Season 9 (Doctor Who 1963)

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The ninth season of Doctor Who ran between 1 January 1972 and 24 June 1972. It starred Jon Pertwee as the Third Doctor.

Overview

Season 9 consisted of five serials and twenty-six episodes. Day of the Daleks re-introduced the Daleks to the series after a half-decade absence.

Television stories

#	Title	Writer	Episodes	Notes
1	Day of the Daleks	Louis Marks	4	First full appearance of the Daleks since 1967
2	The Curse of Peladon	Brian Hayles	4	First non-appearance of Earth since 1969
3	The Sea Devils	Malcolm Hulke	6	First appearance of the Sea Devils
4	The Mutants	Bob Baker Dave Martin	6
5	The Time Monster	Robert Sloman Barry Letts (uncredited)	6

Main cast

Regular

• The Third Doctor - Jon Pertwee
• Jo Grant - Katy Manning

Recurring

• Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart - Nicholas Courtney
• The Master - Roger Delgado
• Sergeant Benton - John Levene
• Mike Yates - Richard Franklin

Stories set during this season

• MA: Who Killed Kennedy (during Day of the Daleks and before The Sea Devils)
• PDA: The Face of the Enemy (during The Curse of Peladon)
• The Man in the Ion Mask (before The Sea Devils)
• Involvement in EDA: The Eight Doctors (after episode 6 of The Sea Devils)

Adaptations and merchandising

Home media

VHS

• The Day of the Daleks (1986) (Edited Movie Format)
• The Day of the Daleks (1994)
• The Curse of Peladon (1993)
• The Sea Devils (1995)
• The Mutants (2003)
• The Time Monster (2001)

DVD

All serials of season 9 have been released on DVD all individually and some in multi-serial box sets.

Serial name	Number and duration of episodes	R2 release date	R4 release date	R1 release date
Day of the Daleks	4 × 25 min.	12 September 2011	6 October 2011	13 September 2011
The Curse of Peladon Only available as part of the Peladon Tales box set in Regions 2 and 4. Only available individually in Region 1.	4 × 25 min.	18 January 2010	4 March 2010	4 May 2010
The Sea Devils Only available as part of the Beneath the Surface box set in Regions 2 and 4. Available individually or in the box set in Region 1.	6 × 25 min.	14 January 2008	5 March 2008	3 June 2008
The Mutants	6 × 25 min.	31 January 2011	3 February 2011	8 February 2011
The Time Monster Only available as part of the Myths and Legends box set in Regions 2 and 4. Only available individually in Region 1.	6 × 25 min.	29 March 2010	3 June 2010	6 July 2010

Novels

• Doctor Who and the Day of the Daleks
• Doctor Who and the Curse of Peladon
• Doctor Who and the Sea-Devils
• Doctor Who and the Mutants
• The Time Monster

External links

BBC website guide to Season 9