Episode Number:

Episode Title:

Transmission Date:

Duration:

Ratings (in Millions):

1

Temple of Secrets

16/10/65

24.45

8.3

2

Small Prophet, Quick Return

23/10/65

24.43

8.1

3

Death of a Spy

30/10/65

25.39

8.7

4

Horse of Destruction

6/11/65

24.25

8.3

 

Season:

Doctor:

Producer:

Script Editor:

Writer:

Director:

Three

William Hartnell

John Wiles

Donald Tosh

Donald Cotton

Michael Leeston-Smith

 

 

  

William Hartnell - (The Doctor)

Maureen O' Brien - (Vicki)

Peter Purves - (Steven)

 

  

Cavan Kendall - (Achilles)

Alan Haywood - (Hector)

Ivor Salter - (Odysseus)

Francis de Wolff - (Agamemnon)

Jack Melford - (Menelaus)

Tutte Lemkow - (Cyclops)

Max Adrian - (King Priam)

Barrie Ingham - (Paris)

Frances White - (Cassandra)

John Luxton - (Messenger)

James Lynn - (Troilus)

Adrienne Hill - (Katarina)

 

  

The TARDIS lands in the plains outside besieged Troy. The Doctor finds himself mistaken for the god Zeus and is given a tight deadline to devise a plan that will put Troy in the hands of the Greeks.

 

In the meantime the TARDIS, with Vicki inside, has been captured by the Trojan Prince Paris. When Vicki emerges she too is met with praise and distrust from quarrelling rivals making power plays against each other. To prove herself, Vicki must ensure success for the Trojans by the same deadline.

 

The Doctor and Vicki are now pitted head to head against each other. What ingenious methods shall the Doctor choose to take the city of Troy - siege machines, flying machines, or something even more fanciful from a tale of Homer?

 

  

Working Title:

The Trojans, The Trojan Horse

 

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Bloopers:

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Not yet released on Video.

 

 

Not yet released on DVD.

 

 

- UK release January 2001. The Myth Makers  (BBC ISBN cat.#0 563 47777 6)

- This was released as part of a 2-CD set.

 

**The BBC also released an MP3 version of this soundtrack as Doctor Who: Adventures in History. This came together with The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve & The Highlanders, in August 2003. (BBC ISBN cat.#0 563 49494 8)

 

 

 

- The Myth Makers, written by Donald Cotton, Published 1985 - [Target no.97]

 

 

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