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{{quote|'''The Destroyer:''' Pitiful. Can this world do no better than you as their champion?
'''Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart:''' Probably. I just do the best I can.
Two great British institutions meet at last, as ''[[Doctor Who]]'' delves into the [[King Arthur]] stories.
The Doctor and Ace follow a signal of some sort to land [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]], near an archaeological dig somewhere in England. They try to hitch a ride to the dig (the source of the signal) from a UNIT convoy passing through with a nuke
The three of them repair to a [[My Local|watering hole]] / hotel, where Warmsly bitches about the UNIT hardasses and Ace spends £10 on a lemonade. Meanwhile, someone is performing a magic ritual of some sort that
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The next day, the Doctor and Ace dragoon Warmsly into taking them down to the dig. There, the Doctor quickly translates a mysterious inscription as "Dig hole here"; which, he says, he knows, because it's in his own handwriting. Then he tells Warmsly to stand guard while he and Ace investigate the hole, which leads to a tunnel, which leads to a spaceship under the lake.
* [[Actor Allusion]]: Jean Marsh's character tells Nicholas Courtney's character that the next time they meet, she will kill him, and the story takes place in 1989. Back in ''The Dalek's Master Plan'', which took place in 4000, Jean Marsh's character kills Nicholas Courtney's character.
* [[Affirmative Action Legacy]]: Brigadier Bambera
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* [[This Is No Time to Panic]]: The Doctor, at the end of Episode 2. A few seconds later, he adds: "''Now'' we panic!"
* [[This Is Sparta]]: "THERE. WILL. BE. NO BATTLE HERE!!!"
* [[A Truce While We Gawk]]: There's a moment in Mordred and Ancelyn's final duel where they break apart for a
* [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]]: The [[Doctor Who Novelisations|novelisation]] established the date as mid-1997.
* [[Volleying Insults]]: Ancelyn and Mordred:
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