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Doctor Who: The Time Warrior

Doctor Who (1963)

Doctor Who: The Time Warrior

BBC Warner (Dec 15, 1973)
TV Series | Action | Adventure | Science Fiction
USA | English | Color | 01:36
Digital
1 disc
Region 1

Journalist Sarah Jane Smith is impersonating her aunt, virologist Lavinia Smith, in order to gain access to a research centre where top scientists are being held in protective custody while UNIT investigates the disappearance of a number of their colleagues. The missing scientists have been kidnapped by a Sontaran, Linx, and taken back to medieval England, where they are working under hypnosis to repair his crashed spaceship.

The Doctor follows in the TARDIS, and Sarah stows away. In return for shelter, Linx has provided a robber baron called Irongron with anachronistically advanced weapons to use in attacks on neighbouring castles.

The Doctor helps Sir Edward of Wessex to repel one such attack, then he and Sarah conspire to drug the food in Irongron's kitchens so that the weapons can be removed while the men are unconscious. Aided by one of the kidnapped scientists, Rubeish, he then sends the others back to the 20th Century using Linx's primitive time travel equipment.

Linx shoots Irongron down and gets ready to leave in his repaired ship. Hal, one of Sir Edward's archers, fires an arrow into the vulnerable probic vent at the back of his neck, killing him. The Doctor, Sarah and Hal escape just before the ship explodes, destroying the castle.


Cast View all

Jon Pertwee Doctor Who
Elisabeth Sladen Sarah Jane Smith
Richard Franklin Captain Yates
Steve Ismay Exxilon
Ysanne Churchman Voice of Alpha Centauri
Nicholas Courtney Brigadier Lethbridge Stewart
Terry Walsh Jack
Kevin Lindsay Cho-je
John Levene Sergeant Benton
Stuart Fell Body of Alpha Centauri
Leslie Bates Exxilon
Kevin Moran Exxilon
John Bennett General Finch
Pat Gorman Guard
Cy Town Dalek Operator
Donald Gee Eckersley
John Dearth Lupton
Rex Robinson Gebek
Terence Lodge Moss
Christopher Burgess Barnes
John Kane Tommy
Nina Thomas Thalira
Noel Johnson Charles Grover M.P.
Martin Jarvis Butler
Frank Gatliff Ortron

Episodes View details

1 The Time Warrior: Part One 24 min | Dec 15, 1973

The Brigadier asks the Doctor to investigate the disappearance of several scientists, only for him to find they have been abducted back in time.

2 The Time Warrior: Part Two 24 min | Dec 22, 1973

The Doctor tracks the missing scientists to Irongron's castle, where Linx is using them to repair his spaceship and construct advanced weapons for Irongron.

3 The Time Warrior: Part Three 24 min | Dec 29, 1973

The Doctor escapes the castle with Sarah and Hal and must persuade Sir Edward to trust him before Irongron launches an attack on them.

4 The Time Warrior: Part Four 25 min | Jan 05, 1974

The Doctor attempts to return the scientists to their own time, before Linx tries to use his spaceship and destroys the entire castle.

5 Invasion: Part One 26 min | Jan 12, 1974

The Doctor and Sarah return to London in the present day only to find the city strangely deserted, while nearby UNIT are dealing with a series of monster appearances.

6 Invasion of the Dinosaurs: Part Two 25 min | Jan 19, 1974

The Doctor and Sarah returns to present-day Earth, where they find London has been evacuated, and Dinosaurs are on the loose and they are mistaken for looters. Assisting U.N.I.T in the emergency, The Doctor and Sarah discovers corrupt politician Sir Charles Grover MP, renegade scientists Butler and Professor Whitaker and military officer General Finch are using a time machine to bring the dinosaurs from the past to the present as part of they scheme to bring the human race back to a "Golden Age" before the world was polluted.

7 Invasion of the Dinosaurs: Part Three 23 min | Jan 26, 1974

Yates sabotages the Doctor's equipment to stop him finding the location of Whitaker's base but then the tyrannosaur escapes, placing Sarah in danger.

8 Invasion of the Dinosaurs: Part Four 24 min | Feb 02, 1974

Sarah attempts to find a way off the spaceship while the Doctor tries to track down the source of the time displacements.

9 Invasion of the Dinosaurs: Part Five 25 min | Feb 09, 1974

The Doctor has been framed as the monster maker by Finch and is on the run from the army, while Sarah attempts to alert UNIT to what Grover is up to.

