Doctor Who (season 19)
The nineteenth season of British science fiction television series Doctor Who began on 4 January 1982 with Castrovalva, and ended with Time-Flight.
Casting
Main cast
- Peter Davison as the Fifth Doctor
- Matthew Waterhouse as Adric
- Sarah Sutton as Nyssa
- Janet Fielding as Tegan Jovanka
Recurring stars
Anthony Ainley returns again in Castrovalva and Time-Flight as the Master.Guest stars
makes the first of four appearances in the show as a Cyber-leader beginning in Earthshock.Serials
took over from Bidmead as script editor for Four to Doomsday and The Visitation, after which he was replaced by Eric Saward. The show moved from its traditional once-weekly Saturday broadcast to being broadcast 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, episodes were not broadcast on Saturdays, but in a twice weekly format on Mondays and Tuesdays.Home media
VHS releases
DVD and Blu-ray releases
In print
| Serial name | Novelisation title | Author | First published |
| Castrovalva | Castrovalva | Christopher H. Bidmead | 17 March 1983 |
| Four to Doomsday | Four to Doomsday | Terrance Dicks | 14 April 1983 |
| Kinda | Kinda | Terrance Dicks | 8 December 1983 |
| The Visitation | Doctor Who and the Visitation | Eric Saward | 19 August 1982 |
| Black Orchid | Black Orchid | Terence Dudley | 18 September 1986 |
| Earthshock | Earthshock | Ian Marter | 19 May 1983 |
| Time-Flight | Time Flight | Peter Grimwade | 20 January 1983 |