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Season 24

Doctor Who

Season 24

September 7, 1987
14Episodes
6.5

Unlike season 23, there was no overall story arc, and the episode allotment - two four-episode stories, two three-episode stories - would be retained for the remainder of the original series. Notably, the season featured the introduction of new companion Ace, who would be a prominent figure in the spinoff fiction that kept the Doctor Who name alive following its cancellation in 1989 and was the final official onscreen companion until Rose Tyler in the revived series.

Episodes

Time and the Rani (1)
E1

1. Time and the Rani (1)

5.7
September 7, 1987
25 min

The alien world of Lakertya. With the aid of the savage Tetraps, the Rani has conquered this planet to allow her to continue her depraved biochemical experiments. But she finds herself needing the Doctor's assistance...

Guest Stars:

Mark Greenstreet, Kate O'Mara, Donald Pickering

Time and the Rani (2)
E2

2. Time and the Rani (2)

6.4
September 14, 1987
25 min

The Rani's impersonation of Mel backfires badly because Urak can't tell the difference, while the Doctor attempts to learn the secret of the Loyhargil.

Guest Stars:

Mark Greenstreet, Kate O'Mara, Donald Pickering, Wanda Ventham

Time and the Rani (3)
E3

3. Time and the Rani (3)

6.5
September 21, 1987
25 min

The solstice nears, making it time for the Rani to bring her plans into fruition. The Doctor's sympathies for Beyus, ruler of the Lykertyans, are rather qualified. Beyus' heart is for his people yet something prompts him to collaborate fully in helping the Rani reach all her objectives. The answer, he's told, lies within the Center of Leisure.

Guest Stars:

Mark Greenstreet, Kate O'Mara, Donald Pickering, Wanda Ventham, Peter Tuddenham

Time and the Rani (4)
E4

4. Time and the Rani (4)

6.5
September 28, 1987
25 min

The Rani, at last, links the Doctor into her great brain machine, the crowning jewel in her component packet of geniuses brought together to turn Lakertya itself into one vast cerebral mass capable of redirecting time anywhere in the universe, giving her absolute power over all creation.

Guest Stars:

Mark Greenstreet, Kate O'Mara, Donald Pickering, Wanda Ventham, Peter Tuddenham

Paradise Towers (1)
E5

5. Paradise Towers (1)

5.4
October 5, 1987
25 min

The legendary Paradise Towers is supposed to be the height of luxury but when the Doctor and Mel arrive, they find it is as far from paradise as possible...

Guest Stars:

Richard Briers

Paradise Towers (2)
E6

6. Paradise Towers (2)

6.8
October 12, 1987
25 min

With the Doctor condemned to death by the caretakers and their bizarre rulebook, Mel faces cannibalistic OAPS. Is Pex going to be the true hero of Paradise Towers ?

Guest Stars:

Brenda Bruce, Richard Briers, Judy Cornwell, Elizabeth Spriggs, Catherine Cusack

Paradise Towers (3)
E7

7. Paradise Towers (3)

6.8
October 19, 1987
25 min

Mel and Pex play cat and mouse with the lethal cleaner robots while the Doctor and the surviving Kangs learn all about Kroagnon the Great Architect.

Guest Stars:

Brenda Bruce, Richard Briers, Judy Cornwell, Elizabeth Spriggs, Catherine Cusack

Paradise Towers (4)
E8

8. Paradise Towers (4)

6.8
October 26, 1987
25 min

Meeting up at the pool, the Doctor leads the surviving Rezzies, Kangs and Caretakers as they draw the line together on the 245th floor against the systematic cleansing of all life by Kroagnon and his robotic Cleaners.

Guest Stars:

Richard Briers, Judy Cornwell, Catherine Cusack, Clive Merrison

Delta and the Bannermen (1)
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9. Delta and the Bannermen (1)

6.8
November 2, 1987
25 min

Wales, 1959. A top-secret US satellite has mysteriously gone missing. This could have something to do with the arrival of a party of alien tourists en route to Disneyland, amongst their number Mel and the Doctor, and the Queen of the Chimerons - who's fleeing the Bannermen and their genocidal leader Gavrok...

Guest Stars:

Don Henderson, Ken Dodd, Stubby Kaye, Richard Davies, Keff McCulloch

Delta and the Bannermen (2)
E10

10. Delta and the Bannermen (2)

6.8
November 9, 1987
25 min

Mel's just discovered something very interesting about the life cycle of her new friend and the Doctor has been cornered by an alien bounty hunter wearing blue suede shoes.

Guest Stars:

Hugh Lloyd, Don Henderson, Stubby Kaye, Richard Davies

Delta and the Bannermen (3)
E11

11. Delta and the Bannermen (3)

6.8
November 16, 1987
25 min

As Billy and Ray do what they can to help save Delta and the baby, the Doctor and Goronwy the beekeeper face Gavrok and his Bannermen one last time...

Guest Stars:

Hugh Lloyd, Don Henderson, Stubby Kaye, Richard Davies

Dragonfire (1)
E12

12. Dragonfire (1)

6.3
November 23, 1987
25 min

The deep-space trading post of Iceworld, the far future. The Doctor, Mel, their old friend Glitz and time-lost waitress Ace go in search of a fabulous treasure, supposedly guarded by a fire-breathing dragon. But what is the link between the treasure and Iceworld's proprietor, the frosty Mr Kane?

Guest Stars:

Sophie Aldred, Sean Blowers, Patricia Quinn, Edward Peel, Tony Selby

Dragonfire (2)
E13

13. Dragonfire (2)

6.3
November 30, 1987
25 min

While Mel and Ace run from Glitz's former crewmen (whom he sold to Kane), officers Belazs and Kracauer conspire to overthrow Kane. The Doctor, meanwhile, discovers there really is a dragon in the ice caverns, which turns out to be a bio-mechanoid with a very interesting function.

Guest Stars:

Sophie Aldred, Patricia Quinn, Edward Peel, Daphne Oxenford, Tony Selby

Dragonfire (3)
E14

14. Dragonfire (3)

6.7
December 7, 1987
25 min

At last learning the location of the missing key to his spaceship, Kane has the dragon hunted down and Iceworld brutally purged of all visitors; but, the Doctor, visiting the Ice Garden, learns something significant that will put the chagrin on Kane's grand plans for home world vengeance.

Guest Stars:

Sophie Aldred, Sean Blowers, Patricia Quinn, Edward Peel, Shirin Taylor