Doctor Who: Season 6

1968 · 44 episodes · ★ 7.0

What Season 6 of Doctor Who

The Doctor travels with Zoe and Jamie to Dulkis, where the three of them hope for a quiet vacation. There they discover the Dominators and their slaves, the Quarks, who plan to turn the planet into fuel for their invading fleet. Later, the group falls into a fictional world ruled by a mysterious Master. The arrival of the Cybermen on Earth forces the Doctor to team up with the Brigadier and UNIT, the first story featuring this organization. On another front, the Krotons subjugate the people of the Gonds. The season also features the Time Lords and stars Patrick Troughton as the Second Doctor.

44episodes

Aug 10, 1968premiered

Jun 21, 1969latest episode

17.6 hrtotal runtime

Season 6 Episodes

6x01 The Dominators (1)
Aug 10, 1968 · 25 min · ★ 5.7
The TARDIS arrives on the planet Dulkis where the Doctor, Zoe and Jamie decide to have a quiet holiday. Only to find the Evil Dominators and their robotic slaves, The Quarks have arrived on a radioactive island, where they plan to detonate a bomb in the planet's core, which will turn the entire planet as source of radioactive fuel for their invasion fleet.
Directed by Morris Barry · Written by Henry Lincoln, Mervyn Haisman · Starring: Ronald Allen, Arthur Cox, Philip Voss, Malcolm Terris
6x02 The Dominators (2)
Aug 17, 1968 · 25 min · ★ 6.0
The Doctor and Jamie are captured by the Dominators, who subject them to an intelligence test, while Zoe and Cully attempt to convince the Dulcian council of the threat.
Directed by Morris Barry · Written by Henry Lincoln, Mervyn Haisman · Starring: Ronald Allen, Arthur Cox, Felicity Gibson, Giles Block
6x03 The Dominators (3)
Aug 24, 1968 · 25 min · ★ 5.3
Zoe and Cully are captured by the Dominators and put to work alongside the survey team while the Doctor and Jamie decide to return to the island to help.
Directed by Morris Barry · Written by Henry Lincoln, Mervyn Haisman · Starring: Ronald Allen, Arthur Cox, Felicity Gibson, Giles Block
6x04 The Dominators (4)
Aug 31, 1968 · 24 min · ★ 5.3
The Doctor and Zoe are interrogated by Rago, who is planning to present his terms to the Dulcian council, while Jamie and Cully try to find a way to strike back against the Quarks.
Directed by Morris Barry · Written by Henry Lincoln, Mervyn Haisman · Starring: Ronald Allen, Arthur Cox, Felicity Gibson, Giles Block
6x05 The Dominators (5)
Sep 7, 1968 · 25 min · ★ 5.8
Jamie and Cully manage to rescue the Doctor's party and together they try to find a way to stop the Dominators before they destroy the entire planet.
Directed by Morris Barry · Written by Henry Lincoln, Mervyn Haisman · Starring: Ronald Allen, Arthur Cox, Felicity Gibson, Giles Block
6x06 The Mind Robber (1)
Sep 14, 1968 · 22 min · ★ 7.1
The TARDIS arrives in a white void, having made an emergency take-off to escape the volcanic eruption on Dulkis. The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe find themselves in the Land of Fiction, where characters from the imagination come to life, and The Master, the mysterious ruler, chooses the Doctor to take his place.
Directed by David Maloney · Written by Derrick Sherwin · Starring: Emrys Jones, John Atterbury, Ralph Carrigan, Bill Wiesener
6x07 The Mind Robber (2)
Sep 21, 1968 · 22 min · ★ 6.9
With the TARDIS destroyed, the Doctor, Jamie and Zoe find themselves in a strange forest patrolled by mysterious soldiers.
Directing: David Maloney · Writing: Peter Ling · Starring: Emrys Jones, Hamish Wilson, Bernard Horsfall, Barbara Loft
6x08 The Mind Robber (3)
Sep 28, 1968 · 20 min · ★ 6.6
