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Whoniverse Year 1983

Episodes broadcast in 1983

23 episodes were originally broadcast in 1983

Monday
3rd January 1983
6:45PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - Arc of Infinity - Part One

Strange forces are at work in Amsterdam and two backpackers get caught up in them.

Wednesday
5th January 1983
6:45PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - Arc of Infinity - Part Two

The Doctor is to be confined until a warrant of termination can be issued.

Tuesday
11th January 1983
6:50PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - Arc of Infinity - Part Three

The grief-stricken Nyssa flees back to the TARDIS, where Damon learns that his repairs have been to no avail.

Wednesday
12th January 1983
6:45PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - Arc of Infinity - Part Four

Realising that Tegan is his only hope of locating Omega, the Doctor sends Nyssa back to the TARDIS.

Tuesday
18th January 1983
6:50PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - Snakedance - Part One

Tegan falls once more under the influence of the Mara and directs the TARDIS to the planet Manussa.

Wednesday
19th January 1983
6:45PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - Snakedance - Part Two

Tegan's disturbing dreams are dominated by the image of huge snake's skull.

Tuesday
25th January 1983
6:50PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - Snakedance - Part Three

With the Doctor imprisoned, the Mara sets the TARDIS co-ordinates for Manussa, his home world.

Wednesday
26th January 1983
6:45PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - Snakedance - Part Four

As the commemorations begin, nothing seemingly stands between the Mara and its spectacular return.

Tuesday
1st February 1983
6:50PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - Mawdryn Undead - Part One

Caught in a warp ellipse, the TARDIS is drawn to a huge spacecraft orbiting Earth.

Wednesday
2nd February 1983
6:45PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - Mawdryn Undead - Part Two

At Brendon School, the Doctor enlists the help of the Brigadier.

Tuesday
8th February 1983
6:50PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - Mawdryn Undead - Part Three

Mawdryn and his eternal mutants are awake and reveal the truth, they are exiles.

Wednesday
9th February 1983
6:45PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - Mawdryn Undead - Part Four

The Doctor's ethics are challenged, the two Brigadier's finally meet, Turlough plots with the Black Guardian.

Tuesday
15th February 1983
6:55PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - Terminus - Part One

The TARDIS has to make an emergency landing on a ship that is en route to the derelict space station Terminus.

Wednesday
16th February 1983
6:45PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - Terminus - Part Two

The Doctor and his companions are trapped amongst the victims of the highly contagious Lazar's disease.

Tuesday
22nd February 1983
6:55PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - Terminus - Part Three

The Doctor and his companions have reached the Terminus, discovering a terrible danger.

Wednesday
23rd February 1983
6:45PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - Terminus - Part Four

The Doctor tries to wrest the TARDIS free of the disease-ridden space station

Tuesday
1st March 1983
6:55PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - Enlightenment - Part One

The TARDIS's power is drained away just as the Doctor receives a dire warning from the White Guardian.

Wednesday
2nd March 1983
6:45PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - Enlightenment - Part Two

The Doctor realises that Striker and his officers are Eternals and that the human crew mean nothing to them.

Tuesday
8th March 1983
6:55PM
BBC 1 (23 mins)

Doctor Who - Enlightenment - Part Three

Captain Wrack manipulates Turlough, because she is also working for the Black Guardian.

Wednesday
9th March 1983
6:45PM
BBC 1 (23 mins)

Doctor Who - Enlightenment - Part Four

The race for the Enlightenment is over and a winner has been crowned. Turlough must make a decision.

Tuesday
15th March 1983
6:55PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - The King's Demons - Part One

At a medieval joust between Frenchman Sir Gilles and Hugh Fitzwilliam, the TARDIS appears.

Wednesday
16th March 1983
6:45PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - The King's Demons - Part Two

The Master and the Doctor fight for control over Kamelion's mind while Turlough and Tegan make new allies.

UK Premiere
Friday
25th November 1983
7:20PM
BBC 1 (90 mins)
Special

Doctor Who - The Five Doctors

Returning to Gallifrey, a deadly game banned and derelict for centuries, has been reactivated. This episode premiered 23rd November 1983 - USA