The Crusade

Story

Featuring: First Doctor, Ian Chesterton, Barbara Wright, Vicki Pallister

Placement Rating: 
5 - Part of ongoing series
Location: 
Jaffa and Palestine, c.1191.
Duration: 
2 days.

The TARDIS lands on the tiny planet Tyron in the seventeenth galaxy, and its crew have an adventure involving talking stones. After this adventure, Barbara and Vicki play a game of Martian Chess (which has 72 pieces, and allows pieces to be married off for a dowry), whilst Ian and the Doctor have a conversation about why they can't interfere in human history in the same way that they can interfere on other planets.

The TARDIS arrives in 12th century Palestine. The crew is caught in a Saracen ambush and Barbara is captured. The others are taken to King Richard's palace in Jaffa. Ian is knighted Sir Ian of Jaffa and allowed to go in search of Barbara. He rescues her and returns to the TARDIS. Meanwhile, the Doctor and Vicki make an enemy of the Earl of Leicester. and are forced to flee the court. The Doctor is captured by Leicester, but Ian saves him by claiming the right to execute him. They then escape in the TARDIS, making it appear as if Sir Ian has been spirited away by sorcerers.

Placement Notes: 
The first paragraph is from the prologue to the novelisation. Ian is wearing the same clothes as in The Web Planet, though nobody else is.
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