1588, Sissendon Village. The Doctor and Leela arrive in the town during a time where witch hunts and fears of the Spanish were in full swing. However, the Doctor suspects that something supernatural, even demonic, is fueling the paranoia about witches and Spaniard spies in this town.
Stars Tom Baker and Louise Jameson and the Fourth Doctor and Leela respectively. Can be purchased here
with the Ghosts of Gralstead.
Tropes
- Arc Villain: The Vituperon
- Call-Back: The Doctor mentions that he was in Cadiz a year earlier.
- Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: It isn't a Fourth Doctor story if he doesn't do this at least once.The Doctor: Driver, I'm trying to provoke Your Satanic Majesty here! The least you could do is drive around the potholes!"
- Fearless Fool: Leela thinks The Doctor is one.
- Fugitive Arc: The Doctor spends most of the episodes on the run from angry Spaniard/Witch-hunting parties.
- Kangaroo Court: The English witch trials. Survive the trial and you're put to death. Or you die during the trial.
- Roaring Rampage of Rescue: This is one of a handful of times where the Fourth Doctor gets genuinely angry with several supporting characters, this time due to their belief that a woman is a witch, and were halfway through her trial-by-water before the Doctor shouted at them to let her live.
