Someone's been mucking about with Earth history, most notably at Hastings in the year 1066, as the crafty and manipulative The Meddling Monk (brilliantly personified by Peter Butterworth) makes his first devious appearance within the Hartnell era. In some ways, the Monk is almost as clever and humorously mischievous as the Doctor - even perhaps a kind of early prototype for Patrick Troughton's later incarnation of our TV hero. The fact that Dennis Spooner crafted this clever and amusing story, and did rewrites on Troughton's first story, The Power of the Daleks (tasked with quirkily enhancing the newly renewed /regenerated Time Lord's character), are surely not coincidental.
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