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It was the end of an era - but the moment had been prepared for ... This special issue contains addenda and errata for DWM's Fourth Doctor Archiue features from Seasons 16, 17 and 18, painstakingly researched and VI Fourth Doctor Audios Gary Gillatt listens in on the compiled by Andrew Pixley as a to the original articles. We also 's formation, the creation of , present fascinating features from the finest Doctor Who writers, recalling the and a spot of piccolo playing ... final flings of that most recognisable ofTime Lords ... VC Fourth Doctor Books Matt Editor Thanks to , Richard Bignell, David Michael runs the gamut from Brunt, James Clarkson. Kevin Davies, David Gibbes- high to gothic horror as Assistant Editor Tom Spitsbury camp he Auger, Gary Gillatt, Marcus Hearn. David Miller. considers the Fourth Doctor in Design Peri Godbold , , Steve Roberts, novel form ... Consultant Andrew Pixley Jan Vincent-Rudzki, Jim Sangster. Paul Scoones, Rob Thrush, Stephen James Walker, Martin Wiggins Special thanks to Derek Handley 73 Fourth Doctor Comics Production Mark Irvine Martin Wiggins and David Bailey Managing Editor Alan O'Keefe Display advertising Orange 20 Advertising Sales contemplate the Fourth Managing Director Mike Riddell Tel: 020 7321 0701 or 01372 802 800 Doctor's two

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proliferation of nobility, royalty and aristocracy. From onwards, planet after planet 'For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction...' the Key to Time season is graced by kings, queens, princes, princesses, personality the Philip MacDonald examines the euer-chanajna. of counts and countesses, lords and ladies, castles, palaces and citadels. More or less uniquely for Doctor Fourth Doctor, from silly to serious and euerythina. in between... Who, this is a phenomenon by no means restricted to faux-'historical' worlds like Chloris and Tara: even Atrios cling afraid to suppress the space-age planets like Zanak, Aneth and periods of Doctor Who arouse such period of Doctor Who that isn't dominated the show's to tradition and retain their royal families. This is heated passions in fandom as do the macho tendencies that had touches that bleed freely across Few since the beginning of the 1970s. one of many stylistic closing years ofTom Baker's tenure. personality State ofDecay of the producer but into Season Eighteen, in which tales like Seasons Sixteen, Seventeen and Reflecting the tastes not only Read and Douglas and Warriors' Gate continue to present the pageantry Eighteen have been the subject of also of script editors Anthony before the Williams seasons find Doctor Who moving ofmedieval royalty in a sci-fi setting, more backblast backlashes than the deranged Adams, the queens once again territory of soldiers, guns and horror Davison era sees kings and slave-trader Rorvik could ever have envisaged. To away from the everywhere but Earth's history. It's cinema into a more fantastical, literary universe, one banished from many fans, the period remains a critical war zone: interesting to note that after the its cues from folklore, fairytale and Graham Williams vs John Nathan-Turner, Douglas that takes is a category of story entirely romance radier than from pulp fiction and monster Earthbound historical Adams vs Christopher Bidmead, vs Williams era, which prefers to play movies. This fairytale atmosphere feeds direcdy into absent from the the Radiophonic Workshop, 'slapstick* vs 'serious with historical and mythological models in a science- allegiances, the show's characters and situations: whereas the drama' ... it's a familiar catalogue of the futuristic transpositions of Hinchcliffe stories had been populated by mad fantasy setting: hence boiling down to the fact that 1980's changeover in technocrats and hard-bitten Greek legends in , production team marks one of the great schisms of scientists, militaristic the creation of planets mercenaries, the Williams seasons offer a sudden and The Horns ofNimon, and fan opinion. Emerging victorious from the field of which splice science-fiction concepts with trappings battle is the show itself, which rises above fandom's borrowed from European history and literature in endless debates to deliver three seasons' worth of tales like The Ribos Operation and The Androids ofTara. wildly experimental but generally wonderful This literary sensibility is one of the keys to a episodes of Doctor Who. period of Doctor Who which, unaccountably, many If Season Fifteen had been a transitional year, fans have tended to regard as less sophisticated than drawing strength from keeping an eye on both past those on either side of it. I recall seeing, many years and future, then the Key to Time season heralds the ago, a piece of fan artwork which divided the Tom full flowering of the style of Doctor Who favoured by Baker years into two opposing panels facing each producer Graham Williams. Among its many other across the page. On the left-hand side, the noteworthy characteristics is the introduction of Hinchcliffe years were represented by moody images perhaps the most interesting and complex of Sutekh, Morbius and Mr Sin adorning the pages of companion in Doctor Who's history, opening the an illuminated medieval manuscript, while by contrast, floodgates on an unprecedented increase in strong - the right-hand side saw a succession of lurid Mandrels, female characters throughout the show Nimons and Mona Lisas popping up from the panels remarkably, the Key to Time season alone features of a comic strip. This would seem to encapsulate more female characters than the entire Hinchcliffe fandom's judgement of the two halves of the Tom era put together. This long overdue attempt to The Doctor plays android-fixer on Tara. Baker era, and it's a judgement that seems not only redress the balance of the sexes is emblematic of a

DOCTOR WHO mOBPSinE rather pejorative, but also completely misinformed. ideas became, Williams, Read and Adams never humour. When Romana wryly notes how appropriate

It's not the Hinchcliffe years but the later Tom Baker forgot that gruesome monsters and cliffhanging it is that the Nimon should live in a place called the

seasons, in particular those overseen by Anthony confrontations were Doctor Who's main requirements. Power Complex, it's not just a joke - although the

Read and , which are unashamedly What happened after the change ofproduction team fact that it is also a joke, and a funny one too, is an

bookish and indebted to highbrow literary models; was, in some ways, rather more problematic. elegant bonus. The GraffVynda K is a probing the Hinchcliffe stories derive more heavily from A bone of contention that persists to this day character-study in psychosis, a man who takes

the cinema and, in the most complimentary way revolves around the notion, to which many fans still himself absurdly seriously and dares the universe not

possible, could certainly be said to be more adhere, that Seasons Sixteen and Seventeen push to do the same; his eventual descent into madness is

comic-strip in tone and action. What really matters Doctor Who in the unwelcome direction of 'silliness' the direct result of his inability to interact with

is that, like the three superlative seasons preceding it, and 'send-up', before the show's socks are pulled up others. He is just one of many such figures in the

the Graham Williams era recognises and celebrates by the arrival of a new production team keen to Williams seasons: Lady Adrasta, the Pirate Captain,

the fact that Doctor Who is not intrinsically a restore a sense of gravity to the proceedings. , Thawn, Skagra, the Marshal, even the

science-fiction show. At its core are characters and According to this manifesto, stories like The Creature Skonnan Co- with his cry of 'Weakling scum!'

storytelling; the science fiction elements just happen jrom the Pit and The Horns ofNimon are unacceptably There's a reason why these characters, and many

to be there, in large or small enough doses to satisfy 'silly' and 'slapstick', full of 'undergraduate humour' others like them, are the butt of humour in the

the requirements ofeach particular story. (now there's a baffling term - I've never had the Williams stories: they remind us that there are some

Art, music, theatre, and most especially books, remotest idea what it's supposed to mean, and things in the universe even more sinister than an

are fundamentally important to the Williams era. On neither, one suspects, do those who use it as an Entropy Field or a Backblast Backlash or a Chronic

the most obvious level this manifests itself in the insult; if humour is indeed to be divided into some Hysteresis - and foremost among them is an inability aforementioned plundering of classical mythology or mystical collegiate system, then surely, if anything, to see the funny side.

nineteenth-century potboilers, but even within the Douglas Adams was a proponent of 'postgraduate There is, then, a deadly serious passion behind the

fictional narrative you're never very far from a book, humour'). Meanwhile, on side of the mockery that enlivens a story like The Creaturejrom the

whether it be the Swampies' historical ledger or great divide, tales like The Leisure Hiue and Pit, in which the Doctor and Romana deliver deadpan

Emilia Rumford's estimable volume Bronze Age Burials represent a welcome return to 'real science' and compliments to Lady Adrasta about her planet's

in Gloucestershire. Season Seventeen is positively 'serious drama'. leaden cliches ('We call it The Creature' / 'Oh, that's mnny fmis still belieue thht SEnsnns sibteed mid 5EUEDTEED PUSH "DOCTOR WHO' ID THE BEFORE am HRRIUES

littered with books. Destiny ofthe Daleks finds the original'; 'We call it The Pit' / 'Ah, you have such a Doctor reading The Origins ofthe Uniuerse by Oolon way with words'), while the Doctor defuses Adrasta's Colluphid (thank you, Douglas), and in overloaded pleasantry T couldn't see a man ofyour

he flips through a Parisian paperback ('a bit boring obvious talents in a subordinate position' by

in the middle'), while somewhere across town pretending to mistake it for an insult. At the same

Scarlioni is trafficking Gutenberg Bibles, collecting time the wastefulness ofan unexplored imagination

first drafts ofShakespeare and threatening is disclosed, and the Doctor's spontaneity celebrated, metonymically to tear up the Paris phone directory. by his observation that he was able to disprove

In The CreatureJrom the Pit Kg reads Beatrix Potter to Engineer Doran's findings because 'I did have a the Doctor, who in turn is equipped with those useful couple of gadgets which he probably didn't, like a volumes Everest in Easy Stages (written in Tibetan) teaspoon and an open mind.' Far from being merely and Teach YourselfTibetan (whose opening line is silly, quips like this are pivotal to Tom Baker's suspiciously close to 'Don't Panic', the jacket-blurb interpretation of the Doctor, and are surely a ofanother fictional book in Douglas Adams' library). fundamental ingredient of the show's success at the

Most flamboyant of all is , in which Gallifreyan time. They are, in fact, the logical follow-through, and nursery books rub shoulders with Saul Bellow, Emily the dramatic vindication, of his quotable observation Bronte, HG Wells, Alternatiue Betehjeuse and, in another way back in that 'There's no point in being self-reflexive nod, every author's friend Roget's grown up if you can't be childish sometimes.' Thesaurus. Tom Baker even reads a passage of his beloved Dickens. More important, of course, is the From his ridiculously impractical scarf to book they're all looking for, The Worshipjul and Ancient his ever-changing lapel accessories (flying

Laiu of Gallifret), which has the power to alter time and ducks amid the reed-beds of Delta creation as its pages are turned. For the Williams era Three, an oil-palette for the ), the Fourth to culminate in a story full of books that pivots Doctor is a walking embodiment of this credo. His around a book that is power is entirely in keeping Kg's logic wins out in a game of chess, but the celebrated bag of is more than just a with what's gone before. Shada is a footnote to what Fourth Doctor tends to win the bigger games ... comic prop: time and again it represents the spirit of all these stories are saying - that books offer a kind unpredictable inventiveness by which he lives his life. of multi-consciousness and a mastery over knowledge The problem with this argument is that one That same scene in Robot marks die point at which that is, in the words of the following year's State of person's notion of 'silliness' can be very different the jelly babies acquire their symbolic connotation:

Decay, 'the most powerful weapon of all'. from another's - and it certainly appears that the moment that Sarah accepts a jelly baby from the

During the closing years ofTom Baker's tenure, Douglas Adams' understanding of the term was eagerly proffered bag is, as the performances make

Doctor Who embraces and hones the approach of wildly at variance with Christopher Bidmead's. clear, die moment she consents to rejoin the Doctor taking an outrageously vivid idea, and framing it Going by the evidence on screen, and by the debate on his travels. When, in the dying seconds of the within an explicable science-fantasy context. A between the two production teams which forms the following story, the Doctor throws a bag of jelly hollow planet that materialises around others to suck most interesting section of 1983's scholarly tome babies to Vira, it's almost as if she's been awarded a them dry; a four-dimensional collision between a Doctor Who: The Unfolding Text, die guiding principle prize for rediscovering the meaning of humanity. pair of spacecraft exiting hyperspace at identical behind Season Eighteen is that 'silliness' resides in This sort of thing continues throughout the coordinates; a planet of space vampires preparing to the tendency to make jokes, to snigger at pomposity Hinchcliffe and Williams periods, celebrating the swarm; a centuries-long space war in which not a and delusion, and in general not to take things fact that the Doctor triumphs by acting irrationally, single shot has been fired; an alien who steals the seriously. Illuminatingly, the Graham Williams by challenging conventionality and logic. He loses to

Mono Lisa to fund his rime experiments; a quest by seasons systematically propose that the exact at chess, but he beats Romana at 'scissors, paper, the forces ofgood and evil to re-balance the cosmos. opposite is closer to the truth. The keynote ofTom stone' by stepping outside the rules and dropping a

Such extravagant notions become the framework on Baker's portrayal in the latter half of his tenure is that jelly baby into her hand: 'Doctor catches robot!' which late 1970s Doctor Who hangs an ever-increasing the Doctor represents spontaneity, irrationality, It's entirely in keeping with this air of purposeful, intricacy of character, incident and philosophy, while imagination and improvisation in contrast to the playful maturity that the Graham Williams seasons simultaneously never losing sight of the fact that its villains, whose grandiose schemes and humourless revel in pushing to the limit the unwritten contract prime function is to be soundly entertaining. This, it self-images mark them out as people who have lost that exists between viewers and programme-makers. seems, is crucial: however baroque and eccentric the their sense of proportion, and with it their sense of These seasons are full of little stylistic flourishes

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mechanisms, the Doctor 'undermines' the Daleks, but that it questions the which unusually propel Doctor Who beyond its traditional storytelling to the weary rhetorical extent ofour willing complicity as participants in the traditional emphasis on presenting unmediated even drawing our attention going wrong every time he says fiction, because to anyone young enough not to have 'reality' on screen - think, for example, of Scaroth's trick of something again, spotted the absurdity before, it's merely a valid, never-quite-explained 'dream' in City ofDeath, or the 'What could possibly go wrong?' Once could be dismissed as plot-driven way for the Doctor to escape. And for strikingly odd use of cross-fades to convey the third background details that deliberately deployed another thing, Doctor Who had begun mocking the cliffhanger ofThe Creaturejrom the Pit, or the bravura production shortcomings are early as Chase reasons: it's significant that the Daleks' inability to climb stairs as The direction accompanying the Graff's death in The for accountable plot pronunciation of 'Hymetusite', back in 1965, long before lazy stand-up comedians Ribos Operation: as the deranged warlord gathers his Co-Pilot fluffs the consist started adopting it as the epitome of hilarity. The line imaginary troops around him, we actually hear the and that the corridors of the Power Complex collection of flats rearranged into in Destiny ofthe Daleks is simply a case of the show tumult of battle that is ringing, Caligula-like, in his of the same turns - Doctor Who confronting its own realities head-on: far better that head. This isn't just a directorial gimmick; it's an ever-changing twists and in the Doctor should point it out than that he and the experiment in how far the show can overstep the corridors always do this, but eyes as part of the plotting. other characters should pretend, Foamasi-style, that purely representational and approach the realms of they do it before our Even more audaciously, Nightmare everything is utterly plausible, while at home the patience starting to crack their of Eden is a story that pivots on the viewers are losing and concept of a machine that makes own jokes about staircases. And most importantly, alien planets appear at the touch of the Daleks' pre-eminent wickedness isn't even a CSO button, and then allows the dented: they are seldom more ruthless than in Doctor to jump in and out of the Destiny, in which they systematically execute different settings. The same story hostages, work slaves to death, torture Romana, and rubs the viewer's face in the show's massacre the rebels outside the Movellan ship. The economical budget by presenting a fact that the Doctor's reaction to all this includes a chase through a series of identical healthy dose of mockery reassures us that he is the

sets featuring identically costumed moral and intellectual opposite of the Daleks, thus for extras - again, all for good dramatic forming a crucial part of the story's eloquent plea reasons within the script - and then spontaneity and unexpectedness: 'Make mistakes pushes the joke to extremes via a and confuse the enemy,' he concludes. montage of the Doctor repeatedly What Graham Williams' Doctor Who understands running down the same set of steps, very well - better, in fact, than many other periods of in cut after rapid cut. Later there's a the show - is that an outward demonstration of

Above: Faecetiousness is the best defence against the homicidal

Captain in The Pirate Planet. Right: Tom Baker grabs forty winks. Far right: In the thick of things again in The Stones ofBlood.

the poetic. Such moments continue to crop up in Season Eighteen, most obviously in the slow-motion emergence of the Marshmen in Full

Circle, the time-shifts ofWarriors' Gate and the atmospheric dissolve from Aukon to a bat in State o/Decay, but under the influence of increasingly the emphasis is simply on creating an shot of Captain Rigg, television screen and effect rather than actively bending the rules as Seasons Vraxoin, pointing at a at the less than Sixteen and Seventeen do. We all know that none of laughing uncontrollably savaging the ship's this is real, the Williams era seems to be saying, so terrifying Mandrels result is an elegant piece of come on, let's explore the unreality. But crucially, the passengers. The doublethink: on a 'fictional' level, and in the game is always played from within the necessary to find the dramatic structure; nothing is spoiled for the children mind ofany child young enough the spectacle ofRigg who are the most cherished part of the audience, and Mandrels frightening, is horrific; but for the show even uses its newfound archness to advance laughing at the massacre monsters with the storytelling. The Doctor's first reaction on anyone too old to react to the little wink to meeting Romana in The Ribos Operation is to echo the anything but derision, it's a thoughts of millions ofviewers, turning to Kg and reassure us that the programme knows what htmare of whispering 'That's the new assistant!' He's already it's doing: here's a man watching Nig crap monsters. All of complained to the about the Eden and laughing at the and less traditional dramatic functions of the companion this is surely more sophisticated - than, for example, the revelation of the (Tn my experience assistants mean trouble 1 have to 'silly' doggedly protect them and show them and teach them ...'), and Foamasi in The Leisure Hiue, which whatever age to retain a later in the same episode he provides Romana with a requires viewers of the spectacle ofan equally set of knowingly self-conscious ground-rules which, straight face at

true to form, he immediately goes on to transgress. ridiculous zip-up monster.

Similarly, The Power of Kroll makes prolonged instance of this humourless solemnity is not necessarily the best way mischiefwith Doctor Who's conventions when, in erhaps the most notorious to some fans remains to be dramatically effective, just as a black suit and a customary fashion, the first episode ends with sort of thing, which Williams/Adams pointed beard aren't necessarily the most potent Romana being menaced by a man in an unconvincing an indictment of the to his deadliest indicators of evil. Season Eighteen, with its monster suit - who turns out in the following approach, is the Doctor's jibe you're supposed conceitedly straight face and an attitude to the episode's to be, for significant plot enemies in Destiny ofthe Daleks: 'If race of the universe, why don't previous regime that sometimes seems reminiscent reasons, really a man in an unconvincing monster to be the superior Python General try climbing after us?' Some regard this as an ofGraham Chapman's Monty suit; it's the Swampie priest dressing up as Kroll for you of the Daleks, an ('Right, that's enough of that - it started out as a nice theatrical and political effect. 'Well, he probably unforgivable undermining | is idea about a time-travelling alien in a police box, but looked more convincing from the front,' concedes unwelcome puncturing of the illusion. This, surely, thing, anyone old now it's just got silly!'), struggles to come up wi± the Doctor as he pulls the latex head off to reveal the pure self-deception. For one definition, old villains anywhere near as threatening or as actor beneath. enough to react in this way is, by Daleks aren't real; so memorable as Count Grendel, Lady Adrasta, the In the same way, The Horns ofNimon enjoys some enough to be aware that the the scene Pirate Captain or Scaroth. For an object sport with the cliches inherent in the show's what they're really objecting to isn't that

DOCTOR WHO IT1RGRZIRE J 'It's what's inside that counts'. demonstration of this difference in approaches, one of Logopolis in The Unfolding Text demonstrates, is in Destiny ofthe Daleks, a coincidence that the vast increase in need look no further than the style in which the embarrassingly inadequate. Neither Adams nor It can't be proficiency over couple of Black and White Guardians are represented in the Williams wanted Season Seventeen to be like Season special effects decades has often seemed index-linked to a decline Key to Time season by comparison with their later Eighteen. They were making a different sort of show scripts; no longer forced by appearances in the Davison era. The Black Guardian altogether, and it was a show in which they believed in the intelligence of the shortcomings to appeal to the viewers' seen in The Armageddon Factor is a world away from the wholeheartedly. Seasons Sixteen and Seventeen budgetary programme-makers have experienced cackling feathered fiend of Mawdrun Undead; here offer a kind of Doctor Who that appeals to viewers imaginations, decreasing need to bother using their own. he's a subde, wily creature whose final deception very sophisticated enough to participate in the creative a brings us back to the question of 'real nearly fools the Doctor. Even starker is the difference process themselves. Children, who are generally Which Adams was between the original White Guardian and the cuddly, more open-minded and faster on the uptake than science' versus 'gobbledegook'. Douglas to subordinate the dry scientific theorising in genial dotard later seen in Enlightenment. Sipping a adults, do this sort of thing instinctively, which is one happy tell a story, and he was aware of the drink beneath a tree in a fantasy garden, The Ribos reason why much of the most celebrated and order to good devising technical jargon which, however Operation's White Guardian looks like the Man from successful children's literature includes an interactive value of jokily, makes narrative sense to the layman - hence Del Monte on his afternoon off, and just like the Man element that depends on the reader becoming like the 'chronostat', the from Del Monte, he's no pushover: there's a starding complicit in the creation of the fictional world and the introduction ofgizmos 'conceptual geometer', whose degree ofmenace inherent in his lines, and the threat the destinies of its characters (as in 'Clap your hands 'randomiser' and the tell what they do, opening up avenues of of oblivion facing an uncooperative Doctor is ifyou believe in fairies', or 'He's behind you!'). names us infantile conceit - understanding unhelpfully blocked by the likes of left hanging in the air. The unobtrusiveness of their This is by no means an exclusively cone inverters' and 'temporal authority - the fact that they are sparingly used and as any play by Shakespeare or Brecht will readily Bidmead's 'time isometry'. Moreover, despite what Bidmead sufficiendy confident of their powers not to have to demonstrate - it's just one that appeals to the free inversion the nnnms/uiiLLmnis err OFFERS SHOWS THHT RPPEHL TO THE CREHTIUERESS OF THE UIEUIIHE PURLIC...

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imagination rather would later imply, Douglas Adams' science is than to television's theoretically sound; his friend the eminent usual tendency toward evolutionary biologist would later

a dull, unthinking comment on 'how deeply read he was in science', - remark that 'his sophisticated humour was dress up in silly costumes and go 'Nyah-hah-hah' obeisance to arbitrary notions of 'realism'. and in a deep, amalgamated knowledge of invests these Guardians with an impact considerably founded

... Douglas thought like a greater than dieir later manifestations. The fact that ention of 'realism' requires us to literature and science funnier. It is fair to say that they are played by the same actors in both seasons address another of fandom's cherished scientist but was much hero to scientists.' Compare this with New demonstrates just how decisive is the governance of beliefs, namely that the Williams he was a reaction to Season Eighteen: 'The action directors, script editors, designers and producers in seasons mark some sort of low in the area of Scientist's almost incomprehensibly determining the nature of the finished programme. 'production values'. This is something that clearly was pedestrian, the story too mundane' was the At the beginning of 1980 the back covers of the didn't bother the millions who enjoyed Seasons complex, and the jargon terse of Logopolis. Target novelisations carried a review quotation Sixteen and Seventeen, and what seems remarkable journal's evaluation basic grasp, just the sort of commending the way in which had is that, despite being made against the backdrop of 'If you've got the fundamental principles of physics, then all it really 'deftly recaptured the programme's popular blend of spiralling inflation and industrial action that beset logical imagination, just to extrapolate hectic menace and humorous self-mockery' - and if British television production in the late 1970s, Doctor needs is a Inevitably from those,' Douglas Adams once suggested. a critic from British Book News was able to recognise Who continued to deliver the goods at all. Accordingly, the ideas in Season Seventeen are that 'humorous self-mockery' was part of the there were good days (the take-off and explosion of exciting, outrageous, and mind-expanding. Destinu of 'popular blend', it seems even more of a pity that the the Jagaroth ship was unquestionably the best piece Daleks encapsulates the principles of the incoming production team apparendy didn't. It is, ofvisual effects work ever seen on Doctor Who up to the neady then-fashionable theory, demonstrating how then, regrettable to hear Christopher Bidmead on that time, and no model shot in Season Eighteen game - based chance can defeat choices based on The Leisure Hiue's DVD commentary tutting every time comes close to matching it) and bad days nobody choices on a spin on contemporary Tom Baker smuggles an entertaining gag onto the would uphold the priapic Tythonian or the mimsy logic. The Horns of Nimon puts research the potential to create screen, and dismissing as 'magic', 'gobbledegook' Mandrels as shining examples of Doctor Who at its proposing faster-than-light travel by passing through and 'very very silly' the kind of Doctor Who envisaged best. But then, the same could be said of the interconnected black holes. But more important than by his predecessor Douglas Adams. In 1980 it was Skarasen, the giant rat, the Foamasi, the , the to which it is put; Adams apparendy the view of the incoming production team Myrka or the Garm. And if Season Seventeen is the authenticity is the use

all I a knack for mapping scientific precepts onto - and it's a view which became, and largely remains, supposed to be a haven of silly acting, then can had captivating story ideas. Nobody but a quantum part of the accepted wisdom of fan lore - that the say is God help Rorvik, and Zastor. One can't vivid, most Williams/Adams period of Doctor Who was somehow help suspecting that the real reason the Williams era physicist is likely to have more than the grasp on whether the hyperspace shoddy and lazy, characterised in Nathan-Turner's has been singled out for ridicule in these areas is that tenuous warp-smash is actually a load of old cobblers, or words by 'a general feeling that "it'll do because it's fans already harbour a distaste for the scripts and the walls, whether wrapping a neutron star in aluminium foil Doctor Who'", and that it would have looked, sounded style. Personally, I can see just as many wobbly the trick, or whether the Doctor and behaved more like Season Eighteen if only the absurd monsters, toe-curling effects and questionable would seriously do around Palaeozoic Earth without production team had been up to the job. This view, as performances in every other era of Doctor Who. It's could really wander inconveniences. Douglas Adams's eloquent and entertaining critique nice to get these things right, but, as the Doctor says suffering various life-threatening

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But then, he couldn't really travel to sixteenth-century that fandom doggedly adheres to the fantasy that working relationship with Graham Williams had been

Florence in a phone booth either, and that's a leap of John Nathan-Turner and Christopher Bidmead rode nothing if not stormy, but it is equally apparent that it

faith we make every week. Surely what's important is in and rescued Doctor Who from the brink of disaster. was a relationship founded on a certain intellectual and that dramatically, imaginatively, evocatively, as an The idea that a big red line can be drawn through artistic congeniality - regardless of their disagreements,

arrangement ofwords and pictures, it works Doctor Who between The Horns ofNimon and The Leisure both men were, to all intents and purposes, striving beautifully. A child of six can follow the concepts of Hiue simply doesn't withstand scrutiny. Certainly the after the same kind of , and so too

Nightmare of Eden or City of Death as well as any adult, differences between those stories are considerable, were the other guiding forces at Doctor Who's coalface,

but what is there for that child in the self-regarding but in the main they are cosmetic differences of notably Douglas Adams and . In 1980 John technobabble ofWarriors' Gate or Loaopolis? music, graphics, design and camerawork. Nathan-Turner and his team brought not only a Notwithstanding a muting of humour and an commendable new degree of control to the studio This may go some way towards explaining injection of Bidmeadian jargon, at script level The floor, curbing Baker's improvisational excesses, but why Seasons Sixteen and Seventeen - small Leisure Hiue is still very recognisably a product of the also a new austerity ofpurpose to the show's creative on 'realism', big on captivatingly poetic previous regime, revisiting plenty ofthemes evident principles. Nathan-Turner and Bidmead wanted

ideas - were so popular with children as well as with in 's earlier stories: there are the flawed Doctor Who to be taken seriously, and it was central adults, whereas Season Eighteen - ostensibly glossier time-bubble experiments straight out of City of Death, to their belief that for this to occur, the Doctor

and more respectable, solemn and scientific, its a plot hinging on the problem of inter-species himself had to assume a new mantle of ostentatious 'technocotheca' of ideas revolving around tachyonics, communication as in The Crearurefrom the Pit (and seriousness. 'You will not see one bag ofjelly babies bubble memory, block transfer computations and thereby a virtually identical Part Three cliffhanger), this season,' Nathan-Turner vowed solemnly in charged vacuum emboitments - was a big family and even a splash of space-age courtroom drama as DWM 51. This, apparently, was a good thing. turn-off. The anti-Williams brigade likes to attribute previously seen in The Stones of Season Seventeen's success entirely to the timely ITV Blood. It's to be noted that Mecjlos

strike that gave its first two stories a spectacular hike and State ofDecay, the next two in viewing figures, while simultaneously putting the stories into production, are ratings disaster of Season Eighteen down to a similarly redolent of the Graham combination ofchanging viewing habits and the Williams period (one ofthem,

aggressive scheduling of the glossy, Americanised famously, is a reworked leftover pap Buck Rogers by ITV. Clearly this argument won't from Season Fifteen), and both johii rhthhr turrer mid christopher ridh1erd u1rrted the show thher seriduslh...

Above: A communication problem for the Doctor in The Creature from the Pit. Right: Drug-smuggling and Muppet-monsters combine in The Nightmare ofEden.

do; once the 1979 ITV strike ended (a few days before come across as more traditional stories than the Watching Tom Baker in Season Eighteen is a The Crearurefrom the Pit began transmission) Season remainder of the season. Both revolve around big, poignant business: sometimes uplifting, sometimes Seventeen continued to attract almost twice the bold central images (the Dodecahedron, the Doctor heart-rendingly sad. It's never less than a fine

number of viewers who would tune in for its transforming into a cactus, the vampires, the tower), piece of acting, but there are only occasional flashes successor, and in any case, the Hinchcliffe era had which appeal to the imagination in a way that some of the previous year's spirit of freewheeling comfortably trounced the glossy, Americanised pap ofBidmead's more muted, narratively and visually celebration, replaced in the main by a taciturn,

ofSpacenggg a few years earlier. Of course, ratings obscure stories struggle to achieve. shadowy, lurking presence that sometimes recalls can be wildly unreliable and inconsistent - they are So Season Eighteen's supposedly radical the alien broodiness of the Fourth Doctor's early swollen and shrunk not only by strikes and schedules doesn't actually happen overnight: years, but more often looks simply like a dispirited but also by such variables as weather, holidays, beneath the flashy new graphics and the radiophonic actor sulking because his latest suggestion has been

publicity, and indeed changes in the methodology by music, the major sea-change doesn't really come overruled. We now know, which we didn't at the which ratings themselves are calculated - but, until the departure of Romana and K9. Not until The time, that Tom was seriously unwell during much

whichever way you cut it, Season Eighteen must Keeper ofTraken do we begin to see the recognisable of the season, and this goes a long way towards surely carry a portion of responsibility for one of the components ofwhat we would come to know as the explaining why he ages so alarmingly - it's steepest declines in viewing figures in Doctor Who's 'JNT era' falling into place, as Doctor Who embraces remarkable to think that the gaunt, morose figure of

history. And ifwe're honest with ourselves, the its new identity as a space-age , The Keeper ofTraken is only a year older than the reasons aren't exactly a mystery: the qualities that characterised as in the Harmell years by young irrepressible whirlwind at the centre ofThe Horns of

attentive fans find in esoteric stories like The Leisure companions, dovetailing stories, and an increased Nimon - so the subdued tenor of his performance Hiue and Warriors' Gate are not exactly congruent with preoccupation with die domesticity of the TARDIS. can't be laid entirely at the door of the new regime's the kind ofshow that the great British public wanted Of course, the most significant and substantial inflexibility. But this, surely, is the overwhelming to see served up on a Saturday readme. change wrought by the new production team, and one reason for the change in Tom, and indeed the reason

None of this is said to belittle or undervalue that is certainly felt as early as The Leisure Hiue, is the for his departure at the end of the season. 'He

Season Eighteen, which is certainly one of the most change in the Fourth Doctor himself- which, at this marked the end of me,' Baker recently said of the

interesting, daring and unusual sequences of Doctor stage in his tenure, is inseparable from the change in new producer's arrival. 'He was the new man, and

Who stories ever attempted; but it does seem a pity Tom Baker. It is well documented that the actor's I was the old man going out.'

CTDH ULIHD mnGnzinE Undoubtedly Tom Baker's influence over Doctor There's nothing particularly revolutionary about to be discrete fields of endeavour, declaring in DWM Who had become perilously overwhelming by the this idea in Doctor Who terms, but during the Williams 257 that he had 'studied science at school and got time ofSeason Seventeen - the actor has confessed era it is foregrounded as never before; in story after diverted into the arts world', and that at the time he

'I getting a bit that 'My vanity and my self-confidence was absolutely story, the stifling mechanisms of logic and took up the post of script editor, was the discipline of overweening' - but all the same, those of us who techno-speak and computerisation become the fed up with arty people and wanted admire the 'popular blend of hectic menace and Doctor's enemies. The Megara, the inflexible science back.' These statements reveal a mentality the 'deep, amalgamated humorous self-mockery' find it difficult to spot more justice-machines in The Stones of Blood, repeatedly entirely different from that than one occasion in Season Seventeen when Tom bark 'Irrelevant!', 'Unnecessary!', 'Immaterial!' knowledge of literature and science' Richard predecessor. Baker genuinely went too far. The infamous 'my arms, 'Irrational!' at the Doctor, and of course they're right: Dawkins so admired in Bidmead's unquestioningly genuflects my legs, my everything' sequence in but that is precisely the Doctor's point, and it is why Much of Season Eighteen damagingly to doesn't fall into the same category as the 'gags' cited he eventually confounds them. Like the opposing before science, but more seems experience, putting earlier because, unlike them, it intrudes badly upon battle-computers in Destiny ofthe Dalelcs, the Megara divorce it from the rest of human

it in to the dramatic validity of the storytelling. If Graham may very well be 'programmed against the possibility a fence around it and placing opposition are told Williams had been unwilling or unable to curb ail of of error', but their downfall is that they have no everything else. Technology is good, we by Tom Baker's eccentric ideas, then by contrast, and imagination - and imagination is what triumphs in the Savants and the Argolins and the Trakens and the everything else is primitive and for whatever reason, his successor somehow knocked the Fourth Doctor's universe. Numbers are the Logopolitans, and retrogressive. In the the fight out of him. Baker had played the Doctor enemy: the exponentially multiplying Nimons, the entropic and superstitious and according to his own temperament before Season quantum calculations powering Zanak's Time Dams, previous era the non-confomist, back-to-nature Eighteen, most famously during the month-long bad Mentalis mindlessly 'clicking towards oblivion'. The Outlers would be the heroes of , not its the final irony is that the mood which by all accounts accompanied Horror of introduction of the Randomiser at the end of the Key delinquent drop-outs. But to Time season is more Fourth Doctor's era ends with a story that fetishises than just a convenient pure mathematics to an unprecedented degree.

technical justification Logopolis is a strange, evocative and beautiful tale, but for the ongoing the tone and intent seem out of kilter with the Fourth unpredictability of the Doctor, denying this most poetic of heroes the

TARDIS' travels: it's an chance to end his days poetically. Having faced down affirmation of the Davros, Sutekh, the Nucleus of the Swarm, Cessair of

The freewheeling, maverick hero of The Horns ofNimon (above), is transformed into an ageing, brooding presence by the time of State of Oecay(right). So what caused such a startling change in just 12 months...?

Fang Rock, but now the syndrome was back with a Doctor's philosophical vengeance. The celebrated themes of entropy, change wish to enjoy a random and decay that run through Season Eighteen lifestyle, free from absolutes. Diplos, the Black Guardian and the last of the complement the factor that really defines the mood Of a piece witii this is Kg's ubiquitous habit of lagaroth, the Fourth Doctor ends his days measuring ofthe season: Tom Baker's long, slow comedown quoting statistics and impossibly high odds that are the TARDIS, and is finally crushed by numbers and from the euphoric highs of the previous year. prompdy debunked by the Doctor ('74,384,338? defeated by the computations of the , now That's extraordinary - that's my lucky number!'). revealed to be 'a brilliant mathematician'.

ut the change in Baker's oudook, and The Doctor's ongoing quest to 'humanise' Kg is a Perhaps this is why the Doctor seems so subdued - therefore in the Fourth Doctor, is not just pleasingly compact emblem of his struggle against in Season Eighteen he's lost in a strange new the story ofan actor no longer allowed to the mindless acceptance of empirical certainties: he universe long before the TARDIS plops through that

Still, his days improvise. Equally significant is the seismic change tries to demonstrate how to turn data into tactics by charged vacuum emboitment. on good creative ingenuity of old, in ideology brought to Doctor Who by Christopher teaching Ko how to play chess (and how to cheat at he displays plenty of the a Bidmead. Prior to Season Eighteen, the Fourth it), and he attempts without success to introduce subverting 's Chronic Hysteresis with Doctor's universe had been one increasingly Ko to the nuances ofwordplay ('Explain use of bungled run-through of his own, and deducing the informed and enlightened by poetry, music, history, paddle in gum tree'). The fact that these attempts nature of the Three Who Rule with the help of the noticing that State philosophy and art: it's a measure of the direction in are inevitably frustrated is part of the point: Ko is Brothers Grimm (one can't help of 'completely which the scripts had gravitated that Leonardo da right, but die Doctor is right too. Science is neither Decay, whose director rejected Bidmead's new, high-tech' rewrite at the eleventh hour, is Vinci's significance in The Masque o_f Mandragora is a good thing nor a bad thing; it's just there, and that he's a scientist, while in City o/Death the future of what really matters is the use to which it is put. arguably the most successful script of die season). mankind depends on the fact that he's an artist. This In the hands of the Nimons, or Scaroth, or Tryst, or Despite die solemn tone, despite the lack ofany spark between the Fourth Doctor and his is not to say that the show was now devaluing the Skagra, science is a force for evil; but in the right discernible ponderousness importance of the sciences - how could a hands it is one of the most beautiful disciplines of new companions, despite the general presumably programme like Doctor Who possibly do so? - but all, capable ofadvancing understanding and of the end-of-term atmosphere, and during the Williams era in particular, science is a philosophy and beauty and pleasure ('So Newton despite what Christopher Bidmead would have deal of the right sort of means to an end, not the driving force behind the invented punting!' / 'Oh yes, there was no limit to wanted, there's a good notwithstanding storytelling. The misuse and abuse of science is Isaac's genius'). Note that the list of Cambridge 'magic' in Season Eighteen. And impositions, Tom Baker does often, as it always had been in Doctor Who, the pretext alumni reeled off by the Doctor in Shada juxtaposes the production team's funniest ever for a story, but far from being the show's raison d'etre, scientists like Newton and Rudierford with poets manage to pop one of the show's cuts back to science, like mathematics, is something that the like Wordsworth and Marvell. sight-gags into Warriors' Gate: the camera cut in Fourth Doctor traditionally holds at arm's length. It is, then, an ironic twist that Christopher the Doctor, last seen having his batdeaxe two struggling a Art, and literature, and people, and friendship, are Bidmead's vision of Doctor Who seems to slice by a marauding Gundan, now with axe-shafts. Ah, that popular far more important to him, and he is suspicious of through these priorities, leaving the Fourth Doctor whole armful of broken any system which seeks to use scientific or logical gasping like a fish out of water. Unlike Douglas blend of hectic menace and humorous self-mockery: all. goodness. absolutism as a basis for living life. Adams, Bidmead evidendy imagined science and art it never quite went away after Thank O

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I'll Put You Again

In 1978, after 15 years of aimless meandering through time and space, the Doctor was suddenly given a purpose - to reassemble the scattered of the all-powerful Key to Time. Andrew Pixley primes

his tracer, unfurls his umbrella theme, and sets off on a magical quest with two Time Lords in tow ...

n early 1978, Doctor Who remained a popular element of BBCi's fans associated with the Doctor Who Appreciation Society. The expanding Saturday night line up, with Tom Baker having achieved nationwide Society dominated the fan arena - especially following the demise of the stardom in the space of four years. The actor cared passionately about fanzine Doctor Who Digest after nine issues - and was now planning Panopticon i the series - which he saw as primarily aimed at children - and was '78, a two-day event to follow up their first one-day convention during 1977.

continually thinking ofnew, interesting and fun ideas to keep it fresh. Former Doctor was approached but declined to attend,

Attempting to keep control of the effervescent actor was producer Graham saying "I don't feel that I can take part ... I have always believed that after an

Williams, who had taken over from in late 1976. By now, actor has finished his performance, he ... returns to an ordinary anonymous

Williams had implemented the notion ofa connected sequence of adventures life ... I'm sorry to disappoint you." for the Doctor: a quest for the Key to Time. Williams also resisted plans by BBC As rehearsals began on Thursday 30 March, Tamm struck up a good scheduling to move the forthcoming season from Saturday nights to a possible working relationship with a very welcoming Baker; she developed an immense

Thursday evening slot; the producer saw Doctor Who as a key element of the respect for him, realising that the show revolved around him. Baker was still weekend schedules, alongside the BBCi Sunday classic serial. delighted to be working with , who provided the voice of Kg, and A meeting had been held in in late 1977 for the writers, including by now Leeson was attending all the rehearsals - which he was not obliged to Robert Holmes, Douglas Adams, David Fisher and Ted Lewis, with do - and scampering around on the floor to make the relationship between the

and Dave Martin also kept informed despite being unable to attend. By Monday Doctor and his dog seem more authentic. While Baker still detested "the tin

13 March 1978, Williams and script editor had most of the dog" - the radio-controlled Kg prop, which was not used in rehearsals - he stories for the season lined up, with the scripts for the conclusion, Armageddon, enjoyed Leeson's performance hugely and suggested that the pair could take starting to arrive from Baker and Martin. While Williams was on leave, Read over the BBC's Open University programmes. Tending only to read his sections fought to retain the humorous serial The

Pirate Planet in the face of criticism from Head of Drama Graeme McDonald. adopted his soggestidds, In contrast to Hinchcliffe's same tenure, as he began his fifth season Tom Baker OTHERS TOLD THE HCTDR TO SHOT OP... found himself less involved in discussions

regarding the new stories and the series' direction. of the script, Baker was increasingly sensitive to His visits to the production office were less frequent, dialogue. Directors reacted differently to him and his working partnership with Williams was not depending on his mood; some would adopt his

as close as with Hinchcliffe. Since the Doctor could improvisations, others would tell him to shut up. not develop as a character, Baker was determined to With barely any movement on the London carry on introducing amusing ideas, although such Management movie contract for more than two notions were not always welcomed by the production years, BBC Enterprises informed the company team. While Baker himself disliked the Doctor's that they had a deadline of28 days to accept the robot dog companion K9, he would never say so in proffered licence with an expiry date ofTuesday 25

public as he realised it - was popular with children in April. In the meantime, on Monday 3 April the BBC die same way that he would eat the jelly babies received another call concerning a potential Doctor

offered by young fans at signings although he had no Who feature film, this time from agent Jill Foster love for this confectionery. Baker was becoming whose client, comedy writer Douglas Adams - the

increasingly involved with charities connected with author ofThe Pirate Planet for the current season - children and made a lot ofpromotional appearances. had reworked an earlier submission called Doctor

On a visit to Belfast he was escorted by the British Who and the Krikkirmen as a movie outline. Army, but made sure to visit both Protestant and Production got underway with recording ofThe

Catholic schools. On another occasion, a student Ribos Operation on Sunday g April. Since work on The who came to interview him insisted on making love Invasion pfTime had concluded in December, a to him while she was clad in his Doctor Who costume! number ofchanges had been made to K9; its radio

Back from a brief honeymoon in Tenerife, Mary control frequency had been altered to make it less

Tamm had her first costume fitting as Romana, the susceptible to camera interference, and with its new Time Lady companion for the Doctor, on Sunday quieter motor it could now debut as Kg Mark II. As

19 March, the same day that the "Save Our " the quest for the Key to Time began at Television campaign was continued in the newspapers in the Centre, on Friday 14 April, the Evening Neivs carried wake of 's departure. Before the story 'Watch out Doctor, here's a new rival' in rehearsals got underway again on Robert Holmes' which Stuart Payne covered the production of Oceans debut serial for the season, now entitled The Ribos Operation (formerly The in the Slcy which starred Leo Adams as the Doctor and Diane Woodley as his Galactic Conman), Baker signed Target novelisations in Stirling and Glasgow on assistant Gina. On Thursday 20 April, issued Doctor Who Discovers Saturday 25 March and in Derby on Tuesday 28 March. Strange and Mysterious Creatures, the final of their educational Doctor Who Discovers

At this time, Baker was still hopeful of raising finance and settling license series which was now cancelled through poor sales; Doctor Who Discovers Pirates issues on the movie script Doctor Who Meets Scratchman, which he had written had been scheduled for publication on Thursday 29 June while Doctor Who with fellow actor Ian Matter and hoped to have directed by James Hill. However Discovers inventors and Doctor Who Discovers Miners were also abandoned. in late March, Baker's agents, London Management, were still debating clauses Over the weekend of Saturday 23 April, Baker was severely bitten by a dog. in the BBC's contract. In the meantime, on Wednesday 29 March a Doctor Who With the wound covered in make-up, Baker sported a plaster on his upper lip film entitled Oceans in the Sku began shooting; this was the work ofa group of when posing with Tamm for her publicity press launch photographs in studio

THE COITIPLETE POUHTH DOCTOR The Invisible Enemy was selected to be repeated around 7pm on Thursdays from

Thursday 13 July; it would be followed by The Sun Makers. In TV Comic, the Doctor Who strip which had been running for so many years looking tired as publishers Polystyle made stringent cutbacks. From on Tuesday 25 April. Various daily papers printed shots ofTamm in costume, was now strips drawn by John and on Friday 28 the Daily Mirror carried Tony Pratt's interview with the actress Issue 1386 (dated Friday 7 July), there were no new with Baker's features drawn over those on the perils ofbeing a companion. Canning, but a reprint of a 1968 serial continued with a number ofJon Pertwee strips, The first script casualty for the season was the fourth serial, Shield o/Zornk by ofTroughton. The same ploy Special. Leela was still the Doctor's Ted Lewis. Lewis delivered the first two episodes on Friday 28 April, but by also in that summer's TV Comic Holiday in Dr Annual from World Distributors, although still now his private life was in turmoil and he was suffering health problems. He companion The Who 1979 Louise Jameson. Paul Mark Tamms of±e was inebriated at a meeting with Williams and Read, and a look at his two not bearing much resemblance to Terry Nation's Annual from the scripts revealed that they were unsuitable for production, although a third and DWAS was one of the illustrators on 1979 Allen also planned to launch a new series of final script later arrived on Friday t2 May. same publishers. In July, WH had novelisations, starting with Dicks' The Brain As location filming on The Pirate Planet began in Wales, on Monday 1 May, illustrated "junior" Doctor Who of deferred by a year. Syd Little appeared as a bug-eyed Doctor in a sketch on BBCi's Little and Large Morbius, but this range was manufacturers Denys Fisher were able to show the (recorded on Wednesday 26 April), while on Wednesday 3 May, Leeson By Friday 14 July, toy model to complement their recorded a commentary for Happy Catastrophes, an edition of Horizon broadcast Doctor Who office a pre-production friction-drive K9 figure range. The robot dog was a massive hit with children, on Friday 28 July. Only originally booked for two serials, Tamm was contracted existing action the ran an item entided 'Doggone it, to play Romana for the rest of the season on Thursday 18 May; the production and on Thursday 20 July, Packard discussed the character's team had originally considered that Romana could regenerate on a regular Doctor!' in which production secretary Ann basis throughout the season. At the end ofMay, two scripts were commis- massive mailbag. filming for The Androids Tara was undertaken, sioned to replace Shield qfZarak and fill the fifth slot. Read fell back on two While location of series on Friday 28 July, discussing its trusted writers whom he knew could deliver. His predecessor, Robert Holmes, Higher Education Supplement featured the growing following and the forth- HD1UHRD DH SILUH PRDUIDED coming DWAS convention. The Sun seized upon the event, with DWAS nnRRHTinn for nmERicnn Reference Historian Jeremy Bentham WITHOUT EUER 5EEIHE H appearing as a Super Voc robot in television commercials, culminating

It' in the paper on Saturday 12 was asked for an adventure featuring the largest monster ever seen in the with Joe Steeples' feature 'Who'd Believe luminaries interviewed and Dalek creator Terry series, and Holmes' resultant tale of colonial occupation was entitled Moon of August. In this, DWAS were entirely approve of the fans. That weekend, Death. David Fisher, who had written the third story of the season, The Stones 0/ Nation indicated that he did not '78 at Imperial College in London. Baker, Blood (formerly The Stones ofTime), was recommissioned for a new serial - a 400 devotees attended Panopticon the first episode of the series, An swashbuckling spoofof the classic novel The Prisoner ofZenda under the tide Leeson, Williams and Read were present, and Unearthly Child, screened by special arrangement with the BBC. There was a Androids ofZenda. was Donovan's 'The day Dr BBC Records and Tapes reissued the theme single of the series in a new lot of press coverage for the event; on Monday 14, Paul Daily spoke to guests like Carole Ann picture sleeve and also published an LP and cassette of Doctor Who Sound Effects. Who came down to earth' in the Mail Australia. In fact, the BBC The Radiophonic Workshop were part ofan SF Festival at Windsor Racecourse Ford and fans who had travelled from America and had only just started on Saturday 10 June, along with the DWAS, some Daleks and a fully costumed were planning a major sales drive in Australia who Mirror unveiled Tom Baker who relished meeting young fans at the Windsor Arts Council purchasing episodes from 1975; on Friday n August, the Sydney and indeed bags of Doctor Who event. That morning, BBCi had screened the 1965 movie Dr Who and the Daleks, that the 'BBC Plans Dalek Invasion of Australia' away at the Royal Show the following month. and its sequel, Daleks - Invasion Earth 2150AD aired ia fortnight later. goodies were given Absent from PantoptiCon '78 was who was in Athens, trying to a film entided The Doubt. ith scripts for The Horror ofthe Sivamp (the new tide for Moon of recover money she was owed on Competition on Thursday August, Death) quickly delivered, it was decided to defer these to the fifth Target announced a Dr Who Bonanza 17 - Mirror Books - approached the BBC slot of the season and bring Fisher's scripts, now called The but on Thursday 24 another publisher notion a Book Inventions; Williams commented on Tuesday 29 Androids ofTata, forward. The Stones ofBlood began location recording in mid- with the of Kg of outside the series in such a way, referring to June, and on Friday 30 June, Leeson was booked to work on the remaining that he was wary of K9 being used the on Jim'II Fix It. Also on Tuesday 29, serials of the season (erroneously documented as Serials 4D to 4F). K9 younger viewers' requests to meet dog recording on The Androids Tara appeared at the BBC Club Festival at Hotspur Park on Saturday 8 July, and to Baker and Tamm spent their lunch break from of interviewed by Peter Murray for reintroduce the robot to the BBCi audience (aside from BBC Cymru in Wales), at Studio B13 in Broadcasting House being

1Z DOCTOR LUHD ITIRGRZIRE a 'TARDIS Tuner' from Shortman Trading. A Doctor Who Press-Out Book was eventually published by World Distributors, but was delayed while images of Mary Tamm were redrawn by artist Paul Crompton at the BBC's request.

But it was K9 which had captured the public's attention - often to the chagrin ofTom Baker. Denys Fisher's friction drive model appeared, a talking K9 was marketed by Palitoy, but a voice controlled 'Videomaster' K9 proposed Radio 2's Open House. Romana was discussed at length, and Baker proudly by one company did not ultimately appear. Baker made numerous public chatted about how his episodes of Doctor Who - despite being a videotaped appearances with the dog, such as when they and the DaJeks heralded the show - had now been sold into syndication in North America. launch of a computerised booking system at London's Penta Hotel. This new batch of episodes marketed by Time Life was the second attempt By now, Baker was restless; frustrated with his lack of input into a series of to sell Doctor Who into US syndication after a run ofJon Pertwee serials in 1972 which he was the public's focal point. Appreciating Baker's performance,

had made little impression. This time, the show was repackaged: timing cuts Williams was happy to leave the star to his own devices, provided that it did not were made to allow for commercials, and also to add teaser sequences to Part impinge on production. The two men knew each other's strengths, but soon One of each serial and at the end of all bar the last episode of a story. Williams was considering recasting the lead role with a more co-operative Furthermore, Time Life had narration recorded by Howard da Silva to open actor. As the situation worsened around September, Baker had lunch with

and close each episode. The once blacklisted American character actor taped Graeme McDonald and BBCi Controller Bill Cotton. Recalling this meal some

material for all 98 shows over two days without ever months later, Baker remembered declaring that "with

having seen an episode, and Time Life started to sell the certain changes I could happily continue with the series.

reformatted serials into the North American market, The changes ... centre around the quality of the scripts aided by a 'How To Build a Dalek by Doctor Who' and the way they [are] to be produced."

promotional pamphlet. As The Pirate Planet began transmission, a rather controversial interview with Baker featured in The Sunday n the meantime, j Baker and his colleagues still had Times Maaazine on Sunday 1 October. This appeared in

high hopes for their movie, and on Wednesday 30 the A Life in the Day Of... column and was conducted by August, Williams was asked to provide a copy of the journalist Jeffrey Barnard who, like Baker, was known

star's work schedule for the coming month so that for his love of drinking. Baker spoke ofwaking in a shooting could be scheduled. During August 1978, Read strange room in Soho one morning, considering suicide,

rejected a storyline called The Secret ofCassius submitted by recording some voice-overs (he was increasingly in a young writer called Andrew Smith. Not realising quite demand for adverts), attending Doctor Who rehearsals at how young Smith was, nor that he was a DWAS member, Acton (which he referred to as "Kafkaville") and then Read noted that with guidance Smith might well be a going onto his evening haunts, such as Ronnie Scott's,

promising writer. for booze and Valium. At this point, Baker was still living Broadcast of the new season was promoted by Liz with designer Marianne Ford and her daughter in Hodgkinson's 'Who's Girls' by in the on Notting Hill Gate, but this arrangement had become Thursday 31 August which introduced Romana and more sporadic in recent months, with the production interviewed seven previous companions. The new team sometimes arranging alternative accommodation

episodes were generally scheduled around 6.20pm, for the star. Baker realised that the piece would upset

starting with The Ribos Operation on Saturday 2 September. Ford and attempted to rip it from the magazine that

At around eight million, ratings were not as strong as John Leeson and Tom Baker crack morning before she could see it. Looking back on this previous years. On the day the new season began, Baker on with the Times crossword on period, Baker later considered this to be another was appearing at the ChaJfont St Giles show while Tamm set for The Stones ofBlood. example of how unreasonable he was becoming. made a personal appearance at a London hospital. The K9 - voiced by Leeson - arrived from Zanak to look in fact that Romana stood up to the Doctor delighted Richard Last when he on a game about puppies on Larry Grayson's Generation Game recorded at the BBC

reviewed her debut in on Monday 4. TV Theatre on Thursday 12 October and transmitted the following Saturday.

Before the third episode ofThe Ribos Operation was shown, Tamm appeared Eventually, on Friday 13 October, the BBC issued a one year option to James as the mystery guest on ' live BBCi show Lucky Numbers on Hill Productions Ltd, licensing them to produce a Doctor Who cinema film from

Saturday 16 September. Extensive location filming on The Power o/Kroll Wednesday 1 November 1978. (formerly The Horror ofthe Suiamp) began in Suffolk the following Monday. By By now, Williams was away from the office recovering from an illness and now, there were even more products available in association with the series. the day-to-day running of the series was being handled by Read, production The Daleks Colouring Book and The Daleks Actiumj Book were both published by manager John Nathan-Turner, and former director who Children's Leisure Products Ltd. Whitman Publishing marketed another four was now producing the BBC SF adventure series Blake's 7. However, in early artwork jigsaws under the title Enemies oj" Doctor Who. There was also a Poster Art October, Williams was called in from sick leave by McDonald and told that kit from Thomas Salter, a Doctor Who Data Printer from Tangent Systems Ltd, Baker now wanted casting, director and story approval on the new series, or he bagatelles from Playtime and Jotastar (who also produced a Doctor Who Trump would not return. Shaun Sutton, now Head ofDrama, was away on holiday and

Cards Game), a pottery TARDIS from Melwood UK and even a radio known as a full meeting was held on his return. By now. Baker had pushed a card

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through Williams' door to say that he would not be returning to the series. as Williams felt that this removed the decision from his shoulders, since producer he did not feel that a lead actor should have such power. The initial verdict was that, since Baker was such a success with the public, Williams would be moved to another series. However, McDonald then ordered Williams feel to fire Baker - but this was something which the producer did not was • necessary. 0 0 —0 the TARDIS console taken from the 1 ry. Tom Baker (in plain clothes) rehearses, courtot Kevin Bavir There was another change of personnel in the air as Anthony Read stuck to his plan and left Doctor Who at the end of his first full season. continuing as Romana, having been disappointed with her character With a lucrative book contract in the offering, there was nothing that about outset there had been discussions ofRomana being skilled Williams or McDonald could do to keep him. As his successor, Read suggested development; at the and archery, neither ofwhich materialised. Williams wanted Tamm to Douglas Adams, whom he felt had a flair for lateral thinking. Williams liked at karate stay, and informed her that Baker would probably be leaving as an inducement. this notion since Adams had a good knowledge of SF folklore and could bring evaded the issue, and the Romana situation was still unresolved as some youth to the series. Just returned from a holiday in Greece, Adams was Tamm Armageddon Factor. Suggesting potential companions to completing an uneven period as a BBC radio comedy producer at the time, and recording began on The Williams and Adams, Baker offered two notions. Firstly, they could break had just started novelising his Radio 4 science-fiction comedy The Hitchhiker's convention by having a short, fat, wheezing female companion, played by Guide to the Galaxy for Pan Books, as well as being commissioned to write a like Miriam Margolyes. Alternatively, if the companion's role was radio special and seven new radio scripts. When Williams offered him the post somebody with his simply to have the plot explained to them, a parrot or a talking cabbage in the BBC bar one evening, Adams accepted immediately. Concurrent perched on the Doctor's shoulder could fulfil the role admirably. Doctor Who chores, he also had to produce a radio comedy special called Black In mid-November, David Fisher was Cinderella Two Goes East, and was soon also commissioned for The Creature in the Pit involved in reworking his radio scripts as a which would use hard science notions in a Hitchhiker's double LP for Original Records, story about an alien stranded on a back- as well as discussing an animated series of wards planet during a trade mission. Philip his cult comedy. Hinchcliffe submitted an outline called On Tuesday 24 October, Tamm did a Valley ojthe Lost; this concerned an alien promotional appearance in Luron called Godrin whose scout craft (warning about the dangers of fireworks) became marooned in the South American while and a Dalek operated by jungle in 1870; the Doctor takes Romana to John Scott Martin chatted to Bob Wellings a lecture in Brazil and discovers a vast on BBCi's Nationwide on Thursday 26 magnetic field, holding time stationary at October, promoting The Jon Pertwee Book 0/ 1870 although it is now 1979. The pair also Monsters from Methuen. The hundredth tangled with Professor Perkins, a ruthless Doctor Who serial, The Stones 0/ Blood, began explorer from 1873 who is obsessed with transmission, and in a meeting with finding Maygor Gold. Adams wrote up a Sutton, Baker agreed to suspend his resig- document entitled 'The Script Editor's nation until McDonald had returned from Guide to Dr Who Storylining'. In this, he the USA. Baker now had a new project explained that he wanted to avoid cliched lined up. This was The Book Tomer, a narratives, cautioned that location work was Yorkshire Television series about books expensive, and advised inexperienced aimed at children which was something writers against developing "Historical" Baker - a voracious reader - passionately narratives, suggesting they stuck to "Space supported. Fiction" or "Earth-bound". Adams noted "Four pages should be adequate" for By late October, Adams had settled in at the production office where he and Williams also started to develop certain rules of their own Williams wrote the concluding scenes ofThe Armageddon Factor (formerly a storyline. He and mechanics in the show. Armageddon). Adams wanted a lot of new blood on the show's writing team. He about the time Saturday 18 November, ITV restructured its schedules, bringing the approached his friend, radio producer and Hitchhiker's co-writer John Lloyd, On Bruce Forsyth's Big Night forward to 6pm against Doctor Who in the show's and science fiction novelists like John Brunner and Christopher Priest. Priest, ailing Monday 20 November, Richard Stilgoe covered who was phoned out of the blue by Adams, said that he did not like Doctor Who, fifteenth anniversary week. On revue show And Now The Good News ... and at Television but when Adams assured him that in the new year they would be aiming for a the event in his BBC2 second year running, industrial action hit studio recordings. bigger budget and higher calibre of scripts, the author started to draft out a Centre, for the and an awkward Baker leaving rehearsals on The possible four-part storyline. Adams also contacted Nation about writing Wednesday 22 saw Tamm Factor to join Carole Ann Ford and host Frank Bough on Nationwide another Dalek serial - the first in four years. Armageddon anniversary, while the Radio Today programme had a feature However, there was another unsettled casting issue. Tamm was undecided to celebrate the 4

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By now, the situation between Baker and Williams had reached crisis point.

