Series 22

Series 22 of Doctor Who ran from September 2032 to December 2032. It was the ninth series produced by BBC Essex in cooperation with Disney+ and the BBC. It starred Alfred Enoch as the Eighteenth Doctor. The series opened with The Invisible Train and concluded with Back In Time For Christmas.
==Overview==
This series sees the introduction of the Eighteenth Doctor following his arrival at the end of Episode 6 of Series 21. There are seven episodes in this series. Series 22 sees seven one-parters take place.
==Production==
Episodes would continue with 1 hour episodes.
Series 22 continued its traditional Saturday night viewing slot whilst it remained accessible on streaming platforms to those overseas via Disney+.
Episode 2 would introduce Louie Russell and Ruth Hill. A 1959 mixed-race couple from the USA who join the Doctor as his new companions.
To accommodate the regeneration of the Seventeenth Doctor earlier in the year, this series would be the only series aired in the autumn.
==Cast==
*The Eighteenth Doctor - Alfred Enoch
*Louie Russell - Nico Greetham 
*Ruth Hill - Yara Shahidi 
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===Recurring===
*The Master -
*The Rani -
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*Cybermen - voiced by Nicholas Briggs
===Guest===
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==Television stories==
===Story formats and arc===
All of the episodes were one-part stories spaced over the whole series, concluding with a two-parter finale with 9 stories.
===Episodes===
Episode Number	Title 	Writer 	Director 	Notes
1 	The Invisible Train 	Andy Wilkins 	Alice Troughton 	
2 	A Race To Space 	Malorie Blackman	Cheryl Dunye 	Introduces Louie and Ruth as the new companions.
3 	The Stuarts 	Joy Wilkinson 	Sallie Aprahamian	
4 	Down Once More 	Vinay Patel 	Nick Hurran 	
5 	Hold On 	Peter Harness 	Jennifer Perrott 	
6 	The Insanity Of Dr Mengele 	Andy Wilkins 	Ben Wheatley 	
7 	The Sontaran Transformation	Andy Wilkins 	Haolu Wang 	
X1 	Back In Time For Christmas 	Andy Wilkins 	Paul Wilmshurst 	
==Stories set during this season==
===Novels===
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===Audio stories===
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=== Comics===
===Minisodes===
Episode Number	Title	Writer	Director	Notes
1A 	 	 	 	
2A 	 	 	 	
 	 	 	 	
 	 	 	 	
===Short stories===
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==Promotional trailers==
For the series, several promotional trailers were created, utilising shot footage of the upcoming season.
*Several short, wordless five-second "stings" were also produced. These showed close-ups of the Doctor and the TARDIS. No series logo or title is shown, with only a snippet of the Doctor Who theme or the TARDIS sound effect to identify the programme.