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Underworld (Doctor Who)

1978 Doctor Who serial

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 20, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Underworld is the fifth serial of the 15th season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts on BBC1 from 7 to 28 January 1978.

Editorial summary

“Underworld (Doctor Who)” enters the record as 1978 Doctor Who serial. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Underworld, Doctor and serial can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1978—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Underworld, Doctor and serial.
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“Underworld (Doctor Who)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Underworld, Doctor and serial provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 20, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1978.

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This entry incorporates text from “Underworld (Doctor Who)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.