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Season 2 is the most complete season of ''Doctor Who'' during its [[black-and-white]] era, as only two episodes, both from ''[[The Crusade (Doctor Who)|The Crusade]]'', are missing from the BBC archive.
Season 2 is the most complete season of ''Doctor Who'' during its [[black-and-white]] era, as only two episodes, both from ''[[The Crusade (Doctor Who)|The Crusade]]'', are missing from the BBC archive.


On 16 August 2022, this season was announced as the next in line for the ''Doctor Who - The Collection'' Blu-ray box set range, with remastered sound and picture quality, photographic reconstructions of the two missing episodes, new episodes of "Behind the Sofa" with Maureen O'Brien, Peter Purves, Carol Ann Ford, [[Janet Fielding]], [[Wendy Padbury]], [[Sarah Sutton]], [[Bonnie Langford]] and [[Sophie Aldred]], convention footage featuring Jaqueline Hill, [[Adrienne Hill]] and [[Michael Craze]], high definition photo galleries featuring previously unseen images, an exclusive audio commentary detailing the 1999 recovery of "The Lion", feature-length interviews with William Russell and Maureen O'Brien, and various scripts, costume designs, BBC production files and other rare documents from the BBC Archives.
On 16 August 2022, this season was announced as the next in line for the ''Doctor Who - The Collection'' Blu-ray box set range, with remastered sound and picture quality, photographic reconstructions of the two missing episodes, new episodes of "Behind the Sofa" with Maureen O'Brien, Peter Purves, Carol Ann Ford, [[Janet Fielding]], [[Wendy Padbury]], [[Sarah Sutton]], [[Bonnie Langford]] and [[Sophie Aldred]], convention footage featuring Jaqueline Hill, [[Adrienne Hill]] and [[Michael Craze]], high definition photo galleries featuring previously unseen images, an exclusive audio commentary detailing the 1999 recovery of "The Lion", feature-length interviews with William Russell and Maureen O'Brien, and various scripts, costume designs, BBC production files and other rare documents from the BBC Archives. This will make it the first time a First Doctor story is released on Blu-ray.
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Revision as of 15:54, 20 August 2022

This article is about the 1964/65 season. For the 2006 series, see Doctor Who (series 2).

Doctor Who
Season 2
Cover art of the Blu-ray release for the complete season
Starring
No. of stories9
No. of episodes39 (2 missing)
Release
Original networkBBC1
Original release31 October 1964 (1964-10-31) –
24 July 1965 (1965-07-24)
Season chronology
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Season 1
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Season 3
List of episodes

The second season of British science fiction television series Doctor Who began on 31 October 1964 with the story Planet of Giants and ended on 24 July 1965 with The Time Meddler. 37 of 39 episodes exist in the BBC archives; 2 episodes remain missing. As a result, only 1 serial is incomplete.

Casting

See also: List of Doctor Who cast members

Main cast

William Hartnell continued his role as the First Doctor accompanied by his original companions: his granddaughter Susan Foreman (Carole Ann Ford), and schoolteachers Ian Chesterton (William Russell) and Barbara Wright (Jacqueline Hill).

Susan departed at the end of the second story The Dalek Invasion of Earth, and was soon replaced by Vicki (Maureen O'Brien) in The Rescue.

The penultimate story The Chase saw the departure of Ian and Barbara, and the arrival of Steven (Peter Purves) as a regular member of the TARDIS crew. At the end of the season, aside from the Doctor, the main cast had changed and would do so the following season when it finished.

Guest stars

Peter Butterworth makes his first of two appearances as the Meddling Monk in the serial The Time Meddler.

Serials

See also: List of Doctor Who episodes (1963–1989)

Dennis Spooner replaced David Whitaker as script editor after The Dalek Invasion of Earth, and edited the remainder of the season apart from The Time Meddler, which was edited by Donald Tosh. Verity Lambert continued in her role as producer for the entire season while Mervyn Pinfield served as associate producer until the end of The Romans.[1] This season was originally intended to have 40 episodes with Planet of Giants originally shot and edited as 4 x 25 minute episodes. After viewing the episodes, Head of series and serials Donald Wilson found them to be lacking in action and ordered that the final two episodes be edited into 1 episode. The episode left over was later used to produce the single-episode teaser "Mission to the Unknown" in Season 3.

The Time Meddler is the first example in the series of what became known as "pseudo-historical" stories – these are serials that are set in the past, but have a story that involves significant science-fiction elements (beyond the presence of the TARDIS and its crew).[2]

Season 2 is the most complete season of Doctor Who during its black-and-white era, as only two episodes, both from The Crusade, are missing from the BBC archive.

