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(#1) Doctor Who Series 4 (2008)
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The fourth season of "Doctor Who" premiered on April 5, 2008 and contains 13 episodes. This season features episodes in which the Doctor plays a minimal role.
This season features several unforgettable episodes including "Voyage of the Damned," "The Unicorn and the Wasp" and "Journey's End."
Memorable moments from Season 4 include:
- The Doctor lands on an interstellar Titanic
- Rose and Donna work together to help the Doctor
- The Doctor regenerates -
(#2) Doctor Who Series 3 (2007)
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The third season of "Doctor Who" premiered on March 31, 2007 and contains 13 episodes. This season introduces the character of Martha Jones, played by Freema Agyeman.
This season features several unforgettable episodes including "The Runaway Bride," "Human Nature" and "Last of the Time Lords."
Memorable moments from Season 3 include:
- A Plasmavore drinks the Doctor's blood
- The Master becomes Prime Minister
- Martha uses The Master's tricks against him -
(#3) Doctor Who Series 5 (2010)
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The fifth season of "Doctor Who" premiered on April 3, 2010 and contains 13 episodes. This season features the eleventh Doctor, played by Matt Smith.
This season features several unforgettable episodes including "The Eleventh Hour," "The Hungry Earth" and "The Big Bang."
Memorable moments from Season 5 include:
- The return of the Silurians
- An alien escapes through Amy's wall
- Amy and Rory finally get their wedding -
(#4) Doctor Who Series 1 (2005)
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The first season of "Doctor Who" premiered on March 26, 2005 and contains 13 episodes. This season features the Ninth Doctor, played by Christopher Eccleston.
This season features several unforgettable episodes including "Rose," "World War Three" and "The Parting of the Ways."
Memorable moments from Season 1 include:
- The Doctor rescues Rose after she is attacked by mannequins
- The Doctor and Rose invite Jack on the TARDIS
- The Doctor regenerates -
(#5) Doctor Who Series 2 (2006)
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The second season of "Doctor Who" premiered on April 15, 2006 and contains 13 episodes. This season features the Tenth Doctor, played by David Tennant.
This season features several unforgettable episodes including "New Earth," "The Impossible Planet" and "Doomsday."
Memorable moments from Season 2 include:
- The Doctor and Rose infiltrate a suspicious school
- The Beast escapes
- Rose is stranded on a parallel universe -
(#6) Doctor Who Season 13
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The thirteenth season of "Doctor Who" premiered on Aug. 30, 1975 and contains 26 episodes. This season finds The Doctor cutting ties with UNIT.
This season features several unforgettable episodes including "Terror of the Zygons," "Pyramids of Mars" and "The Seeds of Doom."
Memorable moments from Season 13 include:
- The Fourth Doctor is summoned to Earth by the Brigadier
- The Doctor is taken prisoner, accused of murder
- The Krynoid aims to make everything plant-based -
(#7) Doctor Who Series 6
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The sixth season of "Doctor Who" premiered on April 23, 2011 and contains 13 episodes. This season continues to follow "The Silence" storyline from the previous season.
This season features several unforgettable episodes including "A Christmas Carol," "The Doctor's Wife" and "The Wedding of River Song."
Memorable moments from Season 6 include:
- The Doctor marries River
- The Doctor takes Amy and Rory to the planet Apalapucia
- The Doctor visits an old friend -
(#8) Doctor Who Season 7
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The seventh season of "Doctor Who" premiered on Jan. 3, 1970 and contains 25 episodes. This season introduces The Third Doctor, played by Jon Pertwee.
This season features several unforgettable episodes including "Spearhead from Space," "The Ambassadors of Death" and "Inferno."
Memorable moments from Season 7 include:
- The Silurians make people insane
- The Doctor stops Carrington from causing destruction
- The Doctor arrives in a parallel universe -
(#9) Doctor Who Season 12
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The twelfth season of "Doctor Who" premiered on Dec. 18, 1974 and contains 20 episodes. This season features The Fourth Doctor, played by Tom Baker.
This season features several unforgettable episodes including "Robot," "Genesis of the Daleks" and "Revenge of the Cybermen."
