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Doctor Who Season 26 Episodes
Season 26 Episode Guide
14 Episodes 1989 - 1989
Episode 1
Battlefield: Part One
25 mins
Knights from a parallel universe arrive on Earth to find the legendary sword Excalibur. Only the Doctor and Ace with the assistance of Brigadier Lethbridge Stewart can save the Earth from total catastrophe.
Episode 2
Battlefield: Part Two
25 mins
The Doctor and Ace discover a stone spaceship underneath Warmsley's archaeological dig while Mordred summons Morgaine to Earth's dimension.
Episode 3
Battlefield: Part Three
26 mins
The Brigadier rescues the Doctor from the stone spaceship before they set out to locate Morgaine before she gains Excalibur.
Episode 4
Battlefield: Part Four
25 mins
Morgaine forces Ace and Shou Yuing to hand over Excalibur by threatening to release the Destroyer, so the Doctor and the Brigadier enter a dimensional portal to stop her.
Episode 5
Ghost Light: Part One
25 mins
The Doctor takes Ace to Gabriel Chase. An old Victorian house which stands in the teenagers home town of Perivale. But the location and the name of the house are unknown to Ace as the Doctor has an ulterior motive for bringing her to the sinister building. As they make their presence in the house known to those who reside within Its walls. The Doctor and his companion discover an odd assortment of characters. There is Josiah Samuel Smith. An ambitious and ruthless man, and who is not what he seems. Redvers Fenn Cooper, an eccentric explorer who saw something in the cellar of Gabriel Chase and has gone mad as a result. Josiah's Butler Nimrod strongly resembles a Neanderthal. The stern housekeeper, Mrs. Pritchard, and Josiah's pretty but unusual Niece Gwendoline. And then there is Control. A 'depraved monstrosity' as Josiah insists. A mysterious creature that is kept locked away in the Cellar of Gabriel Chase. Along with what seems to be a large stone spaceship that contains a dark secret. All are connected to Gabriel Chase in some mysterious way. And to events that are linked to Ace's personal past. A hundred years in the future.
Episode 6
Ghost Light: Part Two
25 mins
The Doctor manages to rescue Ace from the husks and then tries to uncover the truth about the goings on in Josiah's house.
Episode 7
Ghost Light: Part Three
25 mins
The Doctor attempts to convince Light to put an end to Smith's schemes but instead Light aims to put an end to Earth's evolution.
Episode 8
The Curse of Fenric: Part One
25 mins
The Doctor and Ace arrive at a Naval base on the cost of Northumerland towards the end of World War II. The Time lord and his young companion pretend to be from the war office. The purpose of which is that the Doctor wishes to meet the wheelchair bound Dr. Judson who's work at breaking German Cyphers is very important to the war effort. This is achieved through the use of the Ultima machine. An invention of the crippled genius's. Unknown however to the Doctor, Ace and Judson. A platoon of Russian soldiers lead by Captain Sorin have secretly arrived on the coast of Northumberland. Their goal: To steal the Ultima Machine. But unknown to the Doctor. The theft of the Ultima Machine has been partly devised by Commander Millington. The bases supreme commanding officer. A ruthless, military man who is unnaturally obsessed with Norse Mythology. For centuries ago a Viking ship moored on the very shores, next to where the base stands. Carrying with it an evil curse. The Time Lord soon realize he and everyone else on the base is embroiled in a deadly game. One that began centuries ago and will finally come to an end on the shores of England.
Episode 9
The Curse of Fenric: Part Two
25 mins
The Doctor and Ace manage to convince Sorin to release them while Millington and Judson attempt to translate the Viking runes.
Episode 10
The Curse of Fenric: Part Three
25 mins
The Doctor and his friends come under attack from the Haemavores, allowing Millington to retrieve the flask containing Fenric's essence.
Episode 11
The Curse of Fenric: Part Four
25 mins
Fenric is loose and planning to use the Ancient Haemovore to poison the Earth with chemicals, unless the Doctor can defeat him in their centuries old game.
Episode 12
Survival: Part One
25 mins
The Doctor takes Ace back to the London district of Perivale where she grew up. Thinking that his young friend has wanted to visit her former home which he discovers to be quite the contrary. For Perivale Is hardly the most exciting place in the world. Or at least it didn't used to be. Which, the duo soon discover when they are informed of a spate of mysterious disappearances that have recently taken place in the last few weeks. Some of which are old friends that Ace grew up with. Intruiged the Doctor endeavors to uncover what is behind people seemingly vanishing off the face of the Earth. But doing so ends up getting the cosmic time traveler wrapped up in a deadly game of survival on another world. Pitting himself and his young companion against a race of cat-like creatures called the Cheetah people. And an old adversary from the Time Lord's past.
Episode 13
Survival: Part Two
25 mins
The Doctor and Paterson manage to escape from the Master and join up with Ace and her friends, where the Doctor tries to find a way to get them all off the planet before it explodes.
Episode 14
Survival: Part Three
25 mins
Ace manages to transport the Doctor and the others back to Perivale but the Master is also there, preparing for a final showdown with the Doctor.
