Doctor Who (season 9)

Doctor Who season 9
Country of origin	United Kingdom
No. of episodes	24, 5 serials
Broadcast
Original channel	BBC One
Original run	1 January 1972 (1972-01-01) – 24 June 1972 (1972-06-24)
Home video release
DVD release
Region 1	3 June 2008 - 13 September 2011
Region 2	14 January 2008 - 12 September 2011
Region 4	5 March 2008 - present
Series chronology
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List of Doctor Who serials

The 9th season of British science fiction television series Doctor Who began on 1 January 1971 with Day of the Daleks, and ended with The Time Monster.

Casting

Main characters

Jon Pertwee continues his role as The Third Doctor, as well does Katy Manning playing Jo Grant.

Guest stars

Roger Delgado returns to play The Master in The Sea Devils and The Time Monster.

Nicholas Courtney continues his role of the Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart.

Episodes

Story No.	Serial	Title	Directed by	Written by	UK viewers (million)	Original air date	Production code
060	1	"Day of the Daleks"	Paul Bernard	Louis Marks	9.6[1]	1-22 January 1972	KKK
Rebels from a future Earth conquered by the Daleks travel to the 20th Century to prevent that from happening.
061	2	"The Curse of Peladon"	Lennie Mayne	Brian Hayles	9.4 [2]	29 January - 19 February 1972	MMM
The Doctor and Jo land on the planet Peladon, where they have to contend with an ancient royal curse.
062	3	"The Sea Devils"	Michael Briant	Malcolm Hulke	8.2[3]	26 February - 1 April 1972	LLL
The Third Doctor and Jo visit the Master in his island prison and encounter the Sea Devils, cousins of the Silurians.
063	4	"The Mutants"	Christopher Barry	Bob Baker & Dave Martin	7.8[4]	8 April - 13 May 1972	NNN
On the colony world of Solos, something is transforming the human population, turning them into hideous mutants
064	5	"The Time Monster"	Paul Bernard	Barry Letts	7.4 [5]	20 May – 24 June 1972	OOO
The Third Doctor and Jo investigate the workings of the TOMTIT machine, and what secret power is locked within the crystal of Kronos?

Broadcast

DVD releases

All serials of season 9 have been released on DVD all individually and some in multi-serial box sets.

References

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