Episode Number:

Episode Title:

Transmission Date:

Duration:

Ratings (in Millions):

1

The Temple of Evil

23/5/64

23.56

7.4

2

The Warriors of Death

30/5/64

24.11

7.4

3

The Bride of Sacrifice

6/6/64

25.27

7.9

4

The Day of Darkness

13/6/64

25.30

7.4

 

Season:

Doctor:

Producers:

Script Editor:

Writer:

Director:

One

William Hartnell

Verity Lambert,

Mervyn Pinfield

David Whitaker

John Lucarotti

John Crockett

 

 

  

William Hartnell - (The Doctor)

William Russell - (Ian Chesterton)

Jaqueline Hill - (Barbara Wright)

Carole Ann Ford - (Susan)

 

  

Keith Pyott - (Autloc)

John Ringham - (Tlotoxl)

Ian Cullen - (Ixta)

Margot van der Burgh - (Cameca)

Tom Booth - (First Victim)

David Anderson - (Aztec Captain)

Walter Randall - (Tonila)

André Boulay - (Perfect Victim)

 

  

In the fifteenth century civilisation is hardly civilised, as the Doctor discovers when the TARDIS materialises in an ancient Aztec temple.

When Barbara is mistaken for the reincarnation of the Aztec's High Priest, Yetaxa, she seizes the opportunity to put an end to the ceremonial rites of human sacrifice and save the Aztecs from self-destruction.

The Doctor must somehow convince Barbara to let history follow its natural course and return to the TARDIS before their real identities are discovered. Can they escape before they become the next blood sacrifices?

 

  

Working Title:

N/A

 

Things to look out for:

Coming Soon

 

Archive:

All 4 Episodes exist as 16mm telerecordings.

 

Bloopers:

Coming Soon

 

  

 

Click for larger image- UK release November1992. The Aztecs (BBCV cat.#4743)

 

 

- The Aztecs, episodic format, Released October 2002; PAL (BBCDVD cat.#1099).

 

 

Not yet released on Audio.

 

 

- The Aztecs written by John Lucarotti, Published 1984 - [Target no.88]

- The Aztecs written by John Lucarotti, Published 1992 - [Target no.88]

 

 

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