
Doctor Who
As of 2017, season 8 remains notable for being the season with the most number of regular characters. Not only did it see a new companion in the form of Jo Grant, but it featured a regular enemy — The Master — who was the first regular Time Lord enemy of the Doctor to appear more than twice, and an expanded regular UNIT cast that now included Sergeant Benton and Mike Yates in most episodes. Adding in returning regulars Jon Pertwee and Nicholas Courtney, the regular cast swelled to six.
When a Nestene Energy Unit is stolen and a radio telescope sabotaged, the Doctor is contacted by a Time Lord who tells him his old rival the Master is responsible.
Guest Stars:
Michael Wisher, Harry Towb, David Garth, David Garth, Christopher Burgess
The Doctor discovers the plastic daffodils are designed to fire a spray that asphyxiates people, causing havoc prior to the Nestene's arrival, but before he can alert anyone he and Jo are captured by the Master.
Guest Stars:
Michael Wisher, Pat Gorman, Hayden Jones
The Doctor and Jo head to Stangmoor Prison to investigate the Keller Machine, which drains the evil impulses from prisoners' minds, while UNIT are handling security at the first world peace conference.
Guest Stars:
Pik-Sen Lim, Raymond Westwell, Michael Sheard, Simon Lack, Fernanda Marlowe
Realising Chin-Lee has been using the power of the Keller Machine to carry out assassinations, the Doctor heads back to Stangmoor, only to find the Master has teamed up with Mailer to stage another riot.
Guest Stars:
Pik-Sen Lim, Raymond Westwell, Michael Sheard, Fernanda Marlowe, Roy Purcell
The Doctor is forced to help the Master control the mind parasite while Yates finds out where the Thunderbolt has been taken only to be captured by the Master's men.
Guest Stars:
William Marlowe, Patrick Godfrey, Johnny Barrs, Matthew Walters, Neil McCarthy
When a mysterious object lands near the Nuton power complex, UNIT investigate and encounter the Axons, a group of aliens who offer the mineral axonite, which can duplicate matter, as a gift.
Guest Stars:
Fernanda Marlowe, Peter Bathurst, Paul Grist, Donald Hewlett, David Savile
The Doctor and Jo are being held prisoner by Axos while Chinn is forced to organise the worldwide distribution of axonite and the Master returns to the power complex to try and steal the TARDIS.
Guest Stars:
Peter Bathurst, Paul Grist, Donald Hewlett, Bernard Holley, Tim Pigott-Smith
The Time Lords take control of the TARDIS and the Doctor and Jo arrive on an Earth Colony in the 25th century, where a ruthless mining company are using a dinosaur-like creature to force the colonists to leave the planet.
Guest Stars:
Graham Leaman, Nicholas Pennell, John Ringham, David Webb, Roy Skelton
The Doctor discovers an Interplanetary Mining Corporation ship has landed on the planet in order to mine its duralinium, while Norton begins causing trouble at the colony.
Guest Stars:
Nicholas Pennell, John Ringham, Roy Skelton, Helen Worth, Pat Gorman
The Doctor and the Master are taken into the Primitive city, where the Master hopes to find the doomsday weapon, while Dent forces the colonists to leave the planet even though their ship is likely to explode.
Guest Stars:
Nicholas Pennell, John Ringham, Helen Worth, Bernard Kay, Morris Perry
Earth, the near future. When an archaological dig at the village of Devil's End goes disastrously wrong, an ancient power begins to revive. Can even the Doctor withstand the power of the Daemons? And just what is the local vicar up to in his spare time?
Guest Stars:
Damaris Hayman, Don McKillop, Rollo Gamble, Robin Wentworth, David Simeon
With the Doctor frozen by the energy release from the barrow, Jo calls Yates and Benton for help, but when the Brigadier tries to join them he finds the village surrounded by a heat barrier.
Guest Stars:
Damaris Hayman, Don McKillop, Rollo Gamble, James Snell, John Joyce
The Doctor explains to his friends that the Master is trying to gain the power of the last of the Daemons, a race who influenced Earth's development, while the Master brings the rest of the village under his control.
Guest Stars:
Damaris Hayman, Don McKillop, Rollo Gamble, Eric Hillyard, Jon Croft
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