The Aztecs

Information

Writer: John Lucarotti
Director: John Crockett
Script Editor: David Whitaker
Producer: Verity Lambert, Mervyn Pinfield (associate producer)
Executive Producer(s): None

Originally Broadcast: 23rd May - 13th June 1964

Episodes: 6
Duration: 25 mins each episode
Production Code: F
Series: 1
Story Number: 6
Enemy: Tlotoxl
Setting: Mexico c1454


Synopsis

The arrival of the TARDIS in 15th century Mexico leads the crew to encounter the doomed Aztec people, a mixture of high culture and brutal savagery side by side; and matters are further complicated when Barbara is mistaken for a god and the Doctor becomes engaged to be married...

Cast

The Doctor - William Hartnell

Ian Chesterton - William Russell

Barbara Wright - Jacqueline Hill

Susan Foreman - Carole Ann Ford

Autloc - Keith Pyott

Tlotoxl - John Ringham

Ixta - Ian Cullen

Cameca - Margot Van der Burgh

First Victim - Tom Booth

Aztec Captain - David Anderson

Tonila - Walter Randall

Perfect Victim - André Boulay

Aztec Warriors (all uncredited) - Brian Baker, John Beavis, James Duval, James Fitzgerald, Andrew Jacks, Alan Viccars

Aztec Citizens (all uncredited) - Eileen Brady, Lionel Gadsen, Alice Greenwood, John Moore, Bill Raynor, Stella Wilkinson

Double for Ian (uncredited) - David Anderson

Double for Ixta (uncredited) - Billy Cornelius

Story Notes

• All episodes exist in 16mm telerecordings.
  
• Negative film prints of all episodes where recovered from BBC Enterprises in 1978.
  
• John Lucarotti spent a lot of time researching the real Aztecs before writing this story.
  
• Carole Ann Ford was on holiday during the filming of episodes 2 and 3 and appeared only in pre-taped film sequences.
  
• The credits at the end of episode 3 had to be re-filmed as they were not acceptable for broadcast.
  

Preceded by: The Keys of Marinus - Followed by: The Sensorites