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| Cast | |||
| Doctor | |||
| Production | |||
| Directed by | Paddy Russell | ||
| Written by | John Lucarotti Donald Tosh | ||
| Script editor | Donald Tosh Gerry Davis | ||
| Produced by | John Wiles | ||
| Executive producer(s) | None | ||
| Production code | W | ||
| Series | Season 3 | ||
| Running time | 4 episodes, 25 mins each | ||
| First broadcast | February 5 - February 26, 1966 | ||
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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
- The episodes of this serial had individual titles. They were, respectively, "War of God", "The Sea Beggar", "Priest of Death" and "Bell of Doom".
- This is one of only three serials, along with Marco Polo and Mission to the Unknown, of which not a second of footage survives. However, an audio CD of the sound and dialogue track, with linking narration provided by Peter Purves, was released by London Bridge in 2001.
- Guest star André Morell was one of the actors to play the BBC's other famous science-fiction hero, Professor Bernard Quatermass. He is the only one of them to appear on Doctor Who on television, although Scottish actor Andrew Keir, who portrayed Quatermass on film, also played a role in the film Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150 AD.
- The BBC Radio Collection CD release of the narrated soundtrack of this serial is titled simply The Massacre.
- The 1979 novelisation of this serial, entitled simply The Massacre, completely rewrites the plot of the serial. Some reference works mistakenly present the plot of the novelisation as that of the serial. See Doctor Who spin-offs.
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