as Adrasta's group tries to break through metallic bio-blockage created by the creature, bandits raid her palace for every scrap of metal they can find, including an alien shield that harbors powers no one suspects.

12Season 17

S17.E12 ∙ The Creature from the Pit: Part Four

Sat, Nov 17, 1979

Full revelation of Adrasta's wicked acts in maintaining her planetary monopoly on metal brings her reign to an end, but the victimized alien creature holds a secret: massive interstellar retribution for her crimes is headed their way, with doom for all, including those whose current short-sighted actions undermine the Doctor's efforts to save the planet in order to become new leaders of the old metal monopoly.

13Season 17

S17.E13 ∙ Nightmare of Eden: Part One

Sat, Nov 24, 1979

The Starliner Empress comes out of warp and collides with a scientific survey ship, the Hecate. The Doctor and Romana arrive offering to help separate the two ships but all is not as it seems.

14Season 17

S17.E14 ∙ Nightmare of Eden: Part Two

Sat, Dec 1, 1979

The unstable interphase of the two ships opens up unexpected passageways for dangerous monsters caged in an electronic zoo aboard the cruise ship to escape. Meanwhile, as an attempt is made to hook Romana on vraxoin, the Doctor discovers a mystery man aboard ship to whom he gives chase.

15Season 17

S17.E15 ∙ Nightmare of Eden: Part Three

Sat, Dec 8, 1979

Hiding out from arresting authorities in the electronic zoo's inhospitable Eden exhibit, the Doctor and Romana discover a man reported dead. Meanwhile, the monsters, called mandrels, start attacking and killing passengers, much to the amusement of the ship's captain.

16Season 17

S17.E16 ∙ Nightmare of Eden: Part Four

Sat, Dec 15, 1979

After succeeding in separating the two merged ships, the Doctor discovers the identities of the drug runners. He, Romana and K-9 endeavor to catch them cleverly while also avoiding both the excise men wanting to shoot them and the marauding mandrels just wanting to kill anyone in sight.

17Season 17

S17.E17 ∙ The Horns of Nimon: Part One

Sat, Dec 22, 1979

After colliding with a spaceship, The Doctor, Romana and K-9 learn young natives from a peaceful planet called Aneth are being transported into a great labyrinth called "The Power Complex" where the evil bull-like Nimon demands that all his victims who enter The Power Complex are sacrificed so The Nimon can return to the Skonnan Empire back to glory. When Romana is taken captive and also chosen for sacrifice, The Doctor and K-9 travel to the heart of the maze as they set out to rescue Romana and foil The Nimon's evil plan to enslave the universe.

18Season 17

S17.E18 ∙ The Horns of Nimon: Part Two

Sat, Dec 29, 1979

The Doctor and K-9 struggle to repair the Tardis and rescue Romana from Skonnos where she is accused of space piracy.

19Season 17

S17.E19 ∙ The Horns of Nimon: Part Three

Sat, Jan 5, 1980

Discovering the Nimon power room puts the Doctor onto the immense threat facing the universe, all enabled by Soldeed's crazed plan to return his war-mongering people to military glory.

20Season 17

S17.E20 ∙ The Horns of Nimon: Part Four

Sat, Jan 12, 1980

While the Doctor endeavors to amend putting Romana in great peril, she experiences a foretaste of Skonnos's fate on the ravaged planet Crinoth, and a shocked but undeterred Soldeed gets a glimmer of how he's been used by the Nimon.