UUU. The Time Warrior
Writer: Robert Holmes
Director: Alan Bromly
Designer: Keith Cheetham
Incidental Music: Dudley Simpson
Fight Arrangers: Marc Boyle (2-3) and Terry Walsh (4)
TRANSMISSION DETAILS:
356. Part One 15.12.1973 5.10pm - 5.35pm 8.7M/34th/59%
376. Part Two 22.12.1973 5.10pm - 5.35pm 7.0M/75th/---
377. Part Three 29.12.1973 5.10pm - 5.35pm 6.6M/89th/---
378. Part Four 05.01.1974 5.30pm - 5.55pm 10.6M/22nd/60%
CAST:
COMMANDER LINX: Kevin Lindsay; CAPTAIN IRONGRON: David Daker; BLOODAXE: John J
Carney; PROFESSOR JOSEPH RUBEISH: Donald Pelmear; SIR EDWARD FITZROY OF WESSEX: Alan Rowe;
LADY ELEANOR FITZROY: June Brown; HAL: Jeremy Bulloch; MEG: Sheila Fay (1,3,4);
ERIC: Gordon Pitt (1); SENTRY: Steve Brunswick (3). UNCREDITED: UNIT SOLDIERS: David
Cleeve (1), Steven Ismay (1); MARY: Jacqueline Stanbury; DOUBLE FOR THE DOCTOR: Terry
Walsh; KITCHEN HAGS: Bella Emberg (4), Mary Rennie (4); IRONGRON'S MEN: Andrew Abrahams,
Tom Atkins, Michael Boone, Brian Bowles, Marc Boyle, David Burswell, Rodney Cardiff, David Carruthers,
Douglas Domino, Ray Dunbobbin, Andrew Greenwood, Emmett Hennessy, Bill Herbert, Jon James, Alan Lenoir,
Alan Luxton, Jimmy Lyon, Keith Norrish, Michael Ralph, Malcolm Stephens, Alan C Thomas, Sidney Tomas,
Dick Weable, Jim Whelan, Howard Williamson; SCIENTISTS: George Ballantine, David Eynon, Eden
Fox, Roger Marston, Paul Phillips, Frank Seton; WESSEX MEN: Allan Deutrom, Clifford Kershaw,
Ronald Nunnery; ROBOT: John Hughman, Dudley Long, Bill Monks; EXTRA: Bill Lodge
STORY:
During the medieval times a space craft crash lands. When the locals go to visit what they thought was a star falling, they find
an armoured soldier. When questioned the soldier finds that the locals have no technology that can aid him, and he must seek thosae
who have.
In the twentieth century U.N.I.T. are called in to investigate a case of disapepating scientists. Also present is an journalist,
Sarah Jane Smith, posing as Lavinia Smith, her aunt. Whilst the Doctor is there another scientist disappears, and the Doctor sees
the ghostly image of a Sontaran warrior.
The Doctor follows the Sontaran back to the medieval times, with Sarah as a stowaway. There he finds the Sontaran, Lynx, has been
helping Irongron by providing beahloading weapons in return for a place to repair his craft which was damaged in their war with
the Rutans.
Lynx has been using a primitive device to kidnap scientists from the twentieth century to repair his craft. with the aid of a
local archer Lynx is killed by an arrow jammed in his probic vent during take off. The ship explodes, taking the castle with
it. Before this happens the Doctor manages to return the scientists to the twentieth century, and get all of Irongrons people
out.
BLOOPERS:
Episode 1: When Linx first meets Irongron and plants his flag (claiming Earth for the Sontaran
Empire), immediately before the scene change, and for no apparent reason, Irongron and Bloodaxe both
turn their heads and look away from Lynx, off stage to their right.
Episode ?: Sarah is put to work peeling potatoes in the 12th century. (Potatoes were not
introduced to Europe until Elizabethan times.)
STUDIOS:
Television Centre Studio 1, Television Centre Studio 6
LOCATIONS:
Peckforton Castle, Tarporley, Cheshire
NOTES:
This story marks the first use of a new title sequence, designed by Bernard Lodge (who is now credited for the
first time); the fourth one used for the series
Part Two of this story is the first mention of the Doctor's home planet, Gallifrey, by name
Only sporadic audience appreciation figures are available from now until season twenty
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