Doctor Who — Season 6
44 episodesFirst aired 10 August 1968
This season featured the first ever UNIT story, The Invasion, which showcased the return of Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart. It also featured the first official appearance of Time Lords and the as yet unnamed Doctor's home planet (another member of Susan and the Doctor's race, the Monk, had appeared previously, but without much elaboration and without using the term "Time Lord"). It also marked the tenure of Patrick Troughton as the Second Doctor. It consisted of seven serials and forty-four episodes, including two epic-length storylines: the eight episodes of The Invasion and the ten-episode The War Games.
E1The Dominators (1)
5.8Aug 196825m
The TARDIS arrives on the planet Dulkis where the Doctor, Zoe and Jamie decide to have a quiet holiday. Only to find the Evil Dominators and their robotic slaves, The Quarks have arrived on a radioactive island, where they plan to detonate a bomb in the planet's core, which will turn the entire planet as source of radioactive fuel for their invasion fleet.
E2The Dominators (2)
6.1Aug 196825m
The Doctor and Jamie are captured by the Dominators, who subject them to an intelligence test, while Zoe and Cully attempt to convince the Dulcian council of the threat.
E3The Dominators (3)
5.1Aug 196825m
Zoe and Cully are captured by the Dominators and put to work alongside the survey team while the Doctor and Jamie decide to return to the island to help.
E4The Dominators (4)
5.1Aug 196824m
The Doctor and Zoe are interrogated by Rago, who is planning to present his terms to the Dulcian council, while Jamie and Cully try to find a way to strike back against the Quarks.
E5The Dominators (5)
5.6Sept 196825m
Jamie and Cully manage to rescue the Doctor's party and together they try to find a way to stop the Dominators before they destroy the entire planet.
E6The Mind Robber (1)
7.2Sept 196822m
The TARDIS arrives in a white void, having made an emergency take-off to escape the volcanic eruption on Dulkis. The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe find themselves in the Land of Fiction, where characters from the imagination come to life, and The Master, the mysterious ruler, chooses the Doctor to take his place.
E7The Mind Robber (2)
6.9Sept 196822m
With the TARDIS destroyed, the Doctor, Jamie and Zoe find themselves in a strange forest patrolled by mysterious soldiers.
E8The Mind Robber (3)
6.5Sept 196820m
The Doctor realises that the travellers are trapped in a world where fiction is real and where creatures are a threat if people believe in them.
E9The Mind Robber (4)
6.2Oct 196820m
The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe reach the citadel at the centre of the land, where they finally encounter the Master of the Land of Fiction.
E10The Mind Robber (5)
6.4Oct 196818m
With Jamie and Zoe having been turned into fiction, the Doctor must find a way to save them without suffering the same fate or becoming part of the Master Brain.
E11The Invasion (1)
8.6Nov 196824m
The Doctor and the newly formed UNIT must stop a Cybermen Invasion and a Sinister Industrialist in league with them
E12The Invasion (2)
8.1Nov 196825m
The Doctor and Jamie are taken prisoner by their mysterious observers and have a reunion with an old friend while Zoe and Isobel carry out their own investigation of IE.
E13The Invasion (3)
7.8Nov 196824m
The Doctor and Jamie return to the IE factory in search of Zoe and Isobel, where they meet with Professor Watkins and fall foul of Vaughn.
E14The Invasion (4)
8.0Nov 196824m
The Doctor and Jamie enlist the help of UNIT to rescue Zoe and Isobel before trying to find out what Vaughn is really up to.
E15The Invasion (5)
8.0Nov 196824m
The Doctor and Jamie tell the Brigadier about the Cybermen but with Rutledge under Vaughn's control he is powerless to act.
E16The Invasion (6)
8.1Dec 196824m
Captain Turner manages to rescue Jamie and the others, while the Doctor begins working on a way to protect everyone from the Cybermen's hypno-sound signal.
E17The Invasion (7)
8.2Dec 196825m
With the entire world unconscious apart from the Doctor and his friends, the Cybermen are poised to invade and only Zoe, the Brigadier and a missile crew can stop them.
E18The Invasion (8)
8.4Dec 196824m
The Cybermen have launched their deadly megatron bomb which will destroy all life on Earth unless the Doctor can deactivate the homing signal.
E19The Krotons (1)
6.3Dec 196823m
When the TARDIS arrives on the planet of the Gonds, the Doctor, Jamie and Zoe discover a world ruled and enslaved by the Krotons. The brightest Gonds are always chosen to serve as companions of the Krotons and are never seen again...