Williams felt that Baker had been in the part for too long, and Baker was s delighted to get his hands on Prince becoming bored by the repetitive scripts. When Baker did not immediately recording break in The Androids of Tar. accept the offered contract, McDonald interceded to talk to Baker's agent, Jean

Diamond, on Wednesday 21 December. By Thursday 28, there was still no from Helen Palmer with contributions from Baker, Nation and the series' orig- agreement, and Williams wrote to Diamond asking for a decision by Thursday inal producer . BBCi children's magazine Blue Peter presented a 4 lanuary. The sticking point appeared to be that Baker would not sign the revised version of their tenth anniversary feature on Thursday 23. contract until he knew who would be playing the new assistant. Williams The Androids ofTnra began broadcast, with an extract from Dr Who and the indicated that he had tried to mediate after he and Baker had exchanged views

Daleks appearing on Screen Test on Tuesday 28 November. In the meantime, in the "frankest manner". In conclusion, Williams noted that "Tom's contribu-

Doctor Who had entered the pop charts, courtesy of the session band Mankind tion to the programme is far too significant to discard or treat lightly". who performed a disco arrangement of the theme by Mark Stevens and D Gallacher. Originally published by Motor Records (who were then taken over his missive produced a response from Baker to McDonald which the

by Pinnacle), the record came in 12" and 7" versions and numerous vinyl actor felt was a reaffirmation of his resignation. "I expected [that] I colours. Reaching number 25 in the charts, Mankind appeared on Top ofthe T could go quietly and without rancour," he explained. "I offered two Pops hosted by Peter Powell on Wednesday 30 November, and Chappell & Co extreme character suggestions for [Mary Tamm's] replacement - the outra-

issued the corresponding sheet music. geous and the strange. I understood these were to be discussed. Then at the

On Wednesday 30 November, Tamm's agent Irene Dawkins wrote to end ofDecember by taxi from Graham Williams I receive a 'within seven days'

Williams after a meeting held the previous Tuesday; the use of Romana had to letter. What does it mean? Am I not to be in on the casting of the new girl? I

improve if the actress was to agree to a further year. Recording on the season don't want to cast her, I want to be involved. The letter made me wince ... It

completed on Tuesday 5 December with the Romana situation unresolved, and suggests a lack of flair, my main reservation at our earlier meetings. Do let's

confusion between Williams and Dawkins. On Wednesday 6, Williams was still resolve it with more style. Yours ever, Tom Baker."

hopeful that Tamm would be returning. In the meantime, during recording on As a result of this, McDonald got Baker and Williams face to face in his

The Armageddon Factor, Baker and Tamm had both got on well with Lalla Ward, offrce to air their respective grievances. This helped to clear the air, with the actress playing Princess Astra. In the BBC canteen, Tamm suggested that Williams - who had more experience of dealing with Baker - also taking the Ward might like to take over as a regenerated Romana - a notion which star's threats less seriously than his superior. McDonald directed the producer

appealed to Baker who had taken to the young guest actress. and actor to carry on working together, and it was clear that the contractual In the meantime, Baker made more personal appearances, and on Tuesday issue would be resolved. Nevertheless, this was unnecessary strain for

12 December he narrated a series of eerie tales for BBC2's GHHHHm S LETTER HlflUE IT1E UIII1CE. IT SUGGESTS Late Night Story which was due to H LHCH OF FLMR. DO LET'S RESOLUE THIS WITH run that Christmas from Tuesday 19 December. Friday 15 H1DRE STSLE!" LETTER FHOm TDIT1 MINER TD BRHEH1E HICHOHHLD saw him meeting the public at Hampstead and Chatham followed by St Albans the next day - and in the Williams who was juggling many other problems on the series - and also meantime on Friday 15, Williams asked for Baker to be contracted for the 1979 becoming increasingly prickly about the number of fans making set visits. season from Monday 12 March to Friday 21 December. Baker felt that Williams was beginning to find him tiresome to work with,

On Tuesday 12 December, a four part serial with the working title Child although he had already formed a strong bond with Adams

Prodigy was commissioned to be delivered by Sunday 7 January from Alistair On New Year's Day, BBC2's The Model World of Robert Symes saw the host Beaton - a comedy writing associate of Adams' - and his co-writer Sarah talking to visual effects designer Mat Irvine about his work on the hyperspace

Dunant. The on Tuesday 12 December had a feature about the vessel from The Stones of Blood. On Wednesday 3 January 1979, Adams wrote to series with Douglas Orgill speaking to Williams, Adams and Kg designer Tony Hinchcliffe to inform him that he and Williams felt that Valley 0/the Lost would

Harding. On Thursday 14, Mankind made another Top ofthe Pops appearance, be too expensive to produce, in addition to which Lloyd was also developing an while Bob Baker and Dave Martin were given an offer for the use of K9 in the Earth-based serial, and time freezes and time loops appeared in The Armageddon coming season. Friday 15 saw the broadcast of a location report on the forth- Factor and Child Prodigy. The scripts for Child Prodigy were delivered on Friday 5 coming The Poiuer ofKroll on the BBC East programme Variations. January and rejected four days later, with Williams explaining to the authors

On Saturday 16 December it was announced that Tamm would be leaving why the work was "unacceptable". Doctor Who in a piece in the Daily Mirror which promoted both her appearance Around this time, Adams approached playwright for a story as Romana that night and also The Debt Collectors, an episode of ITC's Return of submission, only to find that Stoppard was too busy on other projects. On the Saint which she had filmed before starring Doctor Who and which was being Wednesday 10 January, the next story to be commissioned was Dragons of Fear - shown by ITV on Sunday 17. Shortly before Christmas, Nation was commis- also known as Erinella - written by Pennant Roberts, a director on the series sioned for Destiny ofthe Daleks which would also bring back the character of since 1976. Roberts had started work on the story in Autumn 1978 and the tDavros. Fisher's scripts for The Crearurejrom the Pit were soon delivered, and on intention was that it would be the penultimate serial for the new season. A

Sunday 17, Adams completed his career as a radio producer with the recording Gothic tale derived from Celtic folklore, Erinella was a green world in a state of ofBlack Cinderella Two Goes East for broadcast on Christmas Day on Radio 2. turmoil as a prince and brother-in-law battled over a princess and the Doctor

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ilming for The Power ofKroll. Note the 1 notif on his la Hi visiting th he Power of Kroll. Here, they are creating the refinery set used in Part Fou could be hired to develop the scripts. Nation's scripts for Destiny ofthe Daleks were delivered in late January, and required rewriting and expansion by Adams. approval of the was suspected of being a poisoner. The story would also have featured dragons As it turned out, Baker's demands for casting new was taken up. which could multiply in a flash (intended as a CSO effect), kept by a man called companion were effectively met when Tamm's suggestion On negotiations began for Lalla Ward to take over as Romana: Og. It transpired that the Doctor had arrived on Erinella before he should have Monday 22 January, Wednesday Leeson done, and as a result had to deal with his own meddling in a cyclic story. The the actress was then contracted for 26 episodes on 24. John the series, voice for was also script also made heavy use ofWelsh language construction for the speech of had now decided to move on from so a new K9 interviewed by Donny MacLeod on Pebble the locals. On Thursday n January, the BBC and Ted Lewis mutually agreed sought. In the meantime, Tamm was that Shield ofZarak (also referred to as Shield ofZareg) would be abandoned. After Mill at One on Wednesday 31 January. the success spoofing The Prisoner ofZenda, Fisher was commissioned for a arrived in Australia as part similar piece, The Gamble with Time, which would pastiche the Bulldog Drummond n Friday 2 February, a rather poorly Baker a public appearance in stories written by "Sapper" and use a setting of 1920s Paris. Other adventurous of a tour to publicise Doctor Who. Baker did guested on The Mike Walsh new storylines were offered by comic strip writers John Wagner and Pat Mills, Sydney on Monday 5 February and then

that actresses of I including a story of a parallel dimension where the Roman Empire never fell. Show on Wednesday 7. During his visit, the star commented Tower at YTV studios in the calibre ofGlenda Jackson and Elaine Strich wanted to appear in Doctor Who, Baker had by now recorded his links for The Book | financial problems for his movie - now called Leeds, and the first season of the show debuted on Wednesday 3 January, and also discussed the ongoing the - which he still envisaged filming partially in running until 14 February. David 'Kid' Jensen introduced Mankind again on Top Doctor Who and Big Game During the Australian Tour, Baker found starting in January | ofthe Pops on Thursday n, Tamm recorded two editions of the children's panel Lanzarote 1980. January; these were that some fans of the show were disappointed by his game Star Turn on Sunday 14 | - attitude which was difficult for him to episodes an ; transmitted on 13 February and 20 March. With the earlier disputes resolved - and Baker not take.

Tuesday 6 February, a I getting director, script or casting approval - the star Meanwhile in London on photocall held for Ward who posed with K9 in was booked for the next season on Monday 15 January was when she was announced as the to start work on Monday 19 March (although three Cadogan Square papers such as the Daily days later this date was advanced a week). The 375-year -old Romana; Mail Daily Mirror covered this the following day, Baker walked into the studios of Telegraph, Daily and at the production office, The Doomsdoj Pebble Mill along a line of monsters to meet host next day. Back - one of the Donny MacLeod and discuss the fact that next Contract was passed on to Allan Prior to Williams for his Saturday's episode, The Armageddon Factor Part One, Blake's 7 writing team and known - full of scripts would be the 500th episode of Doctor Who. That work on Z Cars to develop into a set the writer delivering Saturday, the Daily Mail had a piece from Patrick on Wednesday 7 February, with his material on Friday 2 March. A story about drug O'Neill about overseas sales, in which it was also from Bob Baker announced that the Daleks would be returning to the smuggling was then commissioned the working title Nightmare Eden. series. under of joined by Another scripting casualty was Lloyd's The In Australia, Baker had been quietly for the rest of his tour - but the exis- Contract, which had been delivered in the Marianne Ford Baker's partner was revealed to British form of a 17-page synopsis embracing much of the tence of humour which he and Adams shared and using some readers in the Daily Mail on Tuesday 13 February. The

... isn't too happy about ideas from Lloyd's unpublished science-fiction paper claimed, "the BBC reason thai comedy novel GiGox. During a holiday with Romana that togetherness as it feels for some odd its star shouldn't dent his image with young viewers and K9, the Doctor is attacked by a strange dark force ard as Princess Astra - a favourite girlfriend". This was one of the which subpoenas his presence at the Altribunal of by having a real-life with the team, especially Tom Baker ... blows for the relationship which Baker had Coelare Coelum. The court case is a legal battle over final four years. planet CZ456378 DCDC/42K which two conglomer- been part of for the last informed die BBC diat they ates are fighting for possession of; the Doctor realises this is Earth. On Monday 19 February, London Management Baker's half of the money for the film rights, having; Cosmegalon Incorporated is interested in the planet since this is where the were now in possession of been informed of Baker's amazing transmuting Spondilas Chamber was tested. The Doctor is followed had Hill's share for some time. However, having now unhappy to discover that the star by the small, blank-faced Children of Pyxis back to medieval Yorkshire and schedule on the new series, the company was - option attacked by a Muterraquaeron before tricking the parties involved into arriving would not be available to start filming the movie thus making the February, the expressed surprise that on Earth in the twentieth century instead. Williams and Adams liked the meaningless. Replying on Friday 23 BBC availability. outline, but were concerned about the Children of Pyxis because of the restric- the agency had not known about Baker's a cult audience ofyoung adults on tions on hiring child actors. Lloyd accordingly changed them to the With Doctor Who slowly starting to attract in the wings and the posi- Wadifalayeen, a race of mercenary nomads. Then on Tuesday 16 January, PBS stations across America, a new Romana waiting Part Six ofThe Williams noted that Lloyd would not be able to write the scripts because he was tion of the long-discussed cinema movie still uncertain, the to Time season to a close on BBCi on to be placed on attachment to television Light Entertainment for the forth- Armageddon Factor brought Key gained a nemesis in the coming topical sketch show, Not the Nine O'clock Nems. Reluctant to lose such Saturday 24 February, with the Doctor having new "an excellent story", Williams offered a storyline fee so that a freelance writer form of the vengeful Black Guardian ...

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Hood was the latest wheeze Graham Williams turned a blind eye to. Fri g Dec 77 Galactic Conman

scripts commissioned for Mon 9 Jan 78; delivered Mon 30 Jan 78 (Parts One to Three), Mon 6 Feb to Time umbrella theme, but also, I suspect, because it was 78 (Part Four) the only season to have been almost entirely commissioned and edited by the also uncelebrated Anthony Read. There's a PHDDUCTinil

swashbuckling, rollicking feel to all six stories, which seem on Sun 9 Apr 78 Television Centre

the whole to be exceptionally well structured and crafted - it's Studio 4: Relic Room, Landing, Shaft really only lack of money and some unfortunate performances Mon 1 0 Apr 78 Television Centre that damn The Power of Kroll and The Armageddon Factor. Wicked Studio 4: Tower Roof, Vynda-K's ladies, princesses and priests abound, and the (at the time) Room, Passage, Landing unfamiliar authorial voices of Douglas Adams and David Fisher Tue 11 Apr 78 Television Centre lend the whole a refreshing quality. Studio 4: City Wall, Concourse, Right from the start the Doctor seems more sexless and silly Corner Door than ever, and I've often wondered if Tom Baker was aware that Mon 24 Apr 78 Television Centre he had to go the extra mile in that direction with Mary Tamm at Studio 4: Hall of the Dead, Catacombs (A, B, C, D and E), his side. Somehow it's hard to imagine the Doctor being as Caves tactile and friendly to her as with his other companions - even Tue 25 Apr 78 Television Centre Leela - without it looking slightly dubious. Although her Studio 4: TARDIS, Limbo character is an ingenue, Romana looks like she could eat the Doctor, or any man, for breakfast - so he has to look super- rhdio Times disinterested. John Nathan-Turner was to opine a couple of Sat 2 Sep 78 Part One: The years later that younger viewers found it hard to identify with of Time gives the Doctor

high class brainy Romana. I think he was very wrong - as a kid, a difficult task - and a new assis- you want your heroes to be people you aspire to being, not a tant. Together they must search for the six segments of the Key to reflection of your grotty adolescent self (cf Adric). And this Time to prevent the Universe from Romana at least was very vulnerable; in this story she comes over being plunged into eternal chaos. as confident but totally unprepared for the Doctor's frenetic Sat 9 Sep 78 Part Two: The Doctor lifestyle. He is made to look daft in front of her, particularly locates the first segment of the A BIG TIME LADY' was the headline in when he gets caught in the net, but very importandy it is AMM'S up Key to Time. But can he release it? the TV section of the Daily Express that Saturday always the Doctor who really knows what to do; her conclusions He and Romana find themselves morning in early September, which revealed about the first segment are totally wrong, and despite being very threatened by some very that 28-year-old Mary Tamm was to make "her widely read she's stunned by the savagery of the Shrivenzale dangerous trickery. T Sat 16 Sep 78 Part Three: Danger debut in tonight's new series of Doctor Who, after 120 years of life on static, futile . brings strange allies for the playing 120-year-old Romana." And, do you know, I think some Plus it was a thrill every few weeks to see what new costume Doctor, Romana and K9 when they ofRomana's big Time Lady magic rubbed off on to Mary. Think Mary would appear in; even the flat-cap and high heels of The are caught between deadly of her in the Christmas special of 2002 - she Stones of Blood cannot detract from her fabulous figure, but she's weapons and savage beasts. looked as if she hadn't aged a day since the White Guardian at her best on snowy Ribos in her elegant white gown. Sat 23 Sep 78 Part Four: Trapped

dropped her offin the TARDIS! Most female Doctor Who compan- And though I love Lalla Ward, I consider it a great shame that in the catacombs, hunted by both ions, up to and including , are girls - the first Romana the first Romana didn't linger longer in the TARDIS. Confined Vynda-K's men and the Ribans, seems the only one (with the possible exception of Barbara) to to Season Sixteen she seems forever to be chiding the Doctor can the Doctor and Romana get

the jethrik? Will they find the first have been a luoman. And my 13-year-old heart was stolen. I could about the mission; it's interesting to speculate how she might segment of the Key to Time? well appreciate Kg's wolf-whisde. have faced down Soldeed or slashed at the Doctor with Mistfall As a companion linked to a very specific and inter-linked set in her veins.

of stories, the first Romana seems a little forgotten. Season But for this overgrown 13-year-old anyway, she'll always be

Sixteen is different to any other not only in its use of the Key the noblest Romana of them all. H3 nn

Monday 10 October 1 977: Romana's astonishment, hack it off above the knee to were strong enough to keep Tom Baker's

character outline described her as 'an acolyte give herself more freedom of movement.' Doctor in check, and Read liked the

Time Lord (Time Lords still refuse to admit to an The Doctor would continue to mistrust everyone tremendous style of the story.

official title, Time Lady)' who was assigned to else, and so would not give Romana all the facts

the Doctor by a 'Guardian of Time'. Romana about the situation, and might even try to Monday 23 January 1978: Spenton-Foster's

was to be horrified by the Doctor's casting mislead her. The summary noted that 'She is, contract was amended so that he would start

aside of the 'Codes of Practice' which she had in short, the perfect foil to the Doctor in any work on the series earlier than scheduled with

had instilled in her. Her earthly appearance was situation throughout Time and Space.' immediate effect, helping with the casting of

'of about twenty years' and it was noted that Romana.

'she may, at the end of the season, be due for Monday 28 November 1977: George

her first regeneration.' Romana would slowly Spenton-Foster was booked to direct Serial 5A The opening scenes of the final script

overcome her upbringing to adopt new patterns between Monday 30 January and Friday 26 May. included comments about the and

ofbehaviour, which is why she was selected by the Time Lords, referring back to The Inuasion of

(he Guardian. 'She will, for example, eventually Anthony Read added the Key to Time Time. The Doctor's age was given as 759 in Part see the sense in the Doctor's rather biting elements to Robert Holmes' story idea at the One, although the Doctor himself claimed to be The terrifying Shrivenzale. criticisms of her wearing the full length dress start of December. Holmes was pleased with only 756. The opening scenes - assembled by Well, Romana was terrified. as being somewhat impractical and will, to his his scripts since the supporting characters Read and Graham Williams - described the

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\m II dress was crafted by the same seamstress who

made Cilia Black's dresses. Made of a heavy

jersey material, it stretched during the hot

studio sessions until it caught on Tamm's feet.

As such, there were several copies for Tamm to

change into, and the stretched ones were then

shrunk back in cold water. The dazzling white

outfit did not find favour with Baker and the

original idea of having Romana always dressed

in white was subsequently abandoned. The safe

key did not fit the prop in the Relic Room, a fact

which Nigel Plaskitt, playing Unstoffe,

obscured with his hand. Neither Baker nor Tamm enjoyed using the awkward tracer prop;

this housed a quartz light and on the first

recording session required the holder to be

wired up to a power source. The Shrivenzale was made by visual effects designer Dave

Havard and assistant Steve Drewett in the

space of three weeks; the bony crest was a late

addition to counterweight the jaws. The actors

inside communicated with short wave radio

and were sometimes mounted on a trolley for

shots where the creature needed to move.

Monday 10 April: For this and all the remaining studio days, an afternoon recording

2.30pm to 5.30pm in addition as a looking like a 'colonial overlord'. that the treatment of Romana needed took place from That's the new assistant! The Guardian because of the "sexist remarks" to the evening recording. The Graff's room oh-so-posh-l-passed-all-my- The name Ribos was apparently an anagram of modifying "junior female was enhanced by an alcove foreground exams-at-the-first-attempt the stereotypical Russian name 'Boris', and the about "female assistants" and vignette used in some establishing shots. Kg's Romanadvoratrelundar and the currency of opeks derived from both the acolyte" as well as having the Academy quieter model from an Doctor begin their mission. Russian unit of the kopec and also OPEC, the graduate counting on her fingers. Williams motor was now a the noisy one Organisation of Petroleum-Exporting replied, agreeing to most of the suggested electric wheelchair rather than a child's electric tricycle. Countries. The front paw of the Shrivenzale changes but wanting to retain certain marks as originally taken from character. Both recording blocks were plagued by was 'a wrinkled claw like that of some gigantic being in keeping with the Doctor's disputes over who was responsible for lighting turkey' and in Part Two it emitted 'a river-boat flambeaux seen on the sets which shriek of disappointment'. Tuesday 14 February: John Leeson was the fires and booked to provide Kg's voice on the serial. took Williams an hour to resolve.

In deleted scenes from the script, Unstoffe's Camera tests for the role of Romana were also Six Over the weekend immediately before the radio call sign was 'Hunter' while at one point held during the afternoon with Tom Baker. recording block, Baker's lip was bitten Garron used 'an appalling London accent'. The girls were seen, including Mary Tamm and second Russell Terrier owned by minor character of a 'carter' was removed from Belinda Mayne. Tamm was uneasy when by George, a Jack Paul Seed. This was the result of an accident Part One - presumably the owner of the cart on Spenton-Foster asked to play her audition in a when Baker attempted to get which Unstoffe hid the drugged shrieve. When very intimate manner with Baker, sitting on his which occurred to perform his party piece: taking a hiding behind the screen in Part Two, Romana knee and stroking his hair. When she refused, George of somebody's mouth. was originally worried about sneezing and she she feared that she had lost the role. sausage out

and the Doctor slipped out when the shrieves April: Williams submitted a were distracted by a local. In Part Three, Tony Thorpe was the designer originally Sunday 23

serial, but was replaced by Ken memo recommending Paul Seed, who was Romana's age was given as 1 40 (as in her assigned to the Graff Vynda-K, to be made a character outline). The Seeker was originally a Ledsham. Similarly, Christine Walmsley- playing the director at the BBC. Seed went on to "I see death! Yes, for someone male character. Holmes' scripts had the Doctor Cotham took over from Ann Briggs on make-up. trainee here! Someone with a series such as House Cords and near claiming that he was trained by the Victorian direct major of silly taste in headwear ... theatre magician John Nevil Maskelyne. d Rehearsals at Acton ran from Thursday 30 Auf Weidersehen, Pet. someone ... Oh. Bugger." March and Thursday 13 April. Tamm was very block, the keen to understand all the 'bafflegab' in her Monday 24 April: By the second Thursday g February: Graeme McDonald had been modified to use a simpler wrote to Williams about the script commenting dialogue. She was immediately disappointed tracer prop battery which could be hidden in the costume "This seems to get off to a good start provided that the script had Romana acting as the

carrying it. we aren't surrounded with polystyrene gloom Doctor's foil and being rescued at the first of the actor Unstoffe and Garron - and unheavy rocks at the end." McDonald cliff-hanger. Some of the explanatory dialogue a classic Robert Holmes double what Tuesday April: A caption slide feed queried the introduction of Kg Mark II and felt was amended to show Romana deducing 25 act. if ever there was one! was happening in Part Three. mechanism kept jamming which meant that ten attempts had to be made to record one

Guest star Timothy Bateson removed his sequence. Williams complained about this the

false teeth for his role as Binro. next day, quipping that the machine was "the new Doctor Who monster". The Key to

Nigel Brackley, who operated Kg, had Time prop was cast in clear resin by Havard

originally been approached to install the radio and based on a wooden puzzle which he had

equipment into the BBC prop when he was been shown by Williams.

working at The Radio Control Model Centre in session Harlington, with the dog being delivered on Wednesday 3 May: A gallery only video effects. Saturday 5 March 1977. At the start of 1978, was held in TC3 to add

Brackley left the company and moved to Editing took place between Thursday 4 and

Slough Radio Control; however, he took his Thursday 1 1 May; first edits were broadcast of

work with Kg with him to the new company. all four episodes. Dudley Simpson was commissioned to provide the incidental music

Warning on Thursday 11 May. Music recording took d Tuesday 4 April: The Drama Early Synopsis was issued for the serial. place at Lime Grove Studios on Thursday 25 May for Parts One and Two and either Tuesday

or Wednesday 1 for Parts Three <3 Sunday g April: Recording took place in the 31 May June evening from 7.30pm to 10pm. Romana's white and Four; over 21 minutes of music was

CTDR WHO mBGBZinE recorded in total. The stock Gregorian chants "very exciting and such good fun" with both were taken from a Gambh Arcjiv Production the Doctor and Romana being popular

disc. Dubbing had been planned to take place characters, while the plot was felt to be less

from Tuesday 7 June to Saturday 1 July, but exciting. While lain Cuthbertson was praised actually took place on Sunday 18 and Saturday as Garron, the effects and sets were "weak and

24june, and Sunday 2 and Wednesday 12 July. inadequate".

The Promotional Material for The Ribos Thursday 23 November: Simon Groom's

Operation listed the selling points as being the reference to the serial as The Rebose File on Blue

first serial in a new run of the longest running Peter was an error in the camera script (which

'science adventure series in the world', the also referred to The Armageddon File), and was

Doctor and K9 embarking on the quest for the not a working title.

Key to Time, MaryTamm's introduction and

guest star lain Cuthbertson. The sound effect of the White Guardian's

Windbells was included on the CD Doctor Who:

Tuesday 29 August: Baker and Tamm 30 Years at the Radiophonic Workshop released in

guested on Pete Murray's Open House on July 1993 by BBC Enterprises. Harlequin

Radio 2; this item was included on the BBC Miniatures issued figures of Garron and the

Audiobooks CD Doctor Who at the BBC released Shrivenzale in 1999.

in September 2003. The story was released as a Region 1 DVD No one makes a fool of the

In Australia, the serial was repeated in the in October 2002 as part of The Key to Time box Graff Vynda-K and lives. that hat, Friday 3 November: An Audience Research late 1980s. New Zealand screened the story in set. This included a commentary from Tom Although with he

Report seems to be doing a perfectly on the serial sampled views from 162 April/May 1 980, in a two-part version in Baker and Mary Tamm recorded at 4MC on good job on his own ... people, most of whom had seen more than half December 1987 and again in April 2001. BBC Monday 13 May 2002. The BBC Archives retain

the serial. Generally, the story was found to be Prime screened the story in April/May 1999. D3 copies of the original two-inch videotapes. The Pirate Planet One Nation Under A Groove BH RUPERT LHIBHT DUim HRCHIUE DWM 253

Carry on Nurse! Queen Xanxia is revealed commissinmnB as the true power behind the Captain ... Mon 18 Jul 77 The Pirate Planet storyline commissioned for Wed

31 Aug 77; delivered Mon 22

With such a quarry-full of respectable science-fiction, murder Aug 78 Thu 20 Oct The Pirate Planet mystery and gothic fantasy to mine, you wonder why when 77 writing The Pirate Planet Douglas Adams plumped for the story of scripts commissioned for Sun 1 Jan 78; delivered Fri 18 Nov Peter Pan. Whether wittingly or not, it seems to my mind to be 77 (Part One), Thu 26 Jan (Parts his obvious inspiration. JM Barrie's Peter and Wendy, is surely 78 Two to Four) one of the most enduring and reproduced modern fairy tales, loved by children and grown-ups alike, and Adams expertly echoes this with his timeless characters, mischievous wit and PRODucTian Mon 1 May 78 Berkeley Nuclear exceptional storytelling. So, let's examine the evidence ... Power Station, Berkeley, Glos Firstly there's the Captain. Seemingly maniacal, he barks out (Engine Room) commands ("Teeth of the devil! There will be blood for this!") Tue 2 May 78 Big Pit, just like Hook. Complete with deadly space-age false hand and Blaenavon, Gwent (Minehead); eye patch he threatens his enemies with the plank and his Coity Mountain, Gwent minions with the peck of his parrot, and just like Hook he's (Countryside); Bwlch y Garn, actually a big softy underneath. Whereas Hook is terrified of a EbbwVale, Gwent (Countryside) silly old alarm clock-eating crocodile, the Captain has his Nurse, Wed May Clydach Railway the real controlling force on Zanak. He also has his bumbling 3 78 Tunnel, Daren-Felen, Gwent Smee in the form of Mr Fibuli. The Captain, like Hook, is really (Mountainside) a sad figure, all talk and no trousers, to be pitied rather than Thu May 78 Cathedral Cavern, hated. Maybe, like old Captain Hook, he too lost his mother. 4 Abercrave Caves, Dan-yr-Ogof, Who else? Oh yes, the Mentiads. Well, they're obviously the Powys (Foot of Lost Boys, always searching, always moaning about something Minshaft/Underground Cavern) ("Life force dying ... Vengeance for the crimes of Zanak!"). Fri May Clydach Railway Balaton and his granddaughter Mula are Mr and Mrs Darling. 5 78 Tunnel (Mountainside) Pralix and Kimus are John and Michael. So, who's Wendy then, Unknown Monmouthshire Golf you ask? It has to be Romana. Bossy and protecting, mumsy Club, Llanfoist, Gwent yet worldly-wise, Romana has that same sarcastic, snooty (Countryside) ome bright spark once said, "Originality is the charm that Wendy has in the book. Well, she's either that or Unknown Shepperton Studios: art of concealing your source." Any old hack, Nana the dog. Model filming two-bit artist or talentless tunesmith knows that Now, have I forgotten anyone? Oh yes, Peter himself. And who Mon 22 May 78 Television a carefully concealed steal from the work of could be more like the little boy who never grew up than the Centre Studio 6: The Bridge, City someone with genuine talent is an easy shortcut Doctor? A timeless figure, who never seems to age, full of Square, Street, Model Inlay, to success. But let's face it, Doctor Who has never been amazing knowledge yet unable to do the simplest things, like sew Balaton's House particularly good at concealing its sources. We all know that on a shadow, or use the Multi Loop Stabiliser. Accompanied by Tue 23 May 78 Television Centre is based on, amongst other things, Mary his often useless sidekick Tinkerbell (K9), he is wise yet childlike, Studio 6: City, Mentiads' Shelley's Frankenstein. The Talons of Weng Chiang owes a debt to full ofcheeky remarks and schoolboy habits, eternally trapped in Chamber, City Square, Aircar, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. And, of course, the inspiration for The a galactic . The who never grew up. The Bridge Horns of Nimon is James Joyce's Finne^ans Wake. Not sure about And where can we find this mysterious man? Second star to Sat 3 Jun 78 Television JC that last one, but you catch my . the right and straight on till morning ...

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the schedule was the Anthony Read commissioned Douglas 9 Monday 17 April: John Leesonwas A late addition to of and Kg in Part Two which had Adams on the strength of script for The contracted to provide Kg's voice for the serial. scenes Mula filmed on the reasonably level greens of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Adams was not Location work was done in Gwent since to be Club in Llanfoist, with the commissioned to write the remaining five radio production assistant Michael Owen Morris had Monmouthshire Golf camera placed in a bunker to obscure the scripts until Thursday 1 September 1977. grown up in Abergavenny and Roberts had recorded material around Callow Hill near wooden boards on which Kg was running.

Tuesday 20 October 1977: When the scripts Monmouthshire on the second season of area. Studio rehearsals began on Friday 12 May for The Pirate Planet were commissioned, it was Suruiuors, so both were familiar with the May. noted that the 'umbrella' theme of the Key to and Thursday 25 Time was the property of the BBC. Visual effects assistant Peter Wragg built Dudley Simpson the city miniatures from jabolite, the Monday 1 5 May: was score. Monday 28 November: Pennant Roberts compacted planets, and the models of the commissioned to write the incidental

was booked to direct Serial 5B between Bridge - one of which was made in wax for the Part Four filmed on Monday 22 May: Recording took place from Monday 13 March and Friday 7 July. explosion sequence in Stage K at Shepperton Studios. These had 7.30pm to 1 opm. The Captain's helmet was assistant Charlie Lumm One of Adams' starting points for the story Front Axial Projection material added to give made by visual effects Chris Lawson and Brace was the notion of the Doctor being chased and the appearance of interior lighting. with John Brace, while These had been jumping down through a trapdoor to discover did the chest unit and arm. on a body cast taken of actor Bruce that the planet was hollow. Adams hated Of the cast, Bernard Finch was an old constructed The Doctor, Kimus and Mula smashing his robotic arm corridor scenes, and as such devised the air car friend of Roberts' from university. Primi Purchase, who kept plan their next move ... he slammed it down. Tony Oxley, a retired I as a new setting. The scenes with the Doctor Townsend, who was playing Mula, introduced when visual effects designer who was now asking the silent guards about job satisfaction Roberts to Rosalind Lloyd who played the BBC Studio 6: Model jf Centre freelance, made a static and moving version in Part Two were reminiscent of material which Nurse. Inlay, The Bridge, Mentiads' Mapson's Adams had written between Ford Prefect and a of the Polyphase Avatron from Colin Chamber designs which were inspired by a Trojan Vogon guard in Fit the Second of The Hitchhiker's Monday 1 May: When arranging the shoot Television Centre Sun 4 Jun 78 soldier's helmet; this moved using bowden Guide to the Galaxy. Adams had intended that at Berkeley Power Station, Roberts arranged Inside the Studio 6: The Bridge, cables. Freelancer Martin Bower made several the scenes at the pit head should be done at with one Mr Rees that they could trigger a Inertialess Corridor, Doorway, the guns. of the scenes in Balaton's night. The dialogue in Part Four in which the visual effects explosion without the risk of of One Corridor Mentiads' Chamber, again allowed Baker to Doctor thought of a bent fork was inspired by triggering a chain reaction. The visual effects house during Part Two outside the Bridge, Entrance to I thought!" directly to the 'strange powers' which Uri Geller had department staged a small scale demonstration comment "That's what Engine Room out in the open - but on the day increased the the audience in response to Kg's analysis. displayed in the early 1 970s. Mon Jun 78 Television Centre 5 size of the explosive charge without informing Studio 6: TARDIS Limbo Area, Taping took place from Costume design was by L Rowland-Warne the power station officials. Tuesday 23 May: Control Room, Xanxia's TARDIS to 5.30pm, and then from 7.30pm to who had already designed on Death to the 2.30pm Chamber, CSO shots, Trophy marching 10pm. Daleks, Planet of the Spiders and The Brain of Tuesday 2 May: The Mentiads Gallery Morbius. Roberts specifically asked for Warne over the hills was filmed at Coity Mountain, was The studio sessions on the story were Times for the serial. while the guards' attack on the Mentiads rhdid attended at one point by Louise Jameson, who shot at Bwlch y Gam, Ebbw Vale. Sat Sep 78 Part One: The 30 series as Leela the previous Tuesday 14 March 1978: Graeme McDonald had left the Doctor, Romana and K9 face December and was visiting her good friend had grave concerns about the script as he Thursday 4 May: The Cathedral Cavern was new dangers, searching for the for Roberts and Tamm, who had been at drama outlined in a memo to Read. He felt that the the only cave at Dan-yr-Ogof large enough second segment of the Key to in script changes for Part parrot was a cod figure and disliked much of the filming, and MaryTamm found this venue school with her; Time. What has happened to referred to the janis humour. McDonald was wary of the "take me to rather claustrophobic. It was originally Three, the Doctor now the planet it is hidden on? Who thorns used by Leela. your leader" sequence in the script for Part One intended that the Mentiads' luminous green is the strange Captain? And which he feared Tom Baker would send up. He eyes should be achieved using pieces of Front what are the mysterious recording block ran from also disliked the "tea service" gags in the script Axial Projection material placed over the The second Mentiads? to Monday June, although it had 1 for Part Two which were subsequently removed. actors' eyes. The cliff-hanger spanning Parts Saturday 3 5 Sat 7 Oct 78 Part Two: Romana to run from Sunday to Tuesday t After the way that Romana had been well set up Two and Three was filmed both with and been planned 4 has been seized by the Captain. it decided 6 June. There was a 40-minute late start on in the previous serial, he was disappointed with without this effect, after which was Her life is in grave danger. But which had a knock on-effect for the her development ("It's Leela all over again"). to add a video effect in post production. Saturday 3 when the Doctor tries to rescue rest of the session. This second recording block » her he discovers that they are was plagued by demarcation disputes over who involved in the most monstrous should operate a caption scanner. Recording on crime ever committed in the the first day included a morning session from Universe. 1 1am to noon, and then the usual afternoon Sat 14 Oct 78 Part Three: The and evening sessions. There was only afternoon Doctor and Romana have and evening recording on the next two days. discovered the Captain's

terrible secret. They enlist the Sunday 4 June: Bower also made the ray help of the powerful Mentiads projector used in Parts Three and Four. The to attack him. But the Captain walls of the Inertialess Corridor were mounted has new tricks up his sleeve and on a rotating drum and set spinning, then prepares instant obliteration added behind the artists using CSO. Purchase for them all. asked for a monitor to be set up off-camera on Sat 21 Oct 78 Part Four: Time is the Bridge set so that he could watch his own running out for the Doctor and pyrotechnic demise. Romana in their struggle to

defeat the Captain and the evil Monday 5 June: Oxley also made the Queen Xanxia. Their only hope lightweight Kg for this serial. Taping over-ran

is to risk destroying the Tardis in by 1 7 minutes. Roberts' schedule studio was in the most dangerous very tight, and the fight between Kg and the manoeuvre it has ever Polyphase Avatron was barely completed in attempted. time.

Friday June: A gallery only session was The Captain bosses poor old g held in TC3. First edits were broadcast of the Mr Fibuli about. As usual.

ZD DOCTOR WHO mRGBZinE first and final episodes, with second edits of accompanied by a picture of the Doctor. in October 2002 as part of The Key to Time box

the second and third. set. This included a commentary from Bruce

Harlequin Miniatures released figures of a Purchase and Pennant Roberts recorded at

Monday 12 June: The Drama Early Warning Pirate Guard the in and Captain 1 999. 4MC on Wednesday 1 5 May 2002, and also the

Synopsis was issued for The Pirate Planet; at this raw film footage from the serial.

stage, the transmission dates were not known. In Australia, the serial was repeated in the

Promotional material for the serial listed late 1980s. New Zealand screened the story in In the Extras section, Jimmy Muir played a

selling points as the Captain and his robot May/June 1980, repeated it in December 1987 Guard and Michael Kelligan was a Mentiad.

parrot, guest star Bruce Purchase and the and again in April 2001 . BBC Prime screened

presence of Kg. the story in May/June 1999. "You must be the Mentiads?" They look like

Mentiads, don't they? Or Blake's 7 extras. J For Part Four, the Radio Times billing was The story was released as a Region 1 DVD The Stones of Blood Super Nature RUSSELL T DHUIES DUim HHCHIUE

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No-one had told Susan Engel that the party to celebrate cnmmissiDmnB Doctor Who's 100th story wasn't fancy dress. Thu 8 Dec 77 The Nine Maidens

storyline commissioned for Fri 16

Dec 77; delivered Fri 6 Jan 78 Tue 10 Jan 78 Stones of Time six lines of dialogue. But James Murray and Shirin Taylor - later (formerly The Nine Maidens) scripts to become Mike Baldwin's wife! - get it exactly right. Perfect commissioned for Mon 20 Feb 78; pitch; light and throwaway, with a rapid descent into absolute delivered Tue 7 Mar 78 terror.

But best of all, this scene is arbitrary. Pat and her man - he's PRonucTion

never even given a name - play no part in the story. This scene Mon 12 Jun 78 Reed College, Little

could be cut, without changing any aspect of the plot. And it Compton, Warks (Ext De Vries' House) does cost a penny or two, to bring in two new actors - I bet Tue 1 Jun 78 The King's Men, some accountant asked for this to be dropped. But someone j Rollright Stones, Oxon (Ext Stone persisted, because someone understood exactly what makes Circle) this show tick. That death can happen, anywhere, any time. The Wed i4jun 78 Field, Manor Farm, universe isn't safe. We need the Doctor. Little Rollright, Warks (Moorland; The rest of this story is a bit of a pick'n'mix. It's not quite Another Part of Moorland; TARDIS the best yarn of all time, but it's categorised under my own on Moorland)

private heading of 'lovely'. It's jam-packed with ideas - Justice Thu 15 Jun 78 Little Rollright

Quarry, Little Rollright, Warks m Machines, stone circles, crows, underwater Ogri, citric acid, the (Cliff; CliffTop) truly beautiful Beatrix Lehmann, a silver villain who looks to Fri 16 Jun 78 Standby day camera, and even a Wirrn. Oh, and there's a cliffhanger which is Mon 3 Jul 78 Television Centre simply an evil laugh - deep joy! Maybe all those elements don't Studio 3: Stone Circle, The Moor quite tie together, but who cares, when it's this much fun? And Tue 4 Jul 78 Television Centre it does contain a great Time Lord mystery, which vexed me when Studio 3: Altar Room, Hall of De

I was 15, and vexes me now: how the hell is hyperspace so Vries' House, Passage, Cliff ~ unknown, when every sci-fi-doting teenage TV-watcher has Sun 16 Jul 78 Television Centre ?> heard the word a thousand times?! "Theoretical absurdity"? Studio 3: Space Vessel \ !; m Compartment, Space Vessel Romana love, let me talk you through it ... Corridor, Space Vessel Control But I keep thinking of Pat and the Man. As the novelisation Deck, Megara effects, Guardian so bluntly labels their chapter: "The Victims." And that book voice in , an elderly professor and a ladles on the pathos - they're newlyweds! They can't afford a Somewhere Mon 17 Jul 78 Television Centre robot dog are protecting a dimension-busting proper honeymoon! And just to rub salt in the wound, Pat's line Studio 3: Space Vessel Control gun; somewhere in hyperspace, a Time Lord and referring to the Wheatsheaf has been cut from the prose, so Deck, Space Vessel Compartment, Lady are investigating a mysterious spaceship; they're friendless! Space Vessel Computer Console, and somewhere in the corner of a field, a man They go unmourned. No one knew they were there. They had Cottage, Effects sequences

Tue 1 8 Television Centre goes for a piss and finds two strange stones outside his tent ... killers who couldn't even gloat. Pat and the Man have tiny, brutal Jul 78 Studio TARDIS Control Room, The slaughter of the campers is one ofmy favourite scenes in deaths in a big and scary universe; there's a ghastly lack ofhope 3: TARDIS Limbo Room, OB Megara the whole of Doctor Who. It sums up why I love this show so very in this little scene, which no other science fiction drama can ever effects much. It's shocking - they're introduced and murdered in go quite manage. - seconds flat. It's cruel Pat can see her own hand turn skeletal. But somewhere in the universe, right now, there is a man with nnnio Times It's bleak - there's no hope of the Doctor being near, just hearts. the two A man who never met these innocents, but who Sat 28 Oct 78 Part One: Romana's - frantic barking of a dog, lost in the night. It's cheap a few knows nevertheless that innocents exist. A man who will never introduction to Earth is not all bushes, a black backdrop and a two-man tent. It even manages let this happen again. Cessair of Diplos is turned to stone that the Doctor had hoped. What to be a bit stylish - a blood-red wash hides the horror by filling forever, and Pat and the Man are finally given some sort of is the mystery surrounding the

ancient stone circle? Is there really the screen. And as an extra bonus, it's well-acted. It's difficult, justice. Because of the Doctor. a Celtic goddess demanding blood as an actor, to go into a studio and find the right tone with only He's coming back. sacrifices? The answers threaten

danger for the travellers.

Sat 4 Nov 78 Part Two: How is the ~1 - stone circle involved in the search for the Key to Time? The Doctor, Romana and K9 are faced by

David Fisher began his career as a script as a staff writer for six years before going Tuesday 10 January 1978: As with The strange monsters as they try to reader at Ealing Film Studios, after which he freelance in the late 1960s. Fisher had actually Pirate Planet, the script commission specified solve the mystery. Sat 11 Nov 78 Part Three: The worked in Paris on advertising movies. After a been invited to submit a story idea for Doctor Who that the 'Umbrella theme' was the property Doctor unmasks the villain at m spell in South Africa he joined in its first year by story editor David Whitaker. of the BBC.

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that day's clues with Leeson over the radio link

and having Leeson respond in Kg's voice. One of the OB sequences on the serial had Tamm wearing the wrong costume which meant that

she had to go and change while the crew waited

to record the scene. The Doctor's beam machine

was built by visual effects assistant Perry

Brahan and mounted on a camera tripod. In

full make-up as Cessair, Engel wore a bald cap,

For the shots of Kg firing at the Ogri, the prop

was tilted upwards on a bag of peat. For the

final scene in which the Doctor had to tug the pendant away from Cessair's neck, the clasp

on the necklace refused to break, causing

Baker to tug Engel's neck quite painfully.

Wednesday 14 June: Overnight, the studenls

at Reed College stole the TARDIS prop as a

prank and hid it down the road in a quarry. For

the sequence of K9 moving along in Part Two,

the dog was helped to traverse the moorland

by Irvine and assistants Brahan, Perkins and

Bill Pearson who pulled the prop on nylon

threads and placed it on a trolley arrangement.

strong prop scarf with Thursday 1 5 June: A Baker a concealed rope was used for of One of the requirements laid down by the For the scenes at the end of Part One, lured Romana in Part Two. production office was to write a serial with refused to appear in shot as the Doctor

some good female roles, while supernatural Romana towards the cliff-edge and pushing library footage of the light under the overtones were also requested. The script her, as indicated in the script. He did not want The water from World Backgrounds in Elstree was described Professor Rumford as 'a small, the Doctor to appear threatening for the apparently filmed for an episode of UFO. intense lady academic with a touch of the "jolly younger audience. He instead suggested to

hockey sticks" about her' while De Vries was Blake that only his voice should be heard. Thursday 22 June: Clearance checks were 'totally bald, but with a neat beard and the costumes of a Wirrn from The moustache'. The eighteenth century portrait Blake selected the Chipping Norton area run so that - in-laws, Ark in Space and a Sea Devil from The Sea Deoils artist Allan Ramsay was referred to, as was because he knew it from visits to his could appear in the serial; the Sea Devil was Heinrich Schliemann who conducted the and was familiar with the Rollright Stones. Mary not used and replaced by an android prop. excavation of Troy in 1871. The script's Tamm drove out to the location with Susan area; Engel references to Or Thomas Borlase were drawn Engel, who was familiar with the Studio rehearsals on the serial began on from both the eighteenth century Cornish had worked at the Royal Court and with the and Thursday 6 July. The antiquarian William Borlase and the Reverend National Theatre. For OB recording, Baker had Friday 23 June scarf birthday party scene was added by Blake and Thomas Price, a nineteenth century Welsh asked for, and received, a longer which the regular cast when the first episode was Historian. The scene with the campers in Part had been created by joining two together. female Equity found to run short at read-through; Tamm Three was a late addition to the script showing Classical actress, writer and first very much liked the idea of the birthday scene. the Ogri killing to obtain blood; an early notion president Beatrix Lehmann loved dogs and the notion, feeling victims. wanted to know all about Kg. She got on very Fisher was less happy with Top: Professor Rumford and was that the stones should crush their with Leeson and Baker, and gave Leeson a it had no relevance to his storyline, and it was the Doctor surrounded by Ogri! well orders of Anthony Read. Thursdays March: Graham Williams classic and valuable camera as a gift when she dropped on the record beyond Above: With Kg's requested that freelancer Darrol Blake be heard of his interest in photography. repair, the Doctor decided to Monday uly: Each studio day was booked to direct Serial 5C from Monday 24 3 J get a refund from Palitoy. scheduled so that recording took place from April to Friday 18 August Monday i2june:The Drama Early Warning 5.30pm. and then from 7.30pm to Synopsis was issued for The Stones of Blood; at 2.30pm to | stone this stage, the broadcast dates were not 1 opm. Some establishing shots of the * last. But he and Romana find The role of Vivien Fey was offered to Honor Material for the circle were done as model shots when it had nod themselves trapped in another Blackman, who was Blake's neighbour; known. In the Promotional ever. points the storyline been possible to get the required long shots on dimension, apparently for Blackman turned it down as she realised that serial, the selling were only of rescue lies with stars location; this model was made by Perkins. The Their hope Beatrix Lehmann would have all the fun as which involved myths and legends, guest Kg - but he, too, is in danger. the fact that Kg Doctor's comment about robot dogs being all Professor Rumford. It was rumoured that Lehmann and Engel and Four: Trapped Sat 18 Nov 78 Part in Trentham, New Jersey was Williams wanted Molly Parkin - the innovator could not be used to solve every problem the range hyperspace, the Doctor and in suggested by American actress Elaine Ives- of Nona magazine - as Vivien Fay. encountered. Visual effects assistant Roger Romana suddenly find Perkins made three full size Ogri from Cameron. The beam machine used in the studio*

translucent fibreglass, and was a different prop to that used on location. O Tuesday 25 April: Graeme McDonald sent a fibreglass in decided memo to Williams on the first two scripts; he visual effects designer Mat Irvine Tuesday The visual effects assistant noted that this was a "good serial" but Part Two that they should be internally illuminated. 4 July: pushing the Ogri in the cellar was visible on was better than Part One. About the proposed additional stones screen. goat sacrifice, he warned, "It could cause a lot Tuesday 1 3 June: The

of concern for children, adults and me." added to the Rollright Stones caused confusion for a school party which had arrived to count Sunday 16 July: Silver plastic sheeting was

photocall for used to reflect light behind the windows of the C) Thursday 27 April: Negative checks were the stones as part of a project. A concentrating hyperspace vessel. Fisher envisaged the Megara carried out to ensure there were no real people the serial was held at the circle, as looking mechanical, but this was an image or organisations with the names Professor on Lehmann. The Oxford Times covered OB that Williams wanted to get away from. Blake Emilia Rumford, BIDS or Charles de Vries. This recording and took photographs of Baker of the being two stones and one of changed the notion Megara ) last character name was changed to Leonard fooling around with the prop

steel balls because he felt it was too similar to de Vries; the plaque on the gate of the Hall the bicycles. On a rare location shoot for the something from and opted for a helix read 'Principal: L.M. De Vries'. series, Leeson delivered his lines from the OB scanner van and was on talkback with the cast of lights. Baker was not impressed with the props and felt that they looked cheap, Monday May: John Leeson was and crew. Since both Baker and Leeson did the Megara 9 1 5 he and Engel laughed at the 'Tinkerbells'. contracted to provide Kg's voice for the serial. crossword in The Times when not needed on set, and is fifth Gold delivered by Gerald Romana, this your on one occasion it appeared that Baker and Kg The Megara dialogue was Run -would you put the crossword together since the Cross and David McAlister from the cottage Sunday 1 1 June: OB rehearsals were were doing yourself on the hot spot please? while the puppeteers stood on the black conducted prior to location recording. star was sitting with the prop dog, discussing set,

ctdfi who mnGnziriE drapes of the TARDIS limbo set. In one shot, Monday 23, Wednesday 25, Friday 27 and Doctor pouring the tritium crystals were

Engel's robe had to be carefully arranged to Saturday 28 July. First edits were broadcast of included on the CD Doctor Who: 30 Years at the

cover her feet since - as a studio visitor pointed all instalments apart from Part Two, which Rodiophonic Workshop issued in July 1993 by out - these had not been painted silver. was re-edited on Saturday 28 October, a week BBC Enterprises. The VHS release of the serial before broadcast. When dubbing some of her in May 1995 included the first edit of Part Two 38-second sequence Monday 17 July: Part of the globe on the lines after the main recording, Engel had which included the deleted beam machine was found damaged when work German measles which she then passed to of Martha and de Vries at the Hall which had

began in the studio. Baker was concerned that Blake just before he went on holiday. been removed just prior to transmission.

the piece of chalk the Doctor used to mark his Vivien Fey and Cailleach figures were issued by

arrival in hyperspace might look like a cigarette. Blake had wanted a distinctly different Harlequin Miniatures in 1999.

The prop skeleton found by the Doctor kept on type of incidental score for the serial, but

in falling out of the door which it was leaning Williams encouraged him to use Dudley In Australia, the serial was repeated the

against. The hyperspace vessel was made by Simpson as usual. Music recording for the first late 1980s. New Zealand screened the story in

Irvine from Plasticard and EMA beams, with two episodes took place from 2.30pm to June 1980, repeated it in December 1987/

additional model kit elements including parts 5.30pm at Lime Grove Studios on Friday 18 January 1988 and again in April 2001.

of an Apollo Lunar Module and an Eagle from August, while a similar session was held for BBC Prime screened the story in June/July 1999.

Space: 1999; it was designed to fit with the sets Parts Three and Four on Wednesday 30 August; which had already been made by John Stout's Simpson was formally booked to score Serials The story was released as a Region 1 DVD in

design team. 5C to 5F on Friday 29 September. October 2002 as part of The Keu to Time box set. This included a commentary from Mary Tamm

Tuesday 18 July: The TARDIS control Saturday 28 October: The BBCi continuity and Darrol Blake recorded at 4MC on Tuesday

console broke down and had to be operated announcer commented that this was the 14 May 2002. The DVD release included the - glam manually by an out-of-vision visual effects hundredth Doctor Who serial prior to Part One. broadcast version of Part Two. The BBC Archives Vivien Fay looking as as ever after four thousand years. technician. Baker enjoyed playing the TARDIS retain D3 copies of the original two-inch

scenes with Tamm in a manner which showed Monday 1 January 1979: For The Model videotapes.

Robert in August Irvine that the Doctor was inexperienced with World of Sumes 1978, themselves faced with a new

section, it be women. The unused birthday cake was eaten filmed a special sequence of the hyperspace In the Cast should noted and even greater threat. Can they as Voice by the crew at the end of recording. craft flying around a planet. that Gerald Cross was only credited survive it - and turn it to their

of the Guardian in the Radio Times and not advantage?

Initial editing took place on Sunday 22, The sound effects of an Ogri, and the on-screen. The Androids of Tara Three Times A Lady BH DUim HHCHIUE DWM 293 commissinmnE Here comes the bride, all dressed in, urn ... purple. Fri 26 May 78 Androids of Zenda Can Doctor Who get to the church in time to crash the wedding? scripts commissioned for Wed 21

Jun 78; delivered Wed 14 Jun 78 (Part One), Tue 20 Jun 78 (Part Late one night, my girlfriend told me she thought it high Two), Fri 23 Jun 78 (Parts Three

time we got married. Apparendy I turned a little pale. The and Four) concept had always terrified me. She went to bed, and left me PRDDiicnnn up all night to pace around, pick at the fridge, and think Mon 24 Jul 78 Leeds Castle, Leeds, things through. I needed something to distract myself. A bit of Kent (Forest) Doctor Who. "What's this? Androids of ... oh, yeah, Zenda spoof. Tue 25 Ju! 78 Leeds Castle That'll do." (Airshaft, New Lodge, Castle Graham Williams' vision of the series is big. He likes his Moat, Battlements, Water Gate)

Time Lord mythology enough that it pops up somewhere in Wed 26 Jul 78 Leeds Castle

almost all of his stories. He introduces the Guardians, sets the (Courtyard, Gateway, Cellar, Battlements, Moat) Key to Time in motion. And yet, slap bang in the middle of his Thu 27 Jul 78 Leeds Castle tenure, there's a story which is so small and so domestic. In (Woods, Pavilion of the Summer Part Four of your typical Williams adventure Tom Baker gets Winds, Cellar) frantic and boggle-eyed as he struggles to save the universe. In Fri 28 Jul 78 Leeds Castle (Castle, Tara, he's trying to stop a wedding. Countryside, Courtyard, Moat) gets Because in Tara, marriage is death. If Count Grendel Mon 14 Aug 78 Television Centre Mary Tamm up the altar, whatever name she calls herself, her Studio 6: TARDIS, Android Surgery Palace, life is over. I watched stunned as the metaphor hit home. Not in Castle, Room in the even love was enough. The one character in the whole story Cell, Corridor Tue 15 Aug 78 Television Centre who expresses it with any real passion is Lamia - and so she's Studio 6: Dungeon, Prince's Cell, the only one who gets killed. Even at the top of the story, Tom Corridor outside Dungeon and Mary act like a married couple. He just wants to put his Mon 28 Aug 78 Television Centre feet up in front of the telly with his best (canine) mate, she's Studio 1 : Ante Chamber and nagging at him to get to Asda before the shop shuts. Coronation Room, Surgery

Was this where my childhood fear of marriage had come Corridor, Corridor outside from? From The Androids ofTara? It was like watching my future Dungeon, Dungeon onscreen. (With additional swordfighting, obviously.) Tue 29 Aug 78 Television Centre

Studio 1 : Great Hall, Hunting 've never read The Prisoner ofZenda - nor knowingly met And yet, as I watched it, I began to be won over. Because it's Lodge, Tunnel, Pavilion anyone who has. I like to imagine it doesn't exist at all, gorgeous, unpretentious stuff. Tom is never better. He's not save in our fan consciousness, something to associate the sort of Doctor who'd be coerced into a quest, he'd much adventure just for the fun with The Androids qfTara. "Tara? That's the one based on rather get embroiled in a small scale Sat 25 Nov 78 Part One: Finding Prisoner qfZenda. Sorted." of it. The whole thing radiates charm and warmth. Peter the fourth segment of the Key to

And for years that's all Tara meant to me. A gentle spoof of Jeffrey is the most likeable villain ever. The jokes come thick Time is easy. But getting it away proves more difficult as the something I'd never read. Bless. and fast, but are never forced. And K9 gets stuck in a boat! j

THE COmPLETE FOURTH DOCTOR 23 Doctor and Romana become X By the end, I was able to wake my wife-to-be, and tell her you'll never be allowed to fish in peace again, and you have to problems of identity. involved in to buy a new dress. Because what Androids of Tara does so make sure you don't get stuck with a tyrant or a robot. But Sat 2 Dec 78 Part Two: The wicked brilliantly is show that the things usually too small to register you'll get lots of laughs along die way. Count Grendel holds Romana, the on Doctor Who's radar are actually quite important too. It's And I fully intend that every time I get married I'll watch Princess, the Prince - and the fourth trivial and delicate and disposable ... and utterly sublime. Yes, it again. segment. Can the Doctor prevent him being crowned King ofTara?

