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
Episodes
Saturday
15th December 1973
5:10PM
BBC 1 (24 mins)
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)
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)
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)
The Doctor races to save the captured scientists and to prevent the course of history being changed.
Credits
- Doctor WhoJon Pertwee
- Sarah Jane SmithElisabeth Sladen
- Brigadier Lethbridge-StewartNicholas Courtney
- LinxKevin Lindsay
- Professor RubeishDonald Pelmear
- EleanorJune Brown
- Edward of WessexAlan Rowe
- HalJeremy Bulloch
- MegSheila Fay
- EricGordon Pitt
- IrongronDavid Daker
- BloodaxeJohn J Carney
- SentrySteve Brunswick