The Crusade (Doctor Who)

Copies of the four episodes were believed lost in the mass deletion of episode recordings in the 1970s, with BBC Enterprises deleting their copies. The BBC Film Library retained a copy of "The Wheel of Fortune"[1] that it had accidentally acquired, but a copy of "The Lion" had been junked from the library by 1972. 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 acquired the story in 1960s, but did not transmit it. 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.

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.

In episode 3, William Russell appears only in a pre-filmed insert as he was on holiday.[2] Julian Glover was cast by Douglas Camfield to play King Richard I. Glover would return to Doctor Who to play Scaroth in City of Death (1979). Jean Marsh, who played Princess Joanna, would play Sara Kingdom in The Daleks' Master Plan (1965–66) and Morgaine in Battlefield (1989). Marsh was married to Third Doctor actor Jon Pertwee from 1955 to 1960.[3]

Bernard Kay had appeared in The Dalek Invasion of Earth (1964).[4] He would later appear in two more serials, The Faceless Ones (1967) and Colony in Space (1971). Roger Avon later played Daxtar in The Daleks' Master Plan. Tony Caunter later played Morgan in Colony in Space and Jackson in Enlightenment (1983). Tutte Lemkow previously played Kuiju in Marco Polo (1964) and would appear again as Cyclops in The Myth Makers (1965). Gábor Baraker had also appeared in Marco Polo (as Wang-Lo).

Doctor Who and the Crusaders

Cover of the Target Books reprint
Author	David Whitaker
Cover artist	Henry Fox (original publication) Chris Achilleos (Target reprint)
Series	Doctor Who novelisations
Release number	12
Publisher	Frederick Muller Ltd (original publication) Target Books(reprint)
Publication date	17 February 1966(original publication) 2 May 1973 (Target reprint)
ISBN	0-426-10137-5

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 17 February 1966[1] 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. There have been French, Dutch and Portuguese editions.

As with Whitaker's first novelisation, the story is converted into a stand-alone novel with a lengthy prologue in the TARDIS where the travellers discuss the paradoxes of their journeys and time travel. The pointlessness of a religious war is also emphasised more.

Once again, Whitaker plays up the romantic potential of Ian and Barbara and includes a graphic passage of Barbara being scourged. For some reason the name of Susan's husband has changed from David Campbell to David Cameron.

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.

The script of this serial, edited by John McElroy and titled The Crusade, was published by Titan Books in November 1994. It was the tenth in that publisher's series of Doctor Who script books, following Galaxy 4. At the time that the book was prepared, the BBC archives held only one episode of The Crusade on video (The Wheel of Fortune) and no audio recordings.[8]

In 1991, "The Wheel of Fortune", then the only episode known extant, was released on VHS as part of The Hartnell Years (BBCV 4608),[9] presented by Sylvester McCoy, with McCoy giving a brief re-cap of events before and after the segment, with additional information concerning its 'lost' companions.

As part of The Crusade and The Space Museum VHS box set (BBCV 6805/6888) in 1999 a version of episodes 1 and 3, with the events of Episodes 2 and 4 narrated by William Russell in character as an aged Ian Chesterton,[10] was released in a special presentation package. A compact disc of the other two episodes' soundtracks was also included. The 'scripted' passages, to fill the gaps between the missing episodes and the following storyline were written by Stephen Cole, with additional continuity snippets by Ian Levine. An audio-only version of this story, with narration again by Russell, was released as a two-CD set in 2005 in The Lost TV Episodes Collection One 1964/1965. The two extant episodes and the two soundtracks for The Crusade were again released as part of the Lost in Time DVD[11] (BBCDVD 1353) collection of restored episodes and clips in 2004, with Russell's sections as an extra when "Play All" is selected on disc one. Notably, while most of the episodes in the set were given a new transfer directly from their film prints for restoration, "The Lion" was not as the existing print was very heavily damaged and putting the print through the telecine process was seen as an undesirable risk. Therefore, the 1999 transfer was used as the basis of restoration work. "The Lion" did not undergo the VidFIRE process, while "The Wheel of Fortune" and all other episodes in the set did.

• The Crusade reviews at Outpost Gallifrey

• Doctor Who and the Crusaders title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database