The Five Faces of Doctor Who
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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:
- 5:40pm An Unearthly Child: An Unearthly Child, TX: 2 November 1981
- 5:40pm An Unearthly Child: The Cave of Skulls, TX: 3 November 1981
- 5:40pm An Unearthly Child: The Forest of Fear, TX: 4 November 1981
- 5:40pm An Unearthly Child: The Firemaker, TX: 5 November 1981
- 5:40pm The Krotons: Episode One, TX: 9 November 1981
- 5:40pm The Krotons: Episode Two, TX: 10 November 1981
- 5:40pm The Krotons: Episode Three, TX: 11 November 1981
- 5:40pm The Krotons: Episode Four, TX: 12 November 1981
- 5:40pm Carnival of Monsters: Episode One, TX: 16 November 1981
- 5:35pm Carnival of Monsters: Episode Two, TX: 17 November 1981
- 5:40pm Carnival of Monsters: Episode Three, TX: 18 November 1981
- 5:40pm Carnival of Monsters: Episode Four, TX: 19 November 1981
- 5:40pm The Three Doctors: Episode One, TX: 23 November 1981
- 5:35pm The Three Doctors: Episode Two, TX: 24 November 1981
- 5:40pm The Three Doctors: Episode Three, TX: 25 November 1981
- 5:40pm The Three Doctors: Episode Four, TX: 26 November 1981
- 5:40pm Logopolis: Part One, TX: 30 November 1981
- 5:35pm Logopolis: Part Two, TX: 1 December 1981
- 5:40pm Logopolis: Part Three, TX: 2 December 1981
- 5:40pm Logopolis: Part Four, TX: 3 December 1981
Notes
- A total of 20 episodes were repeated as part of this season.
- John Nathan-Turner organised the repeats to make up for the delay of Season 19, which had been pushed back from August 1981 to January 1982.
- 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 so as not to disrupt the BBC's scheduled Christmas programming.
- A second season of repeats, titled Doctor Who and the Monsters, was broadcast on BBC One the following year.
