Episode guide
Doctor Who: Season 22
13 episodes · premiered Jan 5, 1985
With this season the BBC experimented with the format of the series, reducing the number of episodes to thirteen, but making each episode forty-five minutes long. The experiment did not result in improved ratings and at the end of the season the BBC announced it was cancelling the series; uproar from fans resulted in the BBC changing its mind and putting the series on an eighteen-month hiatus instead. This season is notable for featuring the final appearance of Patrick Troughton as the beloved Second Doctor, in a storyline that gave rise to a popular fan theory known as Season 6B.
- Episode 1: Attack of the Cybermen (1) Jan 5, 1985 · 45m London, 1985. The alien mercenary Lytton has been stranded here for nearly a year, but now he has a plan to escape. But how does it involve the Doctor's old enemies - and why are they on…
- Episode 2: Attack of the Cybermen (2) Jan 12, 1985 · 45m On Telos, the Doctor is reintroduced to the Cyber Leader and meets the Cryons, the planet's original inhabitants who will go to any lengths to get their world back!
- Episode 3: Vengeance on Varos (1) Jan 19, 1985 · 45m The former prison planet Varos, the future. The downtrodden population of miners are kept happy by real-life violence and murder broadcast live from the Punishment Dome. But then the…
- Episode 4: Vengeance on Varos (2) Jan 26, 1985 · 45m The Governor forces the Doctor to tell him the true value of Zeiton-7 but Sil attempts to derail his plans by subjecting Peri and Areta to an enforced mutation.
- Episode 5: The Mark of the Rani (1) Feb 2, 1985 · 46m England, the 1820s. As the Industrial Revolution gathers pace, the village of Killingworth is disturbed by crazed Luddite miners intent on smashing all machinery and engineers. But is…
- Episode 6: The Mark of the Rani (2) Feb 9, 1985 · 45m The Master uses The Rani's mind-controlling parasites to keep a meeting of Earth's leading scientists from being cancelled, and helps her plant transformation land mines for The Doctor, as…
- Episode 7: The Two Doctors (1) Feb 16, 1985 · 45m The alien space station J7, the mid-1980s Earth time. The Time Lords have sent the second Doctor and Jamie here to try to stop dangerous experiments into time travel. But the station comes…
- Episode 8: The Two Doctors (2) Feb 23, 1985 · 45m The Doctor and Peri meet Jamie and learn the Second Doctor is with the Sontarans on Earth.
- Episode 9: The Two Doctors (3) Mar 2, 1985 · 45m The Sontarans prepare the Second Doctor to trigger their Kartz-Reimer capsule.
- Episode 10: Timelash (1) Mar 9, 1985 · 46m The planet Karfel, in the distant future. The tyrannical Borad rules with an iron fist, and any who oppose him are cast into the Timelash - a space-time tunnel leading to the past of an…
- Episode 11: Timelash (2) Mar 16, 1985 · 45m The Borad accepts no opposition and enables Maylin Tekker to expose the rebels and trap Peri with the Morlox. The Doctor tries to avert a war between Karfel and the Bandrils.
- Episode 12: Revelation of the Daleks (1) Mar 23, 1985 · 45m The planet Necros, the future. The Doctor arrives for the cryogenic interment of an old friend at Tranquil Repose, a vast repository of bodies in suspended animation. But what does the…
- Episode 13: Revelation of the Daleks (2) Mar 30, 1985 · 46m Davros plans to create an army of Daleks loyal only to him but on Skaro, the Daleks have other plans and head to Necros. Caught in the middle of this, the Doctor must save Peri...