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Story #8 "The Reign Of Terror"
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Season
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1
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Writer
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Dennis Spooner
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Book/CD
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X
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Episodes
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6
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Director
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Henrick Lambert
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Vid
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X
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Story code
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H
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Producer
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Verty Lambert
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DVD
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Episode Details
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Episode
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DR MM:SS
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TX dd/mm/yy
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RPT TX dd/mm/yy
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In BBC Archive
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1
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24:46
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20/06/1964
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Y
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2
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24:44
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27/06/1964
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Y
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3
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24:53
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11/07/1964
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Y
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4
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24:49
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17/07/1964
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Y
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5
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25:47
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25/07/1964
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Y
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6
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24:29
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01/08/1964
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Y
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Cast Details
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Regular Cast
William Hartnell (First Doctor) , Carole Ann Ford (Susan Foreman) , Jacqueline Hill (Barbara Wright) , William Russell (Ian Chesterton)
Guest Cast
Stephen Dartnell (John) / Ilona Rodgers (Carol) / Lorne Cossette (Maitland) / Ken Tyllsen (1st Sensorite) / Joe Greig (2nd Sensorite) / John Bailey (Commander) / Martyn Huntley (First Human) / Giles Phibbs (Second Human) / Ken Tyllsen (First Sensorite) / Joe Greig (Second Sensorite) / Peter Glaze (Third Sensorite) / Arthur Newall (Fourth Sensorite) / Eric Francis (First Elder) / Bartlett Mullins (Second Elder) / Ken Tyllsen (First Scientist) / Joe Greig (Second Scientist / Warrior) / Gerry Martin (Anthony Rogers)
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Synopsis
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| The TARDIS lands in a forest clearing. The travellers think it's England 1963 but they are in fact 20 kiliometres from Paris during Robespierre's Reign of Terror. A farmhouse is sacked by government troops; the Doctor is concussed and left for dead, the others are dragged to prison. The Doctor mascarades as a citizen, whil Ian gets involved in the counter-revolutionary plot of English master spy James Stirling.
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Notes
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- The first Doctor Who story to feature on-location filming.
- Episodes 1, 2, 3 and 6 exist in 16mm telerecordings.
- Episode 6 was returned by a private collector in May 1982. Prints of all 4 existing episodes were recovered from a Cypriot television station in 1985. These included a superior print of episode 2. 12 clips from episodes 4 and 5 exist in the form of 8mm home movie reel.
- Episode 2 used the working title Guests of the Guillotine.
- This story was a replacement for a 6 part story by David Whitaker which would have been set at the time of the Spanish Armada.
- William Russell originally suggested the idea of a story set during The French Revolution.
- Director Henric Hirsch suffered from exhaustion during the making of this serial and was unable to direct episode three. John Gorrie (who had previously directed The Keys of Marinus) stepped in temporarily. Some sources have credited Verity Lambert as director for this episode, as no director is credited onscreen (which at the time normally implied that the producer also directed the programme), but she has firmly denied this.
- William Russell was on holiday during the filming of episodes 2 and 3 and appeared only in pre-taped film sequences.
- Final episode of Season One
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