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Doctor Who The Time Warrior TV Story

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The Time Warrior Synopsis

Journalist Sarah Jane Smith is impersonating her aunt, virologist Lavinia Smith, in order to gain access to a research centre where top scientists are being held in protective custody while UNIT investigates the disappearance of a number of their colleagues. The missing scientists have been kidnapped by a Sontaran, Linx, and taken back to medieval England, where they are working under hypnosis to repair his crashed spaceship.

Story Order

  • Story 70 from Doctor Who
  • Story 1 of 5 from Season 11

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Episodes

Saturday
15th December 1973
5:10PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - The Time Warrior - Part One

UNIT investigates when scientists go missing kidnapped by an alien trapped in the 13th Century.

Saturday
22nd December 1973
5:45PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - The Time Warrior - Part Two

The Doctor discovers that the alien is a Sontaran warrior called Linx who is trying to repair his spaceship.

Saturday
29th December 1973
5:10PM
BBC 1 (23 mins)

Doctor Who - The Time Warrior - Part Three

Linx is providing advanced weaponry to Irongron and his men who prepare to attack Sir Edward’s castle.

Saturday
5th January 1974
5:30PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)

Doctor Who - The Time Warrior - Part Four

The Doctor races to save the captured scientists and to prevent the course of history being changed.

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Credits

The Time Warrior

Credits
  • Writer Robert Holmes
  • Director Alan Bromly
  • Producer Barry Letts
  • Script Editor Terrance Dicks
  • Doctor Who Jon Pertwee
  • Sarah Jane Smith Elisabeth Sladen
  • Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart Nicholas Courtney
  • Linx Kevin Lindsay
  • Professor Rubeish Donald Pelmear
  • Eleanor June Brown
  • Edward of Wessex Alan Rowe
  • Hal Jeremy Bulloch
  • Meg Sheila Fay
  • Eric Gordon Pitt
  • Irongron David Daker
  • Bloodaxe John J Carney
  • Sentry Steve Brunswick