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Classic Who S24 • Serial 3 · (3 episodes)

Delta and the Bannermen

3.10/ 5 274 votes

First aired Monday, November 2, 1987
Production Code 7F
Written by Malcolm Kohll
Directed by Chris Clough
Runtime 75 minutes
Time Travel Past
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...

3 Episodes:

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...

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.

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...

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