"The Myth Makers" was meant to be a more comedic story. It was also designed to be a strange mix of history and myth, with the Doctor even creating the infamous Trojan horse. The scenes involving ...

Katarina was such a bad idea for a Doctor Who companion that she was swiftly killed off by producer John Wiles and story ...

When the TARDIS arrives on the plains of Asia Minor not far from the besieged city of Troy, the Doctor is hailed by Achilles as the mighty god Zeus and taken to the Greek camp. He meets Agamemnon ...

Although the TARDIS had often taken the Doctor and his companions into Earth’s history before, The Myth Makers was the first story to focus on a ‘myth’ – Troy and the Trojan horse - rather ...

During the early 1970s the United Nations Intelligence Taskforce UNIT featured heavily in Doctor Who Captain Mike ... and Planet of the Spiders This Myth Makers consists two interviews with ...

which also suffer narrative naivety (nothing suggests the passage of time between the Doctor consulting his Trojan horse blueprints and the finished behemoth), but The Myth Makers is imaginatively ...