Season 8

Season 8 of Doctor Who ran between January 1971 and June 1971. This season starred Jon Pertwee as the Third Doctor, Katy Manning as Jo, Nicholas Courtney as the Brigadier and Roger Delgado as the Master. This season also featured recurring characters Captain Yates and Sergeant Benton.

Overview
This season was a milestone for Doctor Who as it featured the first recurring Time Lord character in the series, The Master. Season 8 also expanded the UNIT cast and gave the organisation a bit more to do other than fire blanks at the monster of the week. The BBC still didn't have the budget to create alien planets, so the Doctor is once again confined to Earth. The BBC did, however, inexplicably have the budget for a variety of super-spy vehicles that the Doctor would regularly ride, probably as a means of bulking out this season's popular run of action figures that didn't exist.

Episodes

 * Terror of the Autons
 * The Mind of Evil
 * The Claws of Axos
 * Colony in Space
 * The Dæmons