TOATL: The Ultimate Foe

This Story: Season 23, Story 1. Production Code 7C
Overall: Story 144, Episode 658-659
Airdates: 29 Nov 1986 – 6 Dec 1986
Written by Robert Holmes (Part 13) & Pip and Jake Baker (Part 14)
Directed by Chris Clough

Notes

• The final story for Colin Baker as the Sixth Doctor, as he was fired by BBC execs after the series was over.
• Officially the whole of Season 23 is a single story with 14 episodes.  As transmitted, “The Ultimate Foe” appears nowhere, it is officially all “The Trial of a Time Lord” episodes 1-14.  However, for brevity’s sake, I’m having separate pages for the four parts of the story, as they have individual directors, writers, and production codes (for the most part). All four parts (and 28 or so tweets) on a single page would be too much, I think.
• Both The Ultimate Foe and the previous part of Trial (Terror of the Vervoids) have the same production code (7C), as they were both directed by the same guy (Chris Clough), despite having different actors and sets (minus the Trial room), and whatnot.
• The final story to use any variant of the titles that began back in Tom Baker’s final series (Series 18).  The next series has a completely new title sequence.
• These tweets are longer than usual, and embedded tweets don’t show 100% of the text, so you’ll need to click through to read 100% of what I wrote.

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