by Jeff Crook / Paul Kane / Scott Harrison / Alasdair Stuart
By the end of his second season Patrick Troughton had become increasingly dissatisfied with the quality of the scripts and decided that the next season would be his last; he would, however, return to the role a total of three times over the next twenty years before its cancellation in 1989. Sadly, due to the BBC systematically destroying episodes from their archives in the latter half of the 1970s only 56 of Troughton’s 119 episodes survive; only 6 of his stories exist in there entirety, a further 2 are ‘almost’ complete, the rest are odd episodes, mostly from his second season. Luckily, all ten episodes of his final story remain in tact and with it the terrible judgement imposed on him by his own people. Put on trial he is found guilty of stealing a TARDIS and interfering with the course of time. His punishment; to have his appearance altered yet again and to be exiled to the one planet he has visited the most throughout his adventures… Earth!
Coming Next Week: Fiction: More Than a Butterfly by January Mortimer
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