Season 24 (Doctor Who 1963)
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The twenty-fourth season of Doctor Who ran between 7th September 1987 and 7th December 1987. Sylvester McCoy was introduced as the Seventh Doctor. It consisted of 4 serials and 14 episodes. 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.
Stories
- Time and the Rani (4 episodes)
- Paradise Towers (4 episodes)
- Delta and the Bannermen (3 episodes)
- Dragonfire (3 episodes)
Main Cast
- The Doctor - Sylvester McCoy
- Mel - Bonnie Langford
- Ace - Sophie Aldred (from Dragonfire)
Adaptations and merchandising
Video
VHS
- Time and the Rani
- Paradise Towers
- Delta and the Bannermen
- Dragonfire
DVD
- None Yet
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
BBC website guide to Season 24
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