I have to say, I came into this season with high hopes because this seems to be a slice of the show that Classic Who fans like a lot, but it absolutely blew my expectations out of the water. I've added the The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy franchise to my list of things to tackle because I particularly enjoyed Douglas Adams' contributions to this season both as script editor and as a writer. In all honesty, it's probably one of my favorite seasons of the show and I think it's Graham Williams' best season as producer even though it was apparently hell to make.

It's really encouraging that, six season in, the Fourth Doctor era still feels really fresh and exciting. This season marks the end of 1970s Doctor Who and it really went on on a high note, and overall I think it's the strongest decade of the show overall that I've watched so far. I'm very excited to see what the controversial 80's era will bring, even though that means I'll have to say goodbye to the Fourth Doctor soon. It's a bit unreal to think that I've watched so much Classic Who this year, and it's all been the Fourth Doctor era. Iconic.

Like the previous sixteen seasons, the serials are available to watch via streaming on Britbox, though I had to purchase Shada separately. This season had six stories (including Shada), and because I really loved this season overall it was very weird to rank it and some of my takes are, dare I say it, hot.

( I expect at some time in the future, about two hundred years time, someone will meet me and say, is that really the Doctor? He seemed such a nice old man. )