The Doctor realises that the travellers are trapped in a world where fiction is real and where creatures are a threat if people believe in them.
Directing: David Maloney · Writing: Peter Ling · Starring: Emrys Jones, Hamish Wilson, Paul Alexander, Ian Hines
6x09 The Mind Robber (4)
Oct 5, 1968 · 20 min · ★ 6.3
The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe reach the citadel at the centre of the land, where they finally encounter the Master of the Land of Fiction.
Directed by David Maloney · Written by Peter Ling · Starring: Emrys Jones, John Atterbury, Ralph Carrigan, Bill Wiesener
6x10 The Mind Robber (5)
Oct 12, 1968 · 18 min · ★ 6.4
With Jamie and Zoe having been turned into fiction, the Doctor must find a way to save them without suffering the same fate or becoming part of the Master Brain.
Directed by David Maloney · Written by Peter Ling · Starring: Emrys Jones, John Atterbury, Ralph Carrigan, Bill Wiesener
6x11 The Invasion (1)
Nov 2, 1968 · 24 min · ★ 8.3
The Doctor and the newly formed UNIT must stop a Cybermen Invasion and a Sinister Industrialist in league with them
Directing: Douglas Camfield · Writing: Derrick Sherwin · Starring: Murray Evans, Geoffrey Cheshire, Sheila Dunn, Walter Randall
6x12 The Invasion (2)
Nov 9, 1968 · 25 min · ★ 7.8
The Doctor and Jamie are taken prisoner by their mysterious observers and have a reunion with an old friend while Zoe and Isobel carry out their own investigation of IE.
Directing: Douglas Camfield · Writing: Derrick Sherwin · Starring: Nicholas Courtney, Geoffrey Cheshire, Ian Fairbairn, James Thornhill
6x13 The Invasion (3)
Nov 16, 1968 · 24 min · ★ 7.4
The Doctor and Jamie return to the IE factory in search of Zoe and Isobel, where they meet with Professor Watkins and fall foul of Vaughn.
Directed by Douglas Camfield · Written by Derrick Sherwin · Starring: Nicholas Courtney, Edward Burnham, James Thornhill, Sally Faulkner
6x14 The Invasion (4)
Nov 23, 1968 · 24 min · ★ 7.8
The Doctor and Jamie enlist the help of UNIT to rescue Zoe and Isobel before trying to find out what Vaughn is really up to.
Directed by Douglas Camfield · Written by Derrick Sherwin · Starring: Nicholas Courtney, Sheila Dunn, Edward Dentith, Edward Burnham
6x15 The Invasion (5)
Nov 30, 1968 · 24 min · ★ 7.7
The Doctor and Jamie tell the Brigadier about the Cybermen but with Rutledge under Vaughn's control he is powerless to act.
Directed by Douglas Camfield · Written by Derrick Sherwin · Starring: Nicholas Courtney, Peter Hawkins, John Levene, Edward Dentith
6x16 The Invasion (6)
Dec 7, 1968 · 24 min · ★ 7.9
Captain Turner manages to rescue Jamie and the others, while the Doctor begins working on a way to protect everyone from the Cybermen's hypno-sound signal.
Directed by Douglas Camfield · Written by Derrick Sherwin · Starring: Nicholas Courtney, Peter Hawkins, Stacy Davies, Ian Fairbairn
6x17 The Invasion (7)
Dec 14, 1968 · 25 min · ★ 8.0
With the entire world unconscious apart from the Doctor and his friends, the Cybermen are poised to invade and only Zoe, the Brigadier and a missile crew can stop them.
Directing: Douglas Camfield · Writing: Derrick Sherwin · Starring: Nicholas Courtney, Peter Hawkins, John Levene, Edward Burnham
6x18 The Invasion (8)
Dec 21, 1968 · 24 min · ★ 8.1
The Cybermen have launched their deadly megatron bomb which will destroy all life on Earth unless the Doctor can deactivate the homing signal.
Directed by Douglas Camfield · Written by Derrick Sherwin · Starring: Nicholas Courtney, Sally Faulkner, Pat Gorman, Peter Halliday
6x19 The Krotons (1)
Dec 28, 1968 · 23 min · ★ 6.3
