#The Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Eve

[6-and-7]

The Massacre (of St. Bartholomew's Eve) 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.

The Runaway Bride Killer Santas, exploding baubles, an alien spaceship shaped like a giant star — Christmas with the Tenth Doctor is anything but a silent night…

[forestkodama]

So, I only just finished the Fourth Doctor's run (and I haven't seen any New Who, so no spoilers please in my Classic Who journey), but I really wish they had kept at the premise of using the lead actor for dual roles as both the Doctor and the villain for a story arch. Admittedly, very few people have watched The Massacre at St. Bartholomew's Eve except through the reconstructions, and they are hard to get through, but seeing Hartnell in another role was definitely the highlight of the story. However, Enemy of the World is utterly fantastic storytelling and highlights Troughton's superb acting (and solidified Two as my favorite Doctor).

The setup is such fun and rife with possibilities in an expansive universe like Doctor Who and I wish we got more of it.

[ocean-irl]

So I just finished The Massacre.

[normiedoctorwho]

I think about the massacre episode of doctor who a lot. Not only is it the rare companion driven story, but I truthfully love the character drama. Doctor who was originally billed as an educational program for children. The time travel so children could learn about historical events and the future stuff so they could learn about science. And what the massacre does is makes Steven an audience surrogate because he doesn’t know about this tragedy at all.

Doctor Who is a British tv show and this event was a French tragedy, so they might not even be aware this happened. Granted I’m coming at this from an American perspective and like it might’ve been mentioned in a AP European history course I took in high school but not in depth. Just another tragedy of the Protestant reformation.

But here in Doctor who, you learn what happened through Steven’s interactions with those who were there. And as it all plays out you’re forced to contend with the fact that this happened. This was real. They were real people, not just a page in the history. Steven’s reaction of shock and anger to the Doctor asserting that he was right to do as he did and that he wasn’t guilty of Ann’s possible death is how we’d all react. How could he turn that girl away! He saved Katarina from the fall of Troy after all!

But then you’d remember how that played out. What happened to Katarina. And suddenly the Doctor’s motives for leaving Ann behind become more muddled. Was it actually to preserve history? Or was it because he thought Ann had a better chance of surviving the St Bartholomew day’s massacre than she did in the TARDIS?

But Steven doesn’t think of this, and most of the audience probably doesn’t either. So he storms off. Not even caring where the TARDIS lands next. Granted Steven comes back like 5 minutes later and we don’t know why, and the Doctor is absolved of Ann’s murder via Dodo’s existence, but still.

I know I went off topic there at the end but the point is doctor who expertly educated it’s audience on a historical event. And it gets the audience invested in what happened by leveraging their lack of knowledge. So that like Steven, you never want anyone to needlessly die like that again.

It’s probably my favorite who story after remembrance of the daleks and I wish people would give it a chance, despite it being lost. The audio drama version on audible is very well done.

Edit: last thing. A subtle detail I really like is when the Doctor realized what’s about to happen, he called Ann by her name before he told her to leave asap. The first Doctor always called the young women he met my child, so the gravity of what was going to happen hit him hard and they were hiding in a somewhat famous Huguenot’s house. The Doctor was genuinely trying to save her within the rules he thought he had to go by.

[laughhardrunfastbekindsblog]

"The Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Eve" wins as THE saddest story of classic Who.

That montage of the massacre along with the characters we've been introduced to just rips my heart in two.

Add in Steven getting so upset and arguing with the Doctor about leaving everyone behind, and I'm just done for 😭😭😭💔💔💔

[demigodofhoolemere]

I’m very glad we have all these nice photos but I’d give anything to see these beautiful clothes in action!

[shelma32entertainment]

Classic Doctor Who | 3x22 | REACTION | The Massacre : Part One (Reconstruction)

[master-missysversion]

No no no none of them get to escape from the "The X of the Y" titles, they all did that. I think its tradition at this point tbh

all steven moffat episode titles be like "The Impossible Of The Doctor"

all chris chibnall episode titles be like "The Timaeus Event PART 3: Proliferation of the [classic who monster]"

all RTD episode titles be like "grass"

[hitchell-mope]

Every serial of classic who.

