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Season 03 / Story 020 / Production code U
The Myth Makers
The Doctors?: William Hartnell
The Companions: Vicki Pallister | Steven Taylor | Katarina
Other Main Characters:
Donald Cotton: Writer
Michael Leeston Smith: Director
John Wiles: Producer
When the TARDIS arrives on the plains of Asia Minor, not far from the besieged city of Troy, the Doctor is hailed by Achilles as the mighty god Zeus and taken to the Greek camp, where he meets Agamemnon and Odysseus. Forced to admit that he is a mere mortal - albeit a traveller in space and time - he is given just two days to devise a scheme to capture Troy.
First Vicki, and then later Steven, are meanwhile taken prisoner by the Trojans. King Priam gives Vicki - the supposed possessor of supernatural powers - two days to banish the Greeks and thus prove that she is not a spy.
Having initially dismissed the famous wooden horse as a fiction of Homer's, the Doctor is eventually driven to 'invent' it himself, thereby giving the Greeks the means to defeat the Trojans.
Vicki, having assumed the guise of Cressida, falls in love with one of Priam's sons, Troilus (James Lynn), and decides to remain behind with him when the TARDIS leaves. Steven, having adopted the identity of Odysseus's dead friend Diomede, has been injured in a clash of swords with a Trojan warrior, and is helped into the ship by Katarina, a handmaiden to the prophetess Cassandra. The TARDIS dematerialises with Katarina still on board.
4 episodes:
- Temple of Secrets - 16 October 1965
- Small Prophet, Quick Return - 23 October 1965
- Death of a Spy - 30 October 1965
- Horse of Destruction - 06 November 1965
Script available in print from Titan Books.