When the TARDIS arrives on the planet of the Gonds, the Doctor, Jamie and Zoe discover a world ruled and enslaved by the Krotons. The brightest Gonds are always chosen to serve as companions of the Krotons and are never seen again...
6x20 The Krotons (2)
Jan 4, 1969 · 24 min · ★ 6.5
Zoe is selected as a companion for the Krotons and the Doctor insists on joining her.
Directing: David Maloney · Writing: Robert Holmes
6x21 The Krotons (3)
Jan 11, 1969 · 22 min · ★ 6.0
Jamie is held prisoner by the Krotons who intend to recapture the Doctor and Zoe for their mental energy.
Directing: David Maloney · Writing: Robert Holmes
6x22 The Krotons (4)
Jan 18, 1969 · 23 min · ★ 6.2
Selris succeeds in drawing the Krotons out of the Dynatrope but Eelek agrees to hand the Doctor and Zoe over to them in return for their leaving the planet.
Directing: David Maloney · Writing: Robert Holmes
6x23 The Seeds of Death (1)
Jan 25, 1969 · 25 min · ★ 7.0
21st century Earth is entirely dependent on the T-Mat transport system but the control centre on the moon has stopped functioning. Meanwhile, the Doctor, Jamie and Zoe meet the one man who can solve the crisis.
Directing: Michael Ferguson · Writing: Brian Hayles, Terrance Dicks · Starring: Louise Pajo, Harry Towb, John Witty, Philip Ray
6x24 The Seeds of Death (2)
Feb 1, 1969 · 25 min · ★ 6.7
Eldred agrees to supply a rocket for travel to the moon and the Doctor, Jamie and Zoe volunteer to crew it.
Directing: Michael Ferguson · Writing: Brian Hayles · Starring: Louise Pajo, Ronald Leigh-Hunt, John Witty, Philip Ray
6x25 The Seeds of Death (3)
Feb 8, 1969 · 25 min · ★ 6.7
The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe make it to the moon and join forces with Phipps but the Ice Warriors have gained control of T-mat.
Directing: Michael Ferguson · Writing: Brian Hayles · Starring: Louise Pajo, Ronald Leigh-Hunt, John Witty, Philip Ray
6x26 The Seeds of Death (4)
Feb 15, 1969 · 25 min · ★ 6.9
The Ice Warriors' seed pods beginning materialising all over the globe while Slaar decides to kill the Doctor by T-matting him into space.
Directing: Michael Ferguson · Writing: Brian Hayles · Starring: Louise Pajo, Ronald Leigh-Hunt, John Witty, Philip Ray
6x27 The Seeds of Death (5)
Feb 22, 1969 · 25 min · ★ 6.6
The Doctor and his allies manage to return to Earth via T-mat only to find the Ice Warrior has attacked the weather control station.
Directing: Michael Ferguson · Writing: Brian Hayles · Starring: Louise Pajo, Ronald Leigh-Hunt, John Witty, Philip Ray
6x28 The Seeds of Death (6)
Mar 1, 1969 · 25 min · ★ 6.3
The Doctor manages to create a rain storm to destroy the Martian fungus before trying to find a way to stop the Ice Warriors' invasion fleet.
Directing: Michael Ferguson · Writing: Brian Hayles · Starring: Louise Pajo, Ronald Leigh-Hunt, John Witty, Philip Ray
6x29 The Space Pirates (1)
Mar 8, 1969 · 25 min
Space beacons are being destroyed by pirates, who are salvaging the argonite metal. When the Doctor, Jamie and Zoe arrive on one of the beacons, they are mistaken for pirates.
Directing: Michael Hart · Writing: Robert Holmes · Starring: Brian Peck
6x30 The Space Pirates (2)
Mar 15, 1969 · 25 min
With the Doctor, Jamie and Zoe trapped on a beacon segment, Hermack becomes suspicious of the unruly prospector Milo Clancey.
Directed by Michael Hart · Written by Robert Holmes
6x31 The Space Pirates (3)
Mar 22, 1969 · 25 min
The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe flee from the Space Corps with Clancey, who decides to seek refuge on Ta.
Directed by Michael Hart · Written by Robert Holmes