An unearthly child

The Daleks

The edge of destruction

Marco Polo

The keys of Marinus

The Aztecs

The Sensorites

The reign of terror

Planet of giants

The Dalek invasion of Earth

The rescue

The Romans

The web planet

The crusade

The space museum

The chase

The time meddler

Galaxy 4

Mission to the unknown

The myth makers

The Daleks' Master Plan

The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve

The ark

The celestial toymaker

The gunfighters

The savages

The war machines

The smugglers

The tenth planet 

The power of the Daleks

The highlanders

The underwater menace

The moonbase

The macra terror

The faceless ones

The evil of the Daleks

The tomb of the Cybermen

The abominable snowmen

The ice warriors

The enemy of the world

The web of fear

Fury from the deep

The wheel in space

The dominators

The mind robber

The invasion

The Krotons

The seeds of death

The space pirates

The war games

Spearhead from space

Doctor Who and the Silurians

The ambassadors of death

Inferno

Terror of the autons

The mind of evil

The claws of axos

Colony in space

The dæmons

Day of the Daleks

The curse of Peladon

The sea devils

The mutants

The time monster

The three doctors

Carnival of monsters

Frontier in space

Planet of the Daleks

The Green Death

The time warrior

Invasion of the dinosaurs

Death to the Daleks

The monster of Peladon

Planet of the spiders

Robot

The ark in space

The Sontaran experiment

Genesis of the Daleks

Revenge of the cybermen

Terror of the zygons

Planet of evil

Pyramids of Mars

The android invasion

The brain of Morbius

The seeds of doom

The masque of Mandragora

The hand of fear.

The deadly assassin

The face of evil

The robots of death

The talons of Weng-Chiang

Horror of fang rock

The invisible enemy

Image of the Fendahl

The sun makers

Underworld

The invasion of time

The ribos operation

The pirate planet

The stones of blood

The androids of Tara

The power of kroll

The Armageddon factor

Destiny of the Daleks

City of death

The creature from the pit

Nightmare of Eden

The horns of nimon

The leisure hive

Meglos 

Full circle

State of decay

Warriors gate

The keeper of Traken

Logopolis

Castrovalva

Four to doomsday

Kinda

The visitation

Black orchid

Earthshock

Time flight

Arc of infinity

Snakedance

Mawdryn undead

Terminus

Enlightenment

The king’s demons

The five doctors

Warriors of the deep

The awakening

Frontios

Resurrection of the Daleks

Planet of fire

The caves of Androzani

The twin dilemma

Attack of the Cybermen

Vengeance on Varos

The mark of the Rani

The two doctors

Timelash

Revelation of the Daleks

The mysterious planet

Mindwarp

Terror of the Vervoids

The ultimate foe

Time and the Rani

Paradise towers

Delta and the Bannermen

Dragonfire

Remembrance of the Daleks

The happiness patrol

Silver nemesis

The greatest show in the galaxy

Battlefield

Ghost light

The curse of fenric

Survival

The movie

[companion-showdown]

Who is your favourite companion?

ROUND 2 MASTERPOST

propaganda under the cut

Barbara Wright

Come on; she's the teacher who taught the Doctor to be a decent person. Without her 99.995% of the series would never have happened. Also the Aztecs thought she was a goddess and I mean; I'm pretty sure lots of fans agree! (@hartnellwho /@elden-12 )

Steven Taylor

Come take a walk with me boy. In my mind palace. Steven is technically the first solo companion bc of the serial “The Massacre of St Bartholomew’s Eve,” which is a fantastic serial btw. For a 60s companion there are some serious story/character arc ideas put down for him in the show, namely survivors guilt and #HATING the doctor. He and the Doctor have such an interesting relationship too. They don’t get along but there’s some sort of gradual respect that grows over time. Steven is a bitch and cocky but also the best fucking guy in the universe. He’s a hotshot pilot he’s got a panda plushie he’s probably bisexual (READ THE EMPIRE OF GLASS. CAN ANYBODY FUCKING HEAR ME) he’s miserable he’s kind of a genius (listen to the cold equations he does physics on the FLY under PRESSURE with his HANDS FREEZING IN SPACE) everyone he cares about suffers some sort of agonizing fate ….. just like the Doctor …. hmmmmmm…. Anyways. Thanks for walking with me boy. Watch The Gunfighters. (@abominandus )

