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== Cast ==
== Cast ==
=== Primary Cast ===
=== Primary cast ===
* The [[Seventh Doctor]] - [[Sylvester McCoy]]
* The [[Seventh Doctor]] - [[Sylvester McCoy]]
* [[Melanie Bush|Mel]] - [[Bonnie Langford]] (departs in ''[[Dragonfire (TV story)|Dragonfire]]'' )
* [[Melanie Bush|Mel]] - [[Bonnie Langford]] (departs in ''[[Dragonfire (TV story)|Dragonfire]]'' )
* [[Ace]] - [[Sophie Aldred]] (introduced in ''[[Dragonfire (TV story)|Dragonfire]]'')
* [[Ace]] - [[Sophie Aldred]] (introduced in ''[[Dragonfire (TV story)|Dragonfire]]'')


=== Guest Cast ===
=== Guest cast ===
* [[The Rani]] - [[Kate O'Mara]]
* [[The Rani]] - [[Kate O'Mara]]
* [[Rachel Defwydd|Ray]] - [[Sara Griffiths]]
* [[Rachel Defwydd|Ray]] - [[Sara Griffiths]]
* [[Sabalom Glitz]] - [[Tony Selby]]
* [[Sabalom Glitz]] - [[Tony Selby]]
== Adaptations and Merchandising ==
== Adaptations and merchandising ==
=== Home Media ===
=== Home media ===
==== VHS ====
==== VHS ====
* Time and the Rani
* Time and the Rani

Revision as of 14:08, 14 March 2012

Season 24 of Doctor Who ran between 7 September 1987 and 7 December 1987. It introduced Sylvester McCoy as the Seventh Doctor.

Overview

The season consisted of four serials and fourteen episodes of twenty-five minutes each. Unlike Season 23 there was no overall story arc, and the episode allotment - two four-episode stories, two three-episode stories - would be retained for the remainder of the original series. Notably, the season featured the introduction of new companion Ace, who would be a prominent figure in the spinoff fiction that kept the Doctor Who name alive following its cancellation in 1989 and the final official onscreen companion until Rose Tyler in the revived series. Unlike the previous regenerations of the Doctor, the Sixth Doctor's happened at the beginning of the season's episode. Colin Baker, who played the Sixth Doctor would not come back to shoot a few episodes leading up to the regeneration as he felt insulted at being replaced after a short time as the Doctor.

Television stories

# Title Writer Episodes Notes
1 Time and the Rani Pip and Jane Baker 4 Final appearance of the Sixth Doctor and first appearance of the Seventh Doctor. Final appearance of the Rani
2 Paradise Towers Stephen Wyatt 4
3 Delta and the Bannermen Malcolm Kohll 3
4 Dragonfire Ian Briggs 3 Final appearance of Melanie Bush and Sabalom Glitz; first appearance of Ace

Cast

Primary cast

Guest cast

Adaptations and merchandising

Home media

VHS

  • Time and the Rani
  • Paradise Towers
  • Delta and the Bannermen
  • Dragonfire

DVD

  • Time and the Rani (2010)
  • Paradise Towers (2011)
  • Delta and the Bannermen (2009)
  • Dragonfire (2012)

Novels

External links