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''The Time Meddler'' is the ninth and final serial of the second season in the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'', which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from 3 July to 24 July 1965. The story is set on the northeastern coast of England in late summer, 1066 and sees Steven Taylor (Peter Purves) become a companion to the First Doctor (William Hartnell) after having stumbled into the TARDIS during the events of the previous serial, ''The Chase''. This story introduces recurring villain the Meddling Monk (Peter Butterworth). ==Plot== The Doctor and Vicki find Steven Taylor aboard the TARDIS after he stumbled in in a disorientated state on Mechanus (''The Chase''). When the TARDIS lands on a rocky beach and the Doctor establishes the century from a discarded Viking helmet and heads off to the village. Steven and Vicki explore the cliffs above, witnessed by a Monk. The TARDIS is soon after spotted by a Saxon villager, Eldred, who runs to tell the headman of his village, Wulnoth. The Doctor encounters Edith, Wulnoth’s wife, and convinces her he is a harmless traveller while probing for more information. He finds out it is 1066, since Harold Godwinson is on the throne and has not yet faced Harold Hardrada at Stamford Bridge let alone William the Conqueror in the Battle of Hastings. At a nearby monastery, monks are heard chanting. The Monk lets the Doctor in and allows him to prowl around and find a gramophone playing the chant, plus modern conveniences such as a toaster and a teapot. The Monk traps the Doctor in a cell. Steven and Vicki encounter Eldred and notice he has a wristwatch that the Monk dropped earlier. They spend the night in a clearing and the next morning are ambushed by the Saxons and taken to the village council. They convince Wulnoth they are but travellers and are given provisions to travel on. Vicki is heartened to hear from Edith that the Doctor passed by her hut on his way to the monastery. Steven and Vicki visit the monastery, where the Monk tries to dissuade them from entering but gives himself away by describing the Doctor too accurately. Steven and Vicki decide he must be prisoner inside. They break in after dark. The Monk sees a Viking ship on the horizon. The Vikings land and two small groups are sent to search the area. One of the Vikings finds and attacks Edith, and the Saxons go hunting for the invaders. The Vikings are drunk and the giant that attacked Edith is cut down. His companions, Sven and Ulf, flee. Eldred has been badly wounded and Wulnoth takes him to the monastery for help. Steven and Vicki find the gramophone. They then manage to leave the monastery via a secret passage. Steven and Vicki have found that the TARDIS has been submerged beneath the incoming tide. They resolve to return the monastery to look for the Doctor. The Doctor has escaped by the same passage himself and returns to the Saxon village. He soon hears of the Viking scouting party and decides to head back to the monastery to track down Steven and Vicki. The Doctor has the upper hand when the Monk answers the door and believes he is being held at gunpoint. The Monk is being questioned by the Doctor when they are overpowered by the two Vikings, Sven and Ulf. In the ensuing confrontation the Monk slips away, leaving the Doctor the Vikings' prisoner. The Doctor knocks out Sven and elsewhere the Monk does the same to Ulf. The Monk uses his freedom to persuade the villagers to light beacon fires on the cliff tops, telling them that he is expecting materials by sea, when in fact he wishes to lure the Viking fleet to land. Wulnoth agrees to light the fires, but does not do so as he realises the danger. Steven and Vicki return to the monastery via the secret passage and investigate the crypt, where a heavy power cable emanates from a sarcophagus. Look inside, they discover that it is the Monk's TARDIS and that he must have come from the same place as the Doctor. The Monk has returned to the monastery and is once more under the Doctor’s control. He reveals his plan is to lure the Vikings to the coast and destroy the fleet with atomic bazookas. This would shore up King Harold to such an extent he would not then lose the Battle of Hastings. The Monk is a Time Meddler. The Doctor denounces the Monk for seeking to alter history and forces him to reveal his TARDIS, where they find Steven and Vicki. Together the time travellers piece together the Monk’s plot, which the Monk insists is intended to stabilise England and benefit Western civilisation. Ulf and Sven have formed an alliance with the Monk and have tied up the Doctor’s party while the three of them take the bazooka shells down to the cannon on the beach. The scheme is foiled however when Wulnoth and the Saxons arrive and engage the fleeing Vikings in a nearby clearing, killing Sven and Ulf in battle. The Monk hides while the fighting rages, little knowing that the Doctor and his friends have been freed and are tampering with his TARDIS. With his scheme in ruins, the Monk decides to leave and returns to his TARDIS, though the Doctor left a note assuring the Monk his meddling days are ended. When the Monk looks inside he realises the Doctor has taken the dimensional control and the interior of his ship has shrunk beyond use, leaving him stranded in 1066. The tide having gone out, the Doctor and his friends are free to leave. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Time Meddler」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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