Feature by ALAN BARNES
Julian Glover as King Richard the Lionheart with William Hartnell as the Doctor in The Crusade (1965).
Real historical persons hardly ever turned up in Doctor Who throughout its original 20th-century run. True, the First Doctor met Marco Polo and Kublai Khan, Robespierre, the Emperor Nero, Richard the Lionheart and Saladin, plus various OK Corral gunfighters (among others) - but such encounters ended in 1967, when viewer apathy caused his non-fantastical adventures to come to an end.