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Synopsis

A Sontaran named Linx, trapped in the Middle Ages, uses crude time travel technology to kidnap scientists from the 20th Century to help repair his spacecraft. The Sontarans are a fictional extraterrestrial race from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...

Plot

Sarah Jane Smith discovers that attitudes in the Middle Ages were somewhat different

In the Middle Ages, the bandit Irongron and his aide Bloodaxe together with their rabble of criminals find the crashed spaceship of a Sontaran warrior named Linx. The alien claims Earth for his Empire then sets about repairing his ship, offering Irongron “magic weapons” that will make him a king in return for shelter. They strike a bargain, though Irongron remains suspicious. Image File history File links The_Time_Warrior. ... Image File history File links The_Time_Warrior. ... Sarah Jane Smith is a fictional character played by Elisabeth Sladen in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who and its related spin-offs. ... The Middle Ages formed the middle period in a traditional schematic division of European history into three ages: the classical civilization of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and modern times, beginning with the Renaissance. ... The Sontarans are a fictional extraterrestrial race from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...

The Doctor and Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart are investigating the disappearance of several scientists from a top secret scientific research complex. They do not know Linx has used an Osmic Projector to send himself forward eight hundred years and has kidnapped the scientists then hypnotized them into making repairs on his ship. The Projector only lets him appear in another time for a brief period. While the Doctor investigates he meets an eccentric scientist called Rubeish and a young journalist called Sarah Jane Smith, who has infiltrated the complex by masquerading as her aunt. Later that evening Rubeish disappears and the Doctor uses the data he has gathered to pilot the TARDIS back to the Middle Ages.- not realising new companion Sarah has stowed away on board. This article is about the character of the Doctor. ... Nicholas Courtney as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart. ... Sarah Jane Smith is a fictional character played by Elisabeth Sladen in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who and its related spin-offs. ... The current TARDIS prop as seen at the BBC Wales reception in 2005. ...

Irongron is a robber baron who has stolen his castle from an absent nobleman, and relations with his neighbours are appalling. Indeed, the mild Lord Edward of Wessex has been provoked into building an alliance against him and, when this is slow in developing, sends his archer Hal on an unsuccessful mission to kill Irongron. The robber baron is in a foul mood when a captured Sarah is brought before him. His mood improves when Linx presents him with a robot knight which is then put to the test on a captured Hal. The archer is only saved when the Doctor intervenes from afar, shooting the robot control box from Irongron’s hands. The ensuing confusion lets both Hal and Sarah flee, and they head for Wessex Castle.

Meanwhile the Doctor has realised both that Sarah is in the time period and has been captured, and also that she previously supposed him to be in league with Irongron. The next morning the robber baron and his troops assault the castle using rifles supplied by Linx but the attack is repelled by the Doctor’s cunning. The failure further sours the relationship between Linx and Irongron, which has deteriorated since the robot knight fiasco and the point at which the robber saw the Sontaran’s true visage beneath his helmet.

The Doctor now decides to lead an attack on Irongron’s castle, and he and Sarah enter dressed as friars. He makes contact with Rubeish and finds the human scientists in a state of extreme exhaustion. Linx catches the Doctor in the laboratory once more, but this time is rendered immobile when a lucky strike from Rubeish hits his probic vent – a Sontaran refuelling point on the back of their necks which is also their main weakness. Rubeish and the Doctor use the Osmic Projector to send the scientists back to the twentieth century. Sarah now inveigles herself into Irongron’s kitchen, using the opportunity to drug the food, thereby knocking out Irongron’s men.

A recovered Linx now determines his ship is repaired enough to effect a departure. Once more he encounters the Doctor, and they wrestle in combat. A crazed and half drugged Irongron arrives and accuses Linx of betraying him: the Sontaran responds by killing him. As Linx enters his spherical vessel Hal arrives and shoots him in the probic vent, and the Sontaran warrior falls dead over his controls, triggering the launch mechanism. Knowing the place is about to explode when the shuttle takes off, the Doctor hurries the last of his allies out of the castle. It explodes moments before the Doctor and Sarah depart in the TARDIS.

Cast

• Doctor Who — Jon Pertwee
• Sarah Jane Smith — Elisabeth Sladen
• Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart — Nicholas Courtney
• Commander Linx — Kevin Lindsay
• Irongron — David Daker
• Bloodaxe — John J. Carney
• Edward of Wessex — Alan Rowe
• Lady Eleanor — June Brown
• Hal the Archer — Jeremy Bulloch
• Professor Rubeish — Donald Pelmear
• Meg — Sheila Fay
• Eric — Gordon Pitt
• Sentry — Steve Brunswick
• Dudley Long played the Robot Knight.

