The Crusade

Season Two

Cast
Doctor ... William Hartnell
Ian Chesterton ... William Russell
Barbara Wright ... Jacqueline Hill
Vicki ... Maureen O'Brien

With
Richar the Lionheart ... Julian Glover
William des Preaux ... John Flint
El Akir ... Walter Randall
Reynier de Marun ... David Anderson
William de Tornebu ... Bruce Wightman
Ben Daheer ... Reg Pritchard
Thatcher ... Tony Caunter
Saphadin ... Roger Avon
Saladin ... Bernard Kay
Joanna ... Jean Marsh
Chamberlain ... Robert Lankesheer
Sheyrah ... Zohra Segal
Luigi Ferrigo ... Gabor Baraker
Haroun ... Little George
Safiya ... Petra Markham
Earl of Leicester ... John Bay
Turkish Bandit ... David Brewster
Maimuna ... Sandra Hampton
Fatima ... Viviane Sorrel
Hafsa ... Diana McKenzie
Ibrahim ... Tutte Lemkow
Man-at-Arms ... Billy Cornelius
Saracen Warriors ... Derek Ware
      ... Valentino Musetti
      ... Chris Konyils
      ... Raymond Novak
      ... Anthony Colby

Extras
Saracen Warriors ... Edward Haroutunian
      ... Oscar James
      ... Peter Johnson
      ... Sam Shendhary
      ... Roy Fletcher
Richard's Squire ... Andy Brewer
Falconer ... John Holms
Priest ... Rikki Patterson
Man-at-Arms ... Henry Garcia
Ladies-in-Waiting ... Carole Brett
      ... Maureen Lane
Knights ... Michael Hart
      ... Winston Marsh
Double for Ian Chesterton (arm) ... Kiktors Ritelis
Saracen Warrior ... Abbas Haschen
Men-at-Arms ... Michael Guest
      ... Walter Mann
Concubines ... Cicely Joseph
      ... Mei Ling
      ... Cleo Sylvestre
      ... Evelyn Ong

Directed by
Doglas Camfield

Writing credits
David Whitaker

Produced by
Verity Lambert

Story Editor
Dennis Spooner

Music
Theme Music ... Ron Grainer and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Incidental Music composed and conducted ... Dudley Simpson

Film Cameraman
Peter Hamilton

Film Editor
Pam Bosworth

Lighting
Ralph Walton

Sound
Brian Hiles

Costumes supervised by
Daphne Dare

Make-up supervised by
Sonia Markham

Designer
Barry Newberry

Production Company
British Broadcasting Corporation

Episode	Air Date	Runtime
The Lion	03/27/65	24 min. 56 sec.
The Knight of Jaffa	04/03/65	23 min. 28 sec.
The Wheel of Fourtune	04/10/65	24 min. 51 sec.
The Warlords	04/17/65	23 min. 48 sec.

Country	Language	Color
United Kingdom	English	Black and White

Summary

The TARDIS arrives on the planet Telos where an Earth archaeological expedition, led by Professor Parry, is attempting to uncover the lost tombs of the Cybermen. With a lot of help from the Doctor the archaeologists enter the tombs. There, one of the party, Klieg, reveals himself and his business partner, Kaftan, to be planning to revive the Cybermen. He wants to use their strength, allied with the intelligence of his own Brotherhood of Logicians, to create an invincible force for conquest. It transpires however that the tomb is actually a giant trap designed to lure humans suitable for conversion into further Cybermen - a fate that almost befalls Kaftan's assistant Toberman. After fending off an attack by Cybermats - small but dangerous cybernetic creatures - the Doctor eventually defeats the revived Cybermen, led by their Controller, and reseals the tombs. The Controller is apparently destroyed in the process.

Things to look out for

Martin Johnson's set designs are truly excellent, and include some striking bas-relief Cyberman images on the walls of the tomb complex.
Producer Peter Bryant's then wife Shirley Cooklin appears in the role of Kaftan, which was written specially for her.
Klieg mentions 'Whitehead logic' in the first episode - probably a nod to the actor Reg Whitehead, who had played a Cyberman in all their stories to date.
There is a wonderfully moving scene in which the Doctor comforts a frightened Victoria and tries to help her to come to terms with the death of her father by telling her that he can recall his own family, but only when he chooses to.

Things you probably never knew

Toberman was described in the original scripts as wearing a hearing aid (tying in with the fact that he was virtually mute and perhaps with the story's theme of cybernisation), but this idea was dropped at the request of director Morris Barry.
Klieg was originally to have been played by Vladek Sheybal and the Cyber Controller by John Wills (who had appeared as a Cyberman in The Moonbase).
Orange squash was specially provided in the studio for the actors playing the Cybermen, who got very hot inside their heavy costumes.

Quote Unquote

Eric Klieg: 'How did you know [the answer to the logic riddle] in the first place?' The Doctor: 'Oh, I used my own, special technique.' Eric Klieg: 'Oh, really, Doctor... and may we know what that is?' The Doctor: 'Keeping my eyes open and my mouth shut!'
The Doctor: 'Well, if we count in Earth terms I suppose I must be about 400... yes, about 450 years old! Yes. Well. Quite...'
The Doctor: 'Our lives are different to anybody else's. That's the exciting thing. Nobody in the universe can do what we're doing.'

Novelization
Tomb of the Cybermen

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