hughes@mother.DEC (Gary Hughes - CSSE uVAX & AI Systems Group) (05/18/84)
Some other early appearance by other timelords... The earliest other time lord to appear in Dr Who was 'The Meddling Monk' (with William Hartnell) who has a Tardis of his own and (if I remember correctly, I don't have the programme guide handy) is meddling with the Battle of Hastings. The Doctor removes the dimensional control from the Monk's Tardis making the same size inside as out (small!). I don't recall the Monk being called a timelord (it was a long time ago) The Monk reappears in the Dalek Masterplan, chasing the Doctor around the universe as he is a bit upset about the Doctor shrinking his Tardis. The timelords appear for the first time in The War Games when another renegade is assisting the Warlords with devices called Sidrat's. I forget what it stood for but it is of course Tardis backwards. The Doctor (Patrick Troughton) calls upon the timelords for help when he gets in really deep sneakers. This is the first time we get to learn anything about the timelords. They change the Doctor's appearance (to Jon Pertwee) and exile him to Earth after blocking his knowledge of the Tardis dematerialisation codes. I always thought the other renegade timelord was the Master but the book is not clear about this. (Anyone showing Troughton reruns?) Just before the master appears in the Pertwee series, the Doctor hears the familiar 'wheeze-thump' of a Tardis and turns to see another timelord materialising (minus tardis) who warns him that the Master has escaped and was tracked to the Earth. gary
goldman@stolaf.UUCP (Matthew D. Goldman) (05/21/84)
And yet another time lord is the Mad Monk. He was attempting to use nuclear weapons to change who won the battle of Hastings in 1066. His TARDIS was disabled by the Doctor. The Doctor removed a vital part of the Mad Monk's time engine, thus stranding MM in 1066. Otto