Battlefield (TV story)

Synopsis
The Doctor recieves a distress signal rippling backwards, forwards, and sideways in time and arrives on Earth to meet Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart once again and to battle an enemy from another dimension who he won't face for the first time until the future.

Plot
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Cast

 * The Doctor - Sylvester McCoy
 * Ace - Sophie Aldred
 * Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart - Nicholas Courtney
 * Morgaine - Jean Marsh
 * Brigadier Winifred Bambera - Angela Bruce
 * Mordred - Christopher Bowen
 * Ancelyn - Marcus Gilbert
 * Doris Lethbridge-Stewart - Angela Douglas
 * Shou Yuing - Ling Tai
 * Peter Warmsly - James Ellis
 * Pat Rowlinson - Noel Collins
 * Elizabeth Rowlinson - June Bland
 * Sergeant Zbrigniev - Robert Jezek
 * Flight Lieutenant Lavel - Dorota Rae
 * Knight Commander - Stefan Schwartz
 * Major Husak - Paul Tomany
 * The Destroyer - Marek Anton

Crew

 * Assistant Floor Managers - Matthew Purves, Julian Herne
 * Costumes - Anushia Nieradzik
 * Designer - Martin Collins
 * Incidental Music - Keff McCulloch
 * Make-Up - Juliette Mayer
 * OB Cameramen - Paul Harding, Alan Jessop
 * Producer - John Nathan-Turner
 * Production Assistant - Rosemary Parsons
 * Production Associate - June Collins
 * Script Editor - Andrew Cartmel
 * Special Sounds - Dick Mills
 * Stunt Arranger - Alf Joint
 * Theme Arrangement - Keff McCulloch
 * Title Music - Ron Grainer
 * Visual Effects - Dave Bezkorowajny

Quotes

 * Morgaine: (Making contact with the Doctor) Merlin...hear me.
 * The Doctor: I hear you.
 * Morgaine: Do not stand against me this time...for your soul's sake.
 * The Doctor: I can not allow your interferance.
 * Morgaine: Then, Merlin...let this be our last battlefield!

(The Doctor and Ace are escorted out.)
 * The Doctor: I'd just like to say three things.
 * Bambera: What?
 * The Doctor: Yeti, Autons, Daleks. Cybermen and Silurians.
 * Ace: That was five things.
 * The Doctor: She didn't even notice.

(She raises her hand and Lethbridge-Stewart's helicopter malfunctions.)
 * Morgaine: What can you see?
 * Mordred: A flying machine. 'Tis like an ornithopter but with whirling blades for wings.
 * Morgaine: The people of this world are obsessed with machinery.
 * Mordred: It would seem so.
 * Morgaine: Well, then. Let us teach them the limitaions of their technologies.


 * Mordred: 'Tis a shrine...to those fallen in battle.
 * Morgaine: Ah. They are not the savages you lead us to believe. We fought on their soil without proper respect for the dead.
 * Mordred: Mother, I...
 * Morgaine: You have dishonored us, Mordred. What is victory without honor?


 * Morgaine: Surrender to me what is mine by right of conquest. Give me Excalibur.
 * Ace: Never.
 * Morgaine: Then you will be given over to the Destroyer and be come his handmaidens...in Hell.

Story Notes

 * UNIT appears in this story.
 * The Brigadier is married to Doris Lethbridge-Stewart and has been replaced by Winifred Bambera.
 * The Doctor uses Bessie again.
 * The Brigadier talks of how UNIT has been busy, aquiring bullets that would go through a Dalek, and other bullets for Yetis and robots, including gold-tipped bullets for Cybermen
 * Morgaine's forces call Earth Avallion.
 * The Doctor and Ace use passes that he thought he would never need again. Her pass belonged to Liz Shaw.

Ratings
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Myths
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Location Filming
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Discontinuity, Plot Holes, Errors

 * When Morgaine strikes Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart's helicopter, the smoke box used for this effect can clearly be seen attached to the back of the left landing skid.

Continuity
No Future, Happy Endings, The Shadows of Avalon

DVD and Video Releases
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Target Novelisations
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