Skip to content

Classic Who S26 • Serial 4 · (3 episodes)

Survival

3.94/ 5 310 votes

First aired Wednesday, November 22, 1989
Production Code 7P
Written by Rona Munro
Directed by Alan Wareing
Runtime 75 minutes
Story Type Series Finale
Time Travel Present
Tropes: (Potential Spoilers!) LGBTQA+ Milkman
Synopsis

The Doctor brings Ace back to her hometown of Perivale. Her old friends are being kidnapped by a race of alien hunters called the Cheetah People, who were shown the way to Earth by the Doctor's old enemy the Tremas Master.

3 Episodes:

First aired Wednesday, November 22, 1989
Runtime 25 minutes
Written by Rona Munro
Directed by Alan Wareing
UK Viewers 5 million
Appreciation Index 69

Synopsis

Perivale, England, the late 1980s. People are vanishing into thin air under the baleful stare of a very strange cat. The Doctor and Ace learn that, in the battle for survival, success can carry a terrible price...

First aired Wednesday, November 29, 1989
Runtime 25 minutes
Written by Rona Munro
Directed by Alan Wareing
UK Viewers 4.8 million
Appreciation Index 69

Synopsis

The Doctor and Paterson manage to escape from the Master and join up with Ace and her friends, where the Doctor tries to find a way to get them all off the planet before it explodes.

First aired Wednesday, December 6, 1989
Runtime 25 minutes
Written by Rona Munro
Directed by Alan Wareing
UK Viewers 5 million
Appreciation Index 71

Synopsis

Ace manages to transport the Doctor and the others back to Perivale but the Master is also there, preparing for a final showdown with the Doctor.

Ratings are from TARDIS Guide members only.

Other adaptations of this story: