Doctor Who: The Time Warrior

"The Time Warrior"

Information
Title:	"The Time Warrior"
Series:	Doctor Who
Season:	11
Airdates:	December 15th, 1973-January 5th, 1974
Chapters:	4
Episodes:	356-359
Setting
Setting:	13th century England
Major characters:	Third Doctor; Sarah Jane Smith; Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart
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"The Time Warrior" is a four-part storyline that appeared in episodes 356-359 from season eleven of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. The episodes aired on December 15th, December 22nd and December 29th of 1973 and January 5th of 1974. The storyline featured Jon Pertwee in the role of the Third Doctor and also stars Elisabeth Sladen as his companion Sarah Jane Smith and Nicholas Courtney as Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart.

Episodes[]

Actor	Role
Jon Pertwee	The Doctor
Elisabeth Sladen	Sarah Jane Smith
Nicholas Courtney	Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
Kevin Lindsay	Jingo Linx
Donald Pelmear	Professor Rubeish
June Brown	Eleanor
Alan Rowe	Edward of Wessex
Jeremy Bulloch	Hal
Sheila Fay	Meg
Gordon Pitt	Eric
John J. Carney	Bloodaxe
David Cleeve	UNIT soldier
David Daker	Irongron
Ray Dunbobbin	Irongron's soldier
Ian Elliot	UNIT soldier
Steve Ismay	UNIT soldier
Frank Seton	Scientist
Jacqueline Stanbury	Mary
Steve Brunswick	Sentry
Bella Emberg	Kitchen maid

This storyline is notable for two distinctive reasons. It is the story that first introduced the character of Sarah Jane Smith who served as the companion to the Doctor throughout the remainder of his tenure on the show, as well as the more popularly known Fourth Doctor (played by Tom Baker). The character would eventually gain her own spin-off series The Sarah Jane Adventures in 2007.
This storyline is also notable for introducing the alien race known as the Sontarans, who become recurring antagonists throughout the series as well as the 2005 Doctor Who revival series and The Sarah Jane Adventures.
Actor Jeremy Bulloch will one day go on to play infamous movie bounty hunter Boba Fett in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back and Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi. He also played Tor in the "Dimensions of Time" episode of Doctor Who.