Doctor Who - Season 15

Doctor Who - Season 15

Season 15

This season introduced K9 to the series and saw the departure of Leela. It was originally intended to include Terrance Dicks' story The Vampire Mutations but, due to a major BBC production of Dracula, it was postponed. It later became Season 18's State of Decay. To replace it, Dicks quickly scripted the season opener, Horror of Fang Rock. The season took a two week transmission break over the 1977 Christmas period, between the broadcast of part four of The Sun Makers and part one of Underworld.
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DatesSept. 3, 1977 - März 11, 1978
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Episodes

Horror of Fang Rock, Part One
Season 15Episode 125 min

Horror of Fang Rock, Part One

The TARDIS lands near an isolated rocky island lighthouse just after a comet strikes the nearby sea and a sudden chilling fog rolls in. Soon after, electrical problems take hold of the generator and one of the keepers dies mysteriously. Rueben, the eldest keeper, thinks it's the return of the legendary Beast of Fang Rock, but the Doctor suspects it's something worse that a legend.

Sept. 3, 1977
Horror of Fang Rock, Part Two
Season 15Episode 225 min

Horror of Fang Rock, Part Two

With inexplicable electrical problems keeping the lighthouse from maintaining a steady beam, a foolhardy ship crashes against the island rocks. Four shaken and discontent survivors join the people inside where the Doctor surmises they're all being carefully scrutinized, a prelude to an attack.

Sept. 10, 1977
Horror of Fang Rock, Part Three
Season 15Episode 325 min

Horror of Fang Rock, Part Three

A death scream is heard, yet all are accounted for. Eventually the Doctor finds a body stashed away but hours old, with rigor mortis already settling in, which means there's a chameleon in their midst. Completely cut off from the rest of the world and with an escalating body count, the Doctor wonders just what, exactly, he's locked inside the lighthouse with them all.

Sept. 17, 1977
Horror of Fang Rock, Part Four
Season 15Episode 425 min

Horror of Fang Rock, Part Four

With little to fear, and its mother ship about to land and turn Earth into an alien attack base, the electrically charged Rutan scout drops its human guise and attacks openly.

Sept. 24, 1977
The Invisible Enemy, Part One
Season 15Episode 525 min

The Invisible Enemy, Part One

"Contact has been made!" A relief crew en route to Titan in 5000 AD unwarily pick up hitchhikers that change them. Shortly thereafter the Doctor, passing through the same point in space, is hitchhiked as well, but not Leela - a reject who must die.

Okt. 1, 1977
The Invisible Enemy, Part Two
Season 15Episode 625 min

The Invisible Enemy, Part Two

The Doctor draws into himself, fighting the voice in his own head that's trying to take over his intelligence.

Okt. 8, 1977
The Invisible Enemy, Part Three
Season 15Episode 725 min

The Invisible Enemy, Part Three

The medical center mounts a defense against alien forces trying to take the comatose Doctor while clones of Leela and the Doctor go microscopic so they can hunt down the intelligent infection that's in his head.

Okt. 15, 1977
The Invisible Enemy, Part Four
Season 15Episode 825 min

The Invisible Enemy, Part Four

In trying to retrieve the clones from inside the Doctor, the alien virus is brought from the microbial world into the macro-world, and it's ready to spawn.

Okt. 22, 1977
Image of the Fendahl, Part One
Season 15Episode 925 min

Image of the Fendahl, Part One

Archeologists near a reputedly haunted woods use a time scanner to explore the history of a sinister 12 million year old skull, creating a hole in time that attracts the Doctor's attention.

Okt. 29, 1977
Image of the Fendahl, Part Two
Season 15Episode 1025 min

Image of the Fendahl, Part Two

Every time the archaeologists explore the ancient skull, something deadly hunts and haunts the wood while one of the researchers is particularly affected.

Nov. 5, 1977
Image of the Fendahl, Part Three
Season 15Episode 1125 min

Image of the Fendahl, Part Three

The Doctor endeavors to prevent the re-existence of a Fendahl, a group entity that feeds on life itself and thought only to exist in Time Lord mythology, but a witches' coven, seeking power, intervenes.

Nov. 12, 1977
Image of the Fendahl, Part Four
Season 15Episode 1225 min

Image of the Fendahl, Part Four

With one of the archaeologists transformed and a massive implosion threatening, the Fendahl and its Fendahleen components start coming into existence while the Doctor, Leela and the Tylers do what they can to stop it.

