Doctor Who
Season 24
198714 episodes
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.
Episode 1
Time and the Rani (1)
Sep 7, 198725m
TMDB rating 4.5TMDB
The alien world of Lakertya. With the aid of the savage Tetraps, the Rani has conquered this planet to allow her to continue her depraved biochemical experiments. But she finds herself needing the Doctor's assistance...
Episode 2
Time and the Rani (2)
Sep 14, 198725m
TMDB rating 5.3TMDB
The Rani's impersonation of Mel backfires badly because Urak can't tell the difference, while the Doctor attempts to learn the secret of the Loyhargil.
Episode 3
Time and the Rani (3)
Sep 21, 198725m
TMDB rating 5.4TMDB
The solstice nears, making it time for the Rani to bring her plans into fruition. The Doctor's sympathies for Beyus, ruler of the Lykertyans, are rather qualified. Beyus' heart is for his people yet something prompts him to collaborate fully in helping the Rani reach all her objectives. The answer, he's told, lies within the Center of Leisure.
Episode 4
Time and the Rani (4)
Sep 28, 198725m
TMDB rating 5.2TMDB
The Rani, at last, links the Doctor into her great brain machine, the crowning jewel in her component packet of geniuses brought together to turn Lakertya itself into one vast cerebral mass capable of redirecting time anywhere in the universe, giving her absolute power over all creation.
Episode 5
Paradise Towers (1)
Oct 5, 198725m
TMDB rating 5.4TMDB
The legendary Paradise Towers is supposed to be the height of luxury but when the Doctor and Mel arrive, they find it is as far from paradise as possible...
Episode 6
Paradise Towers (2)
Oct 12, 198725m
TMDB rating 6.1TMDB
With the Doctor condemned to death by the caretakers and their bizarre rulebook, Mel faces cannibalistic OAPS. Is Pex going to be the true hero of Paradise Towers?
Episode 7
Paradise Towers (3)
Oct 19, 198725m
TMDB rating 6.0TMDB
Mel and Pex play cat and mouse with the lethal cleaner robots while the Doctor and the surviving Kangs learn all about Kroagnon the Great Architect.
Episode 8
Paradise Towers (4)
Oct 26, 198725m
TMDB rating 5.9TMDB
Meeting up at the pool, the Doctor leads the surviving Rezzies, Kangs and Caretakers as they draw the line together on the 245th floor against the systematic cleansing of all life by Kroagnon and his robotic Cleaners.
Episode 9
Delta and the Bannermen (1)
Nov 2, 198725m
TMDB rating 5.5TMDB
Wales, 1959. A top-secret US satellite has mysteriously gone missing. This could have something to do with the arrival of a party of alien tourists en route to Disneyland, amongst their number Mel and the Doctor, and the Queen of the Chimerons - who's fleeing the Bannermen and their genocidal leader Gavrok...
Episode 10
Delta and the Bannermen (2)
Nov 9, 198725m
TMDB rating 5.2TMDB
Mel's just discovered something very interesting about the life cycle of her new friend and the Doctor has been cornered by an alien bounty hunter wearing blue suede shoes.
Episode 11
Delta and the Bannermen (3)
Nov 16, 198725m
TMDB rating 5.1TMDB
As Billy and Ray do what they can to help save Delta and the baby, the Doctor and Goronwy the beekeeper face Gavrok and his Bannermen one last time...
Episode 12
Dragonfire (1)
Nov 23, 198725m
TMDB rating 6.5TMDB
The deep-space trading post of Iceworld, the far future. The Doctor, Mel, their old friend Glitz and time-lost waitress Ace go in search of a fabulous treasure, supposedly guarded by a fire-breathing dragon. But what is the link between the treasure and Iceworld's proprietor, the frosty Mr Kane?
Episode 13
Dragonfire (2)
Nov 30, 198725m
TMDB rating 6.5TMDB
While Mel and Ace run from Glitz's former crewmen (whom he sold to Kane), officers Belazs and Kracauer conspire to overthrow Kane. The Doctor, meanwhile, discovers there really is a dragon in the ice caverns, which turns out to be a bio-mechanoid with a very interesting function.
Episode 14
Dragonfire (3)
Dec 7, 198725m
TMDB rating 7.0TMDB
At last learning the location of the missing key to his spaceship, Kane has the dragon hunted down and Iceworld brutally purged of all visitors; but, the Doctor, visiting the Ice Garden, learns something significant that will put the chagrin on Kane's grand plans for home world vengeance.