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Doctor Who - Season 23

Doctor Who - Season 23

This season had a unique format, never again repeated in the show. Doctor Who had returned to production after a near-cancellation and an eighteen-month production hiatus. For the first time, a season consisted of a single story, The Trial of a Time Lord, although this was made up of four serials from a production perspective: each serial was written by a different person (save for The Mysterious Planet and the first part of The Ultimate Foe, both of which were written by Robert Holmes) and featured a different story presented as evidence, excluding the final two episodes which concluded the ongoing story of the trial; the trial storyline itself acted as a framing device to bracket the first three serials. As a result, whether The Trial of a Time Lord should be considered one story or four has been intensely debated. This single-story format, sometimes referred to as a "miniseries", would later be utilised for the third and fourth series of Torchwood.

Genre: Drama , Action & Adventure , Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Actor: Sylvester Mccoy , Sophie Aldred

Creator: C. E. Webber , Donald Wilson , Verity Lambert

Country: United Kingdom

Episode: 14

Duration: 25 min

Release: 1986

IMDb: 8.4 / 10

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