Serials
Episodes were broadcast twice weekly on Thursday and Friday evenings, with Resurrection of the Daleks broadcast on two consecutive Wednesday nights.
| Story No. | Serial | Title | Directed by | Written by | UK viewers (million) |
AI (%) |
Original air date | Production code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 130 | 1 | Warriors of the Deep | Pennant Roberts | Johnny Byrne | Ep. 1: 7.6 Ep. 2: 7.5 Ep. 3: 7.3 Ep. 4: 6.6 |
Ep. 1: 65 Ep. 2: 64 Ep. 3: 62 Ep. 4: 65 |
5–13 January 1984 | 6L |
| Two rival power blocs are locked in a cold war. Under the sea, old adversaries of the Doctor's awaken, ready to take advantage of the tension and reclaim the planet Earth | ||||||||
| 131 | 2 | The Awakening | Michael Owen Morris | Eric Pringle | Ep. 1: 7.9 Ep. 2: 6.6 |
Ep. 1: 65 Ep. 2: 63 |
19–20 January 1984 | 6M |
| The Doctor must also face the villagers of Little Hodcombe, who have been influenced by the Malus, and save Tegan before she is burned as the ill-fated Queen of the May. | ||||||||
| 132 | 3 | Frontios | Ron Jones | Christopher H. Bidmead | Ep. 1: 8.0 Ep. 2: 5.8 Ep. 3: 7.8 Ep. 4: 5.6 |
Ep. 1: 66 Ep. 2: 69 Ep. 3: 65 Ep. 4: 65 |
26 January - 3 February 1984 | 6N |
| Its inhabitants having fled a dying Earth, the planet Frontios is mankind’s last colony and the location of hidden dangers | ||||||||
| 133 | 4 | Resurrection of the Daleks | Matthew Robinson | Eric Saward | Ep. 1: 7.3 Ep. 2: 8.0 |
Ep. 1: 69 Ep. 2: 65 |
8–15 February 1984 | 6P |
| Caught in a time corridor, the TARDIS gets dragged to Earth. At the other end of the corridor, a strike force plans the prison break of the man who created the ultimate evil. | ||||||||
| 134 | 5 | Planet of Fire | Fiona Cumming | Peter Grimwade | Ep. 1: 7.4 Ep. 2: 6.1 Ep. 3: 7.4 Ep. 4: 7.0 |
— | 23 February - 2 March 1984 | 6Q |
| The Fifth Doctor and Turlough are drawn to the planet Sarn by Kamelion, where they encounter the Master in one of his diabolical plans to tap the power of the Numismaton gas. | ||||||||
| 135 | 6 | The Caves of Androzani | Graeme Harper | Robert Holmes | Ep. 1: 6.9 Ep. 2: 6.6 Ep. 3: 7.8 Ep. 4: 7.8 |
Ep. 1: 65 Ep. 2: — Ep. 3: 65 Ep. 4: 68 |
8–16 March 1984 | 6R |
| On the planet of Androzani Minor, the Fifth Doctor and Peri get caught in the politics and dangers of mining spectrox, the most valuable substance in the universe. | ||||||||
| 136 | 7 | The Twin Dilemma | Peter Moffatt | Anthony Steven | Ep. 1: 7.6 Ep. 2: 7.4 Ep. 3: 7.0 Ep. 4: 6.3 |
Ep. 1: 61 Ep. 2: 66 Ep. 3: 59 Ep. 4: 67 |
22–30 March 1984 | 6S |
| In a post-regenerative crisis, the Sixth Doctor takes Peri to the desolate asteroid Titan 3 planning to stay there as a hermit for 1000 years. |
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