Season 22

Season 22 of Doctor Who ran between 5 January 1985 and 30 March 1985. It starred Colin Baker as the Sixth Doctor.

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 Sixth Doctor - Colin Baker
 * Peri Brown - Nicola Bryant

Recurring

 * Lytton - Maurice Colbourne
 * Cyber Controller - Michael Kilgarriff
 * Sil - Nabil Shaban
 * The Rani - Kate O'Mara
 * - Anthony Ainley
 * The Second Doctor - Patrick Troughton
 * Jamie McCrimmon - 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
 * Governor - Martin Jarvis
 * Chief Officer - Forbes Collins
 * Jondar - Jason Connery
 * 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

 * 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
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

Target Books was unable to come to an agreement that would have allowed Revelation of the Daleks to be adapted as a novel; it remains one of a handful of classic-era stories not to be novelised.