Season 18 (Doctor Who 1963)

The eighteenth season of Doctor Who ran between 30th August 1980 and 21st March 1981. From Full Circle onwards, the season featured a story arc involving E-Space and the return of the Master. It was the last season to feature Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor; it also saw the departure of Romana and K-9. It was the first season produced by John Nathan-Turner, who instituted a number of changes: the stories became darker and more adult in tone, the 1966 Delia Derbyshire arrangement of the "Doctor Who theme" was retired in favour of a new arrangement, and a new series logo was introduced. It consisted of 7 stories and 28 episodes.

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Stories

• The Leisure Hive (4 episodes)
• Meglos (4 episodes)
• Full Circle (4 episodes)
• State of Decay (4 episodes)
• Warriors' Gate (4 episodes)
• The Keeper of Traken (4 episodes)
• Logopolis (4 episodes)

Regular Cast

• The Doctor - Tom Baker
• Romana - Lalla Ward (leaves in Warriors' Gate)
• K-9 (voice) - John Leeson (leaves in Warriors' Gate)
• Adric - Matthew Waterhouse (introduced in Full Circle)
• Nyssa - Sarah Sutton (introduced The Keeper of Traken)
• Tegan Jovanka - Janet Fielding (from Logopolis)

Notes

Nyssa does not join as a companion until Logopolis.

Adaptations and merchandising

Video

VHS

• The Leisure Hive
• Meglos
• The E-Space Trilogy Box (contains Full Circle, State of Decay and Warrior's Gate)
• The Keeper of Traken
• Logopolis
• The Tom Baker Years (contains excerpts from all the stories)

DVD

• The Leisure Hive
• New Beginnings (set contains The Keeper of Traken, Logopolis and Castrovalva from Season 19).

Novelisations

• Doctor Who and the Leisure Hive
• Meglos
• Full Circle
• Doctor Who and the State of Decay
• Doctor Who and Warriors' Gate
• Doctor Who and the Keeper of Traken
• Logopolis

Contemporaries

Other selected TV series launched during the 1980-81 season:

• Cosmos
• Magnum PI
• Solid Gold
• Shogun
• Dynasty
• Hill Street Blues
• The Greatest American Hero

External Links

BBC website guide to Season 18

Previous season: Season 17

Next season: Season 19