Season 24



The twenty-fourth season of Doctor Who ran between 7th September 1987 and 7th December 1987. Sylvester McCoy was introduced as the Seventh Doctor. It consisted of 4 serials and 14 episodes. Unlike Season 23 there was no overall story arc, and the episode allotment - two four-episode stories, two three-episode stories - would be retained for the remainder of the original series. Notably, the season featured the introduction of new companion Ace, who would go on to be a prominent figure in the spinoff fiction that kept the Doctor Who name alive following its cancellation in 1989.

Stories

 * Time and the Rani (4 episodes)
 * Paradise Towers (4 episodes)
 * Delta and the Bannermen (3 episodes)
 * Dragonfire (3 episodes)

Main Cast

 * The Doctor - Sylvester McCoy
 * Mel - Bonnie Langford
 * Ace - Sophie Aldred (from Dragonfire)

VHS

 * Time and the Rani
 * Paradise Towers
 * Delta and the Bannermen
 * Dragonfire

DVD

 * None Yet

Novelisations

 * Time and the Rani
 * Paradise Towers
 * Delta and the Bannermen
 * Dragonfire

Contemporaries
Other selected TV series launched during the 1987-88 season which included Season 24:
 * Star Trek: The Next Generation
 * thirtysomething
 * Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
 * Unsolved Mysteries
 * Full House
 * Home and Away
 * The Wonder Years
 * America's Most Wanted
 * Red Dwarf
 * China Beach