Survival (Doctor Who)

155^[1] – *Survival*
155 – Survival
Doctor Who serial
	Sylvester McCoy in a still frame for Survival
Cast
	Doctor Sylvester McCoy – Seventh Doctor;
	Companion Sophie Aldred – Ace;
	Others Anthony Ainley – The Master; Lisa Bowerman – Karra; Julian Holloway – Paterson; David John – Derek; Will Barton – Midge; Sean Oliver – Stuart; Sakuntala Ramanee – Shreela; Gareth Hale – Len; Norman Pace – Harvey; Kate Eaton – Ange; Kathleen Bidmead – Woman; Adele Silva – Squeak; Michelle Martin – Neighbour;
Production
Directed by	Alan Wareing
Written by	Rona Munro
Script editor	Andrew Cartmel
Produced by	John Nathan-Turner
Music by	Dominic Glynn
Production code	7P
Series	Season 26
Running time	3 episodes, 25 minutes each
First broadcast	22 November 1989
Last broadcast	6 December 1989
Chronology
← Preceded by; The Curse of Fenric	Followed by →; Dimensions in Time (special); Doctor Who (TV movie)
	List of episodes (1963–1989)

Survival is the final serial of the 26th season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in three weekly parts on BBC1 from 22 November to 6 December 1989. It is the final story of the original 26-year run; the show did not return as a series until 2005. The story marks the final regular television appearances of Sylvester McCoy as the Seventh Doctor and Sophie Aldred as Ace, and the final television appearance of Anthony Ainley as the Master, appearing alongside McCoy's Doctor for the only time.

In the story, the Doctor brings Ace home to Perivale, where her friends have been transported to the planet of the Cheetah People.

^ From the Doctor Who Magazine series overview, in issue 407 (pp26-29). The Discontinuity Guide, which counts the four segments of The Trial of a Time Lord as four separate stories and also counts the unbroadcast serial Shada, lists this story as number 159. Region 1 DVD releases follow The Discontinuity Guide numbering system.

[1] From the Doctor Who Magazine series overview, in issue 407 (pp26-29). The Discontinuity Guide, which counts the four segments of The Trial of a Time Lord as four separate stories and also counts the unbroadcast serial Shada, lists this story as number 159. Region 1 DVD releases follow The Discontinuity Guide numbering system.

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