The Myth Makers (TV story)

For The Myth Maker tapes featuring interviews with the actors from the series click here

Summary

Upon arriving on the plains to Troy the TARDIS crew become involved in the events surrounding the seige of Troy and the plot to enter the city by means of a giant wooden horse (Click here for a more detailed summary)

Cast & Characters

Uncredited Cast

Crew

Notes

The final story featuring Vicki
The first story featuring Katarina
The working titles for this story included The Mythmakers, The Trojans, and The Trojan War. Individual episode titles included Deus ex Machina (episode 1) and Is There a Doctor in the Horse? (episode 3)
All 4 episodes of this story have been lost, with only very limited photographic material being held in the BBC archive
Some limited material from episodes 1, 2 and 4 exist in the form of 8mm home movie reel shot on a television set
One of the least documented stories, with only very limited material exisiting
William Hartnell was struck and injured by a camera during the filming of the first episode
William Hartnell suffered a bereavement while working on the story: the death of his Aunt Bessie, who had looked after him during his troubled childhood. Unfortunately, the tight recording schedules prevented Hartnell from taking time off to attend her funeral
In the 1980s, Reeltime Pictures launched a series of home video releases featuring interviews with the cast and crew of Doctor Who. This long-running series of tapes (which later included the first independently-produced Doctor Who spin-offs) was entitled The Myth Makers after this story

Influences

Homer's Iliad and Odyssey
Virgil's Aeneid
Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde
Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida
The Plays of Euripides
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

Ratings

Temple of Secrets - 8.3m viewers
Small Prophet, Quick Return - 8.1m viewers
Death of a Spy - 8.7m viewers
Horse of Destruction - 8.3m viewers

Myths

William Hartnell refused to appear in scenes with Max Adrian as he was Jewish and Gay. (This is not true and it is only coincidental that the two do not appear in any scenes together)
Frances White who played Cassandra was not credited for this story. (She did in fact appear in the credits for her episodes but was not listed in the Radio Times, at her own request)

Location Filming

Continuity

The Eighth Doctor and Charley Pollard encounter Vicki again in the short story Apocrypha Bipedium which continues on from the events of this story
The story continues directly on from Galaxy 4 with Vicki still having a twisted ankle.
Vicki implies in this story that she is 16 years old

Discontinuity

Quotes

Katarina - "The princess Cressida tells me all will be well. And I knew it was to come."

Doctor - "What was to come?"

Katarina - "That I was to die."

Doctor - "My dear child, you're not dead! That's nonsense!"

Katarina - "But this is not Troy; this is not even the world; this is the journey through the beyond."

Doctor - "No... Yes, yes, yes - as you wish, child. Now, I want you to keep an eye on that young man, will you?"

Story Arcs

References

More Info

Public Releases

DVD Release - This story has not yet been released on DVD.
Video Release - This story has not been released on video as only eleven short clips from episodes 1, 2 and 4 are known to exist. They are from a reel of 8mm film shot at a TV screen

The original audio of this story exists and was released as The Myth Makers in the form of 2 CD's with linking material provided by Peter Purves in January 2001

This audio has also been released as part of the Adventure in History CD Set in August 2003 [ISBN: 0 563 49494 8].

A photovideo reconstruction of this story has been produced by Loose Cannon Productions and more information can be found here

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