League of the Tancreds
League of the Tancreds was a 1984, two-part Doctor Who adventure serial written by Peter Grimwade[1] and was submitted for the proposed Season 23.[2]
Storyline
The Doctor and Peri land in Victorian London in the 1900s where they end up in an evil plot led by the Tancreds, a race of machiavellian insectoids who plan on tempering with Earth's timeline. The Doctor stops them by taking them out to a time loop hole sent them straight to their home planet, and warn them for their inconvenient experiments with time itself.
Production
When announced that Colin Baker would portray the Doctor, Grimwade submitted the two-parter League of the Tancreds on August 18, 1984,[1] with Grimwade completing the storyline stage. However, the story was soon abandoned on November 8, 1984,[1] because the filming for the story would expensive with the shows budget concerns.[2]
Adaptation
In August 1993, some of the story's concepts were reused in a Virgin New Adventures novel, Doctor Who: Birthright,[3] adapted by Nigel Robinson.[3]
External links
• League of the Tancreds comments at web.archive.org- The Laird of McCrimmon
Bibliography
- Howe, David J.; Stammers, Mark; Walker, Stephen James (1996), Doctor Who-The Eighties, p. 84
- Pixley, Andrew (2003), Doctor Who Magazine Special Edition 3, p. 13
References
- ^ a b c Howe, Stammers & Walker 1996 p.84
- ^ a b Pixley 2003, p.13
- ^ a b Galactical.co.uk