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Castrovalva

Monday
4th January 1982
6:55PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - Castrovalva - Part One

The newly-regenerated fifth Doctor must rely on his friends to survive as the regeneration threatens to fail.

Tuesday
5th January 1982
7:00PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - Castrovalva - Part Two

The Master reveals to the trapped Adric that he has a further trap set for the Doctor.

Monday
11th January 1982
6:55PM
BBC 1 (23 mins)

Doctor Who - Castrovalva - Part Three

Nyssa and Tegan follow the trail of blood away from the Cabinet, trying to find the Doctor.

Tuesday
12th January 1982
7:05PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - Castrovalva - Part Four

Realising the true nature of Castrovalva's reality, The Master, seeing all is lost, flees to his TARDIS.

Four to Doomsday

Monday
18th January 1982
6:55PM
BBC 1 (23 mins)

Doctor Who - Four to Doomsday - Part One

The arrival of the TARDIS is observed by three Urbankans via their manopticon devices.

Tuesday
19th January 1982
7:05PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - Four to Doomsday - Part Two

Aboard the Urbankan ship, a Grecian philosopher reveals a bizarre secret about Monarch and his methods.

Monday
25th January 1982
6:55PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - Four to Doomsday - Part Three

Panicking, Tegan accidentally pilots the TARDIS into space, while Lin Fitu betrays the Doctor and Bigon.

Tuesday
26th January 1982
7:05PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - Four to Doomsday - Part Four

Nyssa and Bigon keep the Urbankans distracted and Adric decides exactly whose side he is on.

Kinda

Monday
1st February 1982
6:55PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - Kinda - Part One

On the planet Deva Loka it is almost paradise with a year-round temperate climate and non-hostile natives.

Tuesday
2nd February 1982
7:05PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - Kinda - Part Two

The Doctor and Todd are locked in a cell, while Adric manages to persuade Hindle he's on his side.

Monday
8th February 1982
6:55PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - Kinda - Part Three

The Doctor observes that the Kinda have a sense of humor, but Hindle is unamused.

Tuesday
9th February 1982
7:05PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - Kinda - Part Four

Tegan confesses the contents of her dream suspecting that a Mara has passed into the real world through her.

The Visitation

Monday
15th February 1982
6:55PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - The Visitation - Part One

In a 17th Century English village a comet explodes in the night sky and the villagers are attacked.

Tuesday
16th February 1982
7:05PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - The Visitation - Part Two

Discovering an energy barrier in a cellar wall, the group are attacked by a figure dressed as the grim reaper.

Monday
22nd February 1982
6:55PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - The Visitation - Part Three

Adric manages to escape while Tegan is brought under the complete control of the Terileptil.

Tuesday
23rd February 1982
7:05PM
BBC 1 (23 mins)

Doctor Who - The Visitation - Part Four

The Terileptil heads to the city of London to enact his deadly plan, leaving Tegan to do his bidding.

Black Orchid

Monday
1st March 1982
6:55PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - Black Orchid - Part One

The Cranleighs ask the Doctor to play cricket and then join them for a masked ball.

Tuesday
2nd March 1982
7:05PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - Black Orchid - Part Two

The Doctor stands accused, despite Lady Cranleigh knowing he is innocent.

Earthshock

Monday
8th March 1982
6:55PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - Earthshock - Part One

Deadly androids are protecting a bomb buried beneath the Earth from all investigation.

Tuesday
9th March 1982
7:05PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - Earthshock - Part Two

With her crew vanishing mysteriously, Captain Briggs assumes the Doctor is the guilty party.

Monday
15th March 1982
6:55PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - Earthshock - Part Three

The Cybermen are released from their silos and are on the march, attacking Briggs's crew.

Tuesday
16th March 1982
7:05PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - Earthshock - Part Four

The Doctor realises the freighter is now a huge bomb and sends it back through time.

Time-Flight

Monday
22nd March 1982
6:55PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - Time-Flight - Part One

A Concorde passenger jet seemingly vanishes on its final approach to Heathrow Airport.

Tuesday
23rd March 1982
7:05PM
BBC 1 (23 mins)

Doctor Who - Time-Flight - Part Two

The Doctor must try to work out why the mysterious Kalid has drawn them into the Jurassic period on Earth.