Memorable moments from Season 12 include:
- The plans for the new disintegrator gun are stolen
- The Doctor, Sarah, and Harry travel to Skaro to change the history of the Daleks
- The time travelers face the plague -
(#10) Doctor Who Season 14
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The fourteenth season of "Doctor Who" premiered on Sept. 4, 1976 and contains 26 episodes. This season marks the departure of The Doctor's longtime companion Sarah Jane Smith.
This season features several unforgettable episodes including "The Masque of Mandragora," "The Robots of Death" and "The Talons of Weng-Chiang."
Memorable moments from Season 14 include:
- The Doctor and Sarah find themselves caught in a mining explosion
- The Doctor is named The Evil One by a local tribe
- The Doctor disintegrates Greel -
(#11) Doctor Who Series 8 (2014)
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The eighth season of "Doctor Who" premiered on Aug. 23, 2014 and contains 12 episodes. This season features the Twelfth Doctor, played by Peter Capaldi.
This season features several unforgettable episodes including "Deep Breath," "Listen" and "Time Heist."
Memorable moments from Season 8 include:
- A dinosaur appears in Parliament
- The Doctor duels with Robin Hood
- The Doctor reunites two aliens -
(#12) Doctor Who Series 7 (2012)
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The seventh season of "Doctor Who" premiered on Sept. 1, 2012 and contains 13 episodes. This season aired in two parts with each episode airing as a stand alone piece.
This season features several unforgettable episodes including "The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe," "The Angels Take Manhattan" and "The Name of the Doctor."
Memorable moments from Season 7 include:
- The Doctor, Amy, and Rory are kidnapped by the Daleks
- Amy and Rory choose their own fate
- A new incarnation of the Doctor is introduced -
(#13) Doctor Who Season 5
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The fifth season of "Doctor Who" premiered on Sept. 2, 1967 and contains 40 episodes. This season was the first to not feature any Daleks.
This season features several unforgettable episodes including "The Tomb of the Cybermen," "The Web of Fear" and "The Wheel in Space."
Memorable moments from Season 5 include:
- The TARDIS crew finds a frozen Cybermen
- Penny destroys a martian craft with an Ioniser
- Zoe becomes a stowaway -
(#14) Doctor Who Season 10
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The tenth season of "Doctor Who" premiered on Dec. 30, 1972 and contains 26 episodes. This season marked the end of the Doctor's exile on Earth.
This season features several unforgettable episodes including "The Three Doctors," "Planet of the Daleks" and "The Green Death."
Memorable moments from Season 10 include:
- The Doctor seeks help from his previous incarnations
- The Doctor faces the Daleks on the planet Spiridon
- The Doctor takes down giant maggots -
(#15) Doctor Who Season 8
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The eighth season of "Doctor Who" premiered on Jan. 2, 1971 and contains 25 episodes. The season introduces viewer to the villain, the Master.
This season features several unforgettable episodes including "Terror of the Autons," "Colony in Space" and "The Dæmons."
Memorable moments from Season 8 include:
- The Master arrives on Earth
- The Doctor and Jo travel to Uxaerius
- The Master is captured by the UNIT troops -
(#16) Doctor Who Season 1
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The first season of "Doctor Who" premiered on Nov. 23, 1963 and contains 42 episodes. This season introduces viewers to The Doctor as he faces a number of foes and travels through time.
This season features several unforgettable episodes including "An Unearthly Child," "The Keys of Marinus" and "The Reign of Terror."
Memorable moments from Season 1 include:
- The Daleks are introduced
- Carol is abducted
- Ian, Barbara, and Susan are sentenced to death as traitors in 18th-century France -
(#17) Doctor Who Season 16
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The sixteenth season of "Doctor Who" premiered on Sept. 2, 1978 and contains 26 episodes. This season is known as "The Key to Time."
This season features several unforgettable episodes including "The Ribos Operation," "The Stones of Blood" and "The Armageddon Factor."
Memorable moments from season 16 include:
- The introduction of the Black and White Guardians
- The Doctor travels to the third moon of Delta Magna
- The Doctor and the Guardian get lost in time and space -
(#18) Doctor Who Season 19
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The nineteenth season of "Doctor Who" premiered on Jan. 4, 1984 and contains 26 episodes. This season introduces viewers to the Fifth Doctor, played by Peter Davison.
