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- DirectorPaddy RussellStarsTom BakerElisabeth SladenBernard ArchardThe Doctor and Sarah are drawn off course and, instead of UNIT HQ, they arrive on the same site in 1911.
- DirectorPaddy RussellStarsTom BakerElisabeth SladenBernard ArchardThe Doctor, Sarah and Laurence try to find a way to sever Sutekh's link to the mummies while poacher Ernie Clements finds the priory surrounded by a forcefield.
- DirectorPaddy RussellStarsTom BakerElisabeth SladenBernard ArchardThe Doctor and Sarah try to destroy Sutekh's rocket but the Osiran's mental powers prove too great for them.
- DirectorPaddy RussellStarsTom BakerElisabeth SladenBernard ArchardSutekh forces the Doctor to transport Scarman and a mummy to Mars, where the Doctor and Sarah try to stop them destroying the Eye of Horus.
- DirectorDerek MartinusStarsJon PertweeCaroline JohnNicholas CourtneyAs the newly regenerated Doctor arrives on Earth, so does the Nestene.
- DirectorDerek MartinusStarsJon PertweeCaroline JohnNicholas CourtneyUNIT's attempts to locate the meteorites are hampered by the mysterious plastic Autons, being constructed by Channing at a nearby factory, while the Doctor makes another attempt to escape from the hospital.
- DirectorDerek MartinusStarsJon PertweeCaroline JohnNicholas CourtneyRansome manages to escape from the plastics factory and alert UNIT, prompting the Doctor and the Brigadier to start an investigation.
- DirectorDerek MartinusStarsJon PertweeCaroline JohnNicholas CourtneyWith UNIT's investigation being blocked by the Replica of Scobie, the Doctor and Liz visit Madame Tussaud's to try and find out more as Channing prepares to activate the Autons.
- DirectorGraeme HarperStarsPeter DavisonNicola BryantChristopher GableThe Doctor and Peri get involved with drug running after landing on the twin planet of Androzani Minor and getting arrested as gun runners and targeted for execution. Not before Peri stumbles into some highly toxic and lethal plant life.
- DirectorGraeme HarperStarsPeter DavisonNicola BryantChristopher GableHaving been saved from execution by Sharez Jek and his androids, Jek takes a shine to Peri, and wants her with him forever. Salateen tells the Dr and Peri that they are dying from Spectrox toxemia, but there is an antidote.
- DirectorGraeme HarperStarsPeter DavisonNicola BryantChristopher GableAfter escaping the vicious Magma creature, the Doctor is made a prisoner of the gun runners and taken to Androzani Major. The real Salateen takes an ill Peri back to Chellak.
- DirectorGraeme HarperStarsColin BakerPeter DavisonNicola BryantChellak and his men attack Jek's base. The Dr. crash-lands the ship, and must escape from his captors to find the antidote to the Spectrox poisoning and save Peri. He does so, but at a staggering cost.
- DirectorDavid MaloneyStarsTom BakerLouise JamesonJohn BennettThe Doctor and Leela land in Victorian London, and find themselves in the middle of missing girls, mutilated bodies, and vicious Chinese gangs. The Palace theater, presenting hypnotist Li H'sen Chang seems to be at the center of it all.
- DirectorDavid MaloneyStarsTom BakerLouise JamesonJohn BennettAfter escaping from the vicious giant rat in the sewers, the Doctor & Leela team up with Litefoot. Chang, Mr Sin and Weng-Chiang go in search of the time cabinet, while the Doctor and Jago go in search of Chiang's lair.
- 1963–198922mTV-Y8.5 (648)TV EpisodeDirectorDavid MaloneyStarsTom BakerLouise JamesonJohn BennettLeela follows Chang in order to find Greel's hideout while the Doctor and Litefoot set about finding her.
- 1963–198925mTV-Y8.5 (643)TV EpisodeDirectorDavid MaloneyStarsTom BakerLouise JamesonJohn BennettHaving rescued Leela from the jaws of the giant vicious rat, she & the Doctor dress up and attend Chang's show at the palace, but end up as part of the act. At home, Litefoot tries to protect the time cabinet.
- 1963–198925mTV-Y8.5 (639)TV EpisodeDirectorDavid MaloneyStarsTom BakerLouise JamesonJohn BennettWeng-Chiang has stolen the time cabinet from Litefoot's house, so the Doctor and Leela go to try and stop him from using it. They find an opium-drugged Chang. Jago teams up with Litefoot for their own investigation.
- DirectorDavid MaloneyStarsTom BakerLouise JamesonMichael SpiceThe real face of Weng-Chiang is revealed as the Doctor, Leela, Jago and Litefoot face their final battle against both Magnus Greel and a trigger-happy Mr Sin.
- DirectorBarry LettsStarsJon PertweeNicholas CourtneyRoger DelgadoWhen a Nestene Energy Unit is stolen and a radio telescope sabotaged, the Doctor is contacted by a Time Lord who tells him his old rival the Master is responsible.
