- 6.3/10556 votes
#1 - The Dominators (1)
Season 6 Episode 1 - Aired 8/10/1968
The TARDIS arrives on the planet Dulkis where the Doctor, Zoe and Jamie decide to have a quiet holiday. Only to find the Evil Dominators and their robotic slaves, The Quarks have arrived on a radioactive island, where they plan to detonate a bomb in the planet's core, which will turn the entire planet as source of radioactive fuel for their invasion fleet.
Director: Morris Barry
Writer: Henry Lincoln, Mervyn Haisman
- 6.2/10496 votes
#2 - The Dominators (2)
Season 6 Episode 2 - Aired 8/17/1968
The Doctor and Jamie are captured by the Dominators, who subject them to an intelligence test, while Zoe and Cully attempt to convince the Dulcian council of the threat.
Director: Morris Barry
Writer: Henry Lincoln, Mervyn Haisman
- 6.0/10497 votes
#3 - The Dominators (3)
Season 6 Episode 3 - Aired 8/24/1968
Zoe and Cully are captured by the Dominators and put to work alongside the survey team while the Doctor and Jamie decide to return to the island to help.
Director: Morris Barry
Writer: Henry Lincoln, Mervyn Haisman
- 6.0/10494 votes
#4 - The Dominators (4)
Season 6 Episode 4 - Aired 8/31/1968
The Doctor and Zoe are interrogated by Rago, who is planning to present his terms to the Dulcian council, while Jamie and Cully try to find a way to strike back against the Quarks.
Director: Morris Barry
Writer: Henry Lincoln, Mervyn Haisman
- 6.1/10498 votes
#5 - The Dominators (5)
Season 6 Episode 5 - Aired 9/7/1968
Jamie and Cully manage to rescue the Doctor's party and together they try to find a way to stop the Dominators before they destroy the entire planet.
Director: Morris Barry
Writer: Henry Lincoln, Mervyn Haisman
- 7.9/10751 votes
#6 - The Mind Robber (1)
Season 6 Episode 6 - Aired 9/14/1968
The TARDIS arrives in a white void, having made an emergency take-off to escape the volcanic eruption on Dulkis. The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe find themselves in the Land of Fiction, where characters from the imagination come to life, and The Master, the mysterious ruler, chooses the Doctor to take his place.
Director: David Maloney
Writer: Derrick Sherwin
- 7.8/10668 votes
#7 - The Mind Robber (2)
Season 6 Episode 7 - Aired 9/21/1968
With the TARDIS destroyed, the Doctor, Jamie and Zoe find themselves in a strange forest patrolled by mysterious soldiers.
Director: David Maloney
Writer: Peter Ling
- 7.7/10647 votes
#8 - The Mind Robber (3)
Season 6 Episode 8 - Aired 9/28/1968
The Doctor realises that the travellers are trapped in a world where fiction is real and where creatures are a threat if people believe in them.
Director: David Maloney
Writer: Peter Ling
- 7.6/10643 votes
#9 - The Mind Robber (4)
Season 6 Episode 9 - Aired 10/5/1968
The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe reach the citadel at the centre of the land, where they finally encounter the Master of the Land of Fiction.
Director: David Maloney
Writer: Peter Ling
- 7.8/10668 votes
#10 - The Mind Robber (5)
Season 6 Episode 10 - Aired 10/12/1968
With Jamie and Zoe having been turned into fiction, the Doctor must find a way to save them without suffering the same fate or becoming part of the Master Brain.
Director: David Maloney
Writer: Peter Ling
- 7.8/10597 votes
#11 - The Invasion (1)
Season 6 Episode 11 - Aired 11/2/1968
The Doctor and the newly formed UNIT must stop a Cybermen Invasion and a Sinister Industrialist in league with them
Director: Douglas Camfield
Writer: Derrick Sherwin
- 7.9/10561 votes
#12 - The Invasion (2)
Season 6 Episode 12 - Aired 11/9/1968
The Doctor and Jamie are taken prisoner by their mysterious observers and have a reunion with an old friend while Zoe and Isobel carry out their own investigation of IE.
Director: Douglas Camfield
Writer: Derrick Sherwin
- 7.7/10553 votes
#13 - The Invasion (3)
Season 6 Episode 13 - Aired 11/16/1968
The Doctor and Jamie return to the IE factory in search of Zoe and Isobel, where they meet with Professor Watkins and fall foul of Vaughn.
