The Time Meddler

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The Time Meddler is a 1965 Doctor Who serial that introduced the recurring villain known as the Meddling Monk, one of the earliest renegade Time Lords encountered by the Doctor.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf 1960s British television serial
Doctor Who serial
television serial
airedInYear 1965
basedOnFranchiseCreatedBy Sydney Newman
broadcastBy BBC One
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
depictsCharacterType renegade Time Lord
depictsSpecies Time Lord
directedBy Douglas Camfield NERFINISHED
featuresCompanionActor Maureen O'Brien
Peter Purves
featuresCompanionCharacter Steven Taylor
Vicki
featuresDevice TARDIS
featuresDoctorActor William Hartnell
featuresHistoricalFigure Harold Godwinson
William the Conqueror
featuresTheme meddling with history
time travel ethics
featuresVillain Meddling Monk
featuresVillainActor Peter Butterworth
firstAired 1965-07-03
firstAppearanceOf Meddling Monk
followedBy Galaxy 4
format black-and-white
franchise Doctor Who
genre historical science fiction
science fiction
hasEpisodeCountPerSerial 4
introducesCharacter Meddling Monk
lastAired 1965-07-24
musicBy Dudley Simpson
notableFor early depiction of Time Lord interference in history
first appearance of a recurring Time Lord villain other than the Doctor
numberOfEpisodes 4
originalLanguage English
originalNetwork BBC
partOf Doctor Who
Doctor Who season 2
precededBy The Chase
producedBy Verity Lambert
productionCode S
setBeforeEvent Battle of Hastings
setInLocation Northumbria
setInTimePeriod 11th century
starsCharacter First Doctor
writtenBy Dennis Spooner

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Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Time Lord
firstAppearanceEpisode

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