Doctor Who
The Smugglers

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REFERENCES

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Four
CC
June 19th - 23rd, 1966
Cornwall
July 8th, 15th, 22nd, 29th, 1966
Riverside

Episode	Date	Time	Duration	Viewers (millions)	Chart Position
1	25 June 1966	1750	24'36"	4.3	96
2	02 July 1966	1755	24'27"	4.9	77
3	09 July 1966	1750	24'27"	4.2	96
4	16 July 1966	1752	23'37"	4.5	109

CREDITS:

Dr Who Polly Able Seaman Ben[jamin] Jackson Cherub Squire [Edwards] Captain [Samuel] Pike Tom Jacob Kewper Spaniard Churchwarden [Joseph Longfoot] Jamaica Blake Gaptooth	William Hartnell Anneke Wills Michael Craze George A. Cooper Paul Whitsun-Jones Michael Godfrey Mike Lucas David Blake Kelly Derek Ware Terrence De Marney Elroy Joseph John Ringham Jack Bligh	1-4 1-4 1-4 1-4 1-4 1-4 1-3 1-3 1 1,4 2-3 2-4 4
Written by Title Music by Story Editor Designer Producer Directed by Film Cameraman Film Editor Costumes by Make-Up by Lighting Sound Fight Sequence Arranged by	Brian Hayles Ron Grainer and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop Gerry Davis Richard Hunt Innis Lloyd Julia Smith Jimmy Court Colin Eggleston Daphne Dare Gilllian James Cyril WIlkins Leo Sturges Derek Ware	1-4 1-4 1-4 1-4 1-4 1-4 1-4 1-4 1-3,4 1-3,4 1-3,4 1-3,4 4

Uncredited

Pirate Daniel Customers at Inn/Pirates Cabin Boy/John Double for Dr Who Pirates Pirate Rowers Extra Squire's Manservant (Birch) Double for Dr Who's hands Spaniard Double for Jacob Kewper (corpse) Soldiers Stunt Pirates Stunt Militiamen Pirates Militiamen	Les Clark Steve Kirby Tony Madison Harry Tierney Ricky Lansing Roy Stanton Leslie Bates John Jose Gordon Craig Richard Courtney A. R. Serle Malcolm Attmere Dennis Symons Philip Willliams Terry Hawes Ted Rogers R. C. R. Care Raymond Bales Albert Ward Derek Ware Terence Connolly Richard Conurtney A.R. Serle Malcolm Attmere Reginald Hitchin Christopher Newman Allan Matthews Charles Mitchell Philip Williams William Thomas John Weaver F.W. Stoker Buddy Windrush (i.e. Bryan Mosely) Ian McKay Fred Windrush Valentino Musetti Mike Horsburgh Bill Weston Malcolm Douglas Terry Walsh Brian Mulholland David Newman George Charles Tony Madison Gary Wyler Ray Marioni Peter Day Leslie Bates Terence Jones [Aubrey Wells also booked] Hugh Fraser John Guest Bill E. Raynor Daniel Sinclair David Pelton Alan Lesley Roland Robinson Leonard Kingston	1-2,4 1 1 1 1 1 1 1,3-4 1,3 1-4 1-4 1-4 1-4 1-4 1-4 1-4 1 2 3 3 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4
Special Sound Title Sequence Telesnaps Film Camera Assistant Production Assistant Assistant Floor Manager Assistant Grams Operator Crew TM2 Floor Assistant Vision Mixer	Brian Hodgson Bernard Lodge John Cura Keith Hobbs John Hobbs Tony Golbert John Hansen Maggie Saunders Carolyn Bill Chris Pocock Eighteen Bob Warman Jerry Desmonde Eddie Shah Nola Schiff	1-4 1-2 3-4 1-4 1-4 1-4 1-4 1 2-4 1-4

NOVELIZATION PLOT TEASER :

"A 17th centruy Cornish town - villaninous pirates roam the seas searching for treasure while the townspeople have turned to smuggling, wheeling and dealing in contraband.
Into this wild and remote place the TARDIS materializes and the Doctor and his companions find themselves caught up in the dubious activities of the locals.
When the Doctor is unwittingly given a clue to the whereabouts of the treasure the pirates are determined to extract the information - whatever the cost..."

Terrance Dicks, _The Smugglers_ (London : Target, 1988) back cover.

ORIGINAL BTS INTRODUCTION:

The Smugglers
by Brian Hayles

Season 4, 1966, four episodes.

The secretary and the sailor had come to say goodbye to the old man - that's how it all started. They saw him enter a police box, although why the Doctor should be inside a police telephone box was itself a minor mystery. They followed him inside. The next time Polly and Ben stepped outside, they were no longer in London. Nor were they in 1966.

