358 The Time Warrior Part Three

EPISODE: The Time Warrior: Part Three
OVERALL EPISODE NUMBER: 358
STORY NUMBER: 070
TRANSMITTED: Saturday 29 December 1973
WRITER: Robert Holmes
DIRECTOR: Alan Bromly
SCRIPT EDITOR: Terrance Dicks
PRODUCER: Barry Letts
RATINGS: 6.6 million viewers
FORMAT: DVD: Doctor Who - The Time Warrior
EPISODE FORMAT: 625 video

"How fortunate that you have returned, Doctor. My failure to destroy you was the one thing that marred the pleasure of my approaching departure from this miserable planet!"

Hal shoots the axe out of Irongron's hand allowing he & Sarah to rescue the Doctor. They take him captive to Sir Edward's castle where the Doctor explains what is actually happening and that Linx is helping Irongron. Irongron attacks Sir Edward's castle but is repelled by the Doctor using a superior stink & smoke bomb. The Doctor & Sarah, disguised as wandering monks, sneak into Irongron's castle and into the dungeon where they are reunited with Professor Ruebish. While trying to revive & release the exhausted enslaved scientists so he can return them home the Doctor is captured by Linx who fires his weapon at him.

Or "Sarah learns she has jumped to the wrong conclusions". Won't be the last time either ;-)

SARAH: Now
DOCTOR: You've been getting around, Sarah. Are you on visiting terms with all the local nobility?
SARAH: Doctor, let's get a few things straight, shall we?
DOCTOR: Oh dear. You know, I'm afraid you're going to be awfully confused if you ask me to explain about the Tardis.
SARAH: The Tardis?
DOCTOR: Yes, my police box. You were a stowaway, I imagine.
SARAH: Yes, but we'll come to that later. Now then, why are you helping Irongron?
DOCTOR: My dear girl, I'm not helping him. Linx is. I'm trying to stop him.
SARAH: Linx?
DOCTOR: Yes, perhaps you're lucky enough not to have met him yet. Nasty, brutish and short just about sums him up.
SARAH: There was a strange looking knight with Irongron.
DOCTOR: Yes, well, he'd have looked even stranger if he hadn't been wearing space armour. He comes from a planet where the surface gravity is many times than of Earth.
SARAH: A man from the stars?
DOCTOR: Mmm hmm.
SARAH: How do I know you're telling the truth?
DOCTOR: Because I never lie. Well, hardly ever. You ever heard of UNIT?
SARAH: You work for UNIT?
DOCTOR: In an advisory capacity, yes. Well, they asked me to look into this question of the missing scientists for them.
SARAH: But I thought you were responsible for that.
DOCTOR: My dear girl, I don't go around kidnapping scientists. No, Linx brought them here to staff his workshop. Now I've got to find a way of sending them back to there own time.

ELEANOR: This is the magician?
SARAH: Er, yes. This is the Doctor.
EDWARD: You have done well, Sarah.
DOCTOR: How do you do? It is a pleasure and a privilege to be in the company of civilised people at last.
EDWARD: A courtly rogue.
ELEANOR: Is he willing to change his allegiance and serve Sir Edward instead of Irongron?
SARAH: Well, he says he wasn't serving Irongron, and there is another stranger at the castle. Someone called Linx.
DOCTOR: Yes, he's your enemy, I assure you, not me. We'd be well advised to join forces against him.
EDWARD: Does he speak truth?
SARAH: I'm not sure. I suppose I could have been wrong.
DOCTOR: That's a generous admission. Especially coming from one of the fair sex.
SARAH: Or he could just be changing sides to save his own skin.
ELEANOR: These wizards and warlocks were ever a treacherous breed. We'd best be wary of him.
EDWARD: I shall spare your life, if you cast your spells and incantations to help me against Irongron, Doctor. Refuse and you die.
DOCTOR: You offer a somewhat restricted choice, Sir Edward.
EDWARD: What is your answer?
DOCTOR: My services are at your disposal, sir. Such as they are.
EDWARD: Good. Serve me straight, Doctor, and I shall reward you well.
HAL: Oh, master. Oh but master, Irongron marches here before noon! We heard this said from his own mouth.
EDWARD: Then we are lost. We cannot stand against them.
DOCTOR: On the contrary, sir, I think we can.
EDWARD: But how? With a handful of men?
DOCTOR: Yes sir, with just a few men I think I can persuade Irongron that we have a full garrison.
EDWARD: By the use of your magic?
DOCTOR: By creating an illusion, anyway.
EDWARD: Your magic will have to be powerful indeed to discourage Irongron.
DOCTOR: It will be, sir.

