Season 6 poster

Season 6

(1968)

Overview

This season featured the first ever UNIT story, The Invasion, which showcased the return of Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart. It also featured the first official appearance of Time Lords and the as yet unnamed Doctor's home planet (another member of Susan and the Doctor's race, the Monk, had appeared previously, but without much elaboration and without using the term "Time Lord"). It also marked the tenure of Patrick Troughton as the Second Doctor. It consisted of seven serials and forty-four episo…

Cast

Patrick Troughton as The Doctor
Patrick Troughton

as The Doctor

Episodes

The Dominators (1) poster

The Dominators (1) 5.2

August 10, 1968

The TARDIS arrives on the planet Dulkis where the Doctor, Zoe and Jamie decide to have a quiet holiday. Only to find th…

The Dominators (2) poster

The Dominators (2) 6.0

August 17, 1968

The Doctor and Jamie are captured by the Dominators, who subject them to an intelligence test, while Zoe and Cully atte…

The Dominators (3) poster

The Dominators (3) 6.0

August 24, 1968

Zoe and Cully are captured by the Dominators and put to work alongside the survey team while the Doctor and Jamie decid…

The Dominators (4) poster

The Dominators (4) 6.0

August 31, 1968

The Doctor and Zoe are interrogated by Rago, who is planning to present his terms to the Dulcian council, while Jamie a…

The Dominators (5) poster

The Dominators (5) 6.0

September 7, 1968

Jamie and Cully manage to rescue the Doctor's party and together they try to find a way to stop the Dominators before t…

The Mind Robber (1) poster

The Mind Robber (1) 6.2

September 14, 1968

The TARDIS arrives in a white void, having made an emergency take-off to escape the volcanic eruption on Dulkis. The Do…

The Mind Robber (2) poster

The Mind Robber (2) 6.3

September 21, 1968

With the TARDIS destroyed, the Doctor, Jamie and Zoe find themselves in a strange forest patrolled by mysterious soldie…

The Mind Robber (3) poster

The Mind Robber (3) 5.7

September 28, 1968

The Doctor realises that the travellers are trapped in a world where fiction is real and where creatures are a threat i…

The Mind Robber (4) poster

The Mind Robber (4) 5.7

October 5, 1968

The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe reach the citadel at the centre of the land, where they finally encounter the Master of the L…

The Mind Robber (5) poster

The Mind Robber (5) 5.7

October 12, 1968

With Jamie and Zoe having been turned into fiction, the Doctor must find a way to save them without suffering the same …

The Invasion (1) poster

The Invasion (1) 8.7

November 2, 1968

The Doctor and the newly formed UNIT must stop a Cybermen Invasion and a Sinister Industrialist in league with them

The Invasion (2) poster

The Invasion (2) 6.0

November 9, 1968

The Doctor and Jamie are taken prisoner by their mysterious observers and have a reunion with an old friend while Zoe a…

The Invasion (3) poster

The Invasion (3) 6.0

November 16, 1968

The Doctor and Jamie return to the IE factory in search of Zoe and Isobel, where they meet with Professor Watkins and f…

The Invasion (4) poster

The Invasion (4) 5.5

November 23, 1968

The Doctor and Jamie enlist the help of UNIT to rescue Zoe and Isobel before trying to find out what Vaughn is really u…

The Invasion (5) poster

The Invasion (5) 5.5

November 30, 1968

The Doctor and Jamie tell the Brigadier about the Cybermen but with Rutledge under Vaughn's control he is powerless to …

The Invasion (6) poster

The Invasion (6) 5.5

December 7, 1968

Captain Turner manages to rescue Jamie and the others, while the Doctor begins working on a way to protect everyone fro…

The Invasion (7) poster

The Invasion (7) 5.5

December 14, 1968

With the entire world unconscious apart from the Doctor and his friends, the Cybermen are poised to invade and only Zoe…

The Invasion (8) poster

The Invasion (8) 5.5

December 21, 1968

The Cybermen have launched their deadly megatron bomb which will destroy all life on Earth unless the Doctor can deacti…

The Krotons (1) poster

The Krotons (1) 5.7

December 28, 1968

When the TARDIS arrives on the planet of the Gonds, the Doctor, Jamie and Zoe discover a world ruled and enslaved by th…

The Krotons (2) poster

The Krotons (2) 5.5

January 4, 1969

Zoe is selected as a companion for the Krotons and the Doctor insists on joining her.

The Krotons (3) poster

The Krotons (3) 5.5

January 11, 1969

Jamie is held prisoner by the Krotons who intend to recapture the Doctor and Zoe for their mental energy.