10 Invasion of the Dinosaurs: Part Six 26 min | Feb 16, 1974

The Doctor is rescued from Finch by the Brigadier and Benton and tries to persuade them to stop Grover before millions of people are erased from history.

11 Death to the Daleks: Part One 25 min | Feb 23, 1974

As the TARDIS heads to the paradise planet Florana where the Doctor and Sarah go for a holiday, the TARDIS goes off-course and arrives on the barren planet Exxilon, where the TARDIS is losing power. The Doctor and Sarah finds a group of humans and Daleks are searching for parrinium, a mineral which is the only antidote to a space plague. Both parties encounter the native people and trouble ensues. In an attempt to find what caused the power loss, the Doctor, chased by the Daleks, enters the Exxilon's lost city to stop the power-draining phenomenon.

12 Death to the Daleks: Part Two 24 min | Mar 02, 1974

The Doctor and the MSC crew join forces with the Daleks to mine the parrinium, only to come under attack from the Exxilons.

13 Death to the Daleks: Part Three 24 min | Mar 09, 1974

The Doctor and Sarah meet up with Bellal, who helps them escape from the Daleks and explains the origin of the City.

14 Death to the Daleks: Part Four 25 min | Mar 16, 1974

The Doctor and Bellal continue to penetrate the City's defences while Sarah and Jill try to stop the Daleks leaving with the parrinium.

15 The Monster of Peladon: Part One 25 min | Mar 23, 1974

Returning to the medieval planet Peladon (50 years after "The Curse of Peladon") The Doctor and Sarah find King Peladon's daughter Queen Thalira has inherited the throne and the galactic Federation is at war with Galaxy Five and The Federation requires the mineral Trisilicate that will end the war. However, the miners led by the mad rebel Ettis are rebelling and refusing to work, as the ghost of the loyal beast Aggedor is frightening and killing off the miners. It is soon discovered that the ghost of Aggedor is a holographic projection and the culprits are a task-force of renegade Ice Warriors led by Commander Azaxyr and traitorous federation mining engineer Eckersley who have betrayed the Federation to Galaxy Five.

16 The Monster of Peladon: Part Two 24 min | Mar 30, 1974

The Doctor is rescued by Gebek, prompting him to try and help the miners, but his advice results in Ettis launching another attack on the armoury.

17 The Monster of Peladon: Part Three 25 min | Apr 06, 1974

The Doctor and Sarah pacify Aggedor and the Doctor encourages the Queen to make peace with the miners, but Ortron soon has him under arrest again.

18 The Monster of Peladon: Part Four 25 min | Apr 13, 1974

The Ice Warriors take control of the planet and force the miners to return to work but Ettis takes the opportunity to try and destroy the citadel.

19 The Monster of Peladon: Part Five 24 min | Apr 20, 1974

Sarah and Alpha Centauri decide to try and alert the Federation to what the Ice Warriors are up to but first they have to escape from the throne room.

20 The Monster of Peladon: Part Six 24 min | Apr 27, 1974

The Doctor turns the Aggedor spirit against the Ice Warriors to aid the Peladonians in their battle but Eckersley attacks him with the security system.

21 Planet of the Spiders: Part One 25 min | May 04, 1974

While the Doctor carries out an investigation into ESP, Mike Yates asks Sarah to look into some strange goings on at a meditation centre he's attending.

22 Planet of the Spiders: Part Two 25 min | May 11, 1974

Lupton forms an alliance with the spider to steal the Doctor's blue crystal, while Sarah and Mike attempt to alert people to what they've seen.

23 Planet of the Spiders: Part Three 25 min | May 18, 1974

The Doctor and Sarah head to the meditation centre to try and get the crystal back while Lupton prepares to return it to Metebelis Three.But all their plans are disrupted when it is stolen by Tommy.

24 Planet of the Spiders: Part Four 24 min | May 25, 1974

Sarah is captured by the spiders' guards while the Doctor tries to help Arak and the others strike back against the spiders.

25 Planet of the Spiders: Part Five 24 min | Jun 01, 1974

The Doctor escapes from the spiders' larder only to encounter the Great One, while Sarah makes a deal with the Queen Spider.

26 Planet of the Spiders: Part Six 25 min | Jun 08, 1974

K'Anpo persuades the Doctor he must face his fear and return the crystal to the Great One.But first they need to get past Barnes and his men.