Season 6 (Doctor Who 1963)

Season 6 (Doctor Who 1963)

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For 6th season of the revived series, see Series 6 (Doctor Who).

The sixth season of Doctor Who ran between 10 August 1968 and 21 June 1969. It featured Patrick Troughton as the Second Doctor.

Overview

Season 6 featured the first UNIT story, The Invasion, which showcased the return of Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart. It also featured the first official appearance of Time Lords and the Doctor's home planet (as yet unnamed). (Previously, another Time Lord, the Monk, had appeared, without much elaboration, though the name "Time Lord" first appeared in that season.) It also marked the end of the black-and-white era and the tenure of Patrick Troughton as the Second Doctor. It consisted of seven serials, and forty-four episodes, including two epic-length storylines: the eight episode The Invasion and the 10-episode The War Games. This season is fortunately more complete than the last three seasons, of which only four serials exist. Seven episodes from this season are lost, although audio recordings remain for all; as a result, the DVD release of The Invasion uses animation to recreate the two missing episodes from that story.

Television stories

#	Title	Writer	Episodes	Notes
1	The Dominators	Norman Ashby, aka Mervyn Haisman Henry Lincoln	5
2	The Mind Robber	Peter Ling	5
3	The Invasion	Derrick Sherwin Concept by Kit Pedler	8	First appearances of UNIT and John Benton, reintroduction of the Cybermen.
4	The Krotons	Robert Holmes	4	First Robert Holmes script for Doctor Who
5	The Seeds of Death	Brian Hayles Terrance Dicks (uncredited)	6	First Terrance Dicks script for Doctor Who (uncredited)
6	The Space Pirates	Robert Holmes	6
7	The War Games	Malcolm Hulke Terrance Dicks	10	Final regular appearances of the Second Doctor, Jamie McCrimmon and Zoe Heriot; first identified appearances by the Time Lords and first look at Gallifrey (not identified by name). Final black and white episode

Main cast

• The Doctor - Patrick Troughton (Departed in The War Games)
• Jamie McCrimmon - Frazer Hines (Departed in The War Games)
• Zoe Heriot - Wendy Padbury (Departed in The War Games)

Guest

• Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart - Nicholas Courtney
• Corparal Benton - John Levene

Season 6 was the first season since Season 1 in which the core cast remained unchanged for the entire series.

Stories set during this season

• CC: Fear of the Daleks (After The Wheel in Space)
• Future Imperfect (during Episode 5 The Mind Robber)
• VD: Aliens and Predators (between The Invasion and The Krotons)
• Involvement in ST UPVC (between The Invasion and The Krotons)
• Involvement in PDA The Colony of Lies (between The Invasion and The Krotons)
• TN: Foreign Devils (between The Invasion and The Krotons)
• VD: Vortex of Fear (between The Seeds of Death and The Space Pirates)
• PDA: The Final Sanction (between The Seeds of Death and The Space Pirates)
• CC:Echoes of Grey (between The Wheel in Space and The Space Pirates)
• ST: Please Shut the Gate (between The Seeds of Death and The Space Pirates)
• ST: Constant Companion (between The Seeds of Death and The Space Pirates)
• PDA: The Indestructible Man (between The Seeds of Death and The Space Pirates)
• CC: The Glorious Revolution (affer The Seeds of Death)
• MA: The Menagerie (between The Space Pirates and The War Games)
• VD: Fallen Angel (between The Space Pirates and The War Games)
• Involvement in EDA: The Eight Doctors (during episode 9 of The War Games)
• ST: War Crimes (during episode 10 of The War Games)

Adaptations and merchandising

Home media

VHS

• The Dominators (1990)
• The Mind Robber (1990)
• The Invasion (with narration of episodes 1+4) (1993)
• The Krotons (1991)
• The Seeds of Death (1985/1987) (Edited Movie Format)
• The War Games (1990/2002) (on 2 tapes)
• The Troughton Years (1991) (The Space Pirates 2)

Loose Cannon VHSes

• The Invasion (2003) (Episodes 1 & 4 Only)
• The Space Pirates (1998/2007) (Episodes 1, 3-6 Only)

DVD

• The Dominators (2010)
• The Mind Robber (2005)
• The Invasion (2006) (with animation of episodes 1 and 4)
• The Seeds of Death (2003)
• The Seeds of Death - Special Edition (2011)
• Lost in Time (2004) (The Space Pirates 2)
• The War Games (2009)

Unspecified DVD

The Krotons

Novels

• The Dominators
• The Mind Robber
• The Invasion
• The Krotons
• The Seeds of Death
• The Space Pirates
• The War Games

Other Information

Novels and other media contend that further adventures of the Second Doctor occurred during Season 6B prior to his regeneration into the Third Doctor as seen in Season 7 of the television series.

External links

• BBC Website Guide to Season 6