[marythequeen]

Behind him (Henry II of France) he left a legacy of weak boy kings, an increasingly dominant queen mother in Katherine de Medici and a country more riven by religious differences than England had ever been. For 30 years, France suffered the horrors of civil war, with great loss of life and bloody massacres that stunned Europe, such as that of St Bartholomew’s Eve in 1571, when at least three thousand people (ten times more than had suffered martyrdom in Mary’s reign) were murdered in Paris.

-Mary Tudor: The First Queen by Linda Porter

[6-and-7]

Final Scores for Classic vs. New Who

Classic: 81 New: 71 Tie: 5

Additional breakdowns below the cut

By Doctor:

1 vs. 9: 10 1: 4 9: 5 Tie: 1

1 vs. 10: 19 1: 7 10: 12

2 vs. 10: 17 2: 8 10: 9

2 vs. 11: 4 2: 3 11: 1

3 vs. 11: 24 3: 13 11: 11

4 vs. 11: 11 4: 8 11: 2 Tie: 1

4 vs. 12: 30 4: 12 12: 17 Tie: 1

5 vs. 12: 5 5: 3 12: 2 Tie:

5 vs. 13: 15 5: 12 13: 3 Tie: 0

6 vs. 13: 8 6: 4 13: 3 Tie: 1

7 vs. 14: 3 7: 0 14: 3 Tie: 0

7 vs. 15: 9 7: 6 15: 2 Tie: 1

4 vs. Shalka: 1 4: 1 Shalka: 0 Tie: 0

Cushing vs. 8: 1 Cushing: 0 8: 1 Tie: 0

Individual Stories

An Unearthly Child vs. Rose The Daleks vs. The End of the World The Edge of Destruction vs. The Unquiet Dead Marco Polo vs. Aliens of London/World War Three The Keys of Marinus vs. Dalek The Aztecs vs. The Long Game The Sensorites vs. Father's Day The Reign of Terror vs. The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances Planet of Giants vs. Boom Town The Dalek Invasion of Earth vs. Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways The Rescue vs. The Christmas Invasion The Romans vs. New Earth The Web Planet vs. Tooth and Claw

The Crusade vs. School Reunion The Space Museum vs. The Girl in the Fireplace The Chase vs. Rise of the Cybermen / The Age of Steel The Time Meddler vs. The Idiot's Lantern Galaxy 4 vs. The Impossible Planet / The Satan Pit Mission to the Unknown vs. Love & Monsters The Myth Makers vs. Fear Her The Daleks' Master Plan vs. Army of Ghosts / Doomsday The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve vs. The Runaway Bride The Ark vs. Smith and Jones The Celestial Toymaker vs. The Shakespeare Code The Gunfighters vs. Gridlock The Savages vs. Daleks in Manhattan / Evolution of the Daleks

The War Machines vs. The Lazarus Experiment The Smugglers vs. 42 The Tenth Planet vs. Human Nature / The Family of Blood The Power of the Daleks vs. Blink The Highlanders vs. Utopia / The Sound of Drums / Last of the Time Lords The Underwater Menace vs. Voyage of the Damned The Moonbase vs. Partners in Crime The Macra Terror vs. The Fires of Pompeii The Faceless Ones vs. Planet of the Ood The Evil of the Daleks vs. The Sontaran Stratagem / The Poison Sky The Tomb of the Cybermen vs. The Doctor's Daughter The Abominable Snowmen vs. The Unicorn and the Wasp The Ice Warriors vs. Silence in the Library / Forest of the Dead

