Season 17 (Doctor Who 1963)

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The seventeenth season of Doctor Who ran between 1st September 1979 and 12th January 1980. It consisted of 5 stories and 20 episodes, plus the incomplete Shada, unfinished as a result of an industrial strike.

Stories

• Destiny of the Daleks (4 episodes)
• City of Death (4 episodes)
• The Creature from the Pit (4 episodes)
• Nightmare of Eden (4 episodes)
• The Horns of Nimon (4 episodes)
• Shada (6 episodes; not completed and un-aired)

Regular cast

• The Doctor - Tom Baker
• Romana - Lalla Ward (introduction)
• K-9 (voice) - David Brierley (appears in The Creature from the Pit, Nightmare of Eden, The Horns of Nimon)
• K-9 (voice) - John Leeson (appears in reconstructed version of Shada)

Notes

• Romana regenerates at the start of Destiny of the Daleks.
• Season 17 had David Brierley replacing John Leeson as the voice of K-9. Leeson would return in Season 18 and all subsequent guest appearances.

Adaptations and merchandising

Video

VHS

• Destiny of the Daleks
• City of Death
• The Creature from the Pit
• Nightmare of Eden
• The Horns of Nimon
• Shada (with extra post-production work and linking narration of unfilmed sequences)
• The Tom Baker Years (extracts from all stories)

DVD

• Destiny of the Daleks
• City of Death

Novelisations

• Doctor Who and the Destiny of the Daleks
• Doctor Who and the Creature from the Pit
• Doctor Who and the Nightmare of Eden
• Doctor Who and the Horns of Nimon

External Links

BBC website guide to Season 17

Previous season: Season 16

Next season: Season 18