The Five Faces of Doctor Who

The Five Faces of Doctor Who was a season of repeats organised by John Nathan-Turner, broadcast on BBC Two on Monday to Thursday evenings and which began in November 1981.

He chose five four-part stories from the first four Doctors, including Logopolis as it featured the first on-screen appearance of Peter Davison's Fifth Doctor, and doing so justified the title of the season itself.

Schedule

The stories chosen and the repeat transmission dates were:

• An Unearthly Child: An Unearthly Child, TX: 2 November 1981
• An Unearthly Child: The Cave of Skulls, TX: 3 November 1981
• An Unearthly Child: The Forest of Fear, TX: 4 November 1981
• An Unearthly Child: The Firemaker, TX: 5 November 1981
• The Krotons: Episode One, TX: 9 November 1981
• The Krotons: Episode Two, TX: 10 November 1981
• The Krotons: Episode Three, TX: 11 November 1981
• The Krotons: Episode Four, TX: 12 November 1981
• Carnival of Monsters: Episode One, TX: 16 November 1981
• Carnival of Monsters: Episode Two, TX: 17 November 1981
• Carnival of Monsters: Episode Three, TX: 18 November 1981
• Carnival of Monsters: Episode Four, TX: 19 November 1981
• The Three Doctors: Episode One, TX: 23 November 1981
• The Three Doctors: Episode Two, TX: 24 November 1981
• The Three Doctors: Episode Three, TX: 25 November 1981
• The Three Doctors: Episode Four, TX: 26 November 1981
• Logopolis: Part One, TX: 30 November 1981
• Logopolis: Part Two, TX: 1 December 1981
• Logopolis: Part Three, TX: 2 December 1981
• Logopolis: Part Four, TX: 3 December 1981

Notes

• Originally, Season 14's opening four-parter The Masque of Mandragora would also have been included to represent the Tom Baker era. However, the season was curtailed from six stories to five at short notice to avoid interfering with BBC Two's scheduled Christmas programming.
• A second season of repeats, titled Doctor Who and the Monsters, was broadcast on BBC One the following year.