The Enemy of the World vs. Midnight The Web of Fear vs. Turn Left Fury from the Deep vs. The Stolen Earth / Journey's End The Wheel in Space vs. The Next Doctor The Dominators vs. Planet of the Dead The Mind Robber vs. The Waters of Mars The Invasion vs. The End of Time The Krotons vs. The Eleventh Hour The Seeds of Death vs. The Beast Below The Space Pirates vs. Victory of the Daleks The War Games vs. The Time of Angels / Flesh and Stone Spearhead from Space vs. The Vampires of Venice Doctor Who and the Silurians vs. Amy's Choice

The Ambassadors of Death vs. The Hungry Earth / Cold Blood Inferno vs. Vincent and the Doctor Terror of the Autons vs. The Lodger The Mind of Evil vs. The Pandorica Opens / The Big Bang The Claws of Axos vs. A Christmas Carol Colony in Space vs. The Impossible Astronaut / Day of the Moon The Dæmons vs. The Curse of the Black Spot Day of the Daleks vs. The Doctor's Wife The Curse of Peladon vs. The Rebel Flesh / The Almost People The Sea Devils vs. A Good Man Goes to War The Mutants vs. Let's Kill Hitler The Time Monster vs. Night Terrors The Three Doctors vs. The Girl Who Waited

Carnival of Monsters vs. The God Complex Frontier in Space vs. Closing Time Planet of the Daleks vs. The Wedding of River Song The Green Death vs. The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe The Time Warrior vs. Asylum of the Daleks Invasion of the Dinosaurs vs. Dinosaurs on a Spaceship Death to the Daleks vs. A Town Called Mercy The Monster of Peladon vs. The Power of Three Planet of the Spiders vs. The Angels Take Manhattan Robot vs. The Snowmen The Ark in Space vs. The Bells of Saint John The Sontaran Experiment vs. The Rings of Akhaten Genesis of the Daleks vs. Cold War

Revenge of the Cybermen vs. Hide Terror of the Zygons vs. Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS Planet of Evil vs. The Crimson Horror Pyramids of Mars vs. Nightmare in Silver The Android Invasion vs. The Name of the Doctor The Brain of Morbius vs. The Day of the Doctor The Seeds of Doom vs. The Time of the Doctor The Masque of Mandragora vs. Deep Breath The Hand of Fear vs. Into the Dalek The Deadly Assassin vs. Robot of Sherwood The Face of Evil vs. Listen The Robots of Death vs. Time Heist The Talons of Weng-Chiang vs. The Caretaker

Horror of Fang Rock vs. Kill the Moon The Invisible Enemy vs. Mummy on the Orient Express Image of the Fendahl vs. Flatline The Sun Makers vs. In the Forest of the Night Underworld vs. Dark Water/Death In Heaven The Invasion of Time vs. Last Christmas The Ribos Operation vs. The Magician's Apprentice/The Witch's Familiar The Pirate Planet vs. Under the Lake/Before the Flood The Stones of Blood vs. The Girl Who Died The Androids of Tara vs. The Woman Who Lived The Power of Kroll vs. The Zygon Invasion/The Zygon Inversion The Armageddon Factor vs. Sleep No More Destiny of the Daleks vs. Face the Raven

City of Death vs. Heaven Sent The Creature from the Pit vs. Hell Bent Nightmare of Eden vs. The Husbands of River Song The Horns of Nimon vs. The Return of Doctor Mysterio The Leisure Hive vs. The Pilot Meglos vs. Smile Full Circle vs. Thin Ice State of Decay vs. Knock Knock Warriors' Gate vs. Oxygen The Keeper of Traken vs. Extremis Logopolis vs. The Pyramid at the End of the World Castrovalva vs. The Lie of the Land Four to Doomsday vs. Empress of Mars

Kinda vs. The Eaters of Light The Visitation vs. World Enough and Time / The Doctor Falls Black Orchid vs. Twice Upon a Time Earthshock vs. The Woman Who Fell to Earth Time-Flight vs. The Ghost Monument Arc of Infinity vs. Rosa Snakedance vs. Arachnids in the UK Mawdryn Undead vs. The Tsuranga Conundrum Terminus vs. Demons of the Punjab Enlightenment vs. Kerblam! The King's Demons vs. The Witchfinders The Five Doctors vs. It Takes You Away Warriors of the Deep vs. The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos

