The Two Doctors
1985 Doctor Who serial / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Two Doctors is the fourth serial of the 22nd season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in three weekly parts on BBC1 from 16 February to 2 March 1985.
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Directed by | Peter Moffatt | ||
Written by | Robert Holmes | ||
Script editor | Eric Saward | ||
Produced by | John Nathan-Turner | ||
Music by | Peter Howell | ||
Production code | 6W | ||
Series | Season 22 | ||
Running time | 3 episodes, 45 minutes each | ||
First broadcast | 16 February 1985 (1985-02-16) | ||
Last broadcast | 2 March 1985 (1985-03-02) | ||
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List of Doctor Who episodes (1963–1989) |
The serial is set on an alien space station and in and around Seville. In the serial, the alien time traveller the Sixth Doctor (Colin Baker), his former travelling companion Jamie McCrimmon (Frazer Hines) and his current companion Peri Brown (Nicola Bryant) work to save the younger Second Doctor (Patrick Troughton) from the biogeneticist Dastari (Laurence Payne), who intends to steal the knowledge of how to travel in time from the Second Doctor's genetic make-up.
This serial marks Troughton's final appearance as the Second Doctor before his death in 1987.