The Crusade was a reconstruction of the serial The Crusade originally produced for the VHS release of The Crusade. It featured the two existing episodes and remade the other two with new scenes with William Russell in-character as Ian Chesterton performing linking narration.
Synopsis[[edit] | [edit source]]
Sir Ian Chesterton guides a documentary crew into his home as he tells his audience about something that happened over 30 years ago.
Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]
Ian Chesterton is participating in a video that will tell people just how the events of him meeting Richard the Lionheart went.
He recalls his adventures with the First Doctor, and tells us he is absolutely certain that the Doctor is still travelling in time and space.
Ian tells us how the Doctor was old when he was young, and later goes on to show us a suit of armour, saying that he keeps this in his study as a reminder of the adventure. He tells us if he told people everything, they'd think he was mad.
He goes on to say if he actually wanted people to think he was really mad, then he could tell people his name was Sir Ian Chesterton as he was knighted over "700 years ago".
Ian makes us aware of how the adventure ended and goes back to his book cabinet, selects a book and begins to read. He will never forget... the Doctor.
Cast[[edit] | [edit source]]
Crew[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Writer - Steve Cole
- Director - Paul Vanezis
- Producers - Joe Mahoney, Gareth Wakeman
- Camera - Robin Sunderland
- Location sound - Gordon Nightingale
- Archive sources - BBC Broadcast Archives, Bruce Grenville
- Editing - Brian Charles, Brian Watkiss
- Telecine - Dave Hawley
- Restoration Supervisor - Steve Roberts
- Sound Restoration - Mark Ayres
- Post Production Facilities - BBC Post Production & Graphic Design, BBC Television Centre, BBC Post Production, BBC Birmingham
- Thanks to Andy Bello, Ian Levine, Jason May, Richard Molesworth, Shirley O'Mara, Paul Scoones
Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]
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Story notes[[edit] | [edit source]]
- This marked the first on-screen appearance of Ian Chesterton since TV: The Chase. He would later make a televised cameo in the 2022 special The Power of the Doctor.
- It was later released on the Lost in Time box set on DVD.
- Along with The Man from MI.5, Glorious Goodwood, Police 5: The Master, Making Cocoa and The Stealers from Saiph, this is one of six DWU productions to feature no surviving cast members.
Production errors[[edit] | [edit source]]
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Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Ian recalls his and Barbara's first meeting with the Doctor at 76 Totter's Lane, (TV: An Unearthly Child) the talking stones of Tyron, (PROSE: Doctor Who and the Crusaders) the Salem witch trials (PROSE: The Witch Hunters) and being knighted by Richard the Lionheart. (TV: The Crusade)
Home video releases[[edit] | [edit source]]
VHS releases[[edit] | [edit source]]
The reconstruction was released on VHS on 5 July 1999, along with the surviving first and third episodes, "The Lion" and "The Wheel of Fortune" and all four episodes of The Space Museum.
DVD releases[[edit] | [edit source]]
- William Russell's linking narration were released as bonus extras on the Lost in Time box set in 2004.
Blu-ray releases[[edit] | [edit source]]
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VHS box set cover
UK VHS cover
External links[[edit] | [edit source]]
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