Sat 9 Dec 78 Part Three: The battle for control ofTara turns into a duel of ' wits between the Doctor and Grendel.

But the Count shows he has more treacherous tricks up his sleeve. Director Michael Hayes did not really want set designer and make-up artist. Visual effects Thursday 27 July: The Pavilion of the Sat 16 Dec 78 Part Four: Grendel's to work on Doctor Who, but agreed to because were handled by Len Hutton whose first serial Summer Winds was a prop erected by the BBC dastardly plans reach their climax. Graham Williams was a good friend of his from had been 1968's Fury from the Deep; this was his design team on location. Only a swashbuckling rescue by the Cars. Hayes cast Neville Jason as Reynart, seventh and final story as a full designer. Doctor can save Romana and the I The second recording block on the serial others, and recover the fourth having worked with him on the BBC's Moigret in segment. the 1960s in which Jason had played Lapointe. Sunday 23 July 1978: On location there was was originally to have started on Sunday 27 a good atmosphere between cast and crew, July but was deferred by a day.

Just a typical coronation The Androids ofTara was the Who helped by the lovely summer weather. Hayes Parts Three and ceremony on Tara. serial for Valerie Warrender and Jill Hagger as got on very well with Tom Baker and they First edits were broadcast of

spent a lot of time swapping old stories and Four, and second edits of Parts One and Two.

jokes. Baker also eagerly talked to Simon Lack,

who was playing Zadek, about his work in Noel Thursday 23 November: The Radio Times

Coward's plays. He also got on well with Paul ran a caricature of Tom Baker walking K9 by

Lavers, playing Farrah, since both men wanted the cartoonist 'Marc'.

to inject more humour into their scenes. Mary

Tamm liked the serial since it offered her The paperback Doctor Who and the Androids of

several roles; she and Peter Jeffrey enjoyed Tara later became Book No 3 in the Target

working together after appearing together in Library. A figure of Count Grendel was issued by

The Odessa File. The crew was based at the Great Harlequin Miniatures in 1999.

Dane's Hotel for the week.

The serial was repeated in New Zealand in

Monday 24 July: The white steed ridden by April/May 2001 . BBC Prime screened the story

Grendel was called Winston and only had one in July/August 1 999. The story was released as a

eye. During filming, Jeffrey found that the visor Region 1 DVD in October 2002 as part of The Kej

on his helmet kept falling down and obscuring to Time box set. This included a commentary

his face. from Tom Baker, Mary Tamm and Michael Hayes. The Power of Kroll Accidents Will Happen mm HHCHIUE DWM312 cnmmissiomnG Karaoke night was a popular pastime on the third moon of Delta Magna. All together now - "Kroll! Kroll! Kroll!" Fri 26 May 78 Moon of Death scripts commissioned for Mon 5 Jun 78; delivered Wed Jun 78 (Parts One 7 looked at a potted cactus in the same way since Meglos. andTwo),Thu 15 Jun 78 (Parts But there is a quintessential-magic-y reason why I've chosen Three and Four) i to write about The Power of Kroll. And I did choose it. You see, PRDDUCTIOn there's a pecking order to these reviews - the most important Mon 18 Sep 78 The Makings, people get to go first and choose the best stories. Which is why

Snape, Suffolk (Area 1 (Wetlands)) is doing The Stones of Blood. Tue 19 Sep 78 Iken Cliff, Iken, However, even if I was as important as Russell T Davies, I Suffolk (Area 7 (Marshes), Area 8 would still've chosen Kroll. Why? Because I think it's great. Or (Marshes), Area 5 (Marshes/Boat)) rather, the five-year-old me thought it was great - and when it Wed 20 Sep 78 The Maltings (Area comes to Doctor Who, the five-year-old-me gets the casting vote. 2 3 (Swamp), Area (Landing better taste. Platform)) He has this story broadcast, Thu 21 Sep 78 The Maltings (Area 1 True story. Around the time when was

(Mooring)); Iken Cliff (Area 5 (Lake) the district nurse came to my school. Five-year-old me was Fri 22 Sep 78 Iken Cliff (Area 6 placed at one end of a corridor with an eye chart at the other. (Marshes/Hut/Stockade)) The school nurse said, "Read out the letters as 1 point at them Mon 25 Sep 78 Iken Cliff (Area 4 with the pencil." And I said, "What pencil?" (Stockade/Marsh/Hut)) ' l Yes, my eyesight was bad. So bad, in fact, that I thought the Iken Cliff (Area Tue 26 Sep 78 4 \ 3 scenes where Kroll rises up out of the swamp were convincing. (Hut/Mooring), Area 6 (Marsh)) I remember, I was so terrified I nearly choked on my peanut Wed 27 Sep 78 Iken Cliff (Area 4 (Stockade)) butter sandwich. it's disappointing special Thu 28 Sep 78 Iken Cliff (Area 4 Admittedly looking at it now a (Stockade)) effect. Well, of course it is, it's a in a Doctor Who Fri 29 Sep 78 Standby day story. Criticising a Doctor Who story for having disappointing Mon Oct 78 Television Centre 9 special effects is like criticising Citizen Kane for not featuring Studio 6: Refinery Control Centre, pology in advance. This is going to be another of CGI dinosaurs. It's the last refuge of the lazy, the drab and the Refinery Corridor, Refinery Pump those I-remember-iohot-I ujns-doinfj-iuhen-l-jirst-sauj- pointless. If I had a bullet for each person who criticised Doctor Room it-I-iuas-eannfl-a-peanut-butter-sanduiich reviews. I Who stories for its special effects then I wouldn't have any Tue to Oct 78 Television Centre Studio I for bullets left over after I'd shot them all. 6: Refinery Pump Room, Refinery know you're sick ofthem. feel sorry whoever

Rocket Silo, Refinery Gantry * in this issue has to pretend that they've never I don't mind that the story is a bit seen-it-all-before, because

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1 1 Television at the time I hadn't seen-it-all-before. I loved the bit at the end watch Doctor Who for thematic depth and use of allegory, I still Wed Oct 78 Centre Studio 6: Swampie Temple, of Part Two where the bloke gets dragged to his death by a watch it to see blokes being dragged to their death by tentacles. Control Room and Corridor tentacle. And the bit at the end of Part Three where the bloke However, should I wish to go back to being that five-year- Thu 19 Oct 78 Bray Studios: Model gets dragged to his death by a tentacle. 1 loved all the tentacle old me again, I don't need to wear rose-tinted spectacles. I just filming deaths. And the sonar image, and the heartbeat in the pipes ... take out my contacts. And there it is, back again, as indistinct Fri 20 Oct 78 Bray Studios: Model five-year-old loved every it. as ever. The exciting, roaring blur. Yes, the me moment of Even filming

though I could make out nothing more than an exciting, After all, who hasn't re-enacted the famous Kroll-rising-

roaring blur. Whether I enjoy it now as an adult is irrelevant out-of-the-swamp scene on their own in the bath? Summoning rrdid Times

itwas being made for kids in 1978, it wasn't being made for me the beast from the murky depths by shouting 'Kroll! Kroll! Sat 23 Dec 78 Part One: The hunt for the fifth segment of the Key to in 2004. Of course, now I can appreciate it for its thematic Kroll!' Time lands the Doctor and Romana depth and use of allegory. I can, but I don't, because I don't Okay, so that's just me, then. in dangerous trouble with gun-

running to primitive swamp dwellers. HHiUUHHiiliTTl Sat 30 Dec 78 Part Two: Caught between Swampies and techni-

cians, things look black for the

Carter also a for Kroll looked 'obvious'. Doctor and - particularly Monday 23 January 1 978: Norman Stewart offered to Martin Jarvis. John was photography Romana was contracted to direct Serial 5E between possible to play Mensch. when the monster Kroll awakes. Sat 6 Jan Part Three: The Tuesday 11 July and Friday 10 November. The paperback later became Book No 49 in 79 Swampies decide the only way to Thursday 21 September: The waterproofs the Target Library. Rohm Dutt, Swampie calm the monster Kroll is by human The later rehearsal scripts had an worn by the refinery crew were items used by Leader and Swampie figures were sacrifice - with the Doctor, Romana inconsistent mix of the two names for the the BBC crew in the damp conditions. issued by Harlequin Miniatures in 1999. and Rohm-Dutt as the victims. main planet - 'Gannymede' [sic] and its Sat i3Jan 79 Part Four: With Kroll replacement name, 'Delta Magna'. In Part Rehearsals for the second studio session ABC Australia repeated the serial in 1987; on the rampage, the refinery and

One, Mensch serves drinks from a began on Monday 2 October but were originally New Zealand repeated it in January/February everyone in it seem doomed.

'Gannymedian samovar', and it was planned for Saturday 30 September. 1988 and May 2001 . BBC Prime screened the Thawn's efforts to defeat the monster things worse. originally Fenner who brought up the subject story in August/September 1999. only make Can the Doctor find the fifth of Rohm-Dutt whom Thawn referred to as a Wednesday 8 November: A second gallery segment in time to save the day? 'mercenary'. only session was held in TCi The story was released as a Region 1 DVD

in October 2002 as part of The Key to Time box

In the role of Thawn, Stewart considered The incidental music score ran to around set. This included a commentary from Tom

Julian Glover and Alfred Burke. John Collin and 24 minutes, plus a further 14 minutes of Baker and John Leeson recorded around

leo McKern were possibles for Rohm-Dutt, and 'visual music' which consisted of the Swampies Monday 13 May 2002.

although Gary Watson was initially offered the chanting. Recording of this music was deferred

part of Ranquin, other candidates had been because of industrial action. In the Cast section, Mensch appears in [1-2]

Edwin Richfield, TP McKenna and Frederick only.

Jaeger. Peter Halliday and were Tuesday 1 3 March 1 979: The Audience

alternatives for Dugeen, before the role was Research Report also commented that the trick Right: Makes a change from corridors! The Armageddon Factor

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The Shadow - master of the dark places. Evil agent of the Black cnmmissinmnG Fri 26 Androids Zendo Guardian. A bud man ... Can't see for toffee with that mask on, mind. May 78 of scripts commissioned for Wed 21

Jun 78; delivered Wed 14 Jun 78 (Part One), Tue 20 Jun 78 (Part here's an idea abroad that the three seasons Two), Fri 23 Jun 78 (Parts Three overseen by producer Graham Williams were a and Four) comprehensive refutation of the filthy/gorgeous works of his predecessor, Philip Hinchcliffe, and PRODUCTinn Mon 24 Jul 78 Leeds Castle, Leeds, T lieutenant, script editor Holmes; his sinister Robert Kent (Forest) a betrayal of the , in fact. But in seasons Fifteen and Tue 25 Jul 78 Leeds Castle Sixteen, ±ere's fang Rock and Fendahl and the first half of The (Airshaft, New Lodge, Castle Stones of Blood to disprove that idea on the one hand; and The Moat, Battlements, Water Gate)

Android Inuasion, The Hand of Fear and The Face ofEuil on the other, Wed 26 Jul 78 Leeds Castle squatting in Seasons Thirteen and Fourteen as if only to spoil the (Courtyard, Gateway, Cellar,

theory that cheesy sci-fi concept-led stories were invented in Battlements, Moat) Thu Leeds Castle 1977. And although Tom Baker's performance becomes less and 27 Jul 78 (Woods, Pavilion of the Summer less about acting, and more and more about acting up, the line Winds, Cellar) dividing these two supposedly irreconcilable eras isn't really a Fri 28 Jul 78 Leeds Castle gulf, it's a hairline fracture. (Countryside, Courtyard, Castle, - The Armageddon Factor, then well, ofcourse Hinchcliffe would Moat) avowedly have gone for it. A children's hour reworking of an Mon 14 Aug 78 Television Centre

adult film (in this case, Dr Strangeloue)? Check. A villain who Studio 6: TARDIS, Android Surgery

skulks about in cobwebbed catacombs? Check. And, ofcourse, a in Castle, Room in the Palace, faindy ridiculous, heavily inflected music hall turn as a foil for Cell, Corridor Tue Aug Television Centre the Doctor: Drax, who punctures the windy melodramatics ofthe 15 78 Studio 6: Dungeon, Prince's Cell, main plot just like Henry Gordon Jago ... or D84 ... or Engin ... Corridor outside Dungeon Doctor Who was already turning that way under Hinchcliffe/ Mon 28 Aug 78 Television Centre Holmes, you see - towards bigger and sillier supporting Studio 1 : Ante Chamber and characterisations, there to ensure that the leading man wasn't Coronation Room, Surgery going to completely dominate the screen, there to give him a Corridor, Corridor outside &

THE CrjmPLETB FOURTH DDCTHR 25 hint of competition. Hence the scenery-chewing villains who - no wonder UK Gold pulled the serial one Sunday in 1997 ...) start creeping in, from Tom's second and third years on: K9 makes the point that Drax is 'silly', but as with the whole Mehendri Solon, Harrison Chase, Count Federico, Magnus yin and yang of the Key to Time business, he's redressing 1 Greel - these aren't subtle, layered personalities, they're camp, balance, there to counterweigh the blessed Baker. It couldn't one-note grotesques. By the time of The Armageddon Factor, the last: one more year ofbig characters - ofDuggans and Organons

Doctor is actually prompting John Woodvine's swivel-eyed and Soldeeds, joining the Mariuses and Garrons and Amelia

Marshal to give him his best Richard II ("This blessed plot!"). Rumfords - and the vastly colourful supporting cast, initiated by When there's no-one big for the Tom-Doctor to play Hinchcliffe/Holmes, then developed under Williams, would be against, otherwise reasonable stories fall flat: viz The Face of banjaxed. End of the road. Finito. You'll search in vain if to find

Euil, Underuiorld, The Poiuer of Kroll. With the Marshal out of it at a genuinely interesting dramatis persona in support anywhere in the halfway mark, The Armageddon Factor starts becoming very Season Eighteen - just drab little people who perform functions, dull, very soon: cue Drax, a leftover element from an early do jobs and make up numbers (quite literally, in the case of the version of The Hand of Fear wedged into the narrative with all Logopolitans). And they're mostly well-crafted, well-made stories.

the subtlety ofa crowbar in the doorlock of a Ford Capri. And But I can't have been the only one quietly wishing that - just for he's brilliant - a shortarse Time Lord mechanic, done ten a splash of colour, just to see that last year's funereal Tom light

years in Brixton, all shifty tics and (not Cockney) Sarf London up one final time - the Doctor would be maybe helping out the Generator, or twiddling with a CVE, The Doctor glues his finger street patois. It's like John Sullivan's turned up to cover the Argolins with their Tachyon

to the edge of the picture. script editor's fortnight in Magaluf. (Come to think of it, when up would pop a small baldy man, with a twitch of the Derek Trotter isn't the only 1980s icon anticipated in The shoulders and an "Awlright, Theet Princess Smallness and sobriety have their virtues - but, as Drax * Dungeon, Dungeon Armageddon Factor: a bleeding-heart People's emoting with a surgeon himselfwould say, "Big is better, innit?" Tue 29 Aug 78 Television Centre in hospital wards, making secret trysts hunky

Studio 1 : Great Hall, Hunting Lodge, Tunnel, Pavilion

white.' script 5F from Monday 5 June through to Friday 26 and benignly. He is dressed in The January 1979. described the Shadow's world as 'The Third Planet, a lump ofjagged black rock, whose

Monday 10 April: Anthony Read wrote to fantastic shape has some likeness to a gothic

Baker and Martin thanking them for the draft castle -the .' In Part Two, when

scripts of Parts Three and Four. the Doctor prompts the Marshal to say "this

blessed plot" in his speech he is referring to

Tuesday 5 October: Problems on The Pirate Shakespeare's Richard II.

Planet kept Read busy, so script editing on

Armageddon did not start until late August. The models of the Planet of Evil and the

Read now sent copies of the rehearsal scripts Marshal's Command Module were made by

for Armageddon through to Baker and Martin, visual effects assistant Jim Francis.

explaining that their original submissions had

all been very long and he had had to do some Thursday 12 October: The Drama Early

"drastic cutting". He had however added a Warning Synopsis was issued for The

scene in the TARDIS early in Part One since the Armageddon Factor; at this point, no

Key to Time quest needed to be emphasised transmission date was scheduled.

and otherwise the Doctor, Romana and K9 did

not appear until very late in the episode. Monday 16 October: Graeme McDonald

wrote to Williams commenting on the scripts;

Late additions to the script included he had "thoroughly enjoyed" them and found

Romana explaining to Merak about why they them "exciting and inventive", although he

need to find Astra in Part Three, Kg telling the felt high production values would be needed.

Doctor that there was insufficient information

to say how long the time loop would last in Friday 27 October: Rehearsals for the serial

Part Four, and the climax of Part Six as the took place at the BBC Rehearsal Rooms in Doctor confronted the Black Guardian. The end Acton. Hayes cast Valentine Dyall as the Black

of the serial featuring the Black Guardian was Guardian, and used William Squire - an old

The Marshall and the Doctor The storyline, Armageddon, was submitted written by Williams and incoming script editor friend of his from Stratford - as the Shadow;

spot something more on Monday 19 December 1977. Writers Bob Douglas Adams in mid-October. unfortunately Squire was going through a dark interesting going on in the Baker and Dave Martin had been unable to period in his life which left him somewhat

photograph above them. attend a writers' meeting in London to discuss Part One's script opened thus: 'A romantic remote from the production. On one run-

the Key to Time and did not fully understand drama is playing a war-time cheapie. Hero, through, Hayes suggested that John Woodvine

the concept. The pair were concerned about heroine and the towers of Atrios like the New played the Marshal with his native Geordie

duplicating the work of other writers earlier in York skyline through a window. The hero is in a accent. Barry Jackson was an actor whom Hayes

the season and so decided to make the last space pilot, the heroine in a nurse's outfit. They had often cast since the BBC Shakespeare

segment a living person. The writers viewed the are in each other's arms: clean-cut profiles, production An Age of Kings in the early 1960s

White and Black Guardians as God and the fuzzy focus.' The Marshal was 'a stocky man along with Squire. The balding Jackson was

Devil - the ultimate good and evil. The two like Tito, about 50, with gold epaulettes and disappointed because he did not get to wear a

warring worlds of Atrios and Zeos were based plenty of medal ribbons on his uniform'; Astra wig as Drax, since the character description he

on America and Russia. The character of Drax wore 'a thin gold circlet round her brow'. The had been given referred to Drax as having a

had been created by Baker and Martin in 1975 Shadow's minions were described in Part One: shock of red hair. Contracted on Wednesday 18

for their original six-part version of The Hand of 'Only at the last minute do we see the black October to play Astra, Lalla Ward's correct title

Fear. The Princess Astra character was hooded and cowled, leprous figure of the Mute is the Honourable Sarah Ward. Mary Tamm and

originally called Reina, but this was changed as grunting with effort as he drags Astra - minus Lalla Ward referred to each other's characters - Disastra'. it was too similar to Prince Reynart in The her circlet across the floor.' Drax was 'A as 'Tratoria Romana' and 'Princess

Androids of Tara. The scripts were the final Doctor stocky little man, portly even. With a touch of a

Who story from the partnership of Baker and swagger about him, like a crook, or a car Sunday 5 November: A new tracer prop - Martin; this was now dissolved after 1 1 years dealer. Drax uses his hands a lot to express was made for the serial the original had

since Martin want to get back to stage and himself. The confident air of the born mechanic been lost since The Power of Kroll. There were

Baker planned to move more into production. and hustler. Drax dusts himself down and sticks fits of giggles over the line "slag and clinker".

out his blunt mechanic's hand.' The Guardian

6 March Graham Williams which appeared in the TARDIS was introduced Tuesday 7 November: It had been intended O Monday 1 978: booked Michael Hayes to direct Serials 5D and thus: 'On the screen is a figure smiling calmly to record all the Command Module scenes for

DOCTOR WHO ITIHGRZIRE Parts Three, Four and Six in the evening, but angry and the director left the control gallery to these were abandoned because of lack of time. argue with Baker, but found that he had calmed

down by the time he reached the studio floor. Monday 20 November: Camera rehearsals

could not begin until 1 1 am because of a union Editing was scheduled to take place on

meeting. Tuesday 2, Thursday 4, Friday 5, Monday 8,

Wednesday 10, Saturday 13 and Sunday 14

Tuesday 21 November: Union action January 1979. First edits were broadcast of all

caused 45 minutes recording time to be lost. the episodes. In Part One, the scene in which

As such, only some of the planned TARDIS Astra and Merak snatched a few words at the

scenes were recorded; these included the hospital had the conclusion removed; in this

confrontation with the Black Guardian and Merak warned her about the dangers of

some of the early scenes for Part One. absorbing radiation and the princess told him

to give better care to the casualties. A first

Wednesday 22 November: Two pieces of section of the Marshal's speech in Part Three

camera rehearsals were in the Mentalis room was removed; in this the Marshal gave his rank

were taped and preserved for the BBC VT's as "Marshal General". The start of the scene

1978 Christmas Tape, White Power Christmas. where the Doctor accuses the Shadow of trying

The first - during the scene in Part Four where to break into the TARDIS was heavily cut. When

Romana comments how it was like sitting the Shadow menaces Astra, he originally

inside a bomb - showed Baker and Tamm (who threatens Merak's life unless she tells him the

had curlers in her hair) turning apparently to secret of the House of Atrios. The end of the

kiss each other. The second came from the scene with the Marshal looking for Shapp was

sequence in which the Doctor asked Kg how also dropped. The sequence where the Doctor

long they had to destruction, commenting attempted to persuade Shapp that he was on

"You never know the f— ing answer when it's Zeos was edited to remove the Doctor pointing

important." During the dinner break, Baker out to the Major that there were no signs of Thursday 18 January: A monochrome

and Tamm were rushed to Lime Grove Studios destruction so he could not be on Atrios. The end photograph of Baker accompanied the listing for

in costume to take part on a feature about the of a TARDIS scene in Part Four was cut to omit Part One in the Radio Times.

show's fifteenth anniversary on Nationwide, the Doctor offering the partially completed key

discussing the series with Frank Bough and to Kg to 'sniff' so that the robot can suggest a Saturday 20 January: A 53-second trailer

Carole Ann Ford who had played Susan at the compatible material for the missing segment. was shown at 5.1 4pm on the evening of

series' inception. In studio, 75 minutes When meeting the Doctor in Part Five, Drax transmission, comprising the missile attack on

recording was lost because of industrial initially tries to make a 50:50 deal to work with the TARDIS and Kg's rescue of the Doctor and

problems. The Dark Hole scenes with Merak in the Doctor and is told that there is "no financial Romana from the War Room. The Daily Mai

Part Four were deferred to the next block. gain involved." Part Six had various cuts made. ran a piece commenting on the series'

In the scene where Romana realises that Astra overseas sales, while Part Two was dubbed for

Tuesday 5 December: The fake segment is the segment, the sequence ended with Astra transmission the following week.

was polystyrene wrapped in silver paper. On pulling away from Romana with surprising

this final day, Baker, Tamm and John Leeson strength, and Romana sees the Mute guarding 9 Saturday 17 February: Gotcha by Tom Scott,

recorded a special scene for White Powder them in the doorway. Kg's rehearsed alibi in the tune played during the technical breakdown

Christmas, which started with the Doctor and Drax's cell was "I am pleased to report your of Part Five, was the theme to Starsky and Hutch.

Romana apparently kissing in the control room. Malevolence, an especially nauseating end to

Noticing the camera in embarrassment, they the meddlesome Doctor and his prattling Tuesday 5 June: of the BBC break off and the Doctor offers K9 a drink, after accomplice" to which the Doctor says, "Don't Radiophonic Workshop used the undubbed

which Kg sings We Wish You A Merry Christmas. overdo it." Another cut was the Shadow tape of The Armageddon Factor Part Three to

The Doctor then asks Kg what he wants for describing himself as "the keeper of the Heart demonstrate the addition of sound effects on

Christmas, with the dog desiring "enough ball of Darkness and Chaos." The episode also lost the documentary film The New Sound of Music. Top: The Shadow's holiday slides

bearings to last the series through and fewer the end of the scene where Drax urges the Doctor left Princess Astra unimpressed.

sill irons on the floors of the planets we visit." and Merak to go on without him; Drax attempts Australia repeated the serial in the late Above: Mentalis ponders the When Kg asks his master what his desire is at to use his stabiliser on the Mute emerging from 1980s. New Zealand first screened the serial in meaning of life, the universe Christmas, the Doctor smiles at the camera for a the Shadow's Lair but the batteries have failed ... September/October 1980, with repeats in and everything. Probably.

moment and then gazes lustfully at Romana ... a sentiment which Kg agrees with. February 1 988 and May 2001 . BBC Prime

at which point Tamm dissolved into laughter. screened the story in September/October 1 999. * RnniD Times Music recording for Parts One and Two took Sat 15 Nov 78 Part One: Finding Wednesday 6 December: Williams formally place at Lime Grove Studios on Wednesday 17 The sound effect of the attack on Atrios the fourth segment of the Key to

registered his appreciation towards Hayes for January 1979. Lime Grove had been booked for was included on the CD Doctor Who: 30 Years at Time is easy. But getting it away

catching the in proves more difficult as the Doctor up on the disrupted studio recordings. the music recording on Parts Three and Four Radiophonic Workshop issued July 1 993 by and Romana become involved in on Wednesday 24 January, but the presence of BBC Enterprises. The serial was released by problems of identity. Friday 8 December: Promotional material a major Shirley Bassey production meant that BBC Video on VHS in June 1 995 with a cover Sat 2 Dec 78 Part Two: The wicked for the serial emphasised the guest cast of it was moved to CTS Studios at Wembley. painting by Colin Howard and a spine by Count Grendel holds Romana, the Ward, Woodvine, Squire and Dyall. Andrew Skilleter. Harlequin Miniatures issued Princess, the Prince - and the The music for Part Five was recorded on figures of the Marshal, Romana and K9 from fourth segment. Can the Doctor

Thursday 14 December: Adams wrote the Wednesday 7 February and that for Part Six on the serial in 1 998. prevent him being crowned King Radio Times synopses for the serial. Saturday 17 February - both at Lime Grove. ofTara? Three: battle Dubbing for the serial was planned for The story was released as a Region 1 DVD Sat 9 Dec 78 Part The for control ofTara turns into a Saturday 16 December: Tamm's departure Thursday 18 and Thursday 25 January and in October 2002 as part of The Key to Time box duel of wits between the Doctor was covered in the Daily Mirror. Her chief aim Thursday 1 Thursday Thursday 5 and set. This included a commentary from Mary , 8, 1 and Grendel. But the Count shows was to return to the theatre, but instead she Sunday 18 February. Tamm, Michael Hayes and John Woodvine he has more treacherous tricks up starred in the BBC thriller The Assassination Run. recorded at 4MC on Tuesday 14 May 2002. The his sleeve. Tuesday 16 January Transmission of BBC Archives retain D3 copies of the original 1979: Sat 16 Dec 78 Part Four: Grendel's Friday 29 December: The gallery-only Part One was promoted by an appearance from two-inch videotapes. dastardly plans reach their climax. session in TO had been postponed from Baker on Pebble Mill, celebrating the five Only a swashbuckling rescue by

Wednesday 15 December. hundredth episode of the series with Donny Parts of the White Powder Christmas skit were the Doctor can save Romana and

MacLeod. Baker discussed what was and wasn't shown on the ITVi programme TV's Naughtiest the others, and recover the fourth segment. It was Tamm who suggested to Williams acceptable programme content, entering along Blunders 5 on Wednesday 23 April 2003. that Romana should regenerate, proposing a row of monster costumes including a Wirrn, - that Ward - who had got on well with Baker an , a Mummy, a Voc robot and the In the Cast section, 'Hero' and 'Heroine' should audition for the part. There were times Nucleus of the Swarm. A monster montage of should be in inverted commas, and Merak is in in studio when Baker's behaviour made Hayes clips was taken from The Liuely Arts. [1-4,6]-

THE COmPLETE PDUHTH CTTJR

One Step Beyond

It was the year when Doctor Who achieved its highest-euer viewing figures, cemented its popularity with

UK viewers, made inroads into the US, and saw love blossom behind the scenes. But it was also the year

Doctor Who lost a producer and a whole story. Andrew Pixley bypasses the Randomizer and visits 1979...

s things geared up for the 1979/80 season, producer Graham Interviews for a replacement voice artiste for Kg were held on Friday 9 Williams was faced by inflation - running at 22%. He was being March, while the scripts for Nightmare of Eden arrived from Bob Baker. By the asked to produce shows to the same quality as the grandiose following Friday, David Brierley had been selected as the new voice of Kg.

serials made by Phillip Hinchcliffe, however not only had the The Gamble with Time had been provisionally scheduled as the second serial in BBC failed to increase programme budgets in line with production, and production unit manager John Nathan-Turner demonstrated

inflation, but they now imposed cutbacks. In real terms, Williams had a that it would in fact be practical to take a minimal unit to Paris to film exteriors budget only 60% of that allocated to Hinchcliffe. and remain within the budget. Overseas shooting was a major coup for the Other problems were also waiting in the wings for Williams. He now had series, but also impacted on the concerns over Fisher's Bulldog Drummond

less freedom from his superiors, and former producer was given a spoof. With the director about to start work on The Gamble with Time, Williams "watching brief" over the series by Graeme McDonald. Merchandising and and Adams discovered that Fisher was in the midst of problems in his private

random were on the increase, and BBC Enterprises demanded a greater life, and it was impossible for him to do a rewrite. As such, the pair completely amount ofWilliams' time, yet extra man-hours could not be allocated to the rewrote the French serial over the weekend of Friday 16 to Monday ig March, production office. stripping away the ig20s setting and writing out Kg. The robot dog was also

It was also going to be a tough year for Douglas Adams in his role as script absent from the scripts of Destiny ofthe Daleks, since Nation had not wanted his editor. He was desperately keen to have new writers joining the show with creations to engage in a face-offwith the popular companion.

fresh ideas, but approaches to prospective scribes such as satirist Richard Shooting on the season had been due to start on The Creaturejrom the Pit on

Stilgoe did not result in storylines. While The Doomsday Contract was still a Monday ig March, but was deferred because of industrial unrest at Ealing Film

potential script from Allan Prior, it seemed as if Erinella would have to be Studios. Filming with Baker and Ward got underway on Wednesday 21. Later dropped on the grounds ofexpense since a large budgetary allocation had been that week, an extract from Doctor Who was used to illustrate a BBC News story made to David Fisher's The Gamble with Time. In terms of style, both Williams about a new report on TV violence. Also, on Friday 23 March, Adams sent a and Adams were keen to sacrifice continuity in favour ofgood plots. memo to McDonald expressing his disappointment over the problems he had Tom Baker returned to England from his publicity tour ofAustralia. During had with new writers. The script editor wrote that he had "spent too much time

his visit, the actor had taken part in a series of television adverts where - as the and energy" on writers who could not deliver acceptable scripts, and would Doctor - he urged youngsters to "Keep Australia Beautiful" and also featured in KB UIH5 IHHITTEH OUT UF posters for the campaign. Picking up with episodes from 1977 in the wake ofa series DHLEK5" HS TERRU I1HTIDI1 DIDITT UIHUT SUCH ofJon Pertwee repeats, the show remained §j| popular there. The syndicated screenings

of Doctor Who on PBS stations across North America now rely on old hands instead. He found it a

were also gaining a rapid following. American "surprise and disappointment" that after 15 years merchandisers started to produce tie-in goods, so few writers seemed to understand what the

such as The Aduentures o/Doctor Who novelisation series was all about. Around this time, Adams' old compendium from Nelson Doubleday, or colleague John Lloyd asked him to submit material

brooches, rings and pendants featuring the Daleks for his new BBC2 show, Not the Nine O'clock News, and Kg from S Weiner. Pinnacle Books also made a but Adams was unable to find the time. The script

deal to start reprinting Americanised versions of editor was already busy reworking his radio

Target novelisations with a foreword by SF author scripts for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy into a

Harlan Ellison. The first titles appeared in April. play to be staged at the ICA from Tuesday 1 May. In the wake of the disputes between Baker and On Monday 26 March, Baker took time out

the production office, there was an uneasy calm. from shooting The CreatureJrom the Pit to film an Williams could be tense at times when dealing with insert as the Doctor for the 400th edition of the

a star who took the series very seriously indeed, but children's wildlife programme Magic. The

who would also snore during what he felt were dull star could still be difficult with directors while scenes and who spoke out against repetition of working, but often just needed to vent his material. Baker was aware that his relentless frustrations or boredom, albeit in a very scathing dedication to certain aspects of the show could be manner. The perfectionist star very much enjoyed dresome to the producer. Fortunately, Baker working with Ward again, and was delighted that

formed a strong friendship with Adams and - she too wanted to rewrite her dialogue to make it along with Lalla Ward - they socialised a great deal. more amusing for the younger viewers. Ward saw On Wednesday 28 February 1979, a rubbery the series very much as a children's show with an One girl and her dog: new Romana Lalla ward Dalek appeared on BBCi in the children's comedy ironic appeal for adults, and rapidly understood (and Kg!) meet the press in Cadogan Square. series Graham's Gang - a show filmed the previous and empathised with Baker's approach. summer in Havant. Back at the production office, Despite his lack of success, Adams persevered

Adams was still having problems finding suitable scripts to complete the with attempts to commission new writers, and on Monday 2 April formally

season, in addition to all his commitments to various projects based on asked Alan Drury to develop a notion called The Tearing ofthe Veil for delivery by Hie Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. His attempts to find new writers faltering, Sunday 27 May. The previous day, the first of several items celebrating the 21st

Adams fell back on trusted scribes who could deliver workable scripts. His birthday of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop appeared in the form ofWe Haue

predecessor Anthony Read submitted a storyline entitled The Horns oJNimon in Also Sound Houses, a Radio 3 documentary in which composer late February; this was another narrative which drew upon Greek legends as discussed her realisation of the show's theme tune. On Monday 2 April there

the basis ofa futuristic storyline. On Friday 2 March, The Doomsday Contract was was a filmed report by Vera Gilbert on Nationwide, including the shows'

delivered, along with the first scripts for The Gamble with Time. Still keen to opening titles and an interview with Dick Mills. A BBC LP and cassette entitled develop his aborted thriller anthology series The Zodiac Factor when he moved BBC Radiophonic Workshop 21 was also released, including the Doctor Who theme

on from Doctor Who, Williams sent an outline for the anthology - now entitled and TARDIS sound effect, plus a music cue from The Mind ofEvil. And on

Zodiac - to Terry Nation on Thursday 1 March. Wednesday 11 April, Pebble Mill screened a film shot by Tony Francis at the

THE CnmPLETFJ PDUHTH CTDR production were filled with Nightmare of Eden and the newly delivered scripts for The Horns of Nimon, both ofwhich could be recorded almost entirely in studio. Shortly before recording, the tide of the Paris story was finally settled upon as City ofDeath. Adams was now lagging behind with his new radio series; recording of the first new Hitchhiker's episode on Saturday 19 May was only partially completed because Adams Workshop on Friday 6 April which included an extract from An had not finished the script. To add to Unearthly Child, and showed Mills dubbing a scene in The Adams' workload, on Tuesday 29 May he Armageddon Factor Part Four. was commissioned for a pilot script taking With the problematic recording on The Creaturefrom the Pit The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy to BBC2, underway, there were more enquiries about the exploitation ofK9 to be delivered by Wednesday 1 August. merchandise; on Wednesday 4 April, the Fine Art Company asked Issue 1430 ofTV Comic, dated Saturday I about marketing Ko dog bowls. With a clip from Part Five ofThe May, was the final edition to carry a Doctor Armageddon Factor, Doctor Who was featured on the Multi-Coloured Who reprint strip; apart from a stint in the Swap Shop Star Awards 1979 recorded at Television Theatre on sister titles Countdown and TV Action, the Sunday 8, and broadcast on BBCi on Sunday 15 April; Baker was comic adventures had been running in TV nominated for Children's TV Star (losing to Tony Hart) and the ill Comic since November 1964. At this point, series for Children's TV Programme (defeated by Grange Hill). BBC Enterprises had their own plans to publish a comic covering BBC shows akin to Independent Television's Look-In. ith the Leela ownership debacle settled, it was agreed that a Death appeared briefly in a feature about abseiling settlement would be paid to on Thursday 19 A Voc from The of at Television Centre on Blue Peter; broadcast on Thursday April; the payment was finally made on Monday 21 May. On down the East Tower this had been pre-filmed on Tuesday 8 and Wednesday 9 May. The Friday 18 Tuesday 24 April, Brierley was booked as K9 for a minimum of 16 episodes to 17, of BBCi's children's television discussion show What Do You Watch! be made between April and December. And on Monday 30 April, the film crew May edition The the cliffhanger ofThe Power rjf Kroll Part Three alongside clips from started shooting in Paris on the hastily rewritten version ofThe Gamble with Time saw UXB in an item on "Thrills and Thrillers" with contributions which was temporarily rechristened The Time ofthe Sephiroth. By now, Baker and Sweeney and Danger pupils of Framwellgate Moor Comprehensive School, Durham which had Ward had already become quite close to each other. Although Baker was still from recorded on Monday 23 and Tuesday 24 April. On Friday 25 May, WH attempting to maintain the lifestyle of a carefree bachelor, the crew could now been Allen published the first of their HTTEHIPTED much delayed juvenile novelisation BRHHnm UIILLIIMIS Giant range, Junior Doctor Who and the UEHSI HCCDmmDDHTinG, BUT FD1U1D THE Robot; this had encountered fdrihed FHnDom tod DEmnnoinB problems at the production office neuiLU when Williams had objected to

Peter Edwards' likeness ofBaker on the internal illustrations. see the signs of romance - although this was kept strictly secret from the Eyes, a wicked spoof of the series written by Andrew Marshall and press and public. The time in Paris was magical for the two stars, and saw Doctor David Renwick, appeared on the LWT sketch show End of Part One on Sunday their relationship blossom into love. The overseas filming also resulted in Recorded at the start of January, this featured Fred Harris as Dr Eyes considerable press coverage. 27 May. Holderness as a Mary Tamm-esque companion called Gloria and a While the popular newspapers covered the Paris location shoot, the film with Sue Tin-Thing-That's-Meant-To-Look-Like-A-Dog in an adventure on the planet insert of the Doctor describing the strange monsters he had encountered was Chromakey where the current Doctor is shot by a gun-toting dustbin when broadcast in Animal Magic on Tuesday 1 May. The next day, various publishing 5, too expensive, and has to regenerate into Tony Aitken. On Tuesday enquiries were discussed at the production office. Nick Webb of New English he becomes The New Sound Music, another BBC TV programme celebrating the Library - who had commissioned Adams' novelisation ofThe Hitchhiker's Guide 5 June, of work of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, featured Mills dubbing a sequence to the Galaxy at Pan Books - was interested in a range of original Doctor Who from The Armageddon Factor Part Three. novels alongside the Target novelisations, while Denis Segue ofDenis Alan with K9 as fandom continued to grow, so did another set of problems for Print proposed a bi-monthly poster magazine and a hardback book celebrating And found that the Williams indicated that he liked Williams. The producer attempted to be accommodating, but 15 years of Doctor Who. On Wednesday 9 May, too demanding. With his limited resources, working with NEL's approach which might be more polished than the novelisations. While fans were becoming fandom was causing delays in production. On Wednesday 6 lune, Williams wrote the DAP proposal was viable, he did not feel it to be outstanding. commenting, "Frankly the number of unauthorised On Wednesday 2 May, Drury delivered The Tearing ofthe Veil. This was a a memo to his superiors, Doctor Who recordings is becoming increasingly irritating". Victorian piece with the TARD1S arriving at a vicarage during a fake seance visitors to Baker was living most of the time at Ward's flat, although the two being conducted to contact the vicar's late wife. In the ensuing narrative, an By June, feeling that maybe their liaison was a bad idea. Destiny ofthe Daleks animated demon doll became a beacon for an evil force, the Doctor lost most stars were started shooting on location, and on Friday 15 June, the production office of his life force and wandered around largely in a night gown, and K9 was heard Roger Haskell ofGeneral Aviation who offered the assistance of ripped apart by a poltergeist. Although two scripts were written for it, The from return the slots in his company with regards a prospective Doctor Who film. The of Tearing ofthe Veil was not developed further. The fourth and fifth

CTUR LLIHD mPGPZinE om Baker and Lalla Ward posing outside a for City ofDeath. Love bloomed for the two

An interview with Lalla Ward conducted by Judson Bennett during the Paris

Daleks was promoted with an appearance on Blue Peter on Thursday 21 June, shoot and rather ironically titled 'Why I could never fall in love with Doctor when a home-made Dalek crafted by Richard Berelson came face to face with Who' was published in August, promoting the new season. At the production

its BBC counterpart amidst clips from The Dalek Invasion ofEarth and Genesis ofthe office, an exhausted Williams decided that he wanted to spend more time with

Daleks. Berelson's Dalek also took part in a photo session alongside Baker for his young family and move on from Doctor Who, although McDonald tried to

DAP, although the company were then told that these images could not be used persuade him to stay on. On Wednesday 15 August, it was formally agreed that

commercially. To tie in with the new Dalek serial, plans were made for a new Adams could script the season's concluding six-parter, and also that John book from Target entitled Ko, The Daleks and Others, which replaced the planned Lloyd's storyline, now referred to by the working title of Shylock, could be

title ofThe Who Monster Book that autumn. developed by another writer.

Over the weekend of Saturday 18 and Sunday 19 August, the Doctor Who

n desperation at finding a script to conclude the season, Adams embarked Appreciation Society held Panopticon III at the City University in London. I upon developing a six-part story himself. His initial idea was to have the Baker, Williams and Adams all attended, along with Dez Skinn ofMarvel I Doctor withdrawing from involvement with galactic affairs and was more of Comics who announced that he would be editing a new comic, Doctor Who a send up of the show's format, although this was vetoed by Williams. Instead, Weekly, due to launch in October; this had only been agreed on Friday 17 with Adams developed a story about a great Time Lord criminal from the past with BBC Enterprises. The first serial, 100,000 BC, was screened in its entirety, along

fantastic powers which had the provisional title of Sunburst. Desperately trying with the fan film project Oceans in the Sky. Baker gave a talk on die second day,

to finish his novel as well as supervising the Original discussing his recent visit to Australia and also the Records re-recordings of Hitchhiker's, Adams now forthcoming City ofDeath. On Thursday 23 August,

failed to deliver his radio scripts again, meaning that Williams wrote to Jan Vincent-Rudzki, the DWAS

recordings on Wednesday 11 July and Wednesday 1 President, to thank him for the enjoyable event, but August both had to be cancelled. Thankfully, BBC also sounding a note ofwarning that the number of

Light Entertainment agreed to defer delivery of the fans wanting to attend production hinted that the

TV pilot script to the end of November. goodwill extended by the production office was On Wednesday 4 July, Baker attended a preview of being abused. Williams was now aware that the that year's Illuminations which was to worst criticism of the series came from the devoted include a Doctor Who tableau with lots of monsters; fans, who were older than the target audience.

he also presented a sash to winner of the Blackpool He and Baker were agreed that they had little Queen of Lights competition. Ward posed for BBC interest in the stories that had gone before; they

publicity shots on Tuesday 10, selecting the amusing were concerned about creating something new schoolgirl outfit she had worn on City 0/Death. On and exciting.

Thursday 12, The Pirate Planet began a series ofBBCi The Doctor Who Annual 1980 published by World

repeats at 6.55pm, apart from BBC Cymru in Wales; Distributors featured both a cover photograph from

this was to be followed by The Androids ofTara. the series and - for the first time - the current logo,

On Friday 13 July, Williams confirmed to General as K9 and Tamm's incarnation ofRomana joined Aviation that the Doctor Who film proposal had been the Doctor for more adventures. The repeats ofThe shelved, and suggested that the company should Androids ofTara enjoyed some very large audiences of contact them again in six months. The producer's over ten million because, by Thursday 23 August, concern about fans being present in studio was industrial action had blacked out all the ITV regions borne out when some interference with props by one apart from Channel. Baker and Adams attended group ofvisitors on the Dalek story cost valuable another convention over the August Bank Holiday

recording time. With Destiny ofthe Daleks completed, weekend; this was SeaCon '79, the World Science

there was a brief break in production which allowed Fiction Convention which was being held in Baker to make a personal appearance in Brighton that year; here, the 1977 Whose Doctor Who on Thursday 19 July. On Monday 30 July, the star made a similar appearance at documentary was screened along with the first episode of the series. Brent Croft while the Daily Record ran an interview with him conducted during While writing Shada (the new name for Sunburst) in August, Adams was production of the Dalek serial. The following day, Baker moved on to Hitchin. approached by BBC Radio Schools producer Mike Howarth about an edition of

The repeats attracted the attention of Peter McKay in the Euenino. Standard on Exploration Earth entitled More Machines; Howarth hoped that Adams could give Wednesday 8 August where he criticised them for their sexism, observing that "suggestions for development ofa serial, from his extensive experience of the real fans of the series were all middle-aged men. science-fiction writing". Having read the script as drafted, Adams contributed During rehearsals for Nightmare ofEden, Baker recorded a special trailer to ideas for the recording on Wednesday 21 November; finished broadcasts began preview the new season in the presentation studio at Television Centre. Having on Monday 25 February 1980. On Wednesday 25 August, a fee was agreed with the Doctor summoned from his slumbers inside the TARDIS by a voice Lloyd so that his Shylock story could be developed by another writer. warning him about the Daleks, this item was recorded on Thursday 9 August. The premature departure of director Alan Bromly from Niahtmare of Eden Taping on Niahtmare of Eden then began a few days later; this serial and the next meant that Williams himselfwas left to handle the post-production aspects of would be effectively studio-bound in a cost-cutting measure. the serial, as well as working with Adams on his Shada scripts. With Williams

THE COITIPLETE PLTUHTH DOCTOR Season 17

Model filming of the TARDIS and the Tython a clearing on Chloris for The Creature from the Pit.

included a story about the supersonic Concorde aircraft from production assistant-turned-director , and an outline called Into the Comet race living inside a frozen confirming that he would be leaving the series, he suggested to McDonald that from novelist James Follett which concerned an alien universe. Thursday 20 a suitable replacement might be John Nathan-Turner who had worked on the comet which they believed was the extent of the On to a letter from Jean-Marc Lofficier, a series as production unit manager since 1977. Nathan-Turner was keen and September, Williams responded proposing to write an episode guide book to able, and Williams had already attempted to have him appointed to the post of California-based writer who was written for the French magazine associate producer. However, McDonald offered the series first to George the series, expanding a two part piece he had practical. Gallaccio, a former production unit manager who had successfully produced L'Ecran Fantastique; Williams agreed to help as far as was

The Factor, a BBC Scotland paranormal series featuring Louise Jameson photocall with the TARDIS, which had aired that summer. However, Gallaccio was looking for a more aturday 22 September saw Baker doing a for Alan Print, who shordy issued the images as artistic and less technical series, and instead opted for the period drama series K9 and a Dalek Denis posters. The following week, recording began on Mackenzie. It was therefore agreed that Nathan-Turner would be promoted to greetings cards and Tuesday produce Doctor Who from December, with Letts continuing to keep an eye on The Horns ofNimon. Thinking ahead to the next season, on 25 Jean Michel Jarre the programme. September Nathan-Turner sent two LPs by French composer that synthesiser The specially recorded trailer was broadcast on BBCi at 8.16pm on Saturday (presumably Oxygene and Equinox) to McDonald, suggesting music akin to this could be used for background on the show; McDonald was 25 August, a week before the series began. On Thursday 30 August, publicity was suggesting that he wanted for the new season got underway with a photo shoot for Baker and Ward along rather confused, believing that Nathan-Turner 26 with some Daleks, the unveiling of the Blackpool Illuminations tableau (which to use Jarre's compositions. Also, it was agreed again on Wednesday again as The would be on show through to Sunday 28 October), a repeat of the trailer and September that the basic outline for Lloyd's story, now referred to another writer. the appearance of 'Spaced Out', an article on the costume design of Destiny of Doomsday Contract, could be developed by September, Clare Shoville, executive producer the Daleks by Anwer Bad in the Radio Times. On Thursday 27 of the BBC Schools programme , Destiny ofthe Daleks opened the new season in the sent Williams a script for her show in 6.10pm slot on Saturday 1 Baker could appear as September, with the LTV strike which she hoped with ensuring regular audiences of the Doctor, and hoped to meet up producer and star on Tuesday 2 October. around 13 million. The new run was City Death began transmission on promoted in the Daily Telegraph by the As o_f interview with Baker by William article 'Daleks Herald Attack On New BBCi, an 'The World of the Weird Season'. On Thursday 6 September, Marshall entitled in the Daily Mirror on Baker spent the afternoon recording Dr Tom' appeared in this, Baker observed that he Rain/or Danger, an edition of the BBC Saturday 29; time in Radio schools programme Springboard, was about to buy a home for the first his life. To follow on from Destiny ofthe Daleks, at Portland Place. The debut serial then version of the soundtrack to its received more promotion on Saturday 15 an abridged September when Dalek operator Cy 1 predecessor Genesis ofthe Daleks was issued by ' and cassette with linking Town was interviewed in The Sun. the BBC on LP narration recorded by Baker. On Monday 17 September, Target 2 October, Williams indicated to Books published The Adventures of Kg and On Tuesday McDonald that he was now having problems disrupting production Right: Two of the Doctor Who greetings cards with Doctor Who fans been forced to released by Denis Alan Print during 1979. ^^Wl because of set visits, and he had reprimand some of his staff. The debate about whether Baker should accept October, and ultimately Other Mechanical Creatures by Terrance Dicks; this heavily illustrated text and the Look and Read assignment dragged on through the prospect ofBaker puzzle book was a sideline to the standard novelisations, and had replaced the McDonald indicated that he was unhappy about planned Kg, The Daleks and Others. Other merchandise on the market included appearing as the Doctor outside Doctor Who itself. completed, Baker embarked on a Doctor Who Candy Favourites from Goodies, a range of four jigsaws showing With recording on The Horns of Nimon Weekly, which he the Daleks and Kg under the tide The Amazing World ofDoctor Who from World nationwide tour to promote the launch ofDoctor Who actor felt he was International, a Doctor Who 3D Clay Picture from Remus, and some pencil undertook for no fee as a favour to editor Dez Skinn; the up sharpener by HCF. merely helping to promote his livelihood. Wednesday 10 October saw him he visited Birmingham and Another demand now hit Adams in that Radio 4 had done a deal with the in Leeds and , while the following day interview with Alan Towers at the Annie Radio Times to put The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy on the front cover, if five Wolverhampton, as well as filming an that new episodes were ready to transmit during the third week ofJanuary 1980. As Osborne School in for BBC's Midlands Today programme enjoyed meeting the such, Adams would have to focus on the radio scripts, widi the earlier aborted evening. Baker discussed the major tour and how he invaded. Friday 12 recording completed on Tuesday n September. This left Adams little time to children, commenting that he enjoyed his privacy being and Wandsworth in London, the set up scripts for the new season. Unhappy with the pressure of rewriting other October saw the star at Woodford Garden Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - writers' scripts and having to provide his own stories to fill the slots, Adams same day that the Pan Books paperback ofThe - sale. The Daily Stat on decided that he too would depart with Williams at the end of the season. On which had taken up so much ofAdams' time went on October had a piece by Jenny Knight who had covered Baker's Wednesday 19 September, The Tearing ofthe Veil was accepted, subject to Saturday 13 he was so famous that alterations which would be required at a later date. Other ideas pitched publicity trip to Liverpool, with Baker commenting that

CTDR UJHD mRGRZinE Australia as a co-production; Australia had always been a major customer for the series in the past and Baker's promotional tour at the start of the year had he was even recognised by former Prime Minister James Callaghan. Aimed generated a lot of interest. mainly at the juvenile market, Doctor Who Weekly Issue 1 was dated By early November, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was topping the Wednesday 17 October and featured basic articles on the show amongst best-seller lists and Adams was finalising his TV pilot script for BBC2; the reprint strip material, and also two new comic strips. One featured the second new radio episode was also completed on Wednesday 14 November. Doctor's foes, and the other showcased Baker's Doctor; this debuted with As rehearsals on Shada continued, Nathan-Turner drew up his plans for the

Doctor Who and the Iron Legion, written by Pat Mills and John Wagner from one 1980/1981 season. Keen to drop six-part stories, Nathan-Turner sought extra of their undeveloped notions for the TV series, and drawn by Dave Gibbons. funding for a 28 episode season, thus giving him seven four-part stories to be After the whistle-stop tour, a rather tired Baker was pleased to rejoin Ward made between Monday 10 March 1980 and Friday 30 January 1981. Bill Cotton, in Cambridge for location filming on Shada which began that weekend. the Controller ofBBCi, agreed to this, and Nathan-Turner used the length of Unfortunately, production was already disrupted as - for the third year running the new run as a major selling point in publicity.

- industrial disputes broke out. On BBCi, the ITV strike meant that City o_f Death However, Nathan-Turner also wanted to change the line-up on the series. attracted over 16 million viewers on its final episode, the largest audience ever Feeling that the Doctor, Romana and Kg formed a fairly invincible trio, he for Doctor Who. Reaction to the more humorous stories now being presented wanted to make the TARDIS crew more vulnerable. As such, the incoming was mixed; in the letters column of the Radio Times, while Lee Rogers of BB BBCI, THE ITU STRIKE IHEHI1T THAT ESS^SSSSS fc CITB OF BERTH" RTTRHETEO THE 5HBUTS - series being played for laughs. HIGHEST EUER RHTIRB5 BUER IE R1ILLIBB! The style of the show was also of interest to

Nathan-Turner who started planning his first season. Shortly after the Cambridge producer spoke to Ward and suggested that she should move on from the shoot, Nathan-Turner and his partner Gary Downie were introduced to Ian series towards the end of the next season; this fitted in with Ward's own desire Levine by production manager Ralph Wilton. Although primarily involved in to expand her career beyond Doctor Who. Ward sensed that Nathan-Turner the music business, Levine was a tremendous Doctor Who enthusiast who had wanted to aim the series at a slightly more adult audience, cutting down on the collected many old episodes on film and videotape. Borrowing old episodes jokes which she and Baker enjoyed. When Ward was booked on Friday 23 from Levine, Nathan-Turner became enthusiastic about the show's rich history November, it was for only 20 of the new episodes. and saw how introducing elements ofcontinuity could appeal to the fans By now, there was a major problem for the production team. When the whom he believed had not liked the humour present in the recent serials. cast and crew arrived to start recording the second studio session of Shada on Monday 19 November, they found that because of industrial action they had n Tuesday 23 October, another episode of the Hitchhiker's radio series been locked out. It was hoped that this two-day session could be remounted at

had to abandon its recording part-way through due to a lack of script. a later date, and so rehearsals continued for the third block. Thursday 25 October saw K9 - voiced by David Brierley - examining Two BBC shows carried Doctor Who items on Tuesday 27 November. A Dalek a facsimile of himself made by a young viewer on Blue Peter, and promoting The appeared as a futuristic teaching assistant in the schools careers programme

Creature jrom the Pit with presenter Tina Heath. The same day, another special It's Your Choice (recorded on Tuesday 30 October), while in The Mike Harding Shoui book was published by Target in the form ofTerry Nation's Dalek Special; edited on BBC2, comedian Harding arrived in a TARDIS-like gents lavatory complete byTerrance Dicks, this was similar to the K9 volume the previous month. with Ron Grainer's theme tune. Williams complained about this second item The Creaturejrom the Pit began transmission, but with ITV broadcasting again on Thursday 29 November, having been unaware of the impending spoof, and from Wednesday 24 October, ratings were soon down to around ten million. learned that this comedy show had been taped back on Friday 30 March 1979. On Friday 2 November, McDonald asked Nathan-Turner and Letts if they felt By now, the situation with regards studio time at Television Centre was there was any mileage in making one or two of the following year's stories in critical. Some of the Christmas spectacular shows had major demands on

THE COnriPLETE FOURTH CTDR '

Wednesday 26 September, 1979: ofNimon showing the Nimons' roughed out a scenario entitled Aualon and sent it to Fisher so that a set of I four scripts could be quickly developed. The producer also decided that to reinvigorate the series, he wanted to use as many writers and directors as facilities, and during die last week ofNovember it became clear that the third recording session on Shada would have to be deferred. This was a major blow possible who had not worked on Doctor Who before. Byrne, whom he had worked with on for Williams, who had wanted to go out on a high. On Friday 30 November, Nathan-Turner approached Johnny script editor, but Byrne did Williams formally agreed with McDonald that work on Shada would cease. All Creatures Great and Small to offer him the post of not want to relocate from Norfolk. Then Robert Banks Stewart, the producer It was then that Williams and Baker met Terrance Dicks in the BBC bar and Christopher Hamilton Bidmead, a former actor heard that he was about to leave for Los Angeles to attend the country's first of Shoestring, recommended contributed to scientific journals. Bidmead major Doctor Who convention, having been invited by Lofficier whom he had who had written for television and officially start in the New Year. been helping with his guide. Williams recalled earlier declining the invitation, was offered the job just before Christmas, to over the Yuletide period, pitched believing that Shada would be in studio. However, with the schedule cleared The Horns ofNimon appeared on BBCi in the World in ITV's Christmas line-up. On both star and producer could fly to the USA as a piece ofpromotional work against Digby, the Biggest Dog her Destiny the Daleks costume to appear on behalfof the BBC. McDonald gave his blessing, and the two men attended Saturday 29 December, Ward donned of Shop route for her rehearsals on Hamlet. Emphasising the event organised by Lucy Chase-Williams at the Sunset Hyatt Hotel on on Multi-Coloured Swap en the series exciting, Ward discussed her Sunset Boulevard that weekend. Both were amazed to discover that the Baker's energy and enthusiasm to keep reference to the book Astrology for Dogs (and Owners) which following for the series was largely young adults rather than children. Baker work as an artist with found the experience rather unnerving as some fans, totally caught up in the was due for publication in February 1980. included in the series' Review ofthe show's magic, called out "Take us with you!" The star did a number of Kg's recent appearance on Blue Peter was formally took up his post at the start of interviews at the event, explaining how he liked to look for humour and Year on New Year's Eve. Bidmead then

the previously unmade storylines. The Tearing of! irony in alien situations and referring to the vast majority ofpopular television January 1980 and went through written off as unworkable. Erinella was as "whippetshit". the Veil did not appeal to him, and was recommissioned from Pennant Roberts with Nathan-Turner giving advice on

it could restructured for the revised ad Shada gone as planned, how then requested some recording for the season would format. Bidmead fundamental changes to the story's have concluded on Monday 3 structure which required too much time December, the day on which another from Roberts alongside his directing recording for the Hitchhiker's radio series Bidmead wanted were serials was attempted with an incomplete script work. What which had a strong scientific concept at The following day, Nathan-Turner began their core rather then relying on magic or negotiations to use Ko for Serials 5N to 5V. he also arranged for the Back from Los Angeles, Baker now mythology; production office to subscribe to New departed for Sweden to work on a BBC Scientist. Before Christmas, Bidmead had documentary about Nobel Prize Winners had an informal chat with Stephen from Friday 7 to Tuesday II. an SF writer whose radio script, There was now insufficient time and Gallagher, An Alternative to Suicide, had attracted money to remount Shada for transmission Bidmead's attention. Gallagher soon from mid-January, and with great delivered an outline entitled Dream Time. reluctance work on Serial 5M was formally predecessors, Nathan-Turner abandoned on Monday 10 December. In the Like his fans disrupting production of meantime, Nathan-Turner was aghast to was wary of the programme, and on Friday January, discover that Williams and Adams had no 4 he issued a memo about restrictions on scripts in reserve for the new season. One of January, Arrow Books proposed a Doctor Who die scripts on file was the aborted The Witch Lords which Dicks had partially studio visitors. On Monday 7 Technical Manual which Nathan-Tumer gave his blessing to three days later. delivered in early 1977; seeing the potential of this story, Nathan-Turner the of Baker had recorded linking material for a new season of recommissioned it under the title The Vampire Mutations. The new producer At end 1979, networked by Yorkshire Television from Wednesday was now also having second thoughts about the use of K9, and felt that the The Book Tower, which was Meanwhile, Baker was busy on an HTV/Columbil dog should only appear in parts of the first four stories in the next season. 2 January to 6 February 1980. Tutankhamun's Tomb which began a Williams and Adams were given a farewell party in a basement conference Pictures TV movie entitled The Curse of King around Monday January with work near Chippenham and room at the BBC on Friday 14 December, and the following day Baker recorded two month shoot 7 previous season had concluded production, Baker and Ward his narration for the Nobel Prize programme. Ward had auditioned - almost as in Egypt. After the that their romance had not been a good idea, and had gone their a joke - for the role ofOphelia in the forthcoming BBC2 production of Hamlet. had agreed the pair had Assuming she would not be cast because she was "the Doctor Who girl", Ward separate ways as Baker departed for foreign climes. In late 1979, advertisements as the Doctor and Romana was amazed to win the part, and began rehearsals on Wednesday 19 December. filmed a couple of television for the Australian market. The debut serial for the new season was to be written by David Fisher, who advertising Prime Computers The Horns ofNimon brought Doctor Who had pitched a new story called The Psychonauts to Adams. This concerned On Saturday 12 January, Part Four the production office moved from time-travelling beings called the Nephilim (a demonic name in Hebrew to a premature end on BBCi. In London, as Nathan-Turner and Christopher mythology) who travelled in sleeping sarcophagi. Nathan-Turner opted to Threshold House to Union House John the foundations which would allow Doctor Who to revive an earlier notion of Fisher's about a futuristic holiday camp threatened Bidmead set about laying for protection money by Mafia-style gangsters. As such, Nathan-Turner be rebuilt for the new decade.

