The Time Meddler (TotT TV story)

The Time Meddler was the fifth episode of the series Tales of the TARDIS and was released on BBC iPlayer on 1 November 2023 by the BBC, written by Phil Ford and directed by Joshua M.G. Thomas, and was notable for featuring the televised return of Peter Purves as Steven Taylor.

This story consists of two newly recorded scenes placed on either side of an omnibus version of the TV story The Time Meddler.

Synopsis
Steven and Vicki meet again and remember their first adventure battling a time-travelling Monk about to change the course of history in 1066.

Plot
To be added

Cast

 * Vicki - Maureen O'Brien
 * Steven Taylor - Peter Purves

Uncredited

 * William Hartnell - First Doctor (archive voice)

Worldbuilding

 * Steven calls Vicki his "little sister".
 * Steven doesn't think highly of the Sixth Doctor's coat.

Continuity

 * Steven tells Vicki that he became a king after leaving the TARDIS, and is now both a father and a grandfather. (AUDIO: The War to End All Wars)
 * Vicki tell Steven that she and Troilus have children. (AUDIO: Frostfire)
 * Vicki finds a Viking helmet that ignites her and Steven memories of the First Monk and his plot to alter the Battle of Hastings. (TV: The Time Meddler)
 * Steven and Vicki recall being on Mechanus and seeing the Mechanoids and the Daleks on the day they met. (TV: The Chase)
 * Steven mentions that he and the Doctor ran into the Monk again after Vicki left the TARDIS and that he "wasn't happy how the Doctor left him stranded." (TV: The Daleks' Master Plan)
 * Vicki mentions she became the granddaughter the Doctor lost after Susan Foreman left, (TV: The Dalek Invasion of Earth) and how she was an orphan when they met. (TV: The Rescue)