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Whoniverse Year 1978

Episodes broadcast in 1978

28 episodes were originally broadcast in 1978

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.

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.

Saturday
2nd September 1978
5:45PM
BBC 1 (25 mins)

Doctor Who - The Ribos Operation - Part One

The Doctor is given the task of reassembling the six parts of the Key to Time by the the White Guardian.

Saturday
9th September 1978
6:20PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - The Ribos Operation - Part Two

Trying to obtain the first segment of the Key to Time, the Doctor and Romana are swept up in an elaborate con.

Saturday
16th September 1978
6:30PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - The Ribos Operation - Part Three

Prisoners of the maniacal Graff Vynda K, the Doctor and Romana must break out and pursue the first segment.

Saturday
23rd September 1978
6:20PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - The Ribos Operation - Part Four

The Doctor and Romana work desperately to obtain the segment of the Key to Time - and escape alive.

Saturday
30th September 1978
6:20PM
BBC 1 (25 mins)

Doctor Who - The Pirate Planet - Part One

Instead of landing on Calufrax, they arrive on a different planet and encounter the Mentiads.

Saturday
7th October 1978
6:20PM
BBC 1 (25 mins)

Doctor Who - The Pirate Planet - Part Two

The Doctor and Romana encounter the telepathic Mentiads and Zanak's ruler, the half man, half robot Captain.

Saturday
14th October 1978
6:20PM
BBC 1 (25 mins)

Doctor Who - The Pirate Planet - Part Three

The Doctor has discovered the sinister truth about Zanak and solved the mystery of the missing planet.

Saturday
21st October 1978
6:20PM
BBC 1 (25 mins)

Doctor Who - The Pirate Planet - Part Four

Time is running out for the Doctor and Romana in their struggle to defeat the Captain.

Saturday
28th October 1978
6:25PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - The Stones of Blood - Part One

The Doctor and Romana arrive at a circle of standing stones in the English countryside.

Saturday
4th November 1978
6:20PM
BBC 1 (23 mins)

Doctor Who - The Stones of Blood - Part Two

The quest for the Third Segment has landed the Doctor in the midst of a druidic cult centered on a stone circle.

Saturday
11th November 1978
6:20PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - The Stones of Blood - Part Three

Chased by blood-thirsty stones, the Doctor must find a way to rescue Romana.

Saturday
18th November 1978
6:20PM
BBC 1 (23 mins)

Doctor Who - The Stones of Blood - Part Four

The Doctor must play for time while Romana tries to discover just who Vivian Fey really is.

Saturday
25th November 1978
6:20PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - The Androids of Tara - Part One

Arriving on the techno-Ruritanian world of Tara, Romana easily obtains the Fourth Segment...

Saturday
2nd December 1978
6:20PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - The Androids of Tara - Part Two

The Doctor must employ a desperate gambit to keep the evil Grendel off the throne.

Saturday
9th December 1978
6:20PM
BBC 1 (23 mins)

Doctor Who - The Androids of Tara - Part Three

The Doctor must keep the android "king" running while Grendel plots to use Romana to destroy him.

Saturday
16th December 1978
6:20PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - The Androids of Tara - Part Four

Grendel plans two weddings and a funeral to cement his hold over Tara.

Saturday
23rd December 1978
6:15PM
BBC 1 (23 mins)

Doctor Who - The Power of Kroll - Part One

Searching for the Key to Time lands the Doctor and Romana in trouble on the third moon of Delta Magna.

Saturday
30th December 1978
6:30PM
BBC 1 (23 mins)

Doctor Who - The Power of Kroll - Part Two

Things look bleak for the Doctor and Romana, particularly when Kroll awakes.