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Seasons: 26
Total Episodes: 694
Creators: Sydney Newman , Verity Lambert , Donald Wilson , C. E. Webber
Networks: BBC One , BBC Television
Status: Ended
First Air Date: Nov 23, 1963
Recent Air Date: Dec 6, 1989
Run Time: m
In Production: No
Original Language: English
Age Rating: TV-PG
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Production Companies: BBC
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This season had a unique format, never again repeated in the show. Doctor Who had returned to production after a near-cancellation and an eighteen-month production hiatus. For the first time, a season consisted of a single story, The Trial of a Time Lord, although this was made up of four serials from a production perspective: each serial was written by a different person (save for The Mysterious Planet and the first part of The Ultimate Foe, both of which were written by Robert Holmes) and featured a different story presented as evidence, excluding the final two episodes which concluded the ongoing story of the trial; the trial storyline itself acted as a framing device to bracket the first three serials. As a result, whether The Trial of a Time Lord should be considered one story or four has been intensely debated. This single-story format, sometimes referred to as a "miniseries", would later be utilised for the third and fourth series of Torchwood.
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