The time travellers arrive in Scotland in the aftermath of the battle of Culloden. The Doctor gains the trust of a small band of fleeing Highlanders by offering to tend their wounded Laird, Colin McLaren. While Polly and the Laird's daughter Kirsty, are away fetching water, the others are captured by Redcoat troops under the command of Lieutenant Algernon ffinch. Grey, a corrupt solicitor who sells prisoners for transportation to slavery in the West Indies takes custody of the Doctor and his friends.
Polly and Kirsty blackmail ffinch into helping them rescue their friens, while the Doctor smuggles arms to the captured Highlanders on board a stolen ship, the Annabelle. Grey and the ship's unscrupulous captian, Trask, are overpowered and the vessel is reurned to its rightful owner, Mackay, who agrees to take the Scots to safety in France. The Doctor, Polly and Ben return to the TARDIS, where they are joined on their travels by the young piper Jamie McCrimmon.
CAST:
The Doctor (Patrick Troughton), Ben (Michael Craze), Polly (Anneke Wills), Jamie (Frazer Hines), Alexander (William Dysart), The Laird (Donald Bisset), Kirsty (Hannah Gordon), Lt. Algernon ffinch (Michael Elwyn), Sergeant (Peter Welch), Solicitor Grey (David Garth), Perkins (Sydney Arnold), Sentry (Tom Bowman), Trask (Dallas Cavell), Mollie (Barbara Bruce), Willie Mackay (Andrew Downie), Sailor (Peter Diamond), Colonel (Guy Middleton).
FACTS:
Elwyn Jones was commissioned to write this story, although he carried out no work on it. The story was actually written by Gerry Davies, the story editor of the time.
The Doctor appears in a variety of disguises: A German doctor, an aged washer woman and a Redcoat.
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