Doctor Who The Trial of a Time Lord
This season had a unique format, never again repeated in the show. 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.
01. The Trial of a Time Lord: Part 1
The Doctor is taken "out of time" by the Time Lords and made to face an inquiry into his meddling in the affairs of others, overseen by the Inquisitor. The prosecutor, the Valeyard, soon has the proceedings upgraded to a trial for the Doctor's life. Evidence takes the form of recordings of the Doctor's recent adventures, beginning with his visit to the mysterious world of Ravalox and an encounter with Andromedan space pirates...
Bonnie Langford
Melanie Bush
Nicola Bryant
Perpugilliam "Peri" Brown
Lynda Bellingham
The Inquisitor
Colin Baker
The Doctor
Michael Jayston
The Valeyard
02. The Trial of a Time Lord: Part 2
The Doctor has an appointment with the Immortal, while Peri finds herself caught up with Glitz and the Tribe of the Free. Meanwhile, Merdeen begins to question all he believes.
Bonnie Langford
Melanie Bush
Nicola Bryant
Perpugilliam "Peri" Brown
Lynda Bellingham
The Inquisitor
Colin Baker
The Doctor
Michael Jayston
The Valeyard
03. The Trial of a Time Lord: Part 3
The Doctor escapes to rejoin Peri on the surface but shortly becomes the prisoner of a surface-dwelling tribe called The Free. Ravalox isn't Ravalox after all, but before the Doctor can learn much more an irresistible agent from UK Habitat comes to fetch him back.
Nicola Bryant
Perpugilliam "Peri" Brown
Bonnie Langford
Melanie Bush
Lynda Bellingham
The Inquisitor
Colin Baker
The Doctor
Michael Jayston
The Valeyard
04. The Trial of a Time Lord: Part 4
All those on Ravolox are in exponentially greater peril than anyone can comprehend. If anything in the entire universe is to survive, it may come down to the Doctor arguing against machine logic over the value of life.
Bonnie Langford
Melanie Bush
Nicola Bryant
Perpugilliam "Peri" Brown
Lynda Bellingham
The Inquisitor
Colin Baker
The Doctor
Michael Jayston
The Valeyard
05. The Trial of a Time Lord: Part 5
The Doctor's trial continues. The Valeyard's next piece of evidence for the prosecution concerns the Doctor's recent trip to Thoros Beta. Though originally investigating arms dealing, the Doctor and Peri become embroiled in their old enemy Sil's alarming neurological experiments...
Nicola Bryant
Perpugilliam "Peri" Brown
Bonnie Langford
Melanie Bush
Alibe Parsons
Matrona Kani
Lynda Bellingham
The Inquisitor
Colin Baker
The Doctor
Michael Jayston
The Valeyard
Philip Martin
Writer
Ron Jones
Director
Jim Stephens
Editorial Services
Richard Hartley
Original Music Composer
06. The Trial of a Time Lord: Part 6
The scientist Crozier keeps making empty promises and Yrcanos and Peri are seemingly betrayed by the addled Doctor who is sure the Matrix is being manipulated...
Bonnie Langford
Melanie Bush
Nicola Bryant
Perpugilliam "Peri" Brown
Alibe Parsons
Matrona Kani
Lynda Bellingham
The Inquisitor
Colin Baker
The Doctor
Michael Jayston
The Valeyard
Philip Martin
Writer
Ron Jones
Director
Jim Stephens
Editorial Services
Richard Hartley
Original Music Composer
07. The Trial of a Time Lord: Part 7
While the Doctor helps Dr. Crozier transfer Lord Kiv's brain into a new host skull, Peri accompanies King Yrcanos as he searches for the Alpha Resistance fighters whom he feels, most certainly, will follow him into glorious battle against the Mentors and the Doctor.
Nicola Bryant
Perpugilliam "Peri" Brown
Bonnie Langford
Melanie Bush
Lynda Bellingham
The Inquisitor
Colin Baker
The Doctor
Michael Jayston
The Valeyard
Philip Martin
Writer
Ron Jones
Director
Jim Stephens
Editorial Services
Richard Hartley
Original Music Composer
08. The Trial of a Time Lord: Part 8
As the Possidor Ambassador visits, Sil is appalled to realise Crozier has selected Peri to be the Kiv's new host body - a move Yrcanos takes exception to with devastating results.
Nicola Bryant
Perpugilliam "Peri" Brown
Bonnie Langford
Melanie Bush
Lynda Bellingham
The Inquisitor
Colin Baker
The Doctor
Michael Jayston
The Valeyard
Philip Martin
Writer
Ron Jones
Director
Jim Stephens
Editorial Services
Richard Hartley
Original Music Composer
09. The Trial of a Time Lord: Part 9
With the prosecution case concluded, at last the Doctor is able to present his evidence. It takes place in the future with a new companion and new problems.
Nicola Bryant
Perpugilliam "Peri" Brown
Bonnie Langford
Melanie Bush
Lynda Bellingham
The Inquisitor
Colin Baker
The Doctor
Michael Jayston
The Valeyard
10. The Trial of a Time Lord: Part 10
As the Hyperion III continues its journey, more mysterious deaths occur.
Nicola Bryant
Perpugilliam "Peri" Brown
Bonnie Langford
Melanie Bush
Lynda Bellingham
The Inquisitor
Colin Baker
The Doctor
Michael Jayston
The Valeyard
11. The Trial of a Time Lord: Part 11
A course change that takes the Hyperion III closer to a black hole could prove unwise when there are so many aboard ship with hidden agendas. Disappearances continue, a murderer remains at large, and one person finally crumbles under the strain of harbouring a guilty secret.
Nicola Bryant
Perpugilliam "Peri" Brown
Bonnie Langford
Melanie Bush
Lynda Bellingham
The Inquisitor
Colin Baker
The Doctor
Michael Jayston
The Valeyard
12. The Trial of a Time Lord: Part 12
With factions vying for control of the ship, the Vervoids are found to be responsible for the many disappearances. Only the Doctor sees the fundamental but missed point as to why they can't be reasoned with or why they can't be allowed to arrive on Earth.
Bonnie Langford
Melanie Bush
Nicola Bryant
Perpugilliam "Peri" Brown
Lynda Bellingham
The Inquisitor
Colin Baker
The Doctor
Michael Jayston
The Valeyard
13. The Trial of a Time Lord: Part 13
The Valeyard's true identity is revealed and the trial aborted, but the Doctor and Mel must pursue his new enemy into the Matrix itself, where nothing is quite what is seems…
Nicola Bryant
Perpugilliam "Peri" Brown
Bonnie Langford
Melanie Bush
Lynda Bellingham
The Inquisitor
Anthony Ainley
The Master
Colin Baker
The Doctor
Michael Jayston
The Valeyard
14. The Trial of a Time Lord: Part 14
The final part of this epic adventure. The Doctor and the Valeyard have entered the world of the Matrix. Can the Doctor defeat the evil incarnation of himself ?
Nicola Bryant
Perpugilliam "Peri" Brown
Bonnie Langford
Melanie Bush
Lynda Bellingham
The Inquisitor
Anthony Ainley
The Master
Colin Baker
The Doctor
Michael Jayston
The Valeyard