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Released

Saturday, January 20, 1996

Written by

Barry Letts

Runtime

162 minutes

Time Travel

Past, Present

Inventory (Potential Spoilers!)

Sonic Screwdriver

Location (Potential Spoilers!)

Sicily

Synopsis

"When the barrier gives way, this planet will be flooded by all the evil in N-Space; and at the moment I have no idea how to stop it."

The Brigadier's ancient great-uncle Mario seems unsurprised by the spectres which haunt his even more ancient Sicilian castle. But when the Doctor comes to investigate he finds himself faced with a danger as great as any he has yet encountered.

Is the answer to be found in the past, in the corrupt alchemy of the black-hearted sorcerer said to have walled up alive for his evil deeds? Or must the Doctor — and the faithful Sarah Jane Smith — brave the realm of ghosts and face the very fiends of hell?

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[Episode One]

BRIGADIER: Uncle Mario, how can I help you if you won't tell me what the trouble is?
MARIO: I tell you what trouble is, don't I? For thousand years we say castello is home sweet home, sí?
BRIGADIER: Mm.
MARIO: For ninety-two years I live here, sí? When I die, you be Barone, sí? You want it should be stole away like the pig?
BRIGADIER: Pig? What pig?
MARIO: What Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son stole.
BRIGADIER: Oh, that pig.
MARIO: Yes.
BRIGADIER: Yes, I see. And who is going to steal the castle, Uncle?
MARIO: Nobody. You stop him. That's why I ask you to come to island.
BRIGADIER: But stop who? What are you talking about?
MARIO: Ah, you not listen. The gangster man Vilmio - Max Vilmio - he say, I no sell him castello, island, all, I be sorry. Be very... I be very sorry to die.
BRIGADIER: Die? You mean he's threatened to kill you?
MARIO: Oh yes.
BRIGADIER: Well, that's intolerable. I think I'd better have a word with Mr Vilmio.
MARIO: Well, he no listen to word. You see, he wait until you go, and then - boof!
BRIGADIER: Mm. Listen Uncle, this is more serious than I realised. I think I'd better go back to the mainland and pick my stuff up from the hotel and come and stay for a while - just till it's sorted out. I'm due for a spot of leave. And if this Vilmio chap...

(Tapping and bird-like cry.)

BRIGADIER: Good grief. Creature... a thing looking through the window. It's flying off now.
MARIO: Black, with wings?
BRIGADIER: Red with wings. Blood-red.
MARIO: Oh yes. I seen him. Some of them have wings. The little fiends from Hell.
BRIGADIER: You mean you've seen them before?
MARIO: Oh, they come, they go. Never mind the piccoli diavoli - you go get bag, sí? Then come back to castello, and kill this Vilmio for me. Okay?

(Helicopter.)


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