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4->''"All of time and space, everything that ever happened or ever will... Where do you want to start?"''
5-->-- '''The Eleventh Doctor''', "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E1TheEleventhHour The Eleventh Hour]]"
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7See also [[https://web.archive.org/web/20140807011920/http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/episodeguide/ the BBC's episode guide]].
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9Recaps for ''Series/DoctorWho'', spanning all TV series episodes from 1963 up until the present day.
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11Many of the First and Second Doctors' episodes (97 to be precise) [[MissingEpisode/DoctorWho are no longer accounted for in video format]]-- though only one, "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E4TheDaleksMasterPlan The Daleks' Master Plan]]" part 7, "The Feast of Steven", was almost certainly [[{{Pun}} exterminated]] beyond recovery as no copies were ever made of it, so a delicate flicker of hope remains for the other 96 (And even that isn't enough to stop fans from thinking the 97th episode has a copy lurking somewhere!). All the missing episodes survive in audio form thanks to viewers at the time using tape recorders during the original broadcasts, and in addition to these soundtracks being released with narration from an original cast member to fill in the visual elements, there are also telesnap reconstructions, which marry the audio to off-screen photographs of the original broadcasts. Some of these episodes have been animated by dedicated restoration teams for official DVD releases funded by the BBC.
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13The "Classic Series" (1963-1989) was done in 25-minute long episodes where every story (except for "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E2MissionToTheUnknown Mission to the Unknown]]" and "[[Recap/DoctorWho20thASTheFiveDoctors The Five Doctors]]") was a multi-episode serial; typically these ranged from four to six episodes, but on rare occasions could go from as little as a single episode to as many as twelve (fourteen if you count Season 23, ''The Trial of a Time Lord'', as one serial[[note]]to make a long story short, Season 23 was produced as four different but interlinked serials in an overarching story arc, but the whole season was billed as a single serial when it aired as a marketing tactic[[/note]]). Season 22 stood out as an exception, with serials comprising two or three 45-minute long episodes each, but it was still in the serial format. When the series began airing in the US in the early 70s, the individual episodes for each serial were combined into full-length "movies"; because of this, most fans consider each episode part of a much larger story, aided by the fact that serials quickly switched to using overarching titles in season 3. Consequently, fan discussions about the Classic Series will typically refer to serials rather than individual episodes unless the latter becomes absolutely necessary (e.g. production differences between individual episodes).
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15The "Revival Series" (2005-present) is done mostly in 45-minute-long episodes, most of them self-contained with at least one two-part story each season (and Series 3, 9, and 10 each have a three-parter. Series 1 also has a three parter, just not consecutively), with numerous filmed shorts to supplement the series. Series 11 ups the episode length to 50 minutes. For all intents and purposes, the Revival Series is an official continuation of the Classic Series, taking place within the same canon.
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17Cross-reference recap pages for ''Recap/TheSarahJaneAdventures'', ''Recap/{{Torchwood}}'', ''{{Recap/K9}}'', and ''Recap/{{Class|2016}}'', which are also part of the Franchise/{{Whoniverse}}, as well as for the many tangled continuities and timelines of the [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho Big Finish audio series]], which are [[BroadStrokes broadly canonical]].
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19[[ArchivePanic Good luck]].
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21[[foldercontrol]]
22!Classic Series
23!!First Doctor era (Creator/WilliamHartnell): 1963-1966
24There is some dispute as to what a number of the serials up to "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E8TheGunfighters The Gunfighters]]" should be called, as these stories had individual episode titles rather than an on-screen full title. Many of the titles have been gleaned from surviving [[Creator/TheBBC BBC]] paperwork, but for the very early stories, you may see alternative names being used. The names seen below are those on home media releases.
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26[[index]]
27[[folder:Season 1 (23 November 1963 -- 12 September 1964)]]
28->''"Have you ever thought what it's like to be wanderers in the fourth dimension? Have you? To be exiles?"''
29-->-- '''The Doctor'''
30
31The Doctor begins his adventures throughout space and time, along with the company of his granddaughter Susan, and the rather less willing company of her teachers Ian and Barbara. The four find themselves veering between being caught up in historical events, and meeting new, unusual, and often deadly alien foes.
32----
33!!!Season 1 (42 episodes of which 33 survive, 23 November 1963 -- 12 September 1964)
34# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E1AnUnearthlyChild An Unearthly Child]]" [-(4 episodes)-][[note]]Episode [[YMMV/DoctorWhoS1E1AnUnearthlyChild YMMV]], Episode [[Trivia/DoctorWhoS1E1AnUnearthlyChild Trivia]][[/note]]
35# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E2TheDaleks The Daleks]]" [-(7 episodes)-]
36# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E3TheEdgeOfDestruction The Edge of Destruction]]" [-(2 episodes)-]
37# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E4MarcoPolo Marco Polo]]" [-(7 episodes, all missing)-]
38# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E5TheKeysOfMarinus The Keys of Marinus]]" [-(6 episodes)-]
39# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E6TheAztecs The Aztecs]]" [-(4 episodes)-]
40# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E7TheSensorites The Sensorites]]" [-(6 episodes)-]
41# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E8TheReignOfTerror The Reign of Terror]]" [-(6 episodes, 4 & 5 missing but remade with animation married to the original soundtrack)-]
42[[/folder]]
43
44[[folder:Season 2 (31 October 1964 -- 24 July 1965)]]
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50[[caption-width-right:300:''"The least important things, sometimes, my dear boy, lead to the greatest discoveries."'']]
51->''"One day, I shall come back. Yes, I shall come back. Until then, there must be no regrets, no tears, no anxieties. Just go forward in all your beliefs and prove to me that I am not mistaken in mine."''
52-->-- '''The Doctor'''
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54While the Doctor continues to veer between adventures in Earth's history, and those on far-off worlds, he soon finds everything changing. Firstly he's forced to bid a tearful farewell to Susan, who is soon replaced by the orphan Vicki, and later on he assists Ian and Barbara in finally getting back to their own time, with space pilot Steven Taylor replacing them.
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56!!!Season 2 (39 episodes of which 37 survive, 31 October 1964 -- 24 July 1965)
57# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E1PlanetOfGiants Planet of Giants]]" [-(3 episodes, though originally produced as 4 episodes)-]
58# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E2TheDalekInvasionOfEarth The Dalek Invasion of Earth]]" [-(6 episodes)-]
59# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E3TheRescue The Rescue]]" [-(2 episodes)-]
60# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E4TheRomans The Romans]]" [-(4 episodes)-]
61# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E5TheWebPlanet The Web Planet]]" [-(6 episodes)-]
62# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E6TheCrusade The Crusade]]" [-(4 episodes, 2 & 4 missing)-]
63# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E7TheSpaceMuseum The Space Museum]]" [-(4 episodes)-]
64# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E8TheChase The Chase]]" [-(6 episodes)-]
65# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E9TheTimeMeddler The Time Meddler]]" [-(4 episodes)-]
66[[/folder]]
67
68[[folder:Season 3 (11 September 1965 -- 16 July 1966)]]
69->''"And now, they're all gone. All gone. None of them could understand. Not even my little Susan. Or Vicki. And as for Barbara and Chatterton - Chesterton - they were all too impatient to get back to their own time. And now, Steven. Perhaps I should go home. Back to my own planet. But I can't... I can't..."''
70-->-- '''The Doctor'''
71
72After Vicki, like Susan before her, leaves the Doctor's company to be with the man she loves, the Doctor's travels take an increasingly dangerous turn, claiming the lives of two short-term companions in the process. Things even out once newcomer Dodo Chaplet joins the TARDIS team, though she and Steven will depart by the end of the season, leaving the Doctor with two unexpected stowaways as his new companions.
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74!!!Season 3 (45 episodes of which 17 survive, 11 September 1965 -- 16 July 1966)
75# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E1Galaxy4 Galaxy 4]]" [-(4 episodes, all but Episode 3 missing but remade with animation)-]
76# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E2MissionToTheUnknown Mission to the Unknown]]" [-(1 episode, missing but remade in live-action; only story to not feature the Doctor)-]
77# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E3TheMythMakers The Myth Makers]]" [-(4 episodes, all missing)-]
78# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E4TheDaleksMasterPlan The Daleks' Master Plan]]" [-(12 episodes, only 2, 5 and 10 known to survive. The Christmas episode[[note]]which was technically speaking an interlude rather than part of the serial, but this page is complicated enough as it is[[/note]] is the only one that is irretrievably [[MissingEpisode lost]], in all likelihood)-]
79# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E5TheMassacre The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve]]" [-(4 episodes, all missing; title commonly shortened to "The Massacre")-]
80# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E6TheArk The Ark]]" [-(4 episodes)-]
81# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E7TheCelestialToymaker The Celestial Toymaker]]" [-(4 episodes, only Episode 4 known to survive)-]
82# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E8TheGunfighters The Gunfighters]]" [-(4 episodes)-]
83# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E9TheSavages The Savages]]" [-(4 episodes, all missing)-]
84# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E10TheWarMachines The War Machines]]" [-(4 episodes)-]
85[[/folder]]
86
87[[folder:Season 4 (10 September -- 29 October 1966)]]
88->''"This old body of mine is wearing a bit thin."''
89-->-- '''The Doctor'''
90
91The Doctor and his new companions Ben and Polly barely even have time to get used to each other's company before an encounter with a deadly new enemy helps push the Doctor's ageing body over the edge.
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93!!!Season 4 (43 episodes of which 10 survive, 10 September 1966 -- 1 July 1967. No story from this season survives in a complete form.)
94# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E1TheSmugglers The Smugglers]]" [-(4 episodes, all missing)-]
95# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E2TheTenthPlanet The Tenth Planet]]" [-(4 episodes, Episode 4 missing but remade with animation)-]
96[[/folder]]
97
98!!Second Doctor era (Creator/PatrickTroughton): 1966-1969
99The Second Doctor's reappearances in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS10E1TheThreeDoctors The Three Doctors]]", "[[Recap/DoctorWho20thASTheFiveDoctors The Five Doctors]]", and "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS22E4TheTwoDoctors The Two Doctors]]" are ambiguously placed in his timeline. [[labelnote:explanation]]The first of those stories can be slotted in anywhere after "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E3TheInvasion The Invasion]]" (whose events the Second Doctor references, in addition to recognising Benton) without much difficulty. However, in the latter two stories (besides the actors obviously looking older) Jamie clearly knows about Time Lords, the Doctor has been in contact with them, is willingly working with them, and capable of actually ''controlling'' his TARDIS — none of which he could do in his own era. The Third Doctor then debuts with some items (like his TARDIS-locating watch) that he ''definitely'' wasn't wearing in "The War Games". The only logical explanation is that these adventures happen ''after'' "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E7TheWarGames The War Games]]" but before "Spearhead From Space". Luckily, the EarlyInstallmentWeirdness of the regeneration scene makes this surprisingly plausible. The comics of the time fit into this gap (and actually show Troughton changing into Pertwee). Season 6B is basically as official as you can get in ''Doctor Who'' -- there are over sixty stories set during it, including stories by both Creator/RobertHolmes and Creator/TerranceDicks. Holmes, in particular, explicitly meant "The Two Doctors" to take place in this period.[[/labelnote]] It has been proposed that they are set in "[[http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Season_6B Season 6b]]", meaning they take place during otherwise unseen adventures set after "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E7TheWarGames The War Games]]".
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101The Second Doctor's era was hit the worst by the archive purges, to the point where none of his stories from Season 4 survives with even more than half of its episodes still intact, and Season 5 only has two fully-intact stories (one of which didn't resurface until the 2010s). Season 6 got off much lighter by comparison, with only two stories having any missing episodes.
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106->''"There are some corners of the universe which have bred the most terrible things. Things which act against everything we believe in. They must be fought."''
107-->-- '''The Doctor'''
108
109The Doctor's astounding transformation leaves him badly drained and his friends wondering if he's even the same person. The universe obligingly brings out the ultimate test: a confrontation with the Daleks. From there, the new Doctor -- with highlander Jamie [=McCrimmon=] also joining the team -- takes on everything from mad scientists to Cybermen to giant crabs... before coming face-to-face with his worst enemies once more.
110----
111!!!Season 4 (Continued)
112[numlist:3]
113# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E3ThePowerOfTheDaleks The Power of the Daleks]]" [-(6 episodes, all missing but remade with animation)-]
114# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E4TheHighlanders The Highlanders]]" [-(4 episodes, all missing)-]
115# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E5TheUnderwaterMenace The Underwater Menace]]" [-(4 episodes, 1 & 4 missing but remade with animation)-]
116# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E6TheMoonbase The Moonbase]]" [-(4 episodes, 1 & 3 missing but remade with animation)-]
117# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E7TheMacraTerror The Macra Terror]]" [-(4 episodes, all missing but remade with animation)-]
118# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E8TheFacelessOnes The Faceless Ones]]" [-(6 episodes, 2, 4, 5, and 6 missing but remade with animation)-]
119# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E9TheEvilOfTheDaleks The Evil of the Daleks]]" [-(7 episodes, all but Episode 2 missing but remade with animation)-]
120[/numlist]
121[[/folder]]
122
123[[folder:Season 5 (2 September 1967 -- 1 June 1968)]]
124-> ''"Our lives are different to anybody else's. That's the exciting thing. Nobody in the universe can do what we're doing."''
