TEXT: The Massacre (of St. Bartholomew's Eve) by John Lucarotti first broadcast - 5th February, 1966 [SCENE_BREAK] 1: EXT. COURTYARD OFF CITY STREET (The TARDIS materialises in a courtyard that has a wooden gate leading off to a city street. The DOCTOR and STEVEN exit the ship in their usual attire. They come out of the yard and look around their surroundings. The sound of people and a horse and cart can be heard in the distance.) DOCTOR: Hmm, highly satisfactory. STEVEN: If anyone opens that gate they'll find the TARDIS. DOCTOR: Oh nonsense, my boy. It's perfectly safe in there. Yes. France, most certainly. (He laughs.) STEVEN: Well how do you know that? DOCTOR: Hmm! (The DOCTOR points to a sign that reads "RUE DE BETHISY".) STEVEN: (To himself.) Very good! Date? (To the DOCTOR.) Any idea of the date, Doctor? DOCTOR: Well, by the look of those houses I would say medieval. Although I suppose it might be as late as the seventeenth century. I... STEVEN: (Interrupting.) Look out! (A man dressed in clothes of the sixteenth century, comes into sight wandering purposefully towards one of the houses. The DOCTOR and STEVEN hide behind some bushes and observe. The man knocks on a door that is soon opened by a SERVANT.) MAN: Nicholas Muss is expecting me. SERVANT: Oh yes, of course. (He is admitted by the SERVANT. The DOCTOR and STEVEN come out of hiding.) DOCTOR: (Laughs.) You see that? We've landed in the middle of the sixteenth century. Hmm! Yes, and that was the very time. STEVEN: What are you talking about? DOCTOR: Yes. That strange brotherhood of apothecaries...way ahead of their time. Now, what was the name of that man that lived in Paris? Err...Pes?...Pret
SUMMARY:
Missing episode The TARDIS materialises in Paris in the year 1572 and the Doctor decides to visit the famous apothecary Charles Preslin. Steven, meanwhile, is befriended by a group of Huguenots from the household of the Protestant Admiral de Coligny. Having rescued a young serving girl, Anne Chaplet, from some pursuing guards, the Huguenots gain their first inkling of a heinous plan being hatched at the command of the Catholic Queen Mother,Catherine de Medici.