Director: Douglas Camfield
Writer: Derrick Sherwin
- 7.8/10537 votes
#14 - The Invasion (4)
Season 6 Episode 14 - Aired 11/23/1968
The Doctor and Jamie enlist the help of UNIT to rescue Zoe and Isobel before trying to find out what Vaughn is really up to.
Director: Douglas Camfield
Writer: Derrick Sherwin
- 7.9/10552 votes
#15 - The Invasion (5)
Season 6 Episode 15 - Aired 11/30/1968
The Doctor and Jamie tell the Brigadier about the Cybermen but with Rutledge under Vaughn's control he is powerless to act.
Director: Douglas Camfield
Writer: Derrick Sherwin
- 8.0/10548 votes
#16 - The Invasion (6)
Season 6 Episode 16 - Aired 12/7/1968
Captain Turner manages to rescue Jamie and the others, while the Doctor begins working on a way to protect everyone from the Cybermen's hypno-sound signal.
Director: Douglas Camfield
Writer: Derrick Sherwin
- 8.0/10545 votes
#17 - The Invasion (7)
Season 6 Episode 17 - Aired 12/14/1968
With the entire world unconscious apart from the Doctor and his friends, the Cybermen are poised to invade and only Zoe, the Brigadier and a missile crew can stop them.
Director: Douglas Camfield
Writer: Derrick Sherwin
- 8.1/10561 votes
#18 - The Invasion (8)
Season 6 Episode 18 - Aired 12/21/1968
The Cybermen have launched their deadly megatron bomb which will destroy all life on Earth unless the Doctor can deactivate the homing signal.
Director: Douglas Camfield
Writer: Derrick Sherwin
- 6.6/10522 votes
#19 - The Krotons (1)
Season 6 Episode 19 - Aired 12/28/1968
When the TARDIS arrives on the planet of the Gonds, the Doctor, Jamie and Zoe discover a world ruled and enslaved by the Krotons. The brightest Gonds are always chosen to serve as companions of the Krotons and are never seen again...
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.5/10477 votes
#20 - The Krotons (2)
Season 6 Episode 20 - Aired 1/4/1969
Zoe is selected as a companion for the Krotons and the Doctor insists on joining her.
Director: David Maloney
Writer: Robert Holmes
- 6.3/10477 votes
#21 - The Krotons (3)
Season 6 Episode 21 - Aired 1/11/1969
Jamie is held prisoner by the Krotons who intend to recapture the Doctor and Zoe for their mental energy.
Director: David Maloney
Writer: Robert Holmes
- 6.4/10480 votes
#22 - The Krotons (4)
Season 6 Episode 22 - Aired 1/18/1969
Selris succeeds in drawing the Krotons out of the Dynatrope but Eelek agrees to hand the Doctor and Zoe over to them in return for their leaving the planet.
Director: David Maloney
Writer: Robert Holmes
- 7.2/10586 votes
#23 - The Seeds of Death (1)
Season 6 Episode 23 - Aired 1/25/1969
21st century Earth is entirely dependent on the T-Mat transport system but the control centre on the moon has stopped functioning. Meanwhile, the Doctor, Jamie and Zoe meet the one man who can solve the crisis.
Director: Michael Ferguson
Writer: Terrance Dicks, Brian Hayles
- 7.1/10533 votes
#24 - The Seeds of Death (2)
Season 6 Episode 24 - Aired 2/1/1969
Eldred agrees to supply a rocket for travel to the moon and the Doctor, Jamie and Zoe volunteer to crew it.
Director: Michael Ferguson
Writer: Brian Hayles
- 7.1/10533 votes
#25 - The Seeds of Death (3)
Season 6 Episode 25 - Aired 2/8/1969
The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe make it to the moon and join forces with Phipps but the Ice Warriors have gained control of T-mat.
Director: Michael Ferguson
Writer: Brian Hayles
The Best Episodes of Doctor Who Season 6
Every episode of Doctor Who Season 6 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Doctor Who Season 6!
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 6 Ratings Summary
"The Dominators (1)" is the best rated episode of "Doctor Who" season 6. It scored 6.3/10 based on 556 votes. Directed by Morris Barry and written by Henry Lincoln, Mervyn Haisman, it aired on 8/10/1968. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "The Dominators (2)".