On 16 August 2022, this season was announced as the next in line for the Doctor Who - The Collection Blu-ray box set range, with remastered sound and picture quality, photographic reconstructions of the two missing episodes, new episodes of "Behind the Sofa" with Maureen O'Brien, Peter Purves, Carol Ann Ford, Janet Fielding, Wendy Padbury, Sarah Sutton, Bonnie Langford and Sophie Aldred, convention footage featuring Jaqueline Hill, Adrienne Hill and Michael Craze, high definition photo galleries featuring previously unseen images, an exclusive audio commentary detailing the 1999 recovery of "The Lion", feature-length interviews with William Russell and Maureen O'Brien, and various scripts, costume designs, BBC production files and other rare documents from the BBC Archives. This will make it the first time a First Doctor story is released on Blu-ray.

No.
story		No. in
season		Serial titleEpisode titlesDirected byWritten byOriginal air dateProd.
code		UK viewers
(millions) [3]		AI [3]
91Planet of Giants"Planet of Giants"Mervyn PinfieldLouis Marks31 October 1964 (1964-10-31)J8.457
"Dangerous Journey"Mervyn PinfieldLouis Marks7 November 1964 (1964-11-07)8.458
"Crisis"Douglas CamfieldLouis Marks14 November 1964 (1964-11-14)8.959
102The Dalek Invasion of Earth"World's End"Richard MartinTerry Nation21 November 1964 (1964-11-21)K11.463
"The Daleks"Richard MartinTerry Nation28 November 1964 (1964-11-28)12.459
"Day of Reckoning"Richard MartinTerry Nation5 December 1964 (1964-12-05)11.959
"The End of Tomorrow"Richard MartinTerry Nation12 December 1964 (1964-12-12)11.959
"The Waking Ally"Richard MartinTerry Nation19 December 1964 (1964-12-19)11.458
"Flashpoint"Richard MartinTerry Nation26 December 1964 (1964-12-26)12.463
113The Rescue"The Powerful Enemy"Christopher BarryDavid Whitaker2 January 1965 (1965-01-02)L12.057
"Desperate Measures"Christopher BarryDavid Whitaker9 January 1965 (1965-01-09)13.059
124The Romans"The Slave Traders"Christopher BarryDennis Spooner16 January 1965 (1965-01-16)M13.053
"All Roads Lead to Rome"Dennis Spooner23 January 1965 (1965-01-23)11.551
"Conspiracy"Dennis Spooner30 January 1965 (1965-01-30)10.050
"Inferno"Dennis Spooner6 February 1965 (1965-02-06)12.050
135The Web Planet"The Web Planet"Richard MartinBill Strutton13 February 1965 (1965-02-13)N13.556
"The Zarbi"Bill Strutton20 February 1965 (1965-02-20)12.553
"Escape to Danger"Bill Strutton27 February 1965 (1965-02-27)12.553
"Crater of Needles"Bill Strutton6 March 1965 (1965-03-06)13.049
"Invasion"Bill Strutton13 March 1965 (1965-03-13)12.048
"The Centre"Bill Strutton20 March 1965 (1965-03-20)11.542
146The Crusade"The Lion"Douglas CamfieldDavid Whitaker27 March 1965 (1965-03-27)P10.551
"The Knight of Jaffa"†3 April 1965 (1965-04-03)8.550
"The Wheel of Fortune"10 April 1965 (1965-04-10)9.049
"The Warlords"†17 April 1965 (1965-04-17)9.548
157The Space Museum"The Space Museum"Mervyn PinfieldGlyn Jones24 April 1965 (1965-04-24)Q10.561
"The Dimensions of Time"Glyn Jones1 May 1965 (1965-05-01)9.253
"The Search"Glyn Jones8 May 1965 (1965-05-08)8.556
"The Final Phase"Glyn Jones15 May 1965 (1965-05-15)8.549
168The Chase"The Executioners"Richard MartinTerry Nation22 May 1965 (1965-05-22)R10.057
"The Death of Time"Richard Martin29 May 1965 (1965-05-29)9.556
"Flight Through Eternity"Richard Martin5 June 1965 (1965-06-05)9.055
"Journey into Terror"Richard Martin12 June 1965 (1965-06-12)9.554
"The Death of Doctor Who"Richard Martin19 June 1965 (1965-06-19)9.056
"The Planet of Decision"Richard Martin and Douglas Camfield (uncredited)26 June 1965 (1965-06-26)9.557
179The Time Meddler"The Watcher"Douglas CamfieldDennis Spooner3 July 1965 (1965-07-03)S8.957
"The Meddling Monk"10 July 1965 (1965-07-10)8.849
"A Battle of Wits"17 July 1965 (1965-07-17)7.753
"Checkmate"24 July 1965 (1965-07-24)8.354

