The Third Crusade failed in its major objective, the capture of Jerusalem.
After a year's unproductive skirmishing, Richard made a three-year truce with Saladin that permitted the Crusaders to hold Acre.
The Christians retained Jaffa and a thin coastal strip that gave Christian pilgrims free access to the holy places.
During the Crusade, Richard is said to have insulted Leopold V of Austria by stamping his standard into the dirt.
It was an act Richard was to regret.
For Richard, the Crusade was now over and he began the homeward journey to England.
Put ashore by bad weather, he now found himself in Austria, the home of Leopold V.
Richard tried to disguise himself as a peasant, but he was recognised and captured by Leopold,
who in turn handed him over to the Emperor Henry VI of Germany and imprisoned in the castle of Dürrenstein.
Richard spent over a year in prison and rumours spread throughout England over the missing king.
There is a legend that Richard was found by his devoted troubadour Blondel,
who travelled Europe singing a ballad outside each castle and waiting for a reply that only the king knew.
Richard was released only on the transfer of literally a king's ransom.
The colossal sum of 150,000 marks was demanded, an amount equivalent to 34 tons in silver.
The raising of the ransom money was one of the most remarkable fiscal measures of the 12th century
and gives striking proof of the prosperity of England at that time.
Richard returned only briefly to England to suppress a revolt raised against him by his brother,
the notorious Prince John, and to raise yet more funds.
Richard now wanted to win back many of the French provinces lost while he was on crusade.
For such a brave and noble man, King Richard's death came about in a rather strange way.
In Chalus, Aquitaine, a peasant ploughing fields came upon a treasure.
This treasure consisted of some gold statues and coins.
The feudal lord claimed the treasure and in turn Richard claimed the treasure from the lord.
When the lord refused to hand it over, it prompted Richard to siege the village.
Now during the siege, Richard was riding close to the castle without the protection of full armour.
He spotted an archer with bow in hand on the wall aiming a shot at him.
It is said that Richard paused to applaud the bowman.
He was struck in the shoulder with the arrow.
An infection set in and Richard the Lionheart died on April 6th 1199.
He was buried in the Fontvraud Abbey in Anjou, France.
So, part four, the warlords, was my final appearance as King Richard in Doctor Who.
I did however return to Doctor Who one final time as Scaroth, last of the Jaggeroth,
alongside Tom Baker in the 1979 story City of Death.
I remember a lot about this production because it was much more recent frankly.
It was an extraordinary part to play because it was someone who took part in every single aspect of the history of the country.
And not in the country, in the world. He was always there in some different guise.
Some of you may remember the flash sequence in the last episode when he gets all the,
or lots and lots of his characterisations just flash before you.
But I think there were three main ones actually in the story itself.
My favourite was Count Scarlione.
Lovely costume and all that.
And I got the part I think of Scaroth because Michael Hayes, the director, who'd also been a director,
one of the directors on An Age of Kings, liked me very much and said,
I think you'd look funny with green spaghetti on your face.
And that's when Scaroth was being Scaroth in the very beginning of time.
The make-up did look like a great pile of green spaghetti and it was very difficult getting the coat and the jacket and the shirt.
And he'd all round it so we had to have a special one made for when he emerged as the creature.
But I'm reminded that many years later I did the film of The Empire Strikes Back, a Star Wars film.
And in that of course is Darth Vader, the great Darth Vader.
Well it could have been anybody under that plastic carapace of Darth Vader.
In fact it was an actor and as Scaroth it could have been anybody underneath that.
Because not a lot of dialogue came out of Scaroth.
So that's one of my more anonymous impersonations, was the actual Scaroth as opposed to Scarlione and the other people.
The make-up session for that was a very unpleasant business.
It was putting a great big plastic mask all over my face and you had to stick it so that it didn't move.
And it was extremely uncomfortable, extremely uncomfortable.
About so uncomfortable as my make-up in the Indiana Jones film which I did in which my face was blown away over about 15 seconds.
Some of you may remember that.
Screaming.
I very much forget it not meeting Douglas Adams and Graham Williams on that particular Doctor Who story.
Their presence was known about but they didn't actually appear whenever I was there.
They did actually go out to Paris for the shooting of the sequence, a short sequence in Paris which some lucky people did.
And I didn't go to that so that's why I didn't actually meet them.
Tom Baker is a fine man, a wonderful voice and very interesting eccentric presence.
For my money he was the most interesting of the Doctor Whos.
Bill Pertwee, I mean John Pertwee too in his way very different.
But Tom Baker is sort of he's really truly wild and he has great eyes of his and a wonderful searing sense of humour and a hard worker.
Wow what a hard worker.
I first met him on a film called Nicholas and Alexandra which we filmed in Zagreb.
My particular sequences and he was playing Rasputin of course and simply wonderful in that.
And I think because of his Rasputin and his sort of wild craziness in that was one of the reasons he got the part of Doctor Who.
That's only my theory so don't quote me.
Well I hope you enjoyed this reconstruction, I certainly did.
A final word of thanks I think should go to the Loose Cannon team comprising Rick, Derek and Dean.
I think these chaps are doing a simply marvellous job diverting so much of their spare time preventing these missing episodes from becoming forgotten episodes.
I think you'll agree that this reconstruction really complements the surviving episodes and is a welcome addition to any video collection.
Thanks for watching, I've enjoyed it.