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Synopsis

The Doctor and Ace face knights in armour from another dimension, and Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart returns from retirement to save the world one last time. Ace (given name Dorothy) is a fictional character played by Sophie Aldred in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... Nicholas Courtney as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart. ...

Plot

A meeting with an old friend.

In the TARDIS, the Seventh Doctor and Ace pick up a distress signal from Earth in the near future. The TARDIS materialises near Lake Vortigern in England. Nearby a convoy of UNIT trucks is conveying a nuclear missile, under the command of Brigadier Bambera. The TARDIS crew attempt to hitch a ride and are picked up by Peter Warmsly, an archaeologist, working on a nearby battlefield. As they drive along, they hear explosions. Unbeknownst to them, it is the noise of armoured knights arriving from outer space, directed by Morgaine, the Sunkiller, Dominator of the thirteen worlds and Battle Queen of the S'rax. The Seventh Doctor reunites with his old friend, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart in the Doctor Who serial Battlefield. ... The Seventh Doctor reunites with his old friend, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart in the Doctor Who serial Battlefield. ... The Third Doctor emerging from the TARDIS in the 1970 serial Spearhead from Space. ... The Seventh Doctor is the name given to the seventh incarnation of the Doctor seen on screen in the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. ... Ace (given name Dorothy) is a fictional character played by Sophie Aldred in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... Adjectives: Terrestrial, Terran, Telluric, Tellurian, Earthly Atmosphere Surface pressure: 101. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... The United Nations Intelligence Taskforce (also known as UNIT) is a fictional military organization from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... Archaeology or sometimes in American English archeology (from the Greek words αρχαίος = ancient and λόγος = word/speech) is the study of human cultures through the recovery, documentation and analysis of material remains, including architecture, artefacts, biofacts, human remains, and landscapes. ... This is a list of villains from the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...

The Doctor has UNIT passes for himself and Liz Shaw which he uses to gain access to the convoy but Bambera ejects them from the site until a soldier named Zbrigniev recognises the Doctor from the time when he served under Lethbridge-Stewart. He informs Bambera that whenever the Doctor turns up "all hell breaks loose." Liz Shaw, full name Dr. Elizabeth Shaw, is a fictional character played by Caroline John in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...

The Secretary General of the United Nations contacts the retired Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart to inform him that the Doctor is back. A helicopter is sent to his country home to collect him, despite his wife Doris's protests. Bambera takes the Doctor and Ace to the Gore Crow hotel. The owners are Pat Rowlinson and his blind wife Elizabeth. They meet a young woman called Shou Yuing who shares Ace's love of explosives. The United Nations Secretary-General is the head of the Secretariat, one of the principal divisions of the United Nations. ... A helicopter is an aircraft which is lifted and propelled by one or more horizontal rotors consisting of two or more rotor blades. ... This article is concerned solely with chemical explosives. ...

In her car, Bambera is told to look out for a blue police telephone box. As she stops to examine it, she is caught in a battle between two groups of knights in armour who use both guns and swords. A police box is a telephone kiosk or callbox for use by members of the police. ...

Shou Yuing shows the Doctor and Ace a scabbard that Warmsly has excavated from the battlefield. Elizabeth says she can feel the scabbard's presence, and it is hot to the Doctor's touch. She says senses that it is waiting for something or possibly someone. When Warmsly arrives at the hotel, the Doctor questions him about the scabbard, and is informed that it is from the 8th century. The Doctor says that it has been waiting for longer than that, and Morgaine, psychically monitoring the conversation, adds, "...Waiting for me". A scabbard is a sheath for holding a sword. ... (7th century — 8th century — 9th century — other centuries) Events The Iberian peninsula is taken by Arab and Berber Muslims, thus ending the Visigothic rule, and starting almost 8 centuries of Muslim presence there. ...

