TEXT: THE REIGN OF TERROR by DENNIS SPOONER first broadcast - 15th August, 1964 5:15pm - 5:40pm [SCENE_BREAK] 1. HOUSE, 12 KM FROM PARIS, 1794 (The house continues to blaze.) [SCENE_BREAK] 2. INSIDE THE HOUSE, A SMALL ROOM UPSTAIRS (The Doctor still lies unconscious.) [SCENE_BREAK] 3. HOUSE (The flames continue to burn, into the night sky.) [SCENE_BREAK] 4. PARIS (We see Paris laid out below.) [SCENE_BREAK] 5. PARIS SQUARE (Crowds are cheering at the raised guillotine.) [SCENE_BREAK] (The blade falls, claiming another victim.) [SCENE_BREAK] 6. OUTSIDE THE CONCIERGERIE PRISON (This is a forbidding looking building by the river. Two women are sitting on the bench outside as some soldiers walk in.) [SCENE_BREAK] 7. OFFICE, CONCIERGERIE PRISON (Susan, Ian and Barbara are being interviewed by a judge who is seated at a desk with papers in front of him.) BARBARA: Are we to be allowed to tell our story? JUDGE: Prisoners are not required to speak. I have the charges here. You were found in the house with Rouvray and D'Argenson and arrested by a platoon of soldiers. I am satisfied as to your guilt as being in the company of wanted traitors. The sentence - immediate execution. (The travelers look at each other in alarm.) BARBARA: We demand the right to speak! JUDGE: You have no rights! You will be guillotined as soon as it can be arranged. (To the guard.) Take them to the cells! [SCENE_BREAK] 8. CORRIDOR OUTSIDE THE CELLS (Susan and Barbara watch as the jailer locks the door to Ian's cell.) JAILER: (To Ian.) Stay back, by the wall. (Susan
SUMMARY:
The TARDIS materialises not far from Paris in 1794 - one of the bloodiest years following the French Revolution of 1789. The travellers become involved with an escape chain rescuing prisoners from the guillotine and get caught up in the machinations of an English undercover spy, James Stirling - alias Lemaitre, governor of the Conciergerie prison.