Doctor Who: The Myth Makers [1965]

Date(s) of Broadcast: 16 October 1965 - 6 November 1965
Number of Episodes: 4
Average Episode Running Times: 25 mins
Format: black and white
Sound: mono

PRODUCTION
Production Company: BBC
Producer: John Wiles

SCRIPT
Script: Donald Cotton
Story Editor: Donald Tosh

DIRECTION
Director: Michael Leeston-Smith

PHOTOGRAPHY
Studio Lighting: Ralph Walton
Film Cameraman: Peter Hamilton

EDITING AND POST PRODUCTION
Film Editor: Caroline Shields

MUSIC
Title Music: Ron Grainer and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Title Music Arranger: Delia Derbyshire
Incidental Music: Humphrey Searle

SOUND
Studio Sound: Dave Kitchen, Bryan Forgham
Special Sounds: Brian Hodgson

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Elizabeth Blattner [episodes 1, 2], Sonia Markham [episodes 3, 4]
Costumes: Daphne Dare [episode 1, 3, 4], Tony Pearce [episode 2]

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Designer: John Wood

MISCELLANEOUS
Production Assistants: David Maloney, Richard Brooks
Assistant Floor Manager: Dawn Robertson

STUNTS
Fight Arranger: Derek Ware

CAST
EPISODE ONE: Temple of Secrets
William Hartnell [The Doctor]
Maureen O'Brien [Vicki]
Peter Purves [Steven]
Adrienne Hill [Katarina]
Cavan Kendall [Achilles]
Alan Haywood [Hector]
Ivor Salter [Odysseus]
Francis de Wolff [Agamemnon]
Jack Melford [Menelaus]
Tutte Lemkow [Cyclops]

EPISODE TWO: Small Prophet, Quick Return
William Hartnell [The Doctor]
Maureen O'Brien [Vicki]
Peter Purves [Steven]
Adrienne Hill [Katarina]
Ivor Salter [Odysseus]
Francis de Wolff [Agamemnon]
Max Adrian [King Priam]
Barrie Ingham [Paris]
Francis White [Cassandra]
Jon Luxton [messenger]

EPISODE THREE: Death of a Spy
William Hartnell [The Doctor]
Maureen O'Brien [Vicki]
Peter Purves [Steven]
Adrienne Hill [Katarina]
Ivor Salter [Odysseus]
Francis de Wolff [Agamemnon]
Jack Melford [Menelaus]
Tutte Lemkow [Cyclops]
Max Adrian [King Priam]
Barrie Ingham [Paris]
Francis White [Cassandra]
James Lynn [Troilus]

EPISODE FOUR: Horse of Destruction
William Hartnell [The Doctor]
Maureen O'Brien [Vicki]
Peter Purves [Steven]
Adrienne Hill [Katarina]
Cavan Kendall [Achilles]
Ivor Salter [Odysseus]
Max Adrian [King Priam]
Barrie Ingham [Paris]
Francis White [Cassandra]
James Lynn [Troilus]

UNCREDITED PERFORMERS
Gerry Alexander, Paul Barnes, Leslie Bryan, Derek Chafer, Norton Clark, Peter Day, Jack Duggan, John Freeman, Pat Gorman, James Hamilton, Graham Hardy, Tony Hennessy, Ricky Lancing, Ken Norris, Steve Pokol, Mike Reid, Peter Roy, Russell Scott, Donald Simons, Mike Stevens, Peter Blair Stewart, Derek Ware, Michael Wilder, Gary Wyler [soldiers - uncredited]
Ian Anton, Victor Bailey, Michelle Barry, Margaret Bass, Eric Blackburn, Daphne Green, David Grenau, Walter Henry, John May, John Moore, John Moyce, Michael Osborne, Darrel Richards, Jack Rowlands, Joanna Smithers, Cara Stevens, Doreen Ubels, Stephen Ubels [citizens Of Troy]
Extras: Ralph Carrigan, Roy Douglas, Mary Mcmillan, Christopher Stevens, Beverly Stevens, Chris Stevens, Pat Stevens
Double For Hector: Michael Wilder
Double For Achilles: Pat Gorman

EPISODES

1. Temple Of Secrets [16 October 1965]
2. Small Prophet, Quick Return [23 October 1965]
3. Death Of A Spy [30 October 1965]
4. The Horse Of Destruction [6 November 1965]

The TARDIS rematerialises outside Troy and The Doctor, mistaken for the god Zeus, is forced by the Greeks to help them capture the city from the Trojans, who have captured Steven and Vicki. The Doctor 'invents' the famous Trojan Horse, having already dismissed the legend as an invention of the writer Homer, Steven is wounded in battle and Vicki falls in love...

UK
Television Distributor: BBC

1965
October
16: UK - Temple of Secrets television broadcast
23: UK - Temple of Secrets television broadcast
30: UK - Temple of Secrets television broadcast

November
6: UK - Temple of Secrets television broadcast

The Trojans
Is There A Doctor In The Horse? - alternative title for episode three

BOOKS

Doctor Who: The Television Companion pp.71-74
credits, synopsis, review [by David J. Howe and Stephen James Walker]

KEYWORDS

aliens, time travel, trojan horse

Last Updated: 21 April, 2008