Season 11 (Doctor Who 1963)
Season 11 of Doctor Who ran between 15th December 1973 and 8th June 1974. It starred Jon Pertwee as the Third Doctor.
Overview
It consisted of the 5 serials, and 26 episodes. It was Jon Pertwee's final season as the Doctor and included, very briefly, the first appearance of Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor. The Time Warrior, the season opener, introduced Sarah Jane Smith, who would become arguably the most popular of all the Doctor's companions and a frequently featured character in the Doctor Who Universe. The same story also, for the first time, named the Doctor's homeworld as Gallifrey. UNIT had also entirely gotten phased out of the series by this time and no other Doctor Who season would feature it so prominently. Roger Delgado, who had played the first on-screen incarnation of the Master, had died, and so the production team did not give the character the dramatic send-off that they had planned in the season finale. The Diamond shaped Doctor Who logo and tunnel effects with Jon Pertwee were introduced, paving the way for the Tom Baker era.
Season 11 was the latest season to be subject to the BBC's then-current policy of junking old episodes. For reasons unknown, only the first episodes of Invasion of the Dinosaurs and Death to the Daleks were erased; copies of both episodes were later reacquired.
Television Stories
| # | Title | Writer | Episodes | Notes |
| 1 | The Time Warrior | Robert Holmes | 4 | First appearance of Sarah Jane Smith and the Sonatrans; first use of the name Gallifrey |
| 2 | Invasion of the Dinosaurs | Malcolm Hulke | 6 | First episode titled Invasion |
| 3 | Death to the Daleks | Terry Nation | 4 | |
| 4 | The Monster of Peladon | Brian Hayles | 6 | |
| 5 | Planet of the Spiders | Robert Sloman | 6 | Final appearance of the Third Doctor and first appearance of the Fourth Doctor. Final appearance of Mike Yates |
Main Cast
Regular
- The Doctor - Jon Pertwee
- Sarah Jane Smith - Elisabeth Sladen (introduced The Time Warrior)
Recurring
- Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart - Nicholas Courtney (The Time Warrior, Invasion of the Dinosaurs, Planet of the Spiders)
- Sergeant Benton - John Levene (Invasion of the Dinosaurs, Planet of the Spiders)
- Mike Yates - Richard Franklin (Invasion of the Dinosaurs, Planet of the Spiders)
Adaptations and Merchandising
Home Media
VHS
- The Time Warrior
- Invasion of the Dinosaurs (Episode 1 is in B+W)
- Death to the Daleks
- The Monster of Peladon
- Planet of the Spiders
DVDs
- The Time Warrior (2007)
- The Monster of Peladon (2010)
Unannounced DVDs
- Invasion of the Dinosaurs
- Death to the Daleks
- Planet of the Spiders
Novels
- Doctor Who and the Time Warrior
- Doctor Who and the Dinosaur Invasion
- Death to the Daleks
- Doctor Who and the Monster of Peladon
- Doctor Who and the Planet of the Spiders
External links
BBC website guide to Season 11
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