Season 7 (Doctor Who 1963)

The seventh season of Doctor Who ran between 3rd January 1970 and 20th June 1970. The debut season of Jon Pertwee as the Third Doctor, it was the first season produced and broadcast in colour and the first set entirely in one time period and almost entirely on Earth. Although the season did not have an overall story arc, it did feature a recurring subplot of the Doctor trying to adjust to life as an exile while trying to circumvent the restrictions placed upon him by the Time Lords. Beginning with this season and continuing for the next few years, most storylines involve the Doctor working with UNIT.

It consisted of 4 serials, and 25 episodes and has the distinction of being the earliest Doctor Who season to exist in its entirety (though not completely in colour) in the BBC archives.

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Stories

• Spearhead from Space
• Doctor Who and the Silurians
• The Ambassadors of Death
• Inferno

Main Cast

• The Doctor - Jon Pertwee
• Liz Shaw - Caroline John
• Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart - Nicholas Courtney
• Sergeant Benton - John Levene (from Ambassadors of Death)

Adaptations and merchandising

Video

VHS

• Spearhead from Space
• Doctor Who and the Sillurians
• The Ambassadors of Death (partly in Black and White)
• Inferno
• The Pertwee Years (Inferno episode 7)

DVD

• Spearhead from Space
• Doctor Who and the Sillurians (as part of Beneath the Surface)
• Inferno

Novelisations

• Doctor Who and the Auton Invasion
• Doctor Who and the Cave-Monsters
• The Ambassadors of Death
• Inferno

Contemporaries

Other selected TV series launched during the 1969-70 season that included the run of Season 7:

• Room 222
• Scooby Doo, Where Are You?
• Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)
• The Brady Bunch
• Monty Python's Flying Circus
• Sesame Street
• The Benny Hill Show
• The Clangers
• All My Children

External Links

BBC website guide to Season 7

Previous season: Season 6

Next season: Season 8