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Doctor Who Season 15

About Doctor Who Season 15 (1977-1978)

The Doctor and his companion Leela continue on their advetures through space and time. Meanwhile, robotic dog K9 joins the them on their travels in the TARDIS.

The Doctor gets infected with an intelligent virus, investigates corruption on Pluto and later tries to help save a dying race. The Doctor also travels back to his homeworld, Gallifrey to protect it.

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Episodes

Horror of Fang Rock

Saturday
3rd September 1977
6:15PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - Horror of Fang Rock - Part One

The TARDIS lands on Fang Rock island at the start of the 20th century.

Saturday
10th September 1977
6:15PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - Horror of Fang Rock - Part Two

A thick fog surrounds Fang Rock and a ship is wrecked.

Saturday
17th September 1977
6:15PM
BBC 1 (23 mins)

Doctor Who - Horror of Fang Rock - Part Three

The Doctor seals the survivors inside the lighthouse but discovers that the creature might be with them.

Saturday
24th September 1977
6:15PM
BBC 1 (23 mins)

Doctor Who - Horror of Fang Rock - Part Four

The Doctor devises a desperate plan to defeat the alien and repel the approaching Rutan mothership.

The Invisible Enemy

Saturday
1st October 1977
6:15PM
BBC 1 (23 mins)

Doctor Who - The Invisible Enemy - Part One

Deep space, 5000 AD. An Earth supply shuttle is infected by a strange sentient space-born virus.

Saturday
8th October 1977
6:05PM
BBC 1 (25 mins)

Doctor Who - The Invisible Enemy - Part Two

Leela and Lowe take the Doctor to the Bi-Al Foundation for help.

Saturday
15th October 1977
6:10PM
BBC 1 (23 mins)

Doctor Who - The Invisible Enemy - Part Three

Miniaturized clones of the Doctor and Leela are injected into his brain.

Saturday
22nd October 1977
6:10PM
BBC 1 (21 mins)

Doctor Who - The Invisible Enemy - Part Four

The Nucleus, now grown to human size, is determined to spawn and take over the Galaxy.

Image of the Fendahl

Saturday
29th October 1977
6:10PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - Image of the Fendahl - Part One

A mysterious skull that is older than mankind is exerting a deadly influence on those around it.

Saturday
5th November 1977
6:10PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - Image of the Fendahl - Part Two

The Doctor realises that an ancient horror from the mythology of his own people is manifesting at Fetch Priory.

Saturday
12th November 1977
6:05PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - Image of the Fendahl - Part Three

The Doctor and Leela take a trip in the TARDIS to discover the truth about the ancient evil from the dawn of time.

Saturday
19th November 1977
6:10PM
BBC 1 (20 mins)

Doctor Who - Image of the Fendahl - Part Four

Thea has become the Fendahl Core and Stahl realises that he is out of his depth.

The Sun Makers

Saturday
26th November 1977
6:05PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - The Sun Makers - Part One

Pluto has been made habitable and turned into a giant factory where the ruthless Company exploits its workers.

Saturday
3rd December 1977
6:05PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - The Sun Makers - Part Two

The Doctor is taken prisoner by the Gatherer and sent to the Correction Centre.

Saturday
10th December 1977
6:05PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - The Sun Makers - Part Three

The Doctor is free but Leela has been captured by the Gatherer and is sentenced to a grisly death.

Saturday
17th December 1977
6:05PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - The Sun Makers - Part Four

The Others launch a full-scale uprising against the Gatherer and his Inner Retinue.

Underworld

Saturday
7th January 1978
6:25PM
BBC 1 (22 mins)

Doctor Who - Underworld - Part One

The TARDIS lands on a spaceship which is crewed by the survivors of the planet Minyos.

Saturday
14th January 1978
6:25PM
BBC 1 (21 mins)

Doctor Who - Underworld - Part Two

Tthe Minyan survivors discover what they have been searching for. But their arrival is not welcomed.

Saturday
21st January 1978
6:25PM
BBC 1 (22 mins)

Doctor Who - Underworld - Part Three

The Doctor and Leela attempt to penetrate the Citadel of the Seers to rescue Idas's father.

Saturday
28th January 1978
6:25PM
BBC 1 (22 mins)

Doctor Who - Underworld - Part Four

The Minyans are eager to recover the race banks that they have waited so long to find.

The Invasion of Time

Saturday
4th February 1978
6:25PM
BBC 1 (25 mins)

Doctor Who - The Invasion of Time - Part One

The Doctor returns to Gallifrey and abruptly stakes his claim on the Time Lord presidency.

Saturday
11th February 1978
6:25PM
BBC 1 (25 mins)

Doctor Who - The Invasion of Time - Part Two

The Doctor is made president of the Time Lords and immediately orders K9 to lower the planet's defences.

Saturday
18th February 1978
6:25PM
BBC 1 (25 mins)

Doctor Who - The Invasion of Time - Part Three

The Doctor has betrayed his own people and enabled a Vardan invasion of Gallifrey.

