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Season 04 / Story 028 / Production code CC
The Smugglers
The Doctors?: William Hartnell
The Companions: Polly Wright | Ben Jackson
Other Main Characters:
Brian Hayles: Writer
Julia Smith: Director
Innes Lloyd: Producer
To the astonishment of newcomers Polly and Ben, the TARDIS arrives on the coast of seventeenth-century Cornwall. Here, pirates led by Captain Samuel Pike are searching for a hidden treasure, while a smuggling ring masterminded by the local Squire is trying to offload contraband.
The Doctor is kidnapped by Pike's men after inadvertently learning, from churchwarden Joseph Longfoot, who is subsequently murdered, a cryptic rhyme which holds the key to the treasure's whereabouts. Although he manages to escape, the Doctor is eventually forced to tell Pike the rhyme's meaning - it refers to names on tombstones in the church crypt - and the treasure is uncovered. At this point, however, the militia arrive, having been summoned by Revenue Officer Josiah Blake.
A fight ensues in which Pike and many of his men are killed and the rest taken prisoner. The Doctor and his companions, meanwhile, slip back to the TARDIS.
4 episodes:
- 10 September 1966
- 17 september 1966
- 24 September 1966
- 01 October 1966
Script available in print from Titan Books.
