Season 6 (Doctor Who 1963)

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

Overview

Season 6 featured the first UNIT story, The Invasion, which featured the return of Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart. It also featured the first official appearance of Time Lords and the Doctor's home planet (as yet unidentified by name). (Previously, another Time Lord, the Monk, had appeared, without much elaboration, though the name "Time Lord" first appeared in this 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 7 serials, and 44 episodes, including two epic-length storylines: the eight episode The Invasion and the 10-episode The War Games. Several episodes remain lost from this season, 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.

Stories

Main Cast

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

Adaptations and merchandising

Video

VHS

  • The Dominators
  • The Mind Rober
  • The Invasion (with narration of episodes 1+4)
  • The Krotons
  • The Seeds of Death
  • The War Games (on 2 tapes)
  • The Troughton Years (The Space Pirates - Episode 2)

DVD

  • The Dominators
  • The Mind Robber
  • The Invasion (with animation of episodes 1 and 4)
  • The Seeds of Death
  • Lost in Time (The Space Pirates episode 2)
  • The War Games

Novelisations

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

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