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SPECIAL FEATURES ARCHITECTS OF FEAR 16 IS TOO FRIGHTENING FOR AN EARL Y EVENING TV AUDIENCE? DOCTOR WHO MONTHLY DOESN'T THINK SO. WE INVESTIAGE THE FEARSOME ASPECTS OF THE SERIES. MONSTER GALLERY 20 ASA COMPANION PIECE TO OUR ARCHITECTS OF FEAR FEATURE WE PRESENT A SPECIAL PICTORIAL FEATURE ON THE MONSTERS OF DOCTOR WHO. STATE OF DECAY 22 DOCTOR WHO MONTHLY LOOKS AT 'S MOST RECENT ADVENTURE. [■i»if i»: i’.’i:>y *i:m-Ty ti1 •f T|.»> y\ OUR VERY OWN MYSTERY IN THE WAX MUSEUM. DOCTOR WHO MONTHLY WAS PRESENT THE DAY THREE TOM BAKERS CAME FA CE- TO-FA CE THE TALONS OF WENG CHIANG 32 Editor: Paul Neary A SPECIAL PHOTO FEATURE ON THE 1977 DOCTOR WHO STORY. Features Editor: Alan McKenzie SPECIAL CONVENTION PICTORIAL 36 Layout: Steve O'Leary MANY OF THE FOLK IN VOL VED IN THE PRODUCTION OF THE Art Assistance: Rahid Khan DOCTOR WHO TV SERIES DROPPED INTO THE MARVEL Consultant: Jeremy Bentham CONVENTION LAST OCTOBER. WE PRESENT A PHOTOGRAPHIC REPORT ON JUST SOME OF THE EVENTS. Gothscan 2006 COMIC STRIPS fVT’AV ■ ' s OF DEATH 7 THE CONCLUSION OF THIS EXCITING TALE PLUS THE SAD DEPAR¬ ftp « iBggBg isgBasaL.3 TURE OF SHARON.

his month we have a bumper crop of special features for your delight and delectation. We have a double helping on the subject of fear which includes a study of the horror content - or should that be lack TOUCHDOWN thereof? Plus we will be taking a look at some of the fearsome monster foes that I ON DENAB-7 have met on my travels through time and space. We also have a double dose of photo¬ 38 reports on recent events that have involved Doctor Who. The new COMPLETE THIS ISSUE! TEMPORARILY exhibition at Madame Tussaud's features AFFECTED BY A wax work models of some of my MAGNETIC STORM, K-9 deadliest enemies and, of course, me. DISOBEYS THE DOCTOR And earlier this year, in October, several AND SETS OFF ON A Doctor Who staffers and contributors SOLO ADVENTURE. dropped in to the Marvel Comics Film and Fantasy Convention to talk about their work, to sign autographs or just for the sheer fun of it all! REGULAR FEATURES All this plus the usual regular features and comic strips. What a shame I don't have room to tell you about the very GALLIFREY WHO CARES 6 special 50th issue of Doctor Who Monthly, which will soon be upon us. GUARDIAN FANTASTIC FACTS 27 Perhaps next month, then ... STAR PROFILE 28 Or Who Monthly is published by Marvel Comics Ltd.. Jadwm House. 205-211 Kentish Town Road. London NW5. All Dr Who material is copyright „ 1330 BBC. All other material is copyright c 1980 by Marvel Comics Ltd., a subsiduary of Cadence Industries Corp. No similarity between any of the fictional names, characters, persons and/or institutions herein with those of any living or dead persons or institutions is intended and any similarity which may exist is purely coincidental. Not to be sold in the USA or Canada. Display advertising contact Morrison Brown. Media Selling Services. 17 Burpham Lane . Guildford. Surrey GUI3JD. GALLIFREY B GUARDIAN VJ/Printed onX Gallifreyl and Mars A ^101Infantimber 100th Gallifounds CONTROVERSY OVER FATE OF K 9 The Save-K-9 Campaign, which began more or less with the first rumours of the metal dog’s departure from Doctor Who last summer, has so far brought an incredible reaction from viewers anxious about the fate of their favourite canine . When producer John Nathan-Turner confirmed in the Press last October that K-9’s fate with the series was sealed, the backlash of protest surprised even the BBC. The Daily Express canvassed opinions from children throughout the United Kingdom while the forum programme Points of View devoted almost half a show to viewers’ letters of anguish. More recently the Sparrow Books company has appointed itself focal point of the Save K-9 Campaign with the recent release of its new children’s series of K-9 publications. Few people are more Although it was too early concerned with the for either writer to give a mechanical hound’s future definite answer, Dave DOCTOR WHO CONQUERS than the original creators - Martin was prepared to say Bob Baker and Dave Martin. that both a children’s pro¬ THE UNITED STATES Interviewed at the Marvel gramme on BBC TV, pos¬ The long awaited first Inside is the first half of Fantasy & Film Convention sibly featuring the radio appearance of Doctor Who “The Iron Legion’ story in October Dave Martin said controlled machine and in the American Marvel originally presented in that both he and Bob were maybe, alternatively, an Comics, this premiere Doctor Who Weekly. This keen to find a new home for animated series akin to the edition rapidly sold out time though it is in full K-9 now that his stay in the Paddington Bear pro¬ when it was first released in colour, courtesy of colourist TARDIS was almost over. grammes were possibilites. the science-fiction book¬ Andy Yanchus. shop chain last October. 