Classic Who rating

With all the discussion (by Aggy and others) about "Doctor Who" ratings, when I came across a post in the Archives about Classic Who ratings, I thought it might be worth a re-post, so .........
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04/06/1992 04:11:14 UTC
I thought it would be fun in the light of a recent post about ratings
to post the ratings for every story of "Doctor Who."
These ratings are averages for all the episodes in the serial.
Season One (regular timeslot, Saturday evenings)
(season ran from 11-23-63 to 9-12-64, American date format,i.e. month first)
An Unearthly Child 5.9 million
The Daleks 9.0 million
The Edge of Destruction 10.2 million
Marco Polo 9.5 million
The Keys of Marinus 9.1 million
The Aztecs 7.5 million
The Sensorites 6.9 million
The Reign of Terror 6.7 million
Season Two (Saturday evenings) (from 10-31-64 to 7-24-65)
Planet of Giants 8.6 million
The Dalek Invasion of Earth 11.9 million
The Rescue 12.5 million
The Romans 11.6 million
The Web Planet 12.5 million
The Crusade 9.4 million
The Space Museum 9.2 million
The Chase 9.4 million
The Time Meddler 8.4 million
Season Three (Saturday evenings) (from 9-11-65 to 7-16-66)
Galaxy Four 9.9 million
Mission to the Unknown 8.3 million
The Myth Makers 8.3 million
The Daleks' Masterplan 9.4 million
The Massacre of St. Bartholemew's Eve 6.4 million
The Ark 6.5 million
The Celestial Toymaker 8.3 million
The Gunfighters 6.2 million
The Savages 4.9 million
The War Machines 5.2 million
Season Four (Saturday evenings) (from 9-10-66 to 7-1-67)
The Smugglers 4.5 million
The Tenth Planet 6.7 million
The Power of the Daleks 7.8 million
The Highlanders 7.0 million
The Underwater Menace 7.5 million
The Moonbase 8.3 million
The Macra Terror 8.2 million
The Faceless Ones 7.4 million
The Evil of the Daleks 6.4 million
Season Five (Saturday evenings) (from 9-2-67 to 6-1-68)
The Tomb of the Cybermen 6.8 million
The Abominable Snowmen 6.8 million
The Ice Warriors 7.3 million
The Enemy of the World 7.4 million
The Web of Fear 7.6 million
Fury from the Deep 7.2 million
The Wheel in Space 7.2 million
Season Six (Saturday evenings) (from 8-10-68 to 6-21-69)
The Dominators 6.2 million
The Mind Robber 6.9 million
The Invasion 6.9 million
The Krotons 8.0 million
The Seeds of Death 7.2 million
The Space Pirates 5.9 million
The War Games 4.9 million
Season Seven (Saturday evenings, now in color) (from 1-3-70 to 6-2-70)
Spearhead from Space 8.2 million
Doctor Who and the Silurians 7.7 million
The Ambassadors of Death 7.3 million
Inferno 5.6 million
Season Eight (Saturday evenings) (from 1-2-71 to 6-19-71)
Terror of the Autons 7.9 million
The Mind of Evil 8.0 million
The Claws of Axos 7.4 million
Colony in Space 8.5 million
The Daemons 8.3 million
Season Nine (Saturday evenings) (from 1-1-72 to 6-24-72)
Day of the Daleks 9.6 million
The Curse of Peladon 9.4 million
The Sea Devils 8.2 million
The Mutants 7.8 million
The Time Monster 7.4 million
Season Ten (Saturday evenings) (from 12-30-72 to 6-23-73)
The Three Doctors 10.3 million
Carnival of Monsters 9.2 million
Frontier in Space 8.0 million
Planet of the Daleks 9.7 million
The Green Death 7.7 million
Season Eleven (Saturday evenings) (from 12-15-73 to 4-27-74)
The Time Warrior 8.2 million
Invasion of the Dinosaurs 9.6 million
Death to the Daleks 9.4 million
The Monster of Peladon 7.7 million
Planet of the Spiders 9.0 million
Season Twelve (Saturday evenings) (from 12-28-74 to 5-10-75)
Robot 10.2 million
The Ark in Space 11.1 million
The Sontaran Experiment 10.7 million
Genesis of the Daleks 9.6 million
Revenge of the Cybermen 9.0 million
Season Thirteen (Saturday evenings) (from 8-30-75 to 3-6-76)
Terror of the Zygons 7.5 million
Planet of Evil 9.9 million
Pyramids of Mars 10.7 million
The Android Invasion 11.7 million
The Brain of Morbius 9.8 million
The Seeds of Doom 10.9 million
Season Fourteen (Saturday evenings) (from 9-4-76 to 4-2-77)
The Masque of Mandragora 9.5 million
The Hand of Fear 7.0 million
The Deadly Assassin 12.2 million
The Face of Evil 11.2 million
The Robots of Death 12.7 million
The Talons of Weng-Chiang 10.4 million
Season Fifteen (Saturday evenings) (from 9-3-77 to 3-11-78)
Horror of Fang Rock 8.4 million
The Invisible Enemy 7.9 million
Image of the Fendahl 7.8 million
The Sun Makers 8.8 million
Underworld 9.6 million
The Invasion of Time 10.5 million
Season Sixteen (Saturday evenings) (from 9-2-78 to 2-24-79)
The Ribos Operation 8.1 million
The Pirate Planet 8.3 million
The Stones of Blood 8.0 million
The Androids of Tara 9.1 million
The Power of Kroll 9.4 million
The Armageddon Factor 8.5 million
Season Seventeen (Saturday evenings) (from 9-1-79 to 1-12-80)
(Rival channel ITV was off the air for most of the season due to a strike by transmission tower workers, hence the inflated ratings. Seemed to be a good year for TV strikes.....)
