The Two Doctors

140[1]The Two Doctors
Doctor Who serial
Cast
Others
Production
Directed byPeter Moffatt
Written byRobert Holmes
Script editorEric Saward
Produced byJohn Nathan-Turner
Music byPeter Howell
Production code6W
SeriesSeason 22
Running time3 episodes, 45 minutes each
First broadcast16 February 1985 (1985-02-16)
Last broadcast2 March 1985 (1985-03-02)
Chronology
← Preceded by
The Mark of the Rani
Followed by →
Timelash
List of episodes (1963–1989)

The Two Doctors is the fourth serial of the 22nd season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in three weekly parts on BBC1 from 16 February to 2 March 1985.

The serial is set on an alien space station and in and around Seville. In the serial, the alien time traveller the Sixth Doctor (Colin Baker), his former travelling companion Jamie McCrimmon (Frazer Hines) and his current companion Peri Brown (Nicola Bryant) work to save the younger Second Doctor (Patrick Troughton) from the biogeneticist Dastari (Laurence Payne), who intends to steal the knowledge of how to travel in time from the Second Doctor's genetic make-up.

This serial marks Troughton's final appearance as the Second Doctor before his death in 1987.

  1. ^ From the Doctor Who Magazine series overview, in issue 407 (pp26-29). The Discontinuity Guide, which counts the unbroadcast serial Shada, lists this as story number 141. Region 1 DVD releases follow The Discontinuity Guide numbering system.


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