The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve

"The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Day", "Death in Paris"

"The One with the Dogmatic Bloodletting" (USA), "Doctor Who and the Bias" (Catholic Herald)

Doctor Who fails to stop lots of people being killed (because he's not allowed to try)

*** - With its blend of fanaticism, death and politics it is the closest Doctor Who ever came to visiting the Conservative Party conference.

"How viennent des sembler français d'un ecclésiastique davantage comme le docteur que le robot de Dalek a fait le ?"  (cut from the script as no one, including the writer, understood French)

"You'd be surprised what I've got in my pants."

John Cleese took Doctor Who + The Abbot and created Doctor Abbot for an episode of Fawlty Towers

Having already visited the French Revolution and now the Massacre, Peter Purves ad libbed “What is wrong with these Frenchies ?” during part two. It was over dubbed with something more in tune with BBC policy towards our continental allies.

In Part Two, Peter Purves can clearly be heard saying “What is wrong with these bloody Frogs ?”

This story was the first to be released on Compact Disc and to celebrate this milestone, the BBC recorded a narration track which wasn’t rubbish.

Part three was disturbed half way through when the catering staff held a sit in to protest at the new edict that they should wash their hands every day. The protest lasted two hours and was only resolved when the catering union and BBC management agreed that they were allowed to spit on their hands after washing them.

Si Hunt

"I was sat at my usual table in the Elk and Bush (near the dart board which is actually rather useful as dodging errant darts is an excellent way of avoiding Telehistorian's Stoop - a spinal affliction caused by spending days bent over items of enormous interest) when I heard a prole say that he had been listening to the LP release of 'The Massacre'. "Don't be pathetically stupid" I said amusingly having rushed over to the bar to confront him. "It is bad enough that you witless savages use "titles" for stories which already have neat and precise production codes without being so lazy and retarded as to shorten those titles. Either you call the episodes "Story W" or "The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve". Anything else is beneath contempt." The prole tried to argue that he was saving time by abbreviating the name but I had a counter argument for that. "Maybe if you stopped wasting all your time having h-o-m-o-s-e-x-u-a-l liaisons you would have time to use correct titles for "Doctor Who" stories." With that I returned to my table and took a triumphant sip from my small glass of bitter. By an amazing coincidence the prole and his acquaintance decided to have a game of darts shortly after. They were dreadful players and almost never managed to hit the board."

A massacre would be too lively for this St Bartholomew's

It's Jackie Lane in colour