Doctor Who — Season 22
13 episodesFirst aired 5 January 1985
With this season the BBC experimented with the format of the series, reducing the number of episodes to thirteen, but making each episode forty-five minutes long. The experiment did not result in improved ratings and at the end of the season the BBC announced it was cancelling the series; uproar from fans resulted in the BBC changing its mind and putting the series on an eighteen-month hiatus instead. This season is notable for featuring the final appearance of Patrick Troughton as the beloved Second Doctor, in a storyline that gave rise to a popular fan theory known as Season 6B.
E1Attack of the Cybermen (1)
7.0Jan 198545m
London, 1985. The alien mercenary Lytton has been stranded here for nearly a year, but now he has a plan to escape. But how does it involve the Doctor's old enemies - and why are they on Earth at this point in history?
E2Attack of the Cybermen (2)
6.9Jan 198545m
On Telos, the Doctor is reintroduced to the Cyber Leader and meets the Cryons, the planet's original inhabitants who will go to any lengths to get their world back!
E3Vengeance on Varos (1)
6.0Jan 198545m
The former prison planet Varos, the future. The downtrodden population of miners are kept happy by real-life violence and murder broadcast live from the Punishment Dome. But then the TARDIS materialises inside the Dome...
E4Vengeance on Varos (2)
6.0Jan 198545m
The Governor forces the Doctor to tell him the true value of Zeiton-7 but Sil attempts to derail his plans by subjecting Peri and Areta to an enforced mutation.
E5The Mark of the Rani (1)
6.1Feb 198546m
England, the 1820s. As the Industrial Revolution gathers pace, the village of Killingworth is disturbed by crazed Luddite miners intent on smashing all machinery and engineers. But is there another cause of the situation?
E6The Mark of the Rani (2)
6.2Feb 198545m
The Master uses The Rani's mind-controlling parasites to keep a meeting of Earth's leading scientists from being cancelled, and helps her plant transformation land mines for The Doctor, as he continues to propose an alliance with her in ruling over Earth.
E7The Two Doctors (1)
7.1Feb 198545m
The alien space station J7, the mid-1980s Earth time. The Time Lords have sent the second Doctor and Jamie here to try to stop dangerous experiments into time travel. But the station comes under attack from the Sontarans and far away in space and time the sixth Doctor goes into psychic shock...
E8The Two Doctors (2)
7.3Feb 198545m
The Doctor and Peri meet Jamie and learn the Second Doctor is with the Sontarans on Earth.
E9The Two Doctors (3)
7.1Mar 198545m
The Sontarans prepare the Second Doctor to trigger their Kartz-Reimer capsule.
E10Timelash (1)
5.6Mar 198546m
The planet Karfel, in the distant future. The tyrannical Borad rules with an iron fist, and any who oppose him are cast into the Timelash - a space-time tunnel leading to the past of an alien world called Earth...
E11Timelash (2)
5.6Mar 198545m
The Borad accepts no opposition and enables Maylin Tekker to expose the rebels and trap Peri with the Morlox. The Doctor tries to avert a war between Karfel and the Bandrils.
E12Revelation of the Daleks (1)
6.4Mar 198545m
The planet Necros, the future. The Doctor arrives for the cryogenic interment of an old friend at Tranquil Repose, a vast repository of bodies in suspended animation. But what does the 'Great Healer' really have in mind for them...?
E13Revelation of the Daleks (2)
6.6Mar 198546m
Davros plans to create an army of Daleks loyal only to him but on Skaro, the Daleks have other plans and head to Necros. Caught in the middle of this, the Doctor must save Peri...
