Season 6

Season 6 of Doctor Who ran from 10 August 1968 to 21 June 1969. It starred Patrick Troughton as the Second Doctor, Frazer Hines as Jamie McCrimmon and Wendy Padbury as Zoe Heriot. The season opened with The Dominators and concluded with The War Games.
== Overview ==
It consisted of seven serials comprised of forty-four episodes. This season featured the first ever UNIT story, The Invasion, which showcased the return of Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart. 
It also featured the first official appearance of Time Lords and the as yet unnamed Doctor's home planet (another member of Susan and the Doctor's race, the Monk, had appeared previously, but without much elaboration and without using the term "Time Lord"). 
It also marked the tenure of Patrick Troughton as the Second Doctor. It consisted of seven serials and forty-four episodes, including two epic-length storylines: the eight episodes of The Invasion and the ten-episode The War Games. 
This season was the last to be filmed in black and white. Season 6 is also the last season of Doctor Who to contain missing episodes, with all subsequent seasons affected by the then-in-effect junking policy restored through various means. 
This season is, fortunately, more complete than the previous three seasons, of which only five serials exist. Seven episodes from this season are lost, although audio recordings remain for all; as a result, the DVD release of The Invasion used animation to recreate the two missing episodes from that story. To date, it is the most complete season of the Patrick Troughton-era.
== Television stories ==
#	Title 	Writer 	Episodes	Notes
1	The Dominators 	Norman Ashby, akaMervyn HaismanHenry Lincoln (episode 5: with Derrick Sherwin, uncredited)	5 	First story to be written under a pseudonym. First, and only, televised appearance by the Quarks.
2	The Mind Robber 	Peter Ling(episode 1: with Derrick Sherwin, uncredited) 	5 	Introduction of the Land of Fiction. First story to be directed by David Maloney.
3	The Invasion 	Derrick SherwinConcept by Kit Pedler 	8 	First appearances of UNIT and John Benton.
4	The Krotons 	Robert Holmes 	4 	Robert Holmes' debut script for Doctor Who.
5	The Seeds of Death	Brian Hayles (with Terrance Dicks, uncredited) 	6 	First Terrance Dicks script for Doctor Who.
6	The Space Pirates 	Robert Holmes 	6 	First story of Doctor Who to be filmed using a "double banking" strategy. Currently the last story to have missing episodes.
7	The War Games 	Terrance DicksMalcolm Hulke 	10 	Final regular appearances of the Second Doctor, Jamie McCrimmon and Zoe Heriot. First identified appearances by the Time Lords, and first look at Gallifrey. Final episode to be filmed in black and white and the final story broadcast during the 1960s.
== Cast ==
Season 6 was the first season since Season 1 in which the core cast remained unchanged for the entire series:
* Dr Who - Patrick Troughton
* Jamie McCrimmon - Frazer Hines, Hamish Wilson
* Zoe Heriot - Wendy Padbury
=== Recurring ===
* Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart - Nicholas Courtney
* Corporal Benton - John Levene
* Tanya - Clare Jenkins
=== Guest ===
* Rago - Ronald Allen
* Toba - Kenneth Ives
* Cully - Arthur Cox
* Kando - Felicity Gibson
* Teel - Giles Block
* Balan - Johnson Bayly
* Senex - Walter Fitzgerald
* Quark Voices - Sheila Grant
* Master of the Land - Emrys Jones
* Gulliver - Bernard Horsfall
* Princess Rapunzel - Christine Pirie
* Karkus - Christopher Robbie
* Isobel Watkins - Sally Faulkner
* Tobias Vaughn - Kevin Stoney
* Packer - Peter Halliday
* Captain Turner - Robert Sidaway
* Sergeant Walters - James Thornhill
* Professor Watkins - Edward Burnham
* Selris - James Copeland
* Vana - Madeleine Mills
* Thara - Gilbert Wynne
* Eelek - Philip Madoc
* Beta - James Cairncross
* Kroton Voices - Roy Skelton, Patrick Tull
* Radnor - Ronald Leigh-Hunt
* Eldred - Philip Ray
* Gia Kelly - Louise Pajo
* Fewsham - Terry Scully
* Phipps - Christopher Coll
* Slaar - Alan Bennion
* Grand Marshall - Graham Leaman
* Caven - Dudley Foster
* Dervish - Brian Peck
* General Hermack - Jack May
* Major Ian Warne - Donald Gee
* Milo Clancey - Gordon Gostelow
* Madeleine Issigri - Lisa Daniely
* Dom Issigri - Esmond Knight
* Technician Penn - George Layton
* Lieutenant Carstairs - David Savile
* Lady Jennifer Buckingham - Jane Sherwin
* General Smythe - Noel Coleman
* Von Weich - David Garfield
* War Chief - Edward Brayshaw
* Scientist - Vernon Dobtcheff
* Sergeant Russell - David Weston
* Security Chief - James Bree
* War Lord - Philip Madoc
* First Time Lord - Bernard Horsfall
== Stories set before this season ==
The following stories are the known stories to be set between the Season 5 finale The Wheel in Space and Season 6 opener The Dominators.
