Doctor Who: Season 7

1970 · 25 episodes · ★ 7.5

What Season 7 of Doctor Who

The season opens with the Doctor freshly regenerated and on Earth, where the Time Lords restrict his travels. As he adjusts to life as an exile, he tries to regain more control over his TARDIS. He works with UNIT, which becomes the center of almost every storyline, and investigates very different threats alongside Liz. The four stories pit him against the Autons, the Silurians, alien envoys, and Professor Stahlman's Inferno Project, which aims to extract energy from the Earth's core. It is also the first season broadcast in color.

25episodes

Jan 3, 1970premiered

Jun 20, 1970latest episode

10.4 hrtotal runtime

Season 7 Episodes

7x01 Spearhead from Space (1)
Jan 3, 1970 · 25 min · ★ 8.1
As the newly-regenerated Doctor arrives on Earth, so does the Nestene too.
Directed by: Derek Martinus · Written by: Robert Holmes · Starring: Hugh Burden, Talfryn Thomas, John Breslin, Antony Webb
7x02 Spearhead from Space (2)
Jan 10, 1970 · 25 min · ★ 8.3
UNIT's attempts to locate the meteorites are hampered by the mysterious plastic Autons, being constructed by Channing at a nearby factory, while the Doctor makes another attempt to escape from the hospital.
Directed by: Derek Martinus · Written by: Robert Holmes · Starring: Hugh Burden, John Breslin, Antony Webb, George Lee
7x03 Spearhead from Space (3)
Jan 17, 1970 · 25 min · ★ 8.0
Ransome manages to escape from the plastics factory and alert UNIT, prompting the Doctor and the Brigadier to start an investigation.
Directed by: Derek Martinus · Written by: Robert Holmes · Starring: Hugh Burden, John Breslin, Hamilton Dyce, Derek Smee
7x04 Spearhead from Space (4)
Jan 24, 1970 · 25 min · ★ 7.9
With UNIT's investigation being blocked by the Replica of Scobie, the Doctor and Liz visit Madame Tussaud's to try and find out more as Channing prepares to activate the Autons.
Directed by: Derek Martinus · Written by: Robert Holmes · Starring: Hugh Burden, John Breslin, Hamilton Dyce, Edmund Bailey
7x05 Doctor Who and the Silurians (1)
Jan 31, 1970 · 25 min · ★ 7.4
The Doctor and Liz are summoned to the Wenley Moor Research Centre by the Brigadier, after several staff members suffer nervous breakdowns.
Directed by: Timothy Combe · Written by: Malcolm Hulke · Starring: Fulton Mackay, Norman Jones, Thomasine Heiner, Ian Cunningham
7x06 Doctor Who and the Silurians (2)
Feb 7, 1970 · 25 min · ★ 7.2
The Doctor attempts to convince people there are monsters in the caves, prompting Major Baker to start shooting at a reptile man.
Directed by: Timothy Combe · Written by: Malcolm Hulke · Starring: Fulton Mackay, Norman Jones, Thomasine Heiner, Paul Darrow
7x07 Doctor Who and the Silurians (3)
Feb 14, 1970 · 25 min · ★ 7.3
The Silurians contact Quinn for help in retrieving the creature while the Doctor and the Brigadier organise a search of the moors.
Directed by: Timothy Combe · Written by: Malcolm Hulke · Starring: Fulton Mackay, Norman Jones, Thomasine Heiner, Paul Darrow
7x08 Doctor Who and the Silurians (4)
Feb 21, 1970 · 25 min · ★ 7.4
With Quinn dead, the Brigadier decides to take an armed party into the caves, prompting the Doctor to contact the Silurians himself.
Directed by: Timothy Combe · Written by: Malcolm Hulke · Starring: Norman Jones, Thomasine Heiner, Paul Darrow, Pat Gorman
7x09 Doctor Who and the Silurians (5)
Feb 28, 1970 · 25 min · ★ 7.4
Worried about the Old Silurian's growing friendship with the Doctor, the Young Silurian has the scientist infect Baker with a virus and then release him.
Directed by: Timothy Combe · Written by: Malcolm Hulke · Starring: Norman Jones, Thomasine Heiner, Paul Darrow, Geoffrey Palmer
7x10 Doctor Who and the Silurians (6)
Mar 7, 1970 · 25 min · ★ 7.4
While the Doctor and Liz try to find a cure to the virus spread by Baker, the Young Silurian kills the Old Silurian and takes control of his people.
Directed by: Timothy Combe · Written by: Malcolm Hulke · Starring: Paul Darrow, Geoffrey Palmer, Richard Steele, Nigel John
7x11 Doctor Who and the Silurians (7)
Mar 14, 1970 · 25 min · ★ 7.8
While Liz distributes the cure to the virus, the Doctor discovers the Silurians now plan to wipe out humanity by destroying the Van Allen Belt.
Directed by: Timothy Combe · Written by: Malcolm Hulke · Starring: Paul Darrow, Nigel John, Paul Barton, Simon Cain
7x12 The Ambassadors of Death (1)
Mar 21, 1970 · 25 min · ★ 7.2
While the Brigadier investigates a loss of contact with Mars Probe 7, the Doctor realises signals coming from the probe are of extra-terrestrial origin.
Directing: Michael Ferguson · Writing: David Whitaker, Trevor Ray · Starring: Ronald Allen, Robert Cawdron, Ric Felgate, Michael Wisher
