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The Rescue / The Romans
The Rescue
Arriving on the planet Dido in the late 25th Century, the time travelers come upon a crashed spaceship from Earth.
Its two occupants – a paralyzed man named Bennett and a young girl, Vicki – are living in fear of a creature called Koquillion, a native whose people have apparently killed the other members of the human expedition.
However, the Doctor quickly deduces that Koquillion is in fact Bennett in disguise; it was he who killed the others in order to conceal an earlier murder he had committed on the ship.
The Romans
The four time travelers are enjoying a rare holiday, staying at a villa not far from Rome in the year 64 AD. The Doctor soon becomes restless and sets off to visit the city, taking Vicki with him. In their absence, Ian and Barbara are kidnapped by slave traders.
Having been mistaken for the famous lyre player Maximus Pettulian and asked to perform at the Emperor Nero’s Court, the Doctor has to devise ever more elaborate schemes to avoid revealing that he cannot actually play the instrument.
Ian meanwhile becomes a galley slave, while Barbara is sold to Nero’s slave buyer Tavius at an auction in Rome. Ian and a fellow slave named Delos escape from the galley when it is wrecked in a storm and make their way to Rome to try to find and rescue Barbara.
WFK DVD Collector 13
April 9th, 2013 - 5:02pmJust re watched the rescue, and I think that it’s better then what most people say about it.
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September 7th, 2010 - 7:41pmIve got this. I will give the rescue a 5/10. Its a 2 part 🙁 william hartnell is a good doctor and i would have given this a 0/10 if william hartnell wasnt in it and the romans gets a 10/10 because it was probally very historical to children in those days 😉