Doctor Who The Trial of a Time Lord 1986
This season had a unique format, never again repeated in the show. Doctor Who had returned to production after a near-cancellation and an eighteen-month production hiatus. For the first time, a season consisted of a single story, The Trial of a Time Lord, although this was made up of four serials from a production perspective: each serial was written by a different person (save for The Mysterious Planet and the first part of The Ultimate Foe, both of which were written by Robert Holmes) and featured a different story presented as evidence, excluding the final two episodes which concluded the ongoing story of the trial; the trial storyline itself acted as a framing device to bracket the first three serials. As a result, whether The Trial of a Time Lord should be considered one story or four has been intensely debated. This single-story format, sometimes referred to as a "miniseries", would later be utilised for the third and fourth series of Torchwood.
- Released: 1986-09-06
- Runtime: 60 minutes
- Genre: Drama, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
- Stars: Sylvester McCoy
- Director: John Nathan-Turner
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1. The Mysterious Planet (1) 1986-09-06
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2. The Mysterious Planet (2) 1986-09-13
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3. The Mysterious Planet (3) 1986-09-20
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4. The Mysterious Planet (4) 1986-09-27
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5. Mindwarp (1) 1986-10-04
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6. Mindwarp (2) 1986-10-11
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7. Mindwarp (3) 1986-10-18
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8. Mindwarp (4) 1986-10-25
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9. Terror of the Vervoids (1) 1986-11-01
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10. Terror of the Vervoids (2) 1986-11-08
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11. Terror of the Vervoids (3) 1986-11-15
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12. Terror of the Vervoids (4) 1986-11-22
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13. The Ultimate Foe (1) 1986-11-29
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14. The Ultimate Foe (2) 1986-12-06