125-->-- '''The Doctor'''
126
127The Daleks might seem to have met their final end, but the universe remains just as dangerous as ever. The Cybermen continue to menace the Doctor, who finds himself also coming up against new enemies such as the Great Intelligence and its Yeti servants, along with the reptillian Ice Warriors. The Doctor finds himself having to introduce the orphaned Victoria Waterfield to his way of life, but by the end of the season, lets her leave and settle down into a more stable life.
128----
129!!!Season 5 (40 episodes of which 22 survive, 2 September 1967 -- 1 June 1968)
130# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS5E1TheTombOfTheCybermen The Tomb of the Cybermen]]" [-(4 episodes)-]
131# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS5E2TheAbominableSnowmen The Abominable Snowmen]]" [-(6 episodes, only Episode 2 known to survive; all six episodes remade with animation)-]
132# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS5E3TheIceWarriors The Ice Warriors]]" [-(6 episodes, 2 & 3 missing but remade with animation)-]
133# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS5E4TheEnemyOfTheWorld The Enemy of the World]]" [-(6 episodes)-]
134# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS5E5TheWebOfFear The Web of Fear]]" [-(6 episodes, Episode 3 missing but remade with animation)-]
135# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS5E6FuryFromTheDeep Fury from the Deep]]" [-(6 episodes, all missing but remade with animation, last serial to be missing in its entirety)-]
136# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS5E7TheWheelInSpace The Wheel in Space]]" [-(6 episodes, only 3 & 6 known to survive)-]
137[[/folder]]
138
139[[folder:Season 6 (10 August 1968 -- 21 June 1969)]]
140->'''The Doctor:''' Well, it is a fact, Jamie, that I do tend to get involved with things.\
141'''Jamie:''' Aye, you can say that again. Whenever there's any trouble, he's in it right up to his neck.
142
143The Doctor, Jamie, and new companion Zoe face an array of new enemies, in addition to yet another encounter with the Cybermen. Ultimately, however, the Doctor's finally crossing paths with his people, the Time Lords, will have terrible consequences for all three TARDIS travellers.
144----
145!!!Season 6 (44 episodes of which 37 survive, 10 August 1968 -- 21 June 1969)
146# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E1TheDominators The Dominators]]" [-(5 episodes)-]
147# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E2TheMindRobber The Mind Robber]]" [-(5 episodes, 20 minutes each)-]
148# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E3TheInvasion The Invasion]]" [-(8 episodes, 1 & 4 missing but remade with animation)-]
149# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E4TheKrotons The Krotons]]" [-(4 episodes)-]
150# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E5TheSeedsOfDeath The Seeds of Death]]" [-(6 episodes)-]
151# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E6TheSpacePirates The Space Pirates]]" [-(6 episodes, only Episode 2 known to survive; last of known incomplete serials)-]
152# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E7TheWarGames The War Games]]" [-(10 episodes)-]
153[[/folder]]
154
155!!Third Doctor era (Creator/JonPertwee): 1970-1974
156The actual regeneration sequence from Creator/PatrickTroughton to Creator/JonPertwee was not televised [[labelnote:explanation]] The concept of regeneration was not fully defined yet, the writers more or less used an excuse to change his appearance and there was no fuss to be made about showing the transition[[/labelnote]], but a possible version based on the idea that the Doctor actually managed to escape the Time Lords at the end of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E7TheWarGames The War Games]]" was depicted in a comic (the TV Comic story "The Night Walkers") shortly before Season 7 began (and later explored in a psuedo-canon fan project work titled ''Devious'' that is loosely connected to official ''Doctor Who'' and featured Pertwee himself in a filmed regeneration sequence). While this was the last era to be affected by the BBC's routine archive purges, from this point onwards all episodes survive and can be found in the BBC archives, albeit as telerecordings alone in many cases.
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158This era also marked the start of the series being in full colour (as well as scaling the series back from running all year round with a two-month break to running for just half of the year), although a handful of Third Doctor episodes had survived only in black and white. These have since been restored to full colour by various methods.[[note]]The exception is part one of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS11E2InvasionOfTheDinosaurs Invasion of the Dinosaurs]]", as the recolourisation method was only partially successful; a "best efforts" colour version was included on the DVD, but as an alternative to the monochrome version.[[/note]]
159
160[[folder:Season 7 (3 January -- 20 June 1970)]]
161->''"We deal with the odd... the unexplained. Anything on Earth... or beyond."''
162-->-- '''The Brigadier'''
163
164Having been forced to change his appearance by his own people and exiled to Earth, the Doctor finds himself on the front lines of an Auton invasion. With no way off-planet for the foreseeable future, he grudgingly joins forces with UNIT, acting as their scientific advisor against various alien threats.
165----
166!!!Season 7 (25 episodes, 3 January -- 20 June 1970)
167# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS7E1SpearheadFromSpace Spearhead from Space]]" [-(4 episodes)-]
168# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS7E2DoctorWhoAndTheSilurians Doctor Who and the Silurians]]" [-(7 episodes)-]
169# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS7E3TheAmbassadorsOfDeath The Ambassadors of Death]]" [-(7 episodes)-]
170# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS7E4Inferno Inferno]]" [-(7 episodes)-]
171[[/folder]]
172
173[[folder:Season 8 (2 January -- 19 June 1971)]]
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179[[caption-width-right:300:''"Obviously the Time Lords have programmed the TARDIS always to return to Earth."'']]
180->'''Brigadier:''' Think he'll turn up again, Doctor?\
181'''The Doctor:''' Yes, bound to.\
182'''Jo:''' You don't seem very worried about it.\
183'''The Doctor:''' I'm not. As a matter of fact, Jo, I'm rather looking forward to it.
184
185The Doctor is joined by socialite/escapologist Josephine Grant, and his exile to Earth is enlivened by the arrival of {{the Master}}, an old friend turned would-be world conqueror.
186----
187!!!Season 8 (25 episodes, 2 January -- 19 June 1971)
188# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS8E1TerrorOfTheAutons Terror of the Autons]]" [-(4 episodes)-]
189# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS8E2TheMindOfEvil The Mind of Evil]]" [-(6 episodes)-]
190# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS8E3TheClawsOfAxos The Claws of Axos]]" [-(4 episodes)-]
191# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS8E4ColonyInSpace Colony in Space]]" [-(6 episodes)-]
192# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS8E5TheDaemons The Dæmons]]" [-(5 episodes)-]
193[[/folder]]
194
195[[folder:Season 9 (1 January -- 24 June 1972)]]
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201[[caption-width-right:300:''"I reversed the polarity of the neutron flow."'']]
202->'''The Doctor:''' My dear Jo, the TARDIS was working then because it was being operated under remote control by the High Council of the Time Lords.\
203'''Jo:''' Well, if it worked for them-\
204'''The Doctor:''' I don't want it to work for them: I want it to work for me. No one's going to turn me into an interplanetary puppet.
205
206The Doctor and Jo deal with Daleks, interstellar politics, and the Master's ever-more-dangerous bids for world domination.
207-----
208!!!Season 9 (26 episodes, 1 January -- 24 June 1972)
209# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS9E1DayOfTheDaleks Day of the Daleks]]" [-(4 episodes)-]
210# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS9E2TheCurseOfPeladon The Curse of Peladon]]" [-(4 episodes)-]
211# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS9E3TheSeaDevils The Sea Devils]]" [-(6 episodes)-]
212# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS9E4TheMutants The Mutants]]" [-(6 episodes)-]
213# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS9E5TheTimeMonster The Time Monster]]" [-(6 episodes)-]
214[[/folder]]
215
216[[folder:Season 10 (30 December 1972 -- 23 June 1973)]]
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222[[caption-width-right:300:''"They've forgiven me. They've given me back my freedom."'']]
223->'''Jo:''' There's only one little world I want to see right now. That one.\
224'''The Doctor:''' That one? But Jo, that's Earth.\
225'''Jo:''' That's right, Doctor. Home.\
226'''The Doctor:''' Home it is, Miss Grant.
227
228When the Doctor — with the help of his previous two incarnations — helps save the Time Lords and the universe from a threat from their ancient past, his Earthly exile is lifted at last. But the freedom to explore time and space once more paves the way for more confrontations with old enemies...
229----
230!!!Season 10 (26 episodes, 30 December 1972 -- 23 June 1973)
231# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS10E1TheThreeDoctors The Three Doctors]]" [-(4 episodes, 10th anniversary special, multi-Doctor, with First and Second Doctors)-]
232# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS10E2CarnivalOfMonsters Carnival of Monsters]]" [-(4 episodes)-]
233# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS10E3FrontierInSpace Frontier in Space]]" [-(6 episodes)-]
234# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS10E4PlanetOfTheDaleks Planet of the Daleks]]" [-(6 episodes)-]
235# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS10E5TheGreenDeath The Green Death]]" [-(6 episodes)-]
236[[/folder]]
237
238[[folder:Season 11 (15 December 1973 -- 8 June 1974)]]
239->''"A straight line may be the shortest distance between two points, but it is by no means the most interesting."''
240-->-- '''The Doctor'''
241
242The Doctor takes on a new companion, plucky reporter Sarah Jane Smith, on the way to meeting his destiny when an event from his recent past turns out to have paved the way for a terrible new threat.
243----
244!!!Season 11 (26 episodes, 15 December 1973 -- 8 June 1974)
245# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS11E1TheTimeWarrior The Time Warrior]]" [-(4 episodes)-]
246# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS11E2InvasionOfTheDinosaurs Invasion of the Dinosaurs]]" [-(6 episodes, part 1 titled "Invasion" to preserve the twist and is the only Pertwee episode not to survive in full colour)-]
247# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS11E3DeathToTheDaleks Death to the Daleks]]" [-(4 episodes)-]
248# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS11E4TheMonsterOfPeladon The Monster of Peladon]]" [-(6 episodes)-]
249# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS11E5PlanetOfTheSpiders Planet of the Spiders]]" [-(6 episodes)-]
250[[/folder]]
251
252!!Fourth Doctor era (Creator/TomBaker): 1974-1981
253From this point onwards, no episodes were ever junked, so all episodes survive. Furthermore, from Season 16 on, no episodes were ever in danger of being junked, as it was in 1978 that the BBC ended its junking policy. A twelve-regeneration (thirteen incarnations) limit was also put into practice during Creator/TomBaker's tenure for the sake of explaining the return of an old villain, and as a way of bringing a definite end to the series if the need arose, back during the days when its future was in doubt. They probably never expected the show to have such enduring popularity that they'd eventually have to ''go past'' that point.
254
255[[folder:Season 12 (28 December 1974 -- 10 May 1975)]]
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261[[caption-width-right:300:''"You may be'' '''''a''''' ''doctor, but I am'' '''''the''''' ''Doctor. The definite article, you might say."'']]
262->'''Sarah Jane:''' Doctor, you're being childish!\
263'''The Doctor:''' Well, of course I am! There's no point being grown-up if you can't be childish sometimes.
264
265The Fourth Doctor is itching to get away from UNIT more than ever, even as he helps them deal with mysterious thefts. With both Sarah Jane Smith and amiable UNIT doctor Harry Sullivan in tow, he journeys to a far-future space station. But solving a crisis involving the future of humanity is just the beginning of a roundabout journey through time and space that will set him against three of his most powerful adversaries... and give him the chance to stop one of them from ever existing.
266----
267!!!Season 12 (20 episodes, 28 December 1974 -- 10 May 1975)
268# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E1Robot Robot]]" [-(4 episodes)-]
269# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E2TheArkInSpace The Ark in Space]]" [-(4 episodes)-]
270# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E3TheSontaranExperiment The Sontaran Experiment]]" [-(2 episodes)-]
271# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E4GenesisOfTheDaleks Genesis of the Daleks]]" [-(6 episodes)-]
272# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E5RevengeOfTheCybermen Revenge of the Cybermen]]" [-(4 episodes)-]
273[[/folder]]
274
275[[folder:Season 13 (30 August 1975 -- 6 March 1976)]]
276->''"About time I found something better to do than run around after the Brigadier!"''
277-->-- '''The Doctor'''
278
279As the Fourth Doctor slowly severs his ties with UNIT, he and Sarah Jane are faced with a particularly {{Gothic|Horror}} series of adventures.