This season features several unforgettable episodes including "Castrovalva," "Earthshock" and "Time-Flight."
Memorable moments from Season 19 include:
- The Doctor is taken to the "Zero Room"
- Adric dies in a freighter crash
- Tegan is left at Heathrow ariport -
(#19) Doctor Who Season 26
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The twenty-sixth season of "Doctor Who" premiered on Sept. 6, 1989 and contains 14 episodes. This season is the final season in the "classic series."
This season features several unforgettable episodes including "Battlefield," "The Curse of Fenric" and "Survival."
Memorable moments from Season 26 include:
- The Doctor and Ace visit a landmark from her past
- Ace saves her mother
- The Doctor and Ace face killer cats -
(#20) Doctor Who Season 4
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The fourth season of "Doctor Who" premiered on Sept. 10, 1966 and contains 43 episodes. This season introduces The Second Doctor, played by Patrick Troughton.
This season features several unforgettable episodes including "The Smugglers," "The Underwater Menace" and "The Evil of the Daleks."
Memorable moments from Season 4 include:
- The first regeneration
- A Dalek Maxtible hypnotizes the Doctor
- The Doctor declares the end of the Daleks -
(#21) Doctor Who Season 15
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The fifteenth season of "Doctor Who" premiered on Sept. 3, 1977 and contains 26 episodes. This season introduces the character of K-9, played by John Leeson.
This season features several unforgettable episodes including "Horror of Fang Rock," "The Sun Makers" and "The Invasion of Time."
Memorable moments from Season 15 include:
- The Doctor is infected with a virus
- The Doctor is elected to the role of Presidency of Gallifrey
- Leela and K-9 stay on Gallifrey -
(#22) Doctor Who Season 11
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The eleventh season of "Doctor Who" premiered on Dec. 15, 1973 and contains 26 episodes. This season introduces the character of Sarah Jane Smith.
This season features several unforgettable episodes including "The Time Warrior," "The Monster of Peladon" and "Planet of the Spiders."
Memorable moments from Season 11 include:
- Dinosaurs are found in 1970s London
- The TARDIS crashes on the planet Exxilon
- The doctor regenerates into The Fourth Doctor -
(#23) Doctor Who Season 21
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The twenty-first season of "Doctor Who" premiered on Jan. 5, 1984 and contains 24 episodes. This season introduces viewers to the character of Peri Brown, played by Nicola Bryant.
This season features several unforgettable episodes including "Warriors of the Deep," "Resurrection of the Daleks" and "The Twin Dilemma."
Memorable moments from Season 21 include:
- The Fifth Doctor and Turlough encounter The Master on the planet Sarn
- The Doctor regenerates
- Azmael destroys himself and Mestor -
(#24) Doctor Who - Series 6
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The sixth season of "Doctor Who" premiered on Aug. 10, 1968 and contains 44 episodes. This season features the first official appearance of Time Lords.
This season features several unforgettable episodes including "The Dominators," "The Seeds of Death" and "The War Games."
Memorable moments from Season 6 include:
- The Doctor meets several characters in the Land of Fiction
- The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe are sentenced to death in WWI
- The Doctor undergoes regeneration -
(#25) Doctor Who Season 25
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The twenty-fifth season of "Doctor Who" premiered on Oct. 5, 1988 and contains 14 episodes. This season features the final appearance of the Daleks and Davros in the "classic series."
This season features several unforgettable episodes including "Remembrance of the Daleks," "Silver Nemesis" and "The Greatest Show in the Galaxy."
Memorable moments from Season 25 include:
- The Supreme Dalek kills itself
- Three groups fight over a dangerous statue
- The Doctor and Ace face a Psychic Circus -
(#26) Doctor Who Season 2
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The second season of "Doctor Who" premiered on Oct. 31, 1964 and contains 39 episodes. This season marks the departure of Susan Foreman, Barbara Wright and Ian Chesterton.
This season features several unforgettable episodes including "Planet of Giants," "The Space Museum" and "The Time Meddler."
