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The Trojan Horse
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 The Doctor has adopted many guises in his time, but to be hailed as the great god Zeus is a bit of a shock. Yet this is exactly what happens when the TARDIS lands on the plains of Asia Minor, not far from the city of Troy. Taken to the Greek camp by Achilles. The Doctor is introduced to Agamemnon and Odysseus and forced to admit his less-than-godlike status. He is then given lust two days to come up with a strategy for defeating the Troians.
Meanwhile, Steven and Vicki have been taken prisoner by the other side. The Trojans are convinced that Vicki is a spy - and to prove her loyalty she must concoct a plan to defeat the Greeks! Like The Doctor, she has just two days to do it.
Luckily for The Doctor, a certain someone has already devised a scheme for beating the Trojans. Even if the wooden horse is invented for a piece of fiction written in the eighth century, it still works. As the opposing forces come face to face in a climactic battle, there are dangers aplenty for both Steven and Vicki. By the time the TARDIS moves away again, it will have both lost and gained a crew member…
| | | Source: BBC Audio | |
| Season: |
Three
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| Production
Code: |
U |
| Story Number: |
20
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| Episode Numbers: | 87 - 90 |
| Number of
Episodes: |
4 | | Number of Incomplete/Missing Episodes: | 4 | | Percentage of Episodes Held: | 0% | | Working Titles: | Whole Story: "The Mythmakers", "The Myth-Makers", "The Trojans" and "The Trojan Horse".
Individual Episodes: "Deus ex Machina" (1), "Is There a Doctor in the Horse?" and "A Doctor in the Horse" (3) and "The Horse of Destruction" (4) |
| Production
Dates: |
August - October 1965 |
| Broadcast Started: | 16 October 1965 | | Broadcast Finished: | 06 November 1965 |
| Colour Status: |
B&W |
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Studio: |
Riverside (Studio 1) |
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Location: |
Frensham Little Pond (Surrey). | |
| Writer: | Donald Cotton |
| Director: | Michael Leeston-Smith |
| Producer: | John Wiles |
| Story Editor: | Donald Tosh |
| Editor: | Caroline Shields |
| Production Assistants: | David Maloney and Richard Brooks |
| Assistant Floor Manager: | Dawn Robertson |
| Designer: | John Wood |
| Costume Designers: | Tony Pearce (Episode 2) and Daphne Dare (Episodes 1, 3 & 4) |
| Make-Up Designers: | Elizabeth Blattner (Episodes 1 & 2) and Sonia Markham (Episodes 3 & 4) |
| Cameraman: | Peter Hamilton |
| Lighting: | Ralph Walton |
| Fights Arranged By: | Derek Ware |
| Incidental Music: | Humphrey Searle |
| Special Sounds (SFX Editor): | Brian Hodgson |
| Studio Sounds: | Brian Forgham and Dave Kitchen |
| Title Sequence: | Bernard Lodge |
| Title Music: | Ron Grainer and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Arranged by Delia Derbyshire |
| Number of
Doctors: |
1 |
| The Doctor: |
William Hartnell (The First Doctor) |
| Additional Cast: |
Cavan Kendall (Achilles), Alan Haywood (Hector), Ivor Salter (Odysseus), Francis de Wolff (Agamemnon), Jack Melford (Menelaus), Tutte Lemkow (Cyclops), Max Adrian (King Priam), Barrie Ingham (Paris), Frances White (Cassandra), Jon Luxton (Messenger), James Lynn (Troilus) |
(Position = 129 out of 159)
(Position = 126 out of 200)
