The Reverend Doctor Christopher Syn is the smuggler hero of a series of novels by Russell Thorndike.

The first book, Doctor Syn: A Tale of the Romney Marsh was published in 1915.

Mipps escaped in the confusion of Syn's death and disappeared from England, but it is said that a little man very much like him is living out his days in a Buddhist Monastery somewhere in the Malay Peninsula, delighting the monks with recounting the adventures of Doctor Syn and the eerie stories of the Romney Marsh and the mysterious Scarecrow and his night riders.

* Doctor Syn: A Tale of the Romney Marsh ( 1915 )

* Doctor Syn on the High Seas ( 1935 )

* Doctor Syn Returns ( 1936 )

* Further Adventures of Doctor Syn ( 1936 )

* Courageous Exploits of Doctor Syn ( 1938 )

* Amazing Quest of Doctor Syn ( 1939 )

* Shadow of Doctor Syn ( 1944 )

An expanded version of Doctor Syn Returns titled The Scarecrow Rides was published by The Dial Press in 1935.

This is essentially a reworking of Further Adventures of Doctor Syn with a different conclusion and some conflation and renaming of the supporting characters.

There was also a book adaptation of the Disney theatrical version, titled Doctor Syn, Alias the Scarecrow and written by Vic Crume.

: The first, Doctor Syn ( 1937 ), featured noted actor George Arliss in the title role and was its star's last film.

In the screenplay by Anthony Hinds, the main character's name was changed from Doctor Syn to Parson Blyss to avoid rights problems with Disney's upcoming film version, and Captain Cleggs screenplay follows the novel Doctor Syn and the screenplay of the 1937 film closely with the exception of a tightening of the plot.

In the Arliss movie Doctor Syn, Syn escapes to sea with Mipps and the rest of the Dymchurch smugglers, whereas Captain Clegg ends more faithfully to the novel, with Parson Blyss being killed by the mulatto ( who is then killed by Mipps ) and then being carried to and buried in Captain Clegg's empty grave by Mipps.

Doctor Syn

Doctor Syn

: Rufus Sewell read a 10-part audio adaptation combining and abridging Doctor Syn on the High Seas and Doctor Syn Returns for BBC Radio, broadcast on BBC Radio 7 in December 2006 and repeated in June 2007.

The sixth production, Theatre of Fear, included De Lorde's famous adaptation of Poe's The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether ( Le Systéme du Dr Goudron et Pr Plume ) as well as two original plays, Double Crossed and The Good Death alongside The Tell Tale Heart.

Cover of the 1915 edition of Doctor Syn: A Tale of the Romney Marsh | Doctor Syn: A Smuggler Tale of the Romney Marsh

This leads to the next tale in the cycle, the " Tale of the Jewish Doctor ", where the doctor accidentally trips over the hunchback's body, falls down the stairs with him, and finds him dead, leading him to believe that the fall had killed him.

During the 1950s, Bogarde came to prominence playing a hoodlum who shoots and kills a police constable in The Blue Lamp ( 1950 ) co-starring Jack Warner and Bernard Lee ; a handsome artist who comes to rescue of Jean Simmons during the World's Fair in Paris in So Long at the Fair, a film noir thriller ; an accidental murderer who befriends a young boy played by Jon Whiteley in Hunted ( aka The Stranger in Between ) ( 1952 ); in Appointment in London ( 1953 ) as a young Wing-Commander in Bomber Command who, against orders, opts to fly his 90th mission with his men in a major air offensive against the Germans ; an unjustly imprisoned man who regains hope in clearing his name when he learns his sweetheart, Mai Zetterling, is still alive in Desperate Moment ( 1953 ); Doctor in the House ( 1954 ), as a medical student, in a film that made Bogarde one of the most popular British stars of the 1950s, and co-starring Kenneth More, Donald Sinden and James Robertson Justice as their crabby mentor ; The Sleeping Tiger ( 1954 ), playing a neurotic criminal with co-star Alexis Smith, and Bogarde's first film for American expatriate director Joseph Losey ; Doctor at Sea ( 1955 ), co-starring Brigitte Bardot in one of her first film roles ; as a returning Colonial who fights the Mau-Mau with Virginia McKenna and Donald Sinden in Simba ( 1955 ); Cast a Dark Shadow ( 1955 ), as a man who marries women for money and then murders them ; The Spanish Gardener ( 1956 ), co-starring Michael Hordern, Jon Whiteley, and Cyril Cusack ; Doctor at Large ( 1957 ), again with Donald Sinden, another entry in the " Doctor films series ", co-starring later Bond-girl Shirley Eaton ; the Powell and Pressburger production Ill Met by Moonlight ( 1957 ) co-starring Marius Goring as the German General Kreipe, kidnapped on Crete by Patrick " Paddy " Leigh Fermor ( Bogarde ) and a fellow band of adventurers based on W. Stanley Moss ' real-life account of the WW2 caper ; A Tale of Two Cities ( 1958 ), a faithful retelling of Charles Dickens ' classic ; as a Flt.

