TEXT: The Time Warrior By Robert Holmes Broadcast December 15th 1973 Duration: 24'15 [SCENE_BREAK] 1. FX SHOT. SPACE (We see a bright light moving rapidly across the screen. This is LINX's spaceship heading toward Earth.) [SCENE_BREAK] 2. INT. IRONGRON'S CASTLE (An axe smashes into a table. Pull back to reveal BLOODAXE who looks nervously at his master, IRONGRON. They both sit at the table.) IRONGRON: This sheep has been dead a year. Are they trying to poison me? BLOODAXE: It is salted. IRONGRON: Salted? It stinks! (He throws a bone against the wall.) IRONGRON: Wine! Must I perish of thirst? Bring me wine! (MEG scurries up to the table with a pitcher. She pours some wine into IRONGRON'S tankard.) MEG: 'Tis the dregs of the barrel, captain. 'Tis the last there is. (MEG backs away as IRONGRON drinks. It is foul. He spits it out.) IRONGRON: (angry.) Ooh... (He throws the flagon at MEG. It's contents land on one of his minions, waking him up.) IRONGRON: Sour wine!...Stinking meat, sour wine...is this how I am served? BLOODAXE: Our supplies are low captain...it's some time since we went a-foraging. IRONGRON: And meanwhile our fine neighbours feast their bellies full of fresh meat and swill down flagons of fine wine. BLOODAXE: Sir Edward's storehouses and cellars are well stocked. IRONGRON: Then perhaps we should relieve him of some of his abundance, eh my friend? He's a good neighbour...he'll not miss a little of his pantry. BLOODAXE: Look! (BLOODAXE gets up and crosses
SUMMARY:
The Brigadier asks the Doctor to investigate the disappearance of several scientists, only for him to find they have been abducted back in time.