Season 21
(1984)
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.
Cast
as The Doctor
as Perpugilliam "Peri" Brown
as Tegan Jovanka
as Vislor Turlough
Episodes
Warriors of the Deep (1) 5.3
January 5, 1984
Earth's ocean floor, 2084. With two superpowers poised on the brink of a devastating photonic war, a missile base comes…
Warriors of the Deep (2) 6.0
January 6, 1984
Just as the Doctor gains a tentative trust from the humans, a Silurian battle cruiser approaches. The Doctor warns Comm…
Warriors of the Deep (3) 6.0
January 12, 1984
As Vorshak's crew are cut down by Sauvix's Sea Devil Warriors, the Doctor is running out of ways to broker a peace betw…
Warriors of the Deep (4) 6.0
January 13, 1984
With Silurians in control of the base, Icthar reveals his plan for a final solution to Earth's human problem, which pre…
The Awakening (1) 7.3
January 19, 1984
The sleepy English village of Little Hodcombe, 1984. The village re-enactment of the English Civil War is in full swing…
The Awakening (2) 6.5
January 20, 1984
The Malus, an alien that's purely evil, needs the civil war re-enactments to become authentic so it can feed off the ps…
Frontios (1) 5.7
January 26, 1984
The planet Frontios, in the distant future. Following Earth's destruction, a tiny colony struggles to eke out a life on…
Frontios (2) 6.0
January 27, 1984
Following the destruction of the TARDIS, the only part of it left is the hat stand. So Turlough uses it as a weapon! Pl…
Frontios (3) 6.0
February 2, 1984
Trying to rescue the Doctor from the Tractator's trap, Tegan lands them both in even more trouble. Turlough goes a bit …
Frontios (4) 6.0
February 3, 1984
The Doctor tries to deal with the Tractator's cunning plan, despite Turlough's best intervention. They discover the spl…
Resurrection of the Daleks (1) 8.8
February 8, 1984
London's Docklands, 1984. Why are uniformed policemen gunning down strangely-dressed vagrants in broad daylight? A pris…
Resurrection of the Daleks (2) 8.0
February 15, 1984
As the surviving station crew work to destroy the space station, Davros consolidates his power and the Daleks launch a …
Planet of Fire (1) 5.3
February 23, 1984
Lanzarote, 1985. Archaeologist Howard Foster raises a strange metal artefact from the sea floor. But how is it linked t…
Planet of Fire (2) 6.0
February 24, 1984
While the Master, victim of his own attempt to improve his TCE weapon, seeks restoration through Sarn's numismaton gas,…
Planet of Fire (3) 6.0
March 1, 1984
Sarn prophesy foretells of an outsider who will come to aid the people. It's a role the Master is more than delighted t…
Planet of Fire (4) 6.0
March 2, 1984
While the Master, victim of his own attempt to improve his TCE weapon, seeks restoration through Sarn's numismaton gas,…
The Caves of Androzani (1) 8.4
March 8, 1984
The planet Androzani Minor, the distant future. In the planet's caves war rages between government troops and the andro…
The Caves of Androzani (2) 8.2
March 9, 1984
The Doctor and Peri have been rescued from the firing squad by the mysterious Sharaz Jek. But he has his own plans for …
The Caves of Androzani (3) 8.2
March 15, 1984
The situation on Androzani Minor is building toward a violent confrontation, and the Doctor and Peri are slowly succumb…
The Caves of Androzani (4) 8.2
March 16, 1984
Events on Androzani reach a bloody climax. Will the Doctor and Peri survive the carnage? And at what cost?
The Twin Dilemma (1) 2.5
March 22, 1984
Earth, the future. The genius Sylvest twins, child prodigies, are kidnapped by the mysterious Professor Edgeworth and t…
The Twin Dilemma (2) 3.0
March 23, 1984
The Doctor takes Peri to Titan 3, a desolate hunk of rock in space where he hopes to find some solitude for a while. In…
The Twin Dilemma (3) 3.0
March 29, 1984
The Doctor arrives on Jaconda, once lush and green, to find it completely devastated by giant gastropods. Old legends a…
The Twin Dilemma (4) 3.0
March 30, 1984
The Doctor and Edgeworth deduce that the real plan of Mestor, the gastropod ruler of Jaconda, will not only destroy Jac…