1 Of greater interest to am assured further quanti¬ British readers perhaps are ties have been ordered ' the artwork pin-ups of the although it may be hard to / five Doctors (they haven’t SOURCES OF INCIDENTAL get hold of these editions in' forgotten Peter Cushing) some areas. plus several famous foes on DOCTOR WHO The comic itself sports the back pages, one of an artwork cover of Tom which depicts Roger MUSIC REVEALED Baker’s Doctor taken from a Delgado’s Master in full “City of Death” photograph Prydonian robes. There is A number of our readers Quatermass television serials used on the front of Doctor also a very intelligently have spotted the classical back in the fifties where it Who Weekly issue 34. written two page introduc¬ music sources for several was used as the title music tion to Doctor Who by incidental themes scored for for the first two produc¬ Mary Jo Duffy that even the recent “Leisure Hive” tions, The Quatermass Moore-Bo Derek film, 10. goes into such details as the story. Experiment and Quatermass Peter Howell and fellow Doctor’s physionomy; his The Argolin shuttle craft II. musicians of the Radio- twin hearts, low body theme has its roots in the The militaristic march of phonic Workshop are temperature and respiratory Planets Suite by Gustav the Pangol Tachyon Images hoping to interest BBC bypass system etc. Holst, more specifically in - or supposed Pangol Enterprises in the idea of a An interesting first “Mars, the Bringer of War”. Images - derives its tempo record album of Doctor edition clearly intended as a This powerful piece, in 5/4 from Ravel’s Bolero, Who Incidental Music, pilot for the American time, is probaby best brought recently to public compiled for the most part, market. Nevertheless we are remembered by older attention by its spectacular from this season. Further promised several subsequent readers who saw the original inclusion in the Dudley news as and when. editions.

4 DOCTOR WHO - THE Although it took a few PUZZLE OVER WILLIAM GAME OF TIME & SPACE evenings to master I found Produced by Games Work¬ this game to be very challen¬ HARTNELL JIGSAW shop Ltd, 1 Dalling Road, ging and enjoyable although Special thanks this does not know the name of London W6, Trade I would not recommend it month to Geraint Jones of the manufacturer his letter Enquiries 17/18 Hythe for younger fans. North Wales for sending me does point out that several Road, London NW10 Price this fascinating photograph of the pieces, including the £6.95p. THE of what is probably the only TARDIS, the Doctor and CHANGING Doctor Who jigsaw ever the , could all be Very much a product for produced for William mounted separately on the devotee of the FACE OF Hartnell’s Doctor. Produced provided wooden blocks “Dungeons and Dragons” DOCTOR WHO in 1965 for the Christmas and then stood up to form a style of games playing, this The new Doctor is 29 year market, the jigsaw was in 29 kind of 3-D Doctor Who dis¬ lavish board game is one of old Peter Davison, most pieces and although Geraint play! four recently launched by famous for his role as the Games Workshop Com¬ Tristan in the BBC tele¬ pany. It involves a hunt for vision programme, All the Key to Chronos which Creatures Great and Small. several incarnations of the He has done a variety of Doctor must undertake to stage and television work save the galaxy from des¬ but also lists songwriting truction. Barring the way amongst his talents and has are a whole host of Doctor a television theme-tune to Who enemies including his name! Davros, the Daleks, the The youngest Doctor to Cybermen and the Ice date has also a new compa¬ Warriors and to overcome nion — twenty-three year them with the equipment old Janet Fielding who will provided requires a conside¬ play the part of Tegan, an rable degree of skill from air hostess from Australia in the players, up to six of the last story of the season MORE DOCTOR WHO whom can participate. MERCHANDISING DUE FOR CHRISTMAS RELEASE From the Christmas Doctor Who stories them¬ 1965 market we move on to selves are good reads with this year with a seasonal “Alien Mind Games” clearly round up and review of the best of the five. current Doctor Who items available as potential stocking fillers. THE SPARROW