City of Death. Part 4

Synopsis: British science fiction television serial. The Doctor and Romana are on holiday in Paris in 1979 when they sense that someone is tampering with time. He, Romana and a private detective named Duggan are then ‘invited’ to the chateau home of Count Scarlioni, where they find hidden in the cellar six versions of Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘Mona Lisa’. In the fourth and final episode The Doctor, after having been caught by an armed man in the chateau, asks a maid to summon the Count for him. The Doctor takes a moment to compare the thug to a little boy he knew who never said a word when he didn’t need to - he goes on to say that this was Shakespeare. They enter the study and the Countess opens a secret door in the wall, revealing a cabinet in which lies the original manuscript of Hamlet which has been missing for centuries. The Doctor recognises the handwriting of ‘to take arms against a sea of troubles’ - it’s his own: his friend William sprained his wrist writing too many sonnets (the Doctor tried to warn him...). The Doctor finds a mixed metaphor in the text which he warned Shakespeare about but he took no heed. The Countess thinks the Doctor must be quite mad; he replies that nobody is perfect. He then explains about how her husband acquired the copy of Hamlet.
Series: Doctor Who
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Television
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Notes: Detailed Wikipedia entry for the serial at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Death
Keywords: Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Time Travel; Science fiction (television)