Tuesday 18 June 2019

G is for... Grey


An English solicitor who, in 1746, was employed as Commissioner of Prisons by the Government in London to process Jacobite prisoners. He had decided to make his fortune by selling a number of the captives into slavery in the West Indies and had entered into partnership with a pirate named Trask, who had led a mutiny and taken control of The Annabelle, on which he had served as First Mate. Its captain was now in chains down below, facing the same fate as the Jacobites. The prisoners would be coerced into being transported abroad willingly. Grey saved the Doctor and his companion Ben from being hanged - but only so they could also be sold into slavery. The Doctor later escaped after hoodwinking Grey's assistant, Perkins. He and Polly then set about getting weapons to pass on to the prisoners on the ship, where Ben had led a revolt against the signing of the documents Grey needed to legitimise his plans. The captives succeeded in freeing themselves, and Trask was thrown overboard. A young piper named Jamie McCrimmon decided not to leave with them on the ship - headed to safety in France. Instead he would guide the Doctor and his companions back to where they had left the TARDIS. Grey was waiting for them with some soldiers, but the Doctor managed to steal his documents. Without his evidence, Grey was arrested by Lt ffinch, accused of illegally trading in slaves.

Played by: David Garth. Appearances: The Highlanders (1966/7).
  • Garth would return to the programme in 1971, when he played the Time Lord emissary who comes to warn the exiled Doctor that the Master has arrived on Earth, in Terror of the Autons.

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