280----
281!!!Season 13 (26 episodes, 30 August 1975 -- 6 March 1976)
282# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E1TerrorOfTheZygons Terror of the Zygons]]" [-(4 episodes)-]
283# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E2PlanetOfEvil Planet of Evil]]" [-(4 episodes)-]
284# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E3PyramidsOfMars Pyramids of Mars]]" [-(4 episodes)-]
285# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E4TheAndroidInvasion The Android Invasion]]" [-(4 episodes)-]
286# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E5TheBrainOfMorbius The Brain of Morbius]]" [-(4 episodes)-]
287# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E6TheSeedsOfDoom The Seeds of Doom]]" [-(6 episodes)-]
288[[/folder]]
289
290[[folder:Season 14 (4 September 1976 -- 2 April 1977)]]
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296[[caption-width-right:300:''"You know, travel really does broaden the mind."'']]
297->''"You know, the very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. They don't alter their views to fit the facts. They alter the facts to fit the views. Which can be uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering."''
298-->-- '''The Doctor'''
299
300The Doctor and Sarah Jane are forced to part ways when he is called back to Gallifrey, where he faces the treachery that lies beneath the glamorous façade of the Time Lords. From there, he finds himself saddled with a very different companion in the curious Amazonian warrior Leela.
301----
302!!!Season 14 (26 episodes, 4 September 1976 -- 2 April 1977)
303# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E1TheMasqueOfMandragora The Masque of Mandragora]]" [-(4 episodes)-]
304# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E2TheHandOfFear The Hand of Fear]]" [-(4 episodes)-]
305# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E3TheDeadlyAssassin The Deadly Assassin]]" [-(4 episodes; only classic serial with no companion)-]
306# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E4TheFaceOfEvil The Face of Evil]]" [-(4 episodes)-][[note]]Episode [[YMMV/DoctorWhoS14E4TheFaceOfEvil YMMV]][[/note]]
307# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E5TheRobotsOfDeath The Robots of Death]]" [-(4 episodes)-]
308# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS14E6TheTalonsOfWengChiang The Talons of Weng-Chiang]]" [-(6 episodes)-]
309[[/folder]]
310
311[[folder:Season 15 (3 September 1977 -- 11 March 1978)]]
312[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/doctorwhoseason15.png]]
313[[caption-width-right:300:''"Sometimes my brilliance astonishes even me."'']]
314->'''The Nucleus:''' It is the right of every creature across the universe to survive, multiply and perpetuate its species. How else does the predator exist? We are all predators, Doctor. We kill, we devour to live! Survival is all, you agree?\
315'''The Doctor:''' Oh yes, I do, I do. And on your argument - I have the perfect right to dispose of you.
316
317The Doctor and Leela's journey continues as oppressed societies are liberated, terrifying creatures are obliterated, and robot dog K-9 becomes a third member of the team.
318----
319!!!Season 15 (26 episodes, 3 September 1977 -- 11 March 1978)
320# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS15E1HorrorOfFangRock Horror of Fang Rock]]" [-(4 episodes)-]
321# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS15E2TheInvisibleEnemy The Invisible Enemy]]" [-(4 episodes)-]
322# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS15E3ImageOfTheFendahl Image of the Fendahl]]" [-(4 episodes)-]
323# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS15E4TheSunMakers The Sun Makers]]" [-(4 episodes)-]
324# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS15E5Underworld Underworld]]" [-(4 episodes)-]
325# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS15E6TheInvasionOfTime The Invasion of Time]]" [-(6 episodes)-]
326
327
328 "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS15EBTheFinalBattle The Final Battle]]" [Bonus feature for the season 15 Boxset, featuring Louise Jameson as Leela]
329[[/folder]]
330
331[[folder:Season 16 (The Key to Time; 2 September 1978 -- 24 February 1979)]]
332->''"These segments must be traced and returned to me before it is too late, before the Universe is plunged into eternal chaos."''
333-->-- '''The White Guardian'''
334
335In the first season to feature a season-spanning story arc (one of only two in the original run), the Doctor and K-9 Mark II are teamed up with Time Lady Romana to track down the six pieces of a cosmic artifact that can be used to restore balance to the universe... or destroy it utterly.
336----
337!!!Season 16 (26 episodes, 2 September 1978 -- 24 February 1979)
338# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS16E1TheRibosOperation The Ribos Operation]]" [-(4 episodes)-]
339# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS16E2ThePiratePlanet The Pirate Planet]]" [-(4 episodes)-]
340# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS16E3TheStonesOfBlood The Stones of Blood]]" [-(4 episodes)-]
341# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS16E4TheAndroidsOfTara The Androids of Tara]]" [-(4 episodes)-]
342# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS16E5ThePowerOfKroll The Power of Kroll]]" [-(4 episodes)-]
343# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS16E6TheArmageddonFactor The Armageddon Factor]]" [-(6 episodes)-]
344[[/folder]]
345
346[[folder:Season 17 (1 September 1979 -- 12 January 1980)]]
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352[[caption-width-right:300:''"I suppose the best way to find out where you come from is to find out where you're going, and then work backwards."'']]
353->'''Romana:''' Where are we going?\
354'''The Doctor:''' Are you talking philosophically or geographically?\
355'''Romana:''' Philosophically.\
356'''The Doctor:''' Then we're going to lunch.
357
358Now travelling to mostly random locations to throw his enemies off his scent, the Doctor and Romana -- who has voluntarily regenerated into a pluckier, snarkier lass -- are ready to face anything that comes their way, with the powers of obfuscating stupidity on his part and wit on both their parts.
359----
360!!!Season 17 (20 episodes, plus 6 unfinished, 1 September 1979 -- 12 January 1980)
361# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E1DestinyOfTheDaleks Destiny of the Daleks]]" [-(4 episodes)-]
362# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E2CityOfDeath City of Death]]" [-(4 episodes)-]
363# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E3TheCreatureFromThePit The Creature from the Pit]]" [-(4 episodes)-]
364# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E4NightmareOfEden Nightmare of Eden]]" [-(4 episodes)-]
365# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E5TheHornsOfNimon The Horns of Nimon]]" [-(4 episodes)-]
366# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E6Shada Shada]]" [-(6 episodes, incomplete and unaired; unfilmed parts were completed in 2017 with animation using most of the original cast) [[note]]It was also the most adapted story of the classic series, with a novelisation, a video release with Tom Baker providing linking narration, an animated adaptation featuring Creator/PaulMcGann instead of Tom Baker, the audio of which was given a Big Finish release, and scenes were reused in "[[Recap/DoctorWho20thASTheFiveDoctors The Five Doctors]]".[[/note]]-]
367[[/folder]]
368
369[[folder:Season 18 (30 August 1980 -- 21 March 1981)]]
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375[[caption-width-right:300:''"Don't cross your bridges before they're hatched."'']]
376->''"It's the end, but the moment has been prepared for."''
377-->-- '''The Doctor'''
378
379Creator/JohnNathanTurner takes over as producer, and the show boldly forges into the TheEighties, as the Doctor's costume, the sound design, and, most prominently, the title sequence is given a major overhaul, complete with a new, more synth-ier version of the theme song by Peter Howell. This season features two mini-arcs: First, the Doctor, Romana II, and K-9 Mark II become trapped in "E-Space", a pocket universe. The journey to escape it will bring a new companion, child genius Adric, aboard the TARDIS — but also see Romana and K-9 depart. Next, an old enemy of the Doctor sets in motion a plan that will lead to the arrival of more companions... and the near-destruction of the universe.
380----
381!!!Season 18 (28 episodes, 30 August 1980 -- 21 March 1981)
382# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS18E1TheLeisureHive The Leisure Hive]]" [-(4 episodes)-]
383# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS18E2Meglos Meglos]]" [-(4 episodes)-]
384# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS18E3FullCircle Full Circle]]" [-(4 episodes)-]
385# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS18E4StateOfDecay State of Decay]]" [-(4 episodes)-]
386# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS18E5WarriorsGate Warriors' Gate]]" [-(4 episodes)-]
387# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS18E6TheKeeperOfTraken The Keeper of Traken]]" [-(4 episodes)-]
388# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS18E7Logopolis Logopolis]]" [-(4 episodes)-]
389[[/folder]]
390
391!!Fifth Doctor era (Creator/PeterDavison): 1982-1984
392The Sonic Screwdriver was retired during this era, and would remain gone until the TV Movie. On a real-world note, the series also changed timeslot for the first time, leaving its traditional Saturday teatime slot to run twice-weekly on weeknights instead.[[note]]Season 19 ran on Mondays and Tuesdays, Season 20 on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, and Season 21 on Thursdays and Fridays[[/note]] This meant it ran for a smaller number of weeks in the year, and that first- and third- episode {{cliffhanger}}s only had one day before being resolved. Finally, ''Doctor Who'' had its first ever season of repeats in the gap between this season and the last, ''The Five Faces of Doctor Who'', which re-ran "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E1AnUnearthlyChild An Unearthly Child]]", "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E4TheKrotons The Krotons]]", "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS10E2CarnivalOfMonsters Carnival Of Monsters]]", "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS10E1TheThreeDoctors The Three Doctors]]", and "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS18E7Logopolis Logopolis]]". This served to re-familiarise viewers with the idea of a Doctor that wasn't Creator/TomBaker, let younger viewers catch their first glimpses of the earlier Doctors, and lastly caught new viewers up on the events of "Logopolis".
393
394[[folder:Season 19 (4 January -- 30 March 1982)]]
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400[[caption-width-right:300:''"An apple a day keeps the... No, never mind."'']]
401->''"That's the trouble with regeneration. You never quite know what you're going to get."''
402-->-- '''The Doctor'''
403
404The Fifth Doctor, after a bout of regeneration sickness and one more attempt by the Master to undo him, quickly ingratiates himself with Adric and his newest companions: Tegan Jovanka, a sharp-tongued stewardess, and the gentle Nyssa of Traken. But as he tries to get Tegan back to the present day, their adventures sometimes take tragic turns...
405----
406!!!Season 19 (26 episodes, 4 January -- 30 March 1982)
407# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS19E1Castrovalva Castrovalva]]" [-(4 episodes)-]
408# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS19E2FourToDoomsday Four to Doomsday]]" [-(4 episodes)-]
409# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS19E3Kinda Kinda]]" [-(4 episodes)-]
410# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS19E4TheVisitation The Visitation]]" [-(4 episodes)-]
411# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS19E5BlackOrchid Black Orchid]]" [-(2 episodes)-]
412# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS19E6Earthshock Earthshock]]" [-(4 episodes)-]
413# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS19E7TimeFlight Time-Flight]]" [-(4 episodes)-]
414[[/folder]]
415
416[[folder:Season 20 (3 January -- 25 November 1983)]]
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422[[caption-width-right:300:''"A man... is the sum of his memories, you know. A Time Lord even more so."'']]
423->''"You will be destroying one of the most evil creatures in the universe. He calls himself the Doctor."''
424-->-- '''The Black Guardian'''
425
426A plethora of old enemies are gunning for the Doctor[[note]]The fact that every story featured an enemy from the series' past was a coincidence, but when it was pointed out Creator/JohnNathanTurner decided it made a good promotional hook[[/note]] — most importantly the Black Guardian, who recruits Vislor Turlough, an exiled alien prince masquerading as a schoolboy on Earth, to become the Doctor's newest companion and finish the Time Lord off for good. But even under pain of death if he fails, can Turlough bring himself to do this once he gets to know him? Also, due to various production factors screwing with what date "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS20E3MawdrynUndead Mawdryn Undead]]" took place in-universe and which characters were involved,[[note]]It was originally written for Ian Chesterton but changed to the Brigadier when Creator/WilliamRussell proved unavailable[[/note]] it finally became [[ContinuitySnarl completely impossible to work out if UNIT stories happened in the 1970s or 1980s without contradicting each other]]. This became known as the "UNIT dating controversy", and has been even jokingly been referenced in the new series.
