THE MASSACRE

 THE MASSACRE.   Written by John Lucarotti and Donald Tosh.   4 episodes.
                 5th - 26th January 1966.
               
 War of God, The Sea Beggar, Priest of Death, Bell of Doom.

 COMPANIONS:- Steven and introducing Dodo Chaplet.

   Paris 1572. It is the eve of the St Bartholomew's Day Massacre, when the
 Catholic Queen Mother, Catherine de Medici, planned the slaughter of all
 French Protestants. The Doctor goes to visit Charles Preslin and Steven
 meets a group of Hugenots from the Protestant Admiral de Coligny's house-
 hold. He rescues a servant girl, Anne Chaplet, who has overheard plans for
 the massacre.
   The Catholic Abbot of Amboise visits the house and he is the double of
 the Doctor. Steven follows him and overhears the plan to kill the Admiral.
 The attempt fails and the Abbot is condemned to death.
   The Doctor returns and he and Steven escape Paris as the massacre begins.
 Steven is angry that the Doctor did nothing to prevent the massacre and the
 Doctor reminds him that, callous as it may seem, he cannot intervene to
 change established history.
   Stopping in the 20th century, the pair are joined in the final episode
 by Dodo Chaplet.