K-9 THE DOCTOR WHO BOOKS Published by Arrow ANNUAL 1981 Published Books Limited, 3 Fitzroy by World International Square, London W1P. Each Publishers Ltd., PO Box book 65p. 111, 12 Lever Street, Manchester M60 Price Under a general heading £1.95p. of “The Adventures of K-9”, Sparrow Books have No review of Doctor released four titles in time Who Christmas products for Christmas this year, The would be complete without Time Trap, The Beasts of mention of the Doctor Who Vega, The Zeta Rescue, and Annual which has been The Missing Planet. Each consistently published each book is penned by one of year now since 1965 save the original creators of K-9, for one omission in 1971. Dave Martin, with lavish, This year’s annual, distin¬ full colour illustrations guished by the photograph featured on every story of on the cover page. from “The Armageddon The books are clearly Factor”, boasts a high written for a young reader- standard of arwork although ship and indeed would be only one story, “A Mid¬ useful aids for teachers and summer’s Nightmare”, parents alike keen in features illustrations of encouraging children to Romana that make her read. recognisably like Lalla Doctor Who purists may Ward. There are five text find the first book, “The stories in all plus one comic Time Trap”, of interest as it strip predominantly features an ex- starring K-9. The rest of the named Omegon, a masked book is supplemented by figure who was once a great the usual padding material engineer and now plans to about space travel and astro¬ destroy his fellow Time nomy. Nevertheless the Lords. Sounds familiar?

5 I am writing to enlarge on some of your Gallifrey Guardian stories. In issue 33 of Doctor Who Weekly you mentioned that the only two books with covers not actually from the tv series are The Keys of Marinus and The Invasion of Earth. The famous and oft-used picture of William Hartnell that is so well-reproduced on the cover of Doctor Who and the Daleks comes from the serial The Celestial Toymaker. On the original cover of The Claws of Axos we see a humanoid Axon in front of a tentacled Axon - Wrong! The tentacled form is really a semi-mature Krynoid from The Seeds of Doom. I don't know why this is - perhaps you could find out. I have just read two of the Doctor both K-9 and Tom Baker will In issue 44 you revealed some of the roots of Doctor Who. The Who novelisations and thoroughly soon be leaving the show and wish Hand of Fear seemed to be influenced by the numerous horror films of enjoyed them - so now I'm on a all the best to Peter Davison and severed hands terrorising people. The Seeds of Doom was a lurid Day of quest to read all forty or so. At hope that he can last as long and the Triffids with the huge Krynoid out to destroy the human race with the front of these books there is a be as much loved as Tom Baker. its army of plants. The Tomb of the Cybermen updated Dracula - the list which shows you all the Could you please tell me if archeologists open the tombs and the monsters rise up to haunt and/or various titles obtainable but have any plans to kill them. They are finally laid peacefully to rest sealed in their tombs novelise the unfinished adventure unfortunately they are not in by the Doctor, who takes over from Van Helsing. Shada by Douglas Adams. I know chronological order of tv appea¬ Another interesting thing is the similarity between lines in the script it was never shown but based on rance. Is it possible for you - as a of Doctor Who. In The Invisible Enemy Leela takes the Doctor to the the review in Doctor Who great service to your many readers Bi-M Foundation and is questioned by a nurse about him. When told Monthly, I think it could have - to print this list in tv appea¬ that the Doctor comes from a place called Gallifrey the nurse replies, gone down as a Doctor Who rance order and subsequently the "That's Earth, isn't it? Ireland?" In the story The Hand of Fear the position of any further publica¬ classic. If they have no such plans Doctor takes Sarah to the hospital and is asked where he graduated. tions. For example, Doctor Who you could tell them that I, and The Doctor says Gallifrey and his questioner asks again if this place is and the Megalomaniac Marsh¬ I'm sure many other fans, would in Ireland. It is to be noted that both stories are by Bob Baker and Dave love to see it as a novel. mallow takes place between Martin. Doctor Who and the Streaky Finally, how about a comic Now to the magazine in general. Now that you've gone monthly it is Bacon Packet and Doctor Who strip based on the Zygons