Season 20 (Doctor Who 1963)

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The twentieth season of Doctor Who ran between 3rd January 1983 and 25th November 1983. It consisted of 6 serials and 22 episodes, plus the 20th anniversary special, The Five Doctors. Every story of this season contained an old enemy of the Doctor (The Black Gardian, Omega, The Mara and The Master) as part of the 20th anniversary of the show.

Stories

• Arc of Infinity (4 episodes)
• Snakedance (4 episodes)
• Mawdryn Undead (4 episodes)
• Terminus (4 episodes)
• Enlightenment (4 episodes)
• The King's Demons (2 episodes)

Anniversary Special

• The Five Doctors (1 episode)

Main Cast

• The Doctor - Peter Davison
• Nyssa - Sarah Sutton (till Terminus)
• Tegan Jovanka - Janet Fielding
• Vislor Turlough - Mark Strickson (from Mawdryn Undead)
• Gerald Flood as the voice of Kamelion (The King's Demons)

Adaptations and merchandising

Video

VHS

• Arc of Infinity
• Snakedance
• Mawdryn Undead
• Terminus
• Enlightenment
• The King's Demons/The Five Doctors (extended version)

DVD

• Arc of Infinity (part of Tegan-Tales in R2)
• The Five Doctors (extended version)
• The Five Doctors - 25th Anniversary Edition (origonal version and extended version)

Novelisations

• Arc of Infinity
• Snakedance
• Mawdryn Undead
• Terminus
• Enlightenment
• The King's Demons
• The Five Doctors

Contemporaries

Other selected TV series launched during the 1982-83 season which included Season 20 (for details of the 1983-84 season which included The Five Doctors, see Season 21):

• Knight Rider
• '"Remington Steele
• Family Ties
• Cheers
• St. Elsewhere
• Brookside
• Countdown
• The Young Ones
• Fraggle Rock
• The A Team
• Breakfast Time
• The Black Adder (later known as Blackadder)

External Links

BBC website guide to Season 20

Previous season: Season 19

Next season: Season 21