Tegan, the young atmosphere hostess who quite unintentionally joined up with the TARDIS’s team, wants to return to her personal time, however when the Doctor attempts to take her back to Heathrow Airport terminal in the twentieth hundred years the TARDIS lands instead for the outskirts of seventeenth-century London. The Doctor and his companions receive a decidedly unfriendly welcome – but it shortly becomes clear how the sinister activities of other site visitors from time and space have made the villagers incredibly suspicious of outsiders. And for that reason of the aliens’ evil schemes, the physician finds himself on the idea of playing a key role within a gruesome traditional event… Matthew Waterhouse, who played the Doctor’s companion Adric in the original BBC TV serial, reads Eric Saward’s total and unabridged novelisation, first published by Target Books in 1982.