Season 26

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Season 26 of Doctor Who starred Sylvester McCoy as the Seventh Doctor. It aired between 6 September 1989 and 6 December 1989. This was the last season of the original BBC series. BBC Wales revived the show in 2005.

1 Overview
2 Television stories
3 Cast
- 3.1 Primary cast
- 3.2 Guests Cast
4 Adaptations and merchandising
- 4.1 Home media
  - 4.1.1 VHS
  - 4.1.2 DVD
- 4.2 Novels
5 Behind the scenes
6 External links

Overview Edit

The season consisted of four stories and fourteen twenty-five-minute episodes. It was the final season of the "classic" series; the BBC announced in 1990 that it would not be producing a 27th season. A one-off Children in Need special, Dimensions in Time, appeared in 1993, after which a television film, co-produced by an American network, followed in 1996. The series finally returned in 2005. However the BBC chose to restart the season numbering with Series 1. Season 26 featured the return of Nicholas Courtney as the Brigadier and the last televised appearance of Anthony Ainley as the Master. Unusually for a Doctor Who season, aside from some scenes in Survival, all the stories took place on Earth. Apart from Battlefield, the stories followed a loose character arc, as Ace came to terms with her past. As for the Doctor, he had become darker in personality, treating others as pawns in the battle between good and evil while dressing in dark clothes to match his personality change.

Television stories Edit

#	Title	Writer	Episodes	Notes
1	Battlefield	Ben Aaronovitch	4	Reintroduction of Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart; first UNIT story since 1976
2	Ghost Light	Marc Platt	3
3	The Curse of Fenric	Ian Briggs	4
4	Survival	Rona Munro	3	Final appearance of Ace; last serial in the original series

Cast Edit

Primary cast Edit

The Seventh Doctor - Sylvester McCoy
Ace - Sophie Aldred

Guests Cast Edit

Adaptations and merchandising Edit

Home media Edit

VHS Edit

Battlefield (single episode version)
Ghost Light
The Curse of Fenric (single episode version)
Survival

DVD Edit

All serials of season 26 were released individually between 2003 and 2009.

Serial name	Number and duration of episodes	R2 release date	R4 release date	R1 release date
Battlefield	4 × 25 min. (Broadcast Version) 1 × 96 min. (Special Edition)	26 December 2008	5 February 2009	5 May 2009
Ghost Light	3 × 25 min.	20 September 2004	3 February 2005	7 June 2005
The Curse of Fenric	4 × 25 min. (Broadcast Version) 1 × 104 min. (Special Edition)	6 October 2003	11 February 2004	1 June 2004
Survival	3 × 25 min.	16 April 2007	6 June 2007	14 August 2007

Novels Edit

Behind the scenes Edit

The producers had already outlined basic plots for the next season of Doctor Who when the programme's cancellation hit. In that season, it was proposed that Ace should leave, and a new companion should join. Also planned was that the entire season should do more to explore the darker side of the Doctor. While the scripts never saw a TV screen (and in some cases did not exist beyond a rough outline), they were eventually completed and produced as full-cast audio plays in Big Finish Productions' collection The Lost Stories.
This is the last series not to feature the Daleks.

External links Edit

BBC website guide to Season 26

Doctor Who television stories

Seasons 1-4: First Doctor

	Season 1 1963 1964	An Unearthly Child • The Daleks • The Edge of Destruction • Marco Polo • The Keys of Marinus • The Aztecs • The Sensorites • The Reign of Terror

	Season 2 1964 1965	Planet of the Giants • The Dalek Invasion of Earth • The Rescue • The Romans • The Web Planet • The Crusade • The Space Museum • The Chase • The Time Meddler

	Season 3 1965 1966	Galaxy 4 • Mission to the Unknown • The Myth Makers • The Daleks' Master Plan • The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve • The Ark • The Celestial Toymaker • The Gunfighters • The Savages • The War Machines