The Krotons (4) poster

The Krotons (4) 5.5

January 18, 1969

Selris succeeds in drawing the Krotons out of the Dynatrope but Eelek agrees to hand the Doctor and Zoe over to them in…

The Seeds of Death (1) poster

The Seeds of Death (1) 7.3

January 25, 1969

21st century Earth is entirely dependent on the T-Mat transport system but the control centre on the moon has stopped f…

The Seeds of Death (2) poster

The Seeds of Death (2) 6.5

February 1, 1969

Eldred agrees to supply a rocket for travel to the moon and the Doctor, Jamie and Zoe volunteer to crew it.

The Seeds of Death (3) poster

The Seeds of Death (3) 6.5

February 8, 1969

The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe make it to the moon and join forces with Phipps but the Ice Warriors have gained control of T…

The Seeds of Death (4) poster

The Seeds of Death (4) 6.5

February 15, 1969

The Ice Warriors' seed pods beginning materialising all over the globe while Slaar decides to kill the Doctor by T-matt…

The Seeds of Death (5) poster

The Seeds of Death (5) 5.5

February 22, 1969

The Doctor and his allies manage to return to Earth via T-mat only to find the Ice Warrior has attacked the weather con…

The Seeds of Death (6) poster

The Seeds of Death (6) 5.5

March 1, 1969

The Doctor manages to create a rain storm to destroy the Martian fungus before trying to find a way to stop the Ice War…

The Space Pirates (1) poster

The Space Pirates (1) 6.5

March 8, 1969

Space beacons are being destroyed by pirates, who are salvaging the argonite metal. When the Doctor, Jamie and Zoe arri…

The Space Pirates (2) poster

The Space Pirates (2) 5.5

March 15, 1969

With the Doctor, Jamie and Zoe trapped on a beacon segment, Hermack becomes suspicious of the unruly prospector Milo Cl…

The Space Pirates (3) poster

The Space Pirates (3) 5.5

March 22, 1969

The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe flee from the Space Corps with Clancey, who decides to seek refuge on Ta.

The Space Pirates (4) poster

The Space Pirates (4) 6.5

March 29, 1969

The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe are held prisoner by the space pirates while Caven comes up with a plan to throw suspicion on…

The Space Pirates (5) poster

The Space Pirates (5) 6.5

April 5, 1969

Madeleine is revealed to be working with Caven, who comes up with a way to kill the Doctor and his friends whilst frami…

The Space Pirates (6) poster

The Space Pirates (6) 7.5

April 12, 1969

With Clancey and Issigri trapped aboard the LIZ, the Doctor, Jamie and Zoe try to convince Madeleine to help them befor…

The War Games (1) poster

The War Games (1) 8.7

April 19, 1969

The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe realise they have arrived in the trenches of the First World War, where the sinister General …

The War Games (2) poster

The War Games (2) 7.5

April 26, 1969

The Doctor and Zoe manage to escape from Ransom and attempt to rescue Jamie from the military prison.

The War Games (3) poster

The War Games (3) 7.5

May 3, 1969

The Doctor and his friends realise the area is divided into different time zones and decide to return to the château to…

The War Games (4) poster

The War Games (4) 6.0

May 10, 1969

The Doctor and Zoe are transported to the control centre of the war games while Jamie and Lady Jennifer fall foul of Am…

The War Games (5) poster

The War Games (5) 6.0

May 17, 1969

The Doctor attempts to rescue Zoe and Carstairs while Jamie and Lady Jennifer try to convince the resistance of the tru…

The War Games (6) poster

The War Games (6) 6.0

May 24, 1969

The scientist examines the captured resistance fighters and realises Jamie is a new arrival on the planet while the Doc…

The War Games (7) poster

The War Games (7) 6.0

May 31, 1969

The Doctor, Jamie and Carstairs manage to return to the 1917 zone only to be captured by Smythe, who orders the Doctor …

The War Games (8) poster

The War Games (8) 6.0

June 7, 1969

The Doctor and the processing machine have been taken by the Aliens but the resistance are making plans to attack the c…

The War Games (9) poster

The War Games (9) 7.0

June 14, 1969

To prove his loyalty to the Aliens, the Doctor is ordered to reprocess his friends while the Security Chief finally unc…

The War Games (10) poster

The War Games (10) 8.0

June 21, 1969

The TARDIS is drawn to the planet of the Time Lords where both the Doctor and the War Lord are placed on trial.