1989 – the year of the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the year the Beastie Boys released the album Paul’s Boutique.

This is… The 4-episode serial which is the Seventh Doctor and the Second World War.
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1989 – the year of the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the year the Beastie Boys released the album Paul’s Boutique.

This is… The 4-episode serial which is the Seventh Doctor and the Second World War.
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1988 – the year that Public Enemy released the album It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, and the year that Sonic Youth released the album Daydream Nation.

This is… The 4-episode serial which is the Seventh Doctor and the Daleks.
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1987 – the year that Sonic Youth released the album Sister.

This is… The 3-episode serial which is the Seventh Doctor and a 1950s Welsh holiday camp.
1986 – the year that Iron Maiden released the album Somewhere in Time.

This is… The 14-episode serial that’s the Sixth Doctor’s second season.
1985 – the year that Kate Bush released the album Hounds of Love, that The Velvet Underground released the album VU.

This is… The 3-episode serial (each episode 45 minutes) that stars both the Sixth and Second Doctors.
1984 – the year that Lou Reed released the album New Sensations.

This is… The 4-episode serial that is the Fifth Doctor’s last story.
Review
The Rings of Akhaten

The Doctor: Okay, then. That’s what I’ll do. I’ll tell you a story.
Production Code: 3.7.
Doctor Who Season: S33 (Ep7).
Story Number: 233.
A new sort of Doctor Who…