Doctor Who Story 070 The Time Warrior by Alan Bromly (1974)
6 May 2008At best a mediocre Doctor Who adventure, notable only for the first appearance of Elisabeth Sladen as Sarah Jane Smith and the debut of the Sontarans who have most recently returned in the last Season of the current Tenant Doctor Who.
In the Middle Ages the Kind known as Irongron (David Daker) and his right hand Bloodaxe (John J. Carney) discover a crashed spaceship and meet it’s occupant the Sontaran warrior Linx (Kevin Linday). Linx offers Irongron weapons in exchange for help in his repairing his craft, and an alliance if formed. Meanwhile in modern time, the Doctor (Jon Pertwee) and Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart (Nicholas Courtney) are investigating the disappearances of a bunch of important scientists.A young journalist named Sarah Jane Smith (Elisabeth Sladen) sneaks into the complex and meets the doctor, and ends up sneaking into his TARDIS before he follows the disappearance fo a scientists named Rubeish (Donald Pelmear). The Tardis goes back to the middle ages, and Sarah sneaks out, and ends up getting captured by Irongron.
REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS….
Another lord, Lord Edward of Wessex (Alan Rowe) is trying to create an alliance again Irongron, but first she sends his archer Hal (Jeremy Bulloch) to kill him, but Hal fails.
Linx gives Irongron a robotic knight, and is going to use it to kill Hal and Sarah Jane, but the Doctor shoots the control box out of Irongron’s hand and Sarah Jane escapes with Hal, still thinking the Doctor is the enemy.
Irongron attacks the Baron’s, but the attack is stopped by some ingenuity on the doctor’s part. The doctor decides to attack Irongron, and he goes with Sarah dressed as Friars. The Doctor finds Rubeish and the other scientists who are all being controlled. The Doctor is almost caught by Linx, but Rubeish hits the probic vent in the back of the Sontaran’s neck and he is knocked out
Ruebish and the Doctor use the Osmic Projector to send the scientists back to their own time, while Sarah Jane puts sleeping drugs in Irongron’s food.
Linx’s realizes his ship is repaired enough to leave, but he fights with the Doctor. Irongron arrives, and accuses Linx of betraying him, and Linx kills him. Linx enters his ship, but Hal shoots him through his probic vent, killing him, and launching the ship.
And Sarah Jane and the Doctor leave in the Tardis.
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Pretty damn lame. Certainly not memorable.
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