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{{Short description|1966/67 seasonSeason of DoctorBritish TV sci-fi series Who(1966–1967)}}
{{About|the 1966–67 season|the 2008 series|Doctor Who (series 4){{!}}''Doctor Who'' series 4}}
{{Use British English|date=January 2012}}
{{Infobox television season
| season_number = 4
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| image = File:Doctor Who Season 4 DVD.jpg
| caption = Cover art of the soundtrack release for first serial of the season
| starring = {{Unbulleted list|[[William Hartnell]]|[[Anneke Wills]]|[[Michael Craze]]|[[Patrick Troughton]]|[[Frazer Hines]]|[[Deborah Watling]]}}
| num_stories = 9▼
| country = United Kingdom
| num_episodes = 43 ([[Doctor Who missing episodes|33 missing]])
▲| num_stories = 9
| num_episodes network = 43 ([[DoctorBBC Who missing episodesOne|33 missingBBC1]])
| last_aired first_aired = {{endstart date|19671966|79|0110|df=y}}▼
| network = [[BBC One|BBC1]]
| first_aired last_aired = {{startend date|19661967|97|1001|df=y}}
| episode_list = List of Doctor Who episodes (1963–1989)▼
▲| last_aired = {{end date|1967|7|01|df=y}}
▲| episode_list = List of Doctor Who episodes (1963–1989)
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The fourth season of [[British television|British]] [[science fiction on television|science fiction television]] series ''[[Doctor Who]]'' began on 10 September 1966 with the [[First Doctor]] ([[William Hartnell]]) story ''[[The Smugglers]]'' and, after a change of lead actor ([[Patrick Troughton]]) part-way through the series, ended on 1 July 1967 with ''[[The Evil of the Daleks]]''. For the first time, the entire main cast changed over the course of a single season (the only other occasionoccasions this has happened is during [[Doctor Who (season 18)|Season 18]] and [[Doctor Who (season 21)|Season 21]]).
 
Only 10 out of 43 episodes survive in the BBC archives; 33 [[Doctor Who missing episodes|remain missing]]. No serials in this season exist in their entirety. However, ''[[The Tenth Planet]]'', ''[[The Power of the Daleks]]'', ''[[The Underwater Menace]]'', ''[[The Moonbase]]'', ''[[The Macra Terror]]'', ''[[The Faceless Ones]]'' and ''[[The Evil of the Daleks]]'' have currently had their missing episodes (twenty five in total) reconstructed with animation and subsequently have been released on home media.
 
== Casting ==
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[[William Hartnell]] appears as the [[First Doctor]] for the first two full serials before being succeeded in the role by [[Patrick Troughton]] as the [[Second Doctor]] for the remaining seven stories.
 
[[Anneke Wills]] and [[Michael Craze]] continue their roles as [[Ben and Polly (Doctor Who)|Polly]] and [[Ben Jackson (Doctor Who)|Ben]] respectively. They are shortly joined by [[Frazer Hines]] playing [[Jamie McCrimmon]] in ''[[The Highlanders (Doctor Who)|The Highlanders]]''. Polly and Ben depart in the penultimate story ''[[The Faceless Ones]]'', and at the end of the season [[Deborah Watling]] makes her debut as [[Victoria Waterfield]] in ''[[The Evil of the Daleks]]''.
 
== Serials ==
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''The Power of the Daleks'' was the first [[Dalek]] story to use the traditional ''...of the Daleks'' title form. Of the nine subsequent Dalek serials, only ''[[Death to the Daleks]]'' from [[Doctor Who (season 11)|Season 11]] was not named in this way. The naming convention for Dalek stories was first used in the revived series with "[[Evolution of the Daleks]]" in [[Doctor Who (series 3)|Series 3]].
 
While each of the other seasons produced in black and white have at least two serials completely intact (all serials from the transition to colour onwards have surviving copies in the BBC archive), noneNone of the nine serials from Season 4 are complete in the BBC archive, with four (''The Smugglers'', ''The Power of the Daleks'', ''The Highlanders'' and ''The Macra Terror'') each having all of their episodes missing; of the total of 43 episodes between "Episode 1" of ''The Smugglers'' and "Episode 7" of ''The Evil of the Daleks'', only 10 are currently in the BBC archive. The most complete serial of the season, ''The Tenth Planet'', is missing only its last episode; this serial, as well as ''The Power of the Daleks'', ''The Moonbase'', ''The Macra Terror'', ''The Faceless Ones'' and ''The Evil of the Daleks'' have had their missing elements recreated with animated episodes using the original soundtrack. Animations for Season 5 serials ''The Web of Fear'' and ''Fury from the Deep'' have also been released. The fully animated serials are presented in both colour and black and white formats, while ''The Tenth Planet'' and ''The Moonbase'' animations are presented exclusively in black and white.
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| ShortSummary = The Doctor’s new companions [[Ben Jacksonand Polly (Doctor Who)|Ben]] and [[Polly (Doctor Who)|Polly]] arrive with him in the [[TARDIS]] on the coast of seventeenth-century [[Cornwall]], where a group of pirates are searching for treasure.
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| DirectedBy = [[Christopher Barry]]
| WrittenBy = [[David Whitaker (screenwriter)|David Whitaker]] and [[Dennis Spooner]] (uncredited)
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*''The Power of the Daleks'' – All 6 episodes (Animated recreations exist)
*''The Highlanders'' – All 4 episodes
*''The Underwater Menace'' – Episodes 1 & 4 (of 4 total) (Animated recreations exist<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.doctorwho.tv/news-and-features/missing-adventure-the-underwater-menace-to-be-animated-in-2023|title=Missing adventure 'The Underwater Menace' to be animated in 2023 &#124; Doctor Who|website=www.doctorwho.tv}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Doctor Who: The Underwater Menace Limited Edition Blu-ray Steelbook {{!}} Blu-ray Steelbook {{!}} Free shipping over £20 |url=https://hmv.com/store/film-tv/blu-ray/doctor-who-the-underwater-menace-steelbook |access-date=2023-09-23 |website=HMV Store |language=en-GB}}</ref>)
*''The Underwater Menace'' – Episodes 1 & 4 (of 4 total)
*''The Moonbase'' – Episodes 1 & 3 (of 4 total) (Animated recreations exist)
*''The Macra Terror'' – All 4 episodes (Animated recreations exist)
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== Home media ==
{{see also|List of Doctor Who home video releases|List of other Doctor Who home video releases}}
 
=== VHS releases ===
{{#lst:List of other Doctor Who home video releases|VHSSeason4}}
 
=== DVD and Blu-ray releases ===
{{#lst:List of Doctor Who home video releases|Season4}}
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