Season 18

The eighteenth season of Doctor Who ran between 30th August 1980 and 21st March 1981. From Full Circle onwards, the season featured a story arc involving E-Space and the return of the Master. It was the last season to feature Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor; it also saw the departure of Romana and K-9. It was the first season produced by John Nathan-Turner, who instituted a number of changes: the stories became darker and more adult in tone, the 1966 Delia Derbyshire arrangement of the "Doctor Who theme" was retired in favour of a new arrangement, and a new series logo was introduced. It consisted of 7 stories and 28 episodes.



Stories

 * The Leisure Hive (4 episodes)
 * Meglos (4 episodes)
 * Full Circle (4 episodes)
 * State of Decay (4 episodes)
 * Warriors' Gate (4 episodes)
 * The Keeper of Traken (4 episodes)
 * Logopolis (4 episodes)

Regular Cast

 * The Doctor - Tom Baker
 * Romana - Lalla Ward (leaves in Warriors' Gate)
 * K-9 (voice) - John Leeson (leaves in Warriors' Gate)
 * Adric - Matthew Waterhouse (introduced in Full Circle)
 * Nyssa - Sarah Sutton (introduced The Keeper of Traken)
 * Tegan Jovanka - Janet Fielding (from Logopolis)

VHS

 * The Leisure Hive
 * Meglos
 * The E-Space Trilogy Box (contains Full Circle, State of Decay and Warrior's Gate)
 * The Keeper of Traken
 * Logopolis
 * The Tom Baker Years (contains excerpts from all the stories)

DVD

 * The Leisure Hive
 * New Beginnings (set contains The Keeper of Traken, Logopolis and Castrovalva from Season 19).

Novelisations

 * Doctor Who and the Leisure Hive
 * Meglos
 * Full Circle
 * Doctor Who and the State of Decay
 * Doctor Who and Warriors' Gate
 * Doctor Who and the Keeper of Traken
 * Logopolis

Contemporaries
Other selected TV series launched during the 1980-81 season:
 * Cosmos
 * Magnum PI
 * Solid Gold
 * Shogun
 * Dynasty
 * Hill Street Blues
 * The Greatest American Hero