Season 17 (Doctor Who 1963)

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The seventeenth season of Doctor Who ran between 1st September 1979 and 12th January 1980. It consisted of 5 stories and 20 episodes, plus the incomplete Shada, unfinished as a result of an industrial strike. Lalla Ward joined as Romana II, and the season is notable for the involvement of Douglas Adams in the writing department. This was the last season to use the traditional Delia Derbyshire "Doctor Who theme" arrangement.

Television Stories

# Title Writer Episodes Notes
1 Destiny of the Daleks Terry Nation 4 First appearance of Lalla Ward as Romana; first on-screen regeneration of a Time Lord other than the Doctor; final Terry Nation Daleks script
2 City of Death David Agnew, aka David Fisher
Douglas Adams
Graham Williams
4 First story to include filming outside the UK
3 The Creature from the Pit David Fisher 4
4 Nightmare of Eden Bob Baker 4
5 The Horns of Nimon Anthony Read 4
6 Shada Douglas Adams 6
(planned)
Never completed due to industrial action and never broadcast

Regular Cast

Notes

Adaptations and Merchandising

Home Media

VHS

  • Destiny of the Daleks
  • City of Death
  • The Creature from the Pit
  • Nightmare of Eden
  • The Horns of Nimon
  • Shada (with extra post-production work and linking narration of unfilmed sequences)
  • The Tom Baker Years (extracts from all stories)

DVD

  • Destiny of the Daleks
  • City of Death
  • The Horns of Nimon

Novels

External Links

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