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'' began on 10 September 1966 with the

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(

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) story '' The Smugglers'' and, after a change of lead actor (

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) part-way through the series, ended on 1 July 1967 with '' The Evil of the Daleks''. For the first time, the entire main cast changed over the course of a single season (the only other occasions this has happened are during Season 18 and Season 21). Only 10 out of 43 episodes survive in the BBC archives; 33 remain missing. No serials in this season exist in their entirety. However, '' The Tenth Planet'', ''

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'', '' The Underwater Menace'', '' The Moonbase'', '' The Macra Terror'', ''

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'' and '' The Evil of the Daleks'' have currently had their missing episodes (twenty five in total) reconstructed with animation and subsequently have been released on home media.

Casting

Main cast

as the

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* Michael Craze as Ben Jackson *

as the

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Frazer Hines Frazer Simpson Frederick Hines (born 22 September 1944) is an English actor. He began his career as a child actor and appeared in ''A King in New York'' (1957) with Charlie Chaplin. He later played Jamie McCrimmon in ''Doctor Who'', appearing i ...

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* Deborah Watling as Victoria Waterfield

appears as the

for the first two full serials before being succeeded in the role by

as the

for the remaining seven stories.

and Michael Craze continue their roles as Polly and Ben respectively. They are shortly joined by

playing

in '' The Highlanders''. Polly and Ben depart in the penultimate story ''

'', and at the end of the season Deborah Watling makes her debut as Victoria Waterfield in '' The Evil of the Daleks''.

Serials

Season 4 was produced by

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. Gerry Davis served as Script Editor, apart from the final four episodes of ''The Evil of the Daleks''.

Peter Bryant Peter Bryant (27 October 1923 – 19 May 2006) was an English television producer, script editor and former actor. He acted in '' The Grove Family'' as a regular cast member and later became the producer of '' Doctor Who'' from 1967 to 19 ...

joined as associate producer for ''The Faceless Ones'', and replaced Gerry Davis as script editor for the last four episodes of the season. ''The Smugglers'' was the final serial to be produced during the third production block, but was held over to the start of Season 4. ''The Tenth Planet'' introduced the Cybermen and the concept of Regeneration, which wouldn't be named so until '' Planet of the Spiders'' in 1974. ''The Power of the Daleks'' was the first

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story to use the traditional ''...of the Daleks'' title form. Of the nine subsequent Dalek serials, only '' Death to the Daleks'' from Season 11 was not named in this way. The naming convention for Dalek stories was first used in the revived series with " Evolution of the Daleks" in Series 3. None of the nine serials from Season 4 are complete in the BBC archive, with four (''The Smugglers'', ''The Power of the Daleks'', ''The Highlanders'' and ''The Macra Terror'') each having all of their episodes missing; of the total of 43 episodes between "Episode 1" of ''The Smugglers'' and "Episode 7" of ''The Evil of the Daleks'', only 10 are currently in the BBC archive. The most complete serial of the season, ''The Tenth Planet'', is missing only its last episode; this serial, as well as ''The Power of the Daleks'', ''The Underwater Menace'', ''The Moonbase'', ''The Macra Terror'', ''The Faceless Ones'' and ''The Evil of the Daleks'' have had their missing elements recreated with animated episodes using the original soundtrack. The fully animated serials are presented in both colour and black and white formats, while ''The Tenth Planet'' and ''The Moonbase'' animations are presented exclusively in black and white.

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Production

During this season the title card for the series was changed for the first time, starting with ''The Macra Terror''. A new theme arrangement would debut in the following serial, ''The Faceless Ones''.

Missing episodes

Season 4 is notable for being the only season of Doctor Who from which not a single complete serial survives. The missing episodes are: *''The Smugglers'' – All 4 episodes *''The Tenth Planet'' – Episode 4 (of 4 total) (Animated recreation exists) *''The Power of the Daleks'' – All 6 episodes (Animated recreations exist) *''The Highlanders'' – All 4 episodes *''The Underwater Menace'' – Episodes 1 & 4 (of 4 total) (Animated recreations exist) *''The Moonbase'' – Episodes 1 & 3 (of 4 total) (Animated recreations exist) *''The Macra Terror'' – All 4 episodes (Animated recreations exist) *''The Faceless Ones'' – Episodes 2, 4, 5 & 6 (of 6 total) (Animated recreations exist) *''The Evil of the Daleks'' – Episodes 1, 3 to 7 (of 7 total) (Animated recreations exist)

Home media

VHS releases

DVD and Blu-ray releases

In print

References

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External links

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Casting

Main cast

Serials

Production

Missing episodes

Home media

VHS releases

DVD and Blu-ray releases

In print

See also

References

Bibliography

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