Season 2

Season 2 of Doctor Who ran from 31 October 1964 to 24 July 1965. It starred William Hartnell as the First Doctor, Carole Ann Ford as Susan Foreman, William Russell as Ian Chesterton, Jacqueline Hill as Barbara Wright, Maureen O'Brien as Vicki Pallister and Peter Purves as Steven Taylor. The season opened with Planet of Giants and concluded with The Time Meddler.

Overview
It consisted of nine serials comprised of thirty-nine episodes. Milestones this season included not one but two encore appearances by the Daleks; the departure of the original three companions, Susan Foreman, Barbara Wright and Ian Chesterton; and the first appearance of someone else from the Doctor and Susan's home planet, and the first Time Lord enemy to appear.

Amongst the black and white seasons, season 2 has the most extant telerecordings; only the two missing episodes of The Crusade have not been recovered as of 2022.

Cast

 * Dr. Who - William Hartnell
 * Susan Foreman - Carole Ann Ford
 * Ian Chesterton - William Russell
 * Barbara Wright - Jacqueline Hill
 * Vicki - Maureen O'Brien
 * Steven Taylor - Peter Purves

Recurring

 * The Monk - Peter Butterworth
 * Dalek Voices - Peter Hawkins, David Graham

Guest

 * Forester - Alan Tilvern
 * Smithers - Reginald Barratt
 * Arnold Farrow - Frank Crawshaw
 * Carl Tyler - Bernard Kay
 * David Campbell - Peter Fraser
 * Dortmun - Alan Judd
 * Jenny - Ann Davies
 * Larry Madison - Graham Rigby
 * Wells - Nicholas Smith
 * The Slyther - Nicholas Evans
 * Bennett - Ray Barrett
 * Sevcheria - Derek Sydney
 * Maximus Pettulian - Bart Allison
 * Ascaris - Barry Jackson
 * Delos - Peter Diamond
 * Tavius - Michael Peake
 * Nero - Derek Francis
 * Tigilinus - Brian Proudfoot
 * Poppaea - Kay Patrick
 * Hrostar - Arne Gordon
 * Vrestin - Roslyn De Winter
 * Prapillus - Jolyon Booth
 * Hlynia - Jocelyn Birdsall
 * Hilio - Martin Jarvis
 * Voice of the Animus - Catherine Fleming
 * Richard the Lionheart - Julian Glover
 * William des Preaux - John Flint
 * El Akir - Walter Randall
 * Saladin - Bernard Kay
 * Joanna - Jean Marsh
 * Haroun ed-Din - George Little
 * Ibrahim - Tutte Lemkow
 * Lobos - Richard Shaw
 * Morok commander - Ivor Salter
 * Morok Guard - Peter Diamond
 * Tor - Jeremy Bulloch
 * Sita - Peter Sanders
 * Dako - Peter Craze
 * Abraham Lincoln - Robert Marsden
 * Francis Bacon - Roger Hammond
 * Queen Elizabeth I - Vivienne Bennett
 * William Shakespeare - Hugh Walters
 * Mire Beast - Jack Pitt
 * Morton Dill - Peter Purves
 * Benjamin Briggs - David Blake Kelly
 * Albert C. Richardson - Dennis Chinnery
 * Frankenstein - John Maxim
 * Count Dracula - Malcolm Rogers
 * Robot Dr Who - Edmund Warwick
 * Edith - Alethea Charlton
 * Wulnoth - Michael Miller
 * Eldred - Peter Russell
 * Ulf - Norman Hartley
 * Sven - David Anderson

Stories set before this season
The following stories are the known stories set between the Season 1 finale The Reign of Terror and the Season 2 opener Planet of Giants.

Novels

 * City at World's End
 * The Witch Hunters

Short stories

 * Rennigan's Record
 * Nothing at the End of the Lane
 * The Thief of Sherwood

Audio

 * E is for...
 * The Library of Alexandria
 * The Flames of Cadiz
 * Here There Be Monsters
 * The Wanderer
 * Rise and Fall
 * A Star is Born
 * Flywheel Revolution
 * Domain of the Voord
 * The Age of Endurance
 * The Destination Wars
 * The Great White Hurricane
 * The Invention of Death
 * The Barbarians and the Samurai
 * The Phoenicians
 * Tick-Tock World
 * Return to Skaro
 * Last of the Romanovs

Novels

 * Venusian Lullaby
 * The Plotters
 * The Time Travellers
 * Byzantium!
 * The Eleventh Tiger

Short stories

 * The Book of Shadows
 * The Nine-Day Queen
 * The True and Indisputable Facts in the Matter of the Ram's Skull
 * A Long Night
 * Set in Stone
 * Romans Cutaway
 * Every Day
 * Journey Out of Terror

Audio

 * The Revenants
 * Starborn
 * The Rocket Men
 * The Sleeping City
 * The Unwinding World
 * Daybreak
 * 1963
 * The Fifth Traveller
 * The Doctor's Tale
 * The Dark Planet

Comics

 * Dr Who in "Lilliput"
 * On the Planet Vortis
 * The Zarbi Are Destroyed
 * Dr. Who in the Spider's Web
 * Dr. Who on the Aqua Planet
 * The Ice-Age Monster
 * Dr. Who Meets the Watermen
 * The Daleks Destroy the Zomites
 * Escape from the Aquafien
 * Where Diamonds Are Worthless
 * Dr. Who and the Nerve Machine
 * The Secrets of the Tardis
 * The Daleks are Foiled
 * Rescued from the Daleks
 * The Defeat of the Daleks

Ratings

 * Average: 10.5 million
 * Highest: 13.5 million (The Web Planet episode 1 - "The Web Planet")
 * Lowest: 7.7 million (The Time Meddler episode 3 - "A Battle of Wits")

VHS releases

 * Planet of Giants (2002)
 * The Dalek Invasion of Earth (1990) (in 2 parts)
 * The Rescue/The Romans (1994)
 * The Web Planet (1990)
 * The Crusade and The Space Museum (1999) (Contains episodes 1 and 3 of The Crusade with narration of missing episodes)
 * The Chase (1993)
 * The Time Meddler (2002)
 * The Hartnell Years (1991) (The Crusade Episode 3)

Loose Cannon VHS releases

 * The Crusade (2000) (episodes 2 and 4 only, with narration of existing episodes)

Download/streaming availability
BritBox is available only in the US and Canada. iTunes stores carry Doctor Who serials in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the UK and US.

Novels

 * Doctor Who – Planet of Giants
 * Doctor Who and the Dalek Invasion of Earth
 * Doctor Who – The Rescue
 * Doctor Who − The Romans
 * Doctor Who and the Zarbi
 * Doctor Who and the Crusaders
 * Doctor Who – The Space Museum
 * Doctor Who – The Chase
 * Doctor Who – The Time Meddler

Audiobooks

 * The Crusade

Theatrical film

 * Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. - based upon the second serial, The Dalek Invasion of Earth