The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve

022 – The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve
Doctor Who serial
The Doctor and Steven discuss events
Cast
Doctor William Hartnell (First Doctor)
Companion Peter Purves (Steven Taylor)
Others William Hartnell — Abbot of Amboise Barry Justice — King Charles IX of France Joan Young — Catherine de' Medici Leonard Sachs — Admiral de Coligny André Morell — Marshal Tavannes Michael Bilton — Teligny Erik Chitty — Charles Preslin Eric Thompson — Gaston, Viscount de Lerans David Weston — Nicholas Muss John Tillinger — Simon Duvall Christopher Tranchell — Roger Colbert Annette Robertson — Anne Chaplet Cynthia Etherington — Old Woman Edwin Finn — Landlord Clive Cazes — Captain of the Guard Reginald Jessup — Servant Norman Claridge — Priest John Slavid — Officer Will Stampe, Ernest Smith — Men Jack Tarran, Leslie Bates — Guards Jackie Lane — Dodo Chaplet
Production
Directed by	Paddy Russell
Written by	John Lucarotti Donald Tosh
Script editor	Donald Tosh Gerry Davis
Produced by	John Wiles
Executive producer(s)	None
Incidental music composer	by Pierre Arvey
Production code	W
Series	Season 3
Length	4 episodes, 25 minutes each
Episode(s) missing	All 4 episodes
Date started	5 February 1966
Date ended	26 February 1966
Chronology
← Preceded by Followed by → The Daleks' Master Plan The Ark
List of Doctor Who serials

The Massacre

Author	John Lucarotti
Cover artist	Tony Masero
Series	Doctor Who book: Target novelisations
Release number	122
Publisher	Target Books
Publication date	June 1987 (Hardback) 19 November 1987 (Paperback)
ISBN

The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve is the completely missing fourth serial of the third season in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from 5 to 26 February 1966. This serial marks the first appearance of Jackie Lane as companion-to-be Dodo Chaplet. Although audio recordings and still photographs of the story exist, no footage of this serial is known to have survived.

The arrival of the TARDIS in Paris, France in 1572 places its occupants, the First Doctor and Steven Taylor, in a dangerous situation. Tensions between Protestants and Catholics are at fever pitch in the city –- with younger hotheads like Gaston, Viscount de Lerans, a Protestant Huguenot nobleman, and Simon Duval, a Catholic, drawn into violent confrontation in a tavern. Despite the danger, the Doctor heads off alone to visit the apothecary Charles Preslin, leaving Steven to drink alone but warning him to keep out of trouble. Moments later, Steven attracts the attention of the landlord of the tavern for not settling his bill, but is helped out financially by Nicholas Muss, a Huguenot, who welcomes him to his party of drinkers. Muss explains that the marriage of the Protestant Prince Henri of Navarre, to the Catholic Princess Marguerite de Valois, the sister of the King, is the cause of the heightened tension in Paris. While Steven, Gaston and Nicholas are wandering home, they find a frightened serving girl, Anne Chaplet, who is terrified of being pressed into the service of the Catholic Abbot of Amboise. Anne is also scared because she has heard some guards in the pay of the Cardinal mention how a religious massacre of Huguenots back in her home town of Wassy a decade earlier could now be replicated in Paris. To protect her and her knowledge, Nicholas arranges for Anne to go into the service of his master, Admiral Gaspard de Coligny, the most senior Protestant adviser at the Royal Court. Steven also stays with the Admiral to avoid the curfew in the city, as the Doctor has not returned to the tavern as arranged.