As Ace and Shou Yuing discuss Ace's blowing up of her art class at school, a knight throws a grenade at another knight causing him to be hurled through the brewery's roof. The Doctor, Ace and Shou Yuing investigate, finding the knight Ancelyn. The man awakes, seeing the Doctor and calls him Merlin. Ancelyn claims he recognises him by his aspect rather than by his face, and asks him to deny that he is the same Merlin who rides a ship of time, larger within than without. The Doctor reaches the conclusion that the Earth could be the centre of a war from another dimension. A group of knights arrives intent on killing them all… Grenade may refer to: The well-known hand grenade commonly used by soldiers. ... Merlin Ambrosius (Welsh: Myrddin Emrys (Merlin the Wise); also known as Myrddin Wyllt (Merlin the Wild), Merlin Caledonensis (Scottish Merlin), Merlinus, and Merlyn) is the personage best known as the mighty wizard featured in Arthurian legends, starting with Geoffrey of Monmouths Historia Regum Britanniae. ...

Bambera faces down their leader Mordred. He is shocked to see "Merlin" who he believed to have been bound by his mother Morgaine. Mordred's knights retreat at the Doctor's threat of unleashing a "terrible something" on them. As Mordred begins an arcane ritual, the scabbard in the hotel flies across the room. Morgaine arrives in Avallion (her name for Earth) through a rift in space and time and using sorcery speaks directly to the Doctor, warning him not to stand against her. When the Doctor says that he cannot allow her to interfere, she then proclaims that this will be their last battlefield. Mordred or Modred (Welsh: Medraut) is a legendary figure of Britain, known in Arthurian legend as a notorious traitor who fought King Arthur at the Battle of Camlann, where he was killed and Arthur fatally wounded. ...

The next day Warmsly shows the Doctor where he had recovered the scabbard. They see a rune, which the Doctor deciphers as "dig hole here". When questioned how he knows that, he replies that it is his handwriting. Using a canister of Nitro-9, Ace causes a large explosion, opening up a tunnel.

Lethbridge-Stewart finally arrives in Carbury, but his helicopter is shot down by Morgaine's sorcery, and he and his pilot, a female officer named Lavel, are forced to crash land. He encounters Morgaine as her soldiers hold a remembrance ceremony for the fallen soldiers in Earth's world wars. Out of respect, Morgaine does not attack Lethbridge-Stewart, but tells him that the next time they meet she will kill him.

The Doctor and Ace enter a chamber under the lake, the entrance opening to the Doctor's voice. The Doctor tells Ace that he is not Merlin now, but that he could be in his future. They discover that it is part of an organic spaceship hidden under the lake. They also find the body of King Arthur. When Ace removes a sword from the plinth on which the body rests, a defence mechanism is activated, and a glowing, worm-like creature attacks them. Trying to escape from it, Ace enters an alcove, but it closes, trapping her and it begins to fill with water. The Doctor is attacked by the snake, knocked out whilst Ace begins to drown… A bronze Arthur in plate armour with visor raised and with jousting shield wearing Kastenbrust armour (early 15th century) by Peter Vischer, typical of later anachronistic depictions of Arthur. ...

Just before Ace drowns, the Doctor recovers. He meddles with a control panel and Ace is ejected from the space ship. On the shore of the lake, Ancelyn and Warmsly are discussing the myth of the Lady of the Lake, just as Ace emerges from the water holding the sword. Ancelyn identifies it as Excalibur. The Brigadier arrives by the lake in Shou Luing's car. The Doctor is still being attacked by the creature in the spaceship, but the Brigadier gets there in time and destroys it. This article does not cite its references or sources. ... How Sir Bedivere Cast the Sword Excalibur into the Water. ...

Mordred and Morgaine go to the hotel to retrieve Excalibur. Lavel tries to shoot Morgaine, but she simply catches the bullet with sorcery. Morgaine takes knowledge from Lavel's mind before turning her body to dust. She pays Mordred's drinking tab by restoring Elizabeth's sight.