DOCTOR LUHD ITIPGRSinB Destiny of the Daleks

Are 'Friends' Electric? DUim HRCHIUE DWM 283

Waking after hundreds of years asleep, Davros was pleased to find he commissinmnG

could still play all his Basement Jaxx through his headset. Wed 20 Dec 78 Destiny of the Daleks

(W/T) scripts commissioned for Fri

delivered Fri 1 9 Jan 79; 26 Jan 79

By late 1979 I was 18, and the rose-tinted specs of my youth PRDDUCTIOI1 had been ripped offand crushed underfoot by a trio ofbully boys; Mon 11 Jun 79 Winspit Quarry, a would-be-TV-pro's technical curiosity, a young art student's Worth Matravers, Dorset (Cliff/ cynicism, and peer pressure from fledgling organised fandom, Rocky Terrain) whose collective opinion informed me that Terry Nation's Tue 12 Jun 79 Binnegar Heath Sand Pit, Wareham, Dorset (Nova writing was 'terrible'. Even Douglas Adams, my second great Test Site/Terrain/Rocky Terrain/ hero, later said to me, of poor old Terry, "Very nice man; can't Ruined Building) write for toffee!" Well, you can't expect all your friends, let alone Wed i3jun 79 Binnegar Heath your heroes, to see eye-to-eye, but it was a bit rich coming from a Sand Pit (Nova Test Site/ man with terminal writer's block! So it goes. Spacecraft Superstructure) that Douglas probably contributed more to We now know Thu i4Jun 79 Winspit Quarry Destiny than we guessed at the time. We spotted the in-joke of (Rocky Terrain/Excavations/ course; Origins of the Uniuerse, the book the Doctor reads, written Ruined Building) by one Oolon Colluphid, a character borrowed from The Fri 15 Jun 79 Winspit Quarry (Ruins/Rocky Terrain) Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The Doctor's taunt about the Wed 20 Jun 79 Visual Effects Daleks' inability to climb up the shaft after him and Romana's Department, Acton: Effects inserts jokey regeneration also betray Adams' touch. David Gooderson Mon 2 Jul 79 Television Centre had played the barman in Hitchhiker's, so we can guess Douglas Studio 3: Ruined Building, even had a hand in casting too. But according to Andrew Pixley, Underground Chamber, Section of the plot of the adventure as broadcast varied little from the Tunnel, Corridor and TJunction

original storyline by Terry Nation. So what did Destiny have to Tue 3 Jul 79 Television Centre

offer, despite any alleged shortcomings of its credited author? Studio 3: Open Underground Area, Small Room Firstly, June Hudson's white lycra and cigarette-quilting Sun 15 Jul 79 Television Centre Movellan costumes; impractical but sexy, especially on Suzanne Studio 1: TARDIS, Ruined Danielle and Peter Straker. Prototype Steadycam was employed, Underground Area at the same location re-used two years later in the Blake's 7 Mon 16 Jul 79 Television Centre episode, Games. Big Ron from EasrEnders and David Yip from The Studio 1 : Dalek Control Area

his story represents a crossroads, I believe, for Chinese Detectiue, were two of the slaves. It was directed by the Tue 1 7 Jul 79 Television Centre

Doctor Who, for Terry Nation, and for me personally. interestingly chaotic Ken Grieve, whom Douglas Adams Studio 1 : Spacecraft Flightdeck From the start of this season, Tom Baker's ego described as "a mad Scottish hippy". Grieve used a mirror seemed increasingly out of control, Nation apparatus in front of the lens to get lovely low angles from hudio Times T Sat 1 Sep 79 Episode One: The subsequently emigrated (this being his final script), the pedestal cameras, as the Daleks burst through the sugar- Doctor and Romana arrive on a and I went into the TV business shortly after visiting the set, glass wall. desolate planet, only to find that consequendy never seeing Doctor Who in quite the same light again. Lastly, there were the Daleks themselves; more than the usual they are not the only people Destiny had all the trappings of the great Dalek adventures; three, albeit with wobbly plastic casings and multiple repairs. At interested in the remains of an from the arrival the a mysterious planet ( - least they still murderously in control themselves, if not of TARDIS on were of ancient ruined city ...

of course!), meeting a bunch of slaves and potential allies, the situation. They certainly seemed to put the fear of God into Sat 8 Sep 79 Episode Two: The the traditional 'surprise' arrival of the Daleks at the first Romana, thanks to new girl Lalla Ward's lovely performance. But Movellans try to discover the cliffhanger, through all the and seek/ducking for cover/ digging Davros from the rubble was their biggest mistake. Of purpose of the Daleks. The Doctor has a terrible suspicion. escape and capture shenanigans, to the explosive conclusion course, there were rumours that I personally tried to sabotage the ^ and ultimate victory of the Doctor over his arch enemies. That's electrics ofDavros' chairwhen my friends and Ivisited the studio. what Dalek stones had been all about, as far as I was I was evidently unsuccessful. He dominated every bloomin' Dalek concerned, from my earliest childhood memories until the first story thereafter: "Until the Daleks' universal supremacy is flush of real fanaticism, aged 14, soon after , accomplished, I cannot allow myself the luxury of death." when I met my first hero, Terry Nation. Poor Davros. Poor us! innHMHunnn 9 Friday 19 January 1979: When Ken Grieve speaks his fingers play rapidly over a computer Front axial projection was used for the model was being booked to direct Serial 5J, it was keyboard. His image appears simultaneously on landing sequence, with the ship fitting into a noted that Granada was considering him to the television screen, overlaid with a rapid pre-cut polystyrene block beneath the sand. direct three episodes of a film series at the same series of flickering computer figures." In Visual effects assistant George Reed made the time, although Grieve himself was keen to do Episode Four, a speaking prisoner originally Movellan spaceship from Plasticard and four

Doctor Who. Grieve was booked on Wednesday warned Tyssan's group of Daleks advancing on fan blades cannibalised from electric heaters.

24 January to handle the serial between Monday the ship, but this was rewritten to be displayed

April and Friday August. The scripts were on the screen role. for 23 1 7 and save a minor speaking 9 Friday 8 June: Read-throughs the serial sent out to him on Sunday 25 March. took place and film sequences were rehearsed. 9 Friday 25 May: The Drama Early Warning 9 In the script for Episode Three, one scene on Synopsis for Destiny of the Daleks was issued. 9 Wednesday 13 June: Logan allowed Tom the Spacecraft Flight Deck had Sharrel conjuring Baker to detonate the location explosion The invincible Movellans - not upAgella's point of view on the large television 9 Visual effects designer Peter Logan destroying three dummy Daleks. Shope quite so impressive when you screen, with the Movellans wearing earphones: originally designed the Movellan ship to have Shodeinde was originally to play Jail, but was take their batteries out, mind. "Sharrel is sitting at his control chair. As he leg supports which would fold out for landing. taken ill and replaced by Penny Casdagli.

THE CfjmPLETE FOURTH DOCTOR Benson 17

production dates so that they could send 9 Hardback and paperback versions of the photographers to the recordings. novelisation Doctor Who and the Destiny of the Daleks were issued simultaneously, both with a

cover painting from new artist Andrew 9 Sunday 15 July: A hand-held camera was hurried used for cutaway shots of the debris falling Skilleter; with no visual material to work from, from Agella's point of view. Cutaway shots Skilleter based his composition on a publicity were performed of infrared shots of footprints shot of Baker from The Pirate Planet and generic

on the dusty floor, seen from a Dalek's point of artwork of some Daleks. Latterly, the book

view in Episode Three. became No 21 in the Target library. A German

edition, Doctor Who und der Schopfer des Daleks

in Germany 9 Monday 16 July: Visual effects assistant appeared from Goldmann Verlag Mike Kelt designed the exploding Dalek prop. in July 1990 with Chris Achilleos' 1973 artwork

for Doctor Who and the Daleks on the cover.

3 Thursday 19 July: Promotional material for the serial was issued. This focused on the 9 The repeats the following summer had far return of the Daleks after four years, the debut smaller audiences of around six million.

of Lalla Ward as Romana, some of the best

alien costumes of recent years - most C> BBC Cymru did not take the repeat,

spectacular' and the appearance of Suzanne instead scheduling various programmes such

Danielle as a 'glamorous alien'. as Taxi, Ask the Family and The Phil Siluers Show.

The serial was repeated in Australia in the late

9 Tuesday 21 August: Because of the 1980s. New Zealand repeated it March 1988

extensive post production, Grieve's directorial and May 2001 . BBC Prime screened the story in

contract was extended to Friday 7 September. October/November 1999. takes the chance to Merchandiser Denis Alan The Doctor 3 Friday 1 5 June: 'Nova Device Countdown and catch up on his reading ... Print visited the Dorset location and took & Incidental music recording took place at d The various photographs of Baker with the Daleks. Lime Grove Music Studio on Wednesday 22 and Explosion' sound effect from the serial was

& Sat 15 Sep 79 Episode Three: Tuesday 28 August. released by BBC Music on CD in May 2000 as The Doctor's worst fears are Ct Studio rehearsals began on Friday 22 June part of Doctor Who at the BBC Radiophonic realised, but he and Romana are First edits were broadcast apart from Workshop: Volume 2: New Beginnings. The serial and Friday 4 July at Room 502 of the BBC's Qf trapped deep underground, and the Acton Rehearsal Rooms. Episode Three which was a second edit. was reissued on VHS as part of Doctor Who: The Daleks are moving in for the kill. Saturday 8 September: The production office Dauros Collection for WHSmith in September Sat 22 Sep 79 Episode Four: The i Tuesday 26 June: Graham Williams wrote received a letter from PE Jenkins of Clapham 2001 . Harlequin Miniatures issued a Suicide Doctor and Romana face a terrible d spotted the 'Oulon Colouphick' [sic] Dalek figure in 1998 and a Movellan Warrior in quandary. How can they defeat to the Radio Times to point out that the Daleks who had the a Movellan model was produced the Daleks without unleashing a would open the new series on Saturday 1 reference to The Hitchhiker's Guide to Galaxy 2000; 35mm greater menace? September and to inform them of the on the book the Doctor read in Episode One. by Alector in 2001.

City of Death Voukz-Vous BU BHRU RUSSELL

mm HRCHIUE DWM 205

cnmmissiomn.6 Criminal Count Scarlioni. Fri 12 Jan 79 The Gamble with Time He's no oil painting, though, is he? (W/T) scripts commissioned from

David Fisher for Wed 14 Feb 79; delivered Fri 2 Mar 79 (Parts One How me a moment to explain - 1 have begged the and Two), Fri 9 Mar 79 (Part editor of this august publication to allow me to Three), Mon 12 Mar 79 (Part Four) discuss City, of Death. Widely, almost universally PRDDUCTI0I1 I'm assured, considered one of the pinnacles of

Mon 30 Apr 79 Denise Rene Doctor Who's success; a story lauded by fans Boulevard St Germain, Gallery, everywhere, most notably those between 25 and 35 for whom it Paris (Modern Art Gallery) has a twinge of "the time we grew up in" nostalgia. I only wish Tue 1 May 79 Place du Petit Pont, 1 understood why. Paris (Paris); Le Notre Dame You see, to get the good things out of the way first - obviously Brasserie, Place de Petit Pont, I acknowledge that it has many fine points, I'd be mad not to: Paris (Cafe) nice filmwork, justifying its Parasian setting; great acting (Julian Wed 2 May 79 Rue de Vielle du Temple, Paris (Chateau); Tour Glover is unbeatable, and die scene where Catherine Schell

Eiffel, Pare du Champs de Mars, impassionedly questions just who she has been living with all

Paris (Eiffel Tower); Muse du these years is one of the best sequences ever in Doctor Who); some Louvre, Rue de Rivoli, Paris good modelwork; and some cracking lines about violent butlers, (Louvre Museum) Louis XV chairs, stupidity and Paris telephone directories. Thu 3 May 79 Boulevard St But where it falls down for me is that it carries about it German/Rue Julien Le Pauvre/Rue an air of embarassment (and no, I don't just mean that St Jacques/Rue de Rivoli Boulevard Professor Kerensky's death is poor, and the primordial sets are St Michel/Avenue Des Champs if, often, the writer, producer and Elysses/Petit Pont/Place de la unconvincing). It's as every so Concorde/Jardin Des Tulleries, director thought, "hang on, this story is too good to waste on

Paris (Streets); Trocadero Metro, Doctor Who, let's water it all down with some silly bits." A nice Trocadero/Boisserie Place du moment it may be when the artist draws Romana's face as a Metro, Avenue Kleiber/Dupleix clock, but no one wonders why or what relevance it has. How Metro, Rue Auguste Bartoldi, come no one seems remotely concerned that a cafe has been Paris (Metro); Le Notre Dame patronised by men in gangster hats and turned-up collars, -i Brasserie, Place de Petit Pont, brandishing revolvers? And in what way does the imbecilic Paris (Cafe) #

OrjCTTJR LUHD rffRGRZiriE Duggan fit into this story? How on earth did anyone consider what else was on TV back then? Oh, nothing. Literally.) and I'd

him fit and reliable enough to be sent on the mission he's on? love to be one of the crowd and celebrate Cihj of Death as a

As a story, City of Death is indeed quite superb, but as a script, masterpiece, but I'm sorry, it isn't. It's fragmented, has

and as a finished production, it's let down by everyone except moments of grandeur and moments of farce (Cleese and Bron

Glover, Schell and Lalla Ward who is, at least, consistent. Tom are the Hale and Pace of their day but less relevant to the plot)

Baker offers no sense ofdrama, no sense of urgency. He tells us and moments where you just want to say "Oh guys, just try a little

that he's appalled by the Count's plot, but never does the actor bit harder and this really could have been superb." reflect this in his performance. Thus, if our hero doesn't take Of course, one could say that about a majority of the series

the threat seriously, why should we? over die years. It's just that very little Doctor Who is placed on

They say 16 million viewers can't be wrong (but let's face it, quite such a shiny, high pedestal for being so terribly average.

9 The intention with The Gamble with Time was Scarlioni was 'autocratic and severely suave' of the rewrites and the manner in which they

that David Fisher should produce a spoof of while Hermann was 'a tall, bearded man with a were achieved falls outside the duties normally

Bulldog Drummond in the same manner that The military bearing. Dedicated to the Count and expected, certainly of the script editor." He also

Androids of Tara had spoofed The Prisoner of Zenda. totally ruthless.' Originally, Duggan was 'the emphasised that there was no acrimony

Fisher's original idea was of Leonardo being a epitome of the English "Gentleman" who can between any of the parties involved.

pal of the Doctor's and the notion of a time look after himself. He is in his mid thirties'; this

traveller having more Mona Lisas painted. At was later changed to 'he is a rather down at

one stage, Fisher had the vision of three heel Sam Spade type, who thinks he can look

Leonardos painting away feverishly. The other after himself In this first version of the script,

inspiration was the notion of somebody waiting the Doctor comments that Shakespeare sprained

for the first creature to emerge from the sea his wrist playing croquet in Part Four. When

onto the land ... and stamping on it. imprisoned with Romana, the Doctor apologises

for shouting saying, "It's been a bad day." "You

$ Tuesday 1 6 January 1979: Michael Hayes didn't have to sleep in a cafe last night," replies

was booked to direct Serial 5H from Monday 12 Romana. When searching for Scaroth in the

March to Friday 6 July. Since The Armageddon past, Romana said this would be like "looking

Factor, Hayes had been directing a series in for a needle in the corn prairie." The two art

Scotland; he did not see the original Fisher critics were both male and referred to simply as

version of the script. 'One' and 'Two'. Throughout the scenes at the

cafe, 'Le Patron is serving drinks to other

9 When it became possible to film on location customers unconcernedly. It is a hallmark of his

in Paris and the setting of The Gamble with Time character that he remains totally unfazed by

needed updating to the present day, Fisher was anything that happens in his cafe.' The script

unable to do the rewrites; not only was he also noted that the Count often kissed the hand

committed to developing material for a new of the Countess which carried the bracelet.

Hammer television series, but he was going through various personal problems. Douglas 9 Thursday 22 March: Graeme McDonald Adams and Graham Williams performed the responded to Williams, indicating that he had

rewrite on The Gamble with Time between the read the replacement script within 24 hours as evening of Thursday 15 March and the morning requested; he found the tale "enjoyable", but H Monday 2 April: Although the scripts which Top: The Countess. A beautiful

of Monday 19 March working, effectively was still unhappy about such in-house rewrites. Fisher had delivered early in March "were not woman, probably.

without sleep, at Williams' house with some McDonald felt that the "basic idea" of acceptable" according to the BBC, Fisher was Above: Impressive model work assistance from Hayes. somebody meddling in history and the art world paid a quarter fee allowing the BBC to do from the end of City of Death. was the same plot as a previous serial with rewrites without further reference to him.

9 Adams reasoned out the tension in the "Dilys Watling" [sic] and Peter Butterworth However, on Tuesday 1 0 April it was agreed that 7f Tue 8 May 79 Bray Studios: k closing episode mounting from the Doctor's (confusing The Euil of the Daleks and The Time he would receive three-quarters of his fee and Model filming inability to get a taxi, and also that the only Meddler), and that the later scenes resembled royalties from the serial. The pen-name David Wed 9 May 79 Bray Studios: place the TARDIS could be parked without the 1964 museum theft caper Topkapi. Duggan Agnew, as used on BBC drama productions Model filming attracting attention would be in a modern art was felt to be a potentially irritating character. Inuasion assigned including The of Time, was to Thu 10 May 79 Bray Studios: gallery. Williams liked the notion that many of McDonald was also concerned by the number of the new scripts. Model filming da Vinci's scientific ideas had in fact come from people being hit on the head, and asked if the Mon 21 May 79 Television Centre Studio Ext/lnt Modern Art the Doctor, which tied in with the extravagant story could not be relocated to Britain. Finally 9 Hayes cast Peter Halliday because they 3: Gallery; Cafe claims that the Doctor made about meeting he suggested that there could be some fun with were old friends, having worked together on the Tue 22 May 79 Television Centre famous figures from history. The script of Part a translation box in a scene where the Doctor 1961 science-fiction serial A for Andromeda. Studio 3: Leonardo's Studio; One included references to the Randomiser as a meets Leonardo. Williams responded the Playing the Countess was Catherine Schell, who Command Deck of Sephiroth/ point of continuity to The Armageddon Factor. K9 following day commenting that the plot was was the girlfriend of one of Hayes' friends. Jagaroth Spaceship; Earth 400 was dropped, firstly because the prop would be significantly different to The Euil of the Daleks Hayes had not worked with Tom Chadbon Million Years BC difficult use in the rapid-moving to sequences with Deborah Watling, saying that he and before, and did not cast him because of any Sun 3 Jun 79 Television Centre planned for Paris, but secondly because he was Adams were also unhappy with Duggan as he resemblance to the character Tintin. Studio 6: Kerensky's Lab; Cellar not felt to be essential to the storyline. The stood, agreeing to reduce the concussive David Graham was cast as Kerensky because he Storeroom; Hidden Room Mon Jun Television Centre robot dog was referred to briefly in the script for element of the story and observing that there had worked with Hayes on When the Boat Comes 4 79 Studio 6: Scaroth Montage; TARDIS Part Two, but was not to appear in the finished was no masterpiece equivalent to the In; also, Graham's grandparents came from Shutter Screen; Kerensky's Lab for programme. Thus David Brierley, who had in Britain to make sense of the Count's scheme. Russia. Part Four; Cellar Storeroom for taken over Kg's voice with the already-recorded He also pointed out that it was the show's Part Four; Chateau Library/ The Creature the Pit, was not required. convention to speak modern English with from except 9 Douglas Adams had worked John Corridor for Parts One and Two when an alien naturally had no speech organ as Cleese briefly on some of the Tue 5 Jun 79 Television Centre 9 In the rehearsal scripts for The Gamble With with Erato (from The Creature from the Pit). projects in 1974, and, like Cleese, had written in Studio 6: Chateau Library for Parts

Time, the alien race was referred to as the partnership with Graham Chapman. On Three and Four; Louvre; Kerensky's Lab for Kerensky ageing 'Sephiroth'. Scaroth was described as 'Alien, £ Wednesday 28 March: BBC Copyright Wednesday 25 April, Adams wrote to Cleese green, with one eye to the side of his face and agreed with Fisher's agent that he would not after the pair had met over lunch at the Acton noma Times only a vestige of a nose and mouth. As far as he take a credit on the finished programme. rehearsal rooms - where Cleese had been Sat 29 Sep 79 Part One: The can, he shows tension and some cynicism.' Williams sent copies of both the Fisher original working on Fawlty Towers - and Cleese had Doctor and Romana visit Paris, Kerensky was described as 'short, fat and and his co-authored rewrite to Copyright, with a said he would be "happy to consider doing but what starts as a holiday turns benign' (later revised to 'short, slight and note that Fisher had agreed not to take a credit. something for ... Doctor Who". As such, Adams rapidly into something more benign, somewhat apologetic in appearance'), Williams also indicated, "I believe that the scale offered Cleese a cameo role as one of two sinister as cracks appear in tt

THE COITIPLETE FOURTH ETDR While reporters referred to da Vinci turning out

six more original Mona Lisas for a man/monster

called Sephiroth, at this stage there was still no

title for the story. Having declared that he and

Lalla Ward did not want to see the large party of

British journalists after a day's filming, Baker

ended up going off to dinner with them.

Coverage of the filming was offered to the Doily

Express, Daily Mirror and The Sun. The material

was embargoed until Saturday 5 May.

While filming on the 9 Thursday 3 May: Metro, Hayes was approached by a gendarme

regarding a permit - not for his camera but for

the camera tripod.

Bell of the Daily Mirror 9 Saturday 5 May: Jack covered the week's work in a piece entitled

'Who La-La!' In this, Baker explained how nice

it was to be able to shoot on location with

anonymity for a change since French television

did not show Doctor Who at the time. Bell gave

the same plot details for the nameless French

story as the other papers, as well as saying that

the Daleks were to make a return in the new

season. The Sun's Chris Kenworthy covered the

story of the gendarmes arriving when the

burglar alarm was accidentally triggered at the

art gallery on Boulevard St Germain while the

to mix-up with the cafes on Bank Holiday was English art critics ("we might see if we could The crew on the French shoot was kept a surprised reported by Alan Tillier of the Daily Mail. get someone like Alan Coren to do the other"). minimum, although Hayes' team was The scene would be recorded on Monday 21 or to encounter both Adams and Ken Grieve (the next The original recording schedule for the Tuesday 22 May and Adams felt "it would make director of Destiny of the Doleks which was 9 pub serial was entitled The Time of the Sephiroth. By for quite a stylish moment, particularly if no in production) who were in Paris on a long

in France at the the time of recording, sections of the camera prior warning is given to the viewers." Adams crawl. The team arrived script had had the name 'Sephiroth' replaced b) dosed by commenting, "Incidentally - and this Charles de Gaulle airport, and after registering start filming at the 'Jagaroth'. In the script, Kerensky's first name isn't meant to be bribery (alright, yes it is) - if at the hotel, dashed off to

first was marred was given simply as 'Theodor'; 'Theodor Cynthia [Cleese's daughter] is a Who fan and first location. Work on the day pair red shoes to be Nikolai' was an ad-lib from David Graham. would like to come to the studio and see some by the fact that a special of - missing, and the Each studio day had recording from 2.30pm to of the monsters - like Tom Baker for instance worn by Lalla Ward went

blamed which caused their 5.1 5pm and then from 7.30pm to 1 opm. then I'll happily arrange that." actress James relationship to sour. Baker reverted to his grey

his maroon one Tuesday 8 May: The serial was retitled City £ Thursday 26 April: Cleese replied to Adams coat for the serial (having worn O a small Death. saying that the cameo "sounds great fun" and in The Creature from the Pit) and sported of confirmed that Tuesday 22 May was a good day lapel badge of a painting palette to emphasise knew Thursday 10 May: The final shooting at for him as he would be at Television Centre the artistic nature of the story. Hayes 9 his on the BBC Bray Studios included the shots of the live chid editing Rot (aka Bosil the Rot) the final episode about filming in Paris from days pay against a black background. Lighting cameramai of Fau/lty Towers, the recording of which had detective series Moigret and wanted to Chorode in Nick Allder, an old colleague of Scoones, been delayed by strike action and which was homage to the 1963 romantic thriller sequences. played a joke on him by arranging for black being recorded on Saturday 19. and Sunday 20 the location chicks to be delivered, knowing that these May. "Your bribe to Cynthia is accepted," he would not show up against the background. commented, adding, "If you do get Alan £ Wednesday 2 May: Williams contacted the Friday 11 it was noted that an extra lot about art unit from London and indicated that the material On May, Top: Despite being an evil alien Coren, I do know that he knows a registered well half day of effects filming was needed to intent on destroying all life on and might well come up with some good filmed at Notre Dame had not should be reshot; complete the chicken and egg film montage. Earth, Scaroth did like his lines." In a PS, he added, "What about enough on the rushes and

regular cup of tea at 4pm. Jonathan Miller or Alan Bennett?" On Friday 27 production unit manager John Nathan-Turner necessary and Rehearsals for the studio sessions ran April, Adams sent Cleese a production persuaded him that this was not 3 Above: The Doctor tries to beat 1 1 and Thursday May at Dalek story which the unit's time was better spent elsewhere. The from Friday May 24 David Blaine's 'hanging about schedule, marking the Rehearsal Rooms in Eiffel Tower was the second location on this day. Room 202 of the BBC on top of a pole' world record. Cynthia was welcome to come and see. still felt that the script Hayes wanted to open on a close-up of Doctor and Acton. Baker and Ward rehearsals, and made many - possibly in Romana and then do an impressive zoom back was weak in 9 It was apparently Lalla Ward of suggestions to strengthen it. They were very collusion with Tom Baker - who suggested the to show them on the Eiffel Tower in the midst camera confident indeed that they knew what was best idea of Romana wearing a schoolgirl outfit. Paris, and to this end hired a 600mm for the show and the most fun for the viewers. Throughout her time on the series, Ward lens which he and his son used in a dry run of day admits to generally bossing the costume the shot during their recce. However, on the Thursday May: Williams wrote to designers about. She had disliked the dress of filming, the lens supplied by the Spanish hire 9 17 like to credit fit to the BBC film camera and McDonald saying that he would i designed for her on The Creature from the Pit, and company did not on the and as 'Helen rejected the initial designs offered to her by the shot had to be abandoned. Shooting Swanetsky' and 'Kim Bread'; this was the costume designer Doreen James for the Paris Eiffel Tower was tricky because of mist, but by plagued the team suggestion of Cleese who wanted minimal story. Ward went to Williams and explained mid-day the drizzle which had at the promotion for his appearance in case it turned that she wanted outfits that both reflected the that morning was clearing. After filming the the programme into 'The John Cleese Show', a eccentric side of her character's personality, Louvre, the early evening was spent back to for notion which Williams agreed with. while also being something which the children Eiffel Tower where Baker and Ward posed series to would find amusing. As such, the school-girl photographers and promoted the in Paris was the first C> Monday 21 May: With spare time available outfit was passed - with nobody considering journalists. The filming of in studio, Cleese and Baker larked about on thf the sexual/Lolita connotations of the Doctor's chance that the press had had to get shots

photocall in February. art gallery set during recording. One short assistant being clad in this manner. Lalla Ward since her initial door According to some accounts, this irritated Baker. scene had Cleese knocking on the TARDIS Doctor Tancredi threatens the and delivering a video recording unit to the & When the location filming took place, there Plenty of plot details were available to the press with his tickling feather. to start in September. Doctor from 'Doug Who' (a mysterious figure i was no title for the serial on the film schedule. for the new season due

3 CTfJR WHO mnGRZIflE .

the BBC Videotape department). The pair did broadcast on 27 December 1993, and Douglas another routine where Cleese asked Baker to Adams' computer game Storship Titanic in 1998). sign an autograph for his blind godson. When neither man had a pen, Cleese simply said, 9 Tuesday 10 July: Ward donned her ..." "Never mind, I'll tell him you signed it schoolgirl outfit again for the BBC publicity

These items ended up on the Good King Memorex postcard photocall. Unused shots of Ward had video assembled by BBC Engineering as a the actress adopting a variety of expressions,

Christmas tape. and even thumbing her nose at the camera.

H Tuesday 22 May: Freelance sculptor John C) Tuesday 24 July: The Promotional Friedlander was asked to devise the Scaroth Document for the serial emphasised the first mask from Ian Scoones' description of a 'mass overseas filming for the series and the of worms'. This had an air-hose built into it to strongest guest cast of recent years. make the gills move. The opening and closing titles were scheduled for the end of the First edits of all the episodes were evening. Graphic artist Eric Critchley produced broadcast. Part One had one minor edit, the the Mona Lisa props for the serial. end of the scene where the thugs summoned the Doctor's party from the cafe where the

9 Wednesday 23 May: The Drama Early Doctor commented to Duggan, "And it was your Warning Synopsis was released with the round too" (with reference to the glasses of

start working title City of Death. water) . Part Two lost a short scene at the of the Doctor commenting on the Gainsborough,

Rembrandt paintings in the (} Sunday 3 June: Recording on the linked sets Rubens and of Kerensky's Lab and the Cellar Storeroom was corridor leading to the laboratory as he, out of sequence, starting with the effects scenes Romana and Duggan were herded along by in Parts Two to Four and then going back to Hermann. In Part Three, the start of the scene cover the other scenes from Part One. with Kerensky regaining consciousness, seeing

dried blood on his hand and ruminating about dropped. end of the 3 Monday 4 June: After recording the Scaroth "Academic life" was The montage, the single scene with the TARDIS scene with Romana and Duggan trapped in the shutter screen was taped, after which came the cell was removed; this had Duggan saying that scenes with the masked Count in Kerensky's he has a crazy idea that the Count has

Lab and the Chateau Library. Two suits had to developed time travel, whereupon Romana tells be made for the Count since the masked him not to be silly and Duggan agrees that he Romana and the Doctor relax Scaroth head was too large to fit into a normal will be able to think of something more useful C> Thursday 18 October: The Radio Times billing in the city of love. (And death.) shirt collar. Recording then continued with in the morning. The end of the scene where the for Part Four did not list the appearance ofJohn scenes in Kerensky's Lab for Part Four and the Doctor returned to the Louvre was trimmed to Cleese or Eleanor Bron on the original broadcast. the fabric of time itself. Chateau Library for Parts One and Two. The remove the tour guide saying "That man! He yf of Sat 6 Oct 79 Part Two: Why does maid at the chateau was originally to have was in here yesterday talking about saving the 9 Friday 9 November: Viewer David Eagle an alien creature want to steal the been played by Val McCrimmon who had been Universe, now he is worried about the human Edinburgh wrote to the production office to say Mona Lisa? To find the answer to 'farcical' with over- an assistant floor manager on race! I think secretly he must be a Frenchman." that the serial had been this question the Doctor goes on a wrote to Cleese During editing, the reprises of Parts Two and the-top humour, and suspected that Adams and Planet of Giants. Williams dangerous quest through history. Four did not quite match the end of Parts One was responsible for this. and Bron to say that 'undue pre-publicity' Sat 13 Oct 7g Part Three: The dictated the use of pseudonyms in the Radio and Three. In the first instance, the recap Doctor stumbles upon the

Times rather than the on-screen credit. deleted a short scene in which the Countess 9 Williams felt that City of Death was the macabre truth about the Count.

rang for Hermann to ask here her husband was. most satisfying serial he developed since it Can he prevent Romana and Duggan falling into his clutches? began with the In the second, Part Three ended with a close-up ended upjusttheway he had envisaged; this 0 Tuesday 5 June: Recording Sat 20 Oct 79 Part Four: When the Chateau Library/Louvre sequence for the dry of the Count smiling at Kerensky's demise was partly because he had been able to select a truth of Scaroth's cataclysmic run of the theft, then covered the Louvre which did not appear in Part Four. story which he and Adams liked, and they had plans is finally revealed, it sends scenes and the material in the Chateau Library been able to keep the logistics of production the Doctor on one of the strangest Simpson liked the serial as the long under control. City of Death was the final serial from Part Three to Four; the ageing of Q> Dudley journeys of his career. Kerensky was done on the Lab set in stages film sequences gave him a chance to compose to be directed by Hayes, although Williams throughout the day. One of the tourists was to some substantial music cues. He delivered a had originally hoped that he would direct have been Monique Briant, the wife of director total of over 32 minutes of melodies featuring the six-part climax to the season. Hayes

Michael Briant, who had appeared in serials the cello and an electric piano. For the longer later worked on 1001 Niahts, Skorpion and such as and . music cues showing the Doctor and Romana in instalments of The Racing Game.

Paris during Part One, Simpson was inspired $ Friday 8 June: A gallery only session was by George Gershwin's 1928 work An American in 9 Australia broadcast the serial in 1980, held in TC8 to add electronic video effects. Paris; this allowed him to get a 'skyline' feel to with a repeat in the late 1980s. New Zealand

the music. originally broadcast it in November 1980, with

repeats in March 988 and May 2001 () Monday 1 1 June: Cleese wrote to McDonald, 1 saying that he was sorry to hear from Williams 0} Monday 24 September: Adams wrote a

it in and that McDonald had vetoed his joke credit of memo to the Copyright Department 9 UK Gold broadcast April 1994,

it times since in 'Kim Bread'. On Friday 15 June, a mystified confirming that there was a slight similarity have repeated many June 1 994 McDonald wrote to Williams saying that he had between City of Death and a 1976 short story compilation form. BBC Prime screened the heard from Cleese about the change of billing, called The Giaconda Caper by Bob Shaw. This had serial in November/December 1999. and asking "What is the joke about Kim been published in a 1979 Pan anthology called

Bread?" Williams responded on Tuesday 19 Stars of Albion and concerned Leonardo painting A Scaroth figure was issued by Harlequin re-released June, explaining "Cleese feels that 'Kim Bread' more than one Mona Lisa. Adams stated on the Miniatures in 1999. The serial was been on VHS in May 2001 by BBC Worldwide with a is a very funny name ... Whilst I hesitate to record that neither he nor Williams had disagree with a comedian ofJohn Cleese's aware of the story. photomontage cover. The BBC Archives retain D3 copies of the original two-inch videotapes. standing I must confess that seeing 'Kim Bread' appear on the screen would not have me rolling 9 Wednesday 3 October: Lynda Lee Potter about on the floor - perhaps that is why he is a wrote a piece called 'Who Likes Who' for the C> In the Cast section, Tom Baker was millionaire and I'm a lowly MPfi!" Williams Daily Mail. credited as playing Doctor Who on-screen. In the indicated that he had spoken to Cleese and who Extras section, some additional clarification is of now possible. Lewis Pirella and Harold Shields was now agreeable to the on-screen credit and Jj) Sunday 14 October: D J Durham 1 lack of billing in the Radio Times. (Cleese later wrote to say that he had spotted a ball catch on were Frenchmen in Cafe and Elaine Williams and Doctor Who saves the day - used the name 'Kim Bread' for his work on the the cell door in Part Two and Younger's Colin Thomas were Tourists in Cafe\ Michael watched by 16 million viewers! the Voice Gendarme Outside Louure. Last of the Summer Wine special Welcome to Earth Bitter being sold in the cafe in Part Three. Hayes was of

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n 17 The Creature from the Pit

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cnmmissianiiiE Lady Adrastra commands the Wolfweeds

Thu 16 Nov 78 The Creature in the to, urn ... roll feebly into action.

Pit scripts commissioned for Fri 1

Dec 78; delivered Thu 28 Dec 78 PRDDUCTIDH falls into the pit. The joke doesn't affect or influence the plot one bit. Wed 21 Mar 79 Ealing Film And you might not appreciate quite what they were up to I Studios Stage 3B: Pit Platform with those bandits. But that is mitigated by the delicious I Thu 22 Mar 79 Ealing Film Studios Stage 3B: Pit Platform, Egg Shell, performance from Lalla Ward as she gets the better ofthem. You

TARDIS and Shell in Clearing might think Adrasta is a bit of a vague stereotype. But is this I Ealing Film Studios Fri 23 Mar 79 really a problem when Organon is so delightfully written and I Stage 3B: TARDIS and Shell in played? Clearing, Forest, Palace Shrubbery There's certainly lots to recommend Creature. In fact, one of Mon 9 Apr 79 Television Centre the problems is that there is simply too much going on, pulling Studio 6: 1st Mine Passage, the audience every which way. Organaon's Cave in Mine, 2nd

Really Big Problems all the more I Mine Passage, Palace Ante But that makes the two - Room/Palace Audience Chamber obvious. I don't need to tell you, but since the whole story all I

for Parts One and Two those disparate elements - revolve around and devolve from the 1

Tue 10 Apr 79 Television Centre Creature itself, it's really quite a disappointment that it turns out I Tent, Palace Studio 6: Bandit's to be a green weather balloon with phallic appendages. And I Ante Room/Palace Audience someone really ought to have said: "Look, we can't possibly do I Chamber/Palace Doorway for A this, so let's not bother." A more 'traditional' creature would I Parts Three and Four not, after all, have made a significant difference to the story. Tue 17 Apr 79 Visual Effects other let-down is the ending. In fact, almost all of I Workshop: Model filming The final episode. get the final showdown with Adrasta, Wed 18 Apr 79 Visual Effects the We Workshop: Model filming and that's actually quite dramatic and exciting. Unfortunately

Sun 22 Apr 79 Television Centre there's still 20 minutes left and so along comes (the rather I

Studio 6: 1 st Mine Passage, Mine implausible) Plot #2. That in itself could work, but we're in I Gallery from Palace, 2nd Mine one of those stories where the last episode goes off at a I Passage, 3rd Mine Passage, Big disappointing tangent - an affliction that several otherwise I Cavern, Ante Room to Big Cavern impressive stories suffer from (Pyramids ofMars, The Hand ofFear, I Mon 23 Apr 79 Television Centre insert your own favourite ...). And not only that, but the horrible Studio 6: Monster's Passage, Ante creature is really a goodie after all - which is never an easy one Room to Big Cavern, Mine Gallery ore than any other story in Season Seventeen, from Palace, 4th Passage, Big The CreaturejTom the Pit is a story at odds with to pull off. Especially if you've already carelessly disposed of

Cavern itself. Like The Horns of Nimon, It has a witty the only other contender for Evil Villain. Tue 24 Apr 79 Television Centre and intelligent script, but is let down by All ofwhich is a huge shame. Because The Creature from the Pit Studio 6: Big Cavern, TARDIS some 'over-performance'. It has a plot that really is not as bad as people would have us think. There's wit rrhih Times hangs together well, but peters out in the last episode. It boasts and humour and whimsy, and drama and bleakness and even an a stunning realisation of a jungle planet complete with some element of horror ... This is the story, after all, in which the Sat 27 Oct 79 Part One: The plausible wolfweeds - and it has the eponymous creature. Doctor responds to the threat to kill his friend by apparency Doctor and Romana arrive on the very also plagues sacrificing his own life so she can live. And if that doesn't make planet Chloris in answer to a This schizophrenia of realisation (which ending, archetypal, defining distress signal which emanates Nightmare of Eden, of course) goes deep. There are caveats at for both a terrific episode and an from a very peculiar object. almost every turn. You might think it's silly that the Doctor can Doctor Who moment, then I don't know what does. So, my advice Sat 3 Nov 79 Part Two: The Doctor pull a mountaineering handbook from his pocket - followed by to you is this: Close your eyes when the Creature appears (or dive is trapped in the Pit, where he Part Four, and the Tibetan Phrase Book, pitons, hammer ... Or you might find behind the sofa), and switch off five minutes into for a very unpleasant prepares is quite and it the funniest thing since Duggan. But either way, it doesn't you'll discover that there really something charming meeting. With K9 incapacitated, actually matter - for all his improbable props, the Doctor still worthwhile about it all. Romana is defenceless against the

evil Adrasta ...

Sat 10 Nov 79 Part Three: Romana attempts to find the Doctor and

mysterious creature. Adrasta : I :l ! I 1 : i : the I H HH :iH clearly wants to find them, too,

but for very different reasons ... to make it 'breathe'. 9 Douglas Adams was on a six-month 3 Lalla Ward's correct title is the Honourable bladders Sat 17 Nov 79 Part Four: The attachment to BBC Radio Light Entertainment, Sarah Ward; she felt unhappy with this serial Creature is clearly hiding a dark not specifically Week Ending. since the character of Romana was still written 9 Thursday 1 2 April: Rehearsals began for secret. Can the Doctor uncover it very much with Mary Tamm in mind. the second studio recording; this and those for in time to avert the impending At the end of the original storyline, the the previous block had been conducted at the catastrophe? 9 Tithonians respond to a distress call sent by 9 For the role of Adrasta, director BBC's Rehearsal Rooms at Acton.

Erato's ship by dispatching a battle fleet to also considered Sian

paperback later became Book No 11 in avenge their ambassador. It was noted that Phillips, Maria Aitken, Caroline Blakiston and 9 The

the principle weapon of the female-dominated Judy Parfitt. the Target Library.

society on Chloris was a wooden harpoon gun with a serrated blade. The Wolfweeds O Wednesday 21 March 1979: Visual effects 3 Australia broadcast The Creature from the Pit were described as being sentient designer Mat Irvine made the Wolfweeds with in 1980 with a repeat in the late 1980s. New and tumbleweeds. assistance from Charlie Lumm. Zealand repeated the serial in April 1 988

May 2001 . BBC Prime screened the story in

December 1999/January 2000. The serial was 9 Monday 9 April: Visual effects assistant miniature version of released on VHS in July 2002 by BBC Worldwide Organon and the Doctor discover something Steve Bowman build the incorporated a light air with a photomontage cover. green, globulous and glowy in the pit. Erato which and

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Nightmare of Eden

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"Oh, come on, Doctor, don't be a spoilsport! commissinninG Wed Feb Nightmare of After all, you snogged Erato last week ..." 7 Eden (working title) scripts

commissioned for Mon 1 2 Mar 79; delivered Fri 9 Mar 79 (Parts One up, ofyou don't like Hitchhiker's ... 1 thought so!). (hands any who and Two), Wed 14 Mar 79 (Parts This story is no exception. Three and Four)

Far too often, Doctor Who goes out of its way to be strange and

creepy, or too sinister for its own good (the oft-mentioned crime pRonucTion Sun 12 Aug Television Centre of later years), and yet this story is grounded in the familiar - the 79 Studio 6: Corridor and Luggage cruise ship, the naturalists, the drug trade. After all, how can Section, Bridge Empress for Part there be terrifying events aboard a ship full of holidaymakers ...? One, Lounge for Parts One and While the monsters themselves, with their green-glass eyes and Two, Refreshment Point waddling Muppet Shorn poise, may not scare us, and while the Mon 13 Aug 79 Television Centre the most corridors our heroes run up and down may be about Studio 6: Lounge for Part Two,

wretched shade of yellow you've ever seen ... well, we've all been Bridge for Parts Two to Four, Eden guilty of being apologists for the bad special events and low Jungle, Capsule Television Centre production values of 'classic' stories for many years. Why should Tue 14 Aug 79

Studio 6: 1 st Class Lounge, Model this adventure not deserve our indulgence? shots That's what I mean about what lies under the surface. Is there Sun 26 Aug 79 Television Centre any more satirically funny exchange of pleasantries in the entire Studio 6: Passenger Pallet, history Doctor Who than the Doctor's meanderings about of Corridor/Elevator Area Galactic Salvage and Casualty? Can there be any more ingenious Mon 27 Aug 79 Television Centre

a story than a man spending his career protecting savage Studio 6: Corridor, Corridor to - creatures, only to sell out his own soul - and his fellow man Bridge, Corridor to Lounge, Door, because it's the only way to pay for it? Has there been a more Corridor Shuttle Bay Corridor by Sick Bay, Sick Bay ironic moment than when, on die brink of disaster, as the critical Ante Room, Power Unit, Dark systems fail, the clock ticks down and the day of reckoning Room (Hecate), Corridor (Hecate), appears to be at hand, Romana asks for a screwdriver? You may call Ante Room to Shuttle Bay, Shuttle it banal, or maybe even silly; I call it great writing. Bay, Auxiliary Craft Doctor Who works best when it's clever, and this is the great Tue 28 Aug 79 Television Centre irony of the era in which this story falls: we can't see past the Studio 6: Corridor to Power Unit,

comedy, so don't notice how brilliantly clever the stories are. Tom Corridor, Elevator Area, Blurred silly Zone, Corridor by TARDIS t's not as difficult as you might think to defend a Baker was the most popular Doctor because of his sense of

adventure, not in spite of it. Romana was a popular companion story universally dismissed for a few lapses of good nnnin Times judgement - "my arms, my legs, my everything!", the because she often found herself in situations that were beneath Sat 24 Nov 79 Part One: Two ships outrageous accent of naturalist Tryst, and those awful her, but never once (at least, not after her first adventure) did she collide in space - but that is the flaired alien leggings. You see, to scratch the surface of fail to thrust herself into the thick of things, head first. least of their problems. The Doctor is discover And that is what makes Nightmare ofEden work. Tom Baker has Nightmare of Eden, my favorite Doctor Who story ever, to and Romana arrive to discover juvenile attacked by the one of the most cleverly satirical stories in the programme's long a momentary lapse into the when that something very sinister is Lalla never looks ran: one of wit, sarcasm, petulance, a tinge of morality and a Mandrels, but at least he's having a ball. Ward happening on board the cruise

whole lot of spirited adventure. bored; she attacks the script with verve. Yes, it's unfortunate that liner Empress. bottle, Sat 1 Dec Part Two: What Yes, it's an anti-drug crusade disguised as a tale of David Daker's Captain Rigg is befuddled with a squirt and 79 danger lurks inside the unstable preservationism, and yes, the moral of the story runs only skin the ramifications of his fall from grace are never adequately matter zones? The Doctor is threat- to the deep. But to dismiss it for not going far enough, in much the explored, but we can quickly forget about that and move on ened on all sides, but by whom? frighteningly silly, but same way one lambasts it for going too far over the brink, is to next bit. And yes, Lewis Fiander's accent is Sat 8 Dec 7g Part Three: The Doctor although Nightmare Eden may be let's face it: would we want it any other way? give it far too little credit. For o_f and Romana brave the terrors of Eden is great, high-spirited, intriguing the pinnacle of the Graham Williams/Douglas Adams years, Simply put, Nightmare of Eden. Which are the greater danger

there is often grandeur to be found in their accomplishments fun ... and I still think that's the point of Doctor Who. - the Mandrels in the projection

1 1 I : I : I H : 1 i ^ ; 1 1 : i :

Colin Mapson made both the Empress and 9 Friday 6 April: Production unit manager specially recorded by producer/director Tim Hecate from carvings covered in John Nathan-Turner requested an extra studio Simmons in a Presentation Studio at BBC models wood plastic; the Empress was based on day for Serial 5K to take place on Sunday 1 Television Centre from 4.15pm to 5pm. vac-formed

1930s. It August, and cancelled the location shoot an American luxury train from the shoot these scenes at Bray planned for the last week of u ly. Tuesday August: The 35mm film had been planned to J 9 14 provided by World Backgrounds for the CET Studios, but Graham Williams was keen to cut

in studio. The other visual 9 Wednesday 18 April: Alan Bromlywas projections was originally shot for the Gerry and costs by doing them effects props were made by Mapson and his booked to direct the serial between Monday 4 Sylvia Anderson series Space: 1999. Tryst's Chris Lawson. June and Friday 28 September. demonstration showed the surface of assistant from New Adam, New Eue, Ranx was the surface Wednesday August: With regards the 0 Wednesday 27 June: The Drama Early of the planet Piri from the episode Guardian of 9 15 informed Warning Synopsis was issued for the serial. Don Piri, while Gidi was the ravaged world of Terra model shots on videotape, Williams

Henderson was considered to play Dymond, Nova seen in the episode Matter of Life and Death. Graeme McDonald that during the evening recording session the team "achieved better with Jack Shepherd as a candidate for Tryst. The Doctor senses that the true There was a 5-minute over-run in studio results than we could have expected from five & 1 villain of the piece is close by ... recording. Visual effects designer days filming on the model stage. The results 9 Thursday 9 August: The season trailer was to complete

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Baker's temper was not improved by problems 9 The gallery only work in TC3 on Friday 31

with the sliding lift doors. August was abandoned because of an asbestos

scare. It was completed in two other sessions

Monday 27 August: Tensions on the studio on Sunday 2 September {studio not known) floor increased as Bromly talked the cast and on Sunday 23 September in TC6. Editing

through their performances on the sets in a was scheduled for Tuesday 4, Wednesday 5,

manner which gave them no creative latitude Friday 7, Monday 10 and Wednesday 12

as performers. As the cast started to ignore September, with an extra day allocated on

him, Bromly began to raise his voice and Friday 28 September. First edits were broadcast

directed the remainder of the rehearsals from of all the instalments apart from Part Three

the studio gallery rather than the studio floor; which was a second edit.

he than changed his mind on scenes rehearsed earlier that day. Finally, towards the ^ Music recording for the serial took place

end of the afternoon recording, Baker asked on Thursday 27 September and Friday 5

"Is there a director up in that gallery or just a October at Lime Grove Music Studios. On the

commentator?" Bromly descended to the first session, the team was unable to use the

studio floor and engaged in a row with Baker, lifts to get the instruments into the studio on

with Williams mediating. time and lost 40 minutes recording; as such, the taping was incomplete and had to be 9 Tuesday 28 August: Technical faults caused finished in the subsequent session. the production team to lose 45 minutes of studio time; as a result, recording over-ran by O Thursday 11 October: The Promotional 30 minutes. Material for the serial was issued to the press.

Mandrel figures were issued by Harlequin 9 Friday 31 August: Williams sent a memo to £ McDonald about Alan Bromly's departure from Miniatures in 1998 and 1999.

the serial. Bromly had been unpopular with the

cast and crew. In Williams' opinion the results Q) Australia repeated Nightmare of Eden in the

and Zealand did so in The Doctor in danger of losing were, by common consent, of such a high he achieved did not justify his methods and the late 1980s, New

. screened the story his 'everything' on Eden. standard that this might well become the producer was no longer able to support him. It May/June 2001 BBC Prime serial was accepted way of achieving such model shots in was agreed that Bromly would have no further in January/February 2000. The or the humans outside? by ~X the future." involvement with the serial which Williams released on VHS in January 1999 BBC Part Four: The Sat 15 Dec 79 himself would take over. Williams also wrote to Worldwide with a photomontage cover. battle against the Mandrels d Sunday 26 August: The atmosphere in the other departments, thanking them for their reaches its climax, but the Doctor Daker as Kigg is studio was very tense and there was already work in difficult circumstances for an 9 In the Cast section, David has other does to catch. Will they friction between Tom Baker and Bromly. 'unappreciative director'. only in [1-3]. IH be unmasked in time? The Horns of Nimon Reasons To Be Cheerful BH BRHHHIII DUFF DUim HRCHIUE DWM 247 commissiDninB Soldeed demands to know who's stolen the head from his favourite broom. Fri 23 Mar 79 Horns of Nimon (W/T) scripts commissioned for Mon 30

Apr 79; delivered Fri 4 May 79

PHDDUCTIOII he one thing The Horns of Nimon doesn't lack, is self 1 Unknown Ealing Film Studios: confidence. The script has a cheeky, last day of Model explosion school tone, with former script editor Anthony Read Mon 24 Sep 79 Television Centre shamelessly deploying such sci-fi starter-pack lines Entrance to Nimon's Studio 3: T as "After them, you fools!", "Take me to your leader" Complex on Skonnos, Soldeed's and "You are all doomed! Doomed!!" Laboratory and Corridor, Skonnon Things quickly become giddily self reflexive with the Doctor Council Chamber referring to his "running around the universe saving planets." Tue 25 Sep 79 Television Centre - and Romana now possess His 'n' Hers sonic screwdrivers, Studio 3: Nimon Complex He Larder/Corridors K9 has developed the ability to clear his throat and it's the

Wed 26 Sep 79 Television Centre TARDIS console which wears the Doctor's broad brimmed

Studio 3: Nimon Complex hat. Unfortunately this overconfident fondling of the show's Central Chambers, Model iconography only serves to nudge us outside of the drama. sequences - Quite how a once-powerful empire like Skonnos could be so Sun 7 Oct 79 Television Centre savagely reduced to what appears to be the set of The Cliff Richard Studio 6: Model sequences, Flight Show is unclear. As depictions of alien worlds go, Skonnos looks Deck of Spaceship, Hold (2), Hold as if at any moment The Dr Who Dancers might skip into view. (1), Spaceship Companionway for - enough in Part One Then there's the Nimons beings who talk eloquendy

Mon 8 Oct 79 Television Centre company, yet elect to growl gruffly to themselves whilst walking Studio 6: Flight Deck of Spaceship, alone down corridors. Hold (2), Hold (1), Spaceship And what about 's Soldeed? A performance Companionway for Parts One and so big, scientists say it can be seen from the moon. Yet Crowden Two, Crinoth Complex - Central is a fine character actor, who's filmography consists almost Chamber/Shuttle Point exclusively of must-sees and fascinating cult items. For proof of Tue 9 Oct 79 Television Centre Crowden's true prowess, check out his portrayal of a range of Studio 6: TARDIS, Crinoth characters in 's peerless trilogy If..., 0 Lucky Complex - Larder, Corridor ^ Man! and . Let us not forget that Crowden had

DCTQH LUHD mRGBZinE been considered for the role of the Doctor when Pertwee hung up from John Bailey, atmospheric lighting and yet another perfectly- his opera cloak. (It's intriguing to imagine a parallel world where realised score from Dudley Simpson. Crowden plays the Doctor, Tom turns in a portrayal of Soldeed Which brings us to the biggest sacrifice of all. For The Horns of which is no less nutty, and The Dr Who Dancers get their own Nimon is the moment when Doctor Who exits the 1970s. Simpson's spin-off series.) controlled and dramatic scoring, Bernard Lodge's gloriously

However, despite its superficial silliness, here is a story with a psychedelic title sequence and Delia Derbyshire's flawless very dark heart indeed. A tale in which a group of children are to arrangement of the theme tune - three elements which be sacrificed to a being who "feeds by ingesting the binding contributed so much to the show's unique aura of mystery - all energy of organic compounds - such as flesh." There's the make their final appearances here. corpse which collapses into dust at Romana's touch, and the So, as the last scene plays out in a symbolically disassembled horror on Soldeed's face when he discovers there's more than TARDIS, Tom and Lalla celebrate the dawn of the glossy, glitzy one Nimon, whilst the scenes set on the dying planet of Crinoth 1980s by getting out the disco rope lighting. Now where are The have a strange chill all their own, thanks to a subtle performance Dr Who Dancers when you really need them? HiHIIlUJ^Hilii

9 Wednesday 28 February 1979: In the quickly and cheaply in the electronic studio 9 Friday 1 6 November: Designer Graeme revised storyline entitled The Horns of Nimon, rather than on film. However, the explosion of Story apologised to Graham Williams over the the TARDIS comes across an area of wrecked the Power Complex was shot on film at Ealing. use of some set elements from the serial on spaceships and small asteroids near the black Multi-Coloured Swap Shop. Story had loaned the hole, and the Doctor cannibalises these other Friday 21 September: The Drama Early items to a colleague assuming that they would ships to repair the stricken ship from Skonnos. Warning Synopsis for the serial was issued. be redressed and used in a different way.