	Season 4 1966	The Smugglers • The Tenth Planet

Seasons 4-6: Second Doctor

	Season 4 1966 1967	The Power of the Daleks • The Highlanders • The Underwater Menace • The Moonbase • The Macra Terror • The Faceless Ones • The Evil of the Daleks

	Season 5 1967 1968	The Tomb of the Cybermen • The Abominable Snowmen • The Ice Warriors • The Enemy of the World • The Web of Fear • Fury from the Deep • The Wheel in Space

	Season 6 1968 1969	The Dominators • The Mind Robber • The Invasion • The Krotons • The Seeds of Death • The Space Pirates • The War Games

Seasons 7-11: Third Doctor

	Season 7 1970	Spearhead from Space • Doctor Who and the Silurians • The Ambassadors of Death • Inferno

	Season 8 1971	Terror of the Autons • The Mind of Evil • The Claws of Axos • Colony in Space • The Dæmons

	Season 9 1972	Day of the Daleks • The Curse of Peladon • The Sea Devils • The Mutants • The Time Monster

	Season 10 1972 1973	The Three Doctors • Carnival of Monsters • Frontier in Space • Planet of the Daleks • The Green Death

	Season 11 1973 1974	The Time Warrior • Invasion of the Dinosaurs • Death to the Daleks • The Monster of Peladon • Planet of the Spiders

Seasons 12-18: Fourth Doctor

	Season 12 1974 1975	Robot • The Ark in Space • The Sontaran Experiment • Genesis of the Daleks • Revenge of the Cybermen

	Season 13 1975 1976	Terror of the Zygons • Planet of Evil • Pyramids of Mars • The Android Invasion • The Brain of Morbius • The Seeds of Doom

	Season 14 1976 1977	The Masque of Mandragora • The Hand of Fear • The Deadly Assassin • The Face of Evil • The Robots of Death • The Talons of Weng-Chiang

	Season 15 1977 1978	Horror of Fang Rock • The Invisible Enemy • Image of the Fendahl • The Sun Makers • Underworld • The Invasion of Time

	Season 16 1978 1979	The Key to Time: The Ribos Operation • The Pirate Planet • The Stones of Blood • The Androids of Tara • The Power of Kroll • The Armageddon Factor

	Season 17 1979 1980	Destiny of the Daleks • City of Death • The Creature from the Pit • Nightmare of Eden • The Horns of Nimon • Shada (unbroadcast)

	Season 18 1980 1981	The Leisure Hive • Meglos • Full Circle • State of Decay • Warriors' Gate • The Keeper of Traken • Logopolis

Seasons 19-21: Fifth Doctor

	Season 19 1982	Castrovalva • Four to Doomsday • Kinda • The Visitation • Black Orchid • Earthshock • Time-Flight

	Season 20 1983	Arc of Infinity • Snakedance • Mawdryn Undead • Terminus • Enlightenment • The King's Demons

	Children in Need 1983	The Five Doctors

	Season 21 1984	Warriors of the Deep • The Awakening • Frontios • Resurrection of the Daleks • Planet of Fire • The Caves of Androzani

Seasons 21-23: Sixth Doctor

	Season 21 1984	The Twin Dilemma

	Season 22 1985	Attack of the Cybermen • Vengeance on Varos • The Mark of the Rani • The Two Doctors • Timelash • Revelation of the Daleks

	Season 23 1986	The Trial of a Time Lord: The Mysterious Planet • Mindwarp • Terror of the Vervoids • The Ultimate Foe

Seasons 24-26: Seventh Doctor

	Season 24 1987	Time and the Rani • Paradise Towers • Delta and the Bannermen • Dragonfire

	Season 25 1988 1989	Remembrance of the Daleks • The Happiness Patrol • Silver Nemesis • The Greatest Show in the Galaxy

