The Smugglers

028 - The Smugglers
Polly, The Doctor and Ben change in an inn owned by the smuggler Jacob Kewper
Cast
Doctor William Hartnell (First Doctor)
Companions Anneke Wills (Polly) Michael Craze (Ben Jackson)
Others David Blake Kelly — Jacob Kewper Terence De Marney — Joseph Longfoot George A. Cooper — Cherub John Ringham — Josiah Blake Michael Godfrey — Captain Pike Mike Lucas — Tom Paul Whitsun-Jones — The Squire Derek Ware — Spaniard Elroy Josephs — Jamaica Jack Bligh — Gaptooth
Production
Directed by	Julia Smith
Written by	Brian Hayles
Script editor	Gerry Davis
Produced by	Innes Lloyd
Executive producer(s)	None
Incidental music composer	None
Production code	CC
Series	Season 4
Length	4 episodes, 25 minutes each
Episode(s) missing	All 4 episodes
Date started	10 September 1966
Date ended	1 October 1966
Chronology
← Preceded by Followed by → The War Machines The Tenth Planet
List of Doctor Who serials

The Smugglers

Author	Terrance Dicks
Cover artist	Alister Pearson
Series	Doctor Who book: Target novelisations
Release number	133
Publisher	Target Books
Publication date	17 November 1988
ISBN

The Smugglers is the completely missing first serial of the fourth season in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from 10 September to 1 October 1966. Although audio recordings, still photographs, and clips of the story exist, no episodes of this serial are known to have survived.

The Doctor's new companions Ben and Polly arrive with him in the TARDIS on the coast of seventeenth century Cornwall. They meet a worried churchwarden named Joseph Longfoot, who lives in fear of "Avery's boys" and, in thanks for the Doctor's kindness in relocating a dislocated finger, imparts a cryptic message he calls "Deadman's secret key": "Smallbeer, Ringwood, Gurney". While the time travellers head off to settle at the local inn, Longfoot has another visitor. This one is Cherub, Longfoot's former shipmate under pirate Captain Avery on the Black Albatross. Cherub and his master, Samuel Pike, who captains the Albatross since Avery died, want to recover Avery's accursed gold. Pike is convinced that Longfoot has the treasure or knows where it is hidden. When the churchwarden does not co-operate, Cherub kills him – but not before revealing he saw the three travellers who visited Longfoot earlier.

Hours later the discovery of the churchwarden's body leads the locals to suspect the three strangers at the inn. The local Squire is called to intervene and adjudicate, and ends up charging Ben and Polly with the murder. Employing trickery to obtain their freedom, they split up. Ben hides at the church until Josiah Blake, a revenue man tracking the local smugglers, disturbs him.

In the meantime Cherub and some pirates have kidnapped the Doctor and taken him to the Albatross. The Doctor attempts to bargain with Pike, and finds himself kept aboard ship while the captain goes ashore. Pike decides to try to make an alliance with the Squire as well to protect himself while he searches for Avery's treasure. The greedy Squire is the organiser of the local smuggling ring and offers to cut Pike and his pirates in. They are interrupted by Polly, who has come to implore the Squire to help her find the Doctor and is shocked to see him in the company of the kidnapping pirate Cherub.