| "The Five Doctors" | |
|---|---|
| Series Doctor Who Season 20, Episode 23 | |
| File:Doctor Who 20x23 001.jpg | |
| Air date | November 23rd, 1983 |
| Writers | David Fisher Douglas Adams Graham Williams |
| Director | Michael Hayes |
| Producers | Graham Williams |
| Starring | Tom Baker; Lalla Ward |
| Episode guide | |
| Previous "The King's Demons (Part 2)" |
Next "Warriors of the Deep (Part 1)" |
"The Five Doctors" is the 23rd episode in series 20 of Doctor Who. The episodes originally aired on BBC1 from November 23rd, 1983. It was directed by Michael Hayes and written by David Fisher, Douglas Adams and Graham Williams, all credited under the single pseudonym of David Agnew. In this episode, Scaroth captures Romana and blackmails her into completing Kerensky's work on his time machine. The Doctor fails to prevent him from activating it, and must follow him back to Earth's primordial past to stop him from preventing the development of the human race.