The Awakening vs. Resolution Frontios vs. Spyfall Resurrection of the Daleks vs. Orphan 55 Planet of Fire vs. Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror The Caves of Androzani vs. Fugitive of the Judoon The Twin Dilemma vs. Praxeus Attack of the Cybermen vs. Can You Hear Me? Vengeance on Varos vs. The Haunting of Villa Diodati / The Ascension of the Cybermen / The Timeless Children The Mark of the Rani vs. Revolution of the Daleks The Two Doctors vs. Flux Timelash vs. Eve of the Daleks Revelation of the Daleks vs. Legend of the Sea Devils Trial of a Time Lord vs. The Power of the Doctor

Time and the Rani vs. The Star Beast Paradise Towers vs. Wild Blue Yonder Delta and the Bannermen vs. The Giggle Dragonfire vs. The Church on Ruby Road Remembrance of the Daleks vs. Space Babies The Happiness Patrol vs. The Devil's Chord Silver Nemesis vs. Boom! The Greatest Show in the Galaxy vs. 73 Yards Battlefield vs. Dot and Bubble Ghost Light vs. Rogue The Curse of Fenric vs. The Legend of Ruby Sunday/Empire of Death Survival vs. Joy to the World Dr. Who and the Daleks vs. Doctor Who the TV Movie Shada vs. Scream of the Shalka

[sandymybeloved]

obviously there are more missing episodes than this, these are a selection that I think are well regarded and/or important to the history of the show

[ocean-irl]

TV stories where the Doctor has only male companions

Because there are so few of them

We’ll start with the ones that have regular series companions:

The Massacre (1966): 1st Doctor and Steven. Yes, Dodo shows up at the very end, but that doesn’t count.

The Keeper of Traken (1981): 4th Doctor and Adric. Introducing Nyssa, who doesn’t technically join the team until Logopolis.

The Return of Doctor Mysterio (2016): 12th Doctor and Nardole, featuring Grant Gordon.

Yep, that’s it as far as I recall. If we expand our list to guest/recurring characters, we can include:

The Next Doctor (2008): 10th Doctor and Jackson Lake.

The End of Time (2010): 10th Doctor and Wilf, who is not a full-time companion.

Closing Time (2011): 11th Doctor and Craig. Amy is in this one, but only briefly, and not in the role of companion.

Then, if we include episodes that start with a male companion before bringing in a female companion partway through the story:

The Evil of the Daleks (1967): 2nd Doctor and Jamie, introducing Victoria.

The Wheel in Space (1968): 2nd Doctor and Jamie again, introducing Zoe.

Planet of Fire (1984): 5th Doctor, Turlough, and Kamelion (man-shaped android), introducing Peri.

The Pilot (2016): 12th Doctor and Nardole, but Bill shows up pretty much immediately.

Honorable mentions:

The Ribos Operation (1978): Starts with the 4th Doctor and K-9. K-9 is voiced by a man, but he is a robot and, perhaps more importantly for the purposes of this list, a dog.

The Five Doctors (1983): There are plenty of female companions in this one, but the 2nd Doctor is initially paired up with the Brigadier.

The Two Doctors (1985): The 2nd Doctor starts the episode with Jamie before the two team up with the 6th Doctor and Peri.

The Lodger (2010): Amy is sometimes there over an earpiece, but this one is mostly the 11th Doctor and Craig.

A Christmas Carol (2010): See above, but with Kazran Sardick instead of Craig.

The Deadly Assassin (1976) and Heaven Sent (2015): All-male crew in that the Doctor is the only crew.

The Power of the Doctor (2022): This one gets a mention for having a same-sex TARDIS team for most of the story.

Interestingly, the trend of the lone female companion doesn’t start to emerge until the later years. It took nearly ten years for the Doctor to travel with a girl unchaperoned, if you count the boys from UNIT as companions. Then the show gradually transitioned to the “Doctor + girl” formula that’s the norm today.

