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SEASON SEVENTEEN (1 September 1979 to 12 January 1980)

Script Editor: Douglas Adams

Regular Cast: Tom Baker (Doctor Who) Lalla Ward (Romana) David Brierly (Voice of K9) Guest stars: David Gooderson (Davros) Roy Skelton (Dalek Voices) Cy Town, Mike Mungarvan, Toby Byrne, Tony Starr (Dalek Operators K9 has no speaking part in this story, but he does cough a little.

story 5J "Destiny of the Daleks"
by Terry Nation (4 episodes) -The Daleks are mining the ruins of their city on Skaro in search of Davros in the hopes that he can solve the logical empasse they find themselves locked in against a robot race called the Movellans. Directed by Ken Grieve

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K9 does not appear in this story.

story 5H "City of Death"
by David Agnew (4 episodes) -In Paris, 1979, the Doctor, Romana, and a detective named Duggan discover the Count Scarlioni's plan to steal the Mona Lisa from the Louvre and add it to his collection of six other original Mona Lisas. Directed by Michael Hayes David Agnew is a pen name for Douglas Adams and Graham Williams.

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story 5G "The Creature From the Pit"
by David Fisher (4 episodes) -Lady Adrasta's monopoly of metal is somehow threatened by an enormous amorphous green blob that's stuck at the bottom of a disused mine on the over-green world of Chloris. Directed by Christopher Barry

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story 5K "Nightmare of Eden"
by Bob Baker (4 episodes) -A hyperspace collision between two spaceships upsets drug smugglers' plans to smuggle the most dangerous drug in existence via an electronic zoo. Directed by Alan Bromly

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story 5L "The Horns of Nimon"
by Anthony Read (4 episodes) -The last scientist on Skonnos is conned into allowing the Nimons to begin colonizing his world to the point where he even supplies human sacrifices and high-energy crystals. Directed by Kenny McBain

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story 5M "Shada"
by Douglas Adams (6 episodes, unfinished, untransmitted) -The mind plundering Skagra requires one special mind for his plan to be the Universe, but to steal it he first must obtain a book from a Cambridge Professor who is really a Time Lord and old acquaintance of the Doctor's. Directed by Pennant Roberts

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