THE ROMANS


 THE ROMANS.   Written by Dennis Spooner.   4 Episodes.
               16th January - 6th February 1965.
             
 The Slave Traders, All Roads Lead to Rome, Conspiracy, Inferno.

 COMPANIONS:- Ian, Barbara and Vicki.

  The TARDIS crew are enjoying a period of rest and recuperation in ancient
 Rome. Before long, Ian and Barbara and taken prisoner by slavers and the
 Doctor finds a dead man with a lyre in some bushes. He is mistaken for the
 dead man, the lyre player Maximus Pettulian and is taken to entertain at
 Nero's court.
  Meanwhile Ian has been sold as a galley slave and Barbara arrives as a
 slave girl to Nero, who takes rather a shine to her. Ian escapes from the
 galley with another man, Delos and travels to Rome to find Barbara. All of
 the travellers are unaware of each others movements and fate!
  This story was played for laughs. Derek Francis, who played Nero and
 William Hartnell were no strangers to farce and it showed in their great
 performances. This wasn't so much Doctor Who as Carry On Cleo with even
 Gerton Klauber reprising his role from the notorious comedy as galley
 master.
  Notable in this story is the fight scene between the Doctor and a would-
 be assassin. No doubles were used and it showed Hartnell at his best. 

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