Season 9 (Doctor Who 1963)

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

Overview

Season 9 consisted of 5 serials, and 26 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
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 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

• PDA: The Face of the Enemy (during The Curse of Peladon)
• The Man in the Ion Mask (before The Sea Devils)
• Who Killed Kennedy (just before The Sea Devils)
• Involvement in EDA: The Eight Doctors (affer to episode 6 of The Sea Devils)
• PDA: Verdigris (between The Time Monster and The Three Doctors)
• Find and Replace (apparently affer to Verdigris)

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

• Day of the Daleks (2011)
• The Curse of Peladon (2010)
• The Sea Devils (2008)
• The Mutants (2011)
• The Time Monster (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

Previous season: Season 8

Next season: Season 10