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The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from February 5 to February 26, 1966.

Synopsis

The TARDIS materializes in Paris in the year 1572 and the First Doctor decides to visit the famous apothecary Charles Preslin. Steven, meanwhile, is befriended by a group of Huguenots from the household of the Protestant Admiral de Coligny. Having rescued a young serving girl, Anne Chaplet, from some pursuing guards, the Huguenots gain their first inkling of a plan by the Catholic Queen Mother, Catherine de Medici, to have all French Protestants massacred.

Plot

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Notes

1. The episodes of this serial had individual titles. They were, respectively, "War of God", "The Sea Beggar", "Priest of Death" and "Bell of Doom".
2. All four episodes of this serial are missing from the BBC Archive.
3. One of only three serials, along with Marco Polo and Mission to the Unknown, of which not a second of footage survives.
4. Guest star André Morell is the only actor to have played the BBC's other famous science-fiction hero, Professor Bernard Quatermass, to have appeared in Doctor Who on the BBC. Scottish actor Andrew Keir did, however, later appear as Quatermass on film and in a film version of Doctor Who.

External links

• Cast and Crew list, on the BBC website

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