Doctor Who: Season 22

1985 · 13 episodes · ★ 6.5

What Season 22 of Doctor Who

The Doctor travels through time and space aboard the TARDIS, and this season he crosses paths with some of his best-known enemies again. The Cybermen face Lytton, a mercenary stranded on Earth for almost a year, while the Rani and the Master try to impose their plans on the planet. The Sontarans, the Daleks and Davros appear on other fronts, and the Borad rules Karfel with an iron fist. The season consists of thirteen forty-five-minute episodes, a new format the BBC tested. It is also Patrick Troughton's final appearance as the Second Doctor.

13episodes

Jan 5, 1985premiered

Mar 30, 1985Latest episode

9.8 hrtotal runtime

Season 22 Episodes

22x01 Attack of the Cybermen (1)
Jan 5, 1985 · 45 min · ★ 7.0
London, 1985. The alien mercenary Lytton has been stranded here for nearly a year, but now he has a plan to escape. But how does it involve the Doctor's old enemies - and why are they on Earth at this point in history?
Directing: Matthew Robinson · Writing: Eric Saward, Paula Woolsey · Starring: Brian Glover, Stephen Churchett, Cy Town, Michael Kilgarriff
22x02 Attack of the Cybermen (2)
Jan 12, 1985 · 45 min · ★ 6.9
On Telos, the Doctor is reintroduced to the Cyber Leader and meets the Cryons, the planet's original inhabitants who will go to any lengths to get their world back!
Directing: Matthew Robinson · Writing: Eric Saward, Paula Woolsey · Cast: Faith Brown, Sarah Greene, Esther Freud, Michael Kilgarriff
22x03 Vengeance on Varos (1)
Jan 19, 1985 · 45 min · ★ 6.0
The former prison planet Varos, the future. The downtrodden population of miners are kept happy by real-life violence and murder broadcast live from the Punishment Dome. But then the TARDIS materialises inside the Dome...
Directing: Ron Jones · Writing: Philip Martin · Starring: Sheila Reid, Nabil Shaban, Jason Connery, Owen Teale
22x04 Vengeance on Varos (2)
Jan 26, 1985 · 45 min · ★ 6.0
The Governor forces the Doctor to tell him the true value of Zeiton-7 but Sil attempts to derail his plans by subjecting Peri and Areta to an enforced mutation.
Directing: Ron Jones · Writing: Philip Martin · Starring: Sheila Reid, Nabil Shaban, Jason Connery, Owen Teale
22x05 The Mark of the Rani (1)
Feb 2, 1985 · 46 min · ★ 6.1
England, the 1820s. As the Industrial Revolution gathers pace, the village of Killingworth is disturbed by crazed Luddite miners intent on smashing all machinery and engineers. But is there another cause of the situation?
Directing: Sarah Hellings · Writing: Philip Baker, Jane Baker · Starring: Peter Childs, Terence Alexander, Kate O'Mara, Anthony Ainley
22x06 The Mark of the Rani (2)
Feb 9, 1985 · 45 min · ★ 6.2
The Master uses The Rani's mind-controlling parasites to keep a meeting of Earth's leading scientists from being cancelled, and helps her plant transformation land mines for The Doctor, as he continues to propose an alliance with her in ruling over Earth.
Directing: Sarah Hellings · Writing: Philip Baker, Jane Baker · Starring: Peter Childs, Terence Alexander, Kate O'Mara, Anthony Ainley
22x07 The Two Doctors (1)
Feb 16, 1985 · 45 min · ★ 7.1
The alien space station J7, the mid-1980s Earth time. The Time Lords have sent the second Doctor and Jamie here to try to stop dangerous experiments into time travel. But the station comes under attack from the Sontarans and far away in space and time the sixth Doctor goes into psychic shock...
Directing: Peter Moffatt · Writing: Robert Holmes · Starring: Patrick Troughton, Frazer Hines, John Stratton, Jacqueline Pearce
22x08 The Two Doctors (2)
Feb 23, 1985 · 45 min · ★ 7.3
The Doctor and Peri meet Jamie and learn the Second Doctor is with the Sontarans on Earth.
Directing: Peter Moffatt · Writing: Robert Holmes · Starring: Patrick Troughton, Frazer Hines, John Stratton, Clinton Greyn
22x09 The Two Doctors (3)
Mar 2, 1985 · 45 min · ★ 7.1
The Sontarans prepare the Second Doctor to trigger their Kartz-Reimer capsule.
Directing: Peter Moffatt · Writing: Robert Holmes · Starring: Patrick Troughton, Frazer Hines, John Stratton, Clinton Greyn
22x10 Timelash (1)
Mar 9, 1985 · 46 min · ★ 5.6
The planet Karfel, in the distant future. The tyrannical Borad rules with an iron fist, and any who oppose him are cast into the Timelash - a space-time tunnel leading to the past of an alien world called Earth...
Directing: Pennant Roberts · Writing: Glen McCoy · Starring: Paul Darrow, Dicken Ashworth, Steven Mackintosh, Eric Deacon
22x11 Timelash (2)
Mar 16, 1985 · 45 min · ★ 5.6
The Borad accepts no opposition and enables Maylin Tekker to expose the rebels and trap Peri with the Morlox. The Doctor tries to avert a war between Karfel and the Bandrils.
Directing: Pennant Roberts · Writing: Glen McCoy · Starring: Paul Darrow, Dicken Ashworth, Eric Deacon, Tracy-Louise Ward
22x12 Revelation of the Daleks (1)
Mar 23, 1985 · 45 min · ★ 6.4
The planet Necros, the future. The Doctor arrives for the cryogenic interment of an old friend at Tranquil Repose, a vast repository of bodies in suspended animation. But what does the 'Great Healer' really have in mind for them...?
Directing: Graeme Harper · Writing: Eric Saward · Cast: Alexei Sayle, Clive Swift, Terry Molloy, Jenny Tomasin
22x13 Revelation of the Daleks (2) Season Finale
Mar 30, 1985 · 46 min · ★ 6.6
Davros plans to create an army of Daleks loyal only to him but on Skaro, the Daleks have other plans and head to Necros. Caught in the middle of this, the Doctor must save Peri...
Directing: Graeme Harper · Writing: Eric Saward · Cast: Alexei Sayle, Clive Swift, Terry Molloy, Jenny Tomasin