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Episode 8: The Reign of Terror.
Companions: The 1st Doctor, Susan Foreman, Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright.
Air Date: Six episodes. 8th August to 12th September 1964.
The TARDIS materialises not far from Paris in 1794 - one of the bloodiest years following the French Revolution of 1789. The travellers become involved with an escape chain rescuing prisoners from the guillotine and get caught up in the machinations of an English undercover spy, James Stirling - alias Lemaitre, governor of the Conciergerie Prison.
The Reign of Terror is a story that I have not been able to watch thus far. I believe that some of the episodes are still missing, so I have resorted to reading through episode guides to put this one together.
Unfortunately I think that this is another historical story that is just a little too long. By the episode guides it feels that the writer tried to showhorn as much as he could about the French Revolution into this story. Hopefully, if I get the opportunity to watch this episode in the future I may change that mind set.
What sets this story apart from those that came before is that it is the first episode of Doctor Who to be filmed partially outside of a studio, with Buckinghamshire and the Isle of Wight doubling up for France.
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