Back at the hotel, UNIT troops are evacuating all civilians. Warmsly refuses to leave his site and Rowlinson his inn, but the Doctor uses hypnotic suggestion to persuade them otherwise. The Brigadier shows the Doctor some of the special ammunition developed by UNIT, including armour piercing bullets for Daleks, high explosive rounds for Yetis and gold bullets for Cybermen. The Doctor asks if they have silver bullets, a question which the Brigadier then directs to the quartermaster sergeant if they have any. The Brigadier then reveals to a delighted Doctor that he has brought along the Doctor's car Bessie. The Daleks (pronounced DAH-lecks; IPA: ) are a fictional extraterrestrial race of mutants from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... The Yeti of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, although resembling the cryptozoological creatures also called the Yeti, are in actuality alien robots. ... The Cybermen are a fictional race of cyborgs who are amongst the most persistent enemies of the Doctor in the British science fiction television series, Doctor Who. ... Quartermaster is a term usually referring to a military unit which specializes in supplying and provisioning troops, or to an individual who does the same. ... The science fiction television series Doctor Who has presented various vehicles belonging to multiple races/societies. ...

The Doctor gives Ace a piece of chalk with instructions to draw a circle around herself to protect herself from Morgaine's sorcery. He drives off in Bessie, hoping to end the fighting between Morgaine's knights and the UNIT troops. A storm breaks outside the hotel, so Ace and Shou Yuing draw the circle around themselves and Excalibur. Night falls around the hotel as Morgaine summons a demonic creature, and then focuses her mind on Ace and Shou Yuing. Within the circle Ace and Shou Yuing start to bicker, nearly causing Ace to leave the circle and they realise they are being toyed with.

The Doctor arrives at the battlefield just as Mordred and Ancelyn are about to fight each other, commanding them to stop. He shouts "there will be no battle here!". Mordred however reveals that this battle is a ruse to lure the Doctor, and that Morgaine has summoned the Destroyer, the Devourer of Worlds. This is a list of villains from the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...

Morgaine appears before Ace and Shou Yuing and tries to entice them to hand over Excalibur. When they refuse, she fetches the Destroyer and tells them they will be his handmaidens in Hell…

Mordred offers the Doctor a chance to save Ace if he surrenders to Morgaine's justice, but he grabs Mordred's sword with his umbrella and threatens him with decapitation. Morgaine sees through the Doctor's threats and speaks to Mordred through sorcery, and Mordred dares the Doctor to look him in the eye and kill him. The Doctor releases Mordred, but the Brigadier steps forward, levelling his service revolver at Mordred's temple. Morgaine realises that unlike the Doctor, the Brigadier is capable of killing and has done so many times. “Parasol” redirects here. ...

However, Morgaine cold-heartedly ignores Mordred's pleas to save him and instead orders her knight commander to continue his attack. The Doctor and the Brigadier head back towards the hotel with a captive Mordred. Morgaine is unable to penetrate the circle whilst Ace holds Excalibur, the Destroyer, however, would be able to pierce it. The Destroyer implores Morgaine to release him from the silver chains that bind him. He wants the Earth so that he may devour it.

When the Doctor arrives, the hotel is in ruins and Morgaine and the Destroyer are gone. He uncovers Ace and Shou Yuing from the wreckage. Morgaine now has the sword, but all her soldiers are now dead. The Doctor finds an interstitial vortex in the debris through which he, the Brigadier and Ace travel to Morgaine's castle. The Destroyer reveals to Morgaine that he has allowed the Doctor access, so that she would be forced to release the chains.

On arrival, the Brigadier shoots the Destroyer but with absolutely no effect. The Destroyer retaliates with a sorcerous attack that throws the Brigadier outside the building they are in. Morgaine boasts that she could always beat Merlin at chess, but the Doctor says he is playing poker, and he has an Ace up his sleeve. Ace arrives through the vortex, cannoning into Morgaine and knocking Excalibur from her grasp. Chess is a recreational and competitive game for two players. ... A game of Texas holdem, the most popular form of poker, in progress. ...

When the Doctor refuses to give Excalibur back to Morgaine, she releases the Destroyer's bonds. In the confusion she takes Excalibur and prepares to enter the gateway back to her home dimension. Mordred arrives and accuses her of abandoning him, but they both enter the gateway.