After that they seem to get on like a house on fire and the Doctor is quickly explaining about himself to her:

SARAH: Lady Eleanor's got every serving wench in the castle sewing away like mad.
DOCTOR: I told you there'd be plenty of work for everybody, didn't I?
SARAH: Oh. Typically masculine arrangement, though. We do all the dirty work, you get all the fun.
DOCTOR: You don't think mixing this singularly noxious compound is fun, do you? How's the rest of it going?
SARAH: Not bad. I put Sir Edward in charge of painting the dummies' faces and he's turned out to be quite an artist. Once I'd set him on the right lines.
DOCTOR: Excellent. I'm glad I decided to let you stay.

SARAH: You decided?
DOCTOR: You know, I was never much of a hand with a paint brush myself.
SARAH: No?
DOCTOR: No. Nor a palette knife for that matter. But I'd like to study under one of the masters one day. Rembrandt, preferably.
SARAH: Rembrandt?
DOCTOR: Mmm hmm.
SARAH: Can you, can you just go anywhere you like in that Tardis?
DOCTOR: Yes, within reason.
SARAH: Then why are you staying here? Why don't you go somewhere safer?
DOCTOR: Because, my dear Sarah, I've got a job to do. One that involves the whole future of your species. Here, hold this will you?
SARAH: My species?
DOCTOR: Mmm hmm.
SARAH: You're talking as if you weren't human.
DOCTOR: Yes, well, the definition of the word humanity was always a rather a complex question, wasn't it?
SARAH: You know perfectly well what I mean. Are you or aren't you?
DOCTOR: If you mean am I a native of the planet Terra, the answer is no, I'm not.
SARAH: Well, what are you then?
DOCTOR: Me? I'm a Time Lord.
SARAH: A Time Lord?
DOCTOR: Yes, that's right. And my people are very keen to stamp out unlicensed time travel. You can look upon them as galactic ticket inspectors, if you like.
SARAH: Galactic ticket inspectors? Oh, I could murder a cup of tea. You're serious, aren't you?
DOCTOR: About what I do, yes. Not necessarily the way I do it. For example, you know what this is?
SARAH: I've no idea.
DOCTOR: This is my own special smoking mixture, consisting of saltpetre, sulphur and fat. With a few little extras thrown in. Ah. That is Irongron. Battle is about to commence!

This is the first Doctor Who for director Alan Bromly. He'd worked as a Director in the 1950s and then become a producer and it was in this role that he succeeded Irene Shubik taking charge of the later series of Out of the Unknown.

His first series of Out of the Unknown was series 3, the first broadcast in colour, which has been absolutely devastated in the archives with just one complete episode surviving, The Last Lonely Man directed by Douglas Camfield, with a large proportion of another, The Little Black Bag, recovered in recent years.

While series 3 of Out of the Unknown continued Shubik's pattern of science fiction adaptations, and indeed most of the work had been done by her prior to Bromly taking over, Bromly and his script editor Roger Parkes revamped Series 4 into more psychological and horror territory. Series 4 fares slightly better in the archives with 4 episodes surviving: To Lay a Ghost, This Body Is Mine, Welcome Home & Deathday, the only fourth season story which is an adaptation of existing material which was done by Doctor Who's Brian Hayles, whose work we'll be seeing again here shortly.

All of the surviving Out of the Unknown episodes can be seen on the Out of the Unknown DVD Set.

Bromly returns to Doctor for Nightmare of Eden, which was not a happy experience for all concerned. On set difficulties between him and the cast led to him leaving production midway through the story and the producer at the time, Graham Williams, directing the rest of the serial.

Lots of supporting artists in this story: In amongst Irongron’s Men we have Bill Lodge who was a Rill in Galaxy Four, a UNIT Soldier in Doctor Who and the Silurians, a Villager in The Dæmons and a Functionary in Carnival of Monsters IMDB has him down for two Doomwatch appearances as a Lab Assistant in the first episode The Plastic Eaters and a man in Spectre at the Feast.

