Season 18
(1980)
Overview
The season featured a story arc involving E-Space and the return of the Master who had stolen a new body rather than regenerate. The stories were darker and more adult in tone than those during the Graham Williams era. They also attempted to emphasise science, much to the satisfaction of both script editor Christopher H. Bidmead and executive producer Barry Letts. Notably, this season revolves around the theme of entropy, linking together all of its stories in a rare phenomenon for the show (wh…
Cast
as The Doctor
as Tegan Jovanka
as K9 (voice)
as Romana II
Episodes
The Leisure Hive (1) 6.3
August 30, 1980
The planet Argolis, around the year 2290. The Argolins live in a huge shielded city, protected from the irradiated wast…
The Leisure Hive (2) 6.0
September 6, 1980
Another man is found dead, strangled by the Doctor's scarf, so the Doctor is put on trial. By some of the archaic rules…
The Leisure Hive (3) 6.5
September 13, 1980
With the Doctor suffering from the time experiment, the clandestine schemes of others start coming to light, along with…
The Leisure Hive (4) 6.5
September 20, 1980
With the saboteur and murderer revealed and arrested, peace should now be restored, but a new threat emerges - a war-mo…
Meglos (1) 5.3
September 27, 1980
The desert planet Zolpha-Thura, the 1980s. Giant intelligent megalomaniac cactus Meglos is planning to conquer the gala…
Meglos (2) 6.0
October 4, 1980
With the TARDIS occupants trapped in a chronic histeratic loop (forever reliving the same moment in time), the devious …
Meglos (3) 6.0
October 11, 1980
Can Romana escape the Gaztaks ? What has become of the Dodecahedron ? What pressing appointment awaits the Doctor ?
Meglos (4) 6.0
October 18, 1980
With the Doctor about to be ritualistically sacrificed to appease the god Ti for stealing the dodecahedron, Meglos and …
Full Circle (1) 6.3
October 25, 1980
Deep space, an unknown time - on course for Gallifrey, the TARDIS passes through a strange disruption. When they materi…
Full Circle (2) 6.5
November 1, 1980
As the humanoid community takes refuge in their crashed spaceship, venomous marsh spiders begin to hatch from the local…
Full Circle (3) 6.5
November 8, 1980
Infection from a spider bite causes Romana's personality to change. Meanwhile the Doctor, after discovering that the sp…
Full Circle (4) 6.5
November 15, 1980
Marshmen invade the Terradonian ship thanks to Romana, who seems to be in communion with them. While the ship's inhabit…
State of Decay (1) 6.3
November 22, 1980
Still trapped in negative E-Space, the TARDIS lands on an unnamed world to find a society sliding back into feudalism. …
State of Decay (2) 6.0
November 29, 1980
The Doctor and Romana are escorted to the tower to meet the royal leaders, hoping they can find answers to why this soc…
State of Decay (3) 6.0
December 6, 1980
The Doctor finds archive material in the TARDIS that tells him he's dealing with an ancient enemy of the Time Lords, a …
State of Decay (4) 6.0
December 13, 1980
The Doctor joins the villagers' revolt against their vampire rulers, unsure how to kill the king vampire. Meanwhile Adr…
Warriors' Gate (1) 5.7
January 3, 1981
The TARDIS is drawn into an empty white void, somewhere between universes. But they are not the only ones trapped there.
Warriors' Gate (2) 6.0
January 10, 1981
When Rorvik learns that Romana is a time sensitive, he takes her prisoner, forcing her to find a way out of the void. T…
Warriors' Gate (3) 6.0
January 17, 1981
While Biroc leads the Doctor to a view of the Tharil's lordly past, Romana learns more about the damaged freighter and …
Warriors' Gate (4) 6.0
January 24, 1981
The Doctor deduces that the freighter is a slave ship loaded up with Tharils to be sold as time machine components, but…
The Keeper of Traken (1) 6.3
January 31, 1981
The planet Traken. The Traken union is a society living in perfect harmony, watched over by the powerful but benign Kee…
The Keeper of Traken (2) 6.0
February 7, 1981
Tremas claims consular privilege to protect the Doctor and Adric from execution, though it binds his fate to theirs if …
The Keeper of Traken (3) 6.0
February 14, 1981
With Tremas falling under suspicion, due to his association with the Doctor, a new Keeper Nominate is named. Now, with …
The Keeper of Traken (4) 6.0
February 21, 1981
With the merciless Melkur in control of The Source, the Doctor and his allies have only a slim chance of deposing him, …
Logopolis (1) 7.2
February 28, 1981
Deciding to repair the TARDIS' chameleon circuit, the Doctor goes to Earth to find a real police box. But an old enemy …
Logopolis (2) 7.3
March 7, 1981
The Doctor, aware that his time may soon be ending, travels to the Logopolis where a series of fateful events are set i…
Logopolis (3) 7.3
March 14, 1981
With Nyssa from Traken unexpectedly rejoining the group, Adric aids the Monitor of Logopolis in trying to save the Doct…
Logopolis (4) 8.7
March 21, 1981
With the universe collapsing, the Doctor forms an uneasy alliance with the Master to save it. In case all does not go w…