This time the Doctor and his disbelieving fellow travellers had arrived in Cornwall, sometime around 1690. The pirate Avery had hidden his plunder somewhere nearby, and Captain Samuel Pike and his crew of cutthroats are after it. The churchwarden Joseph Longfoot knew the location of Avery's treasure, but when Longfoot was murdered his secret had surely died with him.

Longfoot must have known his days were numbered, which is possibly why he had passd on a strange cryptic rhyme to an equally strange traveller he had recently met. Could this be the secret Pike is after? And why would the Doctor want Avery's gold anyway?

The Smugglers earned the lowest viewing figures of any William Hartnell story, but this is not a true indication of its quality. Writer Brian Hayles script is one of Doctor Who's better historical stories. Ben and Polly rapidly form a bond with each other and the Doctor, and the supporting cast give it their all. The story keeps its pace and intrigue until the end.

The Smugglers was the first Doctor Who story to be completely filmed on location, in Cornwall of course. Some silent colour film exists of the making of The Smugglers, taken by a location owner, however none of this footage is of broadcast scenes.

All four episodes of The Smugglers are missing from the archives. When first sold to Australia, the censors took objection to the deaths of Longfoot, Jamaica, Kewper and Cherub, and these four short scenes were excised. It is a supreme irony that the only part of The Smugglers we have today are the very scenes these censors never intended viewers to see. Some of the Australian censor clips can be seen on The Missing Years documentary.

Introduction by Gary Zimmer (g.zimmer@ballarat.edu.au)

REFERENCES:

"The Smugglers (Episodes 1-4)," _Doctor Who_, (London : BBC, 1966), audio cassette recording in possession of transcriber. [Audio originally recorded by Graham Strong. Dub obtained from Brian Pearce.]

"The Smugglers (Episodes 1-4)," _Doctor Who_, (London : BBC, 1966), NTSC color and monochrome video recording in possesion of author. [Combines Graham Strong audio with John Cura telesnaps and video clips from Australian censors. Created by Richard Develyn and Robert Franks in January, 1997. Dub obtained from Brian Pearce.]

"The Smugglers (Episodes 1-4)," _Doctor Who_, (London : BBC, 1966), NTSC color and monochrome video recording in possesion of author. [Combines Graham Strong audio with John Cura telesnaps and video clips from Australian censors. Created by Richard Brindell in 1999. Dub obtained from Sean Whelan.]

Howe, David J. and Stephen James Walker, _Doctor Who: The Handbook: The First Doctor_ (London : Doctor Who, 1995), 134-136.

David Brunt and Andrew Pixley, _The Doctor Who Production Guide: Volume Three: Cast and Crew_, (London : Doctor Who Appreciation Society, 1998), 25.

Terrance Dicks, _The Smugglers_ (London : Target, 1988), back cover.

Pixley, Andrew, "The Smugglers: Telesnap photos," _Doctor Who Magazine_, Issue #217 (28 September 1994), (London : Marvel Comics UK, 1994), special sixteen page pull out section (between pages 26 and 27).

ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY:

Armstrong, Keith and David Brunt, _Doctor Who Production Guide: Volume Two: Reference Journal_, (London : Nine Travellers Publishing, 1997), 33-34, 184, 231, 269.
Detailed information on rehersals, filming, film and video formats, and the broadcast.

Armstrong, Keith; David Brunt and Andrew Pixley, _The Doctor Who Production Guide: Volume One: The Locations_, (London : Nine Travellers, 1998), 10, 24, 35, 38, 47, 48, 63, 166.
Detailed information on the filming locations in Cornwall.

Pixley, Andrew, "Silent Witnesses," _Nothing at the End of the Lane_ No. 1 (July, 1999), 28-45.
Includes small segments from the "The Smugglers" film shot list (p. 31) and camera script (p. 42).

TRANSCRIPTION CREDITS:

Episode 1 based on a transcription by:

Based on an HTML format by:
Corrections, revisions, and reformatting by:

Lee Horton (LeeH@tcp.co.uk)
Simon Hunt (esvxo@csv.warwick.ac.uk)
David Herrick ( David.Herrick@Bristol.ac.uk)
Z1R0 (jcurtis@bw.edu)
ZEPO (seidler@msoe.edu)
MAL

Episodes 2-4 transcribed by:
Based on an HTML format by:
Corrections and reformatting by:

Chris Gibbons (cgibbons@erols.com)
David Herrick ( David.Herrick@Bristol.ac.uk)
Z1R0 (jcurtis@bw.edu)
MAL

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