Stories Television Doctor Who Season 24 Serial: 1 2 3 4 Delta and the Bannermen 1 image Overview Episodes Characters How to Watch Reviews 16 Statistics Related Stories Quotes 4 Transcript Overview First aired Monday, November 2, 1987 Production Code 7F Written by Malcolm Kohll Directed by Chris Clough Runtime 75 minutes Time Travel Past Location (Potential Spoilers!) Toll port G715, Shangri-La holiday camp, Earth, Wales Synopsis Boarding a Nostalgia Tours bus, the Doctor and Mel go for a holiday. They will soon learn that their fellow passenger Delta is a Chimeron Queen, fleeing from the Bannermen who wish to make her species extinct. Thus, the time travellers' trip to Shangri-La turns into a battle against genocide... Watch Watched Favourite Favourited Add Review Edit Review Log a repeat Skip Skipped Unowned Owned Owned Save to my list Saved Edit date completed Custom Date Release Date Archive (no date) Save 3 Episodes Part One First aired Monday, November 2, 1987 Runtime 25 minutes Written by Malcolm Kohll Directed by Chris Clough UK Viewers 5.3 million Appreciation Index 63 Synopsis Wales, 1959. A top-secret US satellite has mysteriously gone missing. This could have something to do with the arrival of a party of alien tourists en route to Disneyland, amongst their number Mel and the Doctor, and the Queen of the Chimerons - who's fleeing the Bannermen and their genocidal leader Gavrok... Part Two First aired Monday, November 9, 1987 Runtime 25 minutes Written by Malcolm Kohll Directed by Chris Clough UK Viewers 5.1 million Appreciation Index 60 Synopsis Mel's just discovered something very interesting about the life cycle of her new friend and the Doctor has been cornered by an alien bounty hunter wearing blue suede shoes. Part Three First aired Monday, November 16, 1987 Runtime 25 minutes Written by Malcolm Kohll Directed by Chris Clough UK Viewers 5.4 million Appreciation Index 60 Synopsis As Billy and Ray do what they can to help save Delta and the baby, the Doctor and Goronwy the beekeeper face Gavrok and his Bannermen one last time... Show All Episodes Characters Seventh Doctor Sylvester McCoy Melanie Bush Bonnie Langford Delta Belinda Mayne Chimeron Gavrok Don Henderson Ray Sara Griffiths First Appearance Show All Characters (6) How to watch Delta and the Bannermen: Watch on iPlayer Blu-Ray The Collection – Season 24 DVD Delta and the Bannermen VHS Delta and the Bannermen (VHS) Reviews Add Review Edit Review Sort: Date (Newest First) Date (Oldest First) Likes (High-Low) Likes (Low-High) Rating (High-Low) Rating (Low-High) Word count (High-Low) Word count (Low-High) Username (A-Z) Username (Z-A) Spoilers First Spoilers Last 16 reviews 5 April 2025 · 54 words Review by ankarstian Honestly quite fun, though there is a bit of a tonal discontinuity with the very fun meat of the story and things like the space Wehrmacht blowing up an entire bus full of people. I do like most of the cast, though the American accents are (like basically always in the show) comedically bad. ankarstian View profile Like Liked 0 31 March 2025 · 13 words Review by CarrotJuice 2 Not very good objectively, but it is so fun! Doctor Who comfort food. CarrotJuice View profile Like Liked 2 19 March 2025 · 39 words Review by Bongo50 1 Delta and the Bannermen is a really entertaining and fun story. It has a great cast of characters, good settings, nice location work and excellent music. The plot is pretty interesting, although I did notice a few small inconsistencies. Bongo50 View profile Like Liked 1 25 February 2025 · 84 words Review by whitestar1993 Spoilers This review contains spoilers! Personally I enjoyed this one. Episode one was great, good pacing and mix of elements setting up the story. I can definitely see how this influenced future stories like Voyage of the Damned and Planet of the Dead. Some great humor as well. The other two parts were just okay. However, I enjoyed the final scenes, felt very modern with the song playing while wrapping things up. Other than the great, (but campy,) 80s music, Doctor Who is definitely on it's way growing up. whitestar1993 View profile Like Liked 0 23 February 2025 · 135 words Review by dema1020 Spoilers This review contains spoilers! Though Season 24 doesn't have the best reputation, this and Paradise Towers aren't that bad by any stretch of the imagination. Sure, Delta and the Bannermen is a little silly, but it is silly in the best way imaginable. Full of colourful and memorable characters, while just going for every wacky idea in the book. A werewolf showing up in such circumstances practically feels expected, rather than the abrupt turn it ought to be. I had a lot of fun with these episodes and enjoyed a lot of the guest characters like the eponymous Delta, while the 1959 setting worked well for me. It's a lot like Paradise Towers, where both serials are jam packed with ideas and fun characters, and while the energy is quite chaotic, it is also very infectious and hard not to enjoy. dema1020 View profile Like Liked 0 Show All Reviews (16) Open in new window Statistics AVG. Rating420 members 3.10 / 5 Trakt.tv AVG. Rating173 votes 3.40 / 5 Member Statistics Watched 744 Favourited 50 Reviewed 16 Saved 5 Skipped 1 Related Stories Other adaptations of this story: We define an adaptation as a recreation of a similar story but on a different medium or with different characters. Target Collection Doctor Who: Delta and the Bannermen Rating: 3.15 Story Skipped Book More Actions View Sets Close Related Sets Set of Stories: Target Collection Add Review Edit Review Skip Skipped Unowned Owned Save to my list Saved Quotes Add Quote Link to Quote Favourite DOCTOR: Love has never been noted for its rationality. — Seventh Doctor, Delta and the Bannermen Show All Quotes (4) Open in new window Transcript Needs checking Part One [Planet surface] (On an alien planet with a very big moon in the sky, troops appear at the top of a ridge. Below them, green humanoids lie dead amongst explosions. They fire at fleeing survivors. Don Henderson is in charge.) GAVROK: Take no prisoners! Kill them all! (A young woman in white is defended by two green aliens. They kill one of their attackers, who retaliate. As Gavrok sounds a horn, the young woman shoots, cracking it.) Show Full Transcript Open in new window