^† Episode is missing

Production

The first two serials were produced in the programme's first production block, but were held back until the beginning of the second season.[4] Verity Lambert began lobbying for a second season in August 1964, and was initially only guaranteed 13 episodes. Nine were already planned as Planet of Giants and The Dalek Invasion of Earth, and with only four episodes after that Lambert felt it was too short a time to retain the regular actors and it would be then pointless to write Susan out at the end of The Dalek Invasion of Earth. In best interest of the actors and their agents, a deal was struck of an additional 13 episodes, and the commitment of 26 episodes in the second production block was accepted the day The Dalek Invasion of Earth finished filming.[4]

Missing episodes

See also: Doctor Who missing episodes
  • The Crusade – Episodes 2 & 4 (of 4 total)

Home media

See also: List of Doctor Who VHS releases and List of Doctor Who home video releases

VHS releases

DVD and Blu-ray releases

All releases are for DVD unless otherwise indicated:

Season Story no. Serial name Number and duration
of episodes 		R2 release date R4 release date R1 release date
2 9 Planet of Giants 3 × 25 min. 20 August 2012[5] 5 September 2012[6] 11 September 2012[7]
10 The Dalek Invasion of Earth 6 × 25 min. 9 June 2003[8] 13 August 2003[9] 7 October 2003[10]
11–12 The Rescue
The Romans 		6 × 25 min. 23 February 2009[11] 2 April 2009[12] 7 July 2009[13]
13 The Web Planet 6 × 25 min. 3 October 2005[14] 3 November 2005[15] 5 September 2006[16]
14 Lost in Time, Volume 1
The Crusade[a] 		2 × 25 min. 1 November 2004[17][b] 2 December 2004[18][c] 2 November 2004[18]
15–16 The Space Museum
The Chase 		10 × 25 min. 1 March 2010[19] 6 May 2010[20] 6 July 2010[21]
17 The Time Meddler 4 × 25 min. 4 February 2008[22] 2 April 2008[23] 5 August 2008[24]
9–17 Complete Season 2[d] 39 × 25 min. 5 December 2022 (B) [25] 25 January 2023 (B) [25] 28 March 2023 (B) [25]
  1. ^ Episodes 1 and 3 of 4, with soundtracks of episodes 2 and 4
  2. ^ Re-released in slimmer packaging in late 2016[18]
  3. ^ Re-released in slimmer packaging in July 2010[18]
  4. ^ Released as Doctor Who: The Collection – Season 2 in Region B. Released as Doctor Who – William Hartnell: Complete Season Two in Region A.

In print

See also: List of Doctor Who novelisations
Season Story no. Library no.[a] Novelisation title Author Hardcover
release date[b] 		Paperback
release date[c] 		Audiobook
release date[d]
2 009 145 Planet of Giants Terrance Dicks — 18 January 1990[26] 4 May 2017[26]
010 17 Doctor Who and the Dalek Invasion of Earth 24 March 1977[27] 5 November 2009[27]
011 124 The Rescue Ian Marter 20 August 1987[28] 21 January 1988[28] 4 April 2013[28]
012 120 The Romans Donald Cotton 16 April 1987[29] 17 September 1987[29] 5 January 2023[30]
013 73 Doctor Who and the Zarbi Bill Strutton 16 September 1965[e][31] 2 May 1973[31] 7 November 2005[31]
014 12 Doctor Who and the Crusaders David Whitaker 24 February 1966[e][32] 1967[f][32] 7 November 2005[32]
015 117 The Space Museum Glyn Jones 15 January 1987[33] 18 June 1987[33] 4 February 2016[33]
016 140 The Chase John Peel — 20 July 1989[34] 4 August 2011[34]
017 126 The Time Meddler Nigel Robinson 15 October 1987[35] 17 March 1988[35] 6 October 2016[35]
  1. ^ Number in Target's Doctor Who Library, if applicable
  2. ^ Published by Target's parent companies (Allen Wingate, W. H. Allen, BBC Books) unless otherwise indicated
  3. ^ Published by Target Books (or by BBC Books under the Target Collection umbrella) unless otherwise indicated
  4. ^ Unabridged from BBC Audio/AudioGo unless otherwise indicated
  5. ^ a b Published by Frederick Muller Ltd.
  6. ^ Published by Green Dragon

