Doctor Who

Season 26

14 episodes · 1989

It was the final season of the "classic" series. Unusually for a Doctor Who season, aside from some scenes in Survival, all the stories took place on Earth. Apart from Battlefield, the stories followed a loose character arc, as Ace came to terms with her past. As for the Doctor, he had become darker in personality, treating others as pawns in the battle between good and evil while dressing in dark clothes to match his personality change. This was the first and so far only season to be produced entirely out of broadcast order.

Episodes

E1 · Battlefield (1)

1989 · 25m · 7.5 TMDB

As UNIT are transporting a nuclear warhead around Carbury, knights in armour arrive to continue waging a war that began thousands of years ago, but in a wholly different dimension.

E2 · Battlefield (2)

1989 · 25m · 8.0 TMDB

The Doctor and Ace discover a stone spaceship underneath Warmsley's archaeological dig while Mordred summons Morgaine to Earth's dimension.

E3 · Battlefield (3)

1989 · 25m · 7.2 TMDB

The Brigadier rescues the Doctor from the stone spaceship before they set out to locate Morgaine before she gains Excalibur.

E4 · Battlefield (4)

1989 · 25m · 7.3 TMDB

Morgaine forces Ace and Shou Yuing to hand over Excalibur by threatening to release the Destroyer, so the Doctor and the Brigadier enter a dimensional portal to stop her.

E5 · Ghost Light (1)

1989 · 25m · 6.1 TMDB

The Doctor and Ace explore Victorian house Gabriel Chase and realise it hides just as many dark secrets in its drawing room as it does in its dark cellar.

E6 · Ghost Light (2)

1989 · 25m · 6.2 TMDB

The Doctor manages to rescue Ace from the husks and then tries to uncover the truth about the goings on in Josiah's house.

E7 · Ghost Light (3)

1989 · 25m · 6.0 TMDB

Only Redvers, still searching for the elusive Saxe-Coburg, seems able to withstand Light and communicate with Control. Ace realises her past actions need to be dealt with.

E8 · The Curse of Fenric (1)

1989 · 25m · 7.2 TMDB

England, the 1940s. The TARDIS brings the Doctor and Ace to a secret naval base during WWII. There, the time-travellers battle vampiric Haemovores and an ancient Viking curse!

E9 · The Curse of Fenric (2)

1989 · 25m · 7.0 TMDB

The Doctor and Ace manage to convince Sorin to release them while Millington and Judson attempt to translate the Viking runes.

E10 · The Curse of Fenric (3)

1989 · 25m · 7.1 TMDB

The Doctor and his friends come under attack from the Haemavores, allowing Millington to retrieve the flask containing Fenric's essence.

E11 · The Curse of Fenric (4)

1989 · 25m · 6.7 TMDB

Fenric is loose and planning to use the Ancient Haemovore to poison the Earth with chemicals, unless the Doctor can defeat him in their centuries old game.

E12 · Survival (1)

1989 · 25m · 7.6 TMDB

Perivale, England, the late 1980s. People are vanishing into thin air under the baleful stare of a very strange cat. The Doctor and Ace learn that, in the battle for survival, success can carry a terrible price...

E13 · Survival (2)

1989 · 25m · 7.0 TMDB

The Doctor and Paterson manage to escape from the Master and join up with Ace and her friends, where the Doctor tries to find a way to get them all off the planet before it explodes.