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Season 4
Cover art of the soundtrack release for first serial of the season
Starring	William Hartnell Anneke Wills Michael Craze Patrick Troughton Frazer Hines Deborah Watling
No. of stories	9
No. of episodes	43 (33 missing)
Release
Original network	BBC1
Original release	10 September 1966 (1966-09-10) – 1 July 1967 (1967-07-01)
Season chronology
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The fourth season of British science fiction television series Doctor Who began on 10 September 1966 with the First Doctor (William Hartnell) story The Smugglers and, after a change of lead actor (Patrick Troughton) 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, The Power of the Daleks, The Underwater Menace, The Moonbase, The Macra Terror, The Faceless Ones 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

• William Hartnell as the First Doctor
• Anneke Wills as Polly
• Michael Craze as Ben Jackson
• Patrick Troughton as the Second Doctor
• Frazer Hines as Jamie McCrimmon
• Deborah Watling as Victoria Waterfield

William Hartnell appears as the First Doctor for the first two full serials before being succeeded in the role by Patrick Troughton as the Second Doctor for the remaining seven stories.

Anneke Wills and Michael Craze continue their roles as Polly and Ben respectively. They are shortly joined by Frazer Hines playing Jamie McCrimmon in The Highlanders. Polly and Ben depart in the penultimate story The Faceless Ones, 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 Innes Lloyd. Gerry Davis served as Script Editor, apart from the final four episodes of The Evil of the Daleks. Peter Bryant 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 Dalek 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 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. Animations for Season 5 serials The Web of Fear and Fury from the Deep have also been released. 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.

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

All releases are for DVD unless otherwise indicated:

• indicates a simultaneous DVD and Blu-ray release

1. Episodes 1–3 of 4, with both animated and "telesnap" reconstructions of episode 4
2. Released as part of the Regeneration boxset
3. The Region 2 release of The Tenth Planet was released in advance as part of the Regeneration box set without special features, and was later re-released on its own with special features.
4. All six episodes animated
5. Colour edition
6. All six episodes animated
7. Episodes 2 and 3 of 4, with "tele-snap" reconstructions of episodes 1 and 4
8. All four episodes animated (colour and black and white versions), remastered Episode 2 & 3 and "tele-snap" reconstructions of Episodes 1 and 4
9. Episode 3 of 4
10. Episodes 2 and 4 of 4; soundtracks of 1 and 3
11. Episodes 1 and 3 of 6
12. Episode 2 of 7
13. Re-released in slimmer packaging in late 2016
14. Re-released in slimmer packaging in July 2010
15. Episodes 2 and 4 of 4, animation of 1 and 3
16. All four episodes animated (colour and black and white versions) and "tele-snap" reconstruction
17. Animation of all six episodes (in Colour and Black and White), surviving episodes 1 & 3 and "tele-snap" reconstructions of 2 & 4-6
18. Animation of all six episodes (in Colour and Black and White), surviving episode 2 remastered and "tele-snap" reconstructions of 1, & 3-7

In print

1. Number in Target's Doctor Who Library, if applicable
2. Published by Target's parent companies (Allen Wingate, W. H. Allen, BBC Books) unless otherwise indicated
3. Published by Target Books (or by BBC Books under the Target Collection umbrella) unless otherwise indicated
4. Unabridged from BBC Audio/AudioGo unless otherwise indicated
5. ^ This adaptation follows the Doctor showing Zoe the story at the end of The Wheel in Space.
6. Released exclusively with Doctor Who Magazine #609

See also

• List of Doctor Who episodes (1963–1989)

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