427----
428!!!Season 20 (22 episodes, 3 January -- 16 March 1983)
429# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS20E1ArcOfInfinity Arc of Infinity]]" [-(4 episodes)-]
430# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS20E2Snakedance Snakedance]]" [-(4 episodes)-]
431# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS20E3MawdrynUndead Mawdryn Undead]]" [-(4 episodes)-] [-(first part of the Black Guardian trilogy)-]
432# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS20E4Terminus Terminus]]" [-(4 episodes)-] [-(second part of the Black Guardian trilogy)-]
433# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS20E5Enlightenment Enlightenment]]" [-(4 episodes)-] [-(third part of the Black Guardian trilogy)-]
434# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS20E6TheKingsDemons The King's Demons]]" [-(2 episodes)-]
435
436!!!20th Anniversary Special – 1983 Series/ChildrenInNeed Special (23 November 1983 [US], 25 November 1983 [UK]; not officially part of any season, but listed here for sanity's sake)
437* "[[Recap/DoctorWho20thASTheFiveDoctors The Five Doctors]]" [-(1 90-minute special, multi-Doctor, with First, Second, Third, and Fourth Doctors)-] [[note]]The Fourth Doctor only appeared via reused footage from ''Shada'', as Creator/TomBaker declined to appear. This was produced as one episode, but has been aired as four 25-minute episodes in reruns.[[/note]]
438[[/folder]]
439
440[[folder:Season 21 (5 January -- 16 March 1984)]]
441-> '''Peri:''' Doctor, why do you wear a stick of celery in your lapel?\
442'''The Doctor:''' Does it offend you?\
443'''Peri:''' No, just curious.\
444'''The Doctor:''' Safety precaution. I'm allergic to certain gases in the praxis range of the spectrum.\
445'''Peri:''' Well how does the celery help?\
446'''The Doctor:''' If the gas is present, the celery turns purple.\
447'''Peri:''' And... then what do you do?\
448'''The Doctor:''' I eat the celery. If nothing else I'm sure it's good for my teeth.
449
450It is a time of great changes in the TARDIS. There are departures as Tegan grows disillusioned with the tragedies that surround the Doctor, Turlough comes to terms with his past, and even the shapeshifting robot Kamelion's story comes full circle. From this, the Doctor takes on Peri Brown, but when they are caught up in skullduggery on a distant planet he will have to risk everything in the hopes of saving her from the horrors that ensue...
451----
452!!!Season 21 (24/26 episodes, 5 January -- 30 March 1984)
453# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS21E1WarriorsOfTheDeep Warriors of the Deep]]" [-(4 episodes)-]
454# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS21E2TheAwakening The Awakening]]" [-(2 episodes)-]
455# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS21E3Frontios Frontios]]" [-(4 episodes)-]
456# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS21E4ResurrectionOfTheDaleks Resurrection of the Daleks]]" [-(produced as 4 episodes, aired as 2 45-minute episodes)-]
457# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS21E5PlanetOfFire Planet of Fire]]" [-(4 episodes)-]
458# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS21E6TheCavesOfAndrozani The Caves of Androzani]]" [-(4 episodes)-]
459[[/folder]]
460
461!!Sixth Doctor era (Creator/ColinBaker): 1984-1986
462Creator/ColinBaker's era is notable for starting at the tail end of Creator/PeterDavison's final season, and for experimenting with the show's format. However, due to troubled production values, criticisms and ExecutiveMeddling, Season 23 was placed on hiatus, had its runtime drastically reduced and retooled into a large story arc, causing several planned stories featuring him to be dropped entirely. Baker's time on the TV series ended just as roughly as it began, with severely reduced ratings, general public and executive apathy towards the show, and Baker himself being unceremoniously fired after Season 23's conclusion, marking the only time an actor was outright axed from the role of the Doctor during the show's run.
463
464Love it or hate it, the Sixth Doctor's tenure on TV would be the foundation for Big Finish to give Baker the proper continuation he deserves, although that wouldn't happen until almost ''15 years'' after he left the show. You can find all of his (audio-only) adventures taking place in-between Seasons 22 & 23 (which includes the lost stories from the originally planned Season 23), as well as every adventure he had beyond Season 23 (including his [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoSpecialTheLastAdventure regeneration story]]) right over [[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho here]].
465
466[[folder:Season 21 (22 - 30 March 1984)]]
467->''"Whatever else happens, I'' '''''am''''' ''the Doctor, whether you like it or not."''
468-->-- '''The Doctor'''
469
470After an '''''extremely''''' traumatic regeneration that occurred at the end of the Fifth Doctor's final adventure, the Sixth Doctor ends up struggling to come back to his own senses and ends up causing a lot of damage to Peri [[note]][[DarthWiki/SoBadItsHorrible (as well as plenty of Doctor Who fans, when this serial first aired)]][[/note]]. Despite all that, Sixth and Peri are dragged into a new adventure, as the era of the Sixth Doctor begins with himself slowly drifting away from his usual behavior and kindness, which will hopefully mellow out in due time...
471----
472!!!Season 21 (Continued)
473[numlist:7]
474# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS21E7TheTwinDilemma The Twin Dilemma]]" [-(4 episodes)-]
475[/numlist]
476[[/folder]]
477
478[[folder:Season 22 (5 January -- 30 March 1985)]]
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484[[caption-width-right:300:''"Rest is for the weary, sleep is for the dead. I feel like a hungry man eager for the feast!"'']]
485->'''Peri:''' Look Doctor, ever since you regenerated, i-it's as if your memory has been put through the meat grinder. I mean, it's all there, but in a pile of unrelated bits and pieces.\
486'''The Doctor:''' That's a horrible simile.\
487'''Peri:''' It's true, though. In the past couple of days, you've called me Tegan, Zoe, Susan... on one occasion, you even referred to me as Jamie.
488
489The much-changed, more bombastic and less-amiable Sixth Doctor spars with the frustrated Peri as they face off with old and new enemies — who are often collaborating with each other. This series returned to Saturday evenings in a new 45-minute format (hence the low episode count).
490----
491!!!Season 22 (13 45-minute episodes, 5 January -- 30 March 1985)
492# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS22E1AttackOfTheCybermen Attack of the Cybermen]]" [-(2 episodes)-]
493# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS22E2VengeanceOnVaros Vengeance on Varos]]" [-(2 episodes)-]
494# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS22E3TheMarkOfTheRani The Mark of the Rani]]" [-(2 episodes)-]
495# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS22E4TheTwoDoctors The Two Doctors]]" [-(3 episodes, multi-Doctor, with Second Doctor)-]
496# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS22E5Timelash Timelash]]" [-(2 episodes)-]
497# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS22E6RevelationOfTheDaleks Revelation of the Daleks]]" [-(2 episodes)-]
498
499!!!1985 – "Jim'll Fix It" Guest Segment (23 February 1985)
500* "[[Recap/DoctorWho1985JFIGSAFixWithSontarans A Fix With Sontarans]]"
501[[/folder]]
502
503[[folder:Season 23 (The Trial of a Time Lord; 6 September -- 6 December 1986)]]
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509[[caption-width-right:300:''"By order of the High Council, this is an impartial enquiry into the behavior of the accused person, known as the Doctor, who is charged that he, on diverse occasions has been guilty of conduct unbecoming a Time Lord."'']]
510->''"In all my travelling throughout the universe, I have battled against evil, against power-mad conspirators. I should have stayed here! The oldest civilisation: decadent, degenerate, and rotten to the core! Power-mad conspirators? Daleks? Sontarans? Cybermen? They're still in the nursery compared to us! '''Ten million years of absolute power! That's what it takes to be REALLY corrupt!'''"''
511-->-- '''The Doctor'''
512
513The Doctor is captured and put on trial by the Time Lords over his interfering with events across time and space. The menacing Valeyard makes his case for the Doctor's guilt by revealing the details of two recent adventures of his -- including the fate of Peri -- while the Doctor counters with a story from his future. But all is not as it seems in the present, and the Doctor, with the help of his future companion Melanie Bush, is on the path to a showdown with an enemy he never could have imagined. This season returned to 25-minute episodes following the previous season's experiment with 45-minuters, but retained a reduced overall episode count.
514----
515!!!Season 23 (14 episodes, 6 September -- 6 December 1986) [[note]]"The Trial of a Time Lord" is a 14-part story, but with four distinctive subsections. This is either treated as one story or four (the only on-screen title used is "The Trial of a Time Lord"); it was produced and novelised as four "parts", and all commercial releases treat it as four stories forming a wider whole, so TV Tropes has separate pages for each of the four "parts" of the serial.[[/note]]
516# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS23E1TheMysteriousPlanet The Mysterious Planet]]" [-(4 episodes)-]
517# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS23E2Mindwarp Mindwarp]]" [-(4 episodes)-]
518# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS23E3TerrorOfTheVervoids Terror of the Vervoids]]" [-(4 episodes)-]
519# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS23E4TheUltimateFoe The Ultimate Foe]]" [-(2 episodes, Part 2 is 30 minutes long)-]
520[[/folder]]
521
522!!Seventh Doctor era (Creator/SylvesterMcCoy): 1987-1989
523This was the last era of the classic series, after ''Doctor Who'' was not renewed for a 27th season. The series kept its reduced episode count and was again moved from Saturdays to a weeknight slot, this time pitting it against ''Series/CoronationStreet'', stifling any chance at regaining its massive ratings losses from the previous two seasons despite significant improvements in fan and critical reception before finally being cancelled in 1989 (though the BBC [[InsistentTerminology repeatedly insisted]] that it was an indefinite hiatus). However, Sylvester [=McCoy=] made guest appearances as the Seventh Doctor on children's shows throughout the 1990s, such as ''Search Out Science'' and a ''Children in Need'' special, before finally returning for the 1996 ''Doctor Who'' television movie.
524
525[[folder:Season 24 (7 September -- 7 December 1987)]]
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531[[caption-width-right:300:''"The more I know me, the less I like me."'']]
532->''"Think about me when you're living your life one day after another, all in a neat pattern. Think about the homeless traveller and his old police box, with his days like crazy paving."''
533-->-- '''The Doctor'''
534
535The Seventh Doctor and Mel Bush embark upon [[LighterAndSofter a more whimsical series of adventures befitting a more lighthearted Doctor]].
536----
537!!!Season 24 (14 episodes, 7 September -- 7 December 1987)
538# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS24E1TimeAndTheRani Time and the Rani]]" [-(4 episodes)-]
539# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS24E2ParadiseTowers Paradise Towers]]" [-(4 episodes)-]
540# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS24E3DeltaAndTheBannermen Delta and the Bannermen]]" [-(3 episodes)-]
541# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS24E4Dragonfire Dragonfire]]" [-(3 episodes)-]
542[[/folder]]
543
544[[folder:Season 25 (5 October 1988 -- 4 January 1989)]]
545->'''Davros:''' You flatter yourself, Doctor. In the end, you are merely another Time Lord!\
546'''The Doctor:''' Oh, Davros. I am far more than just "another" Time Lord.[[note]]This exchange was [[DeletedScene cut]] from the actual broadcast, but can be seen on the DVD.[[/note]]
547
548The Doctor has a new companion in the quick-witted, scrappy teenager Ace. She had a strange life even before she met the Doctor... but she comes to learn that it can't compare to the mysteries surrounding the man she calls "Professor", whose clownish bumbling is giving way to the machinations of a chessmaster with many secrets in his distant past... some of which are now coming to light.
549
550This is also the first season where the serials were noticeably broadcast OutOfOrder. They were reshuffled due to the Olympics causing the start date to be pushed back, and wanting to air the first episode of "Silver Nemesis" on the anniversary. The originally intended order order is "Remembrance", "Greatest Show", "Happiness Patrol", "Silver Nemesis".[[note]]Or possibly the last two are swapped to production order, depending on whether you want to treat Ace's rucksack as a ContinuityNod or a continuity error! The main thing is that Ace has Flowerchild's earring in episodes filmed after "Greatest Show".[[/note]]
551----
552!!!Season 25 (14 episodes, 5 October 1988 -- 4 January 1989)
553# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E1RemembranceOfTheDaleks Remembrance of the Daleks]]" [-(4 episodes)-]
554# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E2TheHappinessPatrol The Happiness Patrol]]" [-(3 episodes)-]
555# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E3SilverNemesis Silver Nemesis]]" [-(3 episodes, 25th anniversary special)-]
556# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E4TheGreatestShowInTheGalaxy The Greatest Show in the Galaxy]]" [-(4 episodes)-]
557[[/folder]]
558
559[[folder:Season 26 (6 September -- 6 December 1989)]]
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565[[caption-width-right:300:''"Love and hate, frightening feelings, especially when they're trapped struggling beneath the surface."'']]
566->''"There are worlds out there where the sky is burning, and the sea's asleep, and the rivers dream; people made of smoke and cities made of song. Somewhere there's danger, somewhere there's injustice, and somewhere else the tea's getting cold. Come on, Ace. We've got work to do."''
567-->-- '''The Doctor'''
568
569With the help of the Doctor — and whether she wants to or not — Ace must learn and come to terms with the mysteries of her past on the way to returning to the present and facing the future.
570
571!!!Season 26 (14 episodes, 6 September -- 6 December 1989)
572# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E1Battlefield Battlefield]]" [-(4 episodes)-]
573# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E2GhostLight Ghost Light]]" [-(3 episodes)-]
574# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E3TheCurseOfFenric The Curse of Fenric]]" [-(4 episodes)-]
575# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS26E4Survival Survival]]" [-(3 episodes)-]
576
577!!!Search Out Space — Special Episode of ''Search Out Science'' (21 November 1990)
578* A special guest episode of ''Search Out Science'', a children's education programme, K9 returned as did [=Sylvester McCoy=] and Sophie Aldred, returning as the Seventh Doctor and Ace. Presumably non-canon due to its ties to ''Doctor Who'' being tangential at most.
