The nineteenth season of British science fiction television series Doctor Who began on 4 January 1982 with Castrovalva, and ended with Time-Flight. John Nathan-Turner produced the series, with two script editors: Anthony Root and Eric Saward.
Casting
Main cast Peter Davison as the Fifth Doctor Matthew Waterhouse as Adric Sarah Sutton as Nyssa Janet Fielding as Tegan Jovanka
Season 19 saw the introduction of Peter Davison as the Fifth Doctor. Tegan Jovanka (Janet Fielding), Nyssa (Sarah Sutton) and Adric (Matthew Waterhouse) were his companions. Adric is killed off in the climax of Earthshock; a rare instance in the series of a companion dying.
Recurring stars Anthony Ainley as The Master
Anthony Ainley returns in Castrovalva and Time-Flight as the Master.
Guest stars David Banks makes the first of four appearances in the show as a Cyber-leader beginning in Earthshock.
Development Multiple stories were scrapped from this season. The Enemy Within, by Christopher Priest, would have revealed a powerful being that fed of fear inside of the TARDIS that powered it; it also would have written out Adric.. Priest's scripts were submitted, but were deemed unusable by the production team. Following a dispute regarding payment by the production team, Nathan-Turner and Saward wrote Priest a letter of apology.. Writer Gerry Davis was intended to write a story titled Genesis of the Cybermen, which would have explored the creation of the Cybermen on their home planet Mondas and act as a prequel to 1966's The Tenth Planet. The idea was ultimately scrapped, however.. Project Zeta Sigma by John Flanagan and Andrew McCulloch would have focused on nuclear disarmament, planned as the Fifth Doctor's first story, but the scripts were deemed unworkable and was dropped.. Other scrapped scripts included Hebos by Rod Beacham, The Psychrons by Terence Greer, and The Torson Triumvirate by Andrew Smith..
Serials
Antony Root served as script editor for Four to Doomsday and The Visitation, after which he was replaced by Eric Saward. Saward's work as script editor included the opening serial, Castrovalva, which was filmed later in the production run, and Earthshock, for which Root is credited due to Saward being the scriptwriter. The show moved from its traditional once-weekly Saturday broadcast to twice-weekly, primarily on Monday and Tuesday, although there were regional variations to the schedule.
Black Orchid was the first purely historical story, with no science-fiction elements save for the TARDIS and its crew, since The Highlanders from Season 4; it was also the first two-part serial since The Sontaran Experiment in Season 12, and the first of a regular run of a two-parter every season until the change of format to 45 minute episodes in Season 22.
Broadcast The entire season was broadcast from 4 January to 30 March 1982. For the first time in the series' history (apart from season 11 broadcasts on BBC1 Wales), new Doctor Who episodes were not broadcast on Saturdays, but in a twice weekly format on Mondays and Tuesdays.
The episodes of Season 19 of Doctor Who that aired on Tuesdays in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland, were aired on Wednesdays on BBC1 Wales, one day after the rest of the UK.
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