| Story No. | Serial | Title | Episodes | Directed by | Written by | UK viewers (millions) |
AI (%) | Original air date | Production code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 152 | 1 | "Battlefield" | "Part One" "Part Two" "Part Three" "Part Four" | Michael Kerrigan | Ben Aaronovitch | 3.1 3.9 3.6 4.0[1] | 69 68 67 65[1] | 6 September 1989 13 September 1989 20 September 1989 27 September 1989 | 7N |
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The Doctor and Ace join forces with UNIT and his old friend the Brigadier against Morgaine (Jean Marsh) and Mordred, Arthurian villains who recognize the Doctor as Merlin. | |||||||||
| 153 | 2 | "Ghost Light" | "Part One" "Part Two" "Part Three" | Alan Wareing | Marc Platt | 4.2 4.0 4.0[2] | 68 68 64[2] | 4 October 1989 11 October 1989 18 October 1989 | 7Q |
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The Doctor brings Ace to Gabriel Chase, an old house that she once burnt down in her home town of Perivale. | |||||||||
| 154 | 3 | "The Curse of Fenric" | "Part One" "Part Two" "Part Three" "Part Four" | Nicholas Mallett | Ian Briggs | 4.3 4.0 4.0 4.2[3] | 67 68 68 68[3] | 25 October 1989 1 November 1989 8 November 1989 15 November 1989 | 7M |
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It's 1943, and Fenric plans a last game of chess with a Time Lord. | |||||||||
| 155 | 4 | "Survival" | "Part One" "Part Two" "Part Three" | Alan Wareing | Rona Munro | 4.0 4.8 5.0[4] | 69 69 71[4] | 22 November 1989 29 November 1989 6 December 1989 | 7P |
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A visit to the suburbs lands the Doctor and Ace on a planet of killer cats. | |||||||||
