History Recap / DoctorWhoS4E4TheHighlanders

'''Production code:''' FF

Written by Elwin Jones and Gerry Davis. This four-episode serial first aired from December 17, 1966 to January 7, 1967.

* 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.

* ReliablyUnreliableGuns: Ben's casually throwing away a pistol when asked is the event that kicks off most of the plot when it alerts the Redcoats to their location.

* FateWorseThanDeath: The captured Highlanders are offered a choice between turning King's evidence, the gallows, or signing contracts as 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.

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 West Indies.

* LaResistance

* HaveAGayOldTime: "Will you both give us your word you won't molest us?"

* ThisIsMyNameOnForeign[=/=]TitleDrop: "Doktor von Wer"

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

The one where the Doctor pretends to be German.

Written by Elwin Jones and Gerry Davis. This serial first aired December 17, 1966-January 7, 1967.

* TalkLikeAPirate: Trask sports a classic pirate accent.

* 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.

* 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", 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.

* MeanBoss: Trask constantly berates and threatens Perkins, his clerk.

* CallBack: Polly is pleased that she does not have to dress up in boys' clothes, as she had to in her last adventure in the past ([[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E1TheSmugglers The Smugglers]]).

* HarmlessLadyDisguise: The Doctor disguises himself as harmless washer-woman with [[BewareTheNiceOnes a gun concealed]] [[BewareTheNiceOnes in her robes]]. (It's not like it was even loaded, though.)

* AscendedExtra: Jamie might be ''Doctor Who'''s most successful example. Frazer Hines 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.

Landing in [[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 West Indies.

Landing in 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 West Indies.