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Overview Edit

The season consisted of four serials and fourteen episodes of twenty-five minutes each. 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. Unlike the previous regenerations of the Doctor, the Sixth Doctor's happened at the beginning of the season's episode. Colin Baker, who played the Sixth Doctor, would not come back to shoot a few episodes leading up to the regeneration as he felt insulted at being replaced after a short time as the Doctor.

This was the first season since Season 17 not to feature the Master.

Television stories Edit

#	Title	Writer	Episodes	Notes
1	Time and the Rani	Pip and Jane Baker	4	Final appearance of the Sixth Doctor (played by Sylvester McCoy) and first appearance of the Seventh Doctor. Final appearance of the Rani
2	Paradise Towers	Stephen Wyatt	4
3	Delta and the Bannerman	Malcolm Kohll	3
4	Dragonfire	Ian Briggs	3	Final appearance of Melanie Bush and Sabalom Glitz; first appearance of Ace

Cast Edit

Primary cast Edit

The Seventh Doctor - Sylvester McCoy
Mel - Bonnie Langford (departs in Dragonfire)
Ace - Sophie Aldred (introduced in Dragonfire)

Guest cast Edit

Stories set during this season Edit

AUDIO: Unregenerate! (audio story) and AUDIO: Red (Between Time and the Rani and Paradise Towers (TV story))
AUDIO: Bang-Bang-A-Boom! (audio story), AUDIO: Flip-Flop (audio story) and DWM: Plastic Millenium (Between Paradise Towers (TV story) and Delta and the Bannermen (TV story))
AUDIO: The Fires of Vulcan (audio story) (Between Delta and the Bannermen (TV story) and Dragonfire (TV story))

Adaptations and merchandising Edit

Home media Edit

VHS Edit

Time and the Rani
Paradise Towers
Delta and the Bannermen
Dragonfire

DVD Edit

The first serial was released in 2009.

Serial name	Number and duration of episodes	R2 release date	R4 release date	R1 release date
Time and the Rani	4 × 25 min.	13 September 2010	4 November 2010	14 June 2011
Paradise Towers	4 × 25 min.	18 July 2011	1 September 2011	9 August 2011
Delta and the Bannerman	3 × 25 min.	22 June 2009	6 August 2009	1 September 2009
Dragonfire Released as part of the Ace Adventures box set	3 × 25 min.	7 May 2012	7 June 2012	8 May 2012

Novelisations Edit

External links Edit

BBC website guide to Season 24

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