Season 23

Season 23 of Doctor Who aired between September 1986 and December 1986. This season starred Colin Baker as the Sixth Doctor, Nicola Bryant as Peri and Bonnie Langford as Mel.

Overview
After the mixed reception to Colin Baker's Sixth Doctor from Season 22, John Nathan-Turner realised that he would have to make the Doctor slightly less arrogant and a bit more likeable for the next season. What's worse, the show was literally on trial for its life, since the BBC were starting to realise that the general public weren't too keen on watching their favourite sci-fi show be burned to the ground by the behind-the-scenes immature bickering between JNT and Eric Saward. In a stroke of genius, he decided to translate this trial into the season arc for Season 23, and he concocted The Trial of a Time Lord, quite literally putting the Doctor on trial for the duration of the season. To give credit where credit is due, the format is interesting. The Doctor and several extras in Time Lord robes are watching the events of the stories from a courtroom setting throughout the season, and we as the audience are never certain whether what we are seeing on-screen is what actually happened. Sadly, like many aspects of 80s Doctor Who, a promising start degenerates into a disappointing ending that throws a dozen good ideas in the bin in favour of mediocrity.

Episodes

 * The Mysterious Planet
 * Mindwarp
 * Terror of the Vervoids
 * The Ultimate Foe