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{{Infobox TV|
{{Infobox TV|
story name= Battlefield |
story name= Battlefield |
image= |
image= [[Image:Battlefield.jpg|250px]]|
series=[[Doctor Who]] -<br/>[[TV stories|TV Stories]] <br> [[Season 26]]|
series=[[Doctor Who]] -<br/>[[TV stories|TV Stories]] <br> [[Season 26]]|
number= ?? |
number= ?? |
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companions= [[Ace]] |
companions= [[Ace]] |
enemy= [[Morgaine]] and [[The Destroyer]] |
enemy= [[Morgaine]] and [[The Destroyer]] |
year=  -- |
year=  A few years after '89 |
writer= [[Ben Aaronovitch]] |
writer= [[Ben Aaronovitch]] |
director=  [[Michael Kerrigan]] |
director=  [[Michael Kerrigan]] |
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==Synopsis==
==Synopsis==
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The Doctor recieves a distress signal rippling backwards, forwards, and sideways in [[time]] and arrives on [[Earth]] to meet [[Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart]] once again and to battle an enemy from another dimension who he won't face for the first time until the future.


==Plot==
==Plot==
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==References==
==References==
[[UNIT]], [[Doris Lethbridge-Stewart]], [[Bessie]], [[Chess]]
*[[Chess]], [[gold]]


==Story Notes==
==Story Notes==
''to be added''
*[[UNIT]] appears in this story.
*The Brigadier is married to [[Doris Lethbridge-Stewart]] and has been replaced by [[Winifred Bambera]].
*The Doctor uses [[Bessie]] again.
*The Brigadier talks of how UNIT has been busy, aquiring bullets that would go through a [[Dalek]], and other bullets for [[Robot Yeti|Yeti]]s and robots, including gold-tipped bullets for [[Mondasian Cybermen|Cybermen]]
*Morgaine's forces call Earth  Avallion.
*The Doctor and Ace use passes that he thought he would never need again. Her pass belonged to [[Liz Shaw]].


===Ratings===
===Ratings===
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===Discontinuity, Plot Holes, Errors===
===Discontinuity, Plot Holes, Errors===
''to be added''
*When Morgaine strikes Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart's helicopter, the smoke box used for this effect can clearly be seen attached to the back of the left landing skid.


==Continuity==
==Continuity==

Revision as of 18:40, 12 July 2007

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Synopsis

The Doctor recieves a distress signal rippling backwards, forwards, and sideways in time and arrives on Earth to meet Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart once again and to battle an enemy from another dimension who he won't face for the first time until the future.

Plot

to be added

Cast

Crew

Quotes

  • Morgaine: (Making contact with the Doctor) Merlin...hear me.
  • The Doctor: I hear you.
  • Morgaine: Do not stand against me this time...for your soul's sake.
  • The Doctor: I can not allow your interferance.
  • Morgaine: Then, Merlin...let this be our last battlefield!


(The Doctor and Ace are escorted out.)

  • Ace: That was five things.
  • The Doctor: She didn't even notice.


  • Morgaine: What can you see?
  • Mordred: A flying machine. 'Tis like an ornithopter but with whirling blades for wings.
  • Morgaine: The people of this world are obsessed with machinery.
  • Mordred: It would seem so.
  • Morgaine: Well, then. Let us teach them the limitaions of their technologies.

(She raises her hand and Lethbridge-Stewart's helicopter malfunctions.)


  • Mordred: 'Tis a shrine...to those fallen in battle.
  • Morgaine: Ah. They are not the savages you lead us to believe. We fought on their soil without proper respect for the dead.
  • Mordred: Mother, I...
  • Morgaine: You have dishonored us, Mordred. What is victory without honor?


  • Morgaine: Surrender to me what is mine by right of conquest. Give me Excalibur.
  • Ace: Never.
  • Morgaine: Then you will be given over to the Destroyer and be come his handmaidens...in Hell.

References

Story Notes

  • UNIT appears in this story.
  • The Brigadier is married to Doris Lethbridge-Stewart and has been replaced by Winifred Bambera.
  • The Doctor uses Bessie again.
  • The Brigadier talks of how UNIT has been busy, aquiring bullets that would go through a Dalek, and other bullets for Yetis and robots, including gold-tipped bullets for Cybermen
  • Morgaine's forces call Earth Avallion.
  • The Doctor and Ace use passes that he thought he would never need again. Her pass belonged to Liz Shaw.

Ratings

to be added

Myths

to be added

Location Filming

to be added

Discontinuity, Plot Holes, Errors

  • When Morgaine strikes Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart's helicopter, the smoke box used for this effect can clearly be seen attached to the back of the left landing skid.

Continuity

No Future, Happy Endings, The Shadows of Avalon

DVD and Video Releases

to be added

Target Novelisations

to be added

External Links

to be added


Television

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