	Season 26 1989	Battlefield • Ghost Light • The Curse of Fenric • Survival

TV Movie: Eighth Doctor

TV Movie 1996

Doctor Who

Series 1: Ninth Doctor

Series 1 2005

Rose • The End of the World • The Unquiet Dead • Aliens of London / World War Three • Dalek • The Long Game • Father's Day • The Empty Child / The Doctor Dances • Boom Town • Bad Wolf / The Parting of the Ways

Series 2-4: Tenth Doctor

Series 2 2005
2006

Mini-episode	Children in Need Special

Christmas special	The Christmas Invasion

Regular episodes	New Earth • Tooth and Claw • School Reunion • The Girl in the Fireplace • Rise of the Cybermen / The Age of Steel • The Idiot's Lantern • The Impossible Planet / The Satan Pit • Love & Monsters • Fear Her • Army of Ghosts / Doomsday

Series 3 2006
2007

Christmas special	The Runaway Bride

Regular episodes	Smith and Jones • The Shakespeare Code • Gridlock • Daleks in Manhatten / Evolution of the Daleks • The Lazarus Experiment • 42 • Human Nature / The Family of Blood • Blink • Utopia / The Sound of Drums / Last of the Time Lords

Animation	The Infinite Quest

Series 4 2007
2008
2009
2010

Mini-episode	Time Crash

Christmas special	Voyage of the Damned

Regular episodes	Partners in Crime • The Fires of Pompeii • Planet of the Ood • The Sontaran Stratagem / The Poison Sky • The Doctor's Daughter • The Unicorn and the Wasp • Silence in the Library / Forest of the Dead • Midnight • Turn Left • The Stolen Earth / Journey's End • The Next Doctor • Planet of the Dead • The Waters of Mars • The End of Time

Mini-episode	Music of the Spheres

Animation	Dreamland

For the purposes of this list, "series 4" is considered to be the production series 4, which ran all the way from Time Crash to The End of Time.

Series 5-present: Eleventh Doctor

Series 5 2010

Regular episodes

The Eleventh Hour • The Beast Below • Victory of the Daleks • The Time of Angels / Flesh and Stone • The Vampires of Venice • Amy's Choice • The Hungry Earth / Cold Blood • Vincent and the Doctor • The Lodger • The Pandorica Opens / The Big Bang

Series 6 2010
2011

Christmas special	A Christmas Carol

Mini-episodes	Space / Time

Regular episodes	Spring Half: The Impossible Astronaut / Day of the Moon • The Curse of the Black Spot • The Doctor's Wife • The Rebel Flesh / The Almost People • A Good Man Goes to War Autumn Half: Let's Kill Hitler • Night Terrors • The Girl Who Waited • The God Complex • Closing Time • The Wedding of River Song

Mini-episodes	Death Is the Only Answer

Series 7 2011
2012
2013


Christmas special	The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe

Mini-episode	Good as Gold

Regular episodes	Autumn Half: Asylum of the Daleks • Dinosaurs on a Spaceship • A Town Called Mercy • The Power of Three • The Angels Take Manhattan

Mini-episode	The Great Detective

Christmas special	The Snowmen

Regular episodes	Spring Half: The Bells of Saint John • The Rings of Ahkaten • Cold War • Hide • Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS • The Crimson Horror • Nightmare in Silver • The Name of the Doctor

Despite marketing language by the BBC, The Adventure Games are not televised episodes, and therefore are not included on this list.

Deliberately not included are some stories which this wiki does not consider valid — such as the so-called "Pilot Episode", Dimensions in Time, A Fix with Sontarans, Search Out Space, The Curse of Fatal Death and the National Television Awards Sketch 2011.

v • e Aliens and Enemies of Season 26

Battlefield	Morgaine • Mordred • The Destroyer • Knight Commander • Serpentine Defence Mechanism

Ghost Light	Light • Josiah Samuel Smith • Control • Neanderthal • Husks

The Curse of Fenric	Fenric • Haemovores • A.H. Millington

Survival	Cheetah People • Kitlings • The Master

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