Season 24 (Doctor Who 1963)
Season 24 of Doctor Who ran between 7 September 1987 and 7 December 1987. It introduced Sylvester McCoy as the Seventh Doctor.
Overview
The season consisted of four serials and fourteen episodes of twenty-five minutes each. 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 be a prominent figure in the spinoff fiction that kept the Doctor Who name alive following its cancellation in 1989 and was the final official onscreen companion until Rose Tyler in the revived series. Unlike the previous regenerations of the Doctor, the Sixth Doctor's happened at the beginning of the season's episode. Colin Baker, who played the Sixth Doctor, would not come back to shoot a few episodes leading up to the regeneration as he felt insulted at being replaced after a short time as the Doctor.
This was the first season since season 17 not to feature the Master.
Television stories
| # | Title | Writer | Episodes | Notes |
| 1 | Time and the Rani | Pip and Jane Baker | 4 | Final appearance of the Sixth Doctor (played by Colin Baker) and first appearance of the Seventh Doctor. Final appearance of the Rani |
| 2 | Paradise Towers | Stephen Wyatt | 4 | |
| 3 | Delta and the Bannerman | Malcolm Kohll | 3 | |
| 4 | Dragonfire | Ian Briggs | 3 | Final appearance of Melanie Bush and Sabalom Glitz; first appearance of Ace |
Cast
Recurring
- The Seventh Doctor - Sylvester McCoy
- Mel - Bonnie Langford (departs in Dragonfire)
- Ace - Sophie Aldred (introduced in Dragonfire)
- The Rani - Kate O'Mara
- Sabalom Glitz - Tony Selby
Guest
Stories set during this season
- AUDIO: Unregenerate! (audio story) and AUDIO: Red (audio story) (Between Time and the Rani and Paradise Towers (TV story))
- AUDIO: Bang-Bang-A-Boom! (audio story), AUDIO: Flip-Flop (audio story) and COMIC: Plastic Millenium (Between Paradise Towers (TV story) and Delta and the Bannermen (TV story))
- AUDIO: The Fires of Vulcan (audio story) (Between Delta and the Bannermen (TV story) and Dragonfire (TV story))
Adaptations and merchandising
Home media
VHS
- Time and the Rani
- Paradise Towers
- Delta and the Bannermen
- Dragonfire
DVD
The first serial was released in 2009.
| Serial name | Number and duration of episodes |
R2 release date | R4 release date | R1 release date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time and the Rani | 4 × 25 min. | 13 September 2010 | 4 November 2010 | 14 June 2011 |
| Paradise Towers | 4 × 25 min. | 18 July 2011 | 1 September 2011 | 9 August 2011 |
| Delta and the Bannerman | 3 × 25 min. | 22 June 2009 | 6 August 2009 | 1 September 2009 |
| Dragonfire Released as part of the Ace Adventures box set |
3 × 25 min. | 7 May 2012 | 7 June 2012 | 8 May 2012 |
Novelisations
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