Category: 3rd Doctor

Doctor Who: The Monster Of Peladon, Part 6

Doctor WhoThe 375th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. This a sequel to 1972’s The Curse Of Peladon, with many cast members returning to reprise their roles. This episode marks the final appearance of the Ice Warriors in the original series; they don’t reappear on TV until 2013’s Cold War.

This timeline entry leads to an entry covering this entire Doctor Who serial; there are plans to write new episodic entries in the future. You can support this effort!
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Doctor Who: Planet Of The Spiders, Part 2

Doctor WhoThe 377th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. This is the final story of the third Doctor’s era.

This timeline entry leads to an entry covering this entire Doctor Who serial; there are plans to write new episodic entries in the future. You can support this effort!
Order Earl Green’s book VWORP!1 from theLogBook.com Store

Doctor Who: Planet Of The Spiders, Part 3

Doctor WhoThe 378th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. This is the final story of the third Doctor’s era.

This timeline entry leads to an entry covering this entire Doctor Who serial; there are plans to write new episodic entries in the future. You can support this effort!
Order Earl Green’s book VWORP!1 from theLogBook.com Store

Doctor Who: Planet Of The Spiders, Part 4

Doctor WhoThe 379th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. This is the final story of the third Doctor’s era.

This timeline entry leads to an entry covering this entire Doctor Who serial; there are plans to write new episodic entries in the future. You can support this effort!
Order Earl Green’s book VWORP!1 from theLogBook.com Store

Doctor Who: Planet Of The Spiders, Part 5

Doctor WhoThe 380th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. This is the final story of the third Doctor’s era.

This timeline entry leads to an entry covering this entire Doctor Who serial; there are plans to write new episodic entries in the future. You can support this effort!
Order Earl Green’s book VWORP!1 from theLogBook.com Store

Doctor Who: Planet Of The Spiders, Part 6

Doctor WhoThe 381st episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. This is the final story of the third Doctor’s era, and the final episode of Jon Pertwee’s tenure as the third Doctor. The face of the fourth Doctor is glimpsed briefly at the end of the episode.

This timeline entry leads to an entry covering this entire Doctor Who serial; there are plans to write new episodic entries in the future. You can support this effort!
Order Earl Green’s book VWORP!1 from theLogBook.com Store

Doctor Who: The Five Doctors

Doctor WhoThe 602nd episode of Doctor Who airs on PBS television stations across America – the first Doctor Who story ever to premiere outside the UK – with British fans having to wait two days later to see it on BBC1. Patrick Troughton and Jon Pertwee reprise their roles as the second and third Doctors, with Richard Hurndall stepping into the role of the first Doctor. (Never-before-seen footage from the abandoned 1979 story Shada constitutes Tom Baker’s appearance as the fourth Doctor.) Numerous former companions of the various Doctors put in guest appearances as well, alongside Anthony Ainley as the Master. The special 90-minute story celebrates 20 years of Doctor Who. Read more

Doctor Who: The Paradise Of Death

Doctor Who: The Paradise Of DeathBBC Radio 5 broadcasts the first episode of the five-part Doctor Who audio drama The Paradise Of Death, reuniting the early ’70s cast of Jon Pertwee, Elisabeth Sladen, and Nicholas Courtney as the Brigadier. Peter Miles, Maurice Denham, and Harold Innocent guest star in a story written by early ’70s Doctor Who showrunner Barry Letts. The heavily-promoted radio story marks 30 years of Doctor Who. Read more

Doctor Who: Dimensions In Time

Doctor WhoThe Doctor Who adventure Dimensions In Time airs in two parts as part of the BBC’s Red Nose Day telethon, introduced by Noel Edmonds and featuring all five living Doctors and many of the surviving companions. Bizarrely, this story is also a crossover with the BBC’s primetime soap EastEnders, so many of that show’s cast appear as well, and it’s the closest the BBC gets to celebrating Doctor Who’s 30th anniversary. Read more

Doctor Who: The Ghosts Of N-Space

Doctor Who: SlipbackBBC Radio 4 begins airing the five-part Doctor Who radio drama The Ghosts Of N-Space, starring Jon Pertwee, Elisabeth Sladen, and Nicholas Courtney as the Brigadier. Stephen Thorne and Sandra Dickinson (The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy) guest star. The story is written by early ’70s Doctor Who showrunner Barry Letts. This is Jon Pertwee’s final performance broadcast before his death later in 1996. Read more

Doctor Who: The Companion Chronicles – Old Soldiers

Doctor WhoBig Finish Productions releases the seventh Doctor Who audio drama in its Companion Chronicles range (short stories performed audiobook style with one or two actors). Nicholas Courtney and Toby Longwirth star. Read more

Doctor Who: The Light At The End

Doctor WhoBig Finish Productions releases the Doctor Who audio drama The Light At The End, celebrating 50 years of Doctor Who and featuring all of the surviving classic series Doctors and many of their companions. Read more

Doctor Who: Prisoners Of The Lake

Doctor WhoBig Finish Productions releases the first Doctor Who audio drama in its Third Doctor Adventures range, starring Tim Treloar, Katy Manning, and Richard Franklin. Carolyn Seymour (Survivors, Quantum Leap) guest stars in one of two stories in the first box set of new stories set in the Pertwee era. Read more