Doctor Who (Season 4)
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| Doctor Who season 3 | |||
| Country of origin | United Kingdom | ||
| No. of episodes | 45: 10 serials | ||
| Broadcast | |||
| Original channel | BBC One | ||
| Original run | 11 September 1965 – 16 July 1966 | ||
| Season chronology | |||
| ← Previous Season 3 | Next → Season 5 | ||
| List of Doctor Who serials | |||
The fourth season of British science fiction television series Doctor Who began on 10 September 1966 with the 1st Doctor (William Hartnell) story The Smugglers and, after a change of lead actor (Patrick Troughton) part-way through the series, ended on 1 July 1967 with The Evil of the Daleks. For the first time, the entire main cast changed over the course of a single season (the only other occasion this has happened is during Season 21).
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[edit] Casting
- See also List of Doctor Who cast members
[edit] Main characters
William Hartnell appears as the First Doctor for the first two full serials before being succeeded in the role by Patrick Troughton as the Second Doctor for the remaining seven stories.
Anneke Wills and Michael Craze continue their roles as Polly and Ben respectively. They are shortly joined by Frazer Hines playing Jamie McCrimmon in The Highlanders. Polly and Ben depart in the penultimate story The Faceless Ones, and at the end of the season Deborah Watling makes her debut as Victoria Waterfield in The Evil of the Daleks.
[edit] Serials
Season 4 was produced by Innes Lloyd. Gerry Davis served as Script Editor, apart from the final four episodes of The Evil of the Daleks. Peter Bryant joined as associate producer for The Faceless Ones, and replaced Gerry Davis as script editor for the last four episodes of the season.
The Smugglers was the final serial to be produced during the third production block, but was held over to the start of Season 4.
The Power of the Daleks was the first Dalek story to use the traditional ...of the Daleks title form. Of the nine subsequent Dalek serials, only Death to the Daleks from Season 11 was not named in this way. The naming convention for Dalek stories was first used in the revived series with "Evolution of the Daleks" in Series 3.
While each of the other seasons produced in black and white have at least one serial completely intact (all serials from the transition to color onwards have surviving copies in the BBC archive), none of the nine serials from Season 4 is complete in the BBC archive, with four (The Smugglers, The Power of the Daleks, The Highlanders and The Macra Terror) each having all of their episodes missing; of the total of 43 episodes between Episode 1 of The Smugglers and Episode 7 of The Evil of the Daleks, only 10 are currently in the BBC archive. The most complete serial of the season, The Tenth Planet, is missing only its last episode; both this and the season's other Cyberman story, The Moonbase, have been recreated with animated episodes using the original soundtrack in a fashion similar to a reconstruction of The Reign of Terror from Season 1.
| Story | Serial | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Production code | UK viewers (million) | AI |
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| 028 | 1 | The Smugglers (all episodes missing) | Julia Smith | Brian Hayles | 10 September 1966 17 September 1966 24 September 1966 1 October 1966 | CC | 4.3 4.9 4.2 4.5 | 47 45 43 43 |
| The Doctor’s new companions Ben and Polly arrive with him in the TARDIS on the coast of seventeenth-century Cornwall, where a group of pirates are searching for treasure. | ||||||||
| 029 | 2 | The Tenth Planet (episode 4 missing) | Derek Martinus | Kit Pedler and Gerry Davis | 8 October 1966 15 October 1966 22 October 1966 29 October 1966 | DD | 5.5 6.4 7.6 7.5 | 50 48 48 47 |
| The TARDIS crew arrive at the South Pole in the year 1986, near a South Pole tracking base. Soon afterwards, hostile cyborgs from Earth's twin planet Mondas, known as Cybermen, quickly take over the base, planning to convert every human being into Cybermen like themselves while the Doctor's old body is wearing a little bit thin. | ||||||||
[edit] Missing episodes
- See also: Doctor Who missing episodes
[edit] DVD releases
| Serial name | Number and duration of episodes | R2 release date | R4 release date | R1 release date |
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[edit] In print
- Main article: List of Doctor Who novelisations
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