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The year is 1688, and King James II is about to flee to France, allowing William and Mary to take the throne and planting the seeds of the rise and fall of the Jacobite cause. But not if James Robert McCrimmon has anything to say about it.
His memory restored by an agent of the Celestial Intervention Agency (Andrew Fettes, also playing King James), Jamie recounts his meeting with James VII (to him) and his attempt to change history, and then to help the Doctor to change it back.
The Glorious Revolution belongs to a slightly odd category of Doctor Who story, neither full-blown pseudohistorical nor legitimate historical, perhaps best considered as the Paradox Stories, in which there is no external SF element, but the fact of the crew's time traveling forces them to play a significant role in events. It's also an attempt to do for Jamie what Resistance did for Polly, tying him into the history of his time, with some success.
The ending of the play is odd, however, as Jamie rejects the chance to keep his memories, which is odd both as regards possible future Chronicles and character motivation. It seems out of sorts for Jamie to reject his friends, even their memories, from fear of pain, although this is a much older man with a lot more life behind him, and perhaps he has learned more about loss.
Planetary romance next, with the Third Doctor as narrated by King Peladon of Peladon (David Troughton) in The Prisoner of Peladon.
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