Season 14

The fourteenth season of Doctor Who ran between 4th September 1976 and 2nd April 1977. It consisted of 6 serials and 26 episodes. The season is notable for the departure of Sarah Jane Smith, the only complete serial of the original series in which the Doctor did not travel with a companion (The Deadly Assassin), the return of the Master for the first time since the death of the character's original actor, Roger Delgado, the introduction of Leela, and the overall Gothic ambience of the season which was helped by the introduction of the TARDIS' secondary console room, which would be used in lieu of the traditional console room into the next season. The Deadly Assassin is also notable for being the first of a series of episodes set on Gallifrey which would gradually establish more details about Time Lord culture; these occasional episodes would continue into the 1980s.



Stories

 * The Masque of Mandragora (4 episodes)
 * The Hand of Fear (4 episodes)
 * The Deadly Assassin (4 episodes)
 * The Face of Evil (4 episodes)
 * The Robots of Death (4 episodes)
 * The Talons of Weng-Chiang (6 episodes)

Main Cast

 * The Doctor - Tom Baker
 * Sarah Jane Smith - Elisabeth Sladen (leaves in The Hand of Fear)
 * Leela - Louise Jameson (introduced and joins in The Face of Evil)

VHS

 * The Masque of Mandragora
 * The Hand of Fear
 * The Deadly Assassin
 * The Face of Evil
 * The Robots of Death
 * The Talons of Weng-Chiang
 * The Tom Baker Years (extracts from all of the stories)

DVD

 * The Hand of Fear
 * The Robots of Death
 * The Talons of Weng-Chiang

Novelisations

 * Doctor Who and the Masque of Mandragora
 * Doctor Who and the Hand of Fear
 * Doctor Who and the Deadly Assassin
 * Doctor Who and the Face of Evil
 * Doctor Who and the Robots of Death
 * Doctor Who and the Talons of Weng-Chiang

Contemporaries
Other selected TV series launched during the 1976-77 season:
 * Multi-Coloured Swap Shop
 * Alice
 * Charlie's Angels
 * Quincy M.E.
 * Second City Television (later known as SCTV)
 * The Muppet Show
 * The New Avengers
 * Eight is Enough