As the Destroyer prepares to go on the rampage, the Doctor takes the Brigadier's revolver and the silver bullets. Seeing what the Doctor intends, the Brigadier knocks the Doctor out and takes the revolver and bullets himself. He returns to the castle and confronts the Destroyer, demanding that the creature get off his world. The Destroyer mocks the Brigadier, asking if Earth can do no better for its champion. The Brigadier replies coolly, "Probably. I just do the best I can," and empties the silver bullets into the Destroyer's torso.

As the castle is engulfed in flames, the Doctor finds the Brigadier's body sprawled a distance away. The Doctor at first thinks his old friend is dead, angrily letting slip that the Brigadier was supposed to die in bed. But then Lethbridge-Stewart stirs, and gets up, a bit shaken but unharmed.

Back at the missile convoy, Morgaine and Mordred appear and attempt to detonate the nuclear missile. Morgaine takes the control codes from Bambera by sorcery. In the underwater spaceship, Ace restores Excalibur to the stone, reactivating the ship's power. The Doctor finds a message from himself in Arthur's helmet. It says that Arthur died in the final battle, and warns him about Morgaine and the nuclear missile. He arrives back at the convoy as the count down reaches 60 seconds.

The Doctor confronts Morgaine with her, telling her that the consequences of using a nuclear weapon are unlike any kind of war she is used to, and convinces her that to use it would not be an honourable thing to do. She stops the countdown, but asks the Doctor to allow her to fight Arthur in single combat. He informs her that Arthur is dead and she realises her fight has been futile, her foe and lover dead for over a thousand years. The Doctor prevents Mordred from killing Ancelyn and asks Bambera to lock up Mordred and Morgaine.

Back at the Brigadier's house, Doris gets her own back on Lethbridge-Stewart by going for a drive in Bessie with Ace, Shou Yuing and Bambera, leaving him and the other men to do the gardening and prepare supper.

Cast

• The Doctor — Sylvester McCoy
• Ace — Sophie Aldred
• Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart — Nicholas Courtney
• Doris — Angela Douglas
• Brigadier Winifred Bambera — Angela Bruce
• Sergeant Zbrigniev — Robert Jezek
• Flight Lieutenant Lavel — Dorota Rae
• Major Husak — Paul Tomany
• Pat Rawlinson — Noel Collins
• Elizabeth Rawlinson — June Bland
• Peter Warmsly — James Ellis
• Shou Yuing — Ling Tai
• Morgaine — Jean Marsh
• Mordred — Christopher Bowen
• Ancelyn — Marcus Gilbert
• The Destroyer — Marek Anton
• Knight Commander — Stefan Schwartz

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Cast notes

• Morgaine is played by Jean Marsh, who had once played companion Sara Kingdom in The Daleks' Master Plan (and Princess Joanna in The Crusade). She was also once married to Third Doctor actor, Jon Pertwee.
• James Ellis, best remembered for his role as Lynch in Z Cars, plays archaeologist Peter Warmsly. See also Celebrity appearances in Doctor Who.

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Continuity

• This story marks the last appearance of the TARDIS console room in the classic series. The set itself which had been in use since The Invisible Enemy had been destroyed in between seasons so a cheap mock-up (with a curtain standing in for the wall) was used here.^{[citation needed]} The lighting in this scene is very low to disguise this, although the console itself survived and was used.
• Bessie appears for the first time since The Five Doctors. UNIT itself would not appear again on television until the Ninth Doctor story Aliens of London.
• It is implied that Merlin is, or will be, a future regeneration of the Doctor. It is also possible that Merlin is an alternate Doctor from the same parallel universe that Morgaine and the rest of the knights are from.
• The Doctor mentions that they are several years in Ace's future. In this future, England has a King and a £5 coin is in common circulation.
• The Doctor, talking to the new Brigadier, mentions Yeti (The Web of Fear), Autons (Spearhead from Space and Terror of the Autons), Daleks (Day of the Daleks), Cybermen (The Invasion) and Silurians (Doctor Who and the Silurians).

