ORIGINALLY broadcast in August and September 1964 as the final adventure of the first season of the show, this six-part story was the fourth historical story.

Attempting to drop Ian Chesterton (William Russell) and Barbara Wright (Jacqueline Hill) back home in 20th century England, the First Doctor (William Hartnell) and Susan (Carole Ann Ford) miss the target by a couple of hundred years and miles – ending up near Paris during the French Revolution.

Whilst Barbara and Susan seem destined to meet Madame Guillotine and The Doctor unconscious in a burning farmhouse, Ian gets involved with English spies and the revolution itself.

There are many twists in the story as the foursome try to find each other without losing their heads – literally.

Sadly, only four of the six episodes have survived the cull at the BBC, but sound recordings of episodes four and five were found and therefore those two episodes have been animated like a couple of eps from Patrick Troughton’s The Invasion.

And it’s very well done too.

As this was so long ago, interviews with cast and crew are difficult, but the Making Of features in-depth chats with William Russell and Carole Ann Ford.

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