Talk:The Massacre (TV story)

room between outer and inner tardis doors
Hello, I read two apparently unrelated sources from persons who saw the original broadcast:

Both state that during the scene at the end when Steven leaves the Doctor, there was a shot showing the inside of the police box right after the inner doors and pushing the outer doors from the inside.

The two accounts I've read are here: http://tardisbuilders.com/index.php?topic=4757.0 (EDIT: see replies #6 and #8)

 (EDIT: copy-pasting the relevant comment: "I remember this episode on its original broadcast. It is the first time, when the Doctor opens the larger double inner TARDIS doors for Steven to leave, we see the smaller closed double outer police box doors, which Steven opens by pushing a bar, a bar similar to one you see on a fire door. Very unusual. Rather like the doors we see from the inside of the TARDIS today. When companions Ian Chesterton & Barbara Wright left, the series was never the same.﻿")

Personally, that would be credible enough (considering the vestibule glimpsed in Claws of Axos and knowing the behind the scenes constructions plans of the pilot tardis as published by Radio Times) But I want to know if there is something more official about it (source book, In Vision, ...) before putting it in an article.RingoRoadagain ☎  22:07, December 12, 2017 (UTC)
 * The only sources for the in-universe section of articles is the stories themselves. As for behind the scenes, I think your first source, as a message board, wouldn't be considered a valid source, and your second source is a video, which we cannot link to per Tardis:Video policy. In my opinion, these sources are word-of-mouth and not really official enough to use at sources. Thanks, Shambala108 ☎  22:23, December 12, 2017 (UTC)
 * Sorry about the video, this was actually a comment under it saying roughly the same thing as the forum account but I don't think we can link to only the comment section anymore... To be clear this is not just behind the scenes stuff since this is what they allegedly saw when it was broadcast on TV: people accounts are the only to know what occured on-screen for wiped stories (is there even a precedent for things like that on the wiki ?). Even though I believe that they are saying the truth, I fully agree with you that my sources are not trustable enough for the wiki articles. However I would find it strange that nobody else ever mentionned it (in an interview or a DWM summary of the story for example): I began the discussion mostly to check if someone remember seeing it in a more official testimony.RingoRoadagain ☎  23:00, December 12, 2017 (UTC)

Hey, all. Very late to the programme, enjoying the early black-and-white episodes for the very first time.

Finishing "The Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Eve" just now, but wondering if there's been any comment on how ludicrously violent and politically uninteresting this serial would've been to the children watching in 1966. For a children's show, the public outcry must've been fantastic, yet I've only been able to locate a single YT commentator that might broach the subject (haven't viewed it yet, as I'm waiting 'til I finish the serial's finale in a moment).

As a fan, I was enthralled with this story, but I can't imagine children or their parents were very pleased with it at all. Anyone know where I could travel back in time to 1966 to read about the public's reaction for this particular serial?

--Dont Panic Dent ☎  03:53, August 20, 2020 (UTC)

The Full Title
Does any oppose switching the the full, 1960's accurate title as the pagename? OS25🤙☎️ 20:45, 8 March 2023 (UTC)


 * I think it's best left where it is given the factors mentioned in the page's lead. If we were trying to be accurate to the 1960s, we'd have An Unearthly Child at 100,000 BC, after all. Jack &#34;BtR&#34; Saxon ☎  21:24, 8 March 2023 (UTC)


 * I agree with the rename. Comparable reference sources like TCH use the full title, and we also use full story titles for other serials which it might be convenient to abbreviate (for instance, Doctor Who and the Silurians (TV story)). I see no reason why the full name, The Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Eve (TV story), wouldn't take priority here. – n8 (☎) 21:41, 8 March 2023 (UTC)


 * Jack, to address your point: according to the great early story title analysis "By Any Other Name", the contest is between The Massacre of St Bartholomew and The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve, the former being an abbreviation of the latter – "The Massacre" doesn't even enter into it. It's the wiki's policy (as explained by User:SOTO at Talk:Main Range) that "We've always (always always) gone with original titles". I don't think this should be an exception. – n8 (☎) 21:45, 8 March 2023 (UTC)


 * I understand that, but Czech cited T:SERIALS when they moved the page from The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve to The Massacre, which states that "the name given in the BBC's episode guide is preferred". Jack &#34;BtR&#34; Saxon ☎  22:10, 8 March 2023 (UTC)


 * If it were up to me, we WOULD list An Unearthly Child (TV story) as 100,000 BC. And I have the feeling that we may someday soon. OS25🤙☎️ 22:36, 8 March 2023 (UTC)


 * And as N8 said, TCH 7 seems like enough evidence that some BBC listings do state the correct title. OS25🤙☎️ 22:50, 8 March 2023 (UTC)

Here's what The Complete History has to say on the matter:


 * "By 1974, BBC Enterprises was listing the serial under the title The Massacre of Bartholomew. From 1975, the more commonly used title The Massacre was adopted, apparently originating in The Doctor Who Minibook published by Keith Miller of the Doctor Who Fan Club; this title was then adopted by the Doctor Who Appreciation Society in some of its guides from 1976 and used by landmark reference works such as the 1976 edition of The Making of Doctor Who and the paperback edition of The Doctor Who Programme Guide in 1981, with the title The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve only re-emerging in some quarters in the late 1980s."

It seems to suggest that The Massacre (used for the novelisation and soundtrack [although the soundtrack does begin with Purves introducing it by the full name]) is the more common title. Jack &#34;BtR&#34; Saxon ☎  23:28, 8 March 2023 (UTC)