Classic Who S10 • Serial 1 · (4 episodes)

The Three Doctors

Other variations of this story: The Three Doctors (TOTT version)

Sets:
Doctor Who (1963-1996)
Third Doctor

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First aired Saturday, December 30, 1972

Production Code RRR

Written by Bob Baker Dave Martin

Directed by Lennie Mayne

Runtime 100 minutes

Story Type Anniversary Special New TARDIS interior Multi-Doctor Special

Time Travel Present

Tropes: (Potential Spoilers!)

Time Eddy Time Travel Pivotal It's bigger on the inside Stranded on Earth

Story Arc: (Potential Spoilers!)

Exile on Earth Working for UNIT

Inventory: (Potential Spoilers!)

Bessie Recorder Sonic Screwdriver

Locations Anti-matter universe Earth England UNIT HQ

Synopsis

Time itself is in peril! The Time Lords find themselves besieged by a mysterious enemy. Vital cosmic energy is draining into a black hole, and the Doctor is their only hope. Trapped in the TARDIS, however, he's powerless. The only way out is to break the First Law of Time to let the Doctor help himself — literally...

4 Episodes:

First aired Saturday, December 30, 1972

Runtime 25 minutes

Written by Bob Baker Dave Martin

Directed by Lennie Mayne

UK Viewers 9.6 million

Synopsis

England, the near future. A strange anti-matter creature arrives on Earth and attacks UNIT HQ. It seems to be specifically seeking the Doctor out - but why? With the Time Lords themselves unable to help, it seems the only person who can help the Doctor is himself - or selves...

First aired Saturday, January 6, 1973

Runtime 25 minutes

Written by Bob Baker Dave Martin

Directed by Lennie Mayne

UK Viewers 10.8 million

Synopsis

The third Doctor and Jo find themselves on an artificial world inside the black hole while the second Doctor tries to find a way to control the organism.

First aired Saturday, January 13, 1973

Runtime 25 minutes

Written by Bob Baker Dave Martin

Directed by Lennie Mayne

UK Viewers 8.8 million

Synopsis

The Time Lord Omega reveals himself to the third Doctor along with plans for vengeance against his own kind.

First aired Saturday, January 20, 1973

Runtime 25 minutes

Written by Bob Baker Dave Martin

Directed by Lennie Mayne

UK Viewers 11.9 million

Synopsis

Omega reveals the purpose behind bringing the Doctor to his antimatter world, but the Doctor(s) discover a startling fact about Omega that he didn't know himself and eventually strike a bargain.