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SEASON EIGHTEEN (30 August 1980 to 21 March 1981)

Executive Producer: Barry Letts Producer: John Nathan-Turner Script Editor: Christopher H. Bidmead

Regular cast: Tom Baker (Doctor Who) Lalla Ward (Romana) John Leeson (Voice of K9)

story 5N "The Leisure Hive"
by David Fisher (4 episodes) -Tachyonics is the specialty science of the tourist world of Argolis, but someone there has a different intention in mind for the techniques other than party tricks. Directed by Lovett Bickford

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story 5Q "Meglos"
by John Flanagan and Andrew McCulloch (4 episodes) -The last survivor of Zolpha-Thura impersonates the Doctor to gain access to the now-erratic power source of Tigella, whose inhabitants are embroiled in a religious struggle over the device. Directed by Terence Dudley

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Regular Cast: Tom Baker (Doctor Who) Lalla Ward (Romana) Matthew Waterhouse (Adric) John Leeson (Voice of K9)

story 5R "Full Circle"
by Andrew Smith (4 episodes) -The TARDIS passes through a CVE en route to Gallifrey and enters the pocket universe of E-space and the planet Alzarius, a world whose changing climate and changing native life forms threaten a community of people from a crashed Starliner. Directed by Peter Grimwade

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story 5P "State of Decay"
by Terrance Dicks (4 episodes) -Still in E-space, the TARDIS arrives on a feudalistic world whose rulers hide vast, ancient, and dark powers beneath their Tower, powers that sickened the Time Lords of violence forever. Directed by Peter Moffatt

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story 5S "Warriors' Gate"
by Steve Gallagher (4 episodes) -The TARDIS drifts into a microcosmic void between the striations of the time lines along with a ship whose crew are trading time sensitive Tharil slaves. Directed by Paul Joyce

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Regular cast: Tom Baker (Doctor Who) Matthew Waterhouse (Adric) Sarah Sutton (Nyssa) Guest star: Geoffrey Beevers (The Master)

story 5T "The Keeper of Traken"
by Johnny Byrne (4 episodes) -The peaceful Union of Traken is invaded by an infinite evil inside the calcified statue of a Melkur that plans to seize control of the Union when the present Keeper's term and life expire... Directed by John Black

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Regular cast: Tom Baker (Doctor Who) Matthew Waterhouse (Adric) Sarah Sutton (Nyssa) Janet Fielding (Tegan Jovanka) Guest stars: Anthony Ainley (The Master) with Peter Davison (Doctor Who)

story 5V "Logopolis"
by Christopher H. Bidmead (4 episodes) -Things fall apart. Entropy increases. These are principles of the Universe that now drive the Doctor to attempt to repair the TARDIS' chameleon circuit via a visit to the city of Logopolis, but the calculations they continually run there are the target of the Master, and they prove to be more essential to the well-being and reason of the Universe than either he or the Doctor had thought, and the change and decay in all around eventually focusses on the Doctor....

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