As of 2017, season 8 remains notable for being the season with the most number of regular characters.
It consisted of five stories and twenty-five episodes. The season opened with Terror of the Autons and concluded with The Dæmons. Mike Yates, John Levene as John Benton and Roger Delgado as the Master. It starred Jon Pertwee as the Third Doctor, Katy Manning as Jo Grant, Nicholas Courtney as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, Richard Franklin as Season 8 of Doctor Who ran between 2 January 1971 and 19 June 1971.
