Serials
Terrance Dicks took over from Derrick Sherwin as script editor from The Invasion, with Sherwin resuming the role for The Space Pirates. Derrick Sherwin took over as producer from Peter Bryant for The War Games.
Season 6 is the most complete of all the second Doctor's seasons, with none of the season's stories missing in their entirety and only two stories (The Invasion and The Space Pirates) incomplete. This compares to the first two second Doctor seasons from which only a single complete serial (The Tomb of the Cybermen) survives. The missing two episodes of The Invasion have since been reconstructed using animation and released on DVD.
The War Games, which was the final serial of the season, and the last of Patrick Troughton's tenure as the Doctor, was also the second longest serial up to that point, spanning 10 episodes - only the 12-part serial The Daleks' Master Plan from Season 3 was longer.
| Story No. | Episodes | Title | Directed by | Written by | UK viewers (million) |
AI (%) |
Original air date | Production code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 044 | 5 | The Dominators | Morris Barry | Mervyn Haisman & Henry Lincoln |
Ep. 1: 6.1 Ep. 2: 5.9 Ep. 3: 5.4 Ep. 4: 7.5 Ep. 5: 5.9 |
Ep. 1: 52 Ep. 2: 55 Ep. 3: 55 Ep. 4: 51 Ep. 5: 53 |
10 August – 7 September 1968 | TT |
| An alien craft bearing the imperious and ruthless Dominators arrives on the peaceful planet of Dulkis. | ||||||||
| 045 | 5 | The Mind Robber | David Maloney | Peter Ling and Derrick Sherwin (episode 1, uncredited) |
Ep. 1: 6.6 Ep. 2: 6.5 Ep. 3: 7.2 Ep. 4: 7.3 Ep. 5: 6.7 |
Ep. 1: 51 Ep. 2: 49 Ep. 3: 53 Ep. 4: 56 Ep. 5: 49 |
14 September – 12 October 1968 | UU |
| By blowing a fluid link, the Doctor is forced to use the emergency unit to take the TARDIS away from danger and indeed out of reality itself: to the Land of Fiction. | ||||||||
| 046 | 8 | The Invasion | Douglas Camfield | Derrick Sherwin and Kit Pedler |
Ep. 1: 7.3 Ep. 2: 7.1 Ep. 3: 7.1 Ep. 4: 6.4 Ep. 5: 6.7 Ep. 6: 6.5 Ep. 7: 7.2 Ep. 8: 7.0 |
Ep. 1: 55 Ep. 2: 53 Ep. 3: 54 Ep. 4: 51 Ep. 5: 52 Ep. 6: 56 Ep. 7: 55 Ep. 8: 53 |
2 November – 21 December 1968 | VV |
| The Doctor arrives in late twentieth-century London. He soon finds out that the Cybermen are hidden somewhere on Earth and planning an invasion. | ||||||||
| 047 | 4 | The Krotons | David Maloney | Robert Holmes |
Ep. 1: 9.0 Ep. 2: 8.4 Ep. 3: 7.5 Ep. 4: 7.1 |
Ep. 1: 59 Ep. 2: 57 Ep. 3: 56 Ep. 4: 55 |
28 December 1968 – 18 January 1969 | WW |
| On an unnamed planet, a race called the Gonds are subject to the mysterious Krotons, unseen beings to whom they provide their brightest members as “companions”. | ||||||||
| 048 | 6 | The Seeds of Death | Michael Ferguson | Brian Hayles (episodes 1-2) Terrance Dicks (episodes 3-6) |
Ep. 1: 6.6 Ep. 2: 6.8 Ep. 3: 7.5 Ep. 4: 7.1 Ep. 5: 7.6 Ep. 6: 7.7 |
Ep. 1: 57 Ep. 2: 59 Ep. 3: 55 Ep. 4: 55 Ep. 5: 57 Ep. 6: 59 |
25 January – 1 March 1969 | XX |
| The Ice Warriors are hiding on the Moon and planning to destroy every living thing on Earth. | ||||||||
| 049 | 6 | The Space Pirates | Michael Hart | Robert Holmes |
Ep. 1: 5.8 Ep. 2: 6.8 Ep. 3: 6.4 Ep. 4: 5.8 Ep. 5: 5.5 Ep. 6: 5.3 |
Ep. 1: 57 Ep. 2: 52 Ep. 3: 55 Ep. 4: 53 Ep. 5: 56 Ep. 6: 52 |
8 March – 12 April 1969 | YY |
| Space beacons on the space lanes are being blown up and plundered for precious argonite by a gang of space pirates led by Caven and his associate Dervish. | ||||||||
| 050 | 10 | The War Games | David Maloney | Malcolm Hulke & Terrance Dicks |
Ep. 1: 5.5 Ep. 2: 6.3 Ep. 3: 5.1 Ep. 4: 5.7 Ep. 5: 5.1 Ep. 6: 4.2 Ep. 7: 4.9 Ep. 8: 3.5 Ep. 9: 4.1 Ep. 10: 5.0 |
Ep. 1: 55 Ep. 2: 54 Ep. 3: 53 Ep. 4: 50 Ep. 5: 53 Ep. 6: 53 Ep. 7: 53 Ep. 8: 53 Ep. 9: 57 Ep. 10: 58 |
19 April – 21 June 1969 | ZZ |
| On an alien planet, the Doctor uncovers a diabolic plot to conquer the universe. Brainwashed soldiers are abducted from Earth and forced to fight in simulated environments, reflecting the periods in history whence they were taken. The aliens' aim is to produce a super army from the survivors. |
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