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*The original version of the script included a scene at the beginning where the TARDIS crew use a machine on the console that quickly teaches them how to speak ancient Greek. To avoid clashing with the now established psychic translation circuits, that scene was not included in this production.
The First Doctor, Susan, Ian and Barbara arrive in 323 BC, Babylon and befriend the King of Macedon, the ruler of the known world, Alexander the Great. They join Alexander on his travels, along with his generals and officers, his brave but contemptuous father figure Cleitus, the wise Calanus of India, the nobel young Hephaestion, the Nubian bodyguard Ptolemy, the prophetic priest Iollas and the cunning Seleucus. Over the course of their weeks together, Alexander's greatest friends suffer horrible deaths. Suspicion falls on the Doctor and his companions, who must must prove their worth to escape execution. But when the great king himself falls ill, his life is in their hands.
The Wrath Of The Greatest Grecian Of Them All! or O, Son! My Son!
A Man Must Die
The World Lies Dead At Your Feet
In The Arena
Farewell, Great Macedon!
The Fragile Yellow Arc of Fragrance
Plot
After leaving Babylon, the crew find themselves on an alien world where Barbara inadvertently condemns a man named Rhythm.
Cast
Susan Foreman - Carole Ann Ford
Ian Chesterton - William Russell
Rhythm - John Dorney
Notes
The original version of the script included a scene at the beginning where the TARDIS crew use a machine on the console that quickly teaches them how to speak ancient Greek. To avoid clashing with the now established psychic translation circuits, that scene was not included in this production.
