The Happiness Patrol

149[1]The Happiness Patrol
Doctor Who serial
Cast
Others
Production
Directed byChris Clough
Written byGraeme Curry
Script editorAndrew Cartmel
Produced byJohn Nathan-Turner
Music byDominic Glynn
Production code7L
SeriesSeason 25
Running time3 episodes, 25 minutes each
First broadcast2 November 1988 (1988-11-02)
Last broadcast16 November 1988 (1988-11-16)
Chronology
← Preceded by
Remembrance of the Daleks
Followed by →
Silver Nemesis
List of episodes (1963–1989)

The Happiness Patrol is the second serial of the 25th season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in three weekly parts on BBC1 from 2 to 16 November 1988.

The serial is set on the Earth colony world Terra Alpha. In the serial, the alien time traveller the Seventh Doctor (Sylvester McCoy) starts a rebellion against the planet's ruler, Helen A (Sheila Hancock), a woman who seeks to eliminate all unhappiness on the planet.

  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 153. Region 1 DVD releases follow The Discontinuity Guide numbering system.