Mawdryn Undead

Mawdryn Undead is the third serial of the <a href="/facts/Doctor_Who_(season_20)/eEuBGx36">20th season</a> of the British <a href="/facts/Science_fiction_television/sxtqpWqe">science fiction television</a> series <a href="/facts/Doctor_Who/R7X9rdLc">Doctor Who</a>. It was originally broadcast in four twice weekly parts on <a href="/facts/BBC_One/t4SaSm6X">BBC1</a> from 1 to 9 February 1983.
The serial is set in an English boarding school and a spaceship above the <a href="/facts/Earth/HLLmDfj0">Earth</a> in 1977 and 1983. In the serial, the scientist Mawdryn (<a href="/facts/David_Collings/qokPcng6">David Collings</a>), whose people on board the ship have been afflicted by a mutation that constantly causes their bodies to renew themselves, seeks to die using the <a href="/facts/Regeneration_(Doctor_Who)/TCgrsSqh">regenerative</a> abilities of the alien <a href="/facts/Time_travel_in_fiction/eFPul7mY">time traveller</a> the <a href="/facts/Fifth_Doctor/g3Ax1AFm">Fifth Doctor</a> (<a href="/facts/Peter_Davison/uczed7fA">Peter Davison</a>) to stop this process and allow them to die.
Mawdryn Undead is the first of three loosely connected serials in which the <a href="/facts/List_of_Doctor_Who_villains/wbV89AA0">Black Guardian</a> (<a href="/facts/Valentine_Dyall/LVaDjzw4">Valentine Dyall</a>) attempts to compel the alien <a href="/facts/Vislor_Turlough/JMl2RAC2">Vislor Turlough</a> (<a href="/facts/Mark_Strickson/cLcIbT2K">Mark Strickson</a>) to kill the Doctor, and it introduces Turlough as a regular character. <a href="/facts/Nicholas_Courtney/ooxsJoSK">Nicholas Courtney</a> is reintroduced as <a href="/facts/Brigadier_Lethbridge-Stewart/HIImkHPA">Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart</a>, who was last seen in the series in the 1975 serial <a href="/facts/Terror_of_the_Zygons/1YRyKFuH">Terror of the Zygons</a>.

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