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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

All serials of season 19 were released individually in between 2003 and 2011.

Serial name Number and duration
of episodes
R2 release date R4 release date R1 release date
Castrovalva
Only available as part of the New Beginnings box set in Regions 2 and 4.
Available individually or in the box set in Region 1.
4 × 25 min. 29 January 2007 7 March 2007 5 June 2007
Four to Doomsday 4 × 25 min. 15 September 2008 4 December 2008 6 January 2009
Kinda
Only available as part of the Mara Tales box set in Regions 2 and 4.
Only available individually in Region 1.
4 × 25 min. 7 March 2011 7 April 2011 12 April 2011
The Visitation 4 × 25 min. 19 January 2004 8 April 2004 1 March 2005
Black Orchid 2 × 25 min. 14 April 2008 5 June 2008 5 August 2008
Earthshock 4 × 25 min. 18 August 2003 1 October 2003 7 September 2004
Time-Flight
Only available as part of the Time-Flight/Arc of Infinity box set in Regions 2 and 4.
Only available individually in Region 1.
4 × 25 min. 6 August 2007 5 September 2007 6 November 2007

Novels

Audiobooks

External links

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