
Doctor Who
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
25 Episodes