Doctor Who

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Season 21

Overview

The Twin Dilemma, the first story with Colin Baker as the Sixth Doctor, aired last in the season. This season saw the departure of companions Tegan, Turlough and Kamelion and introduced Peri. Most episodes were the traditional twenty-five minute length. However, due to coverage of the 1984 Winter Olympics, Resurrection of the Daleks was re-edited before airing and shown as two forty-five minute episodes.

Episodes

1. Warriors of the Deep (1)
Jan 5, 1984
Episode 1

Earth's ocean floor, 2084. With two superpowers poised on the brink of a devastating photonic war, a missile base comes under attack from the reptilian Sea Devils and Silurians, intent on eradicating the upstart human race and reclaiming the planet…

5.3 25 min
2. Warriors of the Deep (2)
Jan 6, 1984
Episode 2

Just as the Doctor gains a tentative trust from the humans, a Silurian battle cruiser approaches. The Doctor warns Commander Vorsha to hold his fire and find out what they want, but is the level-headed commander one who'll listen?

6.0 25 min
3. Warriors of the Deep (3)
Jan 12, 1984
Episode 3

As Vorshak's crew are cut down by Sauvix's Sea Devil Warriors, the Doctor is running out of ways to broker a peace between the opposing species.

6.0 25 min
4. Warriors of the Deep (4)
Jan 13, 1984
Episode 4

With Silurians in control of the base, Icthar reveals his plan for a final solution to Earth's human problem, which presents the Doctor a great moral dilemma.

6.0 25 min
5. The Awakening (1)
Jan 19, 1984
Episode 5

The sleepy English village of Little Hodcombe, 1984. The village re-enactment of the English Civil War is in full swing, but a malign alien presence intends the mock-battles to be rather more realistic than planned...

7.3 25 min
6. The Awakening (2)
Jan 20, 1984
Episode 6

The Malus, an alien that's purely evil, needs the civil war re-enactments to become authentic so it can feed off the psychic energy of dying and embattled men and fully revive. Not if the Doctor can derail things, of course.

6.5 25 min
7. Frontios (1)
Jan 26, 1984
Episode 7

The planet Frontios, in the distant future. Following Earth's destruction, a tiny colony struggles to eke out a life on this desolate world. But where do the bombardments that threaten them originate from? Little does the Doctor suspect that somewhere nearby lurks a power capable of ripping even the TARDIS apart…

5.7 25 min
8. Frontios (2)
Jan 27, 1984
Episode 8

Following the destruction of the TARDIS, the only part of it left is the hat stand. So Turlough uses it as a weapon! Plantagenet gets swallowed by the earth, and Norna and Turlough discover the Tractators.

6.0 25 min
9. Frontios (3)
Feb 2, 1984
Episode 9

Trying to rescue the Doctor from the Tractator's trap, Tegan lands them both in even more trouble. Turlough goes a bit mad, and reckons he knows the evil of the Tractators from old.

6.0 25 min
10. Frontios (4)
Feb 3, 1984
Episode 10

The Doctor tries to deal with the Tractator's cunning plan, despite Turlough's best intervention. They discover the splintered TARDIS in the tunnels beneath the planet's surface, but how will they put it together again?

6.0 25 min
11. Resurrection of the Daleks (1)
Feb 8, 1984
Episode 11

London's Docklands, 1984. Why are uniformed policemen gunning down strangely-dressed vagrants in broad daylight? A prison ship in the far future - who is the sole prisoner aboard the craft? And why are these two locations linked by the time corridor the TARDIS has been sucked into?

9.0 46 min
12. Resurrection of the Daleks (2)
Feb 15, 1984
Episode 12

As the surviving station crew work to destroy the space station, Davros consolidates his power and the Daleks launch a fiendish scheme to use the Doctor against the Time Lords.

