| Doctor Who season 11 | |||
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Title card as used in this season |
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| Country of origin | United Kingdom | ||
| No. of episodes | 26 | ||
| Broadcast | |||
| Original channel | BBC One | ||
| Original run | 15 December 1973 – 8 June 1974 | ||
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| DVD release | |||
| Region 1 | 1 April 2008 - present |
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| Region 2 | 3 September 2007 - present |
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| Region 4 | 3 October 2007 - present |
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| List of Doctor Who serials | |||
The 11th season of British science fiction television series Doctor Who began on 15 December 1973 with the serial The Time Warrior, and ended with Jon Pertwee's final episode Planet of the Spiders.
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Jon Pertwee makes his final appearance as The Third Doctor in Planet of the Spiders. Elisabeth Sladen makes her first appearance as Sarah Jane Smith in The Time Warrior.
Nicholas Courtney continues his role of the Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart.
This season contains the last episode of which no copies currently exist in colour (Invasion of the Dinosaurs episode 1) and introduces the companion Sarah Jane Smith.
| Story No. | Serial | Title | Directed by | Written by | UK viewers (million) |
Original air date | Production code |
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| 070 | 1 | The Time Warrior | Alan Bromly | Robert Holmes | 8.2[1] | 15 December 1973 - 5 January 1974 | UUU |
| In the Middle Ages, a rabble of criminals find the crashed spaceship of a Sontaran warrior. Meanwhile the Doctor is investigating the disappearance of several scientists from a top secret research complex. | |||||||
| 071 | 2 | Invasion of the Dinosaurs | Paddy Russell | Malcolm Hulke | 9.6 [1] | 12 January - 16 February 1974 | WWW |
| The Doctor and Sarah arrive in 1970s London to find that it has been evacuated due to the mysterious appearance of dinosaurs. | |||||||
| 072 | 3 | Death to the Daleks | Michael E. Briant | Terry Nation | 9.4[1] | 23 February - 16 March 1974 | XXX |
| Travelling through space, the TARDIS suffers an energy drain and crash-lands on the planet Exxilon. | |||||||
| 073 | 4 | The Monster of Peladon | Lennie Mayne | Brian Hayles | 7.7[1] | 23 March - 27 April 1974 | YYY |
| The Third Doctor returns to Peladon, where once again the sacred beast Aggedor casts its shadow. | |||||||
| 074 | 5 | Planet of the Spiders | Barry Letts | Robert Sloman with Barry Letts (uncredited) | 9.0 [1] | 4 May - 8 June 1974 | ZZZ |
| Mysterious goings-on at a meditation retreat run by Tibetan monks are linked to the blue planet Metebelis III, and a colony of monstrous, evolved spiders. | |||||||
All serials of season 11 are still being released on DVD individually.
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