Season 19

Season 19 of Doctor Who ran from 4 January 1982 to 30 March 1982. It starred Peter Davison as the Fifth Doctor, Matthew Waterhouse as Adric, Sarah Sutton as Nyssa and Janet Fielding as Tegan Jovanka. The season opened with Castrovalva and concluded with Time-Flight. It was released as a Blu-Ray box set in December 2018.

Overview
It consisted of seven serials comprised of twenty-six episodes airing on a bi-weekly schedule, for the first time in the show's history. Two milestones occurred in Earthshock. Firstly, the Cybermen returned, unannounced, for the first time since Revenge of the Cybermen in 1975 with a completely different design, with David Banks' first appearance as Cyber-Leader, a role he would return to in subsequent stories involving the Cybermen until Silver Nemesis. Secondly, for the first time since The Daleks' Master Plan which had aired in 1965 and 1966, a companion died. Other milestones included Black Orchid, the first non-science fictional historical serial since 1966's The Highlanders, and the destruction of the Doctor's sonic screwdriver in The Visitation. A cliffhanger ending to the series appeared to have left Tegan stranded at Heathrow Airport with the Doctor abandoning her by mistake (the Doctor had spent most of the series trying to get Tegan back to Heathrow, which almost became a running theme).

Originally, this series was going to have twenty-eight episodes- two more than normal. However, John Nathan-Turner used two of the allocated episodes for A Girl's Best Friend, the failed pilot to K9 and Company.

With this season, the BBC returned the series to a mid-winter season start, which had last been done for Season 12 and had been the format throughout the Jon Pertwee era.

Cast

 * The Doctor - Peter Davison
 * Adric - Matthew Waterhouse
 * Nyssa - Sarah Sutton
 * Tegan Jovanka - Janet Fielding

Recurring

 * The Master - Anthony Ainley

Guest

 * Ruther - Frank Wylie
 * Shardovan - Derek Waring
 * Mergrave - Michael Sheard
 * Monarch - Stratford Johns
 * Persuasion - Paul Shelley
 * Enlightenment - Annie Lambert
 * Bigon - Philip Locke
 * Lin Futu - Burt Kwouk
 * Sanders - Richard Todd
 * Todd - Nerys Hughes
 * Hindle - Simon Rouse
 * Aris - Adrian Mills
 * Panna - Mary Morris
 * Karuna - Sarah Prince
 * Richard Mace - Michael Robbins
 * Android - Peter Van Dissel
 * Villager - Richard Hampton
 * Terileptil - Michael Melia
 * Miller - James Charlton
 * Lady Cranleigh - Barbara Murray
 * Sir Robert Muir - Moray Watson
 * Lord Charles Cranleigh - Michael Cochrane
 * Ann - Sarah Sutton
 * Latoni - Ahmed Khalil
 * The Unknown/George Cranleigh - Gareth Milne
 * Scott - James Warwick
 * Kyle - Clare Clifford
 * Cyber Leader - David Banks
 * Cyber Lieutenant - Mark Hardy
 * Briggs - Beryl Reid
 * Berger - June Bland
 * Ringway - Alec Sabin
 * Captain Stapley - Richard Easton
 * First Officer Bilton - Michael Cashman
 * Flight Engineer Scobie - Keith Drinkel
 * Angela Clifford - Judith Byfield
 * Professor Hayter - Nigel Stock

Stories set during this season

 * PROSE: The Comet's Tail (during Castrovalva)
 * AUDIO: Psychodrome (between Castrovalva and Four to Doomsday)
 * PROSE: Cold Fusion (between Castrovalva and Four to Doomsday)
 * PROSE: The Immortals (between Castrovalva and Four to Doomsday)
 * AUDIO: Secrets of Telos, God of War and The Auton Infinity (between Four to Doomsday and Kinda, from the Fifth Doctor's perspective)
 * AUDIO: God of War (somewhere between Kinda and Earthshock, from Tegan, Nyssa and Adric's perspective)
 * PROSE: First Born (between Kinda and The Visitation)
 * PROSE: Divided Loyalties (between The Visitation and Black Orchid)
 * AUDIO: Smoke and Mirrors (between The Visitation and Black Orchid)
 * PROSE: In the TARDIS: Christmas Day (between Black Orchid and Earthshock)
 * PROSE: Hearts of Stone (between Black Orchid and Earthshock)
 * AUDIO: The Darkening Eye (between Black Orchid and Earthshock)
 * AUDIO: Iterations of I (between Black Orchid and Earthshock)
 * AUDIO: The Game (between Time-Flight and Arc of Infinity)
 * The Fifth Doctor and Nyssa's involvement in The Light at the End (between Time-Flight and Arc of Infinity)

Ratings

 * Average: 9.3 million
 * Highest: 10.5 million (Castrovalva Part 4)
 * Lowest: 8.3 million (Time-Flight Part 4)

VHS releases

 * Castrovalva (1992)
 * Four to Doomsday (2001)
 * Kinda (1994)
 * The Visitation / Black Orchid (1994)
 * Earthshock (1992)
 * Time-Flight (2000)

DVD & Blu-ray releases
All serials of season 19 were released individually on DVD between 2003 and 2011. The complete season was upscaled in 1080i50 high definition and released on Blu-ray as Doctor Who: The Collection - Season 19 in the UK on 10 December 2018.

It was later released in Australia on 23 January 2019 and was released in the US under the title Doctor Who: Peter Davison - Complete Season One on 4 December 2018.

A standard edition of the box set was released in the UK on 31 May 2021.

Novels

 * Castrovalva
 * Four to Doomsday
 * Kinda
 * The Visitation
 * Black Orchid
 * Earthshock
 * Time-Flight

Audiobooks

 * Kinda