- DirectorBarry LettsStarsJon PertweeNicholas CourtneyRoger DelgadoAttempting to find out where Jo encountered the Master, the Doctor heads to the circus where he falls foul of Rossini.
- DirectorBarry LettsStarsJon PertweeNicholas CourtneyRoger DelgadoThe Doctor and the Brigadier head to Farrel's factory but the Master and the Autons have already left and are distributing plastic daffodils around the country.
- DirectorBarry LettsStarsJon PertweeNicholas CourtneyRoger DelgadoThe Doctor discovers the plastic daffodils are designed to fire a spray that asphyxiates people, causing havoc prior to the Nestene's arrival, but before he can alert anyone he and Jo are captured by the Master.
- DirectorRodney BennettStarsTom BakerElisabeth SladenIan MarterThe Doctor's attempt to give Harry a trip in the TARDIS sees the two of them and Sarah arriving onboard a space station in the far future, with some rather deadly security mechanisms.
- DirectorRodney BennettStarsTom BakerElisabeth SladenIan MarterThe Doctor and Harry revive the Ark's medtech, Vira, to help Sarah.But when station commander Noah is revived, he becomes suspicious of the newcomers.
- DirectorRodney BennettStarsTom BakerElisabeth SladenIan MarterKnowing that Noah has been infected by the Wirrn, the Doctor persuades Vira to halt the reviving of her people, knowing it will place them in danger as well.
- DirectorRodney BennettStarsTom BakerElisabeth SladenIan MarterThe Doctor tries to protect the humans still in cryogenic suspension from the Wirrn, who are determined to use Earth as their new breeding ground.
- DirectorDavid MaloneyStarsTom BakerLlewellyn ReesBernard HorsfallA mysterious evil is at work on Gallifrey. The President of the Time Lords has been assassinated and the Doctor caught red-handed. An inexorable master plan has been set in motion. There can be no escape
- DirectorDavid MaloneyStarsTom BakerBernard HorsfallGeorge PravdaThe Doctor is arrested for the President's murder and struggles to avoid his immediate execution.
- DirectorDavid MaloneyStarsTom BakerBernard HorsfallGeorge PravdaThe Doctor battles the assassin inside the matrix dreamscape, while the Master tries to bring about his death in the real world.
- DirectorDavid MaloneyStarsTom BakerGeorge PravdaBernard HorsfallThe Doctor realises the Master is planning to tap into the Time Lords' power source to extend his own life, an act that will destroy all Gallifrey.
- DirectorPeter MoffattStarsColin BakerPatrick TroughtonNicola BryantThe Time Lords have dispatched the Doctor (in his 2nd incarnation) along with Jamie to a space research station to see Dastari, the Director of Projects, about dissuading two of his scientists from further experimentations on time travel that are rattling the fabric of time. The Doctor is further alarmed over Dastari's latest genetic experiments, boosting the intelligence of a bestial and carnivorous humanoid race called the Androgum. This secondary concern soon proves the greater problem: the Androgum have sided with the Sontarans to take over the station. The station soon falls and the Doctor is captured and tortured. As his life becomes threatened, elsewhere the Doctor (in his 6th incarnation) passes out while on holiday with Peri - his very existence jeopardized.
- DirectorPeter MoffattStarsColin BakerPatrick TroughtonNicola BryantWith carnage and decay all about the space station, Doctor No. 6 and Peri continue to avoid the automated defense system trying to kill them, but there's also something alive lurking about with an eye on them as well. Evidence suggests the Time Lords are responsible for all this, but the Doctor refuses to believe it. He may be wrong, and he also fears a pinhole has been poked into the bubble that is the universe, with total and unstoppable annihilation to follow. Far away, Doctor No. 2 is about to be dissected by the Sontarans and the Androgum in order to find the symbiotic nuclei that makes time travel for Time Lords possible.
- DirectorPeter MoffattStarsColin BakerPatrick TroughtonNicola BryantClosing in on the goal of time travel, the Androgum and Sontarans get set to double-cross each other. With Peri and Jamie alternately in danger of winding up on the bill of fare, the decision is made to genetically transform Doctor No. 2 into an insatiably carnivorous Androgum, which causes Doctor No. 6 to develop a sudden taste for house cats as he races to not let this change become permanent.
- DirectorAlan BromlyStarsJon PertweeElisabeth SladenNicholas CourtneyThe Brigadier asks the Doctor to investigate the disappearance of several scientists, only for him to find they have been abducted back in time.
- DirectorAlan BromlyStarsJon PertweeElisabeth SladenKevin LindsayThe Doctor tracks the missing scientists to Irongron's castle, where Linx is using them to repair his spaceship and construct advanced weapons for Irongron.
- DirectorAlan BromlyStarsJon PertweeElisabeth SladenKevin LindsayThe Doctor escapes the castle with Sarah and Hal and must persuade Sir Edward to trust him before Irongron launches an attack on them.
- DirectorAlan BromlyStarsJon PertweeElisabeth SladenKevin LindsayThe Doctor attempts to return the scientists to their own time, before Linx tries to use his spaceship and destroys the entire castle.