and better. However it would be nice to see the inside covers used for and the Sabotaged Double Yellow other one-off monsters? colour photographs instead of the black and white ones you print. Line. Steve Ellacott, I'm glad that you are continuing with the adaptations of the earlier I'm sure you will agree that Westburg on Trym, Doctor Who stories. Perhaps you could expand it to three per month? this service would be of great Bristol. Please? After all, with one a week it came to four per month. Surely practical use to TARDIS sym¬ that's not asking too much is it? pathisers everywhere. Thank you for the letter, Steve. The star profiles are interesting but short and the Fantastic Facts. David Pemberton, However, there is hardly a page does not really fit into the mag ... It would probably be better in Dukinfield, question you have asked that The Empire Strikes Back Monthly. Cheshire. anyone can answer. Truth to tell, Have you realised that not one cover of your excellent magazine has we hadn't considered the Doctor depicted the as The Doctor? Surely, there must be The idea of a Chronological Who material from TV Comic et Guide to the Target Doctor Who at least one colour picture of him that could go on the cover. You have al. An interesting thought, but we series is an interesting one, David. only printed one of William Hartnell - Tom Baker gets all the coverage. still have plenty of Dalek Tapes Remember, he is not the only one who has played the Doctor in 17 We'll give it some thought. After stories to run yet. How many of all, our grand celebration 50th years. you want to see those? Just drop issue is almost upon us! After the fantasy females article in Starburst, why not have a us a line! As for a Target adapta¬ fantasy females from Doctor Who in the monthly (a little bigger and tion of the Shada story, well we better produced than the Female Foes of Doctor Who). It could include think it unlikely that Target I was a little sceptical when I read the delectable Catherine Schell from The City of Death, Susan Engell would adapt it before it was that Doctor Who Weekly was to from The Stones of Blood, Lady Adastra, Adrienne Cori from The screened, but, of course we could become a monthly, but I am glad Leisure Hive, Suzanne Danielle from Destiny of the Daleks. Toos from be wrong. We'll try to uncover to say that it seems to be better Robots of Death, Vira from among others and not some information on this one. than ever. I am also glad to see it forgetting the beautifully evil Queen Xanxia from The Pirate Planet. will soon be having an extra eight As for the departure of K-9 - about time. He's been here since 1977 pages. and he's become boring) I'm glad also that the Doctor (Tom Baker) and I would like to know if it Just a note to congratulate you Romanadvoratrelunder (Lalla Ward) are leaving. This should lead to a would be possible for you to get on your tv anniversary issue of different title sequence on the programme from the boring Star Wars/ hold of some of the best early Doctor Who Monthly - by far the Buck Rogers beginning. The Time Tunnel effects were unique and now strips of Doctor Who from TV best you it has gone - what a pity. However, I hold great hopes for the 1981/2 Comic, Countdown and TV have put out to date. I hope you season and I hope that you will take note of some of the things I have Action (mentioned in issue 40) can maintain the standard in suggested for the Monthly. Richard Graham-Cumming, and reprint them as you did with future issues. The Dalek Tapes. I am sure other All the best to you and your East Sussex. readers would like to see them. contributors. I would like you to know that Matthew Waterhouse, To answer some of your points Richard. The idea of printing the inside I think that is one of BBC TV, covers in colour is interesting, but colour printing is staggeringly expen¬ the best adventures shown On tv London. sive. The economics of the magazine just wouldn't allow for it! And as for a very long time and seems to for three story adaptations per month ... well, at four pages each, that be going back to the original type Thank you for the kind words, would hardly leave room for any other features, would it? We have now of adventure. Great! I hope there Matthew. Not only do we plan to used Patrick Troughton on the cover of Doctor Who Monthly . . . see are more like this to come. maintain the standard but we are last issue. But we loved the idea of a Doctor Who Fantasy Femalea I am very sorry to hear that going to try to surpass it! What do our other readers think?