6x32 The Space Pirates (4)
Mar 29, 1969 · 25 min
The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe are held prisoner by the space pirates while Caven comes up with a plan to throw suspicion onto Clancey.
Directed by Michael Hart · Written by Robert Holmes
6x33 The Space Pirates (5)
Apr 5, 1969 · 25 min
Madeleine is revealed to be working with Caven, who comes up with a way to kill the Doctor and his friends whilst framing them for the piracy.
Directed by Michael Hart · Written by Robert Holmes · Starring: Lisa Daniely, Jack May, Donald Gee, George Layton
6x34 The Space Pirates (6)
Apr 12, 1969 · 25 min
With Clancey and Issigri trapped aboard the LIZ, the Doctor, Jamie and Zoe try to convince Madeleine to help them before Caven destroys Ta.
Directed by Michael Hart · Written by Robert Holmes · Starring: Lisa Daniely, Donald Gee, George Layton, Esmond Knight
6x35 The War Games (1)
Apr 19, 1969 · 26 min · ★ 8.3
The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe realise they have arrived in the trenches of the First World War, where the sinister General Smythe accuses them of espionage.
Directed by David Maloney · Written by Malcolm Hulke, Terrance Dicks · Starring: Terence Bayler, David Savile
6x36 The War Games (2)
Apr 26, 1969 · 25 min · ★ 8.1
The Doctor and Zoe manage to escape from Ransom and attempt to rescue Jamie from the military prison.
Directing: David Maloney · Starring: David Savile
6x37 The War Games (3)
May 3, 1969 · 24 min · ★ 8.0
The Doctor and his friends realise the area is divided into different time zones and decide to return to the château to obtain a map from Smythe.
Directed by David Maloney · Starring: David Savile, Gary Dean
6x38 The War Games (4)
May 10, 1969 · 23 min · ★ 7.5
The Doctor and Zoe are transported to the control centre of the war games while Jamie and Lady Jennifer fall foul of American Revolution soldiers.
Directing: David Maloney · Starring: John Atterbury, Vernon Dobtcheff, Leslie Schofield, Rudolph Walker
6x39 The War Games (5)
May 17, 1969 · 25 min · ★ 7.9
The Doctor attempts to rescue Zoe and Carstairs while Jamie and Lady Jennifer try to convince the resistance of the true nature of Von Weich and the others.
Directing: David Maloney · Starring: Vernon Dobtcheff, David Savile
6x40 The War Games (6)
May 24, 1969 · 23 min · ★ 7.9
The scientist examines the captured resistance fighters and realises Jamie is a new arrival on the planet while the Doctor, Zoe and Carstairs try to rescue their friends.
Directing: David Maloney · Starring: David Troughton, Vernon Dobtcheff, David Savile
6x41 The War Games (7)
May 31, 1969 · 23 min · ★ 7.9
The Doctor, Jamie and Carstairs manage to return to the 1917 zone only to be captured by Smythe, who orders the Doctor executed.
Directing: David Maloney · Starring: Philip Madoc, David Savile
6x42 The War Games (8)
Jun 7, 1969 · 25 min · ★ 7.9
The Doctor and the processing machine have been taken by the Aliens but the resistance are making plans to attack the control centre.
Starring: David Savile
6x43 The War Games (9)
Jun 14, 1969 · 25 min · ★ 8.1
To prove his loyalty to the Aliens, the Doctor is ordered to reprocess his friends while the Security Chief finally uncovers evidence of the War Chief's treachery.
Directing: David Maloney · Starring: Philip Madoc, David Savile
6x44 The War Games (10) Season Finale
Jun 21, 1969 · 25 min · ★ 8.9
The TARDIS is drawn to the planet of the Time Lords where both the Doctor and the War Lord are placed on trial.
Directed by David Maloney · Starring: Philip Madoc, Bernard Horsfall, Clyde Pollitt, Trevor Martin