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Last updated 02 January 2017
The Three Doctors: Episode Four
Broadcast: Thursday 26th November 1981
5:40pm-6:05pm GMT < > « »
(actually broadcast at 17:41:19)
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Featuring: William Hartnell, Jon Pertwee, Patrick Troughton, Nicholas Courtney, Katy Manning, John Levene, Stephen Thorne

Omega intends to escape his antimatter world and needs the Doctors to take his place. But they discover the terrible truth about Omega and realise that he can never escape.


Synopsis Source: Doctor Who Guide
Broadcast Source: BBC

Ratings Information:


Consolidated figures: 5.800m viewers (+7 days), 8th place

Position in BBC2 Chart.

Notes


The Five Faces Of Doctor Who (Credit: BBC)"The Five Faces Of Doctor Who" was a repeat season shown on BBC2 in the Autumn of 1981 in preparation for the forthcoming new series with a new Doctor.

Stories chosen were all four-parters to fit the Monday-Thursday schedule. It kicked off with the original adventure for the first Doctor, An Unearthly Child, and was then followed by the (then only remaining four part serial) The Krotons for the second Doctor. The third Doctor was represented by Carnival Of Monsters, and then the chronologically previous story The Three Doctors featuring all three originals William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton and Jon Pertwee. Finally, the most recent story Logopolis was broadcast as it featured both the fourth and most recent Doctor, as played by Tom Baker and introducing the fresh-faced fifth Doctor, to be played by Peter Davison.