Serials
Barry Letts took over as producer from Derrick Sherwin after Spearhead from Space. From this season onwards the programme was produced in colour, although some episodes now exist only in black and white. To accommodate the new production methods the number of episodes in a season was cut: season 6 has 44 episodes; season 7 has 25 episodes. The seasons would continue to have between 20 and 26 episodes until season 22.
| Story No. | Serial | Title | Directed by | Written by | UK viewers (million) |
AI (%) |
Original air date | Production code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 051 | 1 | Spearhead from Space | Derek Martinus | Robert Holmes | Ep. 1: 8.4 Ep. 2: 8.1 Ep. 3: 8.3 Ep. 4: 8.1 |
Ep. 1: 54 Ep. 2: — Ep. 3: — Ep. 4: 57 |
3–24 January 1970 | AAA |
| The newly regenerated Doctor is exiled to Earth in the 20th century. At the same time, a swarm of meteorites fall in Oxley Woods. The Doctor has to devise a way to destroy the Autons before they replace the people of the earth with a plastic population. | ||||||||
| 052 | 2 | Doctor Who and the Silurians | Timothy Combe | Malcolm Hulke | Ep. 1: 8.8 Ep. 2: 7.3 Ep. 3: 7.5 Ep. 4: 8.2 Ep. 5: 7.5 Ep. 6: 7.2 Ep. 7: 7.5 |
Ep. 1: 58 Ep. 2: 58 Ep. 3: 57 Ep. 4: 60 Ep. 5: 58 Ep. 6: 57 Ep. 7: 58 |
31 January - 14 March 1970 | BBB |
| Creatures named as Silurians are lurking under a nuclear power research centre, driving people insane. | ||||||||
| 053 | 3 | The Ambassadors of Death | Michael Ferguson | David Whitaker & Trevor Ray and Malcolm Hulke |
Ep. 1: 7.1 Ep. 2: 7.6 Ep. 3: 8.0 Ep. 4: 9.3 Ep. 5: 7.1 Ep. 6: 6.9 Ep. 7: 6.4 |
Ep. 1: 60 Ep. 2: 61 Ep. 3: 59 Ep. 4: 58 Ep. 5: — Ep. 6: 61 Ep. 7: 62 |
21 March - 2 May 1970 | CCC |
| The British space programme oversees the launch of the Recovery Seven probe that has been sent to Mars to make contact with the missing Mars Probe Seven and its two astronauts, who lost contact with Earth eight months earlier. Van Lyden makes contact with the Probe but is then silenced by a piercing unearthly sound. | ||||||||
| 054 | 4 | Inferno | Douglas Camfield (episodes 1-2) Barry Letts (episodes 3-7) |
Don Houghton | Ep. 1: 5.7 Ep. 2: 5.9 Ep. 3: 4.8 Ep. 4: 6.0 Ep. 5: 5.4 Ep. 6: 6.7 Ep. 7: 5.5 |
Ep. 1: 61 Ep. 2: 61 Ep. 3: 60 Ep. 4: 60 Ep. 5: — Ep. 6: 58 Ep. 7: 60 |
9 May - 20 June 1970 | DDD |
| Inferno is the nickname given to a project to penetrate the Earth's crust. The project, however, has its own problems and the Doctor is sent to an alternate universe. |
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