He had proven himself playing war heroes ( The Sea Shall Not Have Them ; Ill Met by Moonlight ); he was the star of the hugely successful Doctor film series ; and he was a reliable romantic lead in movies like A Tale of Two Cities.

* The poem " Fairy Tale " by Yury Zhivago – the main character from Boris Pasternak's novel " Doctor Zhivago "– relates a modified account of this legend ; Yury's poem differs in that it is nonreligious and makes no mention of the village.

He appeared on stage in The Soldier's Tale and Ten Years Hard, and in two films, Doctor in Distress ( 1963 ) and The Raging Moon ( 1971 ).

DeMatteis followed this with the 1986 Doctor Strange graphic novel Into Shambhala drawn by Dan Green and Blood: A Tale, a hallucinatory vampire story drawn by Kent Williams.

This sets the stage for the fiendish character he becomes in Doctor Syn: A Tale of the Romney Marsh.

He wrote two further historical novels, Doctor Dido ( 1938 ), set in Cambridge in 1792-1812, and The English Agent: A Tale of the Peninsular War ( 1969 ).

The pack called " Entertainers ' Tale " was-19p: Freddie Mercury ( photo, Mercury's Magic / P Blake ); 26p: Bobby Moore ( artwork, World Cup / M White ); 44p: Dalek ( photo, Doctor Who / Lord Snowdon ) and 64p: Charlie Chaplin ( artwork, Chaplin's Genius / Ralph Steadman ).

In the book A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, Soho Square is where Lucie and her father, Doctor Manette, reside.

She had small parts in three early Powell and Pressburger films: The Spy in Black ( 1939 ), Contraband ( 1940 ) and A Canterbury Tale ( 1944 ), Holiday Camp ( 1947 ) and, towards the end of her career, appeared in Inn for Trouble ( 1960 ), Doctor in Love ( 1960 ), Raising the Wind ( 1961 ), What a Carve Up!

The Doctor's partiality to the works of Dickens was indicated previously when the Sixth Doctor quoted A Tale of Two Cities in the last part of The Trial of a Time Lord ( 1986 ).

Doctor Alexandre Manette is a character in Charles Dickens ' novel, A Tale of Two Cities.

Doctor Syn is also the name given to one of the locomotives on the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway.

* Russell Thorndike: The Doctor Syn novels – a series of seven novels about Doctor Syn, the Smuggler of Romney Marsh, published between 1915 and 1944

Three authors who specifically used the marsh as settings for their works were E. F. Benson, author of the Mapp and Lucia novels ; Russell Thorndike, author of the Doctor Syn novels ; and the children's writer Monica Edwards, author of the Romney Marsh books in which Rye Harbour becomes " Westling ", Rye is renamed " Dunsford ", and Winchelsea is known as " Winklesea ".

St. Stephen's church and Lympne Castle overlook Romney Marsh, the church being significantly older, and close by Lympne Hill figures in the Doctor Syn stories.

Arthur Russell Thorndike ( 6 February 1885, Rochester, Kent – 7 November 1972 ) was a British actor and novelist, best known for the Doctor Syn of Romney Marsh novels.

Around this time he completed his first novel of romantic adventure on Romney Marsh entitled Doctor Syn: A Tale of the Romney Marsh.

In the Doctor Who episode " The Feast of Steven ," actor William Hartnell breaks character to wish the audience a merry Christmas, with actors Peter Purves and Jean Marsh also breaking character, erupting in laughter.

* Doctor Who-Time Lord ( 1991 ) ( ISBN 0-426-20362-3 ) ( a gamebook with Ian Marsh )

Patrol ; Turok: Son of Stone ; The Occult Files of Doctor Spektor ; Dagar the Invincible ; Boris Karloff's Tales of Mystery ; Space Family Robinson ; Flash Gordon ; the Jesse Marsh drawn Tarzan ; and some of the Russ Manning-produced Tarzan series.

Marsh Daleks are also referenced briefly in Marc Platt's Doctor Who novel Lungbarrow, in which it is said that during the 26th century humans fought and disabled them by shooting at their legs with high-impulse carbines.

He appeared with Jean Marsh in both his first and last regular Doctor Who television appearances.

Jean Marsh as Sara Kingdom in Doctor Who ( from The Daleks ' Master Plan ')

Sara Kingdom is a fictional character played by Jean Marsh in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

Jean Marsh had previously appeared in Doctor Who playing King Richard's sister, the Princess Joanna, in The Crusade.

Marsh would return to the programme in the 1989 serial Battlefield, playing Morgaine, coincidentally with Nicholas Courtney as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, thus appearing in both his first and last regular Doctor Who episodes.

Marsh was married to Third Doctor actor Jon Pertwee from 1955 to 1960.