5.6/10589 votes#1 - Time and the Rani (1)
Season 24 Episode 1 - Aired 9/7/1987
The alien world of Lakertya. With the aid of the savage Tetraps, the Rani has conquered this planet to allow her to continue her depraved biochemical experiments. But she finds herself needing the Doctor's assistance...
Director: Andrew Morgan
Writer: Pip Baker, Jane Baker
5.5/10533 votes#2 - Time and the Rani (2)
Season 24 Episode 2 - Aired 9/14/1987
The Rani's impersonation of Mel backfires badly because Urak can't tell the difference, while the Doctor attempts to learn the secret of the Loyhargil.
Director: Andrew Morgan
Writer: Pip Baker, Jane Baker
5.3/10516 votes#3 - Time and the Rani (3)
Season 24 Episode 3 - Aired 9/21/1987
The solstice nears, making it time for the Rani to bring her plans into fruition. The Doctor's sympathies for Beyus, ruler of the Lykertyans, are rather qualified. Beyus' heart is for his people yet something prompts him to collaborate fully in helping the Rani reach all her objectives. The answer, he's told, lies within the Center of Leisure.
Director: Andrew Morgan
Writer: Pip Baker, Jane Baker
5.4/10526 votes#4 - Time and the Rani (4)
Season 24 Episode 4 - Aired 9/28/1987
The Rani, at last, links the Doctor into her great brain machine, the crowning jewel in her component packet of geniuses brought together to turn Lakertya itself into one vast cerebral mass capable of redirecting time anywhere in the universe, giving her absolute power over all creation.
Director: Andrew Morgan
Writer: Pip Baker, Jane Baker
6.3/10561 votes#5 - Paradise Towers (1)
Season 24 Episode 5 - Aired 10/5/1987
The legendary Paradise Towers is supposed to be the height of luxury but when the Doctor and Mel arrive, they find it is as far from paradise as possible...
Director: Nicholas Mallett
Writer: Stephen Wyatt
6.3/10499 votes#6 - Paradise Towers (2)
Season 24 Episode 6 - Aired 10/12/1987
With the Doctor condemned to death by the caretakers and their bizarre rulebook, Mel faces cannibalistic OAPS. Is Pex going to be the true hero of Paradise Towers ?
Director: Nicholas Mallett
Writer: Stephen Wyatt
6.3/10490 votes#7 - Paradise Towers (3)
Season 24 Episode 7 - Aired 10/19/1987
Mel and Pex play cat and mouse with the lethal cleaner robots while the Doctor and the surviving Kangs learn all about Kroagnon the Great Architect.
Director: Nicholas Mallett
Writer: Stephen Wyatt
6.2/10498 votes#8 - Paradise Towers (4)
Season 24 Episode 8 - Aired 10/26/1987
Meeting up at the pool, the Doctor leads the surviving Rezzies, Kangs and Caretakers as they draw the line together on the 245th floor against the systematic cleansing of all life by Kroagnon and his robotic Cleaners.
Director: Nicholas Mallett
Writer: Stephen Wyatt
5.9/10550 votes#9 - Delta and the Bannermen (1)
Season 24 Episode 9 - Aired 11/2/1987
Wales, 1959. A top-secret US satellite has mysteriously gone missing. This could have something to do with the arrival of a party of alien tourists en route to Disneyland, amongst their number Mel and the Doctor, and the Queen of the Chimerons - who's fleeing the Bannermen and their genocidal leader Gavrok...
Director: Chris Clough
Writer: Malcolm Kohll
5.7/10495 votes#10 - Delta and the Bannermen (2)
Season 24 Episode 10 - Aired 11/9/1987
Mel's just discovered something very interesting about the life cycle of her new friend and the Doctor has been cornered by an alien bounty hunter wearing blue suede shoes.
Director: Chris Clough
Writer: Malcolm Kohll
5.7/10504 votes#11 - Delta and the Bannermen (3)
Season 24 Episode 11 - Aired 11/16/1987
As Billy and Ray do what they can to help save Delta and the baby, the Doctor and Goronwy the beekeeper face Gavrok and his Bannermen one last time...
Director: Chris Clough
Writer: Malcolm Kohll
6.4/10537 votes#12 - Dragonfire (1)
Season 24 Episode 12 - Aired 11/23/1987
The deep-space trading post of Iceworld, the far future. The Doctor, Mel, their old friend Glitz and time-lost waitress Ace go in search of a fabulous treasure, supposedly guarded by a fire-breathing dragon. But what is the link between the treasure and Iceworld's proprietor, the frosty Mr Kane?
Director: Chris Clough
Writer: Ian Briggs
6.4/10496 votes#13 - Dragonfire (2)
Season 24 Episode 13 - Aired 11/30/1987
While Mel and Ace run from Glitz's former crewmen (whom he sold to Kane), officers Belazs and Kracauer conspire to overthrow Kane. The Doctor, meanwhile, discovers there really is a dragon in the ice caverns, which turns out to be a bio-mechanoid with a very interesting function.
Director: Chris Clough
Writer: Ian Briggs
6.5/10504 votes#14 - Dragonfire (3)
Season 24 Episode 14 - Aired 12/7/1987
At last learning the location of the missing key to his spaceship, Kane has the dragon hunted down and Iceworld brutally purged of all visitors; but, the Doctor, visiting the Ice Garden, learns something significant that will put the chagrin on Kane's grand plans for home world vengeance.
Director: Chris Clough
Writer: Ian Briggs
The Best Episodes of Doctor Who Season 24
Every episode of Doctor Who Season 24 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Doctor Who Season 24!
The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores the universe in his TARDIS, a sentient time-traveling spaceship....
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Season 24 Ratings Summary
"Time and the Rani (1)" is the best rated episode of "Doctor Who" season 24. It scored 5.6/10 based on 589 votes. Directed by Andrew Morgan and written by Pip Baker, Jane Baker, it aired on 9/7/1987. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Time and the Rani (2)".