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MD The Stories In which Leonardo works overtime, the Daleks come home, Romana fancies a change, and nobody quite gets to visit Cambridge ... BEHSOH IB: SZ In Production The new decade brings a new producer, a new look, a new TARDIS and lots of new assistants. But everyone's watching Buck "Is no one interested in history?" Rogers ... s the 1970s wore on, it seemed that Tom Baker's tenure as the SB The Stories nation's favourite children's hero might be as endless as the In which Ad ric joins, Romana character's scarf- so firmly had Baker's portrayal of Doctor Who leaves, Tegan joins, Kg leaves, Nyssa joins and leaves. imprinted itself on the national consciousness. But a new decade was Tom Baker Talk about entropy ... approaching, and time was running out for the boggle-eyed Bohemian. 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 companion to the original articles. We also Earth's formation, the creation of the Daleks, 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 Clayton Hickman Thanks to Mark Ayres, 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 Justin Richards, Gareth Roberts, 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 very different comic incarnations ... Doctor Who Magazine™ Special Edition - The Complete rourth Doctor - Volume z. Published #9 October Z004 by Panini Publishing Ltd. Office of publication; Panini House, Coach and Horses Passage, The Pantiles, Tunbridge Wells, Kent TNz 5IIJ. All Doctor Who material is© BBCtv. Doctor Who logo© BBC Worldwide 1996. Daleks © Terry Nation. All other material is© Panini Publishing Ltd unless otherwise indicated. No similarity between any or the fictional names, characters persons and/or institu- tions herein with those of any living or dead persons or institutions is intended and any such similarity is purely coincidental. Nothing may be reproduced by any means in whole or part without the written permission of the publishers. This periodical may not be sold, except by authorised dealers, and is sold subject the it to condition that shall not be sold or distributed with any part of its cover or markings removed, nor in a mutilated condition. All letters sent to this magazine will be considered for publication, but the publishers cannot beheld responsible for unsolicited manuscripts, photographs or artwork. Printed in the UK. Newstrade distribution: Marketforce (UK) Ltd, OZ0790777Z8. Subscriptions: MRM, 01858410510. ISSN 0963-1Z75 THE CDiTlPLETE FOURTH CTDH PnnFiLE Games Without Frontiers. e, 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 Horror of Fang Rock 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, Dudley Simpson 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 Underworld, The Armageddon Factor 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 Douglas Adams, 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.