This season had a unique format, never again repeated in the show. Doctor Who had returned to production after a near-cancellation and an eighteen-month production hiatus. For the first time, a season consisted of a single story, The Trial of a Time Lord, although this was made up of four serials from a production perspective: each serial was written by a different person (save for The Mysterious Planet and the first part of The Ultimate Foe, both of which were written by Robert Holmes) and featured a different story presented as evidence, excluding the final two episodes which concluded the ongoing story of the trial; the trial storyline itself acted as a framing device to bracket the first three serials. As a result, whether The Trial of a Time Lord should be considered one story or four has been intensely debated. This single-story format, sometimes referred to as a "miniseries", would later be utilised for the third and fourth series of Torchwood.
Release Date
Sep 6, 1986
Episodes
14 episodes
CAST
Colin Baker
The Doctor
Nicola Bryant
Perpugilliam "Peri" Brown
Bonnie Langford
Melanie Bush
Roger Brierley
Drathro (voice)
EPISODES
1
The Mysterious Planet (1)
Sep 6, 1986
2
The Mysterious Planet (2)
Sep 13, 1986
3
The Mysterious Planet (3)
Sep 20, 1986
4
The Mysterious Planet (4)
Sep 27, 1986
5
Mindwarp (1)
Oct 4, 1986
6
Mindwarp (2)
Oct 11, 1986
7
Mindwarp (3)
Oct 18, 1986
8
Mindwarp (4)
Oct 25, 1986
9
Terror of the Vervoids (1)
Nov 1, 1986
10
Terror of the Vervoids (2)
Nov 8, 1986
11
Terror of the Vervoids (3)
Nov 15, 1986
12
Terror of the Vervoids (4)
Nov 22, 1986
13
The Ultimate Foe (1)
Nov 29, 1986
14
The Ultimate Foe (2)
Dec 6, 1986
Details
Language
English
Country
Production
Companies
Network
Metadata
TMDB ID
6994