THE WIZARD'S CURSE
SYNOPSIS: The TARDIS arrives in the 12th century in the kingdom of Camelot where a wizard's curse hangs over the kingdom like a plague. Where people are dying of illness, poverty is one a high and the king faces a great crisis. The Doctor is assigned, the King's physician to investigate the power of the Wizard's curse in order to get to the heart of a dark secret which has laid buried in Camelot for years.
NOTES: After the success of "The Knight of Crusadia" Jamie and I decided we wanted to do another story set in Medieval times. We'd thought of doing one with a dragon, and one with a wizard, there were lots of ideas jumbling around in our brains, our problem was getting them out on paper. I was watching "Battlefield" and whilst watching it, there were things in it which didn't tie up so well, and then I thought why not do a story set during the Arthurian legend which Battlefield was based off and see if we can tie in the gaps so that at least to us it would make sense.
I pitched the idea to Chris Riley, and Chris went off and wrote it and emailed it to me, I read it and thought everything seemed to be a pretty good standard or up to the sort of standard that I wanted. I think this one will be a bit of a corker to listen to. It's the first story of the third series where The Doctor and Pip time travel into the past, they meet Uther and Arthur Pendragon, and battle against a Wizard.
Another thing that's interesting is that bit in Battlefield where Ace asks the Seventh Doctor, are you Merlin and the Doctor says "No, but I could be. In my past or possibly my future". This seems perfectly apparent with the fact time is relative.
As well as that the Doctor is believed to be 'a great wizard' when in actual fact all he's doing is applying science rather than magic, the natives just think it's magic because they either chose to believe it's magic or they interpret science as being a form of magic because it's completely new to them.
These sorts of stories are always great fun to do, dare I say it, but I'd love to another one.