Monday
29th March 1982
6:55PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - Time-Flight - Part Three

Deep inside the citadel, the Doctor discovers the legendary Xeraphin who were believed to have been wiped out long ago.

Tuesday
30th March 1982
6:50PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - Time-Flight - Part Four

The Doctor must try and return the Concorde passengers back to their own time.

Arc of Infinity

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.

Snakedance

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.

Mawdryn Undead

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.

Terminus

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

Enlightenment

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.

The King's Demons

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.

The Five Doctors

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

Warriors of the Deep

Thursday
5th January 1984
6:40PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - Warriors of the Deep - Part One

A cold war between two superpowers is being fought on Earth in the year 2084.

Friday
6th January 1984
6:40PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - Warriors of the Deep - Part Two

The Sea Devils launch their attack on Sea Base 4 with the Doctor and Tegan inside.

Thursday
12th January 1984
6:40PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - Warriors of the Deep - Part Three

The Myrka continues its devastating attack on Sea Base 4 and the Doctor can only halt its progress temporarily.

Friday
13th January 1984
6:40PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - Warriors of the Deep - Part Four

The Silurians now have total control of Sea Base 4 and its proton missiles.

The Awakening

Thursday
19th January 1984
6:40PM
BBC 1 (25 mins)

Doctor Who - The Awakening - Part One

Teacher Jane Hampden is increasingly frustrated by the war games being played around the village.

Friday
20th January 1984
6:40PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - The Awakening - Part Two

The Malus's influence is asserting itself all over Little Hodcombe, and the war games take an unpleasant turn.

Frontios

Thursday
26th January 1984
6:40PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - Frontios - Part One

The Doctor and his companions find themselves grounded in the inhospitable planet of Frontios.

Friday
27th January 1984
6:40PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - Frontios - Part Two

The Doctor, still trying to come to terms with the loss of the TARDIS, is surrounded by an impromptu firing squad.

Thursday
2nd February 1984
6:40PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - Frontios - Part Three

Tegan manages to distract the Tractators and breaks their grip on the Doctor and Norna.

Friday
3rd February 1984
6:40PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - Frontios - Part Four

The Gravis become intrigued when Tegan inadvertently reveals that they travelled to Frontios by TARDIS.

Resurrection of the Daleks

Wednesday
8th February 1984
6:50PM
BBC 1 (46 mins)

Doctor Who - Resurrection of the Daleks - Part One

In a deserted area of the London Docks, a group of fugitives appear from thin air, and are gunned down.

Wednesday
15th February 1984
6:45PM
BBC 1 (46 mins)

Doctor Who - Resurrection of the Daleks - Part Two

As survivors of the prison station fight the invaders, Dalek agents on Earth take steps to protect the time corridor.

Planet of Fire

Thursday
23rd February 1984
6:40PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - Planet of Fire - Part One

A distress call is from the island of Lanzarote where an archaeological dig may have disturbed something alien.

Friday
24th February 1984
6:40PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - Planet of Fire - Part Two

On the volcanic planet of Sarn, Turlough finds evidence of an old colony of Trion, his home world.

Thursday
1st March 1984
6:40PM
BBC 1 (23 mins)

Doctor Who - Planet of Fire - Part Three

The Master has been declared a messiah by the Sarns and under his influence they imprison the Doctor.

Friday
2nd March 1984
6:40PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - Planet of Fire - Part Four

A volcanic eruption is threatening to destroy the inhabitants of Sarn, the Doctor manages to stabalise the seismic events but for how long? Turlough faces an agonising decision about whether to contact his home planet of Trion for help, he explains that he was sent away to Earth as an outlaw.

The Caves of Androzani

Thursday
8th March 1984
6:40PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - The Caves of Androzani - Part One

In the planets' caves war rages between government troops and the android warriors of Sharaz Jek.

Friday
9th March 1984
6:40PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - The Caves of Androzani - Part Two

Military captive Salateen tells Peri and the Doctor they are dying from spectrox tomaemia.

Thursday
15th March 1984
6:40PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - The Caves of Androzani - Part Three

On Androzani Major, Sharez Jek insanely believes Peri will fall in love with him.

Friday
16th March 1984
6:40PM
BBC 1 (25 mins)

Doctor Who - The Caves of Androzani - Part Four

Events on Androzani reach a bloody climax. Morgus is ruined, exposed as the one funding Jek’s gunrunners.