"My dear Steven, history sometimes gives us a terrible shock, and that is because we don't quite fully understand. Why should we? After all, we're too small to realise its final pattern. Therefore don't try and judge it from where you stand."
Episode 22: The Massacre of St Barthlomew's Eve.
Companions: The 1st Doctor and Steven Taylor.
Air Date: Four episodes. 5th to 26th February 1966.
The TARDIS materialises in Paris in the year 1572 and The Doctor decides to visit the famous apothecary Charles Preslin. Steven, meanwhile, is befriended by a group of Huguenots from the household of the Protestant Admiral de Coligny. Having rescued a young serving girl, Anne Chaplet, from some pursuing guards, the Huguenots gain their first inkling of a heinous plan being hatched at the command of the Catholic Queen Mother, Catherine de Medici.
This is another story that has been lost to us so this may be a very short review. It is also another purely historical story that once again, by the story synopsis, appears to fail in being interesting. it isn't even a well known period in history. Prior to learning about this story in the early 1990's I had never even heard of the events surrounding this. Certainly nothing that was ever covered in my history lessons at school.
Other than that there isn't much to say about this story sadly.
However at the end of the story the Doctor and Steven do land briefly in modern day London, accidentily picking up a new companion...
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