Changes: Season 14

It consisted of six serials and twenty-six episodes. The season is notable for the departure of Sarah Jane Smith in The Hand of Fear and for The Deadly Assassin, a story set entirely on Gallifrey which expounded greatly upon the culture and history of the Time Lords. The Deadly Assassin also featured the return of the Decayed Master in a degenerated form and had the Doctor without a companion for an entire story for the first time in the history of Doctor Who.

The season also introduced new companion Leela. The overall gothic ambience of the season was supported by the introduction of the TARDIS' secondary console room, which would be used in lieu of the traditional console room into the next season.

Like the 2011 series, it was comprised of two distinct "halves", separated by a chunk of time when the programme wasn't transmitting new episodes. Though not quite as long as the 2011 gap, the show stopped broadcasting in mid-November and didn't return until New Year's Day. Contemporaneous marketing suggested that The Face of Evil — the serial which began on 1 January 1977 — was actually the start of a new series of Doctor Who. (INFO: The Face of Evil) This fact, however, is ill-remembered and no reference work published since the event has ever seriously suggested that Face was the season 15 opener.

Television stories

#	Title	Writer	Episodes	Notes
1	The Masque of Mandragora	Louis Marks	4	Debut of the secondary TARDIS console room.
2	The Hand of Fear	Bob Baker Dave Martin	4	Final regular appearance of Sarah Jane Smith and the final story to be directed by Lennie Mayne.
3	The Deadly Assassin	Robert Holmes	4	Reintroduction of the Master, now withering; only story of the 1963-89 series in which the Doctor does not have a companion; first story set entirely on Gallifrey; introduction of the twelve regeneration limit for Time Lords; introduction of the Matrix.
4	The Face of Evil	Chris Boucher	4	First appearance of Leela. Also the first story to be written by Chris Boucher and the directorial debut of the programme for Pennant Roberts.
5	The Robots of Death	Chris Boucher	4	Introduction of the Sandminer robots; introduction of Kaldor City. Final story to be directed by Michael E. Briant.
6	The Talons of Weng-Chiang	Robert Holmes	6	First and only televised appearance of Jago and Litefoot, who went on to lead their own Big Finish audio range; final story to be produced by Philip Hinchcliffe an the final story to be directed by David Maloney.

Cast

Doctor Who - Tom Baker

Guest

Stories set during this season

After The Deadly Assassin :

After The Robots of Death :

Adaptations and merchandising

Home media

VHS

The Masque of Mandragora (1991)
The Hand of Fear (1996)
The Deadly Assassin (1991)
The Face of Evil (1999)
The Robots of Death (1986) (edited movie format)
The Robots of Death (1995)
The Talons of Weng-Chiang (1988)
The Tom Baker Years (extracts from all of the stories) (1991)

DVD

All serials of season 14 were released between 2000 to 2012.

Serial name	Number and duration of episodes	R2 release date	R4 release date	R1 release date
The Masque of Mandragora	4 × 25 min.	8 February 2010	31 March 2010	4 May 2010
The Hand of Fear	4 × 25 min.	24 July 2006	7 September 2006	7 November 2006
The Deadly Assassin	4 × 25 min.	11 May 2009	2 July 2009	1 September 2009
The Face of Evil	4 × 25 min.	5 March 2012	5 April 2012	13 March 2012
The Robots of Death	4 × 25 min.	13 November 2000	2 July 2001	11 September 2001
The Robots of Death – Special Edition Only available as part of the Revisitations 3 box set in Regions 2 and 4. Only available individually in Region 1.	4 × 25 min.	13 February 2012	1 March 2012	13 March 2012
The Talons of Weng-Chiang	6 × 25 min.	28 April 2003	30 June 2003	7 October 2003
The Talons of Weng-Chiang – Special Edition Only available as part of the Revisitations 1 box set in Regions 2 and 4. Only available individually in Region 1.	6 × 25 min.	4 October 2010	2 December 2010	11 October 2011

Download/streaming availability

Serial name	Amazon Video	BritBox (US)	BritBox (Canada)	iTunes
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)	✓	✓	✓	✓

Novels

External links

BBC website guide to Season 14

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Changes: Season 14

Revision as of 20:42, 22 June 2018

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Overview