[rassilonwatchathon]

It's the 9 year anniversary of The Watch-A-Thon of Rassilon, so this month we're sharing our older episodes!

FIRST DOCTOR SEASON THREE (October 28th, 2015-March 15th, 2016) Episode 18- Galaxy 4 (Chumbley Remix) Episode 19- Mission to the Unknown (The Council of Funny Voices) Episode 20- The Myth Makers (Woe to the Horse) w/@typesetjez Episode 21- The Daleks’ Master Plan (Booger Guy Vs. Leech Face) Holiday Special- Dr. Who and the Daleks (Fashion Vs. Interior Design) w/ @typesetjez, @truestoriesaboutme, @raisegrate, Vincent E.L., & @malicerewatchesdoctorwho Episode 22- The Massacre of St. Bartholomew’s Eve (Everybody Loves Steven) Episode 23- The Ark (The Dissolve Resolve) w/ Vincent E.L. Episode 24- The Celestial Toymaker (Chris Cautiously Approaches the Dance Floor) w/ @truestoriesaboutme Episode 25- The Gunfighters (Regret at the Last Chance Saloon) w/ @raisegrate Episode 26- The Savages (Return of the Cave) Episode 27- The War Machines (Swirly Hypnotic Overlay) w/ @benpaddon

[lost-doctor-who]

MISSING EPISODE KEY

HARTNELL:

Marco Polo - 7 out of 7 missing

The Reign of Terror - 6 episodes, 2 missing (episodes 4 and 5), 4 intact (episodes 1-3, 6)

The Crusade - 4 episodes, 2 missing (episodes 2 and 4), 2 intact (episodes 1 and 3)

Galaxy 4 - 4 episodes, 3 missing (episodes 1, 2, and 4), 1 intact (episode 3)

Mission to the Unknown - 1 out of 1 missing

The Myth Makers - 4 out of 4 missing

The Daleks’ Master Plan - 12 episodes, 9 missing (episodes 1, 3, 4, 6-9, 11, and 12), 3 intact (episodes 2, 5, and 10)

The Massacre of St. Bartholomew’s Eve - 4 out of 4 missing

The Celestial Toymaker - 4 episodes, 3 missing (episodes 1-3), 1 intact (episode 4)

The Savages - 4 out of 4 missing

The Smugglers - 4 out of 4 missing

The Tenth Planet - 4 episodes, 1 missing (episode 4), 3 intact (episodes 1-3)

TROUGHTON:

The Power of the Daleks - 6 out of 6 missing

The Highlanders - 4 out of 4 missing

The Underwater Menace - 4 episodes, 2 missing (episodes 1 and 4), 2 intact (episodes 2 and 3)

The Moonbase - 4 episodes, 2 missing (episodes 1 and 3), 2 intact (episodes 2 and 4)

The Macra Terror - 4 out of 4 missing

The Faceless Ones - 6 episodes, 4 missing (episodes 2, 4-6), 2 intact (episodes 1 and 3)

The Evil of the Daleks - 7 episodes, 6 missing (1, 3-7), 1 intact (episode 2)

The Abominable Snowmen - 6 episodes, 5 missing (1, 3-6), 1 intact (episode 2)

The Ice Warriors - 6 episodes, 2 missing (episodes 2 and 3), 4 intact (episodes 1, 4-6)

The Web of Fear - 6 episodes, 1 missing (episode 3), 5 intact (episodes 1, 2, 4-6)

Fury from the Deep - 6 out of 6 missing

The Wheel in Space - 6 episodes, 4 missing (episodes 1, 2, 4, and 5), 2 intact (episodes 3 and 6)

The Invasion - 8 episodes, 2 missing (episodes 1 and 4), 6 intact (episodes 2, 3, 5-8)

The Space Pirates - 6 episodes, 5 missing (episodes 1, 3-6), 1 intact (episode 2)

Number of episodes missing: 97

Number of serials impacted: 26

Number of partial stories: 16

Number of completely missing stories: 10

Number of completely missing stories with no surviving footage: 3