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Country of origin | United Kingdom | ||
No. of episodes | 44: 7 serials | ||
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Original channel | BBC One | ||
Original run | 10 August 1968 | – 21 June 1969||
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DVD release | |||
Region 1 | 6 August 2002 - present |
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Region 2 | 14 January 2002 - present |
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Region 4 | 4 April 2002 - present |
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The 6th season of British science fiction television series Doctor Who began on 10 August 1968 with the first story of season 6 The Dominators and ended with Patrick Troughton's final reign as the Doctor with The War Games.
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Patrick Troughton, Frazer Hines and Wendy Padbury make their final appearances as The Second Doctor, Jamie McCrimmon and Zoe Heriot respectively. Troughton and his fellow actors collectively decided that the workload of Doctor Who was exhausting them, and that they would soon depart from the show. The three actors remained with the show until the conclusion of the final season six serial The War Games.
Nicholas Courtney reappears as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart in The Invasion, last seen (as a Colonel) in The Web of Fear, and would soon make regular appearances in the program beginning with season 7's Spearhead from Space.
John Levene makes his first appearance as Sergeant Benton in The Invasion and would continue to make regular appearances from season 7 until season 13.
Terrance Dicks took over from Derrick Sherwin as script editor from The Invasion, with Sherwin resuming the role for The Space Pirates. Derrick Sherwin took over as producer from Peter Bryant for The War Games.
Story No. | Episodes | Title | Directed by | Written by | UK viewers (million) |
Original air date | Production code |
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044 | 5 | The Dominators | Morris Barry | Mervyn Haisman & Henry Lincoln |
6.2[1] | 10 August - 7 September 1968 | TT |
An alien craft bearing the imperious and ruthless Dominators arrives on the peaceful planet of Dulkis. | |||||||
045 | 5 | The Mind Robber | David Maloney | Peter Ling and Derrick Sherwin |
6.9 [2] | 14 September - 12 October 1968 | UU |
Blowing a fluid link, forces the Doctor to use the emergency unit to take the TARDIS away from danger and indeed out of reality itself. Taken them to the Land of Fiction. | |||||||
046 | 8 | The Invasion | Douglas Camfield | Derrick Sherwin and Kit Pedler |
6.9[3] | 2 November - 21 December 1968 | VV |
The Doctor, arrives in late twentieth-century London. They soon find out that a Cyberman army are invading Earth, and that they are hidden somewhere on Earth and planning an invasion. | |||||||
047 | 4 | The Krotons | David Maloney | Robert Holmes |
8[4] | 28 December 1968 - 18 January 1969 | WW |
On an unnamed planet, a race called the Gonds are subject to the mysterious Krotons, unseen beings to whom they provide their brightest intelligences as “companions ”. | |||||||
048 | 6 | The Seeds of Death | Michael Ferguson | Brian Hayles (episodes 1-2) Terrance Dicks (episodes 3-6) |
7.2[5] | 25 January - 1 March 1969 | XX |
The Ice Warriors are back, and planning to destory every living thing on Earth. | |||||||
049 | 6 | The Space Pirates | Michael Hart | Robert Holmes |
5.9[6] | 8 March - 12 April 1969 | YY |
Space beacons on the space lanes are being blown up and plundered for precious argonite by a gang of space pirates led by Caven and his associate Dervish. | |||||||
050 | 10 | The War Games | David Maloney | Malcolm Hulke & Terrance Dicks |
4.9[7] | 19 April – 21 June 1969 | ZZ |
On an alien planet the Doctor uncovers a diabolic plot to conquer the universe, with brainwashed soldiers abducted from Earth forced to fight in simulated environments, reflecting the periods in history whence they were taken. The aliens' aim is to produce a super army from the survivors. |
Serial name | Number and duration of episodes |
R2 release date | R4 release date | R1 release date |
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The Dominators | 5 × 25 min. | 12 July 2010 | 2 September 2010 | 11 January 2011 |
The Mind Robber | 5 × 20 min. | 7 March 2005 | 5 May 2005 | 6 September 2005 |
The Invasion (episodes 2-3 & 5-8 of 8, animation of 1 & 4) | 8 × 25 min. | 6 November 2006 | 3 January 2007 | 6 March 2007 |
The Krotons | 4 × 25 min. | 2012[8][9] | TBA | TBA |
The Seeds of Death | 6 × 25 min. | 17 February 2003 | 5 May 2003 | 2 March 2004 |
The Seeds of Death – Special Edition Only available as part of the Revisitations 2 box set in Regions 2 and 4. Not yet available in Region 1 |
6 × 25 min. | 28 March 2011 | 5 May 2011 | TBA[10] |
The War Games | 10 × 25 min. | 6 July 2009 | 3 September 2009 | 3 November 2009 |
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