579!!!30th Anniversary Special -- 1993 Series/ChildrenInNeed Special (2 parts, 26 November 1993 to 27 November 1993)
580* "[[Recap/DoctorWho30thASDimensionsInTime Dimensions in Time]]" [-(2 episodes, multi-Doctor, with Third, Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Doctors, and posthumously, the First and Second Doctors, considered CanonDiscontinuity by the BBC)-]
581[[/folder]]
582
583!!Eighth Doctor era (Creator/PaulMcGann): 1996
584Paul [=McGann=] did not receive a full televised tenure, due to the the television movie not being picked up for a new series. Instead, his character was explored in a very wide range of ExpandedUniverse material. His two on-screen appearances act as bookends to his life, with his 2013 regeneration story name-checking his ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'' audio companions. The Eighth Doctor's second on-screen appearance, "[[Recap/DoctorWho50thPrequelTheNightOfTheDoctor The Night of the Doctor]]", is listed under the Eleventh Doctor era.
585
586[[folder:The TV Movie (27 May 1996)]]
587->''"Grace, I came back to life before your eyes. I held back death. Look, I can't make your dream come true forever, but I can make it come true today!"''
588-->-- '''The Doctor'''
589
590When the Master was blown to smithereens by some Daleks that imprisoned him on Skaro, the Seventh Doctor was tasked to scatter the Master's remains all over Gallifrey. Unfortunately, the Master manages to escape from the TARDIS, and the Doctor is then gunned down to near-death by a street gang upon landing in San Francisco-- on New Year's Eve of 1999, no less. And if that weren't enough, he ends up ''dying'' at the hands of some American surgeons, with Dr. Grace Holloway being one of them.
591
592After the Doctor undergoes a new regeneration, on top of the Master assimilating himself a brand new body, it's a race against the clock as the younger, hotter and [[LargeHam hammier]] Eighth Doctor teams up with his new companion Grace so they can put an end to the Master once and for all, before the new millennium arrives.
593----
594!!!Made-for-TV Special (1 90-minute episode, 12 May 1996 [Canada], 27 May 1996 [UK])
595* "[[Recap/DoctorWhoTVMTheTVMovie Doctor Who]]" [-(with Seventh Doctor)-][[note]]The TV movie has NoTitle aside from the title of the series. Episode [[Trivia/DoctorWhoTVMTheTVMovie Trivia]], Episode [[YMMV/DoctorWhoTVMTheTVMovie YMMV]][[/note]]
596%% "The Night of the Doctor", "The Last Day", and "The Day of the Doctor" are listed under the Eleventh Doctor folder to allow indexing to work properly.
597[[/folder]]
598----
599
600!Revival Series
601!!War Doctor era ([[Creator/JohnHurt Sir John Hurt]]): 2013
602The War Doctor, played by [[Creator/JohnHurt Sir John Hurt]], was introduced retroactively in 2013 as a bygone, concealed incarnation of the Doctor who fought in the Last Great Time War. His on-screen appearances are contained to the Eleventh Doctor era, and are listed in that section below: "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E13TheNameOfTheDoctor The Name of the Doctor]]", "[[Recap/DoctorWho50thPrequelTheNightOfTheDoctor The Night of the Doctor]]" and "[[Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor The Day of the Doctor]]". You'll find the rest of his adventures in the ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'' audio range and the ExpandedUniverse.
603----
604
605!!Ninth Doctor era (Creator/ChristopherEccleston): 2005
606This series marks the beginning of the revived TV series; all episodes before this series are considered "Classic Who", on account of both the 16-year cancellation/hiatus and the massive retool in both format and presentation upon the show's eventual return. Notably, Christopher Eccleston limited his tenure to one 13-episode season for personal reasons, stemming from a [[TroubledProduction troubled working atmosphere behind the scenes]]. He is well-known among fan circles for maintaining a professional attitude on the matter, where he will only come back if the offer is truly enticing to him, and thus took fandom rather by surprise when it was announced in August 2020 that he was reprising the role for Creator/BigFinish.[[note]]He also has a notorious reputation for being overshadowed. Due to only being the Doctor for only a few months in TV time, his presence in the ExpandedUniverse was heavily diminished, as only a handful of show-concurrent novels and ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'' comic stories exist featuring him. However, he saw a reemergence in 2015 with the release of a ''ComicBook/{{Doctor Who|Titan}}'' Titan comic miniseries. Unfortunately, his short television run is sometimes sorely overlooked by both first-time viewers and in network reruns, leading to the coining of the phrase "[[MemeticMutation Don't skip Nine.]]"[[/note]] For some years Eccleston was technically the shortest-tenured actor of them all in terms of time actually playing the part due to Hurt and [=McGann=]'s tenures playing the Doctor in the Creator/BigFinish audio plays, although Eccleston's own audio adventures will go some way to redressing the balance.
607
608[[folder:Series 1 (26 March -- 18 June, 2005)]]
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614[[caption-width-right:300:''[[TagLine It's almost time... but not yet.]]'']]
615->''"Do you know like we were saying? About the Earth revolving? It's like when you're a kid. The first time they tell you that the world's turning and you just can't quite believe it because everything looks like it's standing still. I can feel it. The turn of the Earth. The ground beneath our feet is spinning at 1,000 miles an hour and the entire planet is hurtling around the sun at 67,000 miles an hour, and I can feel it. We're falling through space, you and me, clinging to the skin of this tiny little world, and if we let go... that's who I am."''
616-->-- '''The Doctor'''
617
618Rose Tyler was just an ordinary Londoner until the day she met the Ninth Doctor — who, after solving a new crisis involving his old enemy the Autons, invites her to see the wonders of the universe with him. Leaving behind both an anxious mum and a frustrated boyfriend, Rose gets to know the Doctor, learning bits and pieces of the terrible tragedies of his recent past along the way to a crisis that pivots upon the mysterious phrase "Bad Wolf".
619----
620!!!Series 1/Season 27 (13 episodes, 26 March -- 18 June 2005. Regular episode length returns to the 45-minute format from Season 22, but stories are now typically one episode each.)
621# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E1Rose Rose]]"[[note]][[Trivia/DoctorWhoS27E1Rose Episode Trivia]], [[YMMV/DoctorWhoS27E1Rose Episode YMMV]][[/note]]
622# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E2TheEndOfTheWorld The End of the World]]"
623# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E3TheUnquietDead The Unquiet Dead]]"
624# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E4AliensOfLondon Aliens of London]]" [-(Part 1)-]
625# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E5WorldWarThree World War Three]]" [-(Part 2)-]
626# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E6Dalek Dalek]]"
627# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E7TheLongGame The Long Game]]"
628# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E8FathersDay Father's Day]]"
629# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E9TheEmptyChild The Empty Child]]" [-(Part 1)-]
630# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E10TheDoctorDances The Doctor Dances]]" [-(Part 2)-]
631# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E11BoomTown Boom Town]]"
632# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E12BadWolf Bad Wolf]]" [-(Part 1)-]
633# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E13ThePartingOfTheWays The Parting of the Ways]]" [-(Part 2)-]
634[[/folder]]
635
636!!Tenth Doctor era (Creator/DavidTennant): 2005-2010
637David Tennant's era re-introduced old companions, such as Sarah Jane Smith and K9. It also bore witness to the creation of the spin-off series ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' and ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures''. At this point in the series, ''Doctor Who'' saw a huge popularity boom with a new generation.
638
639[[folder:Series 2 (18 November, 2005 -- 8 July, 2006)]]
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645[[caption-width-right:300:''"Everyone leaves home in the end."'']]
646->''"You can spend the rest of your life with me, but I can't spend the rest of mine with you. I have to live on. Alone. That's the curse of the Time Lords."''
647-->-- '''The Doctor'''
648
649The just-regenerated Doctor picks up his friendship with Rose with barely a pause... but is it becoming something more? They encounter both old, new, and even alternative faces from each other's lives while their exploits inspire the establishment of a mysterious government organization known as Torchwood — which will be ground zero for a cataclysmic confrontation.
650
651At this point in the timeline, the spin-offs ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' and ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'' launched, the former commencing immediately after the end of Series 2, while the latter would proceed airing after that first series finished, allowing for a healthy cycle of year-round ''Doctor Who'' material as each show cycled in and out of production.
652----
653!!!Children in Need Special (18 November 2005)
654* "[[Recap/DoctorWho2005CiNSDoctorWhoChildrenInNeed Doctor Who: Children in Need]]" [-(no official title; a.k.a. "Pudsey Cutaway" or "Born Again")-]
655
656!!!Christmas Special (25 December 2005)
657* "[[Recap/DoctorWho2005CSTheChristmasInvasion The Christmas Invasion]]" [-(60 minutes)-]
658* "[[Recap/DoctorWho2005RBSAttackOfTheGraske Attack of the Graske]]" [-(interactive episode via BBC Red Button)-]
659
660!!!Series 2/Season 28 (13 episodes, 15 April -- 8 July 2006)
661# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E1NewEarth New Earth]]"
662# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E2ToothAndClaw Tooth and Claw]]"
663# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E3SchoolReunion School Reunion]]"
664# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E4TheGirlInTheFireplace The Girl in the Fireplace]]"
665# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E5RiseOfTheCybermen Rise of the Cybermen]]" [-(Part 1)-]
666# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E6TheAgeOfSteel The Age of Steel]]" [-(Part 2)-]
667# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E7TheIdiotsLantern The Idiot's Lantern]]"
668# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E8TheImpossiblePlanet The Impossible Planet]]" [-(Part 1)-]
669# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E9TheSatanPit The Satan Pit]]" [-(Part 2)-]
670# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E10LoveAndMonsters Love & Monsters]]" [-(Doctor-lite)-]
671# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E11FearHer Fear Her]]"
672# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E12ArmyOfGhosts Army of Ghosts]]" [-(Part 1)-]
673# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E13Doomsday Doomsday]]" [-(Part 2)-]
674[[/folder]]
675
676[[folder:Series 3 (25 December 2006, -- 30 June, 2007)]]
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682[[caption-width-right:300:''[[TagLine Two worlds will collide.]]'']]
683->''"You are not alone."''
684-->-- '''The Face of Boe'''
685
686The Doctor, brooding over his separation from Rose Tyler, rescues would-be Christmas bride Donna Noble from an Earth-threatening plot and goes on to find a new companion in ''medical'' doctor Martha Jones. But while they're away having adventures, her family becomes involved with the mysterious politician Mr. Saxon, who seems to have a ''special'' interest in her new friend...
687----
688!!!Christmas Special (25 December 2006)
689* "[[Recap/DoctorWho2006CSTheRunawayBride The Runaway Bride]]" [-(60 minutes)-]
690
691!!!Series 3/Season 29 (13 episodes, 31 March -- 30 June 2007)
692# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E1SmithAndJones Smith and Jones]]"
693# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E2TheShakespeareCode The Shakespeare Code]]"
694# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E3Gridlock Gridlock]]"
695# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E4DaleksInManhattan Daleks in Manhattan]]" [-(Part 1)-]
696# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E5EvolutionOfTheDaleks Evolution of the Daleks]]" [-(Part 2)-]
697# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E6TheLazarusExperiment The Lazarus Experiment]]"
698# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E742 42]]"
699# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E8HumanNature Human Nature]]" [-(Part 1)-]
700# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E9TheFamilyOfBlood The Family of Blood]]" [-(Part 2)-]
701# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E10Blink Blink]]" [-(Doctor-lite)-]
702# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E11Utopia Utopia]]" [-(Part 1, continuing from ''Torchwood''[='s=] "[[Recap/TorchwoodS1E13EndOfDays End of Days]]")-] [[note]]This episode was originally announced as standalone, to preserve the twist at the end.[[/note]]
703# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E12TheSoundOfDrums The Sound of Drums]]" [-(Part 2)-]
704# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E13LastOfTheTimeLords Last of the Time Lords]]" [-(Part 3, 50 minutes)-]
705
706!!! 2007 ''Totally Doctor Who'' Animated Serial (13 mini-episodes, 2 April 2007 to 30 June 2007)
707* "[[Recap/DoctorWho2007TDWASTheInfiniteQuest The Infinite Quest]]" [-(set some time between "Gridlock" and "Utopia")-]
708[[/folder]]
709
710[[folder:Series 4 (16 November, 2007 -- 27 July 2008)]]
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716[[caption-width-right:300:''"Your life could have gone one way or the other. What made you decide?"'']]
717->''"Because he's still out there, somewhere. And I'll find him, Gramps. Even if I have to wait a hundred years, I'll find him."''