* AUDIO: Fear of the Daleks
to be completed
== Stories set during this season ==
* PROSE: Future Imperfect (during Episode 5 The Mind Robber)
* PROSE: Aliens and Predators (between The Invasion and The Krotons)
* Involvement in PROSE: UPVC (between The Invasion and The Krotons)
* Involvement in PROSE: The Colony of Lies (between The Invasion and The Krotons)
* PROSE: Foreign Devils (between The Invasion and The Krotons)
* AUDIO: The Isos Network (between The Invasion and The Krotons)
* PROSE: Vortex of Fear (between The Seeds of Death and The Space Pirates)
* PROSE: The Final Sanction (between The Seeds of Death and The Space Pirates)
* PROSE: Please Shut the Gate (between The Seeds of Death and The Space Pirates)
* PROSE: Constant Companion (between The Seeds of Death and The Space Pirates)
* PROSE: The Indestructible Man (between The Seeds of Death and The Space Pirates)
* AUDIO: The Glorious Revolution (after The Seeds of Death)
* AUDIO: Lords of the Red Planet (between The Seeds of Death and The War Games)
* PROSE: The Wheel of Ice (between The Seeds of Death and The Space Pirates)
*AUDIO: Echoes of Grey (before The Space Pirates)
* Zoe's involvement in AUDIO: Tales from the Vault (before The Space Pirates)
* AUDIO: The Memory Cheats (before The Space Pirates)
* AUDIO: The Jigsaw War (before The Space Pirates)
* AUDIO: The Uncertainty Principle (before The Space Pirates)
*AUDIO: The Integral (before The Space Pirates)
* PROSE: The Menagerie (between The Space Pirates and The War Games)
* PROSE: Fallen Angel (between The Space Pirates and The War Games)
* AUDIO: The Dying Light (between The Space Pirates and The War Games)
*AUDIO: The Edge (between The Space Pirates and The War Games)
* Jamie and Zoe's involvement in AUDIO: Last of the Cybermen (between The Space Pirates and The War Games)
* Involvement in PROSE: The Eight Doctors (during episode 9 of The War Games)
* PROSE: War Crimes (during episode 10 of The War Games)
== Adaptations and merchandising ==
=== Home media ===
==== VHS releases ====
* The Dominators (1990)
* The Mind Robber (1990)
* The Invasion (with narration of episodes 1 and 4) (1993)
* The Krotons (1991)
* The Seeds of Death (1985/1987) (Edited Movie Format)
* The War Games (1990/2002) (on 2 tapes)
* The Troughton Years (1991) (The Space Pirates episode 2)
==== Loose Cannon VHS releases ====
* The Invasion (2003) (Episodes 1 and 4 only)
* The Space Pirates (1998/2007) (Episodes 1, 3-6 only)
==== DVD & Blu-ray releases ====
Serial name 	Number and durationof episodes	R2 release date 	R4 release date 	R1 release date
The Dominators 	5 × 25 min. 	12 July 2010 	2 September 2010 	11 January 2011
The Mind Robber 	5 × 20 min. 	7 March 2005 	5 May 2005 	6 September 2005
The Invasion (with animated reconstructions of episodes 1 & 4) 	8 × 25 min. 	6 November 2006 	3 January 2007 	6 March 2007
The Krotons 	4 × 25 min. 	2 July 2012 	2 August 2012 	10 July 2012
The Seeds of Death 	6 × 25 min. 	17 February 2003	5 May 2003 	2 March 2004
The Seeds of Death – Special EditionOnly available as part of the Revisitations 2 box set in Regions 2 and 4. Only available individually in Region 1.	6 × 25 min. 	28 March 2011 	5 May 2011 	12 June 2012
The War Games 	10 × 25 min. 	6 July 2009 	3 September 2009 	3 November 2009
Lost in Time: Patrick Troughton
The Space Pirates (episode 2 of 6)
(also includes surviving clips from The Space Pirates) 	1 × 25 min. 	1 November 2004 	2 December 2004 (Original release) 1 July 2010 (Re-release)	2 November 2004
==== Download/streaming availability ====
Serial name 	Amazon Video	BritBox	Google Play	iTunes
The Dominators(5 episodes) 	 	 	 	
The Mind Robber(5 episodes) 	 	✓ 	✓ 	Except UK
The Invasion(8 episodeswith animated reconstructions of episodes 1 & 4)	 	✓ 	 	
The Krotons(4 episodes) 	UK 	✓ 	 	✓
The Seeds of Death(6 episodes) 	UK 	✓ 	 	✓
The Space Pirates 	 	 	 	
The War Games(10 episodes) 	 	✓ 	 	
BritBox is available only in the US. iTunes stores carry Doctor Who serials in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the UK and US, unless stated otherwise.
=== Novels ===
* The Dominators
* The Mind Robber
* The Invasion
* The Krotons
* The Seeds of Death
* The Space Pirates
* Doctor Who and the War Games
== Other information ==
Novels and other media contend that further adventures of the Second Doctor occurred during Season 6B prior to his regeneration into the Third Doctor as seen in Season 7 of the television series.
== External links ==
* BBC Website Guide to Season 6
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