"Lord Nimon! It is I, Soldeed!" It is Seth, the leader of the Aneth victims, who Monday 24 September: John Dixon was starts the ship too soon and departs for originally to handle studio lighting, but had to 9 Harlequin Miniatures issued a Nimon Skonnos with Romana on board. On Skonnos, be replaced by Nigel Wright when he was figure in 1998. Two bands of demonstration rhdid Times Sat 22 Dec Part One: With Romana is mistaken for one of the victims and called for jury duty. music for Part Two - covering the opening 79 the Tardis immobilised, the forced to enter the labyrinth known as the TARDIS scene and the rebound off the asteroid Doctor and Romana get pulled Complexity. The fundamental narrative was 9 Friday 28 September: Rehearsals began for - were composed by of the into a whirlpool in space. There is then very similar to the finished serial, the second studio recording, again at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop in late 1979, to give already another ship there - a although Romana is captured by the Nimon Rehearsal Rooms at Action. incoming producer John Nathan-Turner an ship with a bizarre cargo ... indication of the effect of a radiophonic score; and to be frozen along with Seth's group. She Sat 29 Dec 79 Part Two: The is rescued by the Doctor, whose manipulation d Editing was scheduled to take place on some elements of these were later reused by Skonnon ship heads home with its of the Nimon's controls forces her through a Friday 26, Monday 29, Wednesday 31 October Howell in his score for The Leisure Hiue and were sacrifices for the Nimon. But transference tunnel. Leaving Seth and K9 to and Friday 2 November. First edits of Parts inspired by tracks for his 1978 LP Through A Romana is trapped on board and the Doctor abandoned in the space unfreeze the others, he too travels along the Two and Four were shown, along with second Glass Darkly. The tracks were released by BBC whirlpool. space/time tunnel to Crinoth where he rescues edits of Parts One and Three. When it was Music on CD in May 2000 as part of Doctor Who Sat 5 Jan 80 Part Three: Can the Romana and encounters Soldeed's elderly discovered that Part Four still ran to 26'45" on at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop: Volume 2: New Doctor and Romana escape counterpart. Friday 16 November, permission was sought to Beginnings. The serial was released on VHS in

allocate the episode a half-hour slot rather June 2003 by BBC Worldwide with a

cut it further. photomontage cover. The BBC Archives retain 9 Friday 2 March: Kenny McBain was booked than any Below: "Give it back, you swine!" to direct Serial 5l_from Monday i6July to D3 copies of the original two-inch videotapes. Below left: the horns of Nimon(s)! Friday 9 November. O Music recording took place at Lime Grove Music Studio and was originally scheduled for 9 Saturday 29 December: Lalla Ward joined Below right: Romana gets to play at being Doctor Who for a day .... 9 In the rehearsal script for Part Four, Friday 2 November {for Part One), Saturday 10 Noel Edmonds as a Star Swap guest on Romana's reaction on arriving on Crinoth November (Parts Two and Three) and originally consisted of: "What ...? Where ...? He Wednesday 14 November (Part Four); didn't ...? He did. Oh help!" The final joke of the eventually the incidental score was recorded serial about Romana thinking the Doctor's "old on Saturday 10 November and Friday 14 girl" comments referred to her were added later. December. Dudley Simpson conducted seven

musicians; this was not a happy assignment as

9 Monday 25 June: It was decided that Serial he did not get on well with Kenny McBain.

5L would now have no live action pre-filming. 9 Wednesday 14 November: The Promotional $ To save money, visual effects designer Material for the serial was issued; the selling

Peter Pegrum indicated that all the required points for the serial were the futuristic sets and modelwork for the serial could be achieved costumes and guest star Graham Crowden.

THE ECHT1PLETE FDUFITH DQETDR -

n 17 section, Clifford Norgate is series Nimon with a photo of Ward in her Destiny of the St In the Cast 7f the dutches of the evil Multi-Coloured Swop Shop, discussing the billed as Voice the Nimon on Parts One and Nimon? Soldeed's plans approach with the young viewers on the phones and Daleks outfit from the August photocall. of Two; the Nimons were not credited in the Radio fruition - but what the Nimon's giving away various merchandise for the show. final purpose? in and Times for Part Three because of "a lack of space Clips were shown from Destiny of the Daleks O Australia broadcast the serial 1980 Sat 12 Jan 80 Part Four: Can the Zealand first this issue" as Williams was informed. In the Episode Two and the end of the previous repeated it in the late 1980s. New Doctor thwart the evil plans of the in February 1981 with Extras section, the Skonnan Warlords are week's The Horns of Nimon Part One. This also screened the story Nimon? Romana discovers the Prime referred to in production paperwork as allowed Radio Times to promote both Multi- repeats in May 1988 and June 2001. BBC ghastly truth ... 2000. Skonnidn Military Leaders. coloured Swap Shop and Part Two of The Horns of screened the story in February/March Shade To Cut A long Story Short BU HEU FOIMTMIl

Dium DWM267 cammissiomnG Professor Chronotis loses his mind ... Wed 18 Jul 79 Staff clearance requested for scripts; approved

delivered late July. Wed 1 5 Aug 79; dreary holiday in Devon. It was the one thing that didn't help PRDDUCTIOn me get through that tedious fortnight. Oct Scudamore's Mon 15 79 ... What? Of course I can remember being born you know Boatyard/The Backs/Clare Bridge, Oh yes... Cambridge (The Backs of the Midweek I met Douglas once when he was coming out of the Colleges); King's Parade/Botolph studio in Broadcasting House. He said 'Hello' to me. Of course Lane & Trumpington Street/Free radio series, a best- School Lane, Cambridge you know the rest. The 'Hello' became a (Cambridge Streets) selling Novel a computer game, and ... aaah ... at the time of

Tue 16 Oct 7g High Street, writing, is being adapted as the screenplay for a Hollywood Grantchester, Cambs (Country film, where I gather it's been rewritten as 'Howdy'. Road); Grantchester Meadows, As a matter of fact, Dougie said to me, 'Well anyone can Grantchester (Country/Field/ design an visible spaceship ... It takes real talent to design an Meadow) invisible one' ... 'That's as maybe sir,' he said, 'but you still have Wed 17 Oct 79 Emmanuel to blow into this bag ... What do mean read the words??? Do you College, Cambridge (College/Gate turn and read this whippet s—??? I mean, it's of St Cedds/Porter's Lodge); Free expect me to up there School Lane, Cambridge hardly f—ing Shakespeare is it? This little t— wasn't even sit here (Cambridge Streets) ... Here I am, brain the size of a planet, and I have to

Fri 19 Oct 79 Blackmoor Head reading this crap ... Do you know I was adored, adored! Yard, Cambridge (Cambridge

Streets); Garret Hostel Bridge, It is with regret that we have to inform you that the Federation of Aged Cambridge (A deserted back street Raconteurs and Thespians (FART) haue called a wildcat strike 01/er the in Cambridge), Round Church/ quite unreasonable demands on one of its members to stick to the words Trinity Lane/Portugal Place, page. Fortunately, by piecing together the pages of coffee- Cambridge (Cambridge Streets) on the stained script lying on the studio floor and by using a last minute Mon 22 Oct 79 Ealing Film Studios he might Stage 2: CSO shots replacement, we can put together an approximation of what

Sat 3 Nov 79 Television Centre haue said in his approximation of what the article might haue said ...

Studio 3: Think Tank -Main Chamber/Corridor for Part One, readers ... read from this? Ohhh ... Very well ... t is with great regret that we have to inform the of What Professor's Room for Parts One forever filed under 'unfinished that, due to a wildcat strike It's very apt that Shada is and Two to materialise on screen, conducted by the famously militant Trade Union for Misty- business', because when Shada failed Sun 4 Nov 79 Television Centre sixth story Nostalgia (TRUMPTON), sadly all Doctor Who fans expecting Season Seventeen's Studio 3: Professor's Room for Eyed Punditry of TV Oriented voice, 'But ... but ... That can't be! That's not Parts Two to Six, Door outside this piece on Shada was never actually finished. cried, with one hasn't jinished!' Professor's Room for Part Six Fortunately, taking the existing fragments we have, and using the end! It Nov Television Centre Douglas was such aaaaah ... a 'now' person, embracing new Mon 5 79 linking narration from an aged raconteur and thespian, we haue been Studio 3: Skagra's Brig; storytelling, oh yeeesss, grappling with the tepid heat able to piece together how the column might haue read if completed ... styles of Professor's Room for Parts Five to ofnew technologies, always doing new and interesting things, Six, Door outside Professor's all again, with one voice; 'But I was, sitting on so when he sadly left us, we said - I'll never forget not watching Shada. Aaaah there Room for Part Three, Think Tank That's not the end! You haven'tjimshed!' finger of Fudge and a bag of KP Outer Spacers in one ... but ... That can't be! Main Chamber/Corridor for Parts our sofa, the Douglas was, that even if he left us ... in the other, and there it I think, such as man Four and Five, Model sequences hand, and a bottle of aaaah malt when he was go, we'd have said 'You hauen'tJinished!' Thu 15 Nov 79 Ealing Film Studios wasn't. aaaah ... finished now, my dears? Can I just make Stage 2: Model filming Of course, once I'd not watched the story I just couldn't wait Have we Studios call before I aaaah ... depart? Fri 16 Nov 79 Ealing Film to get down to my local WH Smith and not buy the Target book. a quick phone

Stage 2: Model filming/CSO shots Hello ... Is that the DIY store? Do you sell Sink Plungers Ohhh yes, my dears, I vividly remember not reading it on a on ramp Mon 19 Nov 79 Television Centre - Studio 6: Abandoned session

Chris Parsons' Lab; Skagra's - Generator Room; Krarg Carrier IUE EKTRn Command Deck for Parts Four and Keightley and Chris Parsons took 'Spectrograph' for the benefit of the audience. Five; Krarg Carrier - Corridor Q) Wednesday 24January 1979: Michael Hayes 3 Clare Footlights Adams' dialogue in Part Two made reference to Tue 20 Nov 79 Television Centre was originally booked to direct Serial 5M from their names from Cambridge - -I Studio 6: Abandoned session President Chris Keightley with whom Douglas the Panopticon, Gallifrey and 'Rassillon' [sic]. Friday January 980. Monday 30 July 1 979 to 25 1 - Generation - Krarg Carrier Adams had previously written. In the script of The scientists on the Thinktank Caldera, Krarg Carrier Annexe; scene with Chris using the Thira, Santori, la and Akrotiri - were all named Wednesday 7 March: Graham Williams Part One, during the Command Deck for Part Six; 9 after Greek islands. Because of Williams' input booked Pennant Roberts to direct Serial 5M spectrographic analyser, Adams indicated that TARDIS; TARDIS Equipment Room marked into Shada, at one point it was suggested that between the same dates as specified to Hayes. the prop should be identified by a label Sat 1 Dec 79 Television Centre ^ 1 DOCTOR who mnopsinE he should receive co-credit with Adams on the finished serial. However, since both were

leaving the showing and Adams wanted to stay

in the writing field, it was decided to let Adams take the sole credit.

9 Friday 1 3 July: Williams wrote to St John's College, Cambridge, asking for permission to film there on two days between Wednesday 10 and Friday 19 October; this had been Adams'

college at University, but St John's declined

and Emmanuel was used instead.

9 Wednesday 18 July: Williams formally asked for Serial 5M to be a staff contribution written by Adams. Adams finished the scripts only days before Roberts joined as director.

9 Thursday 2 August: Graeme McDonald commented to Williams on Adams' scripts,

noting "This goodish serial seemed over-

extended to me." The scripts seemed short and

had long recaps. McDonald suggested that Romana could have romantic encounter with

the student character of Chris Parsons.

Q) Thursday 23 August: The working title of models of the Think Tank, the Krarg Carrier

Shddo was now in use on the serial. and Shada itself.

9 A recce in Cambridge was held on Monday 9 Friday 16 November: The Think Tank

17 September. On Wednesday 19 September, explosion was shot first for Part Five, followed location shoots were confirmed at Cavendish by the CSO scenes on the ramp to Skagra's

laboratories and at Emanuel College with the ship featuring the Doctor and Romana for Part

permission of the Domestic Bursar, Brigadier Three, Romana and Skagra for Part Three, and

N Elderkin; in for Parts J shooting was confirmed Skagra Two and One. Grantchester Meadows the following day.

Of Monday 1 9 November: Williams formally

9 Thursday 1 1 October: The scripts for Shada abandoned the afternoon rehearse/ record were formally accepted for development. session at 3.05pm.

9 Tuesday 16 October: Skagra's sphere prop 9 Tuesday 20 November: Because of the was two painted hemispheres of vac formed continuing lock-out from TC6, McDonald told

plastic which were very fragile. the team to abandon production at 10.45am.

9 Wednesday 17 October: Assistant K9 Q> Wednesday 21 November: The final set of two 50-minute shows to be slotted into the Top: Chris' game of charades

operator Steve Cambden filmed work in rehearsals began in Room 602 at Acton. Editing schedule for transmission at Christmas. wasn't going down well.

Cambridge with an 8mm camera on this day was to have taken place on Thursday 22 Above: The Doctor's TARDIS

and on Friday 19 October. November, and then on Monday 10, Wednesday By Wednesday 21 May, it was hoped that ^ lands back in Chronotis' study. 12, Saturday 15, Sunday 16, Tuesday 18, Thursday the series could be taped in two sessions in TC6 9 Saturday 20 October: The filming by the 20, and Friday 21 December. The cancelled and TC3 in mid to late October. For this, David ~% Studio 3: Abandoned session local BBC crew on Wednesday 18 appeared on gallery-only sessions had been booked for Brierley would be paid off and John Leeson comprising Skagra's Ship - Main the BBC East programme Weekend Extra. Friday November, Monday in voice Kg's dialogue. first 23 26 November would The day would Control; Skagra's Ship - Corridor; TC3, Thursday 29 and Friday 30 November in cover the TARDIS plus the Reception, Corridors Shada - Reception Area; Shada - 9 Monday 22 October: Williams requested a TC3 and Thursday 6 December in TC3. and Main Chamber of Shada, with the second Corridor; Shada - Main Chamber

credit on the final episode of the serial for day devoted to the Krarg Carrier. The second Sun 2 Dec 79 Television Centre Studio Abandoned session as Emmanuel College. & The model of the carrier docking bay was block would then cover Skagra's spaceship and 3: above made by Havard but never filmed, and the model cell on the first day, and conclude on the second Mon 3 Dec 79 Television Centre 9 Thursday 1 November: The BBC Drama prison cells for Shada were never built. Another with Chris' Lab and all the outstanding CSO and Studio 3: Abandoned session as Early Warning Synopsis was issued promoting unused prop was the Doctor's headgear for Part model shots. However, on Wednesday 25 June, above the guest stars and plot; this was still due for Six; a metal headband with struts leading up to a Nathan-Turner informed Williams and Adams screening from Saturday 19 January. cylinder containing a motor which revolved and that since the studios were not available, the Below: Clayton, Peri and Tom revealed coloured lights inside it. remount would have to be abandoned. celebrate finishing this Special. 9 Wednesday 7 November: A gallery-only day was held for scenes recorded in the first H Friday 30 November: Williams told Roberts 9 Cambden's 8mm home movie film of the studio session. to abandon Shada following a series of phone Cambridge shoot was included on the video The

calls at 1 1 .45am. At noon, it was agreed with Doctors: 30 Years of Time Trauel and Beyond issued

9 Thursday 1 5 November: Model filming McDonald that Williams and Baker would by Mastervision in September 1995; re-issued took place on Stage 2 at Ealing for various make "an official visit on the BBC's behalf" to on DVD in 2002. A Professor Chronotis figure model shots. Visual effects designer Dave Los Angeles. was issued by Harlequin Miniatures in 1999. Havard incorporated the curves of Victor

Meredith's set designs for Skagra's ship into 9 Dudley Simpson's music was to have been O In the Extras section, Nicky Ryde was a Girl his model designs which were made by his recorded at Lime Grove on Monday 24 Student and not a Lab Technician, the Executioner assistant Stuart Brisdon from wood, December (Parts One and Two), Monday 31 was actually A Hangman, and Leslie Bates

Plasticard and drain pipes. As a joke, December 1979 (Parts Three and Four) and replaced Derek Moss as Rasputin. In the Credits

Havard later added the left-spring moulding Wednesday 9 January 1980 (Parts Five and Six). section, John Nathan-Turner was only the from the suspension of a lorry kit to its rear as Production Unit Manager on the film sequences; extra detail. The large version was over two 9 On Wednesday 30 April 1980, incoming Kathleen Bidmead supervised the first two feet long, but there was also a smaller version producer John Nathan-Turner sent revised studio sessions. Similarly, James Gould was the and a section shown to dock with the Krarg scripts for Shada to Roberts to get the Vision Mixer on the first studio block; Sue carrier. Assistant Roger Turner made the director's reactions on a possible remount as Thome would have taken over for the second.

THE COmPLETE FOURTH DOCTOR rrrnR iuhd mPGRZinE Another One _ TT/fesTfie UusT

It was all change for Doctor Who in 1981, when a new producer, a new script editor, a new design ethic,

new writers and new companions made life difficult for an old Doctor. Andrew Pixley explores Tom

Baker's final traumatic year as a teleuision icon. Did he fall from that radio telescope or was he pushed...?

n control of Doctor Who for a new decade, producer John Nathan-Turner enter production, and while Aualon would begin the season, The Vampire I took stock of the series. Wary of current fan feeling and looking back Mutation would run fourth on transmission. The first of the new companions

I at tapes of some ofTom Baker's earlier serials, he felt that the series would be written into this story. Nathan-Turner wanted an impish, excitable I was more successful without the dominant streak of humour which young male companion aboard the TARDIS, whom Bidmead named Adric - an I the star had injected into more recent stories. Indeed, Nathan-Turner anagram of the quantum physicist Paul Dirac. Together the producer and script

studied the old tapes and scripts a great deal, and became aware of die interest editor came up with a character outline for the wayward orphaned Adric of the

in continuity of the increasingly organised body of fandom. planet "Yerfillag" which was issued on Wednesday 30 January. Nathan-Turner also wanted new writers to bring fresh ideas into the series. Bidmead was also thinking in terms of a linked theme for the season and With regards to the Doctor, the producer wanted to smarten him up and give developed the notion of the TARDIS becoming trapped in a universe with him an immediately identifiable 'uniform'. To replace Romana, Nathan-Turner negative co-ordinates. He also studied the incomplete Shada but, although he

wanted to get back to the young boy and girl pairing which he recalled with the liked it, he felt that it would be difficult to get a remount to tie-up with the companions Jamie and Victoria from the late 1960s. Part of the rebranding for existing material in the new style which Nathan-Turner had in mind. Going

the series included the logo, and Nathan-Turner asked BBC graphics designer back through submissions to his predecessors, Bidmead had seen some

Sid Sutton to come up with something to replace the diamond emblem which promising story ideas held on file from teenager Andrew Smith. Smith worked had been introduced in 1973 for the show's tenth anniversary. There would be intensively with Bidmead on a new story which would explore the concept of

anew title sequence to go with this, replacing the familiar 'time tunnel' effect; evolution and also introduce Adric. Bidmead took Adams' writers' guide from

illlis also meant that new images ofTom Baker's Doctor could appear in the the previous season and reissued a revised version of it as Doctor Who: Notes for

opening credits, since the existing titles showed a noticeably younger Baker New Writers or the Doctor Who Handbook. This included material on the Doctor,

from 1974. The notion of having an electronic incidental score composed by I1EUI PRODUCER JOHH-HRTHRH TURHER FELT the Radiophonic Workshop was tested by THRT THE SERIES WORKED BETTER WITHOUT having composers like Peter Howell and score sections of recent THE DOmiflRRT HOOIDUR OF RECEOT HEARS serials like The Horns of Nimon as a demonstration. When this proved both Romanafdvratelundar, aged 125), K9, atmospheric and cost effective, Nathan- Adric, the TARDIS, Baker, Ward and basic Turner invited the show's usual composer, production procedures. At the start of Dudley Simpson, out for a meal at the February, Stephen Gallagher began to

(Balzac Restaurant and broke the bad news develop his Dream Time idea about a group

that Doctor Who would no longer require his of slavers trading in time-sensitive beings.

^services. It was also decided that Howell The coverage of Doctor Who fandom in would record a new arrangement ofRon the media continued to grow; on Tuesday Grainer's famous signature tune. 29 January, the BBCi Southampton local

Despite all these sweeping changes, programme Hey Look ... That's Me! had Nathan-Turner saw himself as only presenter Chris Harris talking to devotees

'wanting to stay on Doctor Who for two years Simon and Francis Danes about

[most, and then move on with his first PantoptiCon and their home-made Dalek. [producer credit to his name. During this On Monday 28 January, Michaeljohn

period, his work was still supervised by Harris of the visual effects department Barry Letts who was then largely occupied informed Nathan-Turner that he was

as producer of the BBC classic serials. planning on making modifications to the

Although Douglas Adams was still K9 prop for the new season. Accompanied Nathan-Turner, photographed in his office theoretically on salary, practically he was by K9 (operated by Nigel Brackley and nthly shortly after joining the show in 1980. tied up on the radio and TV versions of voiced by David Brierley), Ward appeared The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and did on BBCi's Nationwide on Thursday 7

not perform any true handover. The story ideas which he had left behind all February to be interviewed by Hugh Scully about her illustrations for William

seemed very silly to incoming script editor Christopher H Bidmead. Bidmead Fairchild's book Astrology Jor Dogs which was being published that month; Ward

really wanted to attract high calibre writers such as , but none herself was currently recording BBC2's production of Hamlet. This was Brierley's

were interested in contributing to the series. Attending a London SF society final performance as K9. The actor was keen to make a physical appearance in

function, Bidmead made a request for hard SF stories; this resulted in author the new season; when Nathan-Turner would not guarantee such a role, Brierley

lohn Brosnan pitching the offbeat idea of the TARDIS landing in the car park turned down the offered contract and left to concentrate on other work. Nathan-

at BBC Television Centre and the Doctor and Tom Baker teaming up together. Turner decided to invite John Leeson back to provide K9's voice. Since leaving Fingers I On Wednesday 16 January, Lalla Ward was formally contracted for her final Doctor Who, Leeson had featured in Prince Regent, Blake's 7, Rings on their and

20 episodes as Romana, with Baker contracted for the entire season on Friday had worked on the children's puzzle series Jigsatu from June to August 1979.

18 January - two days before his forty-sixth birthday. The hastily commissioned Leeson was contracted for an initial eight episodes on Monday 11 February, the

scripts for Aualon were delivered by David Fisher, and retained much of the same day that Rain/or Danger, Baker's edition of Springboard, was broadcast on humour which Adams had encouraged and which Bidmead now wanted Radio 4 VHF. With a rather strange voice, K9 turned up on television again on

replaced with hard science. The storyline for The Vampire Mutation was also Saturday 16 February on Jim'll Fix It; lane and Joanne King had asked to be

delivered by Terrance Dicks, and went through a similar injection of science famous for a day, and K9 - along with the Nolans - was one of the celebrities

before being commissioned as scripts. These two serials would be the first to they met while filming at the BBC Television Theatre on Wednesday 6 February.

THE COmPLETE FODRTH DOCTOR M7 unveiled as the series travels Leisure Hive. Above: joins the show as ne ompanion Adric, and the series is given a new logo by Sid Sutt

commissioned two further outlines: Mark ofLumos by Keith Miles and Zanadin (an idea which had been discussed with Adams) from Peter Grimwade. Gallagher was commissioned for a breakdown ofThe Dream Time early the following week, followed by two further breakdowns on Tuesday 18 March: Mouth ofGrath from Malcolm Edwards and Leroy Kettle, and Farer Nohan by Andrew Stephenson. As the scripts for the new season arrived, Nathan- Turner and his team referred to Doctor Who devotee Ian Levine to advise on continuity references which could be inserted to please hard-core fans. Wednesday ig March, Nathan-Turner gave a party for the production With the programme prematurely off the air, sales for Doctor Who Weekly On at his home in Brighton prior to filming beginning for The Leisure Hive dropped. Kg was introduced as the Doctor's strip companion in Issue 17 team in the (the new title for Aualon) on the beach there the next day. Baker flew on during the story (which also featured previous Doctors), while a new discovered day from Sydney, and was both tired and ill. It was now that Ward popular character, Abslom Daak - Dalek Killer, was created for the back-up strip that while she had assumed her affair with Baker was over, the show's star had by Steve Moore. In mid-February, there was concern about a feature on Kg the left off. As a visual effects other ideas and intended that they should pick up from where which made it appear as if the dog had been totally created by Baker's attitude to Ward was decidedly sour in the coming weeks, and designer Tony Harding. This caused Nathan-Turner to ensure that Bob Baker result, Ward responded in kind. Production on The Leisure Hive was to be covered for a and Dave Martin received their correct credit on all associated merchandise Producer being - what rights over Kg. forthcoming children's book called A Day in the Life of a TV from Friday 15 February and also to establish who held comic strip The written by Graham Rickard. Then in Issue ig, the Doctor acquired a new companion in the

Star Beast; this was Sharon, a young black girl from the North ofEngland. exhausted Baker was unsettled in rehearsals; he now found making At the end of February, Bidmead commissioned a trial script for The Planet and Thethe series an arduous task rather than a pleasurable one, and felt he That Slept from Smith, and also a scene breakdown from John Flanagan had a lack of stimulation. Nathan-Turner was making his mark on Andrew McCulloch for Meglos, a story about a megalomaniac cactus recovering series in so many ways, including persuading the star to wear make-up an ancient power source. These were scheduled respectively as the third and the benefit. for the first time in years, pointing out that it was for Baker's own second stories in broadcast order. Nathan-Turner was taking a great interest in A reasonable working relationship was established between die two men, who the merchandising of Doctor Who, and on Monday 25 February issued a memo Power also saw a bit of each other socially; Nathan-Turner also liked to impress Baker in which he voiced his feelings that the covers for Doctor Who and the of returned Patrick with his knowledge of the series. Ward was delighted that Leeson had Kroll and Doctor Who and the Armageddon Factor were below standard. series, but was aware that Nathan-Turner was planning on writing Kg Stoddard of the Euening Neu>s announced the new character ofAdric as a to the out with her. This was another move away from the younger audience "cosmic Artful Dodger" on Tuesday 26 February. Having filmed his material towards whom she and Baker had focused the show. Ward was further aggrieved when she was offered a chance to join another ELiminnTE nnmnnn bsj the tiihe lords forthcoming television series which was to soon start

production, but Nathan-Turner refused to let her leave her contract early. for The Curse ofKing Tutankhamun's Tomb, Baker departed for another for Sealed Orders were commissioned from Priest on Monday 24 promotional tour ofAustralia, arriving on Wednesday 27. The scripts March. However, Bidmead was concerned about these and was holding The Also on Wednesday 27 February, science-fiction novelist Christopher Priest Dream Time in reserve; either show could then conclude the 'E-Space trilogy' of was commissioned to provide a story breakdown for Sealed Orders, since Darkness, serials and write out Romana and Kg. Another breakdown, The Dogs of Bidmead had read some of Priest's short stories and admired their creativity. was commissioned from Jack Gardner on Saturday 2g March, followed shortly As such, die storyline discussed with Adams was revived by Priest; this was Lords by the remainder of the scripts for The Planet that Slept. There was also a now envisaged as being the fifth serial in the new run, and in it the Time storyline about aliens in seventeenth century London entitled Invasion ofthe would give the Doctor orders to eliminate Romana in a time paradox plot. Ian Plague Men submitted by radio writer . Marter, who had played Harry Sullivan and written several Target novelisations, filmed a potential On Tuesday 25 and Wednesday 26 March, a crew from Blue Peter visited the production office on Tuesday 26 February to discuss a piece with presenter Tina Heath at Longleat House in Wiltshire, including a storyline with Bidmead. Marter was about to join his old friend Elisabeth spring-cleaning of the Doctor Who Exhibition in time for its Easter opening. Sladen - who had played - and Dicks in a trip to the Who-i Nathan-Turner travelled west to take part in the item, discussing forthcoming convention in Los Angeles that weekend. Nathan-Turner was intrigued by this season. The shops were still coverage; the stars' monsters and emphasising the length of the new and saw it as an excellent opportunity for some press with Doctor Who product. Goodies relaunched their Doctor Who Candy departure from the UK was covered by the Daily Mail on Thursday 28 February. filled Favourites. Other merchandise which started to appear included badges from Dicks also delivered his scripts for The Vampire Mutation - now entitled The Denis Alan Print, Kg sweatshirts and T-shirts from Miles Bros, keyrings from Wasting - before flying out. The guests were amazed at their reception in Enterprises, a police box telephone pad from A B & Son and a TARDIS tin America, doing various phone-ins and appearances alongside the convention. BBC Baker's features from Avon ... as well as underpants adorned with Tom The Flanagan and McCulloch scripts were commissioned under the from included British Home Stores! Associated items in the American marketplace working tide ofThe Golden Star, and on Friday 14 March Bidmead doctor luho moGnsiriE than-Turner felt the 1974 photo of Tom Baker seen he show's opening sequence was too outdated. :se shots were taken for use in the new titles.

were happy to let their rights for the Daleks revert

to Nation. On Friday 25 April, Nathan-Turner started organising a promotional event to announce the casting ofWaterhouse, and booked a "special

promotions meeting" for the series on Tuesday 13 May; these photocalls would become increasingly frequent, and Nathan-Turner was very keen to maintain a high profile for his show in the media. Filming on The Wasting began on Wednesday 30 April, the same day that Nathan-Turner made the

first attempts to have the aborted Shada remounted, son tfltt possibly to air as two special 50-minute episodes wJfoBb that Autumn. Waterhouse was introduced to the 111 press on Thursday 8 May, with coverage the following day in the papers including Hilary Bonner's piece 'Dr Who's Girl To Be Axed!' in The Sun; this claimed that Waterhouse was taking over from Ward. "Matthew Waterman" than appeared in

the audience for Saturday Night at the Mill on Saturday 10 May, chatting to host Bob Langley at the start of the show. £ L L Unfortunately, Waterhouse's arrival on the series badges from S Weiner and Ian Nicholl Enterprises; baseball caps, mugs and did not go smoothly. Baker was still feeling tired and ill, and failed to welcome

frisbies from Nightstar Corp and a 'Hard Rock Cafe Gallifrey' T-shirt. And in him, while Ward - who had made a specific attempt to meet the young actor

Japan, Hayakawa Publishing began adapting some of the novelisations. before he began work - disliked some ofWaterhouse's behaviour towards the By the end ofMarch, Nathan-Turner had found the young actor to play crew. By now, the sour atmosphere between Baker and Ward was noticed by

Adric. This was Matthew Waterhouse, an 17-year-old filing clerk at the BBC other cast members. With Baker becoming more and more morose, Ward who had worked on a forthcoming BBC drama series called To Serve Them All decided that she would get back together with him for his sake - much to

My Days. Waterhouse was a fan of Doctor Who - having penned the first reader's Baker's amazement. Ward later admitted that the situation had become quite

letter ever printed in Doctor Who Weekly - and was suggested to Nathan-Turner unhealthy, and this was a case of actors confusing reality with their roles.

by Jenny Jenkins of the Casting Advisory service, whom the producer thanked on Monday March. On Thursday April, Waterhouse was contracted for special promotions meeting took place at Television Centre on the 31 3 The between 20 and 24 episodes, with an option on 20 to 28 more to be made afternoon ofTuesday 13 May. On Friday 16, the Daily Mirror ran a piece between March 1981 and January 1982 which had to be exercised by the end on Waterhouse who confirmed "I've been a Dr Who fan for years".

ofOctober 1981. However, Equity, the actors' union, took a dim view of non-professional actors

The Blue Peter feature on Longleat was being cast as regulars in television

screened on Monday 3 April. The series, a fact communicated to Nathan- following Monday, a Dalek appeared on Turner by BBC Artists Contracts on James Burke's science programme Thursday 22 May. In the meantime,

The Real Thing, performing a theatrical Nathan-Turner proceeded with his plans audition in the programme The Memory for the Shada remount for the Autumn,

Lingers On; Terry Nation's agent, Roger and on Wednesday 21 May, Brian Eastman Hancock, raised an objection to die item. of Paramount expressed interested in a Two more breakdowns were Doctor Who feature film, using the Dr Who commissioned on Monday 10 April; and the Krikkitmen oudine which Douglas

The from lecturer and playwright Adams had reworked. At this time, there Christopher Bailey, and Soldar and the was also interest in the movie rights

Mastoids by John Bennett. The scripts for from a group led by Chris Morgan, and

The Planet That Slept were soon delivered, by Don Gallagher ofMotor Records along with the oudine for The Kinda, a whose plan was to develop an outline by

story which reworked Buddist parables Terrance Dicks.

in a tale of colonisation on an alien Ward's appearance in Hamlet, which world. The scripts for The Dream Time had been recorded in early February, was were also commissioned as a possible broadcast on BBC2 on Sunday 25 May.

teplacement for Sealed Orders. Bidmead Reprints of the TV Century 2 1 comic strip was concerned about the drafts The Daleks began in Doctor Who Weekly

submitted by Priest, who lacked TV from Issue 33, while BBC Copyright experience. Tensions grew between asked the production office if they writer and script editor after Bidmead wanted the BBC to keep its rights to the te-edited some of the script, and in April Daleks on Tuesday 3 June. it was Priest who decided to withdraw from the project. The Dream Time There was more media attention on K9 in the coming weeks. The dog replaced it as the fifth serial of the season. appeared on BBCi's What's On Wogan? asking dog trainer Barbara Woodhouse

Meanwhile, the British media was showing more interest in the growing to teach him a three-point turn on Saturday 31 May, and then attended cult around the series, with the Daily Mail running a piece on the recent Los Montradex, a trade show run by West Midlands Computer Services, for three

Angeles convention on Saturday 12 April. A single entitled Dalek I Love You days from Tuesday 3 June. Hilary Bonner ofThe Sun was the first to break the

(Destiny) was released by Dalek I on the Backdoor label during April. The rumour of Kg's impending departure on Saturday 7 June, asking 'Will the cruel Daleks appeared in the Doctor Who Weekly comic strip from Issue 27 in the Beeb really kill K9?'. Nathan-Turner was quoted as saying that the dog would story Doctor Who and the Dogs of Doom. However, with the show off the air, sales be rested from some of the forthcoming episodes, and that the final serials had for the tide were now flagging and Marvel prepared to revamp the tide along still to be written. The Sun rapidly launched a 'Save K9' campaign. Indeed, on cheaper, more juvenile lines. The Daleks also turned up as a married couple Tuesday 10 June, Bob Baker and Dave Martin contacted the production office to

(played by David Jason and Sheila Steafel) in Life mith the Daleks, a sketch written ask if it was true that K9 was being dropped. There was then further coverage by Andy Hamilton for the comedy show The Jason Explanation of . . . Progress which of this story in The Sun on Thursday 12. On Monday 16, Nathan replied to Baker aired on Thursday 17 April (recorded Thursday 14 February). The Daleks were and Martin confirming that Kg was leaving, but asking them to keep this quiet. also the subject of correspondence between the BBC and Roger Hancock on On Monday 9 June, BBC Enterprises replied to Hancock that the BBC Tuesday 22 April, when Hancock approached the Corporation to see if they did not want to sell its rights to the Daleks, Nathan-Turner complained to

THE CdlTlPLETE FOURTH CTDR out to see if they were interested in recreating their roles as Leela and Sarah, The Outlers take control of with the intention that one of these popular characters could be reintroduced

in Baker's final season and then remain on hand in the first few serials of the Neither were interested in the offer. WH Allen about the colour of the TARDIS on the cover of Doctor Who and the new Doctor. Tuesday 1 July, Nathan-Turner confirmed to Bob Baker that K9 would be Keys ofMarinus, and Bidmead wrote to Christopher Bailey saying that a script On in January 1981. However, the producer commission for The Kinda would be deferred while the production office leaving the series alongside Romana another popular character, and admitted worked out a new regular character. On BBC2 that day, the comedy music was still concerned about losing yet not as well without K9, then the Mark 1 version left show The Innes Book 0/ Records included UFO Shanty, a tune in which a Black-and- that if the format did work notice". At the same time, the White-Minstrel version of Baker's Doctor arrived in the TARDIS to sing a song on Galliftey could be "picked up at a moment's pursuing the idea of Australian co-production of some serials in ("I was warping my way through the heavens/From a party in Galaxy 3"); this producer was publicity tours and the positive reaction to the overseas had been filmed on Saturday 1 September 1079 at Buxton in Derbyshire. the wake of Baket's During the second week of June, Barry Letts was officially appointed as work in the highly publicised Cinj of Death. executive producer on the series to oversee Nathan-Turner's work. Bidmead triumphantly claimed that they had saved K9 in an article by issued a memo - The Doctor's Adventures in E-Space - explaining the season's he Sun Saturday 12 July; in fact, Nathan-Turner had simply linking narrative on Thursday 12 June, and on Friday 13 commissioned a Jenny Wade on commented that the dog would be in 20 of the 28 new episodes. On story breakdown for Psuchrons by Terence Greer (which was still under active T recorded an edition of the BBCi children's request show consideration as late as Thursday 23 April 1981). Monday 14 July, Ward actress confirmed that she enjoyed On Wednesday 25 June, Nathan-Turner wrote to Graham Williams and Ask Aspel at Television Theatre; the discussed her career while answering viewer's Douglas Adams to inform them of the final fate of Shada. A lack of studio performing for children and letters. was broadcast the following day. availability in the autumn meant that it had not been possible to complete the The programme had sounded out other writers for potential story ideas, serial as two 50-minute specials, and the story would have to be abandoned Since May, Bidmead including John Gribbin, Richard Sparks, James Follett (who had revived his once and for all. By now, The Golden Star had been through various title changes, David Tebber. Kg and Romana were now set to such as The Last Zolfa-Thuran, and had now reverted to Meajos for recording. The Into the Comet oudine) and Gate (the tide for Dream Time). The production office now second and final "junior" novelisation, Junior Doctor Who and the Brain of Morbius, depart in Warriors' new stories would bridge the regeneration at the appeared from W H Allen on Thursday 26 June; this new range had failed to started to plan a trilogy of which sixth serial was commissioned based on a storyline find a market. Also in the shops was Marvel's Doctor Who Summer Special which end of the season. The old colleague , and concerned an was effectively a collection of reprints. submitted by Nathan-Turner's of a change of millennium to seize control ofa On Saturday 28 June, Ward did a live interview on What's On Woflan? on her evil force using the events entitled The Keeper qfTraken. twenty-ninth birthday. By now, Ward had also illustrated Astroloatj _for Cats, and peaceful world; this was Shooting on Full Circle

Slept been RHTHRR TURRER WHS CHRCERRED RBOUT THE (as The Planet That had 1 THE R1HRK r renamed) began in late July, HHR1ITTEH THHT the LOSS DF K9 HRH with Waterhouse rejoining | UERSIHR CDULD BE PICKED UP HGHIR IF HEEDED cast for what would be his debut serial. By Thursday 31 July, it getting the co-production deal with ABC on the show her horoscope was analysed. When the astrologer commented was clear that there no hope of stories in Australia for the 1981/82 season; Nathan- that Ward liked to take on many things "like having two boyfriends at once", Australia to make two a five production period covering the whole ofone Ward replied "I can't cope with one!" The viewers at home were still unaware Turner had planned week serial and inserts for another. Also, the final issue ofDoctor Who Weekly to whom she was referring ... Marvel was addressing the wrong By now, Nathan-Turner was getting feedback from his superiors which appeared. After 43 issues, it was clear that itself as a monthly magazine, with less comic strip indicated that he would be remaining on Doctor Who for the following year. market. The tide realigned the dedicated fan base; it was now Doctor As such, he now started to give more thought to the conclusion of the current material and more articles aimed at - Monthly. season and setting up the next. It was becoming clear that Baker was now less Who A Marvel the Australian market was still of interest to Nathan-Turner, happy with the series and the changes which were occurring on it, and slowly Appealing to the created to bridge the regeneration was an the star and the producer realised that at the end of the current run, the Doctor and as such new companion forTegan Jovanka, an air hostess, was issued would be regenerating for a fourth time. By his own admission, Baker was now Australian. The character outline Friday 1 August. A revised proposal was becoming unbearable in studio; he felt that the scripts were not improving and by Nathan-Turner and Bidmead on Thursday August. had been uneasy with Waterhouse's casting. When it came to initial discussions then made to ABC on 7 archival repeats, Nathan-Turner had apparendy about the following season, Nathan-Turner indicated that there was unlikely to Aware of fan interest in the repeats should be Death to the Dalelcs, but be an increase in the actor's fee. considered that one of summer this sort of past-Doctor scheduling. As such, Aware of the distinct popularity of Baker, Nathan-Turner immediately set also realised the shortcomings of daily repeat run on Tuesday August, with City of about building as many elements into the end of the season as possible to help Destinu ofthe Dalelcs began a 5 and Tuesdays over the following fortnight. BBC the audience bridge this gap; after all, Baker would have now played the part Death screened on Mondays these repeats. Doctor Who fandom continued to stage for a record seven years and many of the younger viewers would only be Cymru did not take Panopticon event did not take place in 1980, there was familiar with his portrayal. One of the moves that Nathan-Turner made was to conventions. While a event, One, on Saturday August, during add new regular characters, and indeed to look at bringing back characters instead the one day DWAS Interface g the Spaceship and The Rescue were screened. from the show's past. Louise Jameson and were both sounded which the two early serials Inside

doctor luhd mnGRzine At the production office, planning for the regeneration was completed. star had posed after filming on The Leisure Hive) which went on display at Madame

Bidmead himselfhad decided that he would not be remaining for a second Tussaud's in London; this was only the precursor to a more extensive range of year as script editor since he was exhausted by the continual rewrites he was Doctor Who figures which was shortly to appear at the famous London attraction. having to perform, notably on Warriors' Gate. There was also increasing tension The Doctor Who Annual 1981 was issued by World International Publishing, the between Bidmead and Nathan-Turner. Bidmead felt that he was not valued new name ofWorld Distributors, and saw Lalla Ward's Romana joining the enough, and when a substantial rise to cover his additional hours was declined, Doctor and K9 (who also had a solo strip story). K9 was now set for adventures he opted to move on, bowing out by writing Baker's final serial. After his idea of of his own in a series of four illustrated children's books written by Dave bringing past companions back had floundered, Nathan-Turner now decided to Martin and published by Sparrow under the banner The Aduenrures of K9. The bring back an old villain for the regeneration trilogy. The adversary in The Keeper BBC also made Doctor Who the subject of its first Picture Pack, an abortive range ofTraken, which was completing delivery from Byrne, in which viewers could purchase a selection of BBC would now become , the Doctor's Time Lord publicity photographs along with basic background arch enemy who had last appeared in an emaciated information on the series in question. form in in 1976. The story, to be Doctor Who came back to Saturdays at 6.15pm on rewritten by Bidmead, would conclude with the Master 30 August - but with the opposition of the new, regenerating in some way, and then acting as the villain fast-moving and fully-networked Buck Rogers in the for the two stories either side of the regeneration. 25th Century on ITV, the first episode gained just Bidmead's final story of the season was now a under six million viewers. In the coming weeks the confrontation between the Doctor and the Master which situation deteriorated, with Doctor Who failing to would be based around the concept ofcomputer logic register in the top 100 programmes. Baker could also and tie up some loose ends from the previous season. be seen on ITV on Sunday 31 August in The Curse 0/ King Turankhamun's Tomb, and was one of the stars to lements of Bidmead's story were hinted at appear on the cover of the TV Times. Baker then in the new edition ofThe Doctor Who Writer's promoted the show's return with an apperance on

Guide issued on Monday n August, which The John Dunn Shotv on Radio 2 on Friday 5 now also included the character notes on Tegan. The September, while another feature on Doctor Who scripts for The Dogs of Darkness were commissioned the appeared in the junior Back Page section of the Radio same day from lack Gardner for potential use with the Times on Thursday n September. new Doctor; they were still available for development Marsh broke the bad news about ABC's rejection of on Thursday 23 April 1981. On Friday 15 August, an the co-production deal on Monday 8 September, but untitled four-part storyline was commissioned from indicated that he was going to try again. Dudley's story

Flanagan and McCulloch to act as the 's for the new Doctor, Day ofWrath (which concerned a debut serial and conclude the trilogy ofencounters megalomaniac alien who periodically visited Earth), with the Master in a futuristic parable against the use was soon in development, and a scene breakdown on of nuclear missiles; the target delivery for this was Saward's proposal was commissioned under the title Saturday 20 September. Nathan-Turner wanted the Plague Rats. The Concorde storyline, Zanadin, was return ofan old enemy to be a surprise for both the commissioned for the following season, and would public and the fans; as such, no advance publicity also feature the Master. By the end ofSeptember, about the Master appeared prior to the character's first Bailey had been commissioned for The Kinda. foil appearance in the concluding episode ofThe Keeper ojTraken. To portray the new incarnation of the Master - and Tremas, the character in On Tuesday 26 August, Jon Fitzmaurice ofABC wrote to Ronnie Marsh of The Keeper ofTraken whose body the Master was to steal - Nathan-Tumer booked BBC Drama to say that he had examined the proposal for a co-production deal , an actor he recalled from the 1974 BBC classic serial The again, but that the Australian company were still un-interested. Former BBC Pallisers. On Friday 12 September, Ainley was contracted for an initial eight producer Terence Dudley, who had directed Meglos, had been proposing episodes to be made between Saturday 25 October 1980 and Saturday 24 storylines to the production office in his capacity as a writer. Although the first January 1981, with an option for either four or eight more shows which had to notion, a 1920s whodunnit called The Beast, was not the type of story Bidmead was be taken out by Monday 24 November that year. looking for, Dudley was commissioned to write a four-part story breakdown at Mindful of the show's budget, on Friday 19 September, Nathan-Turner the end ofAugust, concurrent with Bidmead being given clearance to write the approached BBC Enterprises to see if the Corporation's commercial arm would final story of the year despite the fact that he was a staff member. invest £1500 per episode towards costumes for the 1981/1982 season on the The Radio Times ofThursday 28 August promoted the new season with a grounds that they subsequently used the garments at the exhibitions in feature by Mick Brown entitled 'Who's for Corri' which focused on Adrienne Blackpool and Longleat to generate further income. In the meantime, Warriors'

Corri, the guest star in The Leisure Hive. The same day, Baker attended a launch Gate was plagued by BBC industrial disputes which meant that its studio parry alongside his double - a waxwork of him as the Doctor (for which the recording sessions were deferred and rearranged.

THE COmPLETE POOP.TH DOCTOR IB

I a second option beyond that comprising 16 out of 20 shows to be made from July to December 1981 which needed to be exercised by Saturday 31 January.

A photo that wou From Saturday 11 October, Doctor Who was moved back to 5.40pm, careful to ensure overlapping the end of Metal Mickey on ITV and giving the Doctor a five-minute

head start over Buck Rogers in the 2 5th Century. The departure ofK9 was

By the end of September, only around five million were tuning in for Doctor covered on BBCi's Points qfVieu) on Friday 17 October, and on Thursday 23

Who and the decision was made to move it from 6.15pm to 5.40pm in the hope October the BBC informed Hancock that they had no intention of selling

that it would steal a lead on the successful Buck Rogers. In the event, only a its share of the Daleks. The same day there were several publicity items for marginal improvement was registered. Flanagan and McCulloch delivered their the show. First of all, Australian actress was announced to debut story for the new Doctor, Project "4G", on Friday 26 September, tire day the press as the new companion, Tegan Jovanka, in a photocall at

before Meglos made its debut on BBCi. On Tuesday 30 September, Nathan- Hammersmith Park; the Euening Standard covered this, announcing a Turner indicated that the character of Nyssa, the daughter ofTremas in The 'Tough Aussie for Doctor Who'. The same day, Fielding was booked for a

Keeper ofTraken, might be retained across the Master trilogy and into the next minimum of 12 episodes to be made between Monday 15 December and

season to ease the transition to die new Doctor. Tuesday 30 June 1981, with an option on a further 12 out of 20 episodes By October, Baker and Leeson could be heard as the Doctor and K9 between July and December 1981 which had to be agreed by the end of promoting their appearance at Madame Tussaud's on commercial radio. In the March 1981. Waterhouse, who was due to make his debut in Full Circle that papers, Doctor Who monsters including an , a , a Kraal and a Saturday, appeared on Top ofthe Pops showing Dave Lee Travis a copy of the also appeared in a TV licence advertisement which asked "Will Viewers BBC single featuring Peter Howell's new theme tune arrangement. He also Exterminate Dr Who Before These Do?". Astrology for Cats was published, with recorded an interview with presenter David Rider for the Radio 1 magazine _____ programme Playground. The Radio THE PRODUCER HRD I HRUE DIFFEHEI1T IDEAS. Times also included a Back Page DDCTDR UIHD D1HU EUEfl DE H U1DD1HD!" feature on Full Circle, and how it THE DEUI featured the work of teenagers nun bhkeh nn 'iwtidiiuiiiie' Waterhouse and Smith. The

further illustrations from Ward. Lalla Ward and John Leeson completed their casting of further "juveniles" to work in the series confirmed to Baker that

work on Doctor Who at the start ofOctober when Romana and Kg departed at it was time for him to move on. the end of Warriors' Gate; on Monday 6 October, Ward then joined Dick Mills of

1 - the BBC Radiophonic Workshop at the end of three days publicity at a fish he biggest press attention for the series came the next day as Baker show being staged at Alexandra Palace. who by now was feeling fatigued and "neurotically proprietorial" over With K9's departure recorded, the news was broken on BBCi's Netusround T the series - was due to open the new Doctor Who Experience attraction departure had been on Tuesday 7 October, the same day mat Nathan-Turner commissioned at Madame Tussaud's. Nathan-Turner heard that Baker's Flanagan and McCulloch to script Project "4G" by Monday 8 December. The loss leaked to the press and that the story was due to appear in the papers. As such, of Kg prompted headlines such as the Daily Mirror's 'K9 Gets the Boot' on a press conference was hurriedly arranged at Cavendish Place so that Baker

Wednesday 8, and Leeson and Nathan-Turner appeared on Radio 4's Today himself could announce his decision to leave. Mischievously, Baker and Nathan-

programme to talk to Andy Price on Thursday 9. Speaking to Douglas Orgill in Turner discussed a publicity stunt to generate press attention. The actor explained

... I felt were the Daily Express on Thursday 9, the producer confirmed that the character had that he was "giving up when I'm at die top this year that things been dropped because he was too clever, but also hinted that "there could, one beginning to drag". He then suggested Hollywood star James Stewart as his

day, be a Mark III Kg". replacement, adding "The producer and I have entirely different ideas. The new

In the meantime, Hancock again asked the BBC about selling their rights to Dr Who may even be a woman." A taciturn Baker was then interviewed by Sue the Daleks on Wednesday 8 October, and on Thursday g the casting of Nyssa Cook outside the TARDIS on that evening's Nationwide (where he claimed he was was confirmed. Teenager was contracted to appear in an initial heading for oblivion), while the BBC News covered the story with an extract from four episodes, with an option of 12 more to be made between December ig8o Meglos. Appropriately, the scripts for Baker's swansong - Logopolis, a tale of and June rg8i which could be taken out by Monday 10 November, and then mathematics and physics - were delivered that day by the departing Bidmead.

CTOR LUHD mPGRZine Amidst the press coverage the following morning, The Sun confirmed that Baker had no more work lined up, Hilary Kingsley and Patricia Smythe of the

Daily Mirror quoted Baker saying of his successor "I wish him - or her - luck". Paul Donovan of the Daily Mai! claimed that Baker had been upset when Ko was dropped while the BBC had indicated "We know who we want to replace hat ar [Baker] but negotiations are continuing". In fact, the actor in question was Matthew Waterhouse and Jan the press. , then best known as Tristan Farnon in All Creatures Great and Small, and an actor with whom Nathan-Turner had worked on that series. Davison had been offered the role one Saturday evening in October. remained at home, redecorating the couple's Chelsea flat. A gag on BBC2's Not

Waterhouse's edition of Playground went out on Radio i at 7am that morning the Nine O'clock News on Monday 24 November assured viewers that Ward was to promote the start of Full Circle that evening; the show featured a pre-recorded "not in the Milky Way ..." interview with Paul Joyce, director of the problematic Warriors' Gate. Waterhouse By now, Letts was having less involvement with the series as Nathan-Turner then did a live interview with Noel Edmonds in that morning's edition of Multi- firmly took control of the series. The new producer used his experience to cut coloured Swap Shop. Nyssa had been written into the through the red tape of the BBC when he needed to, and concluding three episodes of Logopolis, and a character also loved being involved in the casting guest stars. To profile was added to the Doctor Who Writer's Guide on replace Bidmead, Nathan-Turner tried unsuccessfully to

Thursday 30 October; Sutton was informed that the recruit Ted Rhodes from All Creatures Great and Small. In option on further episodes would be taken out during fact, during November, Antony Root, a former assistant rehearsals for The Keeper ofTraken. floor manager acting as a temporary script editor, had

On Saturday 1 November, the Neius ofthe World been assigned to the show for three months to help suggested replacements for Baker in the form of Larry Bidmead deal with the submissions of storylines. Scripts

Grayson, John Cleese, Frances de la Tour and Margaret for Plague Rats were commissioned from Saward, Thatcher. The guessing ended within days as, on followed on Tuesday 25 November by a breakdown for

Wednesday 5 November, Peter Davison was announced as TheTorson Triumvirate from Andrew Smith. the Fifth Doctor and gave an interview to Sue Lawley on Nationwide; at this stage the actor was in rehearsals for his lso around now, Doctor Who Weekly comic new BBCi sitcom, Sink or Swim, which was recording on strip writers Patrick Mills and John Wagner Saturdays. Meanwhile, William Marshall of the Daily submitted an outline about a colony living

Mirror tracked the heavily drinking Baker down to haunts inside a vast space whale which had been suggested such as an art gallery, a Waterloo bar and then an by Mills' wife, Angie; the notion would later be expensive restaurant, with the departing star admitting commissioned as a story breakdown on Wednesday 9 that ending the series was "a great emotional jolt". September 1981 with scripts entitled Song ofthe Space Alongside a retrospective of Doctor Who's history, Whale commissioned on Thursday 2 December 1981.

Davison was interviewed by Sarah Greene on Blue Peter on State 0/Decay (as The Wasting had been renamed) Monday 10 November. The same day, Nathan-Turner began broadcasting at the end of November, and was confirmed that the character of Nyssa would feature in die praised by Stanley Eveling ofThe Scotsman on Saturday first two serials for Davison's Doctor; Sutton's contract 6 December as showing the series at its best. Sutton's was exercised for a minimum of 12 episodes with the arrival as a new companion was covered by the Daily option of even more shows still in play. On Friday 14 November, the Writers' Mail with their piece 'Who's Crowd' on Friday 21 November; she then Guide was revised again, this time to add details ofTegan and her Aunt joined Waterhouse and Fielding for a photocall in Hammersmith Park on Vanessa, as seen in Logopolis. Wednesday 26 November, while Fielding had a solo photo shoot on Tuesday

During the production ofThe Keeper ofTraken, the cast and crew felt that the 2 December. However, Nathan-Turner had been upset when his arrangements relationship between Baker and his former co-star was going through a bad for Baker and Ward to appear on BBCi's Children in Need coverage on Friday patch. Baker seemed more tired and irritable than ever, and was missing Ward 21 November had gone awry. Also, recording on The Keeper o/Traken had been dreadfully. Everyone was then amazed when on Wednesday 19 November, the disrupted by industrial action, meaning that a one day remount would be BBC News and Neuisround announced that Baker and Ward were to marry before necessary in December.

Christmas. "I couldn't bear to see her go ... to live without her," Baker told A Day with A TV Producer was published by Wayland Publishers Ltd in reporter Brian Wesley as he took a break from work on Doctor Who, while Ward November, and the Games Workshop strategy game Doctor Who - The Game of

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machination Left: The TARDIS is cut down to size by the mathematical of the Master in Logopolis. Above: The real police box on the Barnet Booo Bypass - by the time the BBC got there, it had been demolished.