718-->-- '''Donna Noble'''
719
720Donna Noble is reunited with the Doctor and comes to realize there's more to her than anyone ever knew as together they witness the uprising of the Ood, solve an actual murder mystery with Agatha Christie, and meet a mysterious woman from the Doctor's own future named River Song. And when a universe-spanning crisis looms, all of the "Children of Time" who have come to befriend this particular Doctor will band together to meet it with him.
721----
722!!!Children in Need Special (16 November 2007)
723* "[[Recap/DoctorWho2007CiNSTimeCrash Time Crash]]" [-(multi-Doctor, with Fifth Doctor)-] %% Time Crash and VOTD are part of production Series 4, not Series 3.
724
725!!!Christmas Special (25 December 2007)
726* "[[Recap/DoctorWho2007CSVoyageOfTheDamned Voyage of the Damned]]" [-(72 minutes)-]
727
728!!!Series 4/Season 30 (13 episodes, 5 April -- 5 July 2008)
729# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E1PartnersInCrime Partners in Crime]]" [-(50 minutes)-]
730# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E2TheFiresOfPompeii The Fires of Pompeii]]" [-(50 minutes)-]
731# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E3PlanetOfTheOod Planet of the Ood]]"
732# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E4TheSontaranStratagem The Sontaran Stratagem]]" [-(Part 1)-]
733# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E5ThePoisonSky The Poison Sky]]" [-(Part 2)-]
734# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E6TheDoctorsDaughter The Doctor's Daughter]]"
735# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E7TheUnicornAndTheWasp The Unicorn and the Wasp]]"
736# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E8SilenceInTheLibrary Silence in the Library]]" [-(Part 1)-]
737# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E9ForestOfTheDead Forest of the Dead]]" [-(Part 2)-]
738# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E10Midnight Midnight]]"
739# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E11TurnLeft Turn Left]]" [-(Doctor-lite; ties in with the next episode)-] [-(50 minutes)-]
740# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E12TheStolenEarth The Stolen Earth]]" [-(Part 1; [[CrisisCrossover crossover]] with ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' and ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'')-]
741# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E13JourneysEnd Journey's End]]" [-(Part 2; featuring the birth of a Tenth Doctor clone, the Meta-Crisis Doctor, 65 minutes)-]
742
743!!!Proms Special (27 July 2008)
744* "[[Recap/DoctorWho2008PSMusicOfTheSpheres Music of the Spheres]]"
745[[/folder]]
746
747[[folder:[=2009=] Specials (25 December 2008 -- 1 January 2010)]]
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753[[caption-width-right:300:''"This song is ending, but the story never ends."'']]
754->''"It is returning, it is returning through the dark. And then Doctor... oh, but then... [[ArcWords he will knock four times]]."''
755-->-- '''Carmen'''
756
757The Doctor is on his own now, and all is well at first. But soon enough he learns he won't be "himself" much longer, and without the influence of a companion he becomes less stable, more willing to take risks he shouldn't. When an old enemy returns as the harbinger of an even more terrible force, the Tenth Doctor will have to face up to his responsibilities, his destiny, at last.
758
759These specials are part of production Series 4, but are listed separately due to being a mini-series.
760----
761!!!2009 Specials (5 episodes, 25 December 2008 -- 1 January 2010)
762[numlist:14]]
763# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E14TheNextDoctor The Next Doctor]]" [-(2008 Christmas special, 60 minutes)-]
764# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E15PlanetOfTheDead Planet of the Dead]]" [-(2009 Easter special, 60 minutes)-]
765%% "The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith" is listed on the SJA page.
766# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E16TheWatersOfMars The Waters of Mars]]" [-(2009 Fall special, 60 minutes)-]
767[/numlist]
768
769!!!Dreamland (6 mini-episodes, 21 November 2009 to 27 November 2009)
770* "[[Recap/DoctorWho2009ASDreamland Dreamland]]" [-(set some time between "The Waters of Mars" and "The End of Time")-]
771
772!!!2009 Specials (Continued)
773The 50th Anniversary, for the Tenth Doctor, takes place in between "The Waters of Mars" and "The End of Time". Due to overlapping timelines, he doesn't recall the full details, only the wedding.
774
775[numlist:17]
776# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E17E18TheEndOfTime The End of Time]]" [-(Part 1 — 2009 Christmas special, 60 minutes, Part 2 — 2010 New Year's special, 75 minutes)-]
777[/numlist]
778[[/folder]]
779
780!!Eleventh Doctor era (Creator/MattSmith): 2010-2013
781Matt Smith's tenure incorporated the franchise's 50th anniversary, and his finale overcame the 12-regeneration limit established by the series in the 1970s. His era also saw the introductions of Amy Pond, Rory Williams and Clara Oswald, the three longest-serving companions of the Modern Era (although most of Clara's tenure actually is set in the Twelfth Doctor's era). This was also the point where the series had its popularity cross into North America.
782
783[[folder:Series 5 (3 April -- 25 December 2010)]]
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789[[caption-width-right:300:''[[TagLine The end is just the beginning.]]'']]
790->''"My name is Amy Pond. When I was seven, I had an imaginary friend. Last night was the night before my wedding. And my imaginary friend came back."''
791-->-- '''Amelia "Amy" Pond'''
792
793The Eleventh Doctor crashes into the life of Amelia Pond, a little girl who has a mysterious crack in the wall of her bedroom. He aims to help her... but then his five-minute absence accidentally lasts over a decade. He regains Amy's good graces and she sets off to explore the universe with him. But she is leaving behind a fiancé, Rory Williams, while out there in the stars, more and more cracks are appearing...
794----
795!!!Series 5/Season 31 (13 episodes, 3 April -- 26 June 2010)
796# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E1TheEleventhHour The Eleventh Hour]]" [-(65 minutes)-]
797# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E2TheBeastBelow The Beast Below]]"
798# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E3VictoryOfTheDaleks Victory of the Daleks]]"
799# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E4TheTimeOfAngels The Time of Angels]]" [-(Part 1)-]
800# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E5FleshAndStone Flesh and Stone]]" [-(Part 2)-]
801# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E6TheVampiresOfVenice The Vampires of Venice]]" [-(50 minutes)-]
802# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E7AmysChoice Amy's Choice]]"
803# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E8TheHungryEarth The Hungry Earth]]" [-(Part 1)-]
804# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E9ColdBlood Cold Blood]]" [-(Part 2)-]
805# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E10VincentAndTheDoctor Vincent and the Doctor]]"
806# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E11TheLodger The Lodger]]"
807# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E12ThePandoricaOpens The Pandorica Opens]]" [-(Part 1, 50 minutes)-]
808# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E13TheBigBang The Big Bang]]" [-(Part 2, 55 minutes)-]
809%% "Death of the Doctor" is listed on the SJA page.
810
811!!![[LicensedGame The Adventure Games]] Series 1 (5 June -- 23 December 2010)
812# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoTAGE01CityOfTheDaleks City of the Daleks]]"
813# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoTAGE02BloodOfTheCybermen Blood of the Cybermen]]"
814# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoTAGE03TARDIS TARDIS]]"
815# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoTAGE04ShadowsOfTheVashtaNerada Shadows of the Vashta Nerada]]"
816# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoTAGE05TheGunpowderPlot The Gunpowder Plot]]"
817
818!!!Christmas Special (25 December 2010)
819* "[[Recap/DoctorWho2010CSAChristmasCarol A Christmas Carol]]" [-(60 minutes)-]
820[[/folder]]
821
822[[folder:Series 6 (18 March -- 25 December 2011)]]
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828[[caption-width-right:300:''[[TagLine Time runs out.]]'']]
829->''"'And silence would fall.' All those times I heard those words, I never realized it was my silence. My death. The Doctor will fall."''
830-->-- '''The Doctor''' (alternate timeline)
831
832Matt Smith's second series saw a change in format, with the series split into two halves; the first 7 airing in the spring, and the last 6 in the early autumn.
833
834Amy and Rory, along with River Song, receive a terrible glimpse of the future: On 22 April 2011, the Doctor will die for good at a lake in UsefulNotes/{{Utah}}, slain by a mysterious assassin in a spacesuit. But that Doctor is some 200 years older than who they're currently traveling with. Can their friend be saved? What roles will they play in his fate?
835----
836!!!Comic Relief Special (18 March 2011)
837* [[Recap/DoctorWho2011RNDSSpaceAndTime "Space" and "Time"]] %% Released in Series 6 box set, do not move this back to Series 5 folder.
838
839!!!Series 6/Season 32 (13 episodes, 23 April -- 4 June 2011, 27 August -- 1 October 2011)
840# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E1TheImpossibleAstronaut The Impossible Astronaut]]" [-(Part 1)-]
841# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E2DayOfTheMoon Day of the Moon]]" [-(Part 2)-]
842# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E3TheCurseOfTheBlackSpot The Curse of the Black Spot]]"
843# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E4TheDoctorsWife The Doctor's Wife]]"
844# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E5TheRebelFlesh The Rebel Flesh]]" [-(Part 1)-]
845# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E6TheAlmostPeople The Almost People]]" [-(Part 2)-]
846# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E7AGoodManGoesToWar A Good Man Goes to War]]" [-(Spring finale, 50 minutes)-]
847# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E8LetsKillHitler Let's Kill Hitler]]" [-(Autumn premiere, 50 minutes)-]
848# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E9NightTerrors Night Terrors]]"
849# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E10TheGirlWhoWaited The Girl Who Waited]]"
850# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E11TheGodComplex The God Complex]]" [-(50 minutes)-]
851# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E12ClosingTime Closing Time]]"
852# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E13TheWeddingOfRiverSong The Wedding of River Song]]"
853
854!!![[LicensedGame The Adventure Games]] Series 2 -- 31 October 2011
855# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoTAGE05TheGunpowderPlot The Gunpowder Plot]]"
856
857!!!Script to Screen Special (1 October 2011)
858* "[[Recap/DoctorWho2011StSSDeathIsTheOnlyAnswer Death Is the Only Answer]]"
859
860!!!Home Video Bonus Special (22 November 2011)
861* "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS32HVBSNightAndTheDoctor Night and the Doctor]]"
862
863!!!Christmas Special (25 December 2011)
864* "[[Recap/DoctorWho2011CSTheDoctorTheWidowAndTheWardrobe The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe]]" [-(60 minutes)-]
865[[/folder]]
866
867[[folder:Series 7 (24 May 2012 -- 24 September 2013)]]
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872[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/doctorwhoseries7.png]]
873[[caption-width-right:300:''"Right then, Clara Oswald. Time to find out who you are."'']]
874->''"I look at you at you every single day, and I don't understand a thing about you. Why do I keep running into you?"''
875-->-- '''The Doctor''' to '''Clara Oswald'''
876
877Like Series 6 before it, Series 7 was split into two halves; five episodes in September 2012, and the remaining eight in Spring 2013, with the Christmas special falling in between. Due to the radical differences between the two halves -- featuring completely different companions, story arcs, and even a title sequence -- many media and the BBC itself treat Series 7 as two separate seasons, 7A and 7B.
878
879In 7A, the Doctor returns to the Ponds, reaffirming their friendship before a final, and tragic, farewell. As 7B begins, he has all but retired in the wake of his loss, but he comes down from a Victorian-era cloud thanks to a quirky and inquisitive serving wench and governess named Clara Oswin Oswald. When tragedy strikes again, he realises he's heard her voice before -- in a Dalek asylum where she ''was'' Oswin Oswald, a computer whiz. How can one woman have lived and died twice? That question gives him a reason to return to the stars, and when a present-day nanny, Clara Oswald, calls the TARDIS for help he brings her onboard in hopes of figuring out the riddle of her existence... and eventually learns how she would/will go on to define a major part of who he is, all while etching herself on his hearts in a way not seen in centuries.
