The Doctor's friends are captured by soldiers in post-Revolutionary France, during the reign of terror in which anyone suspected of Royalist sympathies is immediately executed. Ian is thrown into jail with a dying English prisoner, who gives him a vital message for English master spy James Stirling. Robespierre's right-hand man, Citizen Lemaitre, secretly helps Ian to escape. The Doctor arrives, disguised as a prominent Citizen to arrange for his friends' release, but Lemaitre sees through his guise and threatens to have Susan executed unless the Doctor leads him to the escape route run by Jules Renan. There, Lemaitre reveals himself to be Stirling, and enlists Ian and Barbara's help to complete his mission. So doing, they see Paul Barrass inviting Napoleon Bonaparte to rule the country as part of a triumverate after Robespierre is overthrown. Stirling tries to stop this for the sake of his own country, but he is too late to prevent the mob from turning on Robespierre. Nevertheless he is true to his word and releases Susan, allowing the travellers to escape from Paris.

Doctor Who (1963) Season 1 Episodes...

• s01e01 - An Unearthly Child (1)
• s01e02 - The Cave of Skulls (2)
• s01e03 - The Forest of Fear (3)
• s01e04 - The Firemaker (4)
• s01e05 - The Dead Planet (1)
• s01e06 - The Survivors (2)
• s01e07 - The Escape (3)
• s01e08 - The Ambush (4)
• s01e09 - The Expedition (5)
• s01e10 - The Ordeal (6)
• s01e11 - The Rescue (7)
• s01e12 - The Edge of Destruction (1)
• s01e13 - The Brink of Disaster (2)
• s01e14 - The Roof of the World (1)
• s01e15 - The Singing Sands (2)
• s01e16 - Five Hundred Eyes (3)
• s01e17 - The Wall of Lies (4)
• s01e18 - Rider From Shang-Tu (5)
• s01e19 - Mighty Kublai Khan (6)
• s01e20 - Assassin at Peking (7)
• s01e21 - The Sea of Death (1)
• s01e22 - The Velvet Web (2)
• s01e23 - The Screaming Jungle (3)
• s01e24 - The Snows of Terror (4)
• s01e25 - Sentence of Death (5)
• s01e26 - The Keys of Marinus (6)
• s01e27 - The Temple of Evil (1)
• s01e28 - The Warriors of Death (2)
• s01e29 - The Bride of Sacrifice (3)
• s01e30 - The Day of Darkness (4)
• s01e31 - Strangers in Space (1)
• s01e32 - The Unwilling Warriors (2)
• s01e33 - Hidden Danger (3)
• s01e34 - A Race Against Death (4)
• s01e35 - Kidnap (5)
• s01e36 - A Desperate Venture (6)
• s01e37 - A Land of Fear (1)
• s01e38 - Guests of Madame Guillotine (2)
• s01e39 - A Change of Identity (3)
• s01e40 - The Tyrant of France (4)
• s01e41 - A Bargain of Necessity (5)
• s01e42 - Prisoners of Conciergerie (6)

Doctor Who (1963) Show Summary

Doctor Who is the longest-running science fiction TV series in history, airing initially from 1963 to 1989. Doctor Who is about ideas. It pioneered sophisticated mixed-level storytelling. Its format was the key to its longevity: the Doctor, a mysterious traveller in space and time, travels in his ship, the TARDIS. The TARDIS can take him and his companions anywhere in time and space. Inevitably he finds evil at work wherever he goes...