Doctor Who: Season 24

1987 · 14 episodes · ★ 5.7

What Season 24 of Doctor Who

Season 24 of Doctor Who has no overarching story arc, unlike the previous one, and its stories are grouped into blocks of four and three episodes. The Doctor and Mel first face the Rani, who wants to turn Lakertya into a giant brain capable of altering time. Next they arrive at Paradise Towers, a luxury building that turns out to be a trap controlled by cleaning robots. Later they travel to Wales in 1959, where the Chimerons' Queen flees from the Bannermen and their leader, Gavrok. Finally, Iceworld brings together Ace, a waitress lost in time, with the Doctor, Mel and Glitz.

14episodes

Sep 7, 1987premiered

Dec 7, 1987final episode

5.8 hrtotal runtime

Season 24 Episodes

24x01 Time and the Rani (1)
Sep 7, 1987 · 25 min · ★ 4.5
The alien world of Lakertya. With the aid of the savage Tetraps, the Rani has conquered this planet to allow her to continue her depraved biochemical experiments. But she finds herself needing the Doctor's assistance...
Directed by: Andrew Morgan · Written by: Philip Baker, Jane Baker · Starring: Mark Greenstreet, Kate O'Mara, Donald Pickering, Karen Clegg
24x02 Time and the Rani (2)
Sep 14, 1987 · 25 min · ★ 5.3
The Rani's impersonation of Mel backfires badly because Urak can't tell the difference, while the Doctor attempts to learn the secret of the Loyhargil.
Directed by: Andrew Morgan · Written by: Philip Baker, Jane Baker · Starring: Mark Greenstreet, Kate O'Mara, Donald Pickering, Wanda Ventham
24x03 Time and the Rani (3)
Sep 21, 1987 · 25 min · ★ 5.4
The solstice nears, making it time for the Rani to bring her plans into fruition. The Doctor's sympathies for Beyus, ruler of the Lykertyans, are rather qualified. Beyus' heart is for his people yet something prompts him to collaborate fully in helping the Rani reach all her objectives. The answer, he's told, lies within the Center of Leisure.
Directed by: Andrew Morgan · Written by: Philip Baker, Jane Baker · Starring: Mark Greenstreet, Kate O'Mara, Donald Pickering, Wanda Ventham
24x04 Time and the Rani (4)
Sep 28, 1987 · 25 min · ★ 5.2
The Rani, at last, links the Doctor into her great brain machine, the crowning jewel in her component packet of geniuses brought together to turn Lakertya itself into one vast cerebral mass capable of redirecting time anywhere in the universe, giving her absolute power over all creation.
Directed by: Andrew Morgan · Written by: Philip Baker, Jane Baker · Starring: Mark Greenstreet, Kate O'Mara, Donald Pickering, Wanda Ventham
24x05 Paradise Towers (1)
Oct 5, 1987 · 25 min · ★ 5.4
The legendary Paradise Towers is supposed to be the height of luxury but when the Doctor and Mel arrive, they find it is as far from paradise as possible...
Directed by: Nicholas Mallett · Written by: Stephen Wyatt · Starring: Brenda Bruce, Richard Briers, Catherine Cusack, Clive Merrison
24x06 Paradise Towers (2)
Oct 12, 1987 · 25 min · ★ 6.1
With the Doctor condemned to death by the caretakers and their bizarre rulebook, Mel faces cannibalistic OAPS. Is Pex going to be the true hero of Paradise Towers?
Directed by: Nicholas Mallett · Written by: Stephen Wyatt · Starring: Brenda Bruce, Richard Briers, Judy Cornwell, Catherine Cusack
24x07 Paradise Towers (3)
Oct 19, 1987 · 25 min · ★ 6.0
Mel and Pex play cat and mouse with the lethal cleaner robots while the Doctor and the surviving Kangs learn all about Kroagnon the Great Architect.
Directed by: Nicholas Mallett · Written by: Stephen Wyatt · Starring: Brenda Bruce, Richard Briers, Judy Cornwell, Catherine Cusack
24x08 Paradise Towers (4)
Oct 26, 1987 · 25 min · ★ 5.9
Meeting up at the pool, the Doctor leads the surviving Rezzies, Kangs and Caretakers as they draw the line together on the 245th floor against the systematic cleansing of all life by Kroagnon and his robotic Cleaners.
Directed by: Nicholas Mallett · Written by: Stephen Wyatt · Starring: Richard Briers, Judy Cornwell, Catherine Cusack, Clive Merrison
24x09 Delta and the Bannermen (1)
Nov 2, 1987 · 25 min · ★ 5.5
Wales, 1959. A top-secret US satellite has mysteriously gone missing. This could have something to do with the arrival of a party of alien tourists en route to Disneyland, amongst their number Mel and the Doctor, and the Queen of the Chimerons - who's fleeing the Bannermen and their genocidal leader Gavrok...
Directed by: Chris Clough · Written by: Malcolm Kohll · Starring: Don Henderson, Ken Dodd, Stubby Kaye, Richard Davies
24x10 Delta and the Bannermen (2)
Nov 9, 1987 · 25 min · ★ 5.2
Mel's just discovered something very interesting about the life cycle of her new friend and the Doctor has been cornered by an alien bounty hunter wearing blue suede shoes.
Directed by: Chris Clough · Written by: Malcolm Kohll · Starring: Hugh Lloyd, Don Henderson, Stubby Kaye, Richard Davies
24x11 Delta and the Bannermen (3)
Nov 16, 1987 · 25 min · ★ 5.1
As Billy and Ray do what they can to help save Delta and the baby, the Doctor and Goronwy the beekeeper face Gavrok and his Bannermen one last time...
Directed by: Chris Clough · Written by: Malcolm Kohll · Starring: Hugh Lloyd, Don Henderson, Stubby Kaye, Richard Davies
24x12 Dragonfire (1)
Nov 23, 1987 · 25 min · ★ 6.5
The deep-space trading post of Iceworld, the far future. The Doctor, Mel, their old friend Glitz and time-lost waitress Ace go in search of a fabulous treasure, supposedly guarded by a fire-breathing dragon. But what is the link between the treasure and Iceworld's proprietor, the frosty Mr Kane?
Directed by: Chris Clough · Written by: Ian Briggs · Starring: Sophie Aldred, Sean Blowers, Patricia Quinn, Edward Peel
24x13 Dragonfire (2)
Nov 30, 1987 · 25 min · ★ 6.5
While Mel and Ace run from Glitz's former crewmen (whom he sold to Kane), officers Belazs and Kracauer conspire to overthrow Kane. The Doctor, meanwhile, discovers there really is a dragon in the ice caverns, which turns out to be a bio-mechanoid with a very interesting function.
Directed by: Chris Clough · Written by: Ian Briggs · Starring: Sophie Aldred, Patricia Quinn, Edward Peel, Daphne Oxenford
24x14 Dragonfire (3) Season Finale
Dec 7, 1987 · 25 min · ★ 7.0
At last learning the location of the missing key to his spaceship, Kane has the dragon hunted down and Iceworld brutally purged of all visitors; but, the Doctor, visiting the Ice Garden, learns something significant that will put the chagrin on Kane's grand plans for home world vengeance.
Directed by: Chris Clough · Written by: Ian Briggs · Starring: Sophie Aldred, Edward Peel, Shirin Taylor, Tony Selby