Doctor Time and Space started to appear in the shops. The strips from Who Year's Eve, BBCi's I market in Careers Conference on Tuesday 23 December, and on New Weekly were collected, coloured and reprinted for the American of Full Circle. When starting to Pick of '80 included the Doctor and Romana from the end Marvel's Marvel Premiere range, debuting with Issue 57. Davison was scheduled even earlier at I December he Doctor Who returned on Saturday 3 January, it was now attract press attention in connection with the show; on Monday 1 around seven million Broadcasting House around 5.10pm. This increased the average audience to did a live interview with Richard Baker from Studio B15 at interviewed both by Donny against weaker competition on ITV from Search for a Star. on Start the Week, on Wednesday 3 December he was Colony in Dean ofThe Three A profile of Baker as the hard-drinking actor of the Room MacLeod on Pebble Mill (along with clips from the opening episodes title 'Dr Who is and on Street was compiled by Daniel Farson and appeared under the Doctors and The Leisure Hive) and on The John Dunn Shom on Radio 2, | on the Move Again' in the Telegraph Sunday Magazine on Sunday 4 January 1981. Saturday 6 December he featured on Radio i's Playground. Baker began studio recording on his final serial as the Doctor soon after New photographers alongside his to line up Year, and on Sunday 11 January posed for press ack at the production office, Root and Bidmead continued Beacham wife and his new in-laws, Viscount and Lady Bangor. At the production office, the new serials. On Friday 5 December, actor/writer Rod Bidmead had departed and Root was officially made script editor for an interim (who had appeared in The Web of Fear) was commissioned for a J Flanagan McCulloch April period. Day o/Wrath was accepted for development, and breakdown of a serial called Hebos (which was still in development in delivered on Thursday 15 - Christopher Priest was performed rewrites on Project Zeta Plus which they 1981) while - despite the problems with Sealed Orders Saward. With Kg's departure from Within; this was to reveal a January, and Plague Rats was submitted by asked to develop a new storyline called The Enemy would soon delivered BBCi imminent, Nathan-Turner announced that the robot dog living entity at the heart of the TARDIS. Flanagan and McCulloch feature in his own series for which a pilot their scripts for Davison's debut serial, would be developed during the year. This now entitled Project Zeta Plus on Monday was covered by the tabloids on Friday 16 8 December. Still under consideration as January, with The Sun talking to a delighted late as April 1981, TheTorson Triumvirate Dave Martin in 'New Leash of Life for Kg' storyline was delivered by Smith on while John Leeson spoke to the Daily Mail. Tuesday 9 December, the same day that K9's 50-minute pilot would reduce the run Bidmead passed on to Nathan-Turner an of the new Doctor Who season from 28 outline called Romanoids which had been episodes down to the usual 26, as reflected delivered on spec by GeoffLowe. by a change made to Davison's contract on Tom Baker and Lalla Ward were married Tuesday 3 February. at Chelsea Registry Office on Saturday 13 Nathan-Turner and his team had been December; the press were out in force and expecting that, as with the previous year, the happy event was covered by BBC Neuis Doctor Who would enter production in and the Daily Star. The couple were living at March and start screening on BBCi from Hereford Square, and all was well for some September 1981 as part of the Autumn time. However, Baker still enjoyed his season. However, on Monday 19 January it bachelor ways. After around 18 months, became apparent that this might not be the he was bored Baker was to announce that at The wedding o lla Ward took place Part-way into recording, production - Ward case. with married life whereupon December 1980. Chelsea Registry < aturday 13 would have been be broken over the departed and returned to her parents' flat Summer so that Davison could record the in Chelsea. On the night of the wedding, this was planned for they second season of his popular sitcom Sink or Sivim. Since The Turn Ronnies took part in a musical item called Space Wars in which season of Doctor Who of an Autumn broadcast, it seemed that the nineteenth encountered the threat of the Duluks - giant paint cans with their war-cry David might be held back to transmit from New Year 1982. "Re-dec-or-ate!" who exterminated Ronnie Corbett. The item, written by Tom Baker completed his final recording for Logopolis on Saturday 24 Newman and Peter Osborne, had been recorded on Sunday 2 November and seven Cy January - three days before his forty-seventh birthday and almost exactly featured the familiar names ofToby Byrne, Tony Starr, Mike Mungarvan and years after his original begging letter for work had been sent to BBC drama Town playing the Duluks. at the bar Bill Slater. Two parties were held for Baker's departure; one The newly-wed Baker had no time for a honeymoon since location filming executive another thrown by BBC around the ofTelevision Centre (where the star did not linger) and for Logopolis began within days; this had to be rescheduled slightly for Janet Enterprises at Ealing some time later. remount on The Keeper ojTraken. This was the first work on the show Doctor's comic strip companion, who left all about Also departing was Sharon, the Fielding, who soon had her illusions ofwhat being a TV star was Doctor - A the Doctor and Kg at the end of Dreamers ofDeath in Issue 48 of Who shattered. Mid-December saw the delivery of Day pfWrath and The Kinda. Nyssa; Maruel Monthly. For BBCi viewers, Sarah Sutton was about to arrive as Rather than continue straight into Warriors' Gate on Saturday 20 December as article in the Radio Times on Thursday 29 weeks in favour of the actress was featured in a Back Page originally planned, it was decided to rest Doctor Who for two Saturday January, and appeared on Multi-Coloured Strap Shop on the morning of Christmas broadcasts like The Jungle Book and It's a Christmas Knockout. Around January to preview a clip from Part Two ofThe Keeper qfTraken; the same now, Ward rejoined her husband to film two new commercials advertising 31 edition also featured Mat Irvine discussing modelwork on Warriors' Gate. Prime Computers for Australian television: Dr Who meets his match and Dr Who schedules and Doctor Who's poot on Radio 4's The presence of Sink or Sivim in the Autumn and the Aliens. Over the Christmas period, Tom Baker was heard Century sealed the fate of the series' series ofThe Book performance against Buck Rogers in the 25th Start the Week on Monday 22 December, discussing the new it was confirmed to at a BBC traditional Saturday slot. On Thursday 29 January Toiuer which began on ITV that day. The TARDIS and K9 appeared

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Locjopolis, Fielding featured on

Radio r's Playground on Saturday 28 February, the day that Baker's final

serial began transmission. The same day, fans gathered at the

DWASocial 1 event in London. The band The Human League paid their own tribute to the departing Doctor with the synth instrumental Tom

Nathan-Turner that Davison's debut serial would run in a twice-weekly slot Baker as the B-side to their February along with other drama series which would test viewing patterns for a new 1981 Virgin Records single Boys and soap opera which the BBC were developing. Nathan-Tumer was also becoming Girls. The picture sleeve featured a more involved in the Target Books novelisations, which hit problems around close-up of the actor's eyes, while now. Following publication of Doctor Who and the Creaturefrom the Pit in January, the vinyl itself was inscribed Doctor Who and the Enemy ofthe World was scheduled for March - after which "Thanks Tom". only reprints would appear for some months. This was because of a strike Peter Davison attended an

called by the Writer's Guild of Great Britain when W H Allen, who owned experimental costume session

Target, refused to use a standard contract. Terrance Dicks was implicated as an on Friday 6 March, and the unwilling pawn in the dispute, and ultimately agreed to help other writers, following week, Bidmead was although his own livelihood was badly affected. commissioned for a story outline as a freelance submission; provisionally entitled The Visitor, this would be the replacement debut serial for the Fifth

more serials were commissioned on Friday 6 February; these were Doctor. On Wednesday 18 March, McDonald wrote to Nathan-Turner, Two Priest, untitled expressing concern at the high level of write-offs in terms of unusable scripts scripts for The Enemy Within by Christopher and an

serial from Tanith Lee, a science-fantasy author who had been writing which the series was incurring.

for Blake's 7. With a two-part story now required because of the K9 pilot, Viewers ofBBCi on Saturday 21 March saw Baker's final regular appearance Dudley was given the go-head to write his previously rejected 1920s whodunnit as the Doctor in Locjopolis Part Four. The press covered the event, with Maureen

Black Orchid as a BBC staff contribution. It was around now that former story Patton of the Daily Express discussing married life with the actor, and The Sun

editor and writet Gerry Davis submitted a storyline on-spec; entitled Genesis of revealing that Baker was to return to the stage in The Trials of Oscar Wilde at

the Cubermen it concerned the Doctor and his companion (referred to as Felicity) and then become BBC TV's new in The Hound of arriving on Mondas at the time when the Cybermen are being created by the the Baskerw'lles. BBC2's television discussion show Did You See also screened technocrat King Dega as a result of the Doctor's interference on an earlier an SHTURDHH WHICH 1BB1, TOm BHKER visit. This notion was not developed by H1HDE HIS FIHHL HPPEHRHHCE HS THE the production team. Nathan-Turner managed to snatch a IT UIHS THE EHD DF HH ERR. fortnight's holiday in the USA in early February, and soon came up with the notion ofa serial to be partially filmed in Baker's final moments as the Doctor later the same evening. In the letters

the US which he discussed with London based American writer Lesley column of the Radio Times on Thursday 27 March, Neil G King and Nigel G Elizabeth Thomas on his return. By then, insurmountable problems had arisen Broomhead congratulated the BBC on bringing the Master back in The Keeper of

with Project Zeta-Siyma (the new title for Project Zeta Plus), largely relating to Traken, Miss A M Bradbury asked about the police box vanishing from Barnet

invisible characters required in the first episode. As such, on Thursday 19 bypass in Loaopolis, and Stephen Poppitt praised the production team of

February, Project Zeta-Sigma was abandoned and (formerly Day Bidmead and Nathan-Turner for Warriors' Gate and Lojjopolis. The only note of

ofWrath) was pulled forward to replace it in production. Casting documents dissent was from T Mullany who was unhappy with the earlier start time of had already been drawn up for the abandoned serial, including characters such the show.

as Radzik, Meloka, Abulov, Tradfel, Kirtis, Stine, Glex and an Autogem - with On the day that Locjopolis Part Four was broadcast, Charles Catchpole's

extras including Autogems, Aralians, Zetans and medics. interview with Tom Baker appeared in the Daily Mail under the title 'Where Dr From Saturday 7 February, ITV changed their Saturday line-up and Search for Who fears to tread'. Seven years after he had taken his first faltering steps special a Star was replaced by the quiz show Punchlines! The regulars were booked for towards becoming a much-loved national hero, Baker summed up the

the new episodes; Sutton was down for 16 shows and Fielding for 18 shows on quality of the role that had made him a star. It wasn't the money. It wasn't the Wednesday 18 February, Davison for 26 episodes on Friday 20 February and admiration of peers. It wasn't the devotion of the fans. Or even the adults. It Waterhouse for 20 episodes on Wednesday 25 February. Unfortunately, the was making magic for the children: "I love to sit on a train, hiding behind my character of Adric had not worked out as Nathan-Turner, Letts and Bidmead paper, till just before my stop, when I lean over to some child and say 'Excuse had hoped, and the companion would be dropped during the following me, do you have the time?' Then I'm gone. The look on his face gives me more

season. Conversely, by Wednesday 4 March, Nathan-Turner decided that he pleasure than I could possibly explain." wanted to retain Nyssa for the whole season. To help promote her debut in Tom Baker was gone. But he had left a look of pleasure on millions of faces.

THE COIDPLETE FOURTH CTDR L ^ensnn IB The Leisure Hive

(Just Like) Starting Over BU PHILIP mcDOIIIILD DUim HRCHIUE DWM191

cnmmissianinG Feeling his age: The Doctor suffers the effects of the Tachyon starting a season-long trend for men with beards ... Ji Thu 20 Dec 79 Aualon scripts Generator, commissioned for Wed 16 Jan 80 based on scenario devised by John Nathan-Turner; delivered Wed 16 And then, after The Horns of Nimon, came The Leisure Hiue. i Jan 80 Oh yes, ha ha, very clever. But bear with me; there's a point PHonucTion to be made here. When The Leisure Hiue first blazed onto our 4 Thu 20 Mar 80 Brighton Beach, screens in August 1980, we greeted it as a radical re-formatting

Fishmarket Head, Brighton, E of Doctor Who from the bottom up. But at script level there's Sussex (Beach) nothing fundamentally new about The Leisure Hiue. Every fresh

Fri 21 Mar 80 Brighton Beach regime takes a while to sink its claws into Doctor Who, and with (Beach) the benefit of hindsight it is blitheringly obvious that The Leisure Wed 2 Apr 80 Television Centre Hiue is a Season Seventeen script through and through, albeit Studio 1: CSO Bubble shots I one that has undergone drastic cosmetic surgery to remove Television Thu 3 Apr 80 Centre those undesirable laugh-lines, bringing a youthful blush to its Studio 1 : CSO Bubble shots, Model the seven signs of ageing. The same shots, Great Hall, Corridor to features and reducing

Great Hall, Boardroom, Long goes for the next three stories at least.

Corridor by Boardroom So what exactly is new and exciting about The Leisure Hint?

Fri 4 Apr 80 Television Centre It certainly isn't the CSO, which is as reliably patchy as ever i Shuttle Studio 1 : Great Hall, (anyone for non-gravity squash?). No; chiefly, it's the music, Corridor, Squash game, and those zappy new opening titles, and a few ostentatious Holograms camera flourishes, although even these aren't any great Fri 18 Apr 80 Television Centre advance on the Steadicam work that had distinguished Studio 3: Boardroom, Great Hall, Destiny the Daleks a year earlier. And then there's the fact Long Corridor, Cabin, Corridor of near Cabin, Laboratory that there are almost no jokes, that it takes itself awfully J Sat ig Apr 80 Television Centre seriously, and that the science, real or not, is head-spinningly Studio 3: Boardroom, Great Hall, incomprehensible. Finally, there's the fact that Tom Baker

Generator, Model shots, plainly isn't having a good time any more. Laboratory In the end, you pays your money and takes your choice; Sun 20 Apr 80 Television Centre Doctor Who fans will forever be divisible into those who think Studio 3: Great Hall, Boardroom, s all of fandom knows, in 1980 Doctor Who The Leisure Hiue is a more sophisticated and enjoyable piece of Long Corridor, Laboratory series momentous changes. First television than The Horns 0/ Nimon, and those who think the Mon 21 Apr 80 Television Centre underwent a of trap a story that dazzled viewers exact opposite. Some find the Graham Williams era too camp; Studio 3: Corridor, Model shots. out of the was Ext Hive, Generator, Brock's with an entertaining riot of colour - a complex others level the same charge at John Nathan-Turner's show. It

Cabin, Long Corridor, Shuttle cautionary tale of scientific hubris, chock-full of depends, I suppose, on what you regard as camp. The Horns of model convoluted technobabble and mind-expanding science. It Nimon is intellectually closer to the Susan Sontag definition;

it's arch, knowing and self-aware, forever tipping the wink to HHDID Times was a story in which June Hudson's flamboyant costume i designs reached new levels of operatic grandeur, from the the audience that it's only a story. The Leisure Hiue doesn't do Sat 30 Aug 80 Part One: How do extravagantly coiffed humanoids to the punningly-named that, but on the other hand it prophetically elects to begin the the Doctor's holiday plans go Brighton beach. monsters, the latter proving technically ambitious but J NT era with a shot of a row of tents. On awry? Why is the wasted courses. Just don't tell me that The Leisure 1 ultimately unsuccessful under the unforgiving studio lights. So it's horses for close It was a story replete with memorable, iconic images: lurking Hiue is anything new. It's the work of a moment to your alien infiltrators, space-warping quantum mechanics, and the eyes, pull those tachyonics out, pop some jokes back in, and neurotic remnant of a once-proud race of conquerors, their imagine the whole thing directed by Michael Hayes and scored

empire reduced to dust by a terrible war, retreating to the by Dudley Simpson. Actually, I rather like the sound of that. As insular protection of their many-spired city. It was the tale it is, The Leisure Hiue is Season Seventeen with its wings neady of a paranoid by an unhinged would-be ruler, clipped, spruced up and coated in a fresh lick of paint. And it's culminating in the final realization that the future lies not in glossy paint at that. interplanetary conquest, but in co-operation between races. A touch too glossy for some of us. HRCHIUE EHTRH

Doctor Who which he 9 David Fisher had pitched the notion of a between Monday 28 January and Friday 23 May was reluctant to work on galactic leisure park to Douglas Adams in early 1980. A former actor who had joined the BBC felt had become silly; Letts agreed and wanted change the show's style. Both Nathan-Turner 1979, with the business-suited Foamasi lizards as a floor assistant in 1965, Bickford had been to running a protection racket. directing since 1974. Having resigned from the and Letts intended to return to the original

BBC, Doctor Who was his first freelance work. premise of the show: to educate with science.

9 Wednesday 7 November 1979: Fisher wrote Letts came up with idea to John Nathan-Turner, congratulating him on 9 Christopher Hamilton Bidmead had been an 9 Nathan-Turner and becoming producer and saying that he had actor in rep and on radio. He started writing of Mafia lizards. Fisher saw the humour in this

several ideas for the series. He submitted a plays, and then scripted industrial films for a notion, but was later disappointed to find that

Doctor Who idea, developing this as a nine-page company called Vizcom and episodes of Harriet's the new producers saw these concepts as being Nathan-Turner envisaged the script outline, suggesting it could be called The Back in Town for Thames where Robert Banks taken seriously.

itself far more like a futuristic Butlins. Castle of Doom. Stewart was a script editor. After Stewart's Hive as recommendation, Bidmead was telephoned by the four Thursday 15 November: Nathan-Turner Barry Letts who was delighted to find that O Thursday 20 December: When

engaged Lovett Bickford to direct Serial 5N Bidmead had an interest in science. Bidmead scripts for Aualon were commissioned, the

CTrjR ujhd mHGRzine paperwork explicitly stated that the scenario behaviour of the Generator was specified in a had been devised by Nathan-Turner in his series of such displays, but Bickford changed capacity as a BBC employee. them to voice-overs provided by an actor.

9 The script described the view outside the 9 In Part Two's script, Brock was specified as

Hive as 'lit by an ever-changing pattern of being in 'Cabin 19' and that the corridor colours'. Increasing emphasis was put on this in outside was lit in an orange light. When the the later instalments. In Part Three, it was Doctor was shown Stimson's body, the Doctor noted that at night in the Great Hall there was passed through the crowd of Argolins to find the

'a spectacular triple moonscape beyond the corpse 'lying on a motorised stretcher staring huge view window'. At dawn in Part Four, unseeingly upwards. The Doctor's scarf wound there was 'A deep red sunrise of spectacular tightly round his neck seems to explain his lack luminosity, to which the agitated radioactive of interest in the proceedings.' At the end of molecules of the atmosphere contribute green Romana and Hardin's experiments, the hour flashes.' Later, 'The dawn light that fills the hall glass 'is frozen in mid-explosion. The glass is has turned more orange, and we notice that the shattering, the sand flying in all directions. But huge sun is almost halfway above the horizon' it is frozen where it is, as if caught in a kind of and ultimately, 'The sun is clear of the horizon cobweb. Romana touches it and it all falls to now -a brilliant yellow.' dust.' When the Doctor emerges from the

generator, 'He is white-haired, his face lined: he

9 Of the inhabitants, 'The Argolins are a tali, looks about a thousand years old.' good-looking elegant race with a kind of afro hair style. The hair is crystalline, culminating in & After the Doctor is led away in Part Three, ten or a dozen jewels or pods at the end. As they 'Pangol ... turns and puts his hand on the age, the jewels fall and their hair loses it sheen machine - a gesture that seems oddly intimate' and hangs down.' Mena was 'A tall statuesque, ... The Helmet of Theron was also referred to as good-looking woman, apparently in her Forties.' 'the War Helmet'. When Brock and Klout enter

A senior Argolin character in the script for Part the Boardroom to find Mena in by the

One was Dorant who was with Morix and Pangol window, 'Mena swivels round in her chair, aged in the Boardroom, but had no dialogue; as the almost beyond recognition.' Originally, the script progressed his specific role was omitted Doctor was using his on the

(such as the reception to Mena's arrival). When collars worn by himself and Romana before

Mena arrived, 'A security guide sticks an ID Hardin entered the cabin to release them. The plaque on her shoulder'; these were ID documents presented to Mena by Brock carry Foamasi. Part grasshopper, communicators worn by everyone in the Hive. 'the distinctive West Lodge design at the guards grows into spontaneous applause.' The A part curtain. There were three types of Argolin guide specified bottom', and when Mena was too weak to lean script originally closed with the Doctor accusing in the script; security guides, science guides and forward to study these she was helped by her Romana of forgetting about Ko/s sea water medical guides. Brock was described as 'a 'white-coated guides'. Examining the equipment defences and greeting his dog as they depart. ^ planet of Argolis under suave, elegantly dressed Earthling, every inch from the Generator, the Doctor comments that it threat? Who are the uninvited visi-

far tors to the Leisure Hive? the business man' and it was noted that Hardin is for ''. The cliff-hanger to Part Three was 9 Fisher found that Nathan-Turner was Sat 6 Sep 80 Part Two: What is the was 'in his Thirties'. When the shuttle docked, different; in the Boardroom, the Foamasi makes more forceful about his inventive visions for the unpleasant surprise for Stimson? there was a short scripted scene of Argolin for Brock: 'The Foamasi has pinned him against show than Graham Williams had been; Bidmead What is the secret of the Earth docking guides supervising the disembarkation. the wall, and now jams a scaley hand down too had strong views which were not in total Experiments? How does the In the scene where Brock made his proposal to Brock's throat. The Foamasi removes a small accord with Fisher's. An example of the humour Doctor's scarf incriminate him? Morix and Pangol, Pangol originally said he bright red object, which he puts into his own left over from the first draft was the scene in Sat 1 3 Sep 80 Part Three: Can Doctor used warp was surprised that Argolis had any market mouth. Brock whistles and clicks like a Foamasi.' Part Three where the some Hardin's experiments save Mena value at all and Morix asked "Who are these mechanics equations to make an Argolin faint. in time? How do Brock and Klout philanthropist investors?" The communicator 9 Brock and Klout were not unmasked as dispel a mystery? What is the real purpose of the Recreation voice announcing the demonstration then Foamasi until several lines of dialogue into the 9 Fisher was acquainted with tachyonics Generator? cut in inviting "Visitors with Particle Physics first scene of Part Four; 'Brock is still whistling because, as part of his research, he had been Sat 20 Sep 80 Part Four: Will qualifications to any grade" to join the assembly and clicking. The Foamasi takes firm hold of him reading New Scientist. Bidmead added the Pangol achieve his 'Argolin in the Great Hall. and rips him open, revealing the form of a references to a Schrodinger Oscillator to try to Dawn'? Who is behind the Foamasi underneath. The West Lodge motif is get real science into the script; Erwin Schrodinger sabotage? Will the Doctor avert yellow, apparent on Brock's shoulder.' Pangol's speech was an Austrian physicist who worked with 9 In the script, the Foamasi were with total war?

'Brock' referring to their 'yellow scales'. The to the Argolin was far longer; "For too long you Paul Dirac in quantum physics in the 1930s. stage directions for the break-in described have sold your birthright to the Alien; for too Bidmead edited the scripts at home, making

'their webbed scaley yellow feet' and 'two pairs long been tutor-slaves to these rabble hordes." some of the rewrites on his personal computer. of scaley yellow hands'. When the Foamasi For the scene of Mena struggling around the The dialogue between the ailing Mena and sabotage the Hive's fibre-optic transmission Boardroom, Pangol's voice was also meant to Pangol was expanded in Part Four, and an extra systems in Part Two, 'the yellow scaley hands ... be heard saying, "The termination of Mena, our scene added of the Doctor and Romana talking apply a flame-emitting device to the web, which honoured Chairman, is complete. We shall to the Foamasi Government representative. The begins to melt.' When the Foamasi who found remember her wise guidance, and her justice and end of the episode was resequenced in editing,

Romana speaks in Part Three, he 'suddenly moderation - all virtues appropriate to a time of and Bidmead expanded the scenes in which starts to make weird whistling and clicking reconstruction ..." As Pangol's plan proceeded, Hardin went to find Mena and overpowered the sounds: his language.' the security guides made 'modifications to the guide sent by Pangol. He added the comments

Generator ... which has now become sinisterly about the FIFO system, adopting terminology

^ In Part One's script, around the old woman militaristic in appearance.' Inside the Generator, for computer memory storage patterns. in the holocrystal trial were a 'frame of tubes or when the Doctor considered the anti-baryon wires'. Also referred to as 'Visitor Logan', Loman shield, 'He drops the Randomiser. When he Q> Commenting on the scripts and Bidmead's had specific lines of dialogue in the script. The stoops to pick it up we see it has broken into 'excellent' editing job, Letts emphasised that a squash floated 'in mid-air, manoeuvring pieces.' As the new army of Argolis emerges, passage of time needed to be established for themselves by their ion-drive back packs.' At the 'identical helmeted figures [begin] to march in Brock to have apparently travelled from Earth to end of Part One, the script noted that when the sinister synchronisation out of the machine.' Argolis in Part One, and suggested that Morix

Doctor removed a panel from the Generator to When the Doctor is restored to normal, he is and Mena were addressed as 'President' rather see 'infinitude: nothingness - or smoke'. Outside, 'now rejuvenated to his youthful 700-odd.' As than 'Chairman'. He also questioned the non- a diagnostic display illuminated indicating the Doctor images vanish, Romana turned to a gravity squash sequence. Regarding Part Two,

'Sentient life form inside the Generator' then figure which 'removes its helmet. It has no head.' Letts felt that Hardin being in love with Mena

'Fail safe mechanism in operation', until a At the story's end, Mena becomes a 'statuesque needed to be clarified and followed up, that the

Foamasi hand punched up the command figure ... younger and more beautiful than we strangling of Stimson should not be shown but

'Over-ride fail safe'. Throughout the script, the remember her ... The astonishment among the implied, and that Mena's character seemed to

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useless on the shingle. Visual effects designer

Andy Lazell had attempted to solve the problems

of the dog's mobility by adding two large roller

wheels instead, but after the idea was mooted it

was taken no further apart from testing the idea

on the lightweight dummy prop. When K9 failed

to work on the beach, Lazell and his assistants

Stuart Brisdon and Perry Brahan pulled the

lightweight prop along on nylon wires. The new

TARDIS prop was built in fibreglass rather than

wood; it had detachable panels making it easier

to transport. The beach hut tents were specially

erected for filming. The seagull and wind sound

effects were added in post production. Lalla

Ward's dialogue was recorded via a microphone concealed on her costume.

9 Monday 24 March: Rehearsals began for the first studio session at Room 202 of the BBC

Rehearsal Rooms in Acton; Fisher attended on

Tuesday 25 March. The cast improvised extra

dialogue in rehearsals, such as the banter in the

Great Hall between the Doctor and Romana

when summoned to see Mena in Part One, the

Doctor's behaviour at his trial in Part Two, and

the Doctor, Romana and Hardin sneaking out of

the cabin in Part Three. The Doctor's positioning

change during the script. In Part Three, he asked Cumming, a colleague of Nathan-Turner's. He of Gallifrey in the constellation of Kasterborous

that the Helmet of Theron be better established, recalls that Tom Baker did not talk to him during in Part Two was also an unscripted addition; asked why Brock was now co-operating with the production and was rather overpowering. Baker this reference back to dialogue in Pyramids of

Doctor and required clarification about the was also distrustful of new director Bickford. Mars was typical of the continuity elements

Experiential Grid. With the final script, Letts which Nathan-Turner was keen to introduce.

wanted to see the Foamasi underground built Q> Monday 3 March 1 980: The Drama Early up, telling the viewers who the killers were. The Warning Synopsis for The Leisure Hiue was O The first recording block was only supposed

Random Field Frame needed explanation as did issued, fixing it as the first serial of the new to be two days, but Nathan-Turner agreed to a

the plan of 'Brock' and his cohort. Letts also season to begin transmission on Saturday 30 third day which would allow Bickford to test out

asked if all the duplicate Pangols had helmets. August. Adrienne Corri was named as the main the capabilities of the Quantel system on the

guest star, and the original setting was noted as tachyon generator images. 9 Bickford requested the use of a hand-held the 21 st Century rather than the 23rd.

camera for all five of his studio days, and also t> Wednesday 2 April: Recording against black the use of the Quantel 5001 equipment for video 3 Friday 14 March: Rewrites to Part One backdrops of CSO shots to be placed in the effects on the projected gallery session on included restructuring the middle of the episode, bubble globes took place between nam and

Tuesday 22 April in TC8. By Tuesday 8 April, showing a bit of the Foamasi at the end of one noon, and then from 2.30pm to 3.30pm; this

Bickford asked for both the Quantel 5001 and scene and changing the dialogue between the comprised the shots with Loman, Pangol and

Quantel 3001 to be available for the gallery Doctor and Romana about the fake experiments. the Doctor and their respective body parts. The

session in TC6 on Wednesday 30 April. In Part Two, there were changes to a scene of description of the seed pods on the Argolin led Vargos welcoming Hardin, and of Stimson Dorka Nieradzik to think of the race as being d The opening sequence at Brighton was bumping into Vargos rather than hearing a plant-like; thus they all had a green tint to their requested by Nathan-Turner who lived there. tannoy announcement. In Part Three, new make-up apart from Pangol whose more

Neither the producer nor Bidmead liked K9 and scenes of Brock in the corridor, a model shot and bronzed metallic look hinted at him being a

wanted to write him out, knowing that the a pan around the Great Hall were added. More child of the tachyon generator.

Top: The brochure photo for dog's explosion in the opening scenes would dialogue was requested for Part One. didn't exactly the leisure hive shock the audience. The material was written by t) Thursday 3 April: Recording took place

it favours ... do any Fisher, who was told by Nathan-Turner and ,J* Monday 17 March: The film crew conducted between 2.30pm and 5.15pm, and then 7.30pm

in Brighton. and 10pm, the usual schedule for most studio Above: Brock says hello! Letts that they did not want jokes in the script. a recce to Fishmarket Head i days. Taping began with the CSO shots of Pangol

9 A document listing the stock props for the £> Bickford envisaged his direction of the in the bubble for Part Four and some of the series was included as part of the Doctor Who serial as being very experimental and tried out a model shots of Argolis and the Hive. The Hive

script model built from vacuum formed plastic. Handbook in February 1 980. The props included lot of new techniques. He saw the as a was

the sonic screwdriver, Kg's whistle, a capsule of comic strip with a lot of vibrant energy, showing After this, the scenes with all the holidaymaker

pills (from Destiny of the Daleks), a stethoscope, what could be achieved with the low budget and extras in the Great Hall were recorded for Part So, what's with that arty-farty, Kg's tool kit, a piton hammer and pitons, books facilities; Nathan-Turner encouraged him to One. These sequences were technically very namby-pamby, hoity-toity, (including Teach Yourself Tibetan & Cantonese from experiment in this manner. In particular, demanding, including the use of star captions hair-do, then, Pangol? scene, and a moving roll-back- i The Creature from the Pit), the TARDIS Type 40 Bickford ideally saw the Foamasi as opaque for the opening Handbook, the Doctor's notepad, a Dalek bomb insects, with their vertebrae and bones visible and-mix for the TARDIS' arrival, and material

(from Destiny of the Daleks), a magnet, Romana's as light shone through their bodies; this would recorded with a handheld camera. As a result,

belongings (her compact, etc.), a yellow tow- have required the creatures being made by the bulk of the scenes scheduled for the rest of

rope (from Destiny of the Daleks), the Doctor's visual effects and not the costume department. the day had to be abandoned; this comprised the eyepiece and the TARDIS keys. scenes in the Boardroom for Part One and the 9 Thursday 20 March: Having flown back cliff-hanger bridging Parts One and Two in the 9 Sian Phillips was offered theroleofMena from Sydney the previous day, Baker was jet- Great Hall (all scheduled for the afternoon) plus - Protheroe' lagged and ill. His scenes were deferred to the all the evening material which was scheduled to on Tuesday 5 February 1 980. A 'Mr possibly Brian Protheroe - was offered the part following day, and a pile of cushions was placed be the Boardroom scenes for Part Two up to

of Pangol on Friday 22 February. Adrienne Corri in a deck chair with his new costume draped Mena's first ageing, the Doctor and Romana's

took the role of Mena because the material in over them for the first day's filming. The final escape down a corridor in Part One (during

the script dealing with tachyons attracted her. shot zooming back from the beach on the which Adrienne Corri would go to make-up) and

Laurence Payne was able to take on the brief Brighton sequence was filmed from the roof of then concluding with the resolution of Mena's

role of Morix because he only had a short Queen's Hotel which was the unit's base. Nigel ageing referred to as 'Stage 2'. Bickford

amount of time before his next role; the part Brackley had fitted caterpillar tracks to Kg for requested that a lot of the studio sets were built

was recommended to him by his friend Fiona the Brighton beach sequence, but these proved with ceilings as he favoured low-angle shots. The ,

director also wanted the sets very brightly lit, for the final episode in the Long Corridor and in zooming through space seen on the monitor in

reasoning that Argolis was near its sun and that the Great Hall. Bickford had then planned to Part Two was apparently effects footage taken

this made the Hive sets more claustrophobic. conclude all the Laboratory scenes for Parts Four from the Space: 1999 episode Space Warp.

Hie use ofthe handheld camera took up a lot of and Two, including those deferred from the first time. Although caring passionately about the block, but again ran out of time. An oscilloscope & The Radiophonic Workshop was appointed show, Baker got very bored in rehearsals, and was used to create the pink pattern around the to produce incidental music for the new series

Bickford felt that some of the ideas he wanted to hourglass. Quantel was used to freeze-frame following demos done by Paddy Kingsland and

inject into the serial were misguided. In studio, the explosion. There was an over-run of 35 Peter Howell to fit the story The Horns of Nimon. Baker would suggest an idea and then get angry minutes to clear extra scenes. For The Leisure Hiue, Bickford wanted very dark

when it failed to work after several attempts. and serious music.

Q> Sunday 20 April: In addition to the usual

3 Friday 4 April: The original plan for the day afternoon and evening taping, a morning f) For the new theme, Howell used basic had been to record scenes with a young Doctor recording was added between nam and noon. sound manipulation and borrowed equipment

and Mena for the end of Part Four, the shuttle With Baker back to normal and Corri in 'Stage from the Radiophonic Workshop. Much of the

1 arrival in Part Two, the shuttle model shots and ', taping began with the previous abandoned melody came from using a vocoder. The music

then the CSO squash match in the afternoon scenes in the Great Hall bridging Parts One and was devised in parallel with Sid Sutton's new

(a sequence which would be composed using Two, and the similarly deferred Boardroom title sequence. The theme music was produced

Quantel). Corri would then be made up to her scenes at the start of Part Two, with Mena's over six weeks in February/March 1980.

oldest, 'Stage 6' for the evening session. The progression to 'Stage 2' and the corridor scenes

evening recording would comprise Pangol's as originally planned. Work then continued on 9 The new title sequence was made on 35mm The Doctor gets Kg's sea water images merging on CSO, scenes in the Great the Great Hall scenes for Part Two, and the film using back-lit plastic eels of a star field defences wrong. Well, he can 1 Hall for the climax of Part Four, the Laboratory sequences in the Boardroom which doubled as which was slowly filmed with a camera tracking get everything right! scenes for Part Two, the Doctor examining the the Courtroom. Again, the final shots of the day towards it. Mixed into this were acetates with a

Generator interior in Part One and Brock's were abandoned; Foamasi feet appearing in the photograph of Baker's face; Nathan-Turner felt

hologram message for Part One. During the shuttle corridor at the start of Part Two, the the original 1974 film sequence no longer

evening, a locked-off camera would be used to remaining scenes inside the Generator and the resembled the actor some six years later. The

do multiple shots of the Earth experiment scenes of Romana with the Doctor/Pangol images new logo was designed in the form of a single

hologram in which shots of elderly extra Eileen fading away in Part Four. However, there was an neon strip. Bidmead wanted to be credited as

Brady would be done with her aged make up over-run of 22 minutes to complete scenes with 'Christopher Hamilton Bidmead' on the closing

being removed (Stages 1 and 2) while young the artists whose contracts expired that night. credits, but when this would not fit he settled

extra Julia Gaye would have make-up applied to for 'Christopher H Bidmead'.

age her (Stages 8 to 3). Because things were so 9 Monday 21 April: To conclude recording, behind schedule, recording began with the end Bickford planned a morning recording between 9 The Promotional document for the serial

of Part Four with a young Mena and continued nam and noon and an afternoon session from listed the selling points as guest stars Adrienne

into the corridor and Boardroom scenes left 2.30pm to 6.30pm. The morning was devoted to Corri and John Collin, location filming at

over from the previous day. The squash match completing the hourglass effects shots in the Brighton, new titles, signature tune and logo,

and experiment hologram were recorded, along Laboratory for Part Two and then the roll-back- and a new costume for the Doctor.

Hi Morix' demise and some scenes in the and-mix shots of the Doctor/Pangol images

Great Hall from Part Four, but the other scenes vanishing in the corridor; by this time, Baker was Friday September: Baker's appearance on 9 5 Hardin makes a sausage dog I with the Pangol Army had to be abandoned. not speaking to Ward unless required by the The John Dunn Show was included on the CD set balloon. Probably. script. In the afternoon, the Foamasi break-in Doctor Who at the BBC Volume 2 issued by BBC

) Monday 7 April: Rehearsals began for the during Part One was recorded, followed by the Audiobooks in September 2004.

second studio session at Action. Laboratory sabotage in Part Two, Stimson in Brock's Cabin (a redressed and relit Cabin set in 9 Thursday 20 November: An Audience ) Tuesday 15 April: Because of the over-runs, which the Doctor and Romana had been held), Research Report on the story assessed comments

an extra day was booked on Monday 21 April to the Generator interior, some short scenes in the from 118 viewers. The majority enjoyed the

tape between nam and 6.30pm with Baker and Long Corridor (Bickford was unhappy with the serial, while some found it unexciting and hard

Ward along with David Allister, Nigel Lambert and shot of the Foamasi treading on Stimson's to follow. Baker's performance was 'rated very

Martin Fisk. Nathan-Turner was reprimanded glasses, but had too little time to re-record it) highly indeed' and Ward and Corri were also

for allowing such a situation to occur. and finally the outstanding Laboratory scenes for singled out for praise. The special effects, make- The Doctor and Romana Parts Two and Four. Abandoned was a short up, costumes and sets were all highly praised. arrive on Brighton beach. 9 Friday 18 April: Recording took place in the scene for Part Two of Vargos meeting Hardin and

afternoon and evening as usual. It was scheduled Stimson off the shuttle, watched by a Foamasi.

around the scenes with Baker in aged make-up

(which he hated), and Corri starting at 'Stage 3'. 3 A gallery-only session to add video effects Corn's scene with Hardin in the Boardroom at was planned for Wednesday 30 April in TC8, but

the start of Part Three was recorded, followed by this had to be cancelled and remounted. Editing various Great Hall scenes for Parts Three and Two, was originally to have started on Tuesday 6,

and some of the scenes in the Cabin where the Thursday 8 and Friday 9 May, but these were

Doctor and Romana were held in Part Three. also deferred. On Thursday 22 May, editing was

With Corri now made up to 'Stage 4', her scene rescheduled to take place on Monday 26,

in the Boardroom for Part Three where Pangol Wednesday 28, Saturday 31 May and Sunday 1 accused Hardin was taped, after which she was Saturday 14, Sunday 15 and Tuesday 17 June,

I he advanced to 'Stage 5'. The remaining cabin with gallery-only work being completed in TC6 and corridor scenes for Part Three were then on Saturday 7 June. It was aimed that Part Four taped, along with Brock's hologram for Part One would complete editing on Saturday 28 June. The and then the later Boardroom scenes for Part episodes ran short, and were given long reprise

Three with the older Mena. The Laboratory scenes sequences to extend them. To pad out Part Two, in Part Three were then taped, but some short shots of the shuttle arriving and Vargos walking corridor scenes were abandoned. Bickford had along a corridor were reused from Part One. also hoped to record the scenes with Stimson in Second edits were broadcast of the serial, apart the corridors and Brock's Cabin, the Foamasi from Part Four which was a third edit. This part sabotage in the Laboratory in Part Two and the required an extra editing session which was

Part One sequence of the Foamasi cutting their booked for an hour on Thursday 21 August, but ray into the Hive, but all these were dropped. it was still not complete by Friday 29 August.

9 Saturday 19 April: Baker and Corri again 9 Quantel allowed a shot of the TARDIS spent the day in their aged make-up. Recording materialising in the Great Hall while the camera began with Boardroom scenes bridging Parts was in motion, and was used for all the

Three and Four and then continuing with scenes holocrystal shots. The shot of a colourful cloud i THE COIT1PLETE FOURTH LTTCDR Richard Salpeas, Huntley Young, Hi Ching, LingTai, 9 The Leisure Hive was screened in Australia Writing the Leisure Hiue produced by 9-minute Synthesizing Starfields Willow Wipp, Ina Claire, Sarah Gardener, in March 1982. In New Zealand it debuted in Molesworth, the Maureen Stevens and Anna Van serial in produced by Stradling, and the 6-minute June Pearl Gilham, March 1981 . UK Gold screened the Holidaymakers; Derek Suthern was in compilation Hudson's Leisure Wear produced by Molesworth Karina were episodic form in May 1 994 and Guide Dorant; Maurice Connor, Douglas Stark, form since then. BBC Prime screened the story and directed by Steve Broster. Val McCrimmon, Peter Annette Peters, Jenny Roberts, Ken Sedd, Mary in March/April 2000. The BBC Archives retain D3 June Hudson, Christopher H Bidmead, at Rennie and Mike Reynell were Guides; Graham copies of the original two-inch videotapes. A Howell and David Fisher were interviewed Cole and Mitchell Horner were Squash Players; recording spool survives comprising material BBC Worldwide's offices on Sunday 25 January and Woods 21 April. 2004, Sid Sutton was interviewed at his home on Tim Oldroyd, Douglas Roe Reg from Friday 4, Friday 18 and Monday were Pangols (body ports); James Muir and David Saturday 7 February, John Leeson at his home on Thursday Korffwere Foamasi (Brock/Klout); Fred Reford 9 The sound effect of Foamasi voices was on Saturday 14 and Lovett Bickford from played Loman; Martin Clark, Brian Massey and included on the CD Doctor Who.- 30 Years at the 19 February. The Tom Baker material came Story Doctor Who Joe Phillips were Lomans (body parts); Eileen Radiophonic Workshop issued in July 1993 by BBC an interview recorded for The of Brady was the Old Lady; Nick Joseph was the Enterprises. The Target paperback was reprinted on Thursday 30 October 2003, while the John the Young Woman; painting by Nathan-Turner interview hailed from the video Earth Scientist; Julia Gaye was in October 1 993 with a new cover Trauel and Derek Chafer, David Rolfe and Roy Seeley were Alister Pearson. The serial was released on VHS in documentary The Doctors.- 30 Years of Time Beyond. Also included was a Blue Peter clip of the Doctors (body parts); David Bulbeck was a July 1997 with a cover painting by Colin Howard. Thursday Foamasi; Annette Peters and Jenny Roberts were A Foamasi figure was produced by Harlequin Longleat Doctor Who Exhibition from 3 Leader, April 980. A commentary was recorded by Ward, Medical Guides; Ray Lavender, Michael Miniatures in 1 999. Incidental music and sound 1 Facilities in Douglas Auchterlonie, David Cole, Tim Gooding, effects from the serial were released by BBC Music Bickford and Bidmead at Outpost February 2004. Bruce Guest, Eric Hamilton, Bobby James, Ray on CD in May 2002 as Doctor Who at the BBC Pinewood on Thursday 19 Knight, Mark Middler, Mike Mungarvan, Stuart Radiophonic Workshop: Volume 3: The Leisure Hiue. O'Brien, Tim Oldroyd, Harry 9 In the Cast section, Harriet Reynolds is Myers, Kevin Voice on although Payne, Douglas Roe, Harry Van Engel, Leslie (> The Leisure Hiue was released on DVD by BBC only credited as Tannoy [1 ,4] uncredited. In the Extras Weekes, Geoffrey Whitestone and Reg Woods Worldwide in July 2004 with a photomontage she is also heard on 2, were the Pangol Army; Derek Chafer, Mike cover by Clayton Hickman. The disc included section, the roles can now be clarified: Norman Hanley, Ridgewell Hawkes, David Rolfe, Roy several featurettes including the 30-minute Bradley, Brian Massey, Joe Phillips, Inga Daley, Wayne were Pangol/Doctor; Alys documentary A New Beginning produced by Ed Emmanuel Josiah. Pauline Lewis, Ranjit Seeley and Jeff - Dyer was Baby Pangol. Stradling, the 14-minute From Aualon to Argolis Nakara, Parti Patience, Ansley Pollard, John Meglos Poison luy BU GflRETH ROBERTS DUim HRCHIUE

DWM 285 Earthling's diary, 27 September 1080: Got up. Listened to Simon Bates. Breakfast. Fed cat. Kidnapped by malevolent cactus and taken to alien

cnmmissinninG planet. Rescued. Went home. Late for tea. Slept on the couch. Again. Mon 25 Feb 80 Meglos scene breakdown commissioned for Wed

5 Mar 80; delivered Tue 4 Mar 80 Mon 10 Mar 80 The Golden Star exchange the Doctor's gorgeous grown-up assistants for Janet (W/T) scripts commissioned for Tue and John-style 'companions'? 18 Mar 80 (Part One) and Tue 22 Meglos is supposed to be the black sheep of this season, butil Apr 80 (Parts Two to Four); deliv- has a lot in common with its peers; the viewer-haemorrhagingly ered Mon 17 Mar 80 (Part One), set-up (a tortoise to the greyhounds that were City ofDeath or Mon 14 Apr 80 (Parts Two to Four) slow Nightmare of Eden) which stills feel peppy in comparison to the

PRODucTinn qualuuded pace of its predecessor (and this in an era supposed to Television Centre i Wed 25 Jun 80 be lightning fast!); a planet full of people with silly hair; and a Studio 8: Walkway, City Entrance, battle between science and superstition. The Power Room Annex, Int/Ext Christopher Bidmead went on record once as saying that the Main City Entrance, Between the purpose ofDoctor Who was to teach children the scientific method, two sets of doors, Smaller Walkway and put them off hippy ideas (his words not mine) and this is Thu 26 Jun 80 Television Centre reflected here by the struggle between the scientific Savants and Studio 8: Walkway and Cave, The clearly and Jungle with Spacecraft, Jungle, the fundamentalist Deons. The Deons are wrong, The Small Cave, Jungle Clearing, shown to be wrong, in their worship of the Dodecahedron The Power Room Annex. Jungle (perhaps a reference to the Ka'aba, the sacred bit of meteorite in with Bell Plants, Central Control, the middle of Mecca), but sadly the death of Jacqueline Hill's Small Walkway fatwa-dispensing Lexa early in Part Four robs us of the scene Fri 27 Jun 80 Television Centre where Deedrix and Caris hand her a pair of secateurs and tell the Studio 8: The Debating Chamber, mad old bag to get pruning. (If she'd lived on Earth, Lexa would Central Control, Walkway, City be benefits in Finsbury Park, and we'd keep being told Entrance, The Power Room now on was a religion of peace.) But working Thu 10 Jul 80 Television Centre Dodecahedron-worship Romana's escape Studio 3: The Meglos Laboratory, against all this rationalism, the Doctor and Zolfa-Thura by the Spacecraft, from Meglos' chronic hysterectomy seems more daft, and more

TARDIS like magic, than anything Douglas Adams ever cooked up (see 80 Television Centre Fri 11 Jul also 'flushing the Master out' in Logopolis). Studio 3: Zolfa-Thura with Eighteen. And yet Meglos also reflects a lot of the better points of Season can never make up my mind about Season | Laboratory, Zolfa-Thura by the best efforts, Tom Bal costumes are nice, although nothing really seems Eighteen. Despite the production team's Spacecraft, Zolfa-Thura with The " SF ideas; is still magnificently magnetic in his double role, and TARDIS behind screen, Model shots to happen. There are some mind-expanding later to marry the most famous Savant of our time, is as' Sat 12 Jul 80 Television Centre also tons ofincomprehensible babble about anti-baryon Ward, engaging confident as ever. The studio lights haven't yet Studio 3: Spacecraft Hold, The shields and bubble memory, with a clearly disgruntled and incidental score is not too intrusive Meglos Laboratory, The Spacecraft Tom Baker throwing a lot of these lines to the floor where they been turned up to eleven, the Cockpit, The Power Room, Jungle, or squeaky, and Grugger and Brotadac talk, behave and react like belong. I guess it's something ofan achievement to overestimate Gaztak Spacecraft all things which were more or less to fall away from ^ your audience's intelligence and insult it all at the same time; real people, the Doctor touched down on Traken. Meglos what's the point of all the hard SF window-dressing when you the series once

5' DOCTOR LUHO mOGFiZinE himself is a splendidly silly creation, very much like Crayola in decay, and sadly diat's mirrored by the series' sporadic decline * RADIO TIIHES that Victoria Wood sketch, although as with almost all other from about this point. Which brings us to Zastor; poor Edward Sat 27 Sep 80 Part One: What

1980s stories - underexplained and underdirected - we're left at Underdown, consumed by the entropy that will get to us all in the doom is in store for the planet of the end with several big unanswered questions; why did he end. In his youth he was the likely subject ofNoel Coward's Mad Tigella? Who summoned the Gaztak mercenaries? What secret lies disguise himself as a cactus and wait ten thousand years under About The Boy - "On the silver screen, he melts my foolish heart in beneath the Zolfa-Thuran sands? the desert? Why not just go and collect the Dodecahedron? Why every single scene ..." Sat 4 Oct 80 Part Two: Will the does he need an Earthling to model himself on? So please don't remember him, or the original series of Doctor Doctor escape the Time Loop? Will The leitmotif of Season Eighteen is supposed to be change and Who, this way. the Doctor's look-alike infiltrate

Tigella? What surprise for Romana

lies behind the burnt vegetation?

Sat 11 Oct 80 Part Three: Can HRCHIUE EHTRH Romana escape the Gaztaks? What has become of the Dodecahedron? What pressing Monday 21 April 1 0 1980: Terence Dudley 9 Friday 1 July: In addition to the afternoon No 75. The French edition was Book No 8. appointment awaits the Doctor? joined Serial 5Q as director. and evening recordings, an extra morning Incidental music from the serial was released Sat 18 Oct 80 Part Four: Will the recording took place from nam to noon. by BBC Music on CD in May 2002 as part of Doctor turn the tables on his

Tuesday 1 May: The Drama Early Warning Doctor at the Radiophonic Workshop: 9 3 Who BBC doppelganger? How can the Synopsis was Last released for The Zolfa-Thuran; 9 Thursday 31 July: The Quantel 5001 system Volume 4; Mealos and Full Circle, while sound Earthling escape his prickly fate?

the guest stars were listed as Bill Fraser and was booked for the gallery only work in TCS. effects appeared simultaneously on Doctor Who What is the secret of the

Jacqueline Hill. at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop: Volume 3: The Dodecahredon? 9 Editing was originally scheduled for Leisure Hiue. BBC Worldwide issued the serial 9 Friday 6 June: The title captions for the Saturday 19, Sunday 20 and Thursday 24 July on VHS in March 2003 with a photomontage

serial were ordered as The Lost Zolfa-Thuran. and Saturday 23 and Sunday 24 August. A cover. The BBC Archives retain D3 copies of the Jacqueline Hill (left) returns to

second edit of Part One was broadcast; the original two-inch videotapes. Doctor Who after 1 5 years. 9 Wednesday 25 June: Recording ran from other instalments were first edits. 7.30pm to 10pm. Visual effects designer Steve i Drewett made the small Dodecahedron and the 9 Paddy Kingsland scored Part One because Tigellan guns, while Roger Perkins made the Peter Howell had flu.

Gaztak guns.

0 Tuesday 9 September: It was noted that

9 Thursday 26 June: For most of the John Flanagan and Andrew McCulloch were still remaining studio days, afternoon and evening owed a six-minute rewrite fee for Part Three.

recording took place from 2.30pm to 5.15pm,

ind then 7.30pm to 10pm. Visual effects Q) Thursday 26 September: The Radio Times

assistant Mike Kelt made the four Bell Plants carried various letters of comment about the

from polyurethane foam with a latex coating, new season.

and made their tendrils twitch using

compressed air and a 12V battery. 9 The serial was repeated in Australia in the

late 1980s, and repeated in New Zealand in

9 Thursday 10 July: Recording only took June 1988. BBC Prime screened the story in place in the evening. The Meglos cactus was April/May 2000.

made out of latex rubber with an air bladder

inside it. 9 The Target paperback was numbered Book 4 V f

Full Circle

This World of Water BU HLISTHIR IIICBDUIII UJm HRCHIUE DWM 327 cnmmissinmnG Mon 25 Feb 80 The Planet That Slept

Marshmen on the march ... Part One script commissioned

for Tue 1 Apr 80; delivered Sat 22 Mar 80

Mon 31 Mar 80 The Planet That m first fan fiction, threatening to destabilise Slept Parts Two to Four scripts a system designed for men with pipes commissioned for Fri 25 Apr 80; and Oxbridge degrees, Smith's subsequent delivered Fri 25 Apr 80 invisibility has cultivated mystery - he has only ever made a couple of convention PRonucTinn appearances, back in 1981, and has never Wed 23 Jul 80 Black Park, Fulmer, Bucks (Riverside and Forest) been interviewed by DWM. His CV on the Thu 24 Jul 80 Black Park (Riverside) Internet Movie Database lists just the Fri 25 Jul 80 Black Park marvellous Full Circle and nothing more (Forest/Marsh) (even if he actually wrote sketches for BBC Thu 7 Aug 80 Television Centre Scotland Kick the in comedy A Up 80s 1981). Studio 3: TARDIS Console Room, The IMDB also omits that Andrew Smith TARDIS Romana's Quarters was my babysitter. Fri 8 Aug 80 Television Centre Well, his mum was anyway, and she Studio 3: Another Lower Deck Section, Lower Deck Section, Cave, would drag him along - aged nine - to our Passage, Quantel shots hile almost every bit ofarcane Doctor Who data house over the road when I was but a time tot. Our standing Thu 21 Aug 80 Television Centre has now been unearthed, this story's writer, family joke is that he must have cast a magic spell that turned me Studio 6: Science Unit, Cave I Andrew Smith, remains one of the show's into a Doctor Who fan when I was a few months old. Still, we Fri 22 Aug 80 Television Centre few enigmas. Known broadly as the 18-year- moved away from Scotland before I was a year old and Smith's Studio 6: Great Book Room, Model old Glasgow prodigy who gave Doctor Who its supernatural DH imagined influence ceased. shots &

THE COITIPLETE PDUHTH CTDH F=psnn IB

say, popped back to bother Andrew just once more, By 1980, the spell had worked and I had become a fully fledged I, 'owyou If Sat 2j Aug 80 Television family having returned to in September 1982, to have the just-published Target paperback Centre Studio 6: Starliner nine-year-old Doctor Who loony. The Full Circle signed. After that there was just the occasional Boarding Area, Corridor, Passage Glasgow, mum spied a story in a local paper about a teenager of on by mum. Andrew had begun a Law degree from Rutherglen writing for Doctor Who - lo and behold it was our anecdote passed out after a year to pursue writing full time and his rhdid Times old neighbour, Andrew. It turned out he still lived in the same but dropped - Sat Oct 80 Part One: What has the law would be on the BBC's Juliet Bravo 25 house as before so Mum engineered a visit sometime in 1981. next brush with become of Gallifrey? Who are the script idea was accepted but unfortunately, when he Goodness knows what this TV scriptwriter thought ofhaving apparently a What lurks marauding Outlers? to to London to discuss rewrites, he was unable a ten-year-old fan invading his afternoon but ifhe was put out he was asked come beneath the marsh? due to family illness. Juliet Bravo Magazine might care to check the didn't show it - he was wholly encouraging and interested in Sat 1 Nov 80 Part Two: What is Meanwhile, 1 regret to aspirations. Of course, if I'd had the files in the BBC's Written Archive Centre. the strange journey of the Tardis? my writing and drawing piece report that the first I heard about 1984's aborted The First How do the Marshmen make short forethought to record an in-depth two-hour interview this

I Sontarans was in Andrew Pixley's Archive in DWM 327. work of Ko? What else is at large would be considerably longer, but I was only ten, so instead inspired by Jean Darblay or not, Smith later decided under cover of Mistfall? goggled at Andrew's Betamax VCR, a luxury bought with some Whether 8 Nov 80 Part Three: What is to join the police for real. His earlier dropping out of Sat of his BBC earnings, and the accompanying recordings of all of he wanted the secret of the Starliner? How was refused, but a subsequent Season Eighteen. He showed me a prop spider he had been university meant the application does Dexeter get his deserts? Why appeal so impressed the panel he was accepted into the gifted on set - not a big mechanical one, more a small, non- letter of Deciders? is chaos closing in on the London's Metropolitan force and speaking floppy rubber effort that was nonetheless hugely force. Later he transferred to Sat 15 Nov 80 Part Four: What is something high up in the CID - if you try With going on about how I, too, would the last I heard he was the secret legacy of Dexeter's impressive. my mum other than Malcolm tracing him there, I really hope you're placed on an MI5 register, research? How does the Doctor write for telly, he loaned me his bible, none with your phone tapped for the rest of your life! Apparendy, give evolution a small nudge? Hulke's Writing For Television in the Seventies. I returned it a couple though, Andrew always planned that one day he would return to E-Space - which way out? ofweeks later, having learned two vital things - 1) it contained a suitably inspired by his time in criminal investigation. script extract from , and 2) French people writing, you Maybe one day that IMDB entry will include Waking the Dead 'Loveable cheeky chappy' Adric in your scripts should never begin a sentence with '"Ow 1970s. alongside The Planet that Slept? (Matthew Waterhouse). say ...?". Sadly, I never did write for television in the HRCHIUE EKTRH

Thursday 30 October: Letters in the Radio 2 980: Peter Grimwade in studio, Steve Cambden, the assistant K9 9 O Monday June 1 Lawrence his final Times for the broadcast of Part Two included joined the production as director. operator, gave Barney if Kg rehearsals for the shot of Kg's head being Jane Ching of Sutton in Ashfield asking Battersea home when he knocked off. was to be sent to Dogs Qf Monday 21 July: Barney Lawrence tested a retired and saying that she will adopt him, Marshman costume on location. sent packing C) Friday 22 August: Grimwade had originally along with a cartoon of Kg being

is what you get Scotland planned to add the Doctor, the Marshchild and with a comment that this £) Friday 1 August: BBC Radio exterior 'for upstaging the star'. The letters editor interviewed Andrew Smith on The Jimmu some Citizens into shots of the Starliner commented that K9 would be leaving the Mack Show. model using CSO but the plan was abandoned W Below: The Doctor and Kg at when he was unhappy with the depth of field series at the start of 1981. marshes during Mistfall. between elements. the O Friday 8 August: Visual effects assistant he could achieve Wednesday 12 November: Some last-minute Charlie Lumm took the head off the dummy Saturday August: Tom Baker took great dubbing of Part Four was performed on for Below right: The TARDIS K9 so that it could be smashed off the real 9 23 around the broadcast that Saturday. passes into E-Space. radio-controlled prop. With Lumm not present pleasure in carrying the K9 head studio since he really did not enjoy working with the radio-controlled prop. 9 Thursday 13 November: In conjunction with the broadcast of Part Four, the Radio Times from Mrs Angela 9 Saturday 25 October: Matthew Waterhouse letters page carried missives was interviewed by Noel Edmonds on Miller of Billingham protesting against female wanted Multi-Coloured Swap Shop on the morning of Doctor while Elizabeth Dunn of Stafford

Part One's transmission; after a clip of Adric a female Doctor with 'a dumb male assistant'. Davison entering the TARDIS, Edmonds discussed The letters editor confirmed that Peter Waterhouse's enjoyment of the series (notably had already been cast.

in Patrick Troughton's era) and the young actor answered viewer's phone-in questions about O Andrew Smith continued to write for Three a Kind, A the show before offering a host of Doctor Who comedy sketch shows such as of Week Ending, merchandise and two family tickets to visit the Kick up the Eighties and for Radio 4's

Doctor Who Experience at Madame Tussaud's in abroad, purchased exchange for the correct answer to the question () Full Circle was marketed and screened in "Who built K9 Mark I?" by Australia in February 1981

Spring 1982 uncut with a 'G' rating; it was then

repeated in the late Eighties. New Zealand

broadcast the story in May/June 1981 with a

in late repeat in June 1 988. The serial debuted

1981 in North America where it was also shown as a TV Movie of 83 minutes duration.

