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Doctor Who 23

1986-09-06 | Drama,Action & Adventure,Sci-Fi & Fantasy | 14 episodes
Overview
This season had a unique format, never again repeated in the show. Doctor Who had returned to production after a near-cancellation and an eighteen-month production hiatus. For the first time, a season consisted of a single story, The Trial of a Time Lord, although this was made up of four serials from a production perspective: each serial was written by a different person (save for The Mysterious Planet and the first part of The Ultimate Foe, both of which were written by Robert Holmes) and featured a different story presented as evidence, excluding the final two episodes which concluded the ongoing story of the trial; the trial storyline itself acted as a framing device to bracket the first three serials. As a result, whether The Trial of a Time Lord should be considered one story or four has been intensely debated. This single-story format, sometimes referred to as a "miniseries", would later be utilised for the third and fourth series of Torchwood.

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The Mysterious Planet (1) (1986)

The Doctor is taken "out of time" by the Time Lords and made to face an inquiry into his meddling in the affairs of others, overseen by the Inquisitor. The prosecutor, the Valeyard, soon has the proceedings upgraded to a trial for the Doctor's life. Evidence takes the form of recordings of the Doctor's recent adventures, beginning with his visit to the mysterious world of Ravalox and an encounter with Andromedan space pirates...

The Mysterious Planet (1) poster

Directed By

Nicholas Mallett

Writer

Robert Holmes

The Mysterious Planet (2) (1986)

The Doctor has an appointment with the Immortal, while Peri finds herself caught up with Glitz and the Tribe of the Free. Meanwhile, Merdeen begins to question all he believes.

The Mysterious Planet (2) poster

Directed By

Nicholas Mallett

Writer

Robert Holmes

The Mysterious Planet (3) (1986)

The Doctor escapes to rejoin Peri on the surface but shortly becomes the prisoner of a surface-dwelling tribe called The Free. Ravalox isn't Ravalox after all, but before the Doctor can learn much more an irresistible agent from UK Habitat comes to fetch him back.

The Mysterious Planet (3) poster

Directed By

Nicholas Mallett

Writer

Robert Holmes

The Mysterious Planet (4) (1986)

All those on Ravolox are in exponentially greater peril than anyone can comprehend. If anything in the entire universe is to survive, it may come down to the Doctor arguing against machine logic over the value of life.

The Mysterious Planet (4) poster

Directed By

Nicholas Mallett

Writer

Robert Holmes

Mindwarp (1) (1986)

The Doctor's trial continues. The Valeyard's next piece of evidence for the prosecution concerns the Doctor's recent trip to Thoros Beta. Though originally investigating arms dealing, the Doctor and Peri become embroiled in their old enemy Sil's alarming neurological experiments...

Mindwarp (1) poster

Directed By

Ron Jones

Writer

Philip Martin

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