Stuntman Marc Boyle. He'd been a UNIT Motorcyclist & a Policeman in The Ambassadors of Death, an Stuntmen playing UNIT Soldiers/Auton Daffodil Men/Technicians in Terror of the Autons, a Prisoner/Motor Cyclist/UNIT Soldier in Mind of Evil, a Castle Guard/Sailor/Sea Devil in The Sea Devils and Kronos in The Time Monster. He returns as an Exillon in Death to the Daleks and helps Fight Arrange this story. He appears in Superman II as a C.R.S. Man, The Professionals as Donatti in Kickback and The Living Daylights as a Blayden Grounds MI6 Man. He did stuntwork on Space: 1999 Space Brain, Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back & Return of the Jedi, The Italian Job, the James Bond films You Only Live Twice, The Spy Who Loved Me, Octopussy, Never Say Never Again & Licence to Kill, Superman & Superman III, An American Werewolf in London and Alien³

Emmett Hennessy had previously been a Tavern Customer in The Massacre, an Inferno Customer in The War Machines, an English Soldier in The Highlanders, a Roman Soldier in The War Games, a UNIT soldier in Claws of Axos, a primitive in Colony in Space, a gorilla & an American aide in Day of the Daleks and various Guards in Frontier in Space. He also plays a Technician in the Moonbase 3 episode Outsiders. Hennessey appears to have led an interesting life outside of Doctor Who involving the music business and living in the Caribbean!

Keith Norrish was a Techician in Inferno. and a Long-Haired Boy Green Death, who I couldn't spot when I watched the story! He returns as a Thal Officer in Genesis of the Daleks, a soldier & brethren member in The Masque of Mandragora, Leela's Guard in the Sunmakers, an Orderly in Frontios and a Technician in The Ops Room in Twin Dilemma. In he's a Federation Trooper in Bounty, a Salvage Man in Dawn of the Gods and a Guard in Moloch. In Porridge he plays a Prison Officer in the first episode, New Faces, Old Hands.He can be seen in Doomwatch as a RAF Man in Survival Code.

Jimmy Lyon was a man at the banquet in The Romans and returns as a Retrograde in Frontios. Alan Lenoir was a Man in Pub in The Daemons and later plays an Ice Warrior in Monster of Peladon. He's in Doomwatch as a man in Flood. Alan C Thomas returns as an SRS Bouncer/Officer/Audience member in Robot.

Irongron’s Men in the Workshop include Douglas Domingo who returns as an SRS Bouncer/Officer/Audience member in Robot while Robert Peters is an Extra in Hand of Fear and a Colonist in Frontios.

Onto the captured Scientists:

Paul Phillips was an Egyptian Slave in Dalek Masterplan, a Scotsman in The Highlanders, a Scientist at Hospital in the Macra Terror, a Prison Guard & Prisoner in War Games and a Lab Tech Claws of Axos. He returns a as a Miner in Monster of Peladon. In Porridge he's a Prisoner in No Way Out, The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin he's a Commuter in Hippopotamus and in I, Claudius he plays a Senator in Zeus, by Jove!

Eden Fox was a Scotsman in The Highlanders, a Man in The Firing Squad & Military Policeman in The War Games and a Rolling Axon Glob in Claws of Axos. He returns as a Miner in Monster of Peladon.

It's a Doctor Who debut for George Ballantine who returns as an Androids Villager in Android Invasion, Federico’s Servant in Masque of Mandragora, a Death Grade in The Sunmakers, a Logopolitan in Logopolis, a Castrovalvan in Castrovalva and a Hawker in Snakedance.

David Enyon is also on debut and returns as an SRS Bouncer/office/audience member in Robot, an Executive Grade in The Sunmakers, a Traken Citizen in Keeper of Traken and an Orange robed Time Lord in Trial of a Timelord.

Lastly Wessex Man Ronald Nunnery returns as a Kaled Councillor in Genesis of the Daleks. In Doomwatch he plays Mr. Norman in Friday's Child, in Porridge he's a Prisoner in No Way Out and in Blake's 7 he's a Federation Trooper in Bounty.

The word TIME crops up in Doctor Who story names quite a bit. Well it's a series about time travel, you'd expect it to.

The Space Museum 2: The Dimensions of Time
The Chase 2: The Death of Time
The Time Meddler
The Daleks' Master Plan 12: Destruction of Time

The Time Monster
The Time Warrior
The Invasion of Time
Time-Flight
Timelash
Trial a Timelord
Time and the Rani

Yeah. Not some of the series finest hours, Time Meddler & Destruction of Time excepting. What then shall we conclude? The series is better doing stuff about death than time?