Film
Doctor Who: The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve
United Kingdom- Director
- Paddy Russell
- Year
- 1966
The TARDIS materialises in Paris in the year 1572 and the Doctor decides to visit the famous apothecary Charles Preslin. Steven, meanwhile, is befriended by a group of Huguenots from the household of the Protestant Admiral de Coligny. Having rescued a young serving girl, Anne Chaplet, from some pursuing guards, the Huguenots gain their first inkling of a heinous plan being hatched at the command of the Catholic Queen Mother, Catherine de Medici.
Top cast
William Hartnell
The Doctor / Abbot of Amboise
Peter Purves
Steven Taylor
David Weston
Nicholas Muss
Eric Thompson
Gaston, Viscount de Lerans
Annette Robertson
Anne Chaplet
John Tillinger
Simon Duvall
Christopher Tranchell
Roger Colbert
Erik Chitty
Charles Preslin
Edwin Finn
Landlord
Clive Gazes
Captain of the Guard
Reginald Jessup
Servant
Barry Justice
King Charles IX of France
Joan Young
Catherine de' Medici
Leonard Sachs
Admiral de Coligny
André Morell
Marshal Tavannes
Teligny
Michael Bilton
Cynthia Etherington
Old Woman
Norman Claridge
Priest
Directed by
Paddy Russell
Written by
John Lucarotti, Donald Tosh
Produced by
John Wiles
