Doctor Who (season 19)
| Doctor Who (season 19) | |
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Cover art of the Region 2 DVD release for first serial of the season
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| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| No. of stories | 7 |
| No. of episodes | 26 |
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| Original network | BBC One |
| Original release | 4 January – 30 March 1982 |
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The nineteenth season of British science fiction television series Doctor Who began on 4 January 1982 with Castrovalva, and ended with Time-Flight.
Season 19 saw the introduction of Peter Davison as the Fifth Doctor. Tegan Jovanka (Janet Fielding), Nyssa (Sarah Sutton) and Adric (Matthew Waterhouse) were his companions. Adric is killed-off in the climax of Earthshock; a rare instance in the series of a companion dying.
Anthony Ainley returns again in Castrovalva and Time-Flight as the Master.
David Banks makes the first of four appearances in the show as a Cyber-leader beginning in Earthshock.
Antony Root took over from Bidmead as script editor for Four to Doomsday and The Visitation, after which he was replaced by Eric Saward. The show moved from its traditional once-weekly Saturday broadcast to being broadcast twice-weekly primarily on Monday and Tuesday, although there were regional variations to the schedule.
Black Orchid was the first purely historical story, with no science-fiction elements save for the TARDIS and its crew, since The Highlanders from Season 4; it was also the first two-part serial since The Sontaran Experiment in Season 12, and the first of a regular run of a two-parter every season until the change of format to 45 minute episodes in Season 22.
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