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Season 19

Jan. 4, 1982
Castrovalva: Part One
The Doctor has regenerated but it hasn't gone well. He's mentally unraveling and needs a place to rest beyond outside influences. Unfortunately the Master has laid a trap for the TARDIS that denies the Doctor undisturbed recovery time.
 
Jan. 5, 1982
Castrovalva: Part Two
To avoid falling into Event One (the Big Bang), the Doctor must convert mass into momentum by having the TARDIS jettison a quarter of itself. Unfortunately it can not be known which rooms will be ejected.
 
Jan. 11, 1982
Castrovalva: Part Three
The city of Castrovalva and its untroubled people would seen an ideal place for the Doctor to recover, but a dire warning from Adric, held captive by The Master, makes it seen less so.
 
Jan. 12, 1982
Castrovalva: Part Four
The Doctor discovers Castrovalva is a cursive occlusion, an impossible yet manifested Escheresque environment, with all pathways, no matter which direction one goes, leading back to the same point. It is a trap laid by the Master with no apparent way out.
 
Jan. 18, 1982
Four to Doomsday: Part One
Trying to transport Tegan to Heathrow airport on present-day Earth, The TARDIS accidentally lands on-board a alien spaceship traveling to Earth which will arrive in 4 days. Where the Doctor, Adric, Nyssa and Tegan encounter the frog like Monarch, ruler of the doomed planet Urbanka. Only to find Monarch has abducted generations of humans from different cultures and converted them into cyborgs. The Doctor and Tegan discover Monarch's true goal is to travel faster than the speed of light, and traveling back into time where he will meet himself and wipe out the human race...
 
Jan. 19, 1982
Four to Doomsday: Part Two
The doctor figures that the Urbankans have visited Earth several times over thousands of years, with each visit coming closer together, but this time the Urbankans have come to stay. Bigone reveals how he and the other cultural representatives, taken at each visit, have lived so long.
 
Jan. 25, 1982
Four to Doomsday: Part Three
Monarch shows his true plans for the humans when he sends Adric to ask the Doctor for a tour of his TARDIS while he sends Nyssa off to be relieved of her "flesh time." Meanwhile Tegan, in a panic, tries to escape in the TARDIS but doesn't get far.
 
Jan. 26, 1982
Four to Doomsday: Part Four
The Doctor needs to stop Adric from siding with Monarch and get Bigon quietly restored (who was mechanically lobotomized for previously siding with the Doctor). The ship then gets turned into one big multi-cultural dance party so the Doctor can make a desperate leap for the TARDIS, floating just outside the spaceship, and stop Monarch's plans for Earth.
 
Feb. 1, 1982
Kinda: Part One
On Deva Loka, a sylvan paradise planet with no predators, diseases or civilized roadways, Nyssa (due to Monarch's two attempts to turn her into an android) stays in the TARDIS to fully recover from mild mental disorientation, under the Doctor's Delta Wave Augmenter while the others go exploring. The Doctor and Adric find a survey team assessing the planet for colonization, and cracking under the stress of three fellow members (half the crew) disappearing without a trace. There's also a primitive and almost entirely speechless native culture on hand who curiously have ...
 
Feb. 2, 1982
Kinda: Part Two
Left in charge by Sanders, Security Man Hindle - unhinged and in complete control of the two Kinda hostages - locks up the others while he primes the dome for a 50 mile perimeter of deforestation through acid and fire, having "reasoned out" that the trees and plants are a threat. Adric perpetrates a ruse to help the Doctor and Todd but is caught and about to be punished when Sanders returns, a changed man. Sanders bears a gift for Hindle - a box given him by a Kinda mystic elder, which may be dangerous and which the Doctor is forced to open. Meanwhile, Tegan is shown ...
 
Feb. 8, 1982
Kinda: Part Three
Todd and the Doctor receive a telepathic invitation to visit the Kinda's blind matriarch and her ward in a cave. Meanwhile, Hinkle is finally set to reduce the dome to its "base chemical constituents" but stops to relax and build a toy city. Tegan is out cold after the snake tattoo of the Mara leaves her arm to possess Aris, giving Aris voice and, through it, the ability to lead his people to their destruction.
 
Feb. 9, 1982
Kinda: Part Four
With a frightening vision of what's to come from Panna (the Kinda's blind visionary), the Doctor must break Hindle's control over the Kinda hostages and stop his deforestation plan, then send the Mara back to The Dark Places of the Inside from whence it came before it can destroy the Kinda and head out to topple civilizations.
 
Feb. 15, 1982
The Visitation: Part One
The TARDIS returns Tegan to Heathrow Airport: Tall trees, peaceful, clear skies, thriving vegetation and a touch of sulfur in the air. Obviously the TARDIS is a little out of date (about three hundred years or so), but upon looking around the Doctor finds there's more amiss than his navigational controls, all arising after a recent comet crash that was not on Earth's schedule.
 
Feb. 16, 1982
The Visitation: Part Two
To rescue Tegan and Adric, captured and interrogated by the Terileptil fugitive leader, the Doctor must get past the locals under alien control and overcome Death (an android servant dressed up as The Grim Reaper).
 
