Michael Craze and Patrick Troughton film the scene from Episode 1 of The Highlanders (1966) where Ben and the Doctor discover a spiked cannon.
Gerry Davis was Doctor Who’s story editor from 1966 to 1967, during which time he helped to introduce Patrick Troughton’s Doctor and devised the Cybermen with his friend and writing partner Dr Kit Pedler. Davis also oversaw The Smugglers (1966) and The Highlanders (1966-67), the final purely historical stories of the era.
“I felt that if we were going to do ‘a history’ it was no good going back to something like the Massacre of St Bartholomew, which was a rather gruesome episode and not the subject of romance,” he explained, in clear reference to The Massacre of St Bartholomew’s Eve, the 1966 story co-written by his predecessor as story editor, Donald Tosh. “Whereas I felt that if we could get close to some of the established classics – something like [the Robert Louis Stevenson novel] Kidnapped – there’d be enough boys out there who’d have read the books for them to be familiar with the background.