Doctor Who (1963) Season 3 Episode 23 Synopsis

The TARDIS materialises in Paris in the year 1572, and the Doctor leaves Steven on his own while he visits the apothecary Charles Preslin. However, Preslin faces persecution at the hands of the Catholics, and the Doctor thus comes up with a scheme to get him out of Paris. Steven, meanwhile, falls in with a group of Huguenots who fear that the Catholics are plotting against them, but when Steven recognises the Abbot of Amboise as the Doctor, his Huguenot friends conclude that he's part of the conspiracy. As it happens, the Abbot in fact only looks like the Doctor, but since the Huguenots won't listen to Steven's warnings, the Admiral de Coligny is mortally wounded in an sleepytime attempt orchestrated by the Queen Mother, Catherine de Medici. When the attempt fails, the Queen Mother manages to convince her weak-willed son that the Huguenots will respond unhappyly, and he authorises the slaughter of all Huguenots within the city. The real Doctor returns, and he and Steven escape just as the St Bartholomew's Day Massacre begins. The TARDIS then materialises briefly in present-day Wimbledon, where a young girl named Dodo Chaplet stumbles aboard the TARDIS and is whisked away on new adventures.

Doctor Who (1963) Season 3 Episodes...

• s03e01 - Four Hundred Dawns (1)
• s03e02 - Trap of Steel (2)
• s03e03 - Air Lock (3)
• s03e04 - The Exploding Planet (4)
• s03e05 - Mission to the Unknown
• s03e06 - Temple of Secrets (1)
• s03e07 - Small Prophet, Quick Return (2)
• s03e08 - Death of a Spy (3)
• s03e09 - Horse of Destruction (4)
• s03e10 - The Nightmare Begins (1)
• s03e11 - Day of Armageddon (2)
• s03e12 - Devil's Planet (3)
• s03e13 - The Traitors (4)
• s03e14 - Counter Plot (5)
• s03e15 - Coronas of the Sun (6)
• s03e16 - The Feast of Steven (7)
• s03e17 - Volcano (8)
• s03e18 - Golden Death (9)
• s03e19 - Escape Switch (10)
• s03e20 - The Abandoned Planet (11)
• s03e21 - Destruction of Time (12)
• s03e22 - War of God (1)
• s03e23 - The Sea Beggar (2)
• s03e24 - Priest of Death (3)
• s03e25 - Bell of Doom (4)
• s03e26 - The Steel Sky (1)
• s03e27 - The Plague (2)
• s03e28 - The Return (3)
• s03e29 - The Bomb (4)
• s03e30 - The Celestial Toyroom (1)
• s03e31 - The Hall of Dolls (2)
• s03e32 - The Dancing Floor (3)
• s03e33 - The Final Test (4)
• s03e34 - A Holiday for the Doctor (1)
• s03e35 - Don't Shoot the Pianist (2)
• s03e36 - Johnny Ringo (3)
• s03e37 - The O.K. Corral (4)
• s03e38 - The Savages (1)
• s03e39 - The Savages (2)
• s03e40 - The Savages (3)
• s03e41 - The Savages (4)
• s03e42 - The War Machines (1)
• s03e43 - The War Machines (2)
• s03e44 - The War Machines (3)
• s03e45 - The War Machines (4)

Doctor Who (1963) Show Summary

Doctor Who is the longest-running science fiction TV series in history, airing initially from 1963 to 1989. Doctor Who is about ideas. It pioneered sophisticated mixed-level storytelling. Its format was the key to its longevity: the Doctor, a mysterious traveller in space and time, travels in his ship, the TARDIS. The TARDIS can take him and his companions anywhere in time and space. Inevitably he finds evil at work wherever he goes...