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- THE MASSACRE. Written by John Lucarotti and Donald Tosh. 4 episodes.
- 5th - 26th January 1966.
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- War of God, The Sea Beggar, Priest of Death, Bell of Doom.
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- COMPANIONS:- Steven and introducing Dodo Chaplet.
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- Paris 1572. It is the eve of the St Bartholomew's Day Massacre, when the
- Catholic Queen Mother, Catherine de Medici, planned the slaughter of all
- French Protestants. The Doctor goes to visit Charles Preslin and Steven
- meets a group of Hugenots from the Protestant Admiral de Coligny's house-
- hold. He rescues a servant girl, Anne Chaplet, who has overheard plans for
- the massacre.
- The Catholic Abbot of Amboise visits the house and he is the double of
- the Doctor. Steven follows him and overhears the plan to kill the Admiral.
- The attempt fails and the Abbot is condemned to death.
- The Doctor returns and he and Steven escape Paris as the massacre begins.
- Steven is angry that the Doctor did nothing to prevent the massacre and the
- Doctor reminds him that, callous as it may seem, he cannot intervene to
- change established history.
- Stopping in the 20th century, the pair are joined in the final episode
- by Dodo Chaplet.
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