Battlefield is an episode of the Seventh Doctor in the British television series Doctor Who. This episode features the return of Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart. A recurring actress of Doctor Who, Jean Marsh appears in this episode as Morgaine.
Plot
Cast
- The Seventh Doctor -
- Ace -
- Morgaine -
- The Destroyer -
- Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart -
- Doris lethbridge-Stewart -
- Ancelyn -
- Mordred -
- Knight Commander -
- Pat Rawlinson -
- Elizabeth Ralinson -
- Shou Yuing -
- Brigadier Winifred Bambera -
- Peter Warmsly -
Production
- Written by - Ben Aaronovitch
- Directed by - Michael Kerrigan
- Produced by - John Nathan-Turner
Setting
- Time: A few years after 1989
- Location: Earth
Continuity
- Morgaine spoke of how she could always beat the Doctor at chess. Two episodes earlier, in Silver Nemesis, the Doctor won a game of chess against an unknown opponent, presummeably Fenric, another dimensional socceror like Morgaine.
- Bessie is once again used by the Doctor.
Quotes
- Morgaine: (Making contact with the Doctor,) Merlin...hear me.
- The Doctor: I hear you.
- Morgaine: Do not stand in my way this time...for your soul's sake.
- The Doctor: I cannot allow your interferience.
- Morgaine: Then, Merlin, let this be our last battlefield.
- The Doctor: I'd just like to say three things.
- Bambera: What?
- The Doctor: Yeti, Autons, Daleks. Cybermen and Silurians.
- Ace: That was five things.
- The Doctor: She didn't even notice.
- Morgaine: What can you see?
- Mordred: A flying machine. 'Tis like an ornithopter but with whirling blades for wings.
- Morgaine: The people of this world are obsessed with machinery.
- Mordred: It would seem so.
- Morgaine: Well then. Let us teach them the limitations of their technologies.
(She raises her hand and Lethbride-Stewart's helecopter malfunctions.)
- Mordred: 'Tis a shrine...to those fallen in battle.
- Morgaine: Ah. They are not the savages you lead us to believe. We fought on their soil without proper respect for the dead!
- Mordred: Mother, I...
- Morgaine: You have dishonored us, Mordred. What is victory without honor?
- Morgaine: Give me what in mine by right of conquest. Give me Excalibur.
- Ace: Never.
- Morgaine: Then you will be given over to the Destroyer and become his handmaidens in Hell.