Nov. 19, 1977
The Sun Makers, Part One
Season 15Episode 1325 min

The Sun Makers, Part One

The Tardis lands on Pluto in the far future. Instead of being a lifeless rock, there's scented air, massive buildings, six suns, a human population subjugated by crippling taxes from a government called "The Company," and a man about to commit suicide.

Nov. 26, 1977
The Sun Makers, Part Two
Season 15Episode 1425 min

The Sun Makers, Part Two

Captured by the authorities, the Doctor finds himself restrained in a Correction Centre where he's to be prepped for painful shock treatments, making him unable to return within a given time frame to the underground rebels holding Leela, who are prepared to kill her as promised.

Dez. 3, 1977
The Sun Makers, Part Three
Season 15Episode 1525 min

The Sun Makers, Part Three

The merciless Collector, who runs The Company, issues a bounty on the Doctor for his capture, while an already captured Leela is sentenced to public execution, via a steamer, for crimes against the company.

Dez. 10, 1977
The Sun Makers, Part Four
Season 15Episode 1625 min

The Sun Makers, Part Four

Attempting to start a successful revolution, the Doctor uses Pluto's Public Address System to announce successful revolution, all the while trying to determine the Collector's true species and why he, or it, seems set on taxing the life out of humans.

Dez. 17, 1977
Underworld, Part One
Season 15Episode 1725 min

Underworld, Part One

Materializing at the edge of the cosmos, the frontier of creation, The Doctor, Leela & K-9 encounter four ancient space travelers from Minyos, the first race ever contacted by the Time Lords. All but extinct due to their Time Lords encounter, the Minyans (rejuvenated 1000 times each) have been embarked on a long 100,000 year old quest, searching the universe for the lost race bank of their species to take to a new home world. But their equally old ship is finally failing, succumbing to the gravitational pull of a newly forming sun and taking the Doctor and his party with it.

Jan. 7, 1978
Underworld, Part Two
Season 15Episode 1825 min

Underworld, Part Two

Crashing inside a newly formed planet, the Doctor and others find it inhabited by a slave labor mining society, where rocks are harvested for their radioactive energy and human life has little value. With a population controlled by deliberate cave-ins, poison gas, and periodic sacrifices to an Oracle, the miners, called Trogs, are also descendants from Minyos, and who desperately desire freedom.

Jan. 14, 1978
Underworld, Part Three
Season 15Episode 1925 min

Underworld, Part Three

Capturing the Doctor and Leela, the citadel guards are quite pleased to have more subjects for their public executions, but it only fires up a Trog revolt instead.

Jan. 21, 1978
Underworld, Part Four
Season 15Episode 2025 min

Underworld, Part Four

With the Trog revolt close to success, the Oracle grants the Minyos travelers what they seek (the long lost race bank) in hopes they'll depart peacefully and straight away, but the Doctor suspects it's not all going to be as amicable as that. And what to do about the Trogs?

Jan. 28, 1978
The Invasion of Time, Part One
Season 15Episode 2125 min

The Invasion of Time, Part One

The Doctor returns to Gallifrey to become the President of the High Council of Time Lords. But Leela realizes that the Doctor is acting out of character.

Feb. 4, 1978
The Invasion of Time, Part Two
Season 15Episode 2225 min

The Invasion of Time, Part Two

The Doctor orders Leela exiled from the Capitol, then orders K9 to sabotage Gallifrey's defences.

Feb. 11, 1978
The Invasion of Time, Part Three
Season 15Episode 2325 min

The Invasion of Time, Part Three

The Doctor allows the Vardans to occupy Gallifrey while Leela and Rodan head out into the wasteland to search for help.

Feb. 18, 1978
The Invasion of Time, Part Four
Season 15Episode 2425 min

The Invasion of Time, Part Four

The Doctor convinces Andred to trust him as he works to expel the Vardans, while Leela gathers the Outsiders for an attack on the Capitol.

Feb. 25, 1978
The Invasion of Time, Part Five
Season 15Episode 2525 min

The Invasion of Time, Part Five

The Doctor and his friends flee from the Sontarans and the Doctor tries to convince Borusa to abandon his sacred office in order to help defeat them.

März 4, 1978
The Invasion of Time, Part Six
Season 15Episode 2625 min

The Invasion of Time, Part Six

The Doctor and his friends take refuge in the TARDIS but find themselves pursued by Stor and Kelner.

März 11, 1978

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