8.7 46 min
13. Planet of Fire (1)
Feb 23, 1984
Episode 13

Lanzarote, 1985. Archaeologist Howard Foster raises a strange metal artefact from the sea floor. But how is it linked to the signal the TARDIS received? Why is Turlough suddenly so worried? And why is Kamelion acting so erratically?

6.0 25 min
14. Planet of Fire (2)
Feb 24, 1984
Episode 14

While the Master, victim of his own attempt to improve his TCE weapon, seeks restoration through Sarn's numismaton gas, the truth of Turlough's past comes out at last, though to guarantee the safety of his brother and the Sarn people, Turlough must consider a great personal sacrifice.

6.7 25 min
15. Planet of Fire (3)
Mar 1, 1984
Episode 15

Sarn prophesy foretells of an outsider who will come to aid the people. It's a role the Master is more than delighted to fill, which finally presents Timanov, the Sarn religious leader, the unbridled support he's sought in his campaign to cull the faithless from among his people. Turlough's secret past, however, is somehow intricately involved in all this, and the reluctance of its disclosure is enough to threaten all friendly ties with the Doctor.

6.7 25 min
16. Planet of Fire (4)
Mar 2, 1984
Episode 16

While the Master, victim of his own attempt to improve his TCE weapon, seeks restoration through Sarn's numismaton gas, the truth of Turlough's past comes out at last, though to guarantee the safety of his brother and the Sarn people, Turlough must consider a great personal sacrifice.

6.7 25 min
17. The Caves of Androzani (1)
Mar 8, 1984
Episode 17

The planet Androzani Minor, the distant future. In the planet's caves war rages between government troops and the android warriors of the mysterious Sharaz Jek. But what makes spectrox, the substance they battle to control, so valuable? And how far will the Doctor go to protect his companion?

8.5 25 min
18. The Caves of Androzani (2)
Mar 9, 1984
Episode 18

The Doctor and Peri have been rescued from the firing squad by the mysterious Sharaz Jek. But he has his own plans for them. And why are they suddenly feeling ill?

8.4 25 min
19. The Caves of Androzani (3)
Mar 15, 1984
Episode 19

The situation on Androzani Minor is building toward a violent confrontation, and the Doctor and Peri are slowly succumbing to spectrox toxemia.

8.4 25 min
20. The Caves of Androzani (4)
Mar 16, 1984
Episode 20

Events on Androzani reach a bloody climax. Will the Doctor and Peri survive the carnage? And at what cost?

8.4 25 min
21. The Twin Dilemma (1)
Mar 22, 1984
Episode 21

Earth, the future. The genius Sylvest twins, child prodigies, are kidnapped by the mysterious Professor Edgeworth and taken to the planet Jaconda. But who is Edgeworth? Why does he serve the giant slug Mestor? And what is Mestor's plan?

3.1 25 min
22. The Twin Dilemma (2)
Mar 23, 1984
Episode 22

The Doctor takes Peri to Titan 3, a desolate hunk of rock in space where he hopes to find some solitude for a while. Instead he finds the lone but unconscious survivor of a recent spaceship crash in sight of a mound-shaped complex where no formalised structure should exist.

4.0 25 min
23. The Twin Dilemma (3)
Mar 29, 1984
Episode 23

The Doctor arrives on Jaconda, once lush and green, to find it completely devastated by giant gastropods. Old legends about the planet's half-human/half-slugs weren't just myths after all. With or without help from the Doctor and his unpredictable mood swings, Lt. Lang is up for rescuing the twins, who are finally informed of the grand purpose they've been brought to Jaconda to accomplish.

4.0 25 min
24. The Twin Dilemma (4)
Mar 30, 1984
Episode 24

The Doctor and Edgeworth deduce that the real plan of Mestor, the gastropod ruler of Jaconda, will not only destroy Jaconda but lead to the devastation of other planets. Together they hope to thwart him despite his formidable ability at slipping into people's minds and controlling them.

4.0 25 min
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