Destiny of the Daleks 13.5 million
City of Death 14.5 million
The Creature from the Pit 10.0 million
Nightmare of Eden 9.3 million
The Horns of Nimon 9.3 million
Shada untransmitted
Season Eighteen (Saturday evenings) (from 8-30-80 to 3-21-81)
The Leisure Hive 5.1 million
Meglos 4.6 million
Full Circle 5.2 million
State of Decay 5.2 million
Warriors' Gate 7.5 million
The Keeper of Traken 6.2 million
Logopolis 6.7 million
Season Nineteen (twice weekly, Monday and Tuesday evenings) (from 1-4-82 to 3-30-82)
Castrovalva 9.9 million
Four to Doomsday 9.0 million
Kinda 9.0 million
The Visitation 9.8 million
Black Orchid 9.2 million
Earthshock 9.3 million
Time-Flight 9.0 million
Season Twenty (twice weekly, Monday and Wednesday evenings) (from 1-3-83 to 3-16-83)
Arc of Infinity 7.2 million
Snakedance 7.1 million
Mawdryn Undead 7.3 million
Terminus 7.1 million
Enlightenment 6.8 million
The King's Demons 6.5 million
The Five Doctors 7.7 million (11-25-83)
Season Twenty-One (twice weekly, Monday and Tuesday evenings) (from 1-5-84 to 3-30-84)
Warriors of the Deep 7.2 million
The Awakening 7.2 million
Frontios 6.8 million
Resurrection of the Daleks 7.6 million
Planet of Fire 7.0 million
The Caves of Androzani 7.3 million
The Twin Dilemma 7.1 million
Season Twenty-Two (45-minute episodes, Saturday evenings) (from 1-5-85 to 3-30-85)
Attack of the Cybermen 8.0 million
Vengeance on Varos 7.1 million
The Mark of the Rani 7.0 million
The Two Doctors 6.5 million
Timelash 7.0 million
Revelation of the Daleks 7.6 million
Season Twenty-Three (Saturday evenings) (from 9-6-86 to 12-6-86)
The Mysterious Planet 4.4 million
Mindwarp 4.9 million
Terror of the Vervoids 5.1 million
The Ultimate Foe 5.0 million
Season Twenty-Four (Monday evenings) (from 9-7-87 to 12-7-87)
Time and the Rani 4.6 million
Paradise Towers 4.9 million
Delta and the Bannermen 5.3 million
Dragonfire 5.1 million
Season Twenty-Five (Wednesday evenings) (from 10-5-88 to 1-4-89)
Remembrance of the Daleks 5.4 million
The Happiness Patrol 5.1 million
Silver Nemesis 5.5 million
The Greatest Show in the Galaxy 5.4 million
Season Twenty-Six (Wednesday evenings) (from 9-6-89 to 12-6-89)
Battlefield 3.6 million
Ghost Light 4.0 million
The Curse of Fenric 4.1 million
Survival 4.9 million
I think it is worth note that the series' ratings were very stable at around 7 or 8 million, until Michael Grade declared the 18-month hiatus,
and then cut the season length in half.
Also remember that Seasons 24-26 were slotted against "Coronation Street," the number one show on ITV ( a title it has held for many years now)
Season 23 was put on at a now-dead early Saturday slot, after "Roland the Rat." !
UK viewers please correct my double weekly dailies if they are inaccurate, I'm trying to figure out what day of the week those dates fall on.
Also note with interest how every time the season heads into summer, the ratings dip.
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Bookling at the quoted ratings, it would seem that the fall in Ratings was ON well before Chris Chibnall and JodieDoc arrived on the scene!! And interesting to see, in Series 17, when ITV was off-the-air, how the ratings picked up.
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Daniel