Season 19 (Doctor Who 1963)

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Season 19 of Doctor Who ran between 4 January 1982 and 31 March 1982. It starred Peter Davison in his first season as the Fifth Doctor. With this season, the BBC returned the series to a mid-winter season start, which had last been done for Season 12 and had been the format throughout the Jon Pertwee era.

Overview

The season consisted of seven serials and twenty-six episodes airing on a bi-weekly schedule. Two milestones occurred in Earthshock. Firstly, the Cybermen returned, unannounced, for the first time since Revenge of the Cybermen. Secondly, for the first time since The Daleks' Master Plan which had aired in 1965 and 1966, a companion died. Other milestones included Black Orchid, the first non-science fictional historical serial since 1966's The Gunfighters, and the destruction of the sonic screwdriver in The Visitation. A cliffhanger ending to the series appeared to have left Tegan stranded at Heathrow Airport with the Doctor abandoning her by mistake.

Originally, this series was going to have twenty-eight episodes- two more than normal. However, John Nathan-Turner used two of the allocated episodes for A Girl's Best Friend, the failed pilot to K9 and Company.

Television stories

# Title Writer Episodes Notes
1 Castrovalva Christopher H. Bidmead 4 Continued from Logopolis (TV story)
2 Four to Doomsday Terence Dudley 4
3 Kinda Christopher Bailey 4
4 The Visitation Eric Saward 4 First Doctor Who script for Eric Saward and the last known use of the Sonic screwdriver by the Doctor until Doctor Who (1996)
5 Black Orchid Terence Dudley 2 First pure historical story since 1966 not involving aliens
6 Earthshock Eric Saward 4 Final appearance of Adric; first companion death since 1965
7 Time-Flight Peter Grimwade 4

Cast

Main cast

Recurring

Stories set during this season

Adaptations and merchandising

Home media

VHS

  • Castrovalva
  • Four to Doomsday
  • Kinda
  • The Visitation / Black Orchid
  • Earthshock
  • Time-Flight

DVD

  • Castrovalva (2007)
  • Four to Doomsday (2008)
  • Kinda (2011)
  • The Visitation (2004)
  • Black Orchid (2008)
  • Earthshock (2004)
  • Time-Flight (2007)

Novels

Audiobooks

External links