The Crusade (Doctor Who)

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Missing episodes

Copies of the four episodes were believed lost in the mass junking of episodes in the 1970s, with BBC Enterprises junking their copies. The BBC Film Library retained a copy of "The Wheel of Fortune" that it had accidentally acquired, but a copy of "The Lion" had been junked from the library by 1972.

The first episode of the subsequent story, "The Space Museum", begins with a brief clip of the finale of Episode 4, "The Warlords", where the time-travellers stand in period costume round the TARDIS console, literally frozen in time (it is confirmed as a clip rather than a restaged scene by an off-camera cough on the soundtracks to both "The Warlords" and "The Space Museum"). This is the only known surviving footage from the final episode.

The story had been thought to be one of the very few for which no off-air soundtrack was known to exist, until copies were located in 1995. In 1999, a film copy of "The Lion" was discovered by Neil Lambess and Paul Scoones in the collection of Bruce Grenville, a film collector in New Zealand; the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation had purchased the story in 1960s, but did not transmit it.

Casting

*Julian Glover was cast by Douglas Camfield to play King Richard I. Seventeen years later, Camfield again cast Glover as Richard I in the 1982 production of Ivanhoe. Glover would return to "Doctor Who" to play Scaroth in the 1979 serial "City of Death". He also provided a commentary on episode three of the story, alongside former "Doctor Who Magazine" editor Gary Russell, for the 2004 DVD release. See also Celebrity appearances in Doctor Who.
*Jean Marsh, who played Princess Joanna, would play Sara Kingdom in "The Daleks' Master Plan" (1965) and Morgaine in "Battlefield" (1989). See also Celebrity appearances in Doctor Who. Marsh was married to Third Doctor actor Jon Pertwee from 1955 to 1960
*In episode 3, William Russell appears only in a pre-filmed insert as he was on holiday.
*In this serial, Ian is knighted by King Richard. William Russell had earlier played Sir Lancelot in the television series "The Adventures of Sir Lancelot".
*This is Bernard Kay's second appearance in "Doctor Who", following his appearance in the 1964 serial "The Dalek Invasion of Earth". He would later appear in two more serials, "The Faceless Ones" in 1967 and "Colony in Space" in 1971.
* Veteran Bollywood actress Zohra Sehgal made a brief appearance in episode two 'The Knight of Jaffa'. She previously appeared as an uncredited attendant in the Doctor Who arc Marco Polo.

Broadcast and reception

This story has been noted for its non-stereotypical treatment of the two opposing leaders. Saladin (played by Bernard Kay) is portrayed as calculating but compassionate, while King Richard I is portrayed as volatile and at times childish.

Doctorwhobook
title=Doctor Who and the Crusaders
series=Target novelisations
number=12
featuring=


writer=David Whitaker
publisher=Target Books
coverartist=Chris Achilleos
isbn=ISBN 0 426 10137 5
set_between=
pages=
date=2 May 1973
preceding=Doctor Who and the Zarbi
following=Doctor Who and the Auton Invasion|

Commercial releases

*In 1991, "The Wheel of Fortune", then the only episode known extant, was released on VHS as part of "The Hartnell Years"

*In 1999 a VHS version was released of episodes 1 and 3, with the events of Episodes 2 and 4 related by William Russell in character as an aged Ian Chesterton. A compact disc of the other two episodes' soundtracks was included in the package.

*The two extant episodes and the two soundtracks for "The Crusade" were again released as part of the "Lost in Time" DVD collection of restored episodes and clips in 2004, with Russell's sections as an 'Easter Egg'.

*An audio-only version of this story, with narration again by Russell, was released as a two-CD set in 2005.

In print

This serial was the third and final story to be novelised by Frederick Muller publishers. Written by David Whitaker as "Doctor Who and the Crusaders", it was first published in 1965 and was the last novelisation published until 1973 when Target Books launched its long-running line of episode adaptations, beginning with reprints of this and the preceding two novels ("The Crusaders" was reissued by Target in May 1973). There have been French, Dutch and Portuguese editions.

In 2005 the novel was also issued by BBC Audio as part of the "Doctor Who: Travels in Time and Space" audio book collectors tin, read by William Russell.

References

External links

*BBCCDW | id=crusade | title=The Crusade
*BBCCDWP | id=crusade | title=The Crusade | link=Crusade, The
*Brief |id=p | title=The Crusade
*Doctor Who RG | id=who_p | title=The Crusade
*OG | id=p | title=The Crusade
* [http://nzdwfc.tetrap.com/archive/tsv57/lion.html "The Lion's Tale", by Paul Scoones ("Time Space Visualiser" issue 57, January 1999)]

Reviews

*OG review | id=p | title=The Crusade
*DWRG | id=crus | title=The Crusade

Target novelisation

*DWRG | id=crusnov | title=Doctor Who and the Crusaders
* [http://www.personal.leeds.ac.uk/~ecl6nb/OnTarget/1973/crusader/73crusad.htm On Target — "Doctor Who and the Crusaders"]