Season 24 (Doctor Who 1963)

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The twenty-fourth season of Doctor Who ran between 7th September 1987 and 7th December 1987. Sylvester McCoy was introduced as the Seventh Doctor. It consisted of 4 serials and 14 episodes. 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 go on to be a prominent figure in the spinoff fiction that kept the Doctor Who name alive following its cancellation in 1989.

Stories

• Time and the Rani (4 episodes)
• Paradise Towers (4 episodes)
• Delta and the Bannermen (3 episodes)
• Dragonfire (3 episodes)

Main Cast

• The Doctor - Sylvester McCoy
• Mel - Bonnie Langford
• Ace - Sophie Aldred (from Dragonfire)

Adaptations and merchandising

Video

VHS

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

DVD

• None Yet

Novelisations

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

Contemporaries

Other selected TV series launched during the 1987-88 season which included Season 24:

• Star Trek: The Next Generation
• thirtysomething
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
• Unsolved Mysteries
• Full House
• Home and Away
• The Wonder Years
• America's Most Wanted
• Red Dwarf
• China Beach

External Links

BBC website guide to Season 24

Previous season: Season 23

Next season: Season 25