The Crusade

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31 Oct 63 - 14 Nov 64
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21 Nov 64 - 26 Dec 64
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02 Jan 65 - 09 Jan 65
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16 Jan 65 - 06 Feb 65
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13 Feb 65 - 20 Mar 65
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27 Mar 65 - 17 Apr 65
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22 May 65 - 26 Jun 65
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1. The Lion.
27th March 1965
5:42 p.m.
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2. The Knight Of Jaffa.
3rd April 1965
5:43 p.m.
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3. The Wheel Of Fortune.
10th April 1965
5:41 p.m.
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4. The War-Lords .
17th April 1965
5:40 p.m.
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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.




The Doctor:
 William Hartnell
Ian Chesterton: William Russell
Barbara Wright: Jacqueline Hill
Vicki: Maureen O'Brien

Guest Appearances:
William des Preaux:
 John Flint
El Akir: Walter Randell
Richard Lionheart:
 Julian Glover
Reynier de Marun:
 David  Anderson
William de Tornebu:
 Bruce Wightman
Ben Daheer: Reg Pritchard
Thatcher: 
Tony Caunter
Saphadin: 
Bernard Kay
Saracen Warriors: 
Derek Ware, Valentino, Musetti, Anthony Colby
Joanna: Jean Marsh
Chamberlain: Robert Lankesheer
Sheyrah: Zohra Segal
Luigi Ferrigo:
 Gabor Baraker
Saracen Guards:
 Raymond Novak, Chris Konyils
Haroun:
 George Little
Safiya: Petra Markham
Earl of Leicester: 
John Bay
Maimuna: 
Sandra Hampton
Fatima: 
Viviane Sorrel
Hafsa: Diane McKenzie
Ibrahim: Tutte Lemkow
Soldier: Billy Cornelius

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Producer:  Verity Lambert.
Script Editor:  Dennis Spooner.
Writer:    David Whitaker.
Director:  Douglas Camfield.
Designer: Barry Newbery.
Costume:  Daphne Dare.
Make up:
Sonia Markham.
Music:     Dudley Simpson.  

Image of The Doctor, Thatcher (Tony Caunter), & Ben Daheer (Reg Pritchard)Image of Saphadin (Bernard Kay), Saladin, Barbara, & the English knight Sir William des Preaux (John Flint)Image of Richard the Lionheart (Julian Glover) and The Doctor


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Image of Video CoverVideo Cover Hartnell Years

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 included a CD of the two missing episodes.
Episode 3 was previously released on "The Hartnell Years" (BBC catalogue #4608 in UK (June 1991), and in Australia and New Zealand ( CBS/FOX catalogue #3403). Released in US and Canada (1992).  



1988 1st Edition Book CoverImage of Book cover 1967 2nd PrintingImage of back of Book cover 1967 2nd PrintingImage of Book cover 1973Image of Script Book cover

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.
Also released as a script book, "The Crusade," edited by John McElroy, with cover art by Alister Pearson.

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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".
William Russell only appears in filmed inserts for part three.

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)
Studio recording in Riverside 1. (5, 12, 19, 26 March)

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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