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  • Season 23
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  • Season 23 was announced in November 11, 2010. It premiered on September 25, 2011.
  • Fan response was mostly positive to the change, however, some people missed the old animation. In a press release, the CEO of Lames Animation, Walter Lames, had this to say: The Lames Animation crew has continued to animate the series. The season is also notable for the multiple minor character focus episodes, and the returns of fan-favorite characters like Khaka Peu Peu.
  • This season had a unique format, never again repeated in Who. 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
Start date
  • 1986-09-06
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Previous
  • 22
Doctor
  • Sixth Doctor
EndYear
  • 1998
Enemy
  • The Valeyard
anchors
  • Colin Quinn
  • Norm MacDonald
Last
  • 1998-05-09
Runtime
  • 25'
Producer
  • John Nathan-Turner
Name
  • Season 23
  • Meadows
  • Chris
  • Morgan
  • Hammond
  • Quinn
  • Molly
  • Will
  • Norm
  • Tim
  • Jim
  • Tracy
  • Colin
  • Darrell
  • Ana
  • Cheri
  • Ferrell
  • Gasteyer
  • Kattan
  • Oteri
  • Shannon
  • MacDonald
  • Breuer
ep count
  • 14
ref book
  • About Time 6
  • JN-T: The Life and Scandalous Times
  • The Discontinuity Guide
  • The Eighties
  • The Sixth Doctor Handbook
broadcast year
  • 1986
mythmakers
  • MM VHS 22
  • MM DVD 25
  • MM DVD 26
  • MM VHS 19
  • MM VHS 6
story count
  • 1
script ed
  • Eric Saward
DWMSE
  • DWMSE 18
  • DWMSE 3
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Clip
  • The Doctor in court - Extended Version - Doctor Who - The Trial of a Time Lord - BBC
  • The Doctor watches Peri die - Doctor Who - The Trial of a Timelord - BBC
Title
  • Season 23
Original run
  • --09-25
Color
  • f8871f
  • fdb224
  • ff4a37
BeginYear
  • 1997
PREV
Episodes
  • 20
  • 22
articlename
  • Chris Kattan
  • Darrell Hammond
  • Will Ferrell
  • Ana Gasteyer
  • Cheri Oteri
  • Colin Quinn
  • Molly Shannon
  • Tim Meadows
  • Tracy Morgan
  • Norm MacDonald
  • Jim Breuer
Companion
  • Mel Bush
  • Peri Brown
Premier
  • 1997-09-27
NEXT
End Date
  • 1986-12-06
doc
  • The Making of The Trial of a Time Lord
  • The Lost Season
Network
  • BBC1
abstract
  • This season had a unique format, never again repeated in Who. 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. In an interview in Doctor Who Magazine 448, Timelash author Glen McCoy said that he came up with the idea of the Doctor being put on trial. The experiment of forty-five-minute episodes having been deemed a failure, the BBC reverted the series to twenty-five-minute episodes, but kept the episode count at fourteen, effectively halving the number of episodes in a season. The last episode, however, ran thirty minutes. This format lasted for the remainder of the classic series. This was the final season to feature Colin Baker as the Sixth Doctor; he was fired following its conclusion. He did not return to play the Doctor for the regeneration scene in Time and the Rani, the first story of the following season. It was the last season to use the "neon tubing" logo introduced in 1980. A new arrangement of the Doctor Who theme by Dominic Glynn was introduced this season, but was only used for these fourteen episodes, before being replaced by another new arrangement. The final serial of Season 23 turned out to be veteran writer Robert Holmes's last contribution to the series, falling gravely ill and passing away before he could finish the script. It was then passed to script editor Eric Saward, who tried to finish the script but got into an argument with producer John Nathan-Turner over its ending. Eventually, Saward gave up and quit working on Doctor Who altogether, withdrawing his contributions to Holmes's script as he left. The script was then passed along to Pip and Jane Baker, who completed it as they saw fit.
  • Season 23 was announced in November 11, 2010. It premiered on September 25, 2011.
  • Fan response was mostly positive to the change, however, some people missed the old animation. In a press release, the CEO of Lames Animation, Walter Lames, had this to say: The Lames Animation crew has continued to animate the series. The season is also notable for the multiple minor character focus episodes, and the returns of fan-favorite characters like Khaka Peu Peu.
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