Saturday
25th February 1978
6:25PM
BBC 1 (23 mins)

Doctor Who - The Invasion of Time - Part Four

As the Vardans finally fully materialise on Gallifrey, the Doctor prepares to spring his trap.

Saturday
4th March 1978
6:25PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - The Invasion of Time - Part Five

The Sontarans have taken control of the Capital on Gallifrey and intend to use the power of the Time Lords.

Saturday
11th March 1978
6:25PM
BBC 1 (25 mins)

Doctor Who - The Invasion of Time - Part Six

Stor, the Sontaran leader, finally gains access to the TARDIS in search of the Great Key of Rassilon.

Credits

Horror of Fang Rock

Credits
  • Writer Terrance Dicks
  • Director Paddy Russell
  • Producer Graham Williams
  • Script Editor Robert Holmes
  • Doctor Who Tom Baker
  • Leela Louise Jameson
  • Reuben Colin Douglas
  • Vince John Abbott
  • Ben Ralph Watson
  • Lord Palmerdale Sean Caffrey
  • Skinsale Alan Rowe
  • Harker Rio Fanning
  • Adelaide Annette Woollett

The Invisible Enemy

Credits
  • Writer Bob Baker
  • Writer Dave Martin
  • Director Derrick Goodwin
  • Producer Graham Williams
  • Script Editor Robert Holmes
  • Doctor Who Tom Baker
  • Leela Louise Jameson
  • Lowe Michael Sheard
  • Safran Brian Grellis
  • Meeker Edmund Pegge
  • Silvey Jay Neill
  • Crewman Anthony Rowlands
  • Nucleus Voice John Leeson
  • Professor Marius Frederick Jaeger
  • Parsons Roy Herrick
  • Marius' Nurse Elizabeth Norman
  • Reception Nurse Nell Curran
  • Voice of K-9 John Leeson
  • Opthalmologist Jim McManus
  • Cruikshank Roderick Smith
  • Hedges Kenneth Waller
  • Medic Pat Gorman
  • Nucleus John Scott Martin

Image of the Fendahl

Credits
  • Writer Chris Boucher
  • Director George Spenton-Foster
  • Producer Graham Williams
  • Script Editor Robert Holmes
  • Doctor Who Tom Baker
  • Leela Louise Jameson
  • Thea Ransome Wanda Ventham
  • Martha Tyler Daphne Heard
  • Dr. Fendelman Denis Lill
  • Ted Moss Edward Evans
  • Maximillian Stael Scott Fredericks
  • Adam Colby Edward Arthur
  • David Mitchell Derek Martin
  • Hiker Graham Simpson
  • Jack Tyler Geoffrey Hinsliff

The Sun Makers

Credits
  • Writer Robert Holmes
  • Director Pennant Roberts
  • Producer Graham Williams
  • Script Editor Robert Holmes
  • Doctor Who Tom Baker
  • Leela Louise Jameson
  • Hade Richard Leech
  • Marn Jonina Scott
  • Cordo Roy Macready
  • Mandrel William Simons
  • Goudry Michael Keating
  • Veet Adrienne Burgess
  • Nurse Carole Hopkin
  • Voice of K-9 John Leeson
  • Collector Henry Woolf
  • Bisham David Rowlands
  • Synge Derek Crewe
  • Commander Colin McCormack
  • Guard Tom Kelly

Underworld

Credits
  • Writer Bob Baker
  • Writer Dave Martin
  • Director Norman Stewart
  • Producer Graham Williams
  • Script Editor Anthony Read
  • Doctor Who Tom Baker
  • Leela Louise Jameson
  • Jackson James Maxwell
  • Herrick Alan Lake
  • Orfe Jonathan Newth
  • Tala Imogen Bickford-Smith
  • Voice of K-9 John Leeson
  • Rask James Marcus
  • Tarn Godfrey James
  • Idmon Jimmy Gardner
  • Idas Norman Tipton
  • Guard Klimt Jay Neill
  • Ankh Frank Jarvis
  • Lakh Richard Shaw
  • Naia Stacey Tendeter
  • Voice of the Oracle Christine Pollon

The Invasion of Time

Credits
  • Writer Graham Williams
  • Writer Anthony Read
  • Director Gerald Blake
  • Producer Graham Williams
  • Script Editor Anthony Read
  • Doctor Who Tom Baker
  • Leela Louise Jameson
  • Vardan Stan McGowan
  • Vardan Tom Kelly
  • Andred Christopher Tranchell
  • Kelner Milton Johns
  • Borusa John Arnatt
  • Lord Gomer Dennis Edwards
  • Lord Savar Reginald Jessup
  • Gold Usher Charles Morgan
  • Voice of K-9 John Leeson
  • Guard Christopher Christou
  • Rodan Hilary Ryan
  • Ablif Ray Callaghan
  • Jasko Michael Mundell
  • Nesbin Max Faulkner
  • Presta Gai Smith
  • Castellan Guard Eric Danot
  • Stor Derek Deadman
  • Sontaran Stuart Fell