Season 22

Season 22 of Doctor Who ran between 5 January 1985 and 30 March 1985. It starred Colin Baker as the Sixth Doctor and Nicola Bryant as Peri Brown. The season opened with Attack of the Cybermen and concluded with Revelation of the Daleks.

Overview
The season consisted of six serials and thirteen episodes. With this season the BBC experimented with the format of the series, reducing the number of episodes to thirteen, but making each episode forty-five minutes long. The experiment did not result in improved ratings and at the end of the season the BBC announced it was cancelling the series; uproar from fans resulted in the BBC changing its mind and putting the series on an eighteen-month hiatus instead. This season is notable for featuring the final appearance of Patrick Troughton as the beloved Second Doctor, in a storyline that gave rise to a popular fan theory known as Season 6B.

Cast

 * The Doctor - Colin Baker
 * Peri Brown - Nicola Bryant

Recurring

 * Lytton - Maurice Colbourne
 * Sil - Nabil Shaban
 * - Kate O'Mara
 * - Anthony Ainley
 * The Doctor - Patrick Troughton
 * Jamie - Frazer Hines
 * Davros - Terry Molloy
 * Dalek Voices - Roy Skelton, Royce Mills

Guest

 * Griffiths - Brian Glover
 * Bates - Michael Attwell
 * Stratton - Jonathan David
 * Flast - Faith Brown
 * Cyber Leader - David Banks
 * Cyber Controller - Michael Kilgarriff
 * Governor - Martin Jarvis
 * Chief Officer - Forbes Collins
 * Jondar - Jason Connery
 * Areta - Geraldine Alexander
 * Arak - Stephen Yardley
 * Etta - Sheila Reid
 * Lord Ravensworth - Terence Alexander
 * Luke Ward - Gary Cady
 * George Stephenson - Gawn Grainger
 * Dastari - Laurence Payne
 * Chessene - Jacqueline Pearce
 * Shockeye - John Stratton
 * Stike - Clinton Greyn
 * Varl - Tim Raynham
 * Tekker - Paul Darrow
 * Mykros - Eric Deacon
 * Vena - Jeananne Crowley
 * Borad - Robert Ashby
 * Herbert - David Chandler
 * Jobel - Clive Swift
 * Tasambeker - Jenny Tomasin
 * D.J. - Alexei Sayle
 * Kara - Eleanor Bron
 * Vogel - Hugh Walters
 * Orcini - William Gaunt
 * Bostock - John Ogwen

Stories set during this season
After Vengeance on Varos:
 * PROSE: Shell Shock
 * PROSE: Grave Matter
 * PROSE: Burning Heart

After The Mark of the Rani:
 * PROSE: Players

After The Two Doctors:
 * AUDIO: Davros
 * AUDIO: Cryptobiosis
 * PROSE: Blue Box

After Timelash:
 * AUDIO: Year of the Pig

After Revelation of the Daleks:
 * AUDIO: The Nightmare Fair (takes place directly after Revelation of the Daleks)

VHS releases

 * Attack of the Cybermen (part of Cybermen Tin) (2000)
 * Vengeance on Varos (1993)
 * The Mark of the Rani (1995)
 * The Two Doctors (1993)
 * Timelash (1998)
 * Revelation of the Daleks (part of Dalek Box Set) (1999)

DVD & Blu-ray releases
All serials of season 22 were released individually between 2001 and 2009.

Novels

 * Attack of the Cybermen
 * Vengeance on Varos
 * The Mark of the Rani
 * The Two Doctors
 * Timelash
 * Revelation of the Daleks

Publishing Notes

 * Target Books was originally unable to come to an agreement that would have allowed Revelation of the Daleks to be adapted as a novel. However, Eric Saward eventually novelised the story in collaboration with BBC Books in 2019, 34 years after the story first premiered on television.
 * Depending on personal opinion about the authorship of Attack of the Cybermen, this is the first season which all of its novelisations were written by the original scriptwriters.