Season 6 (Doctor Who 1963)

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The sixth season of Doctor Who ran between 10 August 1968 and 21 June 1969. It featured Patrick Troughton as the Second Doctor.

Overview

Season 6 featured the first UNIT story, The Invasion, which showcased the return of Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart. It also featured the first official appearance of Time Lords and the Doctor's home planet (as yet unnamed). (Previously, another Time Lord, the Monk, had appeared, without much elaboration, though the name "Time Lord" first appeared in that season.) It also marked the end of the black-and-white era and the tenure of Patrick Troughton as the Second Doctor. It consisted of seven serials and forty-four episodes, including two epic-length storylines: the eight episodes of The Invasion and the ten-episode The War Games. This season is fortunately more complete than the previous three seasons, of which only four serials exist. Seven episodes from this season are lost, although audio recordings remain for all; as a result, the DVD release of The Invasion uses animation to recreate the two missing episodes from that story.

Television stories

#	Title	Writer	Episodes	Notes
1	The Dominators	Norman Ashby, aka Mervyn Haisman Henry Lincoln	5
2	The Mind Robber	Peter Ling	5
3	The Invasion	Derrick Sherwin Concept by Kit Pedler	8	First appearances of UNIT and John Benton, reintroduction of the Cybermen.
4	The Krotons	Robert Holmes	4	First Robert Holmes script for Doctor Who
5	The Seeds of Death	Brian Hayles Terrance Dicks (uncredited)	6	First Terrance Dicks script for Doctor Who (uncredited)
6	The Space Pirates	Robert Holmes	6
7	The War Games	Malcolm Hulke Terrance Dicks	10	Final regular appearances of the Second Doctor, Jamie McCrimmon and Zoe Heriot; first identified appearances by the Time Lords and first look at Gallifrey (not identified by name). Final black and white episode

Main cast

• The Second Doctor - Patrick Troughton (Departed in The War Games)
• Jamie McCrimmon - Frazer Hines (Departed in The War Games)
• Zoe Heriot - Wendy Padbury (Departed in The War Games)

Guest

• Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart - Nicholas Courtney
• Corporal Benton - John Levene

Season 6 was the first season since Season 1 in which the core cast remained unchanged for the entire series.

Stories set during this season

• Future Imperfect (during Episode 5 The Mind Robber)
• PROSE: Aliens and Predators (between The Invasion and The Krotons)
• Involvement in PROSE UPVC (between The Invasion and The Krotons)
• Involvement in PROSE The Colony of Lies (between The Invasion and The Krotons)
• PROSE: Foreign Devils (between The Invasion and The Krotons)
• PROSE: Vortex of Fear (between The Seeds of Death and The Space Pirates)
• PROSE: The Final Sanction (between The Seeds of Death and The Space Pirates)
• AUDIO:Echoes of Grey (between The Wheel in Space and The Space Pirates)
• PROSE: Please Shut the Gate (between The Seeds of Death and The Space Pirates)
• PROSE: Constant Companion (between The Seeds of Death and The Space Pirates)
• PROSE: The Indestructible Man (between The Seeds of Death and The Space Pirates)
• AUDIO: The Glorious Revolution (after The Seeds of Death)
• PROSE: The Menagerie (between The Space Pirates and The War Games)
• PROSE: Fallen Angel (between The Space Pirates and The War Games)
• Involvement in PROSE: The Eight Doctors (during episode 9 of The War Games)
• PROSE: War Crimes (during episode 10 of The War Games)

Adaptations and merchandising

Home media

VHS

• The Dominators (1990)
• The Mind Robber (1990)
• The Invasion (with narration of episodes 1+4) (1993)
• The Krotons (1991)
• The Seeds of Death (1985/1987) (Edited Movie Format)
• The War Games (1990/2002) (on 2 tapes)
• The Troughton Years (1991) (The Space Pirates 2)

Loose Cannon VHSes

• The Invasion (2003) (Episodes 1 & 4 only)
• The Space Pirates (1998/2007) (Episodes 1, 3-6 only)

DVD

Serial name	Number and duration of episodes	R2 release date	R4 release date	R1 release date
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.	2 July 2012	2 August 2012	10 July 2012
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. Only available individually in Region 1.	6 × 25 min.	28 March 2011	5 May 2011	12 June 2012
The War Games	10 × 25 min.	6 July 2009	3 September 2009	3 November 2009
The Space Pirates (episode 2 of 6)	1 × 25 min.	1 November 2004	2 December 2004 (Original release) 1 July 2010 (Re-release)	2 November 2004

Novels

• The Dominators
• The Mind Robber
• The Invasion
• The Krotons
• The Seeds of Death
• The Space Pirates
• The War Games

Other information

Novels and other media contend that further adventures of the Second Doctor occurred during Season 6B prior to his regeneration into the Third Doctor as seen in Season 7 of the television series.

External links

• BBC Website Guide to Season 6