Original air dates were in July of 1965. Ian, Barbara, and Susan are gone, leaving only Vicki behind. Now the Doctor does what he does best, and meddles with things.
Steven managed to hitch a ride on the TARDIS! He wasn’t dead or even lost. I’d forgotten he was a companion. The Internet says he is.
The Doctor has left his companions without a lead and gone off to investigate some monestary where the singing was suspect somehow. Sounded like a tape slowing down.
The companions are busy getting themselves beat up, but find a modern wristwatch.
Aaand, the Doctor finds the Victrola that was playing the monk songs, but is caught by a sturdy wooden portcullis. Serves him right.
The monk who’s caught him is just as much a meddler, clearly. He’s lost his watch and is using perfectly “modern” binoculars to see the invading Vikings. He seems happy they’re coming, which seems odd.
Ah, that makes sense now. He’s also an idiot.
I see the Vikings were killed on-screen in a particularly bloody way – knives to the body. More violence on-screen than I expected.
Marooning the time traveller at the brink of a Viking invasion is also pretty cruel.
Oh! New closing credits. I wonder when they started – I’d been skipping them. Faces of the companions. Swanky.
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