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!The Highlanders
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[[caption-width-right:350: [[Film/{{Highlander}} THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE!]][[note]]Because screw it, [[CallBack we already made this joke for]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E3ThePowerOfTheDaleks the previous serial]]...[[/note]]]]
->Written by Elwin Jones[[note]]Commissioned and credited, but did no actual work on the script[[/note]] and Gerry Davis\\
Directed by Hugh David\\
'''Production code:''' FF\\
'''Air dates:''' 17 December 1966 - 7 January 1967\\
'''Number of episodes:''' 4

->'''The Doctor:''' Down with King George!\\
'''Jamie:''' So you are for the Prince after all.\\
'''The Doctor:''' No, I just like hearing the echo!

JustForFun/{{The one w|ith}}here the Doctor pretends to be German.

The last "pure" historical story (aside from [[Recap/DoctorWhoS19E5BlackOrchid one two-episode oddity]]), in which the Doctor and friends are thrust into the midst of historical events without any additional sci-fi plot, and the only one to star the Second Doctor.
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Landing in [[UsefulNotes/HanoverStuartWars Scotland in 1746, in the aftermath of the Battle of Culloden]], the new Doctor, Polly and Ben encounter a small group of Highlanders escaping from the battle. While Polly is off fetching water, the others are captured by an English lieutenant, Algernon Ffinch. Ffinch's men pass them on to crooked solicitor Grey, who is selling captured Highland clansmen into slavery in the [[UsefulNotes/TheCaribbean West Indies]].

Polly manages to blackmail Ffinch into helping, and the Doctor manages to get arms to the imprisoned Highlanders on a ship awaiting transport. They take over the ship and sail to safety in France while the travellers leave, accompanied by a new companion, clan piper Jamie [=McCrimmon=].

!!Tropes
* ArtisticLicenceHistory: The [=McCrimmons=] were a real family of pipers, and they really were involved in the Battle of Culloden... on the Hanoverian side.
* AscendedExtra: Jamie might be ''Doctor Who'''s most successful example. Creator/FrazerHines even filmed a scene where he waved goodbye to the Doctor, Ben and Polly... but the producers liked his character so much they got him back to film another scene where he left with them, and he became the longest-running companion by episode count.
* BigBad: Solicitor Grey.
* {{Blackmail}}: Polly maintains a degree of control over Lieutenant Ffinch by threatening to tell everyone how she and Kirsty tricked and robbed him.
* {{Bowdlerize}}: All footage known to survive survives because the Australians thought it too violent for the time slot, and regulations required that the excised footage be kept for thirty years--within which time frame [[{{Irony}} the search for missing content turned them up]].
* BriefAccentImitation: The Doctor is cornered by a British redcoat and a Jacobite Highlander. He at first starts trying to defuse the situation in his English accent, realizes this means the Highlander will kill him, switches seamlessly to a Scottish accent, realizes this means the Redcoat will kill him, and then decides upon a German accent and the fake name "Doktor von Wer"[[note]] German for guess what question? No, who...[[/note]], which he keeps for most of the rest of the story. Both his onlookers are convinced, even though they'd heard him babbling in both other accents earlier in the scene.
* CallBack: Polly is pleased that she does not have to dress up in boys' clothes, as she had to in one of her last adventures in the past ([[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E1TheSmugglers The Smugglers]]).
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Kirsty shocks Polly by casually talking about cattle raiding.
* DisguisedInDrag: The Doctor goes through several disguises as he avoids the Redcoats, including dressing as an old washer-woman. Polly tells him that he makes a good granny.
* EvilLawyerJoke: While busy tying up the captured solicitor Grey, the Doctor stuffs a gag in his mouth and makes a classic lawyer joke.
-->'''The Doctor''': I've never seen a silent lawyer before!
* FateWorseThanDeath: The captured Highlanders are offered a choice between turning King's evidence, the gallows, or signing contracts as [[IndenturedServitude indentured servants]] in the West Indies. [=MacKay=] tells them all that they'll never live long enough to serve out their seven years, and that a quick death by hanging is better than a slow one in the West Indian plantations under the overseers' whips.
* GeniusBonus: [[invoked]] In Episode Two, Jamie is introduced as "son of Donald [=McCrimmon=]. A piper, like his father and his father's father." [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacCrimmon_%28piping_family%29#Donald_Ban Donald Ban Maccrimmon]] was a real person, and piper for Clan Macleod during the Jacobite uprising. He was, however, a Hanoverian. ArtisticLicence or (very) subtle commentary on how civil war divides families? You decide!
* HarmlessLadyDisguise: The Doctor disguises himself as harmless washer-woman with [[BewareTheNiceOnes a gun concealed in her robes]]. (It's not like it was even loaded, though.)
* HaveAGayOldTime: "Will you both give us your word you'll not molest us?"
* HerrDoktor: The Doctor pretends to be a German doctor.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Mr Grey the solicitor, the only historical person to appear on-screen.
* LosingAShoeInTheStruggle: Polly is forced to choose between her shoes and being able to run away easily. So, off go the shoes.
* MeanBoss: Trask constantly berates and threatens Perkins, Grey's clerk.
* {{Novelization}}: Was novelized by the televised story's writer, Gerry Davis.
* OutOfGenreExperience: This is the only "pure historical" the Second Doctor ever did before the format was abolished, making it into a bit of a hangover from the Hartnell era. Considering how much his Doctor unbalances the story, it's easy to understand why.
* ReliablyUnreliableGuns: Ben casually throwing away a pistol when asked is the event that kicks off most of the plot, as it alerts the Redcoats to their location.
* TheStarscream: Trask, former first mate of the ''Annabel'', who took over the ship by betraying former captain [=MacKay=]'s gunrunning operations to the authorities. Happened offscreen before the story began. [=MacKay=] is imprisoned in the ship's hold with the captured Highlanders and relates the story to Ben and Jamie.
* TalkLikeAPirate: Trask sports a classic pirate accent[[note]]meaning he's either from Devonshire or Cornwall[[/note]].
* ThisIsMyNameOnForeign: "Doktor von Wer".
* TitleDrop: Immediately after the Doctor introduces himself under his new alias, the sergeant responds, "Doctor ''Who''?"
* TruthInTelevision: The 'dunking' that Ben suffers at the end of Episode Three was a real practice.