To celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the longest-running science-fiction show in the world, I’ll be taking weekly looks at some of my own personal favourite stories and arcs, from the old and new series, with a view to encapsulating the sublime, the clever and the fiendishly odd of the BBC’s Doctor Who.
The Aztecs originally aired in 1964.
Don’t you see? If I could start the destruction of everything that’s evil here, then everything that is good would survive when Cortes lands.
But you can’t rewrite history! Not one line!
– Barbara and the Doctor discuss time travel
The Aztecs is generally considered one of the show’s very best historicals, so I think it’s absolutely wonderful that the adventure has managed to survive the purges that wiped out a significant portion of the Hartnell era and a huge chunk of Patrick Troughton’s work.
A low-tec culture?
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