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The
scene is 12th-century Palestine, at the time of the Holy Wars between
King Richard the Lionheart and the Saracen ruler Saladin. The Saracens
led by Emir El Akir, wait to ambush King Richard The Lionheart. During
the ambush Barbara is abducted by the attackers, the Doctor, Ian and Vicki are
taken to King Richard's Palace in the nearby town of Jaffa, The King plans
for peace by arranging a marriage between his sister, Joanna and Saladin's
brother Saphadin. When Joanna finds out about it , she refuses. Ian becomes
Sir Ian of Jaffa and goes of in search of Barbara. The Doctor and Vicki
flee the Palace after making an enemy of the King's advisor, the Earl
of Leicester. The Doctor and Vicki meet Ian in the woods where the TARDIS
materialized.
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Released as "The Crusade/Space Museum" Collectors Edition
in the UK in July 1999 and in Australia and New Zealand as a two video
set, (BBC
catalogue #6805) with photomontage cover in epsodic format. Released in
the US and Canada as a single tape (WHV catalogue #E1399). The release
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Novelised as
"Doctor Who - And The Crusaders"
by David Whitaker (0 426 11316 0) first published by Frederick
Muller Ltd. in 1966. New edition published by Dragon Books
in 1967. New edition published by Universal Tandem in 1973 with
cover by Chris Achilleos. New edition published by W.H. Allen (now
Virgin Publishing Ltd.) in 1981 with cover by Andrew Skilleter.
Target library number 12. |
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The
story marks the first appearance of Jean Marsh who plays Joanna,
she would later appear as the companion
Sara Kingdom in "The Dalek's Masterplan" as as the villian Morgaine
in "Battlefield".
Episode three exists as 16mm telecine recording, as held by the Film & TV Library when it was audited in 1978. Episode one was found in New Zealand by a collector in late 1998 and loaned to the BBC to make a Digi-Beta print in early 1999. Telesnaps (off-air camera photographs) from this story exist in the hands of private collectors.
Ealing filming.
(16-18 February 1965)
Episode 3 - After El Akir says "And death is very far away" to Barbara, you can hear someone call "Cut!" just before the credits roll, on an otherwise perfect episode. |
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