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 23

S23.E1 ∙ The Trial of a Time Lord: Part One

Sat, Sep 6, 1986

The Doctor is put on trial by the Time Lords again. The first of two events from his resent past is presented as evidence of his interference in the affairs of other worlds. In particular, his actions on planet Ravalox.

2Season 23

S23.E2 ∙ The Trial of a Time Lord: Part Two

Sat, Sep 13, 1986

The Doctor finds that the subterranean UK Habitat is run by a cloistered robot named Drathro, whom the inhabitants call "The Immortal." Their black light energy converters are destabilizing, unaware that it's the result of two space pirates mucking about on the surface with designs on looting their dwelling.

3Season 23

S23.E3 ∙ The Trial of a Time Lord: Part Three

Sat, Sep 20, 1986

The Doctor escapes to rejoin Peri on the surface but shortly becomes the prisoner of a surface-dwelling tribe called The Free. Ravalox isn't Ravalox after all, but before the Doctor can learn much more an irresistible agent from UK Habitat comes to fetch him back.

4Season 23

S23.E4 ∙ The Trial of a Time Lord: Part Four

Sat, Sep 27, 1986

All those on Ravolox are in exponentially greater peril than anyone can comprehend. If anything in the entire universe is to survive, it may come down to the Doctor arguing against machine logic over the value of life.

5Season 23

S23.E5 ∙ The Trial of a Time Lord: Part Five

Sat, Oct 4, 1986

The court looks into the Doctor's investigation of Thoros Beta, home planet of the Mentors whom the Doctor suspects of selling advanced weaponry to primitive cultures.

6Season 23

S23.E6 ∙ The Trial of a Time Lord: Part Six

Sat, Oct 11, 1986

Having been put through a makeshift truth extractor, the Doctor appears damaged, apt to mimic the personalities of those with whom he has eye contact. He eventually abandons Peri and a gung-ho warrior king in favor of joining in with Sil and Dr. Crozier in the latest of their perverse projects.

7Season 23

S23.E7 ∙ The Trial of a Time Lord: Part Seven

Sat, Oct 18, 1986

While the Doctor helps Dr. Crozier transfer Lord Kiv's brain into a new host skull, Peri accompanies King Yrcanos as he searches for the Alpha Resistance fighters whom he feels, most certainly, will follow him into glorious battle against the Mentors and the Doctor.

8Season 23

S23.E8 ∙ The Trial of a Time Lord: Part Eight

Sat, Oct 25, 1986

The first transfer is flawed, so Dr. Crozier needs to transfer Lord Kiv into another host body. Unfortunately, Peri meets all the requirements for the subsequent candidate. Since the Doctor's been helpful and has somewhat of a personal interest in Peri, he's permitted to locate an equally suitable substitute candidate, if he can. The prosecution rests.

9Season 23

S23.E9 ∙ The Trial of a Time Lord: Part Nine

Sat, Nov 1, 1986

As the trial continues, the Doctor presents an event from his future as evidence of his reform.

10Season 23

S23.E10 ∙ The Trial of a Time Lord: Part Ten

Sat, Nov 8, 1986

A lethal booby-trap in the Hydroponic Center awakens the genetically engineered fruit pods in storage, and passengers and crewmen alike start disappearing without trace. There's a murderer on board and the Doctor means to find out who he or she is.

11Season 23

S23.E11 ∙ The Trial of a Time Lord: Part Eleven

Sat, Nov 15, 1986

A course change that takes the Hyperion III closer to a black hole could prove unwise when there are so many aboard ship with hidden agendas. Disappearances continue, a murderer remains at large, and one person finally crumbles under the strain of harboring a guilty secret.

12Season 23

S23.E12 ∙ The Trial of a Time Lord: Part Twelve

Sat, Nov 22, 1986

With factions vying for control of the ship, the Vervoids are found to be responsible for the many disappearances. Only the Doctor sees the fundamental but missed point as to why they can't be reasoned with or why they can't be allowed to arrive on Earth.

13Season 23

S23.E13 ∙ The Trial of a Time Lord: Part Thirteen

Sat, Nov 29, 1986

The charge against the Doctor changes from mere meddling to inexcusable genocide. His future looks both grim and very short.

14Season 23

S23.E14 ∙ The Trial of a Time Lord: Part Fourteen

Sat, Dec 6, 1986

So much ado by the Valeyard and the Master over the Doctor's death makes the Doctor wary of being made decoy for some other, truer target. Continuing in the Matrix itself, he may find both them and the answers he seeks.