But King Minos and his people had a problem - the Minotaur, a creature part-man, part-bull, which rampaged throughout the palace killing those it caught. Deadalus creates a labyrinth - a maze ...
The Doctor claims to have helped Theseus and Ariadne escape from the Minotaur’s labyrinth by using a huge ball of string which Romana finds during a clear out of one of the TARDIS storage holds.