Later that evening Ariadne - the daughter of King Minos - arrives in secret with a plan to help Theseus: she gives him a sword to kill the Minotaur and a ball of thread the find his way out of the ...

Way had appeared in the very first Doctor Who story in 1963 in which she had played one of the cave dwellers, Old Mother. The Doctor claims to have helped Theseus and Ariadne escape from the ...