Memorable moments from Season 2 include:
- The return of the Daleks
- The Doctor goes to the Empire State Building
- The Monk is stranded in 1066 -
(#27) Doctor Who - Series 9
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The ninth season of "Doctor Who" premiered on Jan. 1, 1972 and contains 26 episodes. This season reintroduced the Daleks to the series.
This season features several unforgettable episodes including "Day of the Daleks," "The Mutants" and "The Time Monster."
Memorable moments from Season 9 include:
- The Doctor and Jo got to the planet Peladon
- The Solonians become mutants
- The Master conducts time experiments -
(#28) Doctor Who Season 17
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The seventeenth season of "Doctor Who" premiered on Sept. 1, 1979 and contains 20 episodes. This season finds the Doctor traveling with a newly regenerated Romana.
This season features several unforgettable episodes including "Destiny of the Daleks," "Nightmare of Eden" and "Shada."
Memorable moments from Season 17 include:
- The Doctor once again faces the Daleks.
- The Doctor, Romana and K-9 collide with a spaceship
- Skagra looks for help from Shada to conquer the universe -
(#29) Doctor Who Season 20
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The twentieth season of "Doctor Who" premiered on Jan. 4, 1983 and contains 22 episodes. This season features stories that involve the return of old villains.
This season features several unforgettable episodes including "Arc of Infinity," "Enlightenment" and "The Five Doctors."
Memorable moments from Season 20 include:
- The Black Guardian enlists Turlough's help to destroy The Doctor
- A robot poses as King John
- The First, Second, Third and Fifth Doctors join forces to save the Fourth Doctor -
(#30) Doctor Who Season 18
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The eighteenth season of "Doctor Who" premiered on Aug. 30, 1980 and contains 28 episodes. This season introduces the characters of Adric, Nyssa and Tegan Jovanka.
This season features several unforgettable episodes including "The Leisure Hive," "State of Decay" and "Logopolis."
Memorable moments from Season 18 include:
- The Doctor and Romana travel to Argolis
- Romana is notified that she must return to Gallifrey
- The Doctor regenerates into a younger body -
(#31) Doctor Who Season 3
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The third season of "Doctor Who" premiered on Sept. 11, 1965 and contains 45 episodes. This season marks the final full season starring William Hartnell as The First Doctor.
This season features several unforgettable episodes including "Galaxy 4," "The Celestial Toymaker" and "The War Machines."
Memorable moments from Season 3 include:
- The Doctor assembles a Time Destructor
- The Doctor travels 10 million years into the future
- The Doctor faces War Machines -
(#32) Doctor Who
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The twenty-third season of "Doctor Who" premiered on Sept. 6, 1986 and contains 14 episodes. This season is known as "The Trial of a Time Lord" and it features a single story.
This season features several unforgettable episodes including "The Nightmare Fair," "Mission to Magnus" and "The Children of January."
Memorable moments from Season 23 include:
- The Sixth Doctor faces the Celestial Toymaker
- The TARDIS gets trapped in orbit
- The Valeyard's origin is revealed -
(#33) Doctor Who Season 22
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The twenty-second season of "Doctor Who" premiered on Jan. 5, 1985 and contains 13 episodes. This season features The Sixth Doctor, played by Colin Baker.
This season features several unforgettable episodes including "Attack of the Cybermen," "Timelash" and "Revelation of the Daleks."
Memorable moments from Season 22 include:
- The Doctor and Peri arrive on Varos
- The Second Doctor and the Sixth Doctor go up against Chessene and Dastari
- Two Dalek armies engage in battle -
(#34) Doctor Who Season 24
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The twenty-fourth season of "Doctor Who" premiered on Sept. 7, 1987 and contains 14 episodes. This season introduces viewers to the Seventh Doctor, played by Sylvester McCoy.
This season features several unforgettable episodes including "Time and the Rani," "Delta and the Bannermen" and "Dragonfire."
Memorable moments from Season 24 include:
- The Doctor faces Rani in a post-regenerative state
- The Doctor and Mel attempt to take a vacation
- The Doctor promises to take Ace home to Perivale
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