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Continuity

• The Sontarans would reappear in the Fourth Doctor serials The Sontaran Experiment and The Invasion of Time, as well as the Sixth Doctor serial The Two Doctors (Where the Second Doctor meets the Sontarans, which the Third Doctor refers to in this serial). They have also appeared in the spin-off videos, Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans, Do You Have A License To Save This Planet?, Mindgame and a Jim'll Fix It special A Fix with Sontarans.
• This is the first serial to name the Doctor's home planet as Gallifrey.
• This episode and The Sontaran Experiment were referred to in episode 3 of The Sarah Jane Adventures.

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In print

Doctor Who book
Doctor Who and the Time Warrior
Series	Target novelisations
Release number	65
Writer	Terrance Dicks and Robert Holmes (uncredited)
Publisher	Target Books
Cover artist	Roy Knipe
ISBN	0 426 20023 3
Release date	29 June 1978
Preceded by	Doctor Who and the Tomb of the Cybermen
Followed by	Death to the Daleks

A novelisation of this serial, written by Terrance Dicks, was published by Target Books in June 1978. Dicks initially commissioned Robert Holmes to novelise his story, but Holmes wrote only the book's prologue, and sent it to Dicks with a note telling him to finish the rest himself. Holmes was not credited for his contribution.^[1][2] Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... by David Whitaker, published in 1964, was the very first Doctor Who novelisation. ... Terrance Dicks (born 1935 in East Ham, London) is an English writer, best known for his work in television and for writing a large number of popular childrens books during the 1970s and 80s. ... Robert Holmes may refer to: Politicians: Robert D. Holmes (1909–1976), governor of Oregon Robert A. Bob Holmes, Georgia state legislator Robert E. Holmes (1922–2004), Ohio state supreme court justice Others: Sir Robert Holmes (admiral) (1622–1692), English admiral Robert Holmes (scriptwriter) (1928–1986), English TV scriptwriter Robert Holmes... Target Books was a British publishing imprint, established in 1973 by Universal-Tandem Publishing Co Ltd, a paperback publishing company. ... The Tomb of the Cybermen is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which originally aired in four weekly parts from September 2 to September 23, 1967. ... Death to the Daleks is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from February 23 to March 16, 1974. ... Terrance Dicks (born 1935 in East Ham, London) is an English writer, best known for his work in television and for writing a large number of popular childrens books during the 1970s and 80s. ... Target Books was a British publishing imprint, established in 1973 by Universal-Tandem Publishing Co Ltd, a paperback publishing company. ... Robert Holmes may refer to: Politicians: Robert D. Holmes (1909–1976), governor of Oregon Robert A. Bob Holmes, Georgia state legislator Robert E. Holmes (1922–2004), Ohio state supreme court justice Others: Sir Robert Holmes (admiral) (1622–1692), English admiral Robert Holmes (scriptwriter) (1928–1986), English TV scriptwriter Robert Holmes...

Production

• Working titles for this story included The Time Fugitive and The Time Survivor.
• The original outline for the serial was humorously submitted to the production office in the form of a "Field report from Sontaran Field Marshal Hol Mes, to Terran Cedicks".
• Beginning with this story, individual episodes are listed as Part One, Two etc. This replaced the previous system of calling them Episode One, Two etc. as established in 1966 with The Savages.
• Location shooting of both Wessex Castle and Irongron's castle was done at Peckforton Castle, utilising different views.

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Broadcast and VHS/DVD release

• This story came out on VHS in an omnibus format in 1989.
• The Time Warrior was released on region 2 DVD on 3 September 2007, commercially available in its original episodic format for the first time.^[3] Plus new optional CGI effects.

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References

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External links

• The Time Warrior episode guide on the BBC website
• The Time Warrior at Doctor Who: A Brief History Of Time (Travel)
• The Time Warrior at the Doctor Who Reference Guide

Reviews

• The Time Warrior reviews at Outpost Gallifrey
• The Time Warrior reviews at The Doctor Who Ratings Guide

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Target novelisation

• Doctor Who and the Time Warrior reviews at The Doctor Who Ratings Guide
• On Target — Doctor Who and the Time Warrior