Serials
The final season continued to push the series towards a darker approach, focusing this time more on Ace's personal life as well as The Doctor's past and manipulations.
| Story No. | Serial | Title | Directed by | Written by | UK viewers (million) |
AI (%) |
Original air date | Production code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 152 | 1 | Battlefield | Michael Kerrigan | Ben Aaronovitch | Ep. 1: 3.1 Ep. 2: 3.9 Ep. 3: 3.6 Ep. 4: 4.0 |
Ep. 1: 69 Ep. 2: 68 Ep. 3: 67 Ep. 4: 65 |
6–27 September 1989 | 7N |
| The Doctor and Ace join forces with UNIT and his old friend the Brigadier against Morgaine (Jean Marsh) and Mordred, Arthurian villains who recognize the Doctor as Merlin. | ||||||||
| 153 | 2 | Ghost Light | Alan Wareing | Marc Platt | Ep. 1: 4.2 Ep. 2: 4.0 Ep. 3: 4.0 |
Ep. 1: 68 Ep. 2: 68 Ep. 3: 64 |
4–18 October 1989 | 7Q |
| The Doctor brings Ace to Gabriel Chase, an old house that she once burnt down in her home town of Perivale. However, trying to get Ace to accept her guilt is not the real reason the Doctor came here; a mysterious and highly mentaly unstable being slays below them. | ||||||||
| 154 | 3 | The Curse of Fenric | Nicholas Mallett | Ian Briggs | Ep. 1: 4.3 Ep. 2: 4.0 Ep. 3: 4.0 Ep. 4: 4.2 |
Ep. 1: 67 Ep. 2: 68 Ep. 3: 68 Ep. 4: 68 |
25 October - 15 November 1989 | 7M |
| It's 1943, and Fenric plans a last game of chess with a Time Lord. The Doctor also has a very important secret he's been keeping from Ace since they met. | ||||||||
| 155 | 4 | Survival | Alan Wareing | Rona Munro | Ep. 1: 5.0 Ep. 2: 4.8 Ep. 3: 5.0 |
Ep. 1: 69 Ep. 2: 69 Ep. 3: 71 |
22 November - 6 December 1989 | 7P |
| A visit to the suburbs of Ace's home town lands the Doctor and Ace on a planet of killer cats. Also, the Master's up to his old tricks once again, but what could he be after this time? |
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