880----
881!!!Script to Screen Special (24 May 2012)
882* "[[Recap/DoctorWho2012StSSGoodAsGold Good as Gold]]" %% Released on Series 7 box set
883
884!!!Series Prequel (5 mini-episodes, 27-31 August 2012)
885* "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33PrequelPondLife Pond Life]]"
886
887!!!Series 7A/Season 33, First Half (5 episodes, 1 September -- 29 September 2012)
888# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E1AsylumOfTheDaleks Asylum of the Daleks]]" [-(50 minutes)-]
889# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E2DinosaursOnASpaceship Dinosaurs on a Spaceship]]"
890# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E3ATownCalledMercy A Town Called Mercy]]"
891# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E4ThePowerOfThree The Power of Three]]"
892# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E5TheAngelsTakeManhattan The Angels Take Manhattan]]" [-(autumn finale)-]
893
894!!!Web Special (12 October 2012)
895* "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33ShortPS P.S.]]" [-(unfilmed scene from "The Angels Take Manhattan")-]
896
897!!!Children in Need Minisode (16 November 2012)
898* "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33CiNTheGreatDetective The Great Detective]]"
899
900!!!Web Special (21 December 2012)
901* "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33ShortSongtaranCarols Songtaran Carols]]"
902
903!!!Christmas Special (25 December 2012)
904* "[[Recap/DoctorWho2012CSTheSnowmen The Snowmen]]" [-(60 minutes)-]
905
906!!!Web Special (25 March 2013)
907* "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33ShortTheBattleOfDemonsRunTwoDaysLater The Battle of Demon's Run: Two Days Later]]"
908
909!!!Series 7B/Season 33, Second Half (8 episodes, 30 March -- 18 May 2013)
910[numlist:6]
911# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E6TheBellsOfSaintJohn The Bells of Saint John]]" [-(spring premiere)-]
912# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E7TheRingsOfAkhaten The Rings of Akhaten]]"
913# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E8ColdWar Cold War]]"
914# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E9Hide Hide]]"
915# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E10JourneyToTheCentreOfTheTARDIS Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS]]"
916# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E11TheCrimsonHorror The Crimson Horror]]"
917# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E12NightmareInSilver Nightmare in Silver]]"
918# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E13TheNameOfTheDoctor The Name of the Doctor]]"
919[/numlist]
920
921!!!Web Special (26 May 2013)
922* "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33ShortClarenceAndTheWhispermen Clarence and the Whispermen]]"
923
924!!!Home Video Bonus Specials (24 September 2013)
925* "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33ShortRainGods Rain Gods]]"
926* "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33ShortClaraAndTheTARDIS Clara and the TARDIS]]"
927* "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33ShortTheInforarium The Inforarium]]"
928[[/folder]]
929
930[[folder:[=2013=] Specials (14 November -- 25 December 2013)]]
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935[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/doctorwhoseries7specials.png]]
936[[caption-width-right:300:''"Everything ends, Clara. And sooner than you think."'']]
937->''"I've had many faces, many lives. I don't admit to all of them. There's one life I've tried very hard to forget."''
938-->-- '''The Doctor'''
939
940The Doctor finally comes to terms with his actions in the Last Great Time War in a way he never could have expected. From there, he learns the origin of the forces that have plagued him ever since he regenerated, and prepares to make his final stand...
941----
942!!!Web Specials (14 November -- 21 November 2013)
943* "[[Recap/DoctorWho50thPrequelTheNightOfTheDoctor The Night of the Doctor]]" [-(prequel to "The Day of the Doctor", starring the Eighth Doctor)-]
944* "[[Recap/DoctorWho50thPrequelTheLastDay The Last Day]]" [-(another prequel to "The Day of the Doctor")-]
945
946!!!50th Anniversary Special (23 November 2013)
947* "[[Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor The Day of the Doctor]]" [-(Multi-Doctor, with War and Tenth Doctors, as well as cameos by all Doctors so far, including Twelve, 76 minutes)-]
948
949!!!Christmas Special (25 December 2013)
950* "[[Recap/DoctorWho2013CSTheTimeOfTheDoctor The Time of the Doctor]]" [-(60 minutes)-]
951[[/folder]]
952
953!!Twelfth Doctor era (Creator/PeterCapaldi): 2014-2017
954This era returned to uninterrupted runs and season-long story arcs. Each series has 12 episodes rather than 13; Series 9 is unique to the revival in that it has only one definitively standalone episode. (According to Steven Moffat, Series 9 was deliberately designed to challenge perceptions as to whether each episode was a one-parter, two-parter or even a three-parter, and hence there is some argument about whether some episodes are standalone or not.) The longer-than-usual gap between Series 9 (Fall 2015) and Series 10 (Spring 2017) was relieved by the annual {{Christmas Episode}}s in 2015 and '16; a short-lived spinoff, ''Series/{{Class|2016}}'', also aired during this gap.
955
956[[folder:Series 8 (23 August -- 25 December 2014)]]
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961[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/doctorwhoseries8.png]]
962[[caption-width-right:300:''[[TagLine The new Doctor lands.]]'']]
963->''"Clara, be my pal and tell me... am I a good man?"''
964-->-- '''The Doctor'''
965
966A new life comes with an identity crisis for the broody, more detached Twelfth Doctor. As Clara struggles to understand her much-changed friend, Twelve struggles with feelings he developed in his last incarnation, feelings he hasn't had in centuries, all while now-schoolteacher Clara is drawn to a gentle colleague at Coal Hill School, ex-soldier Danny Pink. She must decide whose world she belongs in, while the mysterious Missy sees all from a place where humans go after they die, setting up a very unwanted reunion...
967----
968!!!Series 8/Season 34 (12 episodes, 23 August -- 8 November 2014)
969# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E1DeepBreath Deep Breath]]" [-(76 minutes)-]
970# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E2IntoTheDalek Into the Dalek]]"
971# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E3RobotOfSherwood Robot of Sherwood]]"
972# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E4Listen Listen]]"
973# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E5TimeHeist Time Heist]]"
974# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E6TheCaretaker The Caretaker]]"
975# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E7KillTheMoon Kill the Moon]]"
976# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E8MummyOnTheOrientExpress Mummy on the Orient Express]]"
977# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E9Flatline Flatline]]"
978# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E10InTheForestOfTheNight In the Forest of the Night]]"
979# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E11DarkWater Dark Water]]" [-(Part 1)-]
980# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E12DeathInHeaven Death in Heaven]]" [-(Part 2, 55 minutes)-]
981
982!!!Christmas Special (25 December 2014)
983* "[[Recap/DoctorWho2014CSLastChristmas Last Christmas]]" [-(60 minutes)-]
984[[/folder]]
985
986[[folder:Series 9 (11 September -- 25 December 2015)]]
987%%
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991[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/doctorwhoseries9.png]]
992[[caption-width-right:300:''[[TagLine Born to save the universe.]]'']]
993->''"Look at you, with your eyes, and your never giving up, and your anger, and your kindness. One day, the memory of that will hurt so much that I won't be able to breathe, and I'll do what I always do. I'll get in my box and I'll run and I'll run, in case all the pain ever catches up. And every place I go, it will be there!"''
994-->-- '''The Doctor'''
995
996Clara is growing further into her confidence and abilities, resembling the Doctor himself in many ways, but as they give into the feelings that permeated between them since their first meeting, he becomes less willing to accept that they must be parted one day. Terrible trials await as the consequences of his actions haunt them through the ages. But if a man is driven to extremes over a lost love, can that love redeem him... and make him the man another woman has longed for at last?
997----
998!!!Online Special (11 September 2015)
999* "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35ShortPrologue Prologue]]"
1000
1001!!!Theatrical Prequel (15 September 2015)
1002* "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35PrequelTheDoctorsMeditation The Doctor's Meditation]]"
1003
1004!!!Series 9/Season 35 (12 episodes, 19 September -- 5 December 2015)
1005# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E1TheMagiciansApprentice The Magician's Apprentice]]" [-(Part 1, 50 minutes)-]
1006# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E2TheWitchsFamiliar The Witch's Familiar]]" [-(Part 2, 50 minutes)-]
1007# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E3UnderTheLake Under the Lake]]" [-(Part 1)-]
1008# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E4BeforeTheFlood Before the Flood]]" [-(Part 2)-]
1009# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E5TheGirlWhoDied The Girl Who Died]]" [-(Part 1)-][[note]]Announced as standalone and often listed as such, but ends with "To Be Continued" and its storyline is directly connected to the episode that follows.[[/note]]
1010# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E6TheWomanWhoLived The Woman Who Lived]]" [-(Part 2)-]
1011# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E7TheZygonInvasion The Zygon Invasion]]" [-(Part 1)-]
1012# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E8TheZygonInversion The Zygon Inversion]]" [-(Part 2)-]
1013# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E9SleepNoMore Sleep No More]]"
1014# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E10FaceTheRaven Face the Raven]]" [-(Part 1)-][[note]]Announced as standalone and often listed as such, but ends with "To Be Continued" and its storyline is directly connected to the episodes that follow.[[/note]]
1015# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E11HeavenSent Heaven Sent]]" [-(Part 2, 55 minutes)-]
1016# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E12HellBent Hell Bent]]" [-(Part 3, 65 minutes)-]
1017
1018!!!2015 Christmas Special (25 December 2015)
1019* "[[Recap/DoctorWho2015CSTheHusbandsOfRiverSong The Husbands of River Song]]" [-(60 minutes)-][[note]]Due to airing only three weeks after the finale of Series 9, a number of reference works and review sites consider this episode to be the finale, or at least coda, of Series 9.[[/note]]
1020----
1021[[/folder]]
1022
1023[[folder:Series 10 (23 April 2016 -- 25 December 2017)]]
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1028[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/doctorwhoseries10.png]]
1029[[caption-width-right:300:''[[TagLine A time for heroes.]]'']]
1030->''"Things end. That's all. Everything ends, and it's always sad. But everything begins again too, and that's... always happy. Be happy. I'll look after everything else."''
1031-->-- '''The Doctor'''
1032
1033The Doctor is lonely and world-weary after the loss of his love and takes an oath to watch over a mysterious vault hidden beneath an Earth university, aided by far-future humanoid/cyborg, Nardole. Decades have passed when the Doctor meets Bill Potts, a feisty cafeteria worker full of questions and wonder. His wanderlust is renewed but his promise remains. Can he endure and do what is right even in the blackest darkness? Can he convince his oldest friend, and his bitter enemy, to finally stand with him... "without hope, without witness, without reward"? And after his long struggle to understand himself, after all he's lost, can he be convinced to re-embrace change and keep living?
1034----
1035!!!Mini-Episode (23 April 2016)
1036* "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS36ShortFriendFromTheFuture Friend from the Future]]"
1037
1038!!!2016 Christmas Special (25 December 2016)
1039* "[[Recap/DoctorWho2016CSTheReturnOfDoctorMysterio The Return of Doctor Mysterio]]"
1040
1041!!!Series 10/Season 36 (12 episodes, 15 April -- 1 July 2017)
1042# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E1ThePilot The Pilot]]"
1043# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E2Smile Smile]]"
1044# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E3ThinIce Thin Ice]]"
1045# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E4KnockKnock Knock Knock]]"
1046# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E5Oxygen Oxygen]]"
1047# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E6Extremis Extremis]]" [-(Part 1)-]
1048# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E7ThePyramidAtTheEndOfTheWorld The Pyramid at the End of the World]]" [-(Part 2)-]
1049# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E8TheLieOfTheLand The Lie of the Land]]" [-(Part 3)-]
1050# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E9EmpressOfMars Empress of Mars]]"
1051# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E10TheEatersOfLight The Eaters of Light]]"
1052# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E11WorldEnoughAndTime World Enough and Time]]" [-(Part 1)-]
1053# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E12TheDoctorFalls The Doctor Falls]]" [-(Part 2, 60 minutes)-]
1054
1055!!!2017 Christmas Special (25 December 2017)
1056* "[[Recap/DoctorWho2017CSTwiceUponATime Twice Upon a Time]]" [-(multi-Doctor, with the First Doctor, 60 minutes)-]
1057[[/folder]]
1058
1059!!Thirteenth Doctor era (Creator/JodieWhittaker): 2018-2022
1060Announced after the Wimbledon Men's Finals in 2017, Jodie Whittaker is the first canon female incarnation of the Doctor. Her first series, under new showrunner Creator/ChrisChibnall (who previously wrote several episodes for the Tenth and Eleventh Doctors and helmed ''Series/{{Torchwood}}''), launched on October 7, 2018 with "The Woman Who Fell to Earth".
1061
1062Chibnall becoming showrunner also caused a change to the format followed since the birth of [=NewWho=], with the show now consisting of 50-minute episodes airing on Sundays, and the post-series special moved from Christmas to New Year's Day. In addition, there were three more year-plus gaps between series, with Series 12 not airing until January 2020, Series 13 not airing until October 2021 due to the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic, and a two-year plus gap until Series 14, the first of Creator/RussellTDavies' second tenure, all of which were relieved by various specials.
1063
1064[[folder:Series 11 (7 October 2018 -- 1 January 2019)]]
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1069[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/doctorwhoseries11.png]]
1070[[caption-width-right:300:''[[TagLine It's about time.]]'']]
1071->''"All of this is new to me. New faces, new worlds. New times. So if I asked really, really nicely, would you be my new best friends?"''
1072-->-- '''The Doctor'''
1073
1074Everyone knows you don't get aliens in Sheffield... until a warrior from 5,000 galaxies away arrives to prey on innocent people, and the Doctor drops out of the sky to stop him. With a brand new "Team TARDIS" in tow, she heads off into the unknown once more.