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Offer not open to overseas readers. If Doctor Who has never at least once filled you With unreasoning terror then you have missed out on an important aspect of its appeal. Right from the show's early beginnings in 1963 it has had an ability to frighten what BBC announcers used to call "those of nervous and sensitive dispositions". And why not? Since Doctor Who has been on the air, eminent psychologists and psychiatrists have taken up television and press space with attempts to jpalyse just what quality Doctor Who possesses that often made it so frightening. Recently, the producers of the series, have treated viewers to the more traditional and compelling objects of fear. In Andrew Smith's Full Circle a swarm of crab spiders savagely attacked the Doctor's female companion, Romana. History repeats itself. Six years ago, 's Zanti Misfits episode of The of a suitably fantastic nature. "Planet of the Spiders" drew a Outer Limits seem tame by com¬ Explaining this more compre¬ storm of protest from the self- parison? hensively in an interview for appointed Watchdog committee And, as if spiders were not Nationwide, The National Viewers and enough, Terrance Dicks' subse¬ defined the difference between Listeners Association. They quent serial, State of Decay, fantastic and realistic fear. The argued that since the fear of then proceeded to startle the former could be provided, say, spiders was such a common wits out of those with a fear of by an . These scaly, dread it was irresponsible of the bats. X-rated vampire films green reptilian aliens sent BBC to allow transmission of a including the many Dracula children scurrying for safety story that so graphically dis¬ movies from Hammer were one o behind the sofa by virtue of their played a race of very large of the stock cinema fillers of the monstrous appearance. Yet once spiders with the frequent habit late 1950's and 1960's. X-rated the episode was finished the of leaping onto the backs of their films for adults are one thing, terror would generally dissipate unfortunate victims. The spiders while vampires presented for as the comforts of the real world seen in that story were creations children on Doctor Who is surely asserted themselves again. Few of the Visual Effects Department another? A televisual evil to be children would seriously fear the and it is ironic that the then avoided? Not necessarily. In their idea of an Ice Warrior hiding producer, Barry Letts, had attempts to answer the question under the bed, so what terror the already turned down one spider "what makes Doctor Who programme could provide would design by Ian Scoones on the frightening?", the Production only hold strength for as long as grounds it was too realistic for Office itself has instigated several the episode was on screen. Ice comfort . . . Despite the fact that surveys of its own. The findings Warriors do not, as a rule, inhabit a less realistic model was from a major enquiry conducted suburban houses — there is eventually used many Arachna- in 1973 confirmed the theory virtually no chance of running phobes complained to the BBC. that there was nothing basically into one — no matter how dark What then will be the public's wrong with the philosophy of the night! reaction to the "Full Circle" making Doctor Who frightening, A grave error of judgement spiders who made even the provided that the fear element which both Barry Letts and famous scuttling creatures in the contained in the programme was Terrance Dicks admit to was the 17 screening, in 1971, of the Robert All this, however, skirts is remorselessly following her Holmes story Terror of the around the very basic questions, through the echoing corridors. Autons. This infamous story of what makes Doctor Vyho The mere ingredients were featured plastic flowers that fired frightening, and why does it enough, but when, in the final a deadly suffocating plastic film attract such large audiences, moment, Barbara Wright spun at their victims! Also featured when parents know what their round and screamed in terror at were Auton policemen with children run the risk of being something only she could see, guns in their wrists, inflatable scared witless by its content? the effect was like a cardiac armchairs that could collapse and These are difficult questions arrest on viewers young and old smother their occupants, and a to answer. On a purely personal alike! deadly teddy bear with a cute note this author remembers all Strangely, although the line in strangulation! This serial too well peeping through episode did scare me more than did badly frighten many shuttered fingers at the first any television programme before then had ever done, there was no youngsters, principally because it episode of the 1963 Dalek story. way I was going to miss the next showed reassuring objects found It was pure Hitchcock in its week's episode. And it is this in the home as deadly alien formula. First, take a definitively curious conflict of interests that artifacts . . . normal person, in this case a forms part of the so-called The