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Production

• Working titles for this story included Nightfall and Storm Over Avallion. An early version of the script was to have included the death of Lethbridge-Stewart.^[1]

• The first director approached to handle Battlefield was Graeme Harper, who had previously directed The Caves of Androzani and Revelation of the Daleks for the programme in 1984 and 1985 respectively. However, Harper was committed to episodes of the Central Television drama series Boon, and unavailable to return to Doctor Who.^[2] He would, however, later return to direct episodes of the revived version of the show in 2006.

• During recording of the sequence where Ace is trapped in the water tank, the tank cracked, causing Sophie Aldred to sustain minor cuts to her hands and creating a major hazard as water flooded out onto the studio floor. The moment when the tank first cracked can be seen in Part Three as the Doctor struggles with the controls and Ace is lifted clear of the water.

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Outside references

The Doctor refers to one of Clarke's three laws — telling Ace that sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic — to explain that Arthur's transdimensional spaceship was grown, not built, and adds that the reverse of Clarke's Law is also true. Game designer Dave Lebling wrote in the 1986 interactive fiction game Trinity, "Any sufficiently arcane magic is indistinguishable from technology." Arthur C. Clarke formulated the following three laws of prediction: When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. ... Dave Lebling, ca 1985 Dave Lebling (born 1949) was an interactive fiction game designer, or implementor, at Infocom. ... Zork, an early work of interactive fiction, running on a modern interpreter Interactive fiction, often abbreviated IF, describes software simulating environments in which players use text commands to control characters and influence the environment. ... Trinity is an interactive fiction computer game written by Brian Moriarty and published in 1986 by Infocom. ...

In print

Doctor Who book
Battlefield
Series	Target novelisations
Release number	152
Writer	Marc Platt
Publisher	Target Books
Cover artist	Alister Pearson
ISBN	0 426 20350 X
Release date	15 November 1990
Preceded by	The Curse of Fenric
Followed by	The Pescatons

A novelisation of this serial, written by Marc Platt, was published by Target Books in July 1991.^[3] It was the last novelisation of a televised Doctor Who serial to be published in the traditional "short paperback" format Target had been using since 1973. After one more novelisation based upon the untelevised The Pescatons, all remaining novelisations would be published in paperback editions with greater page counts and a different format. Image File history File links Doctor_Who_Battlefield. ... by David Whitaker, published in 1964, was the very first Doctor Who novelisation. ... Marc Platt Marc Platt is a British writer. ... Target Books was a British publishing imprint, established in 1973 by Universal-Tandem Publishing Co Ltd, a paperback publishing company. ... Alister Pearson is an English illustrator. ... The Curse of Fenric is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from October 25 to November 15, 1989. ... The Pescatons is an audio play in two episodes based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... Marc Platt Marc Platt is a British writer. ... Target Books was a British publishing imprint, established in 1973 by Universal-Tandem Publishing Co Ltd, a paperback publishing company. ... The Pescatons is an audio play in two episodes based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...

Broadcast and VHS release

This story was released on VHS in March of 1998 with two minutes of additional footage not shown in the 1989 broadcast. Bottom view of VHS cassette with magnetic tape exposed Top view of VHS cassette with front casing removed The Vertical Helical Scan, better known by its abbreviation VHS (and often confused to be Video Home System) is a recording and playing standard for analog video cassette recorders (VCRs), developed by...

References

1. ^ Battlefield at Doctor Who: A Brief History Of Time (Travel)
2. ^ Rigelsford, Adrian (1996). Classic Who – The Harper Classics. London: Boxtree. ISBN 0-7522-0188-3. 
3. ^ Platt, Marc (1991). Battlefield. ISBN 0-426-20350-X. 

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External links

• Battlefield episode guide on the BBC website
• Battlefield at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
• Battlefield at Outpost Gallifrey

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Reviews

• Battlefield reviews at Outpost Gallifrey
• Battlefield reviews at The Doctor Who Ratings Guide

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Target novelisation

• Battlefield (novelisation) reviews at The Doctor Who Ratings Guide
• On Target — Battlefield