E20The Krotons (2)
6.6Jan 196924m
Zoe is selected as a companion for the Krotons and the Doctor insists on joining her.
E21The Krotons (3)
6.0Jan 196922m
Jamie is held prisoner by the Krotons who intend to recapture the Doctor and Zoe for their mental energy.
E22The Krotons (4)
6.4Jan 196923m
Selris succeeds in drawing the Krotons out of the Dynatrope but Eelek agrees to hand the Doctor and Zoe over to them in return for their leaving the planet.
E23The Seeds of Death (1)
7.3Jan 196925m
21st century Earth is entirely dependent on the T-Mat transport system but the control centre on the moon has stopped functioning. Meanwhile, the Doctor, Jamie and Zoe meet the one man who can solve the crisis.
E24The Seeds of Death (2)
7.0Feb 196925m
Eldred agrees to supply a rocket for travel to the moon and the Doctor, Jamie and Zoe volunteer to crew it.
E25The Seeds of Death (3)
7.0Feb 196925m
The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe make it to the moon and join forces with Phipps but the Ice Warriors have gained control of T-mat.
E26The Seeds of Death (4)
7.0Feb 196925m
The Ice Warriors' seed pods beginning materialising all over the globe while Slaar decides to kill the Doctor by T-matting him into space.
E27The Seeds of Death (5)
6.7Feb 196925m
The Doctor and his allies manage to return to Earth via T-mat only to find the Ice Warrior has attacked the weather control station.
E28The Seeds of Death (6)
6.5Mar 196925m
The Doctor manages to create a rain storm to destroy the Martian fungus before trying to find a way to stop the Ice Warriors' invasion fleet.
E29The Space Pirates (1)
5.5Mar 196925m
Space beacons are being destroyed by pirates, who are salvaging the argonite metal. When the Doctor, Jamie and Zoe arrive on one of the beacons, they are mistaken for pirates.
E30The Space Pirates (2)
5.8Mar 196925m
With the Doctor, Jamie and Zoe trapped on a beacon segment, Hermack becomes suspicious of the unruly prospector Milo Clancey.
E31The Space Pirates (3)
6.0Mar 196925m
The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe flee from the Space Corps with Clancey, who decides to seek refuge on Ta.
E32The Space Pirates (4)
6.2Mar 196925m
The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe are held prisoner by the space pirates while Caven comes up with a plan to throw suspicion onto Clancey.
E33The Space Pirates (5)
6.5Apr 196925m
Madeleine is revealed to be working with Caven, who comes up with a way to kill the Doctor and his friends whilst framing them for the piracy.
E34The Space Pirates (6)
6.8Apr 196925m
With Clancey and Issigri trapped aboard the LIZ, the Doctor, Jamie and Zoe try to convince Madeleine to help them before Caven destroys Ta.
E35The War Games (1)
8.5Apr 196926m
The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe realise they have arrived in the trenches of the First World War, where the sinister General Smythe accuses them of espionage.
E36The War Games (2)
8.3Apr 196925m
The Doctor and Zoe manage to escape from Ransom and attempt to rescue Jamie from the military prison.
E37The War Games (3)
8.1May 196924m
The Doctor and his friends realise the area is divided into different time zones and decide to return to the château to obtain a map from Smythe.
E38The War Games (4)
7.6May 196923m
The Doctor and Zoe are transported to the control centre of the war games while Jamie and Lady Jennifer fall foul of American Revolution soldiers.
E39The War Games (5)
8.0May 196925m
The Doctor attempts to rescue Zoe and Carstairs while Jamie and Lady Jennifer try to convince the resistance of the true nature of Von Weich and the others.
E40The War Games (6)
8.0May 196923m
The scientist examines the captured resistance fighters and realises Jamie is a new arrival on the planet while the Doctor, Zoe and Carstairs try to rescue their friends.
E41The War Games (7)
8.0May 196923m
The Doctor, Jamie and Carstairs manage to return to the 1917 zone only to be captured by Smythe, who orders the Doctor executed.
E42The War Games (8)
8.0Jun 196925m
The Doctor and the processing machine have been taken by the Aliens but the resistance are making plans to attack the control centre.
E43The War Games (9)
8.3Jun 196925m
To prove his loyalty to the Aliens, the Doctor is ordered to reprocess his friends while the Security Chief finally uncovers evidence of the War Chief's treachery.
E44The War Games (10)
9.0Jun 196925m
The TARDIS is drawn to the planet of the Time Lords where both the Doctor and the War Lord are placed on trial.