7x13 The Ambassadors of Death (2)
Mar 28, 1970 · 25 min · ★ 7.2
UNIT retrieve the returned Recovery 7 but then Carrington hijacks it while the Doctor and Liz try to decode the signal he sent.
Directed by: Michael Ferguson · Written by: Malcolm Hulke, David Whitaker · Starring: Ronald Allen, Robert Cawdron, Michael Wisher, Cheryl Molineaux
7x14 The Ambassadors of Death (3)
Apr 4, 1970 · 25 min · ★ 7.3
Carrington is holding the astronauts at a secret location but when he takes the Doctor, Liz and the Brigadier there they find they have been kidnapped.
Directed by: Michael Ferguson · Written by: Malcolm Hulke, David Whitaker · Starring: Ronald Allen, Dallas Cavell, William Dysart, Cyril Shaps
7x15 The Ambassadors of Death (4)
Apr 11, 1970 · 25 min · ★ 7.0
Liz has been captured by Reegan's men and the Doctor begins to suspect Taltalian is more involved than he appeared.
Directed by: Michael Ferguson · Written by: Malcolm Hulke, David Whitaker · Starring: Ronald Allen, Robert Cawdron, Dallas Cavell, William Dysart
7x16 The Ambassadors of Death (5)
Apr 18, 1970 · 25 min · ★ 6.6
The Doctor decides to take Recovery 7 back into space to search for the missing astronauts but Reegan sabotages the launch.
Directed by: Michael Ferguson · Written by: Malcolm Hulke, David Whitaker · Starring: John Levene, Ronald Allen, Dallas Cavell, William Dysart
7x17 The Ambassadors of Death (6)
Apr 25, 1970 · 25 min · ★ 6.8
The Doctor speaks with the alien captain and learns the astronauts sent to Earth were ambassadors. However, before he can alert the authorities he is kidnapped by Reegan.
Directed by: Michael Ferguson · Written by: Malcolm Hulke, David Whitaker · Starring: Ronald Allen, William Dysart, Ric Felgate, Joanna Ross
7x18 The Ambassadors of Death (7)
May 2, 1970 · 25 min · ★ 6.7
Carrington is planning to expose the aliens on live television and call for an interplanetary war and the Brigadier must rescue the Doctor and Liz in time to stop him.
Directed by: Michael Ferguson · Written by: Malcolm Hulke, David Whitaker · Starring: John Levene, Ronald Allen, Michael Wisher, William Dysart
7x19 Inferno (1)
May 9, 1970 · 25 min · ★ 8.0
England, the near future. UNIT is providing security and scientific support for the Stahlman project, an attempt to tap the Earth's core for energy. But things are already going wrong…
Directed by: Douglas Camfield, Barry Letts · Written by: Don Houghton · Starring: John Levene, Olaf Pooley, Christopher Benjamin, Derek Newark
7x20 Inferno (2)
May 16, 1970 · 25 min · ★ 7.9
Strange deaths, men changing into monsters, hot green slime pouring out of the waste pipes – but Professor Stahlman is determined to press ahead with the Inferno project no matter what the cost!
Directed by: Douglas Camfield · Written by: Don Houghton · Starring: John Levene, Olaf Pooley, Christopher Benjamin, Derek Newark
7x21 Inferno (3)
May 23, 1970 · 25 min · ★ 8.2
The Doctor has vanished from the Inferno project… or has he? He finds himself in the same place, but everyone has changed… and the drilling is closer to its deadly conclusion.
Directed by: Douglas Camfield, Barry Letts · Written by: Don Houghton · Starring: Olaf Pooley, Christopher Benjamin, Derek Newark, Sheila Dunn
7x22 Inferno (4)
May 30, 1970 · 25 min · ★ 7.5
In a parallel England, the Doctor tries desperately to convince his captors of the immense peril they are in. But they are convinced he is a spy. And penetration zero is getting close…
Directed by: Douglas Camfield, Barry Letts · Written by: Don Houghton · Starring: Olaf Pooley, Christopher Benjamin, Derek Newark, Sheila Dunn
7x23 Inferno (5)
Jun 6, 1970 · 25 min · ★ 7.9
The parallel Inferno has broken through the Earth's crust, unleashing terrible seismic forces and dooming the planet. The Doctor hopes to return and save his world. But the bestial primords are closing in...
Directed by: Douglas Camfield, Barry Letts · Written by: Don Houghton · Starring: Christopher Benjamin, Derek Newark, Ian Fairbairn, John Levene
7x24 Inferno (6)
Jun 13, 1970 · 25 min · ★ 7.8
The Doctor is trapped in a parallel world that is going up in flames. Can he escape in time to save Earth in his own universe?
Directed by: Douglas Camfield, Barry Letts · Written by: Don Houghton · Starring: John Levene, Olaf Pooley, Derek Newark, Sheila Dunn
7x25 Inferno (7) Season Finale
Jun 20, 1970 · 25 min · ★ 7.7
The Doctor has escaped the catastrophic destruction of a parallel world. But can he stop Stahlman before he destroys this one?
Directed by: Douglas Camfield, Barry Letts · Written by: Don Houghton · Starring: John Levene, Olaf Pooley, Christopher Benjamin, Derek Newark