1075----
1076!!!Series 11/Season 37 (10 episodes, 7 October -- 9 December 2018)
1077# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E1TheWomanWhoFellToEarth The Woman Who Fell to Earth]]" [-(65 minutes)-]
1078# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E2TheGhostMonument The Ghost Monument]]"
1079# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E3Rosa Rosa]]"
1080# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E4ArachnidsInTheUK Arachnids in the UK]]"
1081# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E5TheTsurangaConundrum The Tsuranga Conundrum]]"
1082# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E6DemonsOfThePunjab Demons of the Punjab]]"
1083# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E7Kerblam Kerblam!]]"
1084# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E8TheWitchfinders The Witchfinders]]"
1085# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E9ItTakesYouAway It Takes You Away]]"
1086# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E10TheBattleOfRanskoorAvKolos The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos]]"
1087
1088!!!2019 New Year's Special (1 January 2019)
1089* "[[Recap/DoctorWho2019NYSResolution Resolution]]" [-(60 minutes)-]
1090[[/folder]]
1091
1092[[folder:Series 12 (1 January 2020 -- 1 January 2021)]]
1093%%
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1097[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/doctorwhoseries12.png]]
1098[[caption-width-right:300:''[[TagLine Space. For all.]]'']]
1099->''"Ryan, I've lived for thousands of years. So long I've lost count. I've had so many faces. How long have you been here? You don't know me. Not even a little bit."''
1100-->-- '''The Doctor'''
1101
1102It's business as usual for Team TARDIS... until an old enemy makes their grand return, claiming to have uncovered an AwfulTruth hidden in the very foundation of Time Lord society. As the Doctor's friends realize how much they still have to learn about her, she has to contend with yet another skeleton in Gallifrey's closet: "the lie of the Timeless Child."\
1103This series began with the [[MultiPartEpisode two-parter]] "Spyfall", with part one airing on New Year's Day and part two airing on January 5, shifting the show to the Sunday slot began by Series 11.
1104----
1105
1106!!!Series 12/Season 38 (10 episodes, 1 January -- 1 March 2020)
1107# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E1E2Spyfall Spyfall]]" [-(2 episodes, both parts 60 minutes)-]
1108# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E3Orphan55 Orphan 55]]"
1109# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E4NikolaTeslasNightOfTerror Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror]]"
1110# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E5FugitiveOfTheJudoon Fugitive of the Judoon]]"
1111# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E6Praxeus Praxeus]]"
1112# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E7CanYouHearMe Can You Hear Me?]]"
1113# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E8TheHauntingOfVillaDiodati The Haunting of Villa Diodati]]" [-(Part 1)-]
1114# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E9AscensionOfTheCybermen Ascension of the Cybermen]]" [-(Part 2)-]
1115# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E10TheTimelessChildren The Timeless Children]]" [-(Part 3, 65 minutes)-]
1116
1117!!!2021 New Year's Special (1 January 2021)
1118* "[[Recap/DoctorWho2021NYSRevolutionOfTheDaleks Revolution of the Daleks]]" [-(70 minutes)-]
1119[[/folder]]
1120
1121[[folder:Series 13 (Flux, 31 October -- 5 December 2021)]]
1122%%
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1126[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/doctorwhoseries13flux.png]]
1127[[caption-width-right:300:''[[TagLine It's coming. Be ready. One epic story over six thrilling chapters.]]'']]
1128->''"The Flux is imminent. I forecast incredible suffering. Vast bloodshed. A conflict that will dwarf all that has come before. The greatest of times are upon us. We must be ready to take advantage."''
1129-->-- '''Kragar'''
1130
1131On July 25th, 2021, it was revealed that Series 13 would comprise six episodes that constitute a single narrative -- the first time ''Doctor Who'' had done this since "Trial of a Time Lord". Series 13 was also the last regular series that Chris Chibnall would serve as showrunner and the last that Jodie Whittaker would appear as the Doctor, followed by a trilogy of specials in 2022.
1132----
1133!!!Series 13/Season 39 (6 episodes, 31 October -- 5 December 2021)
1134# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS39E1FluxChapterOneTheHalloweenApocalypse The Halloween Apocalypse]]" [-(Part 1)-]
1135# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS39E2FluxChapterTwoWarOfTheSontarans War of the Sontarans]]" [-(Part 2, 60 minutes)-]
1136# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS39E3FluxChapterThreeOnceUponTime Once, Upon Time]]" [-(Part 3)-]
1137# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS39E4FluxChapterFourVillageOfTheAngels Village of the Angels]]" [-(Part 4, 55 minutes)-]
1138# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS39E5FluxChapterFiveSurvivorsOfTheFlux Survivors Of The Flux]]" [-(Part 5)-]
1139# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS39E6FluxChapterSixTheVanquishers The Vanquishers]]" [-(Part 6, 60 minutes)-]
1140[[/folder]]
1141
1142[[folder:2022 Specials (1 January -- 23 October 2022)]]
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1147[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/doctorwhoseries13specials.png]]
1148[[caption-width-right:300:''"Hello, Doctor. Welcome to the very end of your existence."'']]
1149->''"Can we just live in the present? Of what we have, while we still have it?"''
1150-->-- '''The Doctor'''
1151
1152The final batch of specials under Chris Chibnall's reign as showrunner, these episodes saw the final adventures of 13, Yaz, and Dan and ushered in the beginning of Creator/RussellTDavies’ second tenure as showrunner. They also mark the end of Doctor Who airing on BBC America after 15 years.
1153----
1154!!!2022 Specials (3 episodes)
1155* "[[Recap/DoctorWho2022NYSEveOfTheDaleks Eve of the Daleks]]" [-(60 minutes)-] [[note]]New Year's Day Special[[/note]]
1156* "[[Recap/DoctorWho2022ESLegendOfTheSeaDevils Legend of the Sea Devils]]" [-(48 minutes)-] [[note]]Easter Special[[/note]]
1157* "[[Recap/DoctorWho2022CENThePowerOfTheDoctor The Power of the Doctor]]" [-(87 minutes)-] [[note]]BBC Centenary Special. First single episode to surpass 80 minutes since the TV Movie. Features the regeneration of the Thirteenth Doctor and the introduction of the Fourteenth, played by Creator/DavidTennant. Aired on the 23rd of October. [[/note]]
1158
1159[[/folder]]
1160
1161!!Fourteenth Doctor era (Creator/DavidTennant): 2023
1162Shortly after the Thirteenth Doctor regenerated into this strangely familiar form at the end of "The Power of the Doctor", the BBC announced that Tennant, alongside the returning Creator/CatherineTate as Donna Noble, would star in three specials to commemorate the series' 60th anniversary, leading into Creator/NcutiGatwa's debut as the Fifteenth Doctor in the 2023 festive period. The first special was directed by returning Moffat-era director Creator/RachelTalalay, with the second being helmed by [[Series/GhostsUK Tom Kingsley]], and the third directed by Chanya Button.
1163
1164Starting with these specials, the series also began exclusively broadcasting on Creator/DisneyPlus outside of the UK and Ireland as a part of the BBC's attempts to expand the global reach of the show.
1165
1166Russell T Davies' return as showrunner saw the reversion of Chris Chibnall's schedule changes, with the show returning to Saturdays and the post-series special returning to Christmas.
1167
1168[[folder:2023 60th Anniversary Specials (17 November -- 9 December 2023)]]
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1174[[caption-width-right:300:''[[TagLine Their time has come.]]'']]
1175->''"I don't believe in destiny, but if destiny exists, then it is heading for Donna Noble right now."''
1176-->-- '''The Doctor'''
1177
1178After regenerating into the Fourteenth Doctor (but having the same face as the Tenth), the Doctor does his best to find answers behind this familiar face re-appearing. In the midst of it all, he runs into the last companion he'd ever want to reunite with-- Donna Noble. Eventually, the two are forced to team-up, as they go on three more adventures together. The Doctor knows this face won't last too long, so he'll have to make sure to find out who or ''what'' is causing this to happen. All signs point to a powerful old foe who ran into The Doctor several times in the past[[note]](although not seen on TV for over 50 years)[[/note]]...will The Fourteenth Doctor get his question answered before his next incarnation steps into place?
1179----
1180!!!Children in Need Special (17 November 2023)
1181* "[[Recap/DoctorWho2023CiNSDoctorWhoChildrenInNeed Doctor Who: Children in Need]]" [-(entitled "Destination: Skaro", according to episode writer Russell T Davies.)-]
1182
1183!!!2023 60th Anniversary Specials (3 episodes; 25 November -- 9 December 2023)
1184# "[[Recap/DoctorWho60thASTheStarBeast The Star Beast]]" [-(60 minutes)-]
1185# "[[Recap/DoctorWho60thASWildBlueYonder Wild Blue Yonder]]" [-(55 minutes)-]
1186# "[[Recap/DoctorWho60thASTheGiggle The Giggle]]" [-(65 minutes)-]
1187[[/folder]]
1188
1189!!Fifteenth Doctor era (Creator/NcutiGatwa): 2023-incumbent
1190In conjunction with the 60th Anniversary specials, Russell T Davies' second tenure as showrunner allowed the Fifteenth Doctor era to start right after the short-lived Fourteenth Doctor era, with the 2023 Christmas special. Ncuti Gatwa takes the role of the Doctor, and is joined by Millie Gibson who plays Fifteenth's first companion, Ruby Sunday. In addition, Davies has stated that the series will undergo a soft reboot much like the start of the revival series as well as the start of Steven Moffat's tenure (Series 5) and the start of Chris Chibnall's tenure (Series 11). On Creator/DisneyPlus, this Series has been branded as "Season 1".
1191
1192[[folder:Series 14 (25 December 2023 - )]]
1193[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/doctorwhoseries14.png]]
1194[[caption-width-right:300:''[[TagLine Your cosmic journey awaits.]]'']]
1195->''"Things seem to be turning more and more supernatural."''
1196-->-- '''Kate Lethbridge-Stewart'''
1197
1198Creator/RussellTDavies revealed in ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'' #585 that the Fifteenth Doctor's first full season would be eight episodes long, plus a Christmas special.
1199
1200In a first for the series, the first two episodes make their UK premiere on BBC [=iPlayer=] at midnight on Saturday 11 May, before airing on BBC One that Saturday evening. Outside the UK, Creator/DisneyPlus begins streaming the show at 7pm Eastern Time on Friday 10 May, simultaneous with the [=iPlayer=] release. Following the premiere, each episode will be released weekly on [=iPlayer=] at midnight on Saturday, before airing on BBC One on Saturday evening.
1201----
1202!!!Christmas Special (December 25, 2023)
1203* "[[Recap/DoctorWho2023CSTheChurchOnRubyRoad The Church on Ruby Road]]"
1204
1205!!!Series 14/Season 40 (8 episodes; 11 May -- 29 June 2024)
1206# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS40E1 TBA]]"
1207# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS40E2TheDevilsChord The Devil's Chord]]"
1208# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS40E3 TBA]]"
1209# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS40E4 TBA]]"
1210# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS40E5 TBA]]"
1211# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS40E6 TBA]]"
1212# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS40E7 TBA]]"
1213# "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS40E8 TBA]]"
1214[[/folder]]
1215
1216[[/index]]
1217----
1218[[folder:ExpandedUniverse recaps]]
1219The ''Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse'' builds on the TV series, with many different continuities and timelines. The TV series sometimes references or adapts bits of the ExpandedUniverse. Recaps can be found under:
1220
1221* ''Recap/DoctorWhoNewAdventures'' (novels starring the Seventh Doctor, set after his TV episodes)
1222* ''Recap/DoctorWhoMissingAdventures'' (novels starring the first six Doctors, set between televised episodes)
1223* ''Recap/EighthDoctorAdventures'' (novels starring the Eighth Doctor, set after the TV movie)
1224* ''Recap/PastDoctorAdventures'' (novels starring the first seven Doctors, set between televised episodes)
1225* ''Recap/NewSeriesAdventures'' (novels featuring the New Series Doctors)
1226* ''Recap/DoctorWhoTheCurseOfFatalDeath'' (1999 Comic Relief TV spoof)
1227* ''Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho'' (Audio productions by ''Creator/BigFinish'')
1228* ''Recap/DeathComesToTime'' (2001 webcast starring Creator/SylvesterMcCoy)
1229* ''Recap/TheFiveishDoctorsReboot'' (50th Anniversary spoof, 23 November 2013)
1230* ''Recap/DoctorWhoMagazine'' (comic strips published in the titular magazine)
1231* ''Recap/DoctorWhoIDW'' (comic strips in ''ComicBook/DoctorWhoIDW'')
1232* ''Recap/DoctorWhoLockdown'' (webisodes produced and released during the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic lockdown)
1233%%Please ONLY add pages here that are actual recaps, not just regular Works pages.
1234[[/folder]]
1235
1236----
1237->'''''[[EveryEpisodeEnding *(EEEERRRRR]]''''''''''[[HellIsThatNoise uuuuuuwh...!)*]]'''''

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