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Season 02 / Story 017 / Production code S
The Time Meddler
The Doctors?: William Hartnell
The Companions: Vicki Pallister | Steven Taylor
Other Main Characters: Meddling Monk
John Lucarotti: Writer
Douglas Camfield: Director
Verity Lambert: Producer
The Doctor and Vicki discover that Steven Taylor has stumbled on board the TARDIS prior to its departure from Mechanus. Steven is sceptical of Vicki's explanation that the ship is a time machine, but the Doctor assures her that they will soon show him the truth of the matter.
The TARDIS lands on the Northumbrian coastline in the year 1066. Here, the three travellers meet the Saxon villagers Wulnoth, Edith and Eldred and come into conflict with the Viking raiders Sven, Ulf and Gunnar the Giant, who are on a reconnaissance mission for their King, Harald Hardrada, prior to a planned invasion of England.
Also present in this time is the Monk, a mischievous rogue from the same planet as the Doctor who travels from place to place in his time machine endeavouring to 'improve' things - for example, enabling the ancient Britons to build Stonehenge with the aid of his anti-gravitational lift. Currently he is engaged in his 'master plan': trying to engineer events so as to reverse the outcome of the Battle of Hastings. Appalled at such frivolous interference with the course of history, the Doctor determines to put a stop to it - an aim he eventually achieves by removing the dimensional control from the Monk's TARDIS, reducing its interior to miniature proportions.
4 episodes:
- The Watcher - 03 July 1965
- The Meddling Monk - 10 July 1965
- A Battle of Wits - 17 July 1965
- Checkmate - 24 July 1965
Script available in print from Titan Books.