Feb. 22, 1982
The Visitation: Part Three
The Doctor makes the fugitive Terileptils a rare offer they shouldn't refuse; but, though few in numbers, they have a plan in the works for the quick and complete domination of Earth and mean to see it through.
 
Feb. 23, 1982
The Visitation: Part Four
With Tegan and Richard under alien control, and the manor sealed against anyone leaving or entering, it's a question whether or not the Doctor can get to London before the Terileptils release their improved strain of black death upon the world.
 
Mar. 1, 1982
Black Orchid: Part One
The TARDIS arrives in England, 1925, near to where a mysterious, gurgling man has escaped his bonds and started strangling servants. The Doctor is "expected" and taken (along with Tegan, Nyssa and Adeic) to the Cranleigh's country estate where The Doctor participates in a cricket match and Nyssa turns out to be the near spitting image of Ann, fiancée of Charles Cranleigh. They all stay for an afternoon costume ball. Tegan teaches others how to do the Charleston, and Adric eats, but The Doctor finds himself searching through secret passageways in his bathrobe after the...
 
Mar. 2, 1982
Black Orchid: Part Two
Ann escapes her Harlequin-clad abductor but it's The Doctor whom she accuses. Strangled bodies mount and The Doctor is arrested along with "accessories" Tegan, Nyssa and Adric. Will Lady Cranleigh's secret come out?
 
Mar. 8, 1982
Earthshock: Part 1
Arriving in an underground cave system on Earth in the 26th century, the Doctor, Adric, Tegan and Nyssa find themselves caught up in a military investigation of the disappearance of a scientific team led by Lieutenant Scott and Professor Kyle. Two dark figures are stalking the troopers in the underground caves. The Doctor and his companions offer to help, but Scott thinks the Doctor to be behind the murders.
 
Mar. 9, 1982
Earthshock: Part 2
The Doctor, his companions and the troopers are under attack by two androids that seem to be defending a hatch in the cave wall. Adric wanders out of the TARDIS and with his help the troopers manage to destroy the androids. The Doctor and Adric open the hatch to discover a bomb. They deactivate it but a source of transmission is coming from somewhere. The Doctor's enemy, the Cybermen, are behind the plantation of bomb. Meanwhile, in outer space, a freighter is being inspected by Earth security forces while replenishing its supplies and crew. The TARDIS materializes on...
 
Mar. 15, 1982
Earthshock: Part 3
The Doctor and Adric are escorted to meet Captain Briggs, a middle-aged women who is concerned about the bonus of delivering the cargo on time. Scott and Kyle start to worry about the Doctor, and Tegan leaves the TARDIS with Scott and his remaining soldiers to search the freighter. The Cyberleader decides it is time to take over the freighter and a unit of cybermen is activated, outnumbering a blockade set up under orders from Briggs. Ringway, one of bridge crew, announces that he now works for the cybermen, having grown tired of Briggs. Ringway is surprised that the ...
 
Mar. 16, 1982
Earthshock: Part 4
The Cyberman have taken over the bridge and they fit a device to the freighter's computer which locks it on course to collide with Earth. The resulting explosion will be so devastating that the entire planet will be annihilated. Tegan gets separated from Scott and his men and is captured. The Doctor argues with the Cyberleader how emotions have their uses, and the Cyberleader responses that emotions are a disadvantage, as he only has to threaten to kill Tegan for the Doctor to obey him. The Doctor and Doberman leave in the TARDIS, leaving Adric, Scott, Briggs and ...
 
Mar. 22, 1982
Time-Flight: Part 1
A British Airways Concord disappears on final approach. The Doctor, still reeling from the loss of Adric, becomes involved when his TARDIS miss-fires from its intended destination of London 1851 and appears at Heathrow airport. The Doctor follows the lost plane into the deep past only to discover he is part of an illusion. This forces him to ask the question: if there is an illusion, who is the conjurer?
 
Mar. 23, 1982
Time-Flight: Part 2
The Doctor's TARDIS is stolen, and tracking it down reveals the existence of an alien named Kalid controlling events in the past. While the Doctor challenges Kalid's motives for being there, Tegan and Nyssa discover the source of Kalid's power - an even greater threat for the Doctor.
 
Mar. 29, 1982
Time-Flight: Part 3
The Master commandeers the Doctor's TARDIS, leaving the stranded Time Lord time to work out the mystery of the alien sanctum he's been trying to enter. Inside lies an immense power - the entire Xeraphin race, thought long lost but distilled into a single living essence, ready for rebirth but now suffering a dual gestalt personality, good versus bad, thanks to the Master's meddling with it. As the two Xeraphin halves enter into a struggle for dominance of the whole, the Doctor works for a favorable outcome before the Master can succeed at turning them into his new ...
 
Mar. 30, 1982
Time-Flight: Part 4
Incorporating the Xeraphin race into his TARDIS power system, the Master has won, but technical obstacles and a bit of sabotage from friendlies give the Doctor a bargaining chip for the lives of the hijacked and enslaved airline passengers and crews - with maybe, just maybe, some hope for the Xeraphin race as well.
 

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