The Time Meddler (TotT TV story)

The Time Meddler
Script release:	online here
Main character(s):	Vicki, Steven
Main setting:	Memory TARDIS
Key crew
Writer:	Phil Ford
Director:	Joshua M.G. Thomas
Producer:	Scott Handcock
Release details
Story number:	5
Number of parts:	1
Premiere broadcast:	1 November 2023
Premiere network:	BBC iPlayer
Format:	1x97 minute episode
Tales of the TARDIS
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The Time Meddler was the fifth episode of the series Tales of the TARDIS, released on BBC iPlayer on 1 November 2023 by the BBC, written by Phil Ford and directed by Joshua M.G. Thomas. It was notable for featuring the televised return of Peter Purves as Steven Taylor.

This story consists of two newly recorded scenes placed on either side of an omnibus version of the TV story The Time Meddler.

Synopsis

Steven and Vicki meet again and remember their first adventure battling a time-travelling Monk about to change the course of history in 1066.

Plot

To be added

Cast

• Vicki - Maureen O'Brien
• Steven Taylor - Peter Purves

Uncredited

• William Hartnell - First Doctor (archive voice)

Crew

Executive Producers   Russell T Davies, Julie Gardner and Jane Tranter with Joel Collins and Phil Collinson

Written by Phil Ford	Produced by Scott Handcock	Directed by Joshua M.G. Thomas	Director of Photography Ryan Eddleston	Production Designer Phil Sims	Visual Effects Painting Practice
Make-up Designer Julie Kendrick	Casting Director Andy Pryor	Music Sam Watts	Costume Designer Pam Downe	Edited by Emily Lawrence
Original theme music by Ron Grainer and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop  •  Titles by Painting Practice

General production staff Executive Producer for the BBC - Rebecca Ferguson Production Executive - Steffan Morris Line Producer - Medyr Llewelyn Location Assistant - Joe Coombes Production Co-ordinator - Florence Boyd-Gorst Assistant Production Co-ordinator - Jamie McKee Unit Driver - Paul Watkins Production Accountant - Sean Kenneally Script department Camera and lighting department 1st Assistant Director - Michael Williams 2nd Assistant Director - Lauren Pate 3rd Assistant Director - Micah Joshua Brown Floor Runner - Devante Fleming Script Supervisor - Ines Mayorga Camera Operator - Martin Stephens Camera Trainee - Ben Bellingham Focus Puller - Cai Thompson Key Grip - Ken Hodgson Clapper Loader - Josh Greenway Gaffer - Jon Down Best Boy - Matt Hutchings Electricians - Chris Hughes, Benji Hutchings	Art department Supervising Art Director - Robyn Paiba Set Decorator - Adrian Anscombe Standby Props - Phillip Bull Standby Carpenter - Phil Sharrocks Prop Hands - Atiff Tahir, Ingo Hans, Jason White, John Thomas, Mathew Shrimpton, Stuart Rankmore Standby Art Director - Nikki Joseph Standby Rigger - Elliot Williams Prop Master - Nick Thomas Graphics - Stephen Fielding Costume department Costume Supervisor - Laura Baker Assistant Costume Designer - Pandora Ellis Costume Assistant - Ellie Finch Costume Standby - Charlotte Woods	Make-up and prosthetics Casting Casting Associate - Becky Rossmaur Casting Assistant - Kristian Wall General post-production staff Post-production Producer - Ceres Doyle Post-production Supervisor - Liv Duffin On-line Editor - Geraint Pari Huws Special and visual effects Visual Effects Co-ordinator - Siân Reynish Colourists - Gareth Spensley, Christine Kelly Sound Re-recording Mixer - Emilie Thomson Audio Post-production - Bang Post Production

Not every person who worked on this adventure was credited. The absence of a credit for a position doesn't necessarily mean the job wasn't required. The information above is based solely on observations of the actual end credits of the episodes as broadcast, and does not relay information from IMDB or other sources.

Worldbuilding

• Steven calls Vicki his "little sister".
• Steven doesn't think highly of the Sixth Doctor's coat.

Notes

Official BBC iPlayer thumbnail for the episode.

• This is the first live-action appearance of Steven Taylor since The Savages in 1966.
• The use of an archive recording was utilised to allow William Hartnell to posthumously reprise his role as the First Doctor.

Continuity

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As per Forum:Non-valid Continuity sections, categories, and prefixes#Continuity sections, this section needs to be written from an out-of-universe perspective.

• Steven tells Vicki that he became a king after leaving the TARDIS, and is now both a father and a grandfather. (AUDIO: The War to End All Wars)
• Vicki tell Steven that she and Troilus have children. (AUDIO: Frostfire)
• Vicki finds a Viking helmet that ignites her and Steven memories of the First Monk and his plot to alter the Battle of Hastings. (TV: The Time Meddler)
• Steven and Vicki recall being on Mechanus and seeing the Mechanoids and the Daleks on the day they met. (TV: The Chase)
• Steven mentions that he and the Doctor ran into the Monk again after Vicki left the TARDIS and that he "wasn't happy how the Doctor left him stranded." (TV: The Daleks' Master Plan)
• Vicki mentions she became the granddaughter the Doctor lost after Susan Foreman left, (TV: The Dalek Invasion of Earth) and how she was an orphan when they met. (TV: The Rescue)