C> The repeat of the serial in 1981 was stripped each evening from Monday to Thursday

in the first week of August 1 981 , but was not broadcast by BBC Cymru (who screened shows

like Dad's Armu and The Good Life instead).

BBC Prime screened the story in May 2000.

novelisation, Doctor {jf Smith's changes to his

Who - Full Circle, included adding the poem

quoted by Keara in Part Two (attributed to

First Decider Yanek Pitrus), a prologue of the Terradonian Starliner crashing on Alzarius and

fleshing out the background of various

characters.

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location filming for State of Decay. Tue 1 1 Jan 77 The Vampire Mutation scripts commissioned for Mon 7 Feb 77; delivered Tue 25 Jan 77 (Part One only) spacecraft are filled with blood. Tom Baker knows the value of Thu 13 Dec 79 The Vampire Mutations it tilt: at us the Gothic and goes for full looking up from reading storyline commissioned for Mon 31

the fragile antiquity collection of ancient knowledge in his Dec 79; delivered Wed 1 6 Jan 80 decaying TARDIS in a wonderful crane shot; giving the full Thu 24 Jan 80 The Vampire Mutation authority he so often laid aside in his later years to talking (W/T) scripts commissioned for Fri 22 Feb 80; delivered Thu 28 Feb 80 about ghost stories in Part Three; for the last time showing his imperial punk rudeness to nobles who disgust him; and best of PRDDUCTIDI1 all, just looking honestly at Romana and saying "you are Wed 30 May 80 Burnham wonderful", like we're suddenly not there, then looking to the Beeches, Burnham, Bucks guard as if he should share that loving thought too, and just for (Woodlands/Lane/Woods)

a moment he does and we all do. Thu 1 May 80 Burnham Beeches

It feels like autumn for a story like this, like it's too late for (Woodlands/Wasteland/Countryside)

something so big, something that builds and builds so it defeats Fri 2 May 80 Burnham Beeches (Woods); CAV Lucas, Acton our expectations of where the beats should be: this is a Doctor (Inspection Shaft) Who story that moves into high gear in Part Three instead of Thu 15 May 80 Television Centre running around corridors. All the revelations come too early, Studio 3: Centre, TARDIS, because the meat of the thing isn't obvious surprises, but the joy Inspection Shaft of the Gothic battle. It's littered with great lines: "If you need Fri 16 May 80 Television Centre

doors ... guards." anything, there are guards outside the many Studio 3: Rebel HQ, Model shots,

Lots of them delivered by three great villain actors who've had Scout Ship Control Rooms 1-3, rehearsal time spent on a shared body language. Storage Area Visual Effects It isn't just in time spent with the actors that the direction Tue 20 May 80 Department, Acton: Model filming excels (look at Ward saying "inner sanctum please" like she's on Fri 21 May 80 Visual Effects a bus!) The visuals are sublime: not only the layering of one Department: Model filming image atop another, but the best ever use of stock footage, the Thu 29 May 80 Television Centre best rubber bats ever committed to film, and the best 'room is Studio 6: State Room, Tower he serialisation of Seasons Eighteen to Twenty shaking' effects, here achieved electronically rather than have Corridors, Sleeping Vault

lessens the impact of the bad, but it also buries the actors throw themselves about. Wed 30 May 80 Television Centre the good. That, and us knowing too much about Unfortunately, the tone of the story plays against Ward's Studio 6: Tower Corridor, Corridor Cell, High Cell, its production history, tends to obscure just how strengths, her jaunty insistence of hokum actually putting the Outside High T Tower Entrance, Corridor by Back good, how much a 'classic', how deserving of a brakes on Baker telling us this is life and death for one last time. Door of Tower, State Room, place in the absolute top tier of Doctor Who stories State ofDecay is. He stops at the end of describing the vampires in Part Three, and Vampire disintegration An active and committed, gothically brooding Tom Baker there's space for a joke which she seeks to set up ... and he Thu 31 May 80 Television Centre sharing lashings of bubbly banter with Lalla Ward: that's not doesn't tell. There's lots of Doctor fun and games, all delivered Studio 6: Cave at Tower Base, The State all final curtain call. Season Eighteen, is it? That's not anywhere. Except qfDecay. impeccably, but like a Inner Ground, Rebel HQ scanner

A handy, jolly Adric, with the dialogue of a charismatic thief, There is, unfortunately, a from a previous draft, inserts, Scout Ship model shots who throws knives? Only State of Decay. where everyone talks about 'the Wasting' for one scene, then it's

Underneath the science-fiction, Doctor Who is about the forgotten. It's unforgivable, but everything else is so good that I UNDID TIDIES

Sat 22 Nov 80 Part One: Who is primal, transcending and transgressive power of the Gothic. forgive it. Take your Talons and your Pyramids and add Decay to the third Tardis Time Traveller? This is it: Doctor Who vs The Vampires! They're not aliens who that list. For four episodes, passionate Gothic Doctor Who reared Who are the Three Who Rule? ate a bit like vampires, they are vampires! (As Romana yells it.) up out of the unconscious again, even when the proper colour What Terror stalks the night? The pipes of their immaculately-detailed, sublimely designed for space was green. Sat 29 Nov 80 Part Two: What

sinister future is promised Adric?

What is draining the life of the

planet? What is the secret of the Tower? nnnmnannnii Sat 6 Dec 80 Part Three: What is the Power of Aukon? Which 9 At the end of Part Three, the script notes £1 Wednesday 30 April: Filming comprised the Here, filming took place between 2.30pm and ancient enemy of the Time Lords is that Adric awakens and gives 'his usual Doctor returning to the TARDIS, the Doctor and 5pm on three Inspection Shaft scenes which stirring? What is the i£ cheeky grin'. Romana meeting the peasant in Part One and the were filmed on the ladder of a ventilation tower.

bat attack at the end of Part One. Visual effects The company donated its fee to the Lucas CAV The set for State of Decay's 9 Monday 10 March 1980: Peter Moffaft designer Tony Harding used some modified wind- Children's Christmas Party Fund. ancient spaceship. joined the production team to direct the serial. up flapping toy bats. For the flock of bats, these

were suspended from two poles manipulated by <]f Tuesday 6 May: Terrance Dicks attended the

9 Wednesday 1 g March: Planning documents Harding and his assistant Chris Lawson. read-through for the serial.

referred to the characters Karmilla (ie Camilla),

Mikos (ie Aukon) and Harkan (ie Habris). These 9 Thursday 1 May: The sequences filmed were 9 The Quantel 3001 image manipulation names were changed by Thursday 10 April. of the Doctor returning to the TARDIS in Part system was made available for studio work on

Three, the Doctor and Romana being Thursday 15 and Friday 16 May, and for the

9 Gillian Raine was offered the role of Marta surrounded and taken to the Rebel HQ in Part gallery only day on Tuesday 3 June. A second and John Normington that of Mikos (Aukon) on One, and of the TARDIS arriving in Part One. day was scheduled in TC6on Saturday 7 June,

Monday 24 March. Stuart Fell was originally along with material for The Leisure Hiue.

given the role of Roga but this was changed to 9 Friday 2 May: Filming completed the bat

the part of Zoldaz on Wednesday g April, and attack along. The crew then went to the 9 A dispute arose between the BBC and

then reverted to being Roga prior to recording. premises of CAV Lucas on Larden Road in Acton. Slough Radio Control over an invoice which

THE EDITIPLETE FOURTH DETER I

model which was used in the Q Thursday 15 May: According to some of the and by a two-foot cast and crew, Waterhouse's inexperience on a finished show. The vampire hand was played by

television show caused problems. Lalla Ward visual effects assistant Chris Lawson.

did not warm to her new co-star because she

felt that he upset people; Ward had to & Thursday 31 May: In the corridors at

intercede in an argument between Waterhouse Television Centre, Waterhouse grazed his shin and costume designer Amy Roberts when and the skin at the top of his foot when he

Waterhouse refused to remove his costume dropped his prop dagger.

before going to the canteen. 9 Editing had been scheduled to run on Thursday Friday Monday Wednesday 11 O Friday 16 May: During the afternoon there 5, 6, 9, was a photocall on the TARDIS set for shots of and Thursday 12 June. First edits were

the Doctor alone and of Romana with Adric at broadcast of all four episodes.

the console.

fi) The paperback novelisation from Target,

C> Assistant Stuart Murdoch built the tower latterly numbered Book 58, formed part of both

rocket which was filmed at Western Avenue. The First Doctor Who Gift Set in late 1982 and The

Fourth Doctor Who Gift Set in late 1983.

9 Wednesday 30 May: Shortly before afternoon recording, there was a heated argument between <]f BBC Prime screened the story in May/June

Lalla Ward and Peter Moffatt which culminated 2000. The BBC Archives retain D3 copies of the The Three Who Rule get resulted in John Griffiths making Nigel Brackley Ward departing from the studio floor; original two-inch videotapes. on with some ruling. unavailable for some recordings. In the first in an upset studio session, Kg was operated by Mat Irvine. Tom Baker was sent to calm Ward down. There were also problems during the scenes where

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I cDmmissinmnc Biroc. Yes, we're sorry too, but it was the most exciting picture we find. And this is the last caption to be done. ^ Mon 17 Jan 80 The Dream Time could storyline commissioned; delivered Tue25Mar8o.

Mon 14 Apr 80 The Dream Time scripts

commissioned for Sat 7 Jun 80 Looking at that book again now, in one way I can i PRoaucTinn understand this - it's very unlike anything else published with Wed 24 Sep 80 Television Centre the Doctor Who logo on up until that point. But I certainly was not Studio 6: Hold, Corridor, Entrance a stupid child and, let's face it, as a novel it's not a particularly Hatchway, Storeroom complex bit ofwork, is it? It's just a teensy bit more complex than i Thu 25 Sep 80 Television Centre Doctor Who novels tended to be in those days; in a world yet to Studio 6: Privateer Bridge, Sometime Neuer, those opening few Damaged Area, experience or Storeroom/Corridor pages - Chapters? Be off with you! - of technobabble and half-

Fri 26 Sep 80 Television Centre formed conversations apparently left me in need of a lie down Studio 6: Damaged Area, TARDIS with a tea-towel over the lampshade. That the DWM of the time Console Room seemed, more than once, to suggest that this novelisation Thu 2 Oct 80 Television Centre actually explained a story that was left rather open-ended and

Studio 1 : TARDIS Console Room, inconclusive on television may well have given me a pain all New Banquet Hall, Ext Palace, down one side and a need to recite a list of story codes to Outside Palace Gardens, Palace restore myself to equilibrium. And given that the televised Corridor, Gardens Fountain Area interest in Doctor Who by, ooh, Fri 3 Oct 80 Television Centre Warriors' Gate preceded my 'memory : to be precise a i Studio 1 The Old Banqueting Hall, months (I have a memory, or more Passage of the Old Banqueting of a memory', of seeing the last five minutes of Part Four Mirror Hall, Behind the following arrival home from some Celtic match or other), I did Sat Oct 80 Television Centre 4 spend several years wondering how the hell anyone had ever

Studio 1 : Avenue Behind Mirror, made this story - for 'story' it presumably was - work on Entrance Hatchway, Void by television. Interviews with the writer Stephen Gallagher in which Privateer, Ramp, TARDIS in Void, he said the book version was a bodge-job, patched together after Gateway, Ext Privateer WM Special Edition Standard Fond Remembrance his first manuscript was rejected for being too 'difficult', only rhdid Times Template #1: Refer to the Target novelisation, helped to make it perhaps the most anticipated of all potential

Sat 3 Jan 81 Part One: Who is the childhood memories, developing love for the pirate VHS copies ... Time-Sensitive Fugitive? What show, only way to relive those adventures in And when I finally saw Warriors' Gate, it somehow managed awaits the Tardis at the Zero point? those halcyon pre-video days, small boys, not to disappoint. I believe I spent each 22-minute period What secret peril lurks in the reverie at surprisingly drashigs for goalposts etcetera etcetera. I should deeply love to spellbound, emerging from my only the banqueting hall? the do this, there being but one minuscule snag, and that is that irritating sound of the Doctor Who signature tune punctuating Sat 10 Jan 81 Part Two: Can K9 be the Target novelisation of Warriors' Gate confused me so much episodes. In between I was lost, enraptured, sent. I may even repaired? What is the villainous in have drooled a little, it's difficult to remember. But come on, it's Rorvik's plan for Romana? What is it came damn close to scaring the hell out of me, and not it? It's a truism that the BBC can - or at least the secret of the Gateway? ^ anything even vaguely resembling a good way. just beautiful, isn't 5 DOCTOR LUHO ITIRGR2inE could - do 'period' with both hands tied behind its back, and go-something down to zero, at the conclusion ofwhich nothing X Sati7|an8i Part Three:

so one might expect that the banqueting scenes will work well, happens except a bored, sarcastic cheer ... ah, if only something What lies behind the Mirror? Who but the Tharils are gorgeous, the dilapidated spaceship both quite so magnificently unlikely could be broadcast on a Saturday is Romana's strange ally? How is t the Tharils' feast disrupted? looks and sounds like a dilapidated spaceship, and the burnt-in evening these days. Eh? What's that you're saying ...? Sat 24 Jan 81 Part Four: Can K9 be CSO whiteness provides magnificently strange television, in a Stephen Gallagher interviews still appear now and then. restored? Why must the Doctor way that few programmes other than Doctor Who ever managed He says that if some keen fan or other wanted to painstakingly 'do nothing'? What is Romana's to. And it does one of my favourite things ever in drama, all reconstruct and publish the original, unexpurgated version ofthe surprise for the Doctor? t the more affecting here for being thematically resonant - it's novelisation, then he might just be able to facilitate it. I wonder if

not afraid of stillness. Opening with a slow countdown from someone can supply me with the man's number ...?

9 By March 1980, Christopher Bidmead had Lewis Carroll's 1865 book Alice's Aduentures in been concerned that Sealed Orders, the script by Wonderland, while his comment of "You were the

Christopher Priest originally scheduled for the noblest Romana of them all" was a misquote

slot, in trouble, in Ceasor. was and having Dream Time from Shakespeare's 1 599 play Julius

reserve was prudent - but if Sealed Orders went

ahead, specific elements relating to its slot 9 Rehearsals at the BBC's Acton facility for

could be removed from Stephen Gallagher's the first studio recording were deferred from

script and it could be used later on. Saturday 6 September to 10 September by the

change in studio dates. Rehearsals for the

9 Monday lajuly 1980: Paul Joyce joined the second studio began on Saturday 27 September.

production team to direct the serial. 9 Afternoon recordings took place between

9 In the scripts, when Romana sees the 2.30pm and 5.1 5pm on the serial for all bar the follows Packard and Lane; in this, Adric appears, The crew of Rorvik's ship

Priuateer for the first time: 'The nose towers high first day of each recording block. slips Kg's ear back in place and whispers to him stop for a natter.

above the ground at an angle, and the base is to keep up the good work. Towards the end of

wide; it's like looking up at a giant frog about to 9 Thursday 9 October: The Today interview in Part Two, a brief scene of the Doctor carrying spring.' Inside, the Bridge was 'a geodesic which John Leeson and John Nathan-Turner Kg was dropped. Early in Part Three, the visual

structure, with operational zones on three levels spoke about Kg's departure was included on the effect of the chandelier of the Old Banqueting

to make the most of the space. Uppermost is the CD set Doctor Who at the BBC in September 2003. Hall being hit by Rorvik's off the mirror

helm; on the lowest level and facing forward is the was cut. The cut material in which Rorvik gets navigator's position. Once gleaming and efficient, 9 Thursday 23 October: The interview for his crew's attention saw the Captain declare

the paint is now streaked and aged, the theme Plot/ground between Paul Joyce and Matthew "I need everybody's help," and when he finds

colour being that of rust. Fixtures are held in Waterhouse was recorded, and broadcast two Aldo and Royce under the table stealing food

place by tape, glass covers to screens are split days later. It was included on the CD set Doctor adds "Even yours, perish the thought."

and cracked.' In Part Two, when Romana was Who at the BBC Volume 2 in September 2004.

talking to Rorvik, she saw Adric peeping out 9 Warriors' Gate was first screened by UK Gold Romana and the Doctor find doors. Doctor's through the TARDIS The likening 9 The final trim to correct the fault over Kg's on Saturday 20 November 1 993. BBC Prime themselves in the usual position. of Bi roc to a Cheshire Cat, was a reference to missing ear was the end of the scene in which K9 screened the story in June/July 2000. The Keeper of Traken r

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around the universe on that old chair is Fri 18 Jul 80 The Keeper of Traken a full-time job, y'know. scripts commissioned for Thu 7 Aug 80; delivered Thu 14 Aug 80 (Part One), Tue 19 Aug 80 (Part Two), Mon 25 Aug 80 (Part Three) deal, because they waited until the Fri 29 Aug 80 (Part Four) end of the show before unveiling him. Cue a familiar wheezing, groaning PRDDUCTIDn

sound and in a corner of the studio Wed 5 Nov 80 Television Centre something very odd happened. A Studio 6: Courtyard, TARDIS Thu 6 Nov 80 Television Centre dodgy TARDIS toy was clumsily CSO'd Studio 6: Grove, Model sequences into view and an embarrassed-looking Fri 7 Nov 80 Television Centre j^^H figure shuffled out from behind it to Studio 6: Tremas' Quarters, take his place on the sofa. His name Seron's Quarters, Corridor Byrne, was Johnny and he was one of Fri 21 Nov 80 Television Centre

the writers of Doctor Who. Studio 8: Keeper's Sanctum for r In true Alan Partridge style, the Parts One to Three, Sanctum presenter opened the interview on a Antechamber for Part Two, Service topic of local interest. "Why do you Vault for Part Two Sat 22 Nov 80 Television Centre live in Norfolk?" he asked Byrne. Studio 8: Keeper's Sanctum for orwich seems like a strange location from which "I'd have thought you'd want to be where the action is, in Parts Three/Four, Sanctum to broadcast a Friday night chat show, but in the London." Byrne replied: "To me the action is in Norfolk." Antechamber for Parts Three/Four early 1980s that's exactly what happened. The Not a very promising start, but it picked up. In fact, Byrne Wed 23 Nov 80 Television Centre

short-lived programme was called Weekend, and spoke in some depth about The Keeper of Traken, touching on Studio 8: Abandoned session -

the only edition I remember featured a celebrity the constraints of writing for the programme, the political Service Vault, The Head of Melkur, from the world of Doctor Who. This was obviously a big situation that had inspired the story and the fact that a girl had Cell, Corridor ^

THE mmPLETE PDURTH CTQH Benson IB rather honest written to him asking permission to establish a fan got to know him quite well and he was more 5f Wed 17 Dec 80 Television recently its honorary with me about his Doctor Who experiences than he had been Centre Studio 6: Service Vault for club called the Union ofTraken. Byrne was to be Weekend sofa. He considered many Parts Two/Four, The Head of Keeper. while perched on the production style and format to Melkur, Cell, Corridor Byrne seemed proud ofThe Keeper ojTraken and now I can see aspects of the programme's his ideas free why. His story of a tranquil, pacifistic society at the mercy of be archaic and wished he could have given HHDio Times with standalone, an insidious parasite is unusually compelling because it expression in a better-funded show What is the Sat 31 Jan 81 Part One: very tolerant of Doctor cleverly sidesteps the cliches and pathos inherent in its 50-minute episodes. "We've become cloud over Traken? Where is the "We're doing it a disservice." premise. Here is an alien planet with a detailed and believable Who," he said to me once. Tardis? What is the sinister evil in twenty- - feat on a fraction of the budget Byrne made huge efforts to drag Doctor Who into the the Grove? culture and society no mean used to on Space: first century, but his feature film script was never produced Sat 7 Feb 81 Part Two: What is and facilities that Byrne had been 1999. footnote in the history of the programme's Kassia's pact with Melkur? Will the Building on this foundation, Byrne musters a dramatic and is now a mere stands as the most Doctor find the Tardis? Can 'Rapport' crescendo, culminating in the revelation that the Master is wilderness years. The Keeper of Traken traitor? for Doctor Who; with The Keeper uncover the back from the (living) dead. In retrospect, this was the satisfying yet tantalising example of his work Sat 14 Feb 81 Part Three: Who will imagination that had a lot precursor to umpteen wretched revivals during the Saward a glimpse into the corner of an succeed The Keeper? What are the era, but Byrne can hardly be blamed for that. more to offer. Doctor's dangerous thoughts? successful Byrne's ideas for the programme ultimately proved too Johnny Byrne is still one of the busiest and most What is Melkur's evil surprise? able to take Doctor ambitious, and after the debacle he walked writers in television. It's a shame he wasn't Sat 21 Feb 81 Part Four: Who is later I Who with him. Melkur? How can three numbers away, taking his Keeper of Traken sequel with him. Years

help to save Traken? What is the

Doctor's one last great mistake? l!l:M!lll|^HHi:i:B-

Ainley contracted Friday 21 November: Nathan-Turner had 9 Christopher Bidmead was amazed when 9 Friday 1 2 September: was 9 Baker or Peter Davison for BBCi 's somebody of Johnny Byrne's calibre agreed to as Tremas/The Master from Saturday 25 October offered Tom

live Children in Need broadcast. Baker was write a Doctor Who serial. He looked upon the 1980 to Saturday 24 January 1981 with an option recording in Studio 8, but the producer had sudden retention of Nyssa as a new companion of four to eight more episodes to be taken by arranged for the evening recording to be by John Nathan-Turner as an indication of the Monday 24 November 1980. structured to allow Baker to appear on Children producer's crisis of confidence.

in 7.30pm and 7.40pm. He was to 9 Friday 3 October: The rewrites to lengthen Need between the final scene in which the be joined by Lalla Ward, whom the Children in Monday 1 September 1980: John Black Part Four included Need team had asked for on Wednesday 19. joined the production team as director. merger of the Master and Tremas created 'the dapper bearded character of the Master.' After the afternoon recording, Nathan-Turner went to Presentation B - the studio being used 9 John Black cast as Children in Need team - and found there Melkur/the Master because he was primarily 9 Recording took place between 2.30pm and by the nobody there. Subsequently, Nathan- a voice artiste. Sheila Ruskin was cast as 5.1 5pm, and from 7.30pm to 1 opm each studio was approached in the BBC bar and told Kassia because she had worked with John day apart from Wednesday 5 November and Turner was there only an that if Baker was to appear, it would have to be Nathan-Turner in 1975. Although cast by Friday 21 November when was impossible because of the Nathan-Turner on the strength of his role as evening recording. at 8pm; this was recording schedule. Furthermore, the in The Pollisers, Anthony Ainley Above: The Doctor sizes up Reverend Emilius November: The servo shut off production office had also arranged for Melkur. later claimed to believe he had been cast by $ Friday 5 from Davison and his wife Sandra Dickinson to make Barry Letts because he had played the villainous device incorporated Davros' data sphere which visual effects a personal appearance for the appeal at the Below: Kassia attends to Sir Mulberry Hawk in the 1977 adaptation of Destiny of the Daleks Cunard Hotel, and this was not televised at all. Melkur in the grove. Nicholas Nicklebu, which Letts had produced. designer Peter Logan had retained. The producer wrote a memo complaining about 9 Thursday 6 November: The direction locator this situation on Wednesday 26 November. was made from a desk thermometer. d Sunday 23 November: The 'mini-strike' Monday 10 November: Rehearsals for the was called because the electricians walked out second studio recording block began at the BBC over not being able to park their cars at

Rehearsal Rooms in Acton. Television Centre on a Sunday. Nathan-Turner made frantic telephone calls to track down the - who was out 9 Wednesday 19 November: The BBC press Head of Programme Planning - office issued a statement from Lalla Ward that shopping and get him to agree to a remount she and Tom Baker were to marry. Nathan- on the serial while the cast were still available.

Turner offered to call another press conference

to get coverage over and done with, but Baker 3 Wednesday 17 December: Geoffrey Beevers

refused - resulting in reporters besieging both was released from work on 's remount. Ward's flat and the Acton rehearsal rooms serial The Brack Report for the where Baker was working. The story was

announced on both John Crauen's Neuisround and <} In addition to the gallery only days, a

the BBC Euenina News. pre-gallery day was held on Friday 2 January. Editing was scheduled to take place on Saturday

29 and Sunday 30 November, Thursday 4 and

Friday 5 December, and on Thursday 1 January broadcast, 1 981 . A first edit of Part Two was with second edits of the other instalments.

9 Instead of repeats of The Keeper of Traken, BBC Cymru screened repeats of other programmes

such as Dad's Army or regional shows.

^ Australia debuted The Keeper of Traken in April 1982, with a repeat in the late 1980s. New

Zealand screened it in August/September 1981

(followed by a year's break before transmission

of Logopolis) and repeated it in July/August 1988.

BBC Prime screened the story in July/August

2000. The BBC Archives retain D3 copies of the

original two-inch videotapes.

rJCTQR UJHD mRGRZiriE 9 The novelisation was included in The Doctor February 2003 at Theatre 4 in Television Centre. Mixer, he only supervised the second block; the

Who Gift Set from WH Allen in 1986. A jointed first was handled by Carol Johnson and the figure of Melkur was produced by Dapol in d In the Cast section, Roland Oliver as Neman third by Hilary Briegel, both uncredited. 1999, and a 35mm figure of Melkur was issued has been omitted and should appear between Similarly, Roger Fennerwas the uncredited

by Alector in 2001. Sarah Sutton and Geoffrey Beevers. In the Senior Cameraman on the third block and Alan

Extras section, Fred Reford and Colin Thomas Fogg was uncredited for Sound on the remount.

9 A DVD commentary was recorded by Johnny were also Fosters, and Barry Summerford was

Byrne, Anthony Ainley, Sarah Sutton and also one of the Citizens. In the Credits section, Political intrigue on Traken. Or a lot of old

Matthew Waterhouse on Wednesday 26 although Nigel Finnis was credited as Vision bearded men spouting nonsense. You decide. Logopolis Underpressure BH STEUEH IHOFFHT DUim HRCHIUE DWM 257

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gets himself a new body at last ... Fri 29 Aug 80 Staff clearance requested for scripts; delivered Sat

25 Oct 80

odd seen from this low - and flicked a desperate fish from his PRDDUCTIDn Tue 16 Dec 80 Ursula Street, muddied toecap. "Iam looking," he continued, "for the Thames." Battersea, London (Aunt Vanessa's "Ah!" said the tall man. "Well you've certainly picked the House); Albert Bridge, Kensington wrong day." and Chelsea, London/Cadogan

Red! Red mist everywhere! Constable Blackwell ground his Pier, Chelsea Embankment, teeth with the effort of inflating all the cords in his neck. "Have London (Riverbank and Mudflats

you seen it at all, sir. The Thames?" with Bridge)

"Oh, yes. I put it in that telephone box." Thu 18 Dec 80 BBC Receiving Constable Blackwell shifted his gaze to the . He was Station, Crowsley Park, Sonning Common, Berks (The Pharos rather surprised it didn't fall over with the impact. Enclosure) "Did you really?" he replied, having spend some time sifting Fri 19 Dec 80 A413 Layby, among his most crushing ripostes. Denham, Bucks (A By-pass with "You see, constable, that telephone box - it's really a Police Box) ! dimensionally transcendental time/space capsule disguised as a Mon 22 Dec 80 A41 3 Layby (A telephone box. And unfortunately my arch enemy materialised By-pass with Police Box) his dimensionally transcendental time/space capsule, also Thu 8 Jan 81 Television Centre Studio The TARDIS Cloisters, The disguised as a telephone box, inside mine, and I was forced to 3: TARDIS Console Room, The materialise underwater, and drain off the Thames." Console Room Simulacrum Constable Blackwell considered for a long moment. Gulls Numbers 1 and 2, TARDIS Corridor were cawing overhead. From all around there were the Fri 9 Jan 81 Television Centre comforting cries of a city in crisis. Somewhere, inevitably, there Studio 3: The Antenna Control r was an ice cream van. "That's all very well, sir," he said, finally, Room, Gantry, Girders "but I find the part about the Thames a little hard to swallow." Thu 22 Jan 81 Television Centre

"I admit," said the tall man, "I may have overreacted." Studio 6: The Pharos Computer Constable Blackwell sighed again. The conversation had rather Room, A Pharos Corridor, Doctor got away from him - but then so had one of the world's most hanging by scarf, A Street, A Narrow Street, The Landing Area tc famous rivers, so it was clearly that sort of day. "And your enemy, onstable Blackwell had walked almost a mile sir? Did your clever plan of locking him in cupboard with a one of through the mud and fish before he saw him: the our major waterways work in any way?" More men with beards. Must be from Season Eighteen, then. tall man, outside the blue box, undressing. He "Oh no. He just dematerialised. We should've seen that

approached in as sinister fashion as the slurping coming, really." noises of his feet on the river bed would allow. "We?"

He stood and waited. He considered clearing his throat. He'd "I had a friend with me. Adric. He left rather suddenly."

once half-killed a safe-cracker by clearing his throat. Although "And where is this Adric now?" slamming his head repeatedly against the safe might have had "Oh, I'd say he must have reached the Cloister Room."

something to do with it. Or possibly that red mist that had "What's he doing in a cloister room?" - suddenly descended, though no one else reported seeing that "By now, I should think a certain amount of inert bobbing."

yet again. The tall man was now fully dressed in his white long-johns. He The tall man glanced up at him. He had a grin that bordered on was holding a white stocking, the scratchy kind, and was about to

Resisting Arrest. pull it over his head. "If there's nothing else, constable, I'm afraid

"Busy actually," said the tall man. I have to pop back along my own time-line, using temporal "Busy?" repeated Constable Blackwell, to give himself time to conversion isometry, and talk myself out ofdoing this." think- although, if he was being honest, a light supper, followed Constable Blackwell luxuriated for a moment in the I? by a movie and a short holiday wouldn't have been long enough. comforting black reservoirs of his own rage, and said: "The sea r

"Busy, yes," said the tall man, who was now in his shirt and level all over the world has dropped significantly. There is an

underpants. international state of emergency! Homes and lives have been

Constable Blackwell sighed, and ignored, for the moment , the destroyed all over the world and the French can now get here on flickers of red at the corner of his vision. "I am looking," he said, foot! Too many people have suffered and died for you to travel

"for something." back in time dressed as a white git!!"

"Well, aren't we all," said the tall man. He was unfolding some "Oh, don't worry, constable!" said the tall man, staring to fade white long-johns in what could be construed, with a little out of existence, with a like a whole picket line. "None of creativity, as a Suspicious Manner. this will ever have happened. Going to send myself to Logopolis!" Constable Blackwell issued a sigh so heavy he could barely And he was gone. For a moment his last words seemed to hang heave it from - his lungs. He looked up at the London skyline so in the air. "What possible harm could I do there?" in

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jf Fri 23 Jan 81 Television - Studio 6: The Control Centre 1 I : I : 1 1 1 1 :J ^ 1 1 : I : Register, External Register M 1 Sat 24 Jan 81 Television Centre - Studio 6: Logopolis in Ruins British biologist who later portions of the set would be used 9 Christopher Bidmead was against the idea of nineteenth century Narrow Street, The Landing Area, philosophy. quote following its recording on Wednesday January. writing a serial himself; he had already decided turned to theology and The 7 The Control Register his Lay Sermons, A Liberal to leave the show and thus was technically the stems from one of

is the Friday 19 December: Matthew Waterhouse ex-script editor. Bidmead knew a great deal Education in 1870: "The chess-board 9 , UNDID TIDIES the celebrated his birthday and was given a cake about the architecture of his home computer, the world; the pieces are the phenomena of 4 Sat 28 Feb 81 Part One: What is call amidst the rain storms on the A41 bypass. It as its function universe; the rules of the game are what we 3 the Doctor's plan for the Tardis? Vectorgraphic MZ System B, such without of the laws of Nature. The player on the other side had been planned to film all the scenes Why is he haunted by the Distant to open a screen to show the changes memory that his play is Tom Baker and Waterhouse on Wednesday 17 i Stranger? What terrible fate lies location contents as a program ran. He was also is hidden from us. We know Door? But also know, December, and then shoot the remainder of the behind the Blue keen to wrap up the CVE 'arc' begun in Full Circle. always fair, just and patient. we first day mk Sat 7 Mar 81 Part Two: What is to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, bypass sequences on Friday 19, but the the message of the Cloister Bell? allowance for ignorance." was deferred to the following Monday. £ The storyline dealt heavily with entropy and or makes the smallest How does a cure become a trap? " the second law of thermodynamics. Entropy is a Who is the intruder in the Cloister Studio recording took place between measurement of unavailable energy; energy lost ^ In the script of Part Four, as Tegan stumbles 9 Room? "It was never 2.30pm and 5.15pm, and 7.30pm and 10pm the internal movement of molecules as heat. In through Logopolis she comments Sat 14 Mar 81 Part Three: What is to from Thursday 8 January and of like this on the course ... And somebody's each day apart 4 the secret of Logopolis? Who is thermodynamics (the mathematical treatment to for a new pair of Thursday 22 January. interfering with the Numbers? the relation of heat to energy) any 'free' physical definitely going to have pay

all- shoes. (AS AN AFTERTHOUGHT) But the next ^ What is the imminent system distributes energy so that entropy increases

981 : Baker was unhappy - I might Friday January 1 ^BB enveloping end? and the available energy diminishes. The Second time the Doctor says stay in the Tardis 9 9 Sat 21 Mar 81 Part Four: Will the Doctor/Tegan with the regeneration sequence which he felt Law of Thermodynamics, referred to by the Doctor, do just that!" There was more stave off fate? Monitor's program Doctor was recorded in a rather un-heroic manner; he was coined simultaneously around 1850 by the dialogue at the Central Registry with the What is the Distant Stranger's entropy; in the refused to yell for the shot of the Doctor falling German physicist Rudolf Clausius and the Scots trying to find a solution to the task? How does the Time Lords' when requested to by Grimwade and Nathan- physicist/mathematician Lord Kelvin, based on the TARDIS corridor, Adric and Nyssa's discussion M fatal duel resolve? that Turner. Nathan-Turner was unhappy that workofFrench physicist Nicholas Carnot in 1824. of the Watcher was different, commenting the entropy was washing out from Logopolis. In although he had stopped the recording being It states that heat can never pass spontaneously Below: It's almost the end (of figure of relayed to the public viewing galleries, a number from a colder to a hotter body; a temperature the regeneration, the script noted: 'The this Special). It's the Watcher! Doctor. The of Doctor Who fans had watched the regeneration difference can never appear in a body originally the Watcher seems to melt into the

Bottom: The Master and ... edges of the being recorded at VT engineering. at uniform temperature. Clausius' work also face becomes formless The the Doctor join forces! into a blur.' indicates that entropy must increase because of Doctor and the Watcher merge Monday 12 January: Rehearsals began spontaneous irreversible processes, such as the 2} Doctor should again at the BBC Rehearsal Rooms in Acton for combustion of fuels; this led to the theory that 9 Barry Letts suggested that the the box in 'metres', or that the units the second studio recording. the universe is running down as all the energy is measure Nathan- converted into heat: heat death. should be omitted altogether; John Turner responded saying that in schools, children 9 Thursday 22 January: For various scenes in Part Three a quarter-size TARDIS prop was used, 9 The rehearsal scripts described the houses were taught always to state the units. Letts also dialogue. She of Logopolis as 'simple open-fronted cells, in spotted contradictions in Tegan's A photocall was held for I want to go Friday January: each of which sits a Logopolitan chanting "The was to say, "I don't blame them. 9 23 shots of Ainley, Sutton and Fielding. Numbers". The narrow winding streets act as home," in response to the Doctor's "No wonder publicity travelling," whispering galleries, passing the susurration of [the Logopolitans] think so little of Wednesday 28 January: A gallery session encoded information from one end of the City to as they leave the Central Registry. Later, she 9 electronic video effects. tells the Monitor, "I don't know what you've got was held in TC6 to add the other as it is manipulated and developed by

I love travelling." Both the citizens.' The Logopolitans are 'silent figures against travelling. Editing was scheduled to take place on in flowing dark robes' with the Monitor, 'a man speeches were removed. (t Thursday 29 and Friday 30 January and Monday of about sixty, as one might judge in Earth Peter Grimwade Wednesday 4,and Saturday February. First years, though from his assured posture and the 9 Monday 27 October 1980: 2, 7 edits were shown of Parts One and Two and shine of his skin he seems to be in his prime. joined the production team as director. second edits of Parts Three and Four. His hair is short and steel-grey.' 9 Grimwade and production assistant Margot November: For the repeat of his Hayhoe scouted Jodrell Bank but found that the Thursday 26 9 In Part Three, the Doctor misquotes 'old 9 keen to have the the serial in The Fine Faces of Doctor Who, Radio friend' Huxley: "The cheeseboard is the world, management there was not

..." from London Times carried a shot of Baker from The Masque of and the pieces the phenomena of the universe BBC crew present. The distance with the cast listing for Part Three. Thomas Henry Huxley was a distinguished also ruled out the location. Mandragora

purchased the serial in March 3 Friday 31 October: Australian actresses 9 Australia Madge Ryan, Judith Arthy and Maggie 1982 for broadcast in April 1982. New Zealand Fitzgibbon were considered for Aunt Vanessa. screened the serial in isolation in September/ BBC The role was eventually taken by Australian October 1982, with a repeat in August 1988.

actress Dolore Whiteman who became a good Prime screened the story in August/September of the friend of Nathan-Turner; the producer later 2000. The BBC Archives retain D3 copies - cast her daughters - Tracey and Jodie Wilson original two-inch videotapes.

in his pantomimes and Delta and the Bannermen. 9 The paperback of Doctor Who - Logopolis was 9 Hywel Bennett was offered the role of the included in The Fourth Doctor Who Gift Set issued in late and was latterly numbered Monitor on Tuesday 1 1 November, after which by Target 1983

. The original Andrew Skilleter cover it was passed to Nigel Stock on Monday 17 Book No 41 November and then John Fraser on Wednesday was replaced by one from Alister Pearson when

. The serial 26 November. it was reprinted in December 1991

was released by BBC Video in March 1 992 with a 9 Wednesday 26 November: The rehearsal cover from Skilleter. A Silva Screen CD of Paddy music Logopolis scripts were sent out to the cast. Kingsland's music, including from and Castroiiolua was advertised in 1992 but was

5 December: A rehearsal for the never released when some of the master tapes 9 Monday 1 the was film sequences was held with the read-through could not be located. A figure of Monitor

in 2000. at Room 7065F of Television Centre. issued by Harlequin Miniatures

In the Extras section, omitted is Pat Roy as

Hurst's scenes were filmed. It was agreed that Driuing Double for Tegan.

CTfJR WHO mPGRZinE Kg and Company

Just The Two Of Us BH GHRU BILLHTT r DUUm HRCHIUE DWM Summer Special 1992

Deny everything! Brendan and Sarah commissiomnG

claim to know nothing about a fire- Wed 29 Apr 81 One Girl and Her breathing metal dog. The fibbers. Dog original outline by John Nathan-Turner

Fri 1 May 81 A Girl's Best friend revised outline by John Nathan- Wimbush fluffs that line in two Turner and Antony Root

places, but they still don't re-take. May 81 A Girl's Best Friend script Glorious! commission; delivered by Sep 81

"December the 22nd begins at

- tonight!" Karate-kicking in PRDDUCTIDII Thu 12 Nov 81 kids' ujelhes. "Put that in your leader, Daneway/Bisley/Sheepscombe/Wis Mr Tobias!" hanger Farm, Wishanger/The Bear Personally, I love the way the Inn Public House, Bisley/Miserden central mystery crumbles to Park Estate, Miserden (Title nothing. It's never made clear that, Sequence)

as a viewer, you're supposed to be Fri 13 Nov 81 Miserden Park working out who Hecate's masked Estate Lodge, Miserden, Glos

high priests are. It's hilariously (Tracy's Cottage) Miserden Park Estate Nursery, ham-fisted that even when the Miserden, Glos (Market Garden) guilty parties are revealed, they're Sat 14 Nov 81 Wishanger Farm, he may Lily Gregson says "uiitchcrqft". Garden goblins. almost impossible to recognise without a freeze-frame. It's Wishanger, Glos (Road) "A tjreat dotj, belching jire!" adorable that the director expects us to remember coven Miserden Park Estate, Miserden, I love Kg and Company more than I love members Tracey, Tobias and Wilson from a fleeting glimpse in Glos (Road) - T anything in the whole crazy world of Doctor Who. the story's opening moments and desperately tries to jog our Sun 15 Nov 81 Church Ruins, When I watch it, I'm surprised I don't pass away memories with 'doo-doo-da-doo' spooky music whenever they North Woodchester, Glos from a fatal dose of bliss even before the singularly ill-advised appear. It's amusing that there's nothing supernatural going (Remains of Church) Mon 16 Nov 81 Barnsley House, opening titles are done. As the adventure unfolds - half on in Moreton Harwood anyway. No one in the coven ever Barnsley, Glos (Manor House); sublime, half ridiculous - 1 am held enraptured. demonstrates any actual power. We're supposed to think that Sapperton, Glos (Crossroads: not "Fruit cup? Not as innocuous as it seems." Tri-state bus driuer. Aunt Lavinia has been spirited away, but she just happened to pop in finished programme); "Brendan, stop honking." to New York early. Perhaps Hecate is the goddess of earth, fire, Miserden, Glos (Petrol Station); St What's your favourite bit and is of Kg Company? How about and academic conference scheduling. Most splendid of all Andrew's Church, Miserden, Glos when sinister Colin Jeavons introduces himself to Sarah with way we're expected to think that Howard and Juno Baker are (Church) the bold claim: "I'mTracey." No? Then maybe it's the lump-in- behind the conspiracy, so they are made to act in a spectacularly Tue 17 Nov 81 Bisley, Glos (Police the-throat moment when the Doctor's name is mentioned and sinister way. In narrative terms, the only justification for this Station/Post Office: not in finished programme) the music gently quotes the Who theme? Or the way Sarah's behaviour is that they are guilty. They're probably the Great Sun 29 Nov 81 Pebble Mill Studio line, "Oh Doctor, you didn't forget!" takes us right back to his High Witches of the Gloucestershire and Sarah didn't even A: Pollock's Den/Cellar/Room final promise to her in The Hand of Fear? realise. They probably poisoned her Christmas dinner. Rear of Shop/first half of "Give-Sarah-Jane-Smith-my-fondest-love. Tell-her-I-shall- "We twish we. ..No. Reject. We uiish you..." programme t£ remember-her. Always." Kg and Company is mine. No one will ever love it as much as

I'm welling-up as I type. Perhaps it's Aunt Lavinia's I do. If Doctor Who was real, I wouldn't want to travel in the Sarah and Kg pose for an description of Sarah that you love. "That girl's like a butterfly. TARDIS or visit alien planets. I'd be living in Moreton action shot ultimately deemed Never in one place long enough to lick a stamp." This will Harwood as Aunt Lavinia's ward. I'd study for my extra O- "too exciting" for the Kg and certainly bring nods of sympathy from anyone who's ever Levels, help out in the market garden and, with Sarah and K9, Company title sequence. missed last post after trying to get a decent day's work out of a I'd help defeat the insane schemes of Howard and Juno Baker,

Cabbage White. Perhaps it's the way that actress Mary week after week ...

9 Wednesday 29 April 1981: John Nathan- been sent by the Master and not the Doctor Friend: this was a proposal for a potential pilot,

Turner wrote the outline for the pilot - entitled after all. Fortunately, Brendan reprograms Kg and any series emerging would "almost

One Girl And Her Dog. In this version, Sarah Jane to act in the same benevolent manner as his certainly have a later transmission time than

Smith finds the packing case containing K9 as predecessors. In conclusion, Nathan-Turner Doctor Who", hinting at a possibly more she prepares to move from her South Croydon commented, "The story should concentrate on mainstream or adult audience. Biographies on home to tend her Aunt Lavinia's local produce 'Auengerish' action rather than Doctor Who-type Kg (who was now sent by the Doctor, not the shop in 'Morton Harwood' (where Sarah was to effects and should conclude with the possibility Master) and Sarah were included. Drawing write cookery books). A chauffeur-driven car of a full spin-off series." This last observation upon elements of the background of Elisabeth arrives with Aunt Lavinia (who is on her way to was a reference to the popular and stylish ABC Sladen, who played Sarah, the character was

America for a scientific fact-finding tour) and adventure series of the 1 g6os The Auengers 'born in Liverpool's dockland in 1949'. The biog

Lavinia's 13-year-old ward Brendan; Brendan which had fantasy overtones in a basic thriller continued to reveal that 'Her father worked in a joins Sarah and Kg as they set off for Morton scenario. Nathan-Turner later felt that the local newspaper office, but both he and his wife

Harwood in her 'open-top MGB'. Once there scheduling of a black magic story at Christmas died while Sarah Jane was still young.' Sarah they meet Captain Pollock, 'a crotchety man of was peculiar and realised the sinister content was raised by her Aunt Lavinia who paid for her

50' who hates computers and pets and from was a mistake. to study at university; she achieved a First Class whom K9 has to be kept a secret. There was degree and edited the college magazine while then to follow a 'black magic yarn' involving 9 Friday 1 May. A revised synopsis of the campaigning for Equal Opportunities. Joining a 'pentagrams, goats of Mendies, etc'. Kg was to proposed pilot was drafted by Nathan-Turner newly-founded magazine after graduating, be revealed as having evil intentions, having and Antony Root under the title A Girl's Best Sarah made her mark with her articles and

THE EEfTIPLETE FOURTH DETER garden was dependent on the weather. Dudley's Standard (originally called The Cotswold Chronicle),

script originally ended with K9 singing While PC Carter arriving at the market garden in his

Shepherds Watch Their Flocks By Night. panda car, Sarah meeting Pollock in the garden

shop and hearing how she is telling the police

Brendan vanishing, Sarah pacing at the & Monday 5 October: Reid commented on the about script to Nathan-Turner; his main concern was Manor before going to investigate the Traceys'

elements of the black magic plot such as house, Sarah visiting Pollock to find his den

dialogue like "Act of God" which might be empty and a film sequence of Howard visiting

unsuitable for the intended audience and the police station. A gallery-only session was

recommended that any 'anti-Christ' elements held on Tuesday 1 December.

would have to be avoided in the show's Ian Levine produced the theme tune demo realisation. Nathan-Turner replied on Tuesday 3 & November about these issues, but was keen to which was arranged by Fiachra Trench on

retain the "Act of God" comment as in this synthesisers to only indicate how different would context it was jargon relating to insurance instruments (string, bass, horn, etc)

issues. Nathan-Turner visited Sladen while she sound. Nathan-Turner passed the tape to Peter

was recording Gulliuer on Thursday 22 October Howell who orchestrated it in the manner of the

to give her the revised scripts. synthesised demo. In scoring the pilot, Howell person's romp and became a successful freelancer, interviewing saw the adventure as a young Howell's incidental people such as Lady Collingford, Nigel Carter 9 Mona Bruce was offered the role of Aunt created music to suit this. score ran to almost 12 minutes; recorded on and John Crichton (characters seen in Invasion of Lavinia on Thursday 1 October; amongst those Thursday December, Howell played the the Dinosaurs). The events of in interviewed for the pilot's cast in early October 17 and which Sarah met the Doctor and travelled with were Frances White, Roy Boyd, John Hallam and synthesiser with Sebastian Bell on flute alto and Terence Emery on percussion. him between December 1973 and October 1976 Mark Arden. flute were then outlined. After leaving the Doctor, classical music heard during the pilot Sarah returned to live with her aunt and in Tuesday 27 October: Mary Wimbush The

No 1 in B flat succession became a feature writer on a attended a photocall at Television Centre for a was Robert Schumann's Symphony performed by the national paper and Diary Editor on a London shot of her as Aunt Lavinia. major Op. 38 Spring Overture,

evening paper. Lavinia moved to Moreton Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Christopher Rowlands Georg Solti. The final part of the programme Harwood in Cotswolds in 1979, taking 14-year- O John Gilbert and before transmission; old Brendan with her - with Sarah left living in were originally to handle film sound and film was dubbed the day supervised post-production South Croydon alone. At this point just before editing respectively. When no studios were Nathan-Turner Black having to travel to the pilot, Sarah has been made redundant available in London, production was shifted to himself to save Christmas for just a few during a newspaper merger and has been Pebble Mill, the BBC's Birmingham studios; Birmingham over hours work. second edit of the serial was approached by a publisher about a novel. It was originally a two-week location shoot had been A for broadcast. also noted that Sarah was now 'something of a hoped for, but this was curtailed to a week, prepared

judo expert'. The outline of K9 Mark III was starting with a recce on Tuesday 3 November. final Doctor Who- generally about the practicalities of the The Cotswold locations were chosen by director 9 This was John Black's director's credit; he left the BBC to mechanical prop (and its lightweight double). John Black who knew the area well. related enterprise with Longman The original plan had been for a 90-minute establish a publishing

title sequence Video and then became Executive Director of pilot, but having read the outline, David Reid, 9 Shooting on the was Head of Series and Serials, committed to only a originally planned for Monday 9 November, WHSmith's video division. 50-minute show. but was delayed by three days. Nathan-Turner wanted these to be fast and glamorous like the 9 Although the pilot received good ratings,

it was not developed into a ^ Tuesday 12 May: Sladen was approached titles to American adventure series like Hawaii the main reason that series 982 was that Bill Cotton, the about reprising her role of Sarah Jane Smith by Five-0 and Hart to Hart. The team ran out of time during 1 show, Nathan-Turner and rapidly agreed. The original on Sladen's many costume changes. Nathan- Controller of BBCi who was keen on the was succeeded by Alan Hart plan was to make the pilot in the summer, but Turner only attended some of the shoot, had moved on and less well disposed to the idea. Sladen was committed to Gulliver in Lilliput and returning to watch the sacrificial scenes when who was

unavailable until October. filming ran behind. H Australia screened the programme on Eve UK Gold screened the pilot 9 Employed by the BBC, Terence Dudley was Qt Shooting was attended by fans from Bristol Christmas 1984. commissioned to prepare a in-house script who had driven to the Cotswolds. The original several times from November 1993.

entitled A Girl's Best Friend based closely on the notion of using several different graveyards was released by BBC Worldwide as production office outline. The title of the project also dropped. (} The pilot was - had become K9 and Company by September Doctor Who K9 & Company in August 1995 with Andrew Skilleter. The BBC since BBC Executives on the sixth floor at Q> The K9 prop was repainted for the show; the a cover painting by retain copies of the original two- Television Centre had stated that they wanted a Mark III version was given a coat of Renault Archives D3 inch videotapes. title which referred to K9 by name. The working metallic blue over Rover brown, and had an

relationship between Dudley and incoming extra handle added to its casing. Extras section, further clarification of script editor Eric Saward was not a happy one; ^ In the

cast is now possible: Gay Hopkins, Sally Ann Dudley took exception to some of the changes ^ During the night shoot, the differential Farmer, Susie Brown, made by Saward to his script during September gears on K9 sheared and the prop had to be Wright, Constance Sylvia Shore, John Glentoran. Adrian Fletcher and in the early part of October complained pulled on a nylon line by effects assistant Tony - - were Members Witches about this to Nathan-Turner, which in turn Auger. The other dog Bruno the Alsatian and Adrian Varcoe of David de Villiers caused offence to Saward. was supplied by Animals Unlimited. Couen; Brian Peacock and were Removal Men; Margaret Piggott, Sarah Stephen Howe, Pam Couch, 9 The script was specified as being set on 9 Film rehearsals took place on Tuesday 10 Raybould, Underwood, Barbara 'Friday December 18th 1981'. One running joke November, with rehearsals for studio starting at Francesca Walker, Jon Carey, Dave Mitty, Michael Rea and Ricky in the scripts was about Sarah being stuck Acton on Thursday 19 November. People at the Baker's Party; Diane behind slow drivers - one of whom she thinks is Williams were and Simmons were Ladies in Market a woman but turns out to be an old man; these 9 Originally the pilot was to have aired on Collette June Crosland the Stunt Driuer for sequences had to be reworked later as Sladen Monday 21 December, but this was dropped Garden; Sue was Forrestal was the was a reluctant driver when the cameras were back a week very late in the day. A number of Sarah Jane Smith; Terry Stuntman/Tractor Driuer. Omitted from the on her. Peter Tracey was 'a wiry 20-year-old cuts were made in editing on Tuesday 8 Pearn as Old Man with the same gypsy look of his father' while December, including Sarah calling a colleague finished programme were: Nat Palmer as Lady in Mini and Lavinia was described as 'a handsome, middle- called Ann after she arrives at the Manor, Sarah pushing bicycle, Ann and Len Thomas as Passersby in aged woman'. The script originally had more meeting Lilly Gregson outside the post office, the Carol Howard Credits section, Matthew Kuipers dialogue in the first scene with Pollock where end of the party scene where Tobias attempts to Street. In the uncredited Production Manager. the commander explained how the market get Sarah to write a personal column for The was also an

=izine Hi ininn

Although Tom Baker has yet to accept offers to return to the role of the Doctor

for a Big Finish aud'w drama, a few Fourth Doctor audio gems haue materialised

ouer the years - Gary Gillatt digs out those old LPs and Talking Books ...

espite repeated offers, Tom Baker has Tom's delivery is uncharacteristically flat, only script is so cliched, declined the opportunity to reprise his really springing to life when he attempts to clumsy and crass, as this role as the Doctor for Big Finish portray the doddering scientist Kalmar, adopting in turn makes the Doctor Productions' range of audio dramas. a wheezing, constipated tone we are left thankful sound like an idiot. Scripts were tailor-written for his he didn't assume for his elderly Doctor in The Leisure Going by this evidence, character, including Nick Pegg's expert tribute to the Hiue. Sadly, he doesn't even attempt Kg. the Doctor's 500-year diary would need to be heavily Hinchcliffe/Holmes era, The Spectre of Lanyon Moor, As original, non-TV adventures, The Pescatons sub-edited if it was ever to see publication. delivers the but still the actor refused to join the party. He is and Exploration Earth are worth more thorough The tale begins when the TARDIS reported to have suggested penning his own investigation. It is worth bearing in mind, Doctor and Sarah to a deserted beach along the material, though as this would likely involve however, that both were produced for a relative Thames Estuary. It is late at night during a freezing badgers, his Auntie Win and some enthusiastic unsophisticated pre-teen audience nearly 30 years February. Here they find themselves chased across is the infanticide, Big Finish understandably demurred. ago, so a modern, adult listener will be significantly the dunes by an unseen monster, in what by far heartbeat This means that there is a limited amount of less forgiving. Then again, this isn't The Time Team, most effective sequence of the story. A audio-only Fourth Doctor material left for this Special context isn't everything, and you can turn back to Kg sound pumps away as the Doctor describes the

Edition to review. This ranges from the straight- and Company for as much golly-gosh-wow childish scene. "Something was moving in the sand dunes nearby, slithering towards us along the beach. What

kind of beast it was we couldn't tell. But all the time

it was getting closer ... closer ... Breathing. Searching. Hunting."

