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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.
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- person By: Verity Lambert
- calendar_month Release Date: 1986-09-06
- video_camera_front Companies BBC
- list_alt Episodes: 14 Episodes
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The Sixth Doctor is on trial AGAIN! | The Collection: Season 23 Announcement Trailer
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Dominic Glynn
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Sid Sutton
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John Nathan-Turner
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Ron Grainer
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