Ratings

Viewers per episode (millions)
Audience measurement performed by Broadcasters' Audience Research Board[3]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Doctor Who Classic Episode Guide – Season 2". BBC. Retrieved 20 August 2012.
  2. ^ "The Time Meddler". BBC. Retrieved 22 November 2012.
  3. ^ a b c "Ratings Guide". Doctor Who News. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
  4. ^ a b Richard Molesworth (compiler) (23 February 2009). The Rescue with Information Text (DVD). The Rescue DVD: BBC Worldwide.
  5. ^ Wright 2016, p. 126.
  6. ^ "Doctor Who Planet of Giants". BBC. Archived from the original on 5 May 2013. Retrieved 28 July 2022.
  7. ^ "Doctor Who: Planet of Giants". BBC. Archived from the original on 30 July 2013. Retrieved 28 July 2022.
  8. ^ Wright 2017, p. 46.
  9. ^ "Doctor Who: Dalek Invasion of Earth DVD". BBC. Archived from the original on 29 July 2013. Retrieved 29 July 2013.
  10. ^ "Doctor Who - Story #010: The Dalek Invasion of Earth". TVShowsOnDVD.com. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on 2 August 2013. Retrieved 28 July 2022.
  11. ^ Wright 2017, p. 76.
  12. ^ "The Rescue & The Romans". The TARDIS Library. Archived from the original on 11 May 2021. Retrieved 28 July 2022.
  13. ^ Galbraith, Stuart (28 August 2009). "Doctor Who: The Rescue / The Romans". DVD Talk. Internet Brands. Archived from the original on 31 August 2009. Retrieved 23 September 2020.
  14. ^ Wright 2017, p. 144.
  15. ^ "Doctor Who - Web Planet". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Archived from the original on 11 September 2013. Retrieved 30 July 2013.
  16. ^ "Doctor Who - Story #013: The Web Planet". TVShowsOnDVD.com. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on 30 July 2013. Retrieved 28 July 2022.
  17. ^ Ainsworth 2019, p. 152.
  18. ^ a b c d "Lost in Time". The TARDIS Library. Archived from the original on 9 November 2021. Retrieved 28 July 2022.
  19. ^ Ainsworth 2016, p. 58.
  20. ^ "Doctor Who Space Museum/The Chase Box Set 3 DVD Set". BBC. Archived from the original on 29 July 2013. Retrieved 28 July 2022.
  21. ^ Sinnott, John (6 July 2010). "Doctor Who: The Space Museum/The Chase". DVD Talk. Internet Brands. Archived from the original on 23 August 2010. Retrieved 4 December 2021.
  22. ^ Ainsworth 2016, p. 144.
  23. ^ "Doctor Who - Time Meddler". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Archived from the original on 12 September 2013. Retrieved 30 July 2013.
  24. ^ "Doctor Who - Story #017: The Time Meddler". TVShowsOnDVD.com. CBS Interactive. Archived from the original on 16 July 2013. Retrieved 28 July 2022.
  25. ^ a b c "The Collection: Season 2". The TARDIS Library. Archived from the original on 4 January 2023. Retrieved 4 January 2023.
  26. ^ a b Smith 2021, p. 19.
  27. ^ a b Smith 2021, p. 20.
  28. ^ a b c Smith 2021, p. 22.
  29. ^ a b Smith 2021, p. 23.
  30. ^ Doctor Who: The Romans. Penguin Books. Archived from the original on 14 October 2022. Retrieved 18 October 2022.
  31. ^ a b c Smith 2021, p. 24.
  32. ^ a b c Smith 2021, p. 27.
  33. ^ a b c Smith 2021, p. 30.
  34. ^ a b Smith 2021, p. 31.
  35. ^ a b c Smith 2021, p. 32.

Bibliography

  • Ainsworth, John, ed. (2016). "The Crusade, The Space Museum, The Chase and The Time Meddler". Doctor Who: The Complete History. 5 (11). London: Panini Comics, Hachette Partworks. ISSN 2057-6048.
  • Ainsworth, John, ed. (2019). "Shada, Dimensions in Time, The Curse of Fatal Death and Time Crash". Doctor Who: The Complete History. 90 (90). London: Panini Comics, Hachette Partworks. ISSN 2057-6048.
  • Smith, Paul MC (July 2021). Based on the Popular BBC Television Serial. Wonderful Books.
  • Wright, Mark, ed. (2016). "The Sensorites, The Reign of Terror and Planet of Giants". Doctor Who: The Complete History. 3 (21). Panini Comics, Hachette Partworks.
  • Wright, Mark, ed. (2017). "The Dalek Invasion of Earth, The Rescue, The Romans and The Web Planet". Doctor Who: The Complete History. 4 (61). London: Panini Comics, Hachette Partworks. ISSN 2057-6048.

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