Later, the Doctor discovers that the authorities are Hired for investigating a meteorite that has fallen into the Thames. This hardly thrills the Doctor, who

comments, "Now, as you know, I have spent a great forward State of Decay talking book deal of my travels avoiding the dazzling array of the darkness of space to the more sophisticated 1976 meteorites that tumble across schools educational radio drama SDUflD like millions of bright stars." Indeed we do. It's Exploration Earth: The Time Machine. difficult to put a number to the thrilling adventures Fitting neady between are the semi-dramatised that have involved the Doctor avoiding Describing these rocks as Genesis ofthe Daleks and Doctor Who and the Pescatons LPs meteorites. - the former being essentially an edited soundtrack "like ... bright stars" is a typical Pemberton's infallible from the 1975 TV serial, the latter a new tale by example of scribe Victor Pemberton. ability to choose the wrong simile for Of these four productions, Genesis ofthe Daleks the occasion. He wields these lazy stands as the most familiar to listeners, having comparisons like a haddock wields a received the most widespread distribution. This BBC hedge trimmer. When the Doctor - later reissued on cassette and CD - offers an dives into the mysterious meteorite intelligent edit ofone of Doctor Who's most popular himself, he grapples with some serials, with gaps in the story plugged by a pleasingly seaweed. "A living weed," in point of minimal narration by Tom Baker. Indeed, so familiar fact, "Clinging like the tentacles of some did this presentation of the tale become to a giant, deep-sea octopus." So, the generation of fans growing up before the age of meteorites are like stars, and the weed is octopus. It's difficult keep track of VHS, to some it now seems odd that the TV like an adventure doesn't begin with the words, "I stepped what we're dealing with here. Sadly the from the TARDIS on to a bleak planet." The Doctor's Doctor is fighting weed from a meteorite, sombre commentary on the action adds to the even though an octopus from the stars drama of the piece, and has perhaps even subtly sounds far more exciting. enhanced die reputation of the original episodes Returning to dry land, the Doctor meets up with Sarah and outlines the threat over the years. SSHI3B CI? enthusiasm as any sane person the Thames is a State of Decay holds less charm, will ever need. humanity is facing. The object under being an edited reading of spaceship, and the creature that chased them on the Terrance Dicks' novelisation of his he larger part of Doctor beach is a Pescaton - the first arrival in a planned chills with his own serial. It's a straight re-telling Who and the Pescatons is invasion. The Doctor Sarah and there are few deviations from T told in the first person, description of this alien race. "They are cunning, the source material, the most by the Doctor. This is simple ravenous creatures. Half human, half fish. They have notable being when the Doctor narration in the manner of the the head and body of a shark and teeth as sharp as explains the origins of the evolved linking Genesis material, rather nails." However, he then rather undercuts the names ofZargo etal. Rather than the than the 'he said, she said' menace of these creatures by adding: "They move like TV serial's 'consonantal shift' and reportage of State of Decay. slowly on two webbed feet." Hmm. It sounds

Lalla Ward's "Sharkey, Charlie, Elisabeth Sladen makes what is you could just nip around behind a Pescaton and Charlie, Zargo" shriek, here Dicks effectively a guest appearance as Sarah Jane for a push it over with a clothes prop. offers a more whimsical example ofChinese handful of conversations with the Doctor. The only When this "frantically hostile invader" gnashes whispers, with the Doctor explaining how the other cast member is Bill Mitchell as the villain, Zor, and waddles its way through London, some minimal - phase "cabbages and kings" might be misheard as and he has less than a dozen lines. With the piece sound effects - police sirens, screams work hard to a sense of drama. "The TARDIS is on strings" - though perhaps only effectively standing as the Doctor's own re-telling of produce something approximating Pescaton to a half-deafvisual effects assistant. Throughout, his adventure, it's a shame that Victor Pemberton's After rampaging through the West End, the

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kinship with The Pescatons. As Doctor Who's first arrives at London Zoo, where it falls over. Someone Billingsgate fish market, there's little we mere hills original audio adventure, this unassuming episode is pokes at it and it gets up again, stumbles into the mortals can do other than run for the and hope a trail-blazer, though it has more in aquarium building, falls over again, and dies. This someone clever can tidy up the mess. something of spin-offs, such as isn't as the result of some ingenuity on the Doctor's To staunch Doctor Who enthusiasts, the final third common with other worthy 1970s

... educational part - he just watches as the creature drops dead of ofThe Pescatons offers two defining head-in-hands the Doctor Who Discovers series of attempts books, than it does with The Sirens Time, The One its own accord. Thrilling stuff. Our hero goes on to moments. The first comes when the Doctor of describe the creature as "an unparalleled challenge to distract a ravening Pescaton by singing Hello Dolly Doctor and .

to our power of logic", but it's a description one to it. It's not the singing that's the problem, more Machine begins with Sarah feels would be better applied to Pemberton's plot. the choice of song. If Pemberton had thrown in a Time The - that they are "lost in space Despite the rather undignified death of their couple of bonus tracks, with the Doctor covering 1 bemoaning force had scout, the Pescatons begin to arrive en masse. This Will Suruiue and It's Raining Men, the album would and getting loster and loster." A prompts the Doctor to remember his visit to the today earn several megabytes on every gay Doctor Who taken control of the TARDIS, taking it back 4,500 planet Pesca. This short 'flashback' sequence evokes fan's iPod, and a Richard X remix. A further sticking million years into Earth history. This provides the opportunity lecture his the atmosphere of 1960s Doctor Who annual stories. point comes with the Doctor's second musical Doctor with the perfect to interlude. As Sarah comments: assistant and his audience on cosmology,

"This is a fine time to start playing astrophysics and geology. The Earth is slowly your piccolo, Doctor." A descant forming outside the ship, but rather than merely

recorder we could just about peer at it through tire scanner screen, the Doctor accept, but any fan knows that the takes Sarah on a ride in a special capsule, which 'piccolo' can only be used in a either trundles out of the TARDIS doors or shoots Doctor Who context alongside out through the roof. We are left to picture our 'American' and 'novelisation'. heroes as transtemporal versions of Willy Wonka As the Doctor continues to be and Charlie Bucket, bobbing about space in their

dim and unobservant, it is Sarah Great Glass Elevator. "Look at that enormous body," who notices the effect die Doctor's insists die Doctor - a comment on the condensing

tin whisde has on their foe - the planet rather than his travelling companion - "An sound reducing them to so much enormous, billowing mass of gases." fish paste. This proves to be their The Doctor opts to "follow the progression trail downfall, and when the Doctor of the developing Earth" through dme, and as our turns a high-pitched sound wave world begins to solidify, the Time Lord comments upon Zor himself, his brain-link to that "order is coming". However, this casual remark UICTOR PEITIBERTnrrS SELF PLHGIHRISfTl WIS LOOG STOOD hs the PESCirrans' nni_y PUIRT DF IRTEREST

attracts the attention of «wrroiu the Megron - High Lord of Chaos and Chiefof the « Carrions. And what a Carrion. This Megron Above: Tom Baker and Elisabeth Sladen pose for The Pescatons' curses our hero each time cover art. Right: the LP and cassette sleeves for the story. he refers to the Earth settling into an ordered

Doctor Who turns up, meets a future, and while he repeatedly vows to plunge monster, tells it not to be so silly and the nascent planet back into runs away. The foe is question is the threats ring rather chief Pescaton, Zor, who wants to chaos, his suck out the Doctor's knowledge of hollow, and the Doctor wisely "the galactic universe". Zor, rather decides to just wander off. surprisingly, is American, and his later Ultimately, the TARDIS delivery of the line, "So, we meet again, deposits its crew in a modern Dak-turr!" is a tiny moment ofjoy. The Doctor concludes his reverie - English pasture. Sarah, who has seemed variously bored, noting that the Pescatons are all her controlled by the brain ofZor-and sickened and irritated by science lesson, continues to we're told that the invasion of Earth is his race helps the Time complain, and tests the Doctor's patience to its now in full swing. With a splendid Lord to commit genocide. The mixed metaphor, the Doctor comments Pescatons had made a fatal limits as he snaps, "Stop wittering, Sarah!" The a final appearance, refusing to admit "London is the heart of the nation. And blunder in surrendering their Megron makes that beginning of photosyndiesis marks an end that heart is now as quiet as the grave." individual freedom to central the Doctor The monsters are tearing through the control, or, as Victor Pemberton might to his disorderly conduct. The employs will and the Carrion is silent city - very quiedy, presumably - claiming say, the creatures had learned that they couldn't make "telepathic deployment", threaten to unlikely victims in unlikely places. "A terrified flower an omelette by putting all their eggs in one basket. dismissed, though the creature does Earth, to organise bus seller played cat-and-mouse with one of the Doctor Who and the Pescatons has elements in return to the perhaps creatures on the forecourt of a railway station," common with its author's TV serial, Fury jrom the timetables. its - only 20 minutes - notes the Doctor. "And lost." Deep, with its underwater menace destroyed by high Benefiting from brevity its way, Sarah and the Doctor discuss England's lack ofan frequency sound, but it lacks any of the atmosphere Exploration Earth is entertaining in modest easier to The Pescatons. But, effective defence against an attack from beyond its and energy of the Troughton adventure. Pemberton's and is certainly bear than borders. Sarah suggests that there should be suitable self-plagiarism has long stood as The Pescatons' only as the closing theme music rumbles out, one is left With this adventure armaments and strategies in place, while the Doctor point of interest, and while it offers precious bonus to question its educational value. space as research material, surely any points out that there is nothing Britain can do to minutes in the company ofTom Baker and Elisabeth in time and begin his class essay protect itself against frantically hostile invaders. It Sladen, there is certainly little reason to recommend respectable ten-year-old would with the words, takes a BBC 'War On Terror' studio debate an hour spending time with this lazy tale. on the origins of his planet "The after defeated the Megron. to churn through these issues, while the Doctor and With its tiny cast of Doctor, Sarah and ranting Earth formed Doctor Who also a girl some gas and stuff." Sarah dispense with them in 30 seconds. Be it a dirty villain - in this case, John Westbrook as the Megron There was and bomb at Liverpool Street station or a Pescaton in - Exploration Earth: The Time Machine has a certain And hurrah for that.

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With seven years of stories on television, the era of the Fourth Doctor presents authors with a wide choke of styles to adopt for their nouels. So who has coped best with the challenge? Matt Michael munches on a few jelly babies and catches up on his reading

s every Doctor Who fan knows, the (Invasion ofthe Bodysnatchers - check, twice; The Wolf- that was twenty-six feet long his attempts to appear

Fourth Doctor era, more than any Man - check; The Mummy, Frankenstein, It! - all present inconspicuous failed."

other, falls into three distinct phases, and correct), then it was the Doctor who was the If one were to try to list the ingredients that made

presided over by three producers of rogue element each week. And it was this the first three seasons of the Fourth Doctor's era so very different temperaments (indeed, unpredictability and inconstancy that allowed a distinctive, it would probably include the following. despite Philip MacDonald's noble attempt in the first cliffhanger like The Deadly Assassin Part One - in One charismatic and memorable villain, possibly volume of this special to encourage us to think of the which the audience is supposed to think that the disfigured in some way, with whom the Doctor can era more in term of script editors than producers, Doctor has shot the President of Gallifrey, or the share a repartee. (This villain could well be an most fans will continue to refer to these phases as whole premise ofThe Invasion ofTime, when we're led amoral scientist with a disregard for human life, but 'The Hinchcliffe Years' and 'The Williams Years', to believe that he has betrayed the Time Lords to the in any case will have a fanatical devotion to his plus 'The Nathan-Turner Bit'). The early Hinchcliffe Vardans. As Terrance Dicks has said, this is a Doctor chosen cause.) The threat faced by the Doctor should

'gothic' style, a hit parade of glossy re-imaginings of be insidious, something that either invades and classic horror and sci-fi movies, segues transforms the body and mind, or else into the lighter Williams takes the form of a human. - seasons, where wit and There should be a monster a whimsy and over-lit dinosaur creature or pig- - spaceships signal another brained doll for example that golden age before a final, is barely within the villain's jarring transition to the hard- control and may even result in edged SF of INT's Season his destruction. Any alien Eighteen. Much of this society should consist of breakdown of styles has been individuals who do not preserved in the books, hence necessarily get on, and not just the preponderance of horror- faceless drones. And the overall style novels set in Seasons tone should be one of creeping Thirteen and Fourteen, and the horror. Most Fourth Doctor wit and invention of the books Virgin Missing Adventures and BBC featuring the Second Romana Past Doctor Adventures set and Ka. Season Eighteen, the during Seasons Twelve to Fifteen gloomy tail-end of die era, hasn't do follow some or all of the above attracted any novel authors at all. strictures. Hooked nn

As for the character of the Doctor himself, much has been written on how he begins as a dangerously unpredictable alien, prone to Lassies tantrums and morbidity, transforming into a boggling loon, gurning uncontrollably, before a final that you can believe really might turn mad, bad and Of course, there are exceptions to every rule, and lapse into dark introspection. The argument goes dangerous to know. There's therefore no problem in A Device of Death is one ofthem. It's a story that places that Hinchcliffe and Nathan-Turner were strong accepting that the subdued, low-voiced Doctor of the Doctor, Sarah and Harry into a different producers, able to keep their mercurial star in check, is the same as the exuberant, crowing situation, but one which still seems utterly derivative. whilst Williams was unable to prevent Baker from character ofManaara. In this respect, the novels are It has the same cheap feel to it as Revenge of the behaving like a scenery-chewing prima donna. In his merely taking their lead from the actor himself. Cybermen, but without even the simply-sketched DWM Guess Who? article on the Fourth Doctor, Gareth In general, Baker's performance is so memorable society of the Vogans to lift it above a dreary and Roberts argues the opposite, suggesting that the that few writers have had any trouble in capturing plodding space opera. A throwback to a time when Doctor begins as a more human character, interacting something of die up-and-down nature of the entire alien races were homogenous, the book is with the equally moody Sarah, before becoming character; expansive one moment, surly the next. lacking in the kind of charismatic individual villains increasingly withdrawn and alien once he meets Equally, despite some attempts to illustrate the inner that make Season Twelve seem so fresh following on 2' Leela. In fact, the Fourth Doctor's character is monologue of the Fourth Doctor, most notably in from the 'Sea Devil or 'third Ogron from die right' consistently inconsistent: perhaps a reflection of the 's Telos novella Ghost Ship, none of the of previous seasons. actor's temperament and relationship widi his co- writers has done much more than recreate the Focusing on Harry's adventures in 1930s England stars, perhaps a conscious decision on Baker's part to mannerisms and style ofTom Baker's portrayal, and as he tries to prevent an insane plan to crown a new approach everything (including, famously, walking it is questionable whether they need to do any more , Wolfsbane is more in keeping with the through doors) in a different way every time. Hence than that. The actor's towering central performance feel of the Hinchcliffe seasons. Although the shift to the upbeat, wisecracking character in the Brain of has justly made him a TV legend, and is such that he pure fantasy distances this from other stories of the - Morbius is replaced by the snarling contemptous dominates every scene in which he appears. As era, the Universal horror images werewolves - Doctor ofThe Seeds of Doom. If the audience knew Gareth Roberts points out in The Romance ofCrime, "as padding through a misty forest sit comfortably what to expect from the stories around this time the Doctor was six feet four and was wearing a scarf beside robot mummies patrolling the woods.

THE CDITIPLETE PDURTH QETER 73 A brilliant evocation of Season Thirteen, with all of After Elisabeth Sladen announced her departure, the regulars sounding utterly true to their onscreen Tom Baker apparently wanted to continue the selves, Wolfsbane is the Fourth Doctor book that Doctor's travels unencumbered by a companion to comes closest to capturing the crepuscular quality of help chivvy along the plot (or else accompanied only Robert Holmes gothic. It's also, without a doubt, by a talking leaf vegetable, an idea that was half- Harry Sullivan's finest hour. adopted by his successor). The Deadly Assassin was a One of Virgin's better Missincj Adventures, Mantujra sop to the star of the show. Unique on TV for is very overlooked, probably because, despite featuring a companion-less Doctor, the lone Time promising to be an archetypal Hinchcliffe chiller, Lord approach is one that has been seized on by with its faux-medieval setting and a vampire-hunting writers keen to exploit a gap with the potential for - Lord Byron, it turns into a complex and lengthy the holy grail of missing adventures character fantasy novel packed with outre' characters and ideas. development. Interestingly, though, three of the four In these days of absurdities and flat-out stories set during this post-Assassin gap have seen the fantasies such as Wolfsbane, Manama would probably Doctor paired with out-of-sequence companions - a be more highly regarded than it was when it was disgraced Brigadier in the short story UNlTed We Fall, P DLL THE FOURTH DOCTOR'S companions, rrs hrrrh who hhs OEOEFITED ITIDST FROITI THE BOOKS published. Nevertheless, despite being more complicated and far-out than the telly stories it's meant to sit beside, Manacjra does reflect the "believable proliferation of resentments and jealousies and conflicting agendas" that Philip MacDonald points to as typifying the

Tom Baker years. And like Wolfsbane, it features charismatic villains and a horror-

qually overlooked, even vilified,

Evolution has the most Robert

Holmes-ish premise of all the Missing Adventures. This time, The Island of Dr Moreau (plus a hefty chunk ofThe Hound ofthe

Bakervilles) provides with the inspiration for a novel that revolves around th plans ofan industrialist and a scientist to create half-human, half-animal hybrids. With its Victorian setting, classic horror roots, were-animal monsters and amoral scientists,

Euolution would fit perfectly into Season

Thirteen. Perfectly, that is, was it not for the fact that the book is written so badly that the considerable promise of Peel's plot is squandered. The villains, who had the potential to be developed as Styggron or Davros-style fanatics, barely feature, the plot hinges on a continuity reference, and the novels. concept of a young Conan-Doyle being Sarah is well served in many of the Fourth Doctor inspired by these events to write his novels is an unwelcome reminder ofTimelash's HG Wells an ageing Harry in Millennium Shock, and a post-

(although the fact that Euolution is inspired by one of Nyssa in Asylum. Only Ghost Ship genuinely Wells' novels adds an amusing circularity to this). features a Doctor travelling without support, and it's

System Shock slips somewhere between the two a misfire. It's told by the Fourth Doctor in the first extremes of Manacjra and Euolution. In its paranoid, person, but without any of the brooding melancholy, technology-driven plot, the Season Thirteen story it manic mood swings or alien distance that Tom most resembles is The Android Invasion, although it's Baker so notably brought to the role. As a result, it far superior to that particular disappointment. Also comes across like a bland Victorian ghost story like The Android Inuasion, sees the return narrated by a fusty professor, rather than an of Harry Sullivan. Of all the Fourth Doctor's opportunity to explore what makes this most morose companions, it's Harry who has benefited most from incarnation tick. Millennium Shock resurrects the having appeared in the books - a late payback for Voracians from System Shock in a plot inspired by Hinchcliffe's confessed mistake in getting rid of the fears of the Millennium Bug. As a rush-job, character after Season Twelve. Novels such as apparently written to plug a gap in the schedules, it's Wolfsbane have reminded us of how well Harry extremely acceptable - most memorably for its interacted with the Doctor and Sarah, while System foregrounding of Harry as something more than an Shock and Millennium Shock have drawn on Harry amiable imbecile.

Sullivan's War, easily the best ofTarget's Companions of Asylum is very different, a Name ofthe Rose wannabe Doctor Who range, to sketch in more detail his shady, that resurrects Nyssa in a lengthy opening section, sub-Bondian post-Zycjons career. In System Shock, we only to leave her moping in the background once the discover that by 1998, somewhat unbelievably, Harry TARDIS arrives in thirteenth century Oxford. And has risen to be assistant head ofMI5, although he's yet, by removing Nyssa from the action (a vaguely still the amiable duffer we know and love. A solid, disappointing and derivative story of a possessive engaging and well-written tale of a covert invasion of alien force that's easily dispatched by the Doctor) Earth by half-snake, half-machine beings, the way Darvill-Evans gives the character the kind of that System Shock most resembles the Hinchcliffe era breathing space she was never allowed during her TV is that it's a good story, well told. appearances, time to reflect on the choices she has

r made, and the ways her travels in the TARDIS have If harks back to The Face ofEvil, changed her. As one of the more hard-done-to and Corpse Marker follows up The Robots ofDeath, companions - she repeatedly encountered an aJien Psi-ence Fiction completes the sequence by linking in

inhabiting her father's corpse, saw her entire home to Image ofthe Fendahl. The focus here is on planet wiped away, lost one of her friends to the parapsychology, and while the modern university

Cybermen, was kidnapped and molested by a maniac setting is a long way from the country piles of

who mistook her for his fiancee, and left the Doctor first-rate Who gothic, the haunted wood, Leela's to help cure a space plague - Nyssa has every right to encounter with some cows, and the general Nigel

feel disgruntled. Asylum, appropriately, is her book, Kneale feel fondly remind the audience of Boucher's

and the character's strongest appearance in print. Season Fifteen story. Leela is less prominent here, but there are some interesting moments as she nother character who was hard done by on discovers herself surrounded by the 'Tesh' university

telly was Leela - a concept companion scientists. The spooky tone and clever plot make

who, like most concept companions, was Psi-ence Fiction Boucher's best book. transformed into something a lot less interesting by Other authors have been drawn to explore the the time of her third story. In Leela's case the concept potential of Leela's strong and distinctive character.

was the noble savage, a knife-wielding Eliza Doolittle In Drift, Simon Forward pairs Leela with a Native

to the Doctor's Henry Higgins. In practice, this was American guide working with the military - like her,

interpreted as a woman scantily clad in chamois- a 'savage' turned 'tesh'. This interesting idea never

leather with a pouch full ofpoisoned spines that she amounts to anything, which is true of the novel as a

would deploy murderously before getting a mild whole. Despite its strong atmosphere and monster,

telling off. The rough edges of the character had Drift tends to send the reader drifting off to sleep. Eye

been filed down well before Graham Williams took of Heaven is far better - an astonishing Boy's Oum/sci-fi

over as producer, and only flashes of the original hybrid told entirely in the first person, including

brief for Leela are glimpsed after The Robots ofDeath. Leela and the Doctor (and far more convincingly Simon Forward explored Leela's character in Drift. Unsurprisingly, novel authors, hardly in danger of than in Ghost Ship), that sheds light on both their

arousing the ire of the NVALA, have been more keen characters. This is Leela's book. Seeing the world and aloofness, becoming by the end of his life a to use Leela in the way God (or, at least, Xoanon) flippant old buffer, maybe the First Romana started intended. And while Virgin to unwind prior to her backed away from featuring regeneration. We don't Leela in the Missing Adventures, know, because the three because of the fate in store for novels in which she features

her in Lungbarroiv, the BBC has are all set during the quest

reversed this trend: she features for the Key. Tomb of Valdemar in five of the eleven Fourth goes furthest in telling us Doctor PDAs. more about Romana. Not just

Chris Boucher, who penned the posh ice maiden, this is a Louise Jameson's first two serials, Romana whose outward

has written three novels following arrogance is a front, behind directly on from The Robots ofDeath which she's frequently unsure that are more faithful to Leela's what to do, particularly when original character outline, she thinks that the Doctor has

particularly in her brutality. Last Man died. Tomb ofValdemar is a very

Running, the first of these, is a good PDA, though it's rather

misfire, reading more like a story closer to the Hinchcliffe style

proposal than a novel, and, in its than the season in which it's set. jungle-planet setting, much too close to Leela's introductory outing for comfort. Although GRRETH ROBERTS' FOURTH DOCTOR Boucher's love of constructing well-drawn societies

with developed backstories shines through, it's not BOOHS FRULTLESSLU CRPTURE THE FEEL enough to save Last Man Running from dropping out OF THE PERIOD 10 WHICH THES'RE SET ... of the race, particularly since the most interesting

ideas don't appear until almost the very end, without through her eyes, understanding how she interprets This is also true ofThe Shadoiu ofWeng-Chiang, a any time to develop them. Better is Corpse Marker, a some of the marvels she sees, is far more revealing book that revolves around Mclntee's usual obsessions book that's informed equally by The Robots ofDeath than any amount ofXena-style antics. of a far-Eastern location, hefty continuity references and Blake's 7. might as well be part of the The First Romana, like the First Doctor, is more and a historical setting, reveals nothing much about Terran Federation, with the Doctor and Leela as uptight and prissy than her second incarnation. She's either the Doctor or Romana, whilst being the Blake and an out-of-control Gan on a mission (to also ripe for further development given that during author's best ever evocation of a TARDIS crew, and destiny?). Boucher's focus on Leela's savage all her telly stories she was engaged on a quest to his best Missing Adventure. The tide (and cover) of the background tends to eclipse the return of Uvanov, retrieve the Key to Time. Just as the book is slightly misleading, as it's not just a retread Toos and Poul, and the political manoeuvrings of the First Doctor mellowed ofTalons, but an attempt to do something different

Kaldor City elite make this feel on balance more like following his initial hostility using a few elements of the TV story's plot. a Blake's 7 novel than Doctor Who. As a sequel, Corpse Given his reluctance to share the limelight, it's

Marker works well enough, but it ultimately relies hardly surprising that Tom Baker has never appeared too much on insider in character alongside his fellow Doctors. The hit- knowledge to be and-miss Heart ofTARDIS, like Wolfsbane, tacitly completely successful. acknowledges the difficulty of pairing this incarnation with any other (whilst the others might bitch between themselves, one gets the impression that the Fourth Doctor would just walk out) by never having Doctors Two and Four meet. The Second Doctor gets the best scenes (although there's a magical sequence near the beginning of the book where the Fourth Doctor and Romana rescue Kg),

but it's the Fourth Doctor who saves the day.

Left: The partnership of Romana and the Fourth Doctor - recaptured perfectly in the books by Gareth Roberts.

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While these Season Sixteen books all have their merits, both Tomb ofValdemar and The Shadow ofWeng- EUERU l'S h uiinnER Chaing feel nearer to Hinchcliffe than to Williams, while Heart ofTARDIS is pure . However,

aduentures ... novels come closer than any others to Matt Michael presents his bluffer's guide to the Fourth Doctor's book the next three precisely capturing the feel of late 1970s Doctor Who. They've also overshadowed all of Virgin's other H DEUICE DP DEPTH RIGHTS The Talons of Weng-Chiong the very good The Doctor and Leela discover WMDs Fourth Doctor books, including Written by Christopher Bulis Written by Paul Grice Monaijra and System Shock. Seeds Doom and The on a jungle planet in the distant future. Set between Genesis of the Daleks and Set between The of Gareth Roberts' three Fourth Doctor, Second Mandragora Revenge of the Cybermen Masque of and K9 novels are the star around which all Sarah are caught up in CORPSE mRRHEH Romana The Time Ring crew arrive in a warzone. The Doctor and other Fourth Doctor novels orbit. They remain events on a dying planet. [Short Trips] Written by Chris Boucher immensely popular. In DWM's 35th Anniversary poll UJDLFSBHIIE Set between and positions one, two and four (with The Talons Weng-Chiong ofMAs they took Written by THE HnORDID-mHHER of reserved for Roberts's other MA, The IU Leela and the Doctor have to prevent position three Set between Revenge of the Cybermen DP CHLDERDn Plotters), and in the 40th Anniversary books poll they Written by Mick Doherty the Robots of Death from making and Terror of the positions (not bad, since they Mandragora everyone in Kaldor City dead. If only took two of the top 50 Harry inflames the passions of a wolf- Set between The Masque of were against all other printed Doctor Who, and Fear they'd been the Robots of Cakes, or up lady when he's accidentally abandoned and The Hand of given they'd been out of print and unavailable for six The Doctor foils an evil plan simply by something. in 1930s England. Oh, I say, steady on years). That these books are 'deleted', and therefore his third incarnation. [Short old girl! not being denied to many fans who don't have an extra 50 quid Trips and Side Steps] PSI-EDCE picnon that BBCi has Written by Chris Boucher to spend on eBay, is a disgrace, and one started to rectify with the publication of ETEHDITH Set between The Robots of Death and only recently The Weil-Mannered War as an e-book. Written by Jonathan Blum The Tolons of Weng-Chiang precognition at the It is not difficult to see why these novels are so Set between Experiments into capture the of East Wessex unleash eerie well-loved: it's because they faultlessly and The Hand of Fear University coming. style, the eccentricity, and the facetiousness of the The Doctor and Sarah are stuck powers. Should have seen that period in which they are set. Graham Williams's together on a very long TARDIS approach ro Doctor Who - "it's all about telling journey. [Short Trips: Steel Skies] DRIFT - also Gareth Written by Simon A. Forward stories, nothing else matters" is approach. There's a convention-circuit HRRRH SDLLIUHD'S Set between The Robots of Death and Roberts' anecdote that Tom Baker and Gareth Thomas once UJHH The Talons of Weng-Chiong planned for the Doctor and Blake to bump into each Written by It's no joke when the Doctor and Leela other as they ran down a corridor. The Romance of Set between The Android Invasion and are lost in a blizzard in New England. Crime should have been the story in which it System Shock happened. Nightmare of Eden filtered through Blake's 7, Harry is embroiled in a dangerous DDE HDD RPPLE The Romance Crime is a perfect evocation of the undercover adventure. Written by Simon Forward of British telefantasy of the 1970s. Set between The Robots of Death and Williams era, and of Roberts' fond nostalgia for all that's wonderful and SHSTEm SHDEH The Talons of Weng-Chiang some half- silly about these TV programmes we so love even Written by Justin Richards The Doctor and Leela meet [More Short Trips] stretches to a blurb that begs us to anticipate which Set between and The converted Cybermen. old enemies of the Doctor will appear, alongside a itirddgdd Masque of Mandragora cover emblazoned with ! Written by Stephen Marley The office photocopier strikes back as , in contrast, is Shaun ofthe plan their invasion of Set between Planet of Eoil and the Voracians Dead a decade early, featuring the same gore- Earth. splattered zombies versus tea-sipping English. With The Doctor and Sarah arrive in a its nods to Jeeves and Wooster and Mapp and Lucia, futuristic Europe populated by LIMITED IDE PHLL Roberts seems to find the perfect home for Tom's characters from Gothic fiction. Written by Keith DeCandido Season Seventeen Doctor - summery 1930s England, Set between The Deadly Assassin and striding down the Strand with Kg (in a dog basket, SEHRHB DP DEHTH The Face of Eoil Written by Mark Stammers The Doctor helps the Brigadier justify THE FOURTH Set between Pyramids of Mars and The his expenses. [Decalog 3] Android Invasion DCTDR HPS miLLEDDIDm SHDEH The Doctor and Sarah visit the ruins of DEUELUPED LITTLE Richards Phaester Osiris. [Decoloa] Written by Justin Set between The Deadly Assassin and DESPITE BTPRRIflG EUDLUTIDfl The Face of Euil 19 FULL LEHGTH time IP Written by John Peel The Voracians return, and this pens! Set between The Brain of Morbivs and they have special DUELS TO URTE-.

The Seeds of Doom natch) by his side. Bigger and more excessive in The Doctor, Sarah, Conan-Doyle and HSDLOm than The Romance ofCrime (the Magical Darvill-Evans every way Kipling have a rubbish adventure with Written by Peter Mystery Tour to the earlier book's Sgt Pepper), despite Assassin and EME DP HEHDEn exceedingly good cakes. Set between The Deadly of Death Written by Mortimore featuring a very similar plot, The English Way The Face of Euil/after Terminus Jim Walker's crumpets and Set between The Talons Weng-Chiang perhaps owes more to Pete THE DUHE OF Nyssa rests in the garden while the of cannibalism exploitation films than City of Death, but nminoEs Doctor sorts out an alien incursion in and Horror of Fang Rock The Doctor and Leela uncover an alien it's brilliant all the same. Written by Marc Piatt thirteenth century Oxford. doesn't quite achieve the plot that spans time, space, death and The Well-Mannered War Set between The Seeds of Doom and The greatness of Roberts' other two Season Seventeen SHIP reality. Mosque of Mandragora GHOST impression of being an attempt to Topping novels. It gives the The Master assembles a super-weapon, Written by Keith bridge the Williams and Nathan-Turner house styles, The Deadly Assassin and THE BRHin DP the Godhead. [Decalog] Set between beginning with some of Roberts' most refined The Face of Euil SDERRTES comedy before descending, by degrees, into a more OLD FLHITIES The TARDIS lands on a ship with Written by Gareth Roberts sort of affair. It also relies Set between The Talons of Weng-Chinng sombre, end-of-an-era Written by Paul Magrs ghosts. Hence the title. [Telos Novella] continuity than the footloose and and Horror of Fang Rock more heavily on Set between The Seeds of Doom and The particularly in its attempts nriRD RODDIDG The Doctor takes Leela to ancient fancy-free earlier novels, Masque of Mandragora LHST to tie up both the Virgin series and the Black Chris Boucher Greece to help develop her sense of The Doctor and hunt Written by plot that is barely mentioned during the Robots Death and humour. [Short Trips: The Muses] Guardian some giant cats. [Short Trips] Set between The of actual TV season. The denouement, which sees the CRimsoo onwo Set between The Armageddon Factor Set between Shada and The Leisure Hive

Written by Tim Robins and Destiny of the Dalelcs The Doctor and Romana search for a

Set between Underworld and The Two thieves steal the TARDIS impeller, mind that has escaped Skagra's

Invasion of Time and are caught in a loop of infinity. sphere. [Short Trips]

The Doctor goes fishing on a [Short Trips: Steel Skies]

terraformed Mars.[Decalog 2] PESTIURL BP BERTH THE LHiriG OLD WITCH Written by PEOPLE DP THE in THE UJHRDRDBE Set between Shada and The Leisure Hive TREES Written by Mark Michalowski A time-twisting tale of sacrifice, hippy

Written by Pam Baddeley Set between The Armageddon Factor lizards and the undead.

Set between Underworld and The and Destiny of the Daleks Invasion of Time The TARDIS and Romana battle for a THE WELL-mHRnERED The Doctor and Leela are caught up in a place in the Doctor's affections. WHR

Adric is missing from the Fourth Doctor books ... dispute over antique idols. [Decalog 2] Written by Gareth Roberts

the RnmnnEE DP Set between Shada and The Leisure Hive Doctor remove himselfand his friends from the TimEURULT CRIIRE Can anyone withstand the terror of the universe to confound the Black Guardian (and, one Written by Benjeapes Written by Gareth Roberts Femdroids?

suspects, JNT) is a downbeat conclusion to three of Set between and Set between The Creature from the Pit

the most feel-good stories in Doctor Who history. The Ribos Operation and Nightmare of Eden

It would be daunting for any author to attempt to The Doctor battles a virus on an alien Who dares challenge the might of Xais?

follow Roberts' example, and it took a long while for spaceship. [Decalog 3] the BBC to find someone to take up the mantle of THE EnBLISH WHS OP writing for Season Seventeen. Luckily, Jonathan THE PERR DEHTH Morris' Festival of Death is a worthy successor. More in Written by Alex Leithes Written by Gareth Roberts

the vein ofDouglas Adams than David Fisher, it Set between The Invasion of Time and Set between The Romance of Crime and

features a complex time-travel plot that's mitigated The Ribos Operation Nightmare of Eden

by a straightforward narrative populated by The Doctor is abducted by an entity A drawing-room comedy. With

recognisable and likeable characters. It is also a that subjects him to a series of ordeals. zombies.

brilliant example ofwhat Season Eighteen could [Short Trips: A Universe of Terrors] have been had Bidmead and JN-T been able to strike RETORO OF THE a balance between big SF ideas and witty storytelling. TOrflB DP UHLDEmRR SPIDERS Written by Simon Messingham Written by Gareth Roberts

rguably, Christopher Bidmead spectacularly Set between The Ribos Operation and Set between The English Way of

failed to understand the ethos of Doctor The Pirate Planet Death and Nightmare of Eden

Who. As any BBFC warning will tell you, the The Doctor and Romana uncover the The Doctor and Romana find that

series is less about 'hard SF' than 'mild sci-fi horror'. tomb of an ancient monster. the Queen of the Spiders loves her

That the Fourth Doctor loses his life fighting not pizzas. [More Short Trips] against an animated cadaver with googly eyes or a THE SHHDDLU DP half-man, half-Dalek psychopath, but the laws of UJEHG CHIRnB THE nor- so smiSTER thermodynamics, says a lot about the skewed Written by David A. Mclntee SPOOBE I WHS R RIDOSTER!!! priorities of the Season Eighteen production team. Set between The Stones of Blood and Written by Gareth Roberts and Written by Joseph Lidster

Unsurprisingly, there are no full-length novels set The Androids ofTara Clayton Hickman Set between The Leisure Hive and

during ±is moribund series, and precious few short The daughter of Li H'Sen Chang Set between Return of the Spiders and Meglos

stories. About the longest is the Fourth Doctor threatens to mash up time real bad. Nightmare of Eden A young vampire encounters Romana

segment in Terrance Dicks' The Eight Doctors. A The Doctor and Romana arrive on and the Doctor. [Short Trips: Zodiac]

follow-on from State of Decay, this is as enjoyable a a planet made of cake. We all like

runaround as the serial itself, albeit equally atypical a bit of cake. [Short Trips and Side THE EIBHT DOCTORS of the season in which it's set. The best is Jonathan Steps] Written by Terrance Dicks

Morris' Mauritz, a grimly effective horror story with a Set between State of Decay and series of increasingly unpleasant twists. Notably, DO HDD LODE Warriors' Gate none of the short trips to Season Eighteen focuses HOHDnE ENOUGH? The helps his fourth

on a hard SF idea. Instead, the writers adapt the Written by Norman Ashby incarnation against the evil vampires,

gloomy feel of the season to further darken their Set between The Creature from [fourth Doctor segment]

Hinchliffe horror stories (Mauritz and I Was a the Pit and Nightmare of Eden Monster!!!), or, in the case of 0, Darkness, use the mini- At the end of time, the Doctor O, BRRHnESS

universe of E-Space to illustrate a wider theme of gives Romana his last Rolo. Written by Jonathan Binns

being trapped in a claustrophobic environment. [Short Trips and Side Steps] Set between State of Decay and

The Fourth Doctor, like the Third, has developed Warriors' Gate

little despite appearing (to date) in 19 full-length BETTER THHE The TARDIS materialises inside the novels. The only one that seriously tried to get inside CRRE Structure, under attack from an

his head - Ghost Ship - fumbled it badly. Most writers Written by Steve Burford encroachment. [Short Trips: Steel Skies]

have preferred to ape the era they're writing for. A Set between The Creature from

few, including Stephen Marley and Gareth Roberts, the Pit and Nightmare of Eden mnoRiTZ

have it as the basis little used to say a more. I The Doctor and Romana Written by Jonathan Morris

However, none of these authors has tried to turn the deliver a Christmas present Set between Warriors' Gate and The

Fourth Doctor into a different person than he was on ' for the Brigadier. [Short Trips Keeper of Traken

telly. Nor should we wish them to. Tom Baker is and Side Steps] The Doctor and Adric visit a mysterious

probably right not to revisit the role, because over HEHRT DP THRDIS citadel. [Short Trips: A Universe of seven years in the part he more or less said Written by Dave Stone PLHHinB WITH TOSS Terrors]

everything there was to say. But Baker's reticence Set between The Stones of Blood and Written by David Agnew

doesn't mean that we can't still enjoy whole seasons The Androids ofTara Set between The Creature from the Pit H9 RnD COmPHDB of adventures with TV's favourite bug-eyed monster: The Doctor and Romana go on a quest and Nightmare of Eden Written by Terence Dudley

the scarf-trailing, Dalek-baiting, jelly-baby munching to rescue the Doctor's previous The Doctor finds a mandarin doll in an Set between The Hand of Fear and The

force of nature that is the Fourth Doctor. In lieu of incarnation. old toybox. [Short Trips and Side Steps] five Doctors

the actor's return on audio, these Missing Adventures K9 and Sarah foil a sinister plot to and PDAs are the best way to celebrate the Doctor DDino Time BLHSS abduct young boys in the name of the who, for once, even the fans and public can agree is Written by Written by TaraSamms goddess Hecate. the definitive incarnation.

THE CrjmPLETFJ FOURTH DOCTOR 77 comic strip alter ego returned to As the Fourth Doctor made his debut on television, his Sarah Smith. Martin Wiggins dusts off the pages of TV Comic, now accompanied by Jane adventures the bohemian Doctor his old issues, to find a rather different era of for

misogynistic contempt that one oil rig came under attack in with such eet the new Dr Who - see of the Zyflons, another him, calling her a Sea, alien balls of wonders why she stays with page 22!" said the strap-line the opening scene ofThe Sinister that her behaviour is from The Masque 0/ "stupid girl" and moaning atop the cover ofTV Comic fiery energy made their way woman"; at the end of Woden's Warriors, Fire Feeders, and an untitled 1977 "just like a issue 1204. Readers turning Mandragora to The approvingly on "the Saxon aliens an oriental aspect, with he even comments to Doctor Who's traditional serial gave its view ofa woman's role" - that is, menial and failure punished by "the wrath of the Dragon" in a in the comic's back spread found much that home also far more happy than the modelled on The Talons ofWenfl-Chiana. In subservient. He's was new, and much that wasn't. Death Floiver was scene screen Doctor ever was to undertake missions for 1978, The Space Garden even lifted a sequence from the first comic strip appearance of the Fourth the Time Lords. Virtually all his travels in time and the second episode of Blake's 7, as marauding Doctor Who, and the first regular outing for the are manipulated by his all-seeing masters: space pirates are sucked into space out of a space faithful Sarah-Jane, but in story and artwork there Revenge they can even stop Bessie in connecting tube between two ships. in The Dalek was little significant change from the mode her tracks on the way to one of those pub lunches, Even so, it was only half an eye on the television established in the Pertwee strips of the previous forcing him to return to his cottage and the series. As the new Doctor Who settled in, the strip three years or so. Working to a schedule that TARDIS to deal with the Daleks, dastardly attempt settled back into its familiar old continuity, with for copy weeks ahead of the new Doctor's called - Ercos into an interplanetary the Doctor based on Earth to turn the planet television Doctor, which he regards as 'home' - in missile aimed at Earth. Like the a special interest in the most his Tudor country cottage, acting they seem to have parochial affairs of our little planet. In as a freelance specialist for the seemingly serial, they even arrange for CclR&J British government or an an untitled 1976

BBC launch, scriptwriter and artist mansEBFts lano had no option but to carry on the strip in the same vein: the tale of a malign alien industrialist who CREEPS] wants to seed the SUPER Doctor Who to prevent the Nazis taking an Italian world with acid-spitting country church's art treasures to Germany, "for plants would have sat easily real appreciation". Evidently they're not all enough in the TV Action era technocratic philistines on the planet Jewel. of comic-strip Doctor Who, In case you're wondering, Jewel is the home of and the page was still the Time Lords - the scriptwriter evidendy wasn't drawn with the clean lines watching when the Doctor name-checked characteristic of Gallifrey on television in The Time Warrior. Inside Gerry experienced penman the its high-tech towers the master race monitors Haylock. The main time threads, their costumes and even their faces problem was working out taken from stills of their appearance in The Three what Doctor Who looked Doctors. Ironically, both the Time Lords, on-page like: with no chance to appearances in this guise coincided with the study Tom Baker in action transmission of television serials which changed on tie screen, Haylock had their look: first the Ingmar Bergman style of to rely on a selection of Genesis of the Daleks and then The Deadly Assassin's now-familiar BBC stills. Gothic Gallifrey. And where the television Time Clearly somebody was Lords of this period were an inward-looking keen to tie the strip more people in decline, in TV Comic they are widely intergalactic agent of the Time Lords between closely to the television series than before. For the among the peoples of the universe, not as cosy pub lunches with Sarah-Jane. This Doctor known time, the Doctor's yellow car was named first vague legend but as a definite fact. has none of the clownish side that Tom Baker some Bessie (she'd been 'Betsy' throughout the Pertwee over-emphatic years), and there was an almost WITH SUCH attention to Sarah-Jane's profession as a THE DOCTOR TRERTS SHRRH and is journalist: she works for a daily newspaper, misoGHnisTic cooTcmPT thht one even shown conducting an interview with Doctor STRHS WITH HIH1! Return the Daleks, the second WHH SHE Who at the start of of UJDODERS

serial. As the strip ran on, though writers and example of just how commonplace the gave the part on screen: for the most part he An changed, it was clear that the TV Comic artists Lords have become appears in an untided remains serious and sober, albeit with an Time office was keeping half an eye on the Doctor's set a contaminated space wheel. tendency to make appalling puns. He's 1976 serial on on-screen adventures. Sarah-Jane's wardrobe in occasional are Like many TV Comic stories of this time, it that of also distincdy authoritarian: "I am glad you Return of the Daleks and The Wreckers matched features a language barrier: the scriptwriters shocked into , young lady," he admonishes her unhyphenated television counterpart in should curb often created stranded aliens who are fearful and their cue Sarah-Jane in The Emperor's Spy, "You in Space, and story ideas periodically took hostile because they cannot communicate with that journalistic instinct of yours." He treats her from events in the parent series. Soon after Terror

7B qctor ujhd mnGB2ine the locals, and, with no "Time Lord gift" enabling the TARDIS travellers to understand the local vernacular, space stories regularly feature scenes in which Doctor Who or Sarah-Jane come upon gobbledegook- spouting creatures who eventually manage to make contact by using "logical telepathic

analysis", like Ticon the centaur-like Klim in The Dalek Revenge, or some intergalactic language

like Trillic, the "cybernetic esperanto" spoken by the horse- headed Spacemaster Roppy in The Wreckers. The space wheel serial extends the problem to become the mainspring of the Such failures ofweek-by- plot: Doctor Who and Sarah-Jane are infected with week continuity are also a virus lethal to the reptilian Bendriggans, but sometimes apparent in the

have no way ofwarning them before it is too late; scripting: in an untitled but just as they are about to be executed for the 1976 desert island deaths they have apparently caused, the adventure, for example, the Bendriggan cryptographer comes up trumps with alien Craytons are initially the Doctor's written note. "The primitive's given dialogue which message was in Time Lord mathematics," he assumes they are declares, and the application of that unlikely benevolent but

knowledge becomes the key to achieving misunderstood, only for it meaningful contact. later to emerge that they are villainous galactic despots.

strip went through several But by now it wasn't just Themonumental changes of look during the Doctor Who strip that was getting into 1975. Gerry Haylock left after completing difficulties: TV Comic itself was in crisis. In the eleven episodes of Death Flower, and there September 1976 the publishers relaunched the followed a four-month title on cheaper paper as Mighty stint by Martin Asbury, TV Comic. There was a better known for his far greater reliance on

contributions to the Garth reprinted material, its comic strip in the Daily antiquity apparent

Mirror. Asbury's work is from the way one

notable for its extensive strip dealt with the use of background crazy new music shading, resulting in a fashion of rock'n'roll, darker overall page than and the larger format was usual with Haylock, was said to make the and for the care taken comic "twice as big";

with close-ups; his the fact that all the representations ofTom strips were also printed Baker and Elisabeth double-sized was Sladen were the most discreetly ignored. At accurate to appear in TV least the Doctor Who Comic. After two serials, strip continued to be he too moved on, to be replaced by John IT IS STRIHIRE HDUJ THE Canning. Canning had tu comic uersidr dp leelh been the comic's regular Doctor Who artist HBHflDDflS HER LEATHERS from 1966 to 1970, and FDR H PRIR DP JERRS ... his style was markedly more caricatured than newly drawn, though amended to turn the Doctor's associates into Joan his predecessors,: he favours bold strokes with temporarily slashed to a Brown and General Maxwell-Lennon. thick-nibbed pens, though with The Space Ghost he single page - generally nine frames per episode - After months travelling alone, in July 1977 began to experiment with an ink spray to but the stories became correspondingly simplistic Doctor Who had a new companion with him in represent luminous energy effects. His Doctor and re-used such staple themes as giant animals his country cottage. Leela stayed for four serials

Who is a jowly monstrosity, full of character from earlier years. Sarah-Jane disappeared for a (the cottage didn't - her debut was its swan-song) though not notable for any striking similarity to while, but returned for one last serial at and, though John Canning's visual interpretation

Tom Baker; while his Sarah-Jane is dark-haired, Christmas, months after she hadn't reached South didn't impress Louise Jameson, the character was blandly pretty, and periodically dressed in short Croydon in The Hand of Fear. As an inducement to recognisably the Sevateem savage of the silver skirts and thigh boots. In fact, she seems so buy into the sorry mess, Mighty TV Comic offered a screen, complete with her knife, her primitive devoted to her minis that she will sometimes free Doctor Who 'Mighty Midget' comic featuring ability to sense evil, and her unconventional turns change into them between episodes - on one reprinted adventures from the 1974 Doctor Who of phrase: "Demons have snatched the TARDIS

occasion she even manages it while strapped Holiday Special, with the Fourth Doctor crudely away!" she exclaims in The Orb. In view of Philip down on a couch! inked over the Third, and the caption lettering Hinchcliffe's abortive plans for Leela's

THE ELUTIPLETE PDURTH ETOR 79 r l*U rnnmics

serials in jeans; but there may have to be done about her dialogue and behaviour: a cry been other reasons for that. Canning's of "BACK, SEA DEVIL!" as she slices off a tentacle artwork made Leela somewhat buxom with her knife remains a dead giveaway. and womanly at the best of times, and By June 1978, the publishers ofTV Comic (it had her television outfit wasn't always not given up its pretensions to mightiness) were ideally suited to action shots; he even ready to apply their new-found knowledge. At the had to make a last-minute amendment end ofThe image Makers, the Doctor was left words to one panel ofThe Mutants to ensure looking for his lost TARD1S. The customary LD CHARACTERS COULD TUMI IHTU HEW DUES WITH THE APPLICATIUA UP A LITTLE EHTRH IRK ...

the that week's Micjhtu TV Comic could be ran along the foot of the page: "Don't miss sold to people under 18 years of age! start of an exciting new story." This may have been legal and decent, but it certainly wasn't

eela's final TV Comic truthful: the following week, Doctor Who was appearance was to have been Patrick Troughton from the neck down, in an Doctor L in the 1979 annual, but by adventure which had first appeared in 1969. then the television version had long Who ran for 45 more weeks in TV Comic: John since settled down to have her Time Canning moved on to draw the Charlie's Anaels Who's Tots on Gallifrey. The Sea Demi was strip, but continued to contribute Doctor already drawn, but one of the lessons current face to 'Bakerised' reruns of six Jon the publishers had been learning was Pertwee strips. Finally, in the closing panel of Size for a that old characters could turn into Control, the Doctor expressed his "yearning new ones with the application of a little peace and quiet." Unusually, there was no to come: TV little extra ink. Adding a pair of promise of thrilling 'new' adventures spectacles and different hair Comic no longer had the rights. It was n May 1979, turned Leela into Miss and Doctor Who could look forward to several development on television, it is striking that the colouring, John Canning speculate that her months worth of peace and quiet before Marvel TV Comic version abandons her leathers halfway Young (Beraerac fans may like to there wasn't much Comics pitted him against the Iron Legion ... through her run, and spends her remaining first name was Susan), though

as Marvel launched the Doctor in In 1979, the Doctor Who strip moved house yet again, Weekly his own weekly title. Dauid Bailey flicks back through the paaes of Doctor Who

Brains Trust and the Werelox ... THatsto see how our hero coped against the Ectoslime, the endERtainment.

Sadly, these early strips are unable to evisiting the comic strips from capture the sophistication of Doctor Who Weekly, and the early storytelling that was often on display in days of the Monthly, is a curious the television series at the time. And, experience. It had been many, many while the strips' interpretation of the years since I'd first read them, and often bang-on, there are notable Doctor was I must be honest and admit that, with a few many examples of the writer's wit exceptions, much of the Fourth Doctor's time in the falling flat, or the insertion of a gag strip hadn't made a lasting impression. Coming to that you just know Tom Baker himself them free of nostalgia - and with my twenty-first- wouldn't have countenanced during century appetite for this medium gorged on the filming. Of course, no one can expect complex, unforgiving continuity ofUS comic books - things to be perfect - and, in later and the epic sprawls of the modern DWM strip years, the strip would wander much these earliest strips are something of a surprise. A further, and with much more pleasant surprise, mosdy, but occasionally their deliberation, from the tone of its youthful inexperience falls short of being charming television source - but it's these strips' and wanders into the realms of clumsiness. aggravating closeness to the genuine Don't get me wrong - although, as I prepared article that rankles. my notes for this piece, my thoughts seemed It seems strange to criticise the strip initially negative, I found myself enjoying re-reading that isn't the only way horror, inappropriately timed joke ... He for its near-authenticity, but these strips a great deal. I think that, mainly, is of mock unmistakable character who got us it lets this modern reader down. There is much down to the fact that the earliest of them - those is, often, the seek out Doctor inelegance in its storytelling, too. Of course, this concurrent with Season Seventeen - do capture hooked enough on Doctor Who to place. That said, it's equally matter is helped in no way by the brevity of early that wonderfully madcap Fourth Doctor of the time. Who Weekly in the first episodes - when in DWW, the strip averaged four He's fond of crazy outbursts, sudden declarations often a case of 'so near, and yet so far'.

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pages an issue, and so much time was spent The arrival of Steve Parkhouse, with the resolving one cliffhanger and leading into the next distinctly weak The Deal, does little to that there often wasn't much space for storytelling. improve things. But we now know that And, during Dragon's Claw, when the strip made the Parkhouse went on to bring us a fine run shift from weekly to monthly, and the page count of strips featuring the Fifth and Sixth increased to eight, the improvements to the way the Doctors, so it's easy to excuse the story is told are immediately evident. Although it weaknesses in these early strips as those we* oez r*w/v still seems quite obvious that the strip had originally of a team finding their feet, and trying to been written to fit into smaller segments (there are figure out what to do with Doctor Who in a couple of left-over cliffhangers in the middle of this medium. format. So much happens, and so much chops and later episodes), the story has more space to breathe changes, that it begins to feel like the writers are

- most notably in its dramatic denouement, which ne of the most distinctive things about this making it up as they go along. The story whooshes manages to bring over a gravitas and scope that the run is the scale of the stories and, on this by, and features a healthy amount of action and strip had, up to this point, been unable to capture. front, writers Pat Mills and John Wagner adventure, but it feels like Mills and Wagner are

In the rush to get to the next episode, some hit the ground running with their first strip, The Iron slightly cheating when the great idea of a universe- elements of the stories seem crowbarred in simply Legion. The tale of alternate-Earth Roman robots straddling Roman Empire is revealed as the work of to justify an exciting cliffhanger. Take the Beast Men trying to conquer the multiverse is something the villainous Malevilus. In fact, their inclusion and the Ectoslime in The Iron Legion, for example. Graham Williams and Douglas Adams might have smacks a little of an attempt to fill a couple more

The former, at least, have some place in the grander balked at tackling, even on their craziest days. But episodes - similar to the sudden reveal of the Sontarans at the end of Part Four of the TV same elerierts dp the stories adventure The Invasion ofTime. The introduction ofThe Iron Legion's temporary SEEm CROUJBHRREO 111 5IIT1PLS TD companions, in the form of the malfunctioning •JUSTIFH HR EHCITIRE ELIFFHRRGER robot Vesuvius and the slightly crazed Morris, is neat, and gives the Doctor a much-needed foil to story, but the latter is help speed the story along. They're just the first just there to get in the example ofa trick that subsequent writers Moore Doctor's way. This and Parkhouse will pull again and again, breathless need to cram introducing a string of characters to fill the role in as much as possible of the companion. Brill in The Dogs o/Doom and is shown in other ways. the members ofZEPO in City ofthe Damned are just

There is very little another couple of examples, but overshadowing

'show' and a great deal all of these is Sharon, the strip's first 'proper' of 'tell' in writer Steve companion. Moore's work: often, Within just a few frames of her introduction in the first-page recap The Star Beast, Sharon is painted as more credible a boxes will give story teenage girl than the television series itself ever elements names and managed to create, and, books aside, still explanations that are completely absent from earlier episodes. There were exceptions, however. Sometimes, Moore and Mills and Wagner get straight in there and, backed artist Dave Gibbons worked together perfectly to up by some impeccable artwork from Gibbons, get across the backstory to a strip. create a wonderful sense of scale. Perhaps the most Each story would open with a full-page 'splash', affecting image comes from before the story opens and each one brilliantly filled in what you needed to out and reveals itself in full - the legionnaires know about the horrors the Doctor was about to walking up the centre of a village street. It's in the face. Perhaps none of these splash pages is better familiar little details - the dotted white lines and than that which heralds the arrival ofThe Star Beast: the cat's eyes - that the threat to our planet is a huge alien spacecraft, trailed by flames and brought home. debris, hurtles towards Earth, while a newscaster Gibbons design work - the scary mask of

(Angela Rippon, no less!) reports that there is General Ironicus is genius - then helps bring the absolutely nothing to worry about. The very next peril from this small town terror to something that frame? The ship careers into the steel mill, and a threatens the fabric of reality itself. In this regard, huge explosion levels everything in sight ... The Iron Legion is a sterling debut for the comic strip,

The shortcomings of the storytelling in these and yet ... There are still points where the story strips persists throughout the Fourth Doctor's era. suffers from having to stick to its four-page-a-week llll liCS.

falls or swamp-covered landscapes. But Steve It wasn't just the good guys that got this Moore seems happy to involve K9 in the action now maltreatment, though. Take a look at the Daleks and again, if only because his blaster is a handy tool in The Dogs o/Doom, or the Sontarans in Dragon's when the writer is stuck in a corner. Even so, Kc. Clau;, and you begin to wonder why they bothered too vanishes inexplicably from the strip after War 0/ to feature them at all. The Sontarans, especially,

the Words. are given very short shrift - throughout the story, they feature in no more than three or four frames. - I f underuse of the companions is a crime, then Their presence - or, at least, their technology I what are we to make of the strip occasionally drives a fine, solid story, though you do wonder I overlooking the Doctor? It doesn't happen why it couldn't have just as effectively been A N

often, but when it does - such as in The Life-Bringer, Other Alien. where Prometheus and his Olympian pals drive It wasn't until the in Parkhouse's series much of the action - it smacks of Steve Moore Junkyard Demon that a monster from the was

wanting to tell his own tales, but finding himself given the treatment it deserved. Threatening and trapped in somebody else's universe. And, if scheming, the Cyberman in this tale is a fair representation of its species, and it carries enough individual clout in the

story to make its inclusion worthwhile.

But, shamefully again, it's the Doctor's 'companions' in this story - Flotsam and Jetsam - who drive the action and provide the resolution. Thanks to Mike McMahon's striking artwork,

though, it's easy to overlook this strip's

shortcomings and remember it as one of Parkhouse's best.

fact, Parkhouse goes on to score remains the Doctor's only non-white companion. In - double with the strip that She's instantly sparky, sensible and likeable a whammy follows Junkyard Demon, The Neutron a wonderful combination that, after this story, While its cheesy Arthurian we rarely see. Shamefully, Sharon is pushed to Kniflhts. may have since been the background of some stories, often inexplicably, nonsense overshadowed by the subsequent, even to make way for further instances of the temporary television companions ofwhich the writers seem so fond. cheesier nonsense in the series' , this strip shows the In fact, in The Dogs of Doom, Sharon seems to spend /j) first glimmers of the high-concept two or three episodes hiding in a cupboard, ^\J5j^f science fantasy Parkhouse would play while the Doctor gallivants around with his new •s^SlT^^ with on his runs with the Fifth and Werelok friend! When Sharon does get a fair crack of the whip, she shines. The Star Beast remains the best example TRHE H LDDK HT of this, but she does get some fun lines in The Time THE DRLEHS DR THE Witch, too. On the whole, however, Sharon is - in the constantly relegated and left with little to do she SDirrannns an ankle- doesn't even fill the traditional role of STRIP - RRD HDU twisting, easily jailed, constantly questioning LUHU THEM companion, and so she plays less and less of a role UJDRDER as her time goes on. She's even aged several years BOTHERED HT RLL .. for no very good reason, possibly just so the strip's Sixth Doctors, creators could marry her off sooner rather than culminating in Voyager, later. And that's just what happens at the end of his well-recognised Dreamers of Death - she's suddenly madly in love with masterpiece. the first black guy she meets in outer space. How So, as the Fourth very tacdess of the writers. Poor Sharon, she Doctor bowed out of deserved better. the comic strip, he left Kc. suffers from this problem, too, but viewers of Moore is guilty of this crime, then behind a hodgepodge the TV show had, by tliis point, grown used to Parkhouse turns it into an art form. In of hit-and-miss tales. seeing his involvement in stories nobbled by rock The Free-Fail Warriors, the poor Doctor plays second fiddle to a gang of Full of great moments intergalactic hotshot pilots who look and memorable ideas,

like they've slipped out ofa 2000AD their greatest legacy

back-up strip. Admittedly, this story is as fuel for the serves as an introduction to the imaginations of those Warriors, who would go on to have who would go on to their own Summer Special back-up strip, but even so create the comic strip in later years. Under Gary - it's the perfect example of how Parkhouse Gillatt's editorship, we'd see some obvious nods sometimes seemed not to know what to do with not least the reappearance of Beep the Meep - but the Time Lord. there was also the melding of epic ideas similar to Take, for example, The Deal, Parkhouse's first those of Moore and Parkhouse, with a more

strip. This storyless mess consists of little more mature, structured and capable storytelling than the Doctor arriving, being threatened, then courtesy of Scott Gray. leaving a man to die. Nothing the Doctor does At the end of the day, these comic strips are resolves anything, nor does he actually cause not loved so much for what they are, as for a anything to happen - and that he would consign nostalgia for the era they represent. If they the Trooper, however vicious he clearly was, to his disappoint now, they do at least have a strength dreadful fate leaves a nasty taste in the mouth. in the endurance of their ideas and the Especially when you consider that this strip impressions they made. And, as shaky a start as follows on from Moore's touching goodbye, they may be, they were the first, undeniably - Spider-God, the last three frames ofwhich bold, steps ofa comic strip which blossomed celebrate the Doctor's hatred of violence with impressively, and not long afterwards - and which

a masterful eloquence. still endures today. ,5

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