Season 24 (Doctor Who 1963)
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Season 24 of Doctor Who ran between 7th September 1987 and 7th December 1987. It introduced Sylvester McCoy as the Seventh Doctor.
Overview
The season consisted of four serials and 14 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 go on to be a prominent figure in the spinoff fiction that kept the Doctor Who name alive following its cancellation in 1989.
Main Cast
- The Doctor - Sylvester McCoy
- Mel - Bonnie Langford (Time and the Rani through Dragonfire)
- Ace - Sophie Aldred (Introduced in Dragonfire; Dragonfire only)
Adaptations and merchandising
Video
VHS
- Time and the Rani
- Paradise Towers
- Delta and the Bannermen
- Dragonfire
DVD
- None released so far
Novelisations
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
| Previous season: Season 23 |
Next season: Season 25 |