incident thought the school teacher. Secondly, strand Doctor Who magic; to be production team to keep her on an alien planet light years frightened and then to masochis¬ frightening subject matter in a from the comforts of Earth. tically want to go back and be fantasy context or, alternatively, Thirdly, have her lost inside a frightened again by the following if that cannot be achieved, at maze-like metal city, and lastly, installment! least put it in a suitably unfami¬ give the viewer the impression Some of this fascination can liar location. that some nameless monstrosity be traced to the old factor of human curiosity. Doctor Who relies a lot on the audience sus¬ pending their disbelief. The stories are outside the scope of reality, true, but if they are done well then the television screen becomes a window — a window onto other worlds, other times where creatures beyond imagi¬ nation run riot. Do the protests at the horror of Doctor Who stem from adults disturbed on their child's behalf ... or the children themselves? The Doctor's companion Leela, ably portrayed by actress Louise Jameson, came in for much criticism from anxious parents worried by her reliance on a long-bladed knife. They felt ' M that Leela's use of a knife would encourage youngsters to take up similar implements. By contrast, the children themselves were very glad that Leela had a means to defend herself against the likes of murderous Voc Robots and deadly Chinese mannequins and no protests at all were heard from that quarter! The Daleks are the opposite case in point. Even today, seven¬ teen years after their debut, they still hold a morbid fascination for younger audeinces, but talk to most adults and they frankly cannot understand what all the fuss is about. How can anyone grow to fear motorised dustbins with gravelly voices and a 18 physical abilities carry him through. Thus we, as an audience, can become unseen companions, sharing and identi¬ fying with their perils of the characters because neither the Doctor nor his assistants are immortal and, as The Dalek Master Plan story demonst¬ rated, even companions can die ... The youngsters interviewed on the BBC2 documentary Whose Doctor Who cited the Egyptian mummies from Pyramids of Mars as causes of particularly frightening moments. When The Daemons was first shown in the United States, several years ago, many were alarmed by the ulti¬ mate appearance of the horned beast Azal. Tomb of the Cybermen brought fiery scenes to the BBC programme Talk- back, when mothers slated script editor Gerry Davis for allow icq the graphic shots of a Cybermen being disembowelled on screen. And, at a recent showing of the Hartnell story Beyond the Sun", a woman in her mid-twen¬ ties admitted to going cold with terror when a demented Susan Foreman menaced Barbara Wright with a pair of scissors. Doctor Who has a tradition of singular inability to negotiate Chumblies and the Quarks were showing monsters', and these by stairs and other obvious means of all basic variations of the same. definition are usually mis-shapen escape? Those who grew up with The Daleks scored an instant creatures of great wickedness and the Daleks know the answer . . . impression because they powerful intent. So vividly did the early series exhibited reason and would Fear is an unpredictable emo¬ build up the myth of the Daleks often be seen talking amongst tion and what may frighten a as unspeakable mutations; themselves. K-9 succeeded here certain individual may leave pulsating organisms of pure hate, too because the script writers another totally unmoved. But are living within their metal have given him a virtually human there any certain elements used machines, that fear was a very personality. An audience can which are universally terrifying? logical response to them. By luck readily find interest in him and If you have found anything in and good management the BBC hence something with which Doctor Who particularly designers responsible for the they can identify. K-9 is not frightening over the past number Daleks hit on a winning combi¬ terrifying but nevertheless, of years drop a line to Who Cares nation in their construction of horrifying situations can be built and maybe we will be able to the Dalek casing. Unlike virtually around him like the scene in provide a definitive answer to the every other television monster, The Armageddon Factor question, what makes Doctor the Daleks did not look like men where the little cannine compu¬ Who frightening? in rubber suits. They were totally ter is relentlessly carried along a alien with no legs, no visible head conveyor belt into a blast and instead a squat metal shell furnace! . ‘ with a single lens-eye and a gun Doctor Who is not concerned capable of causing an agonising with bionic men or superheroes, death! but with the possible exception The Daleks were intelligent. of K-9, Doctor Who is still about Later attempts to build similar mortal beings with human frail¬ monsters failed because the ties battling powerful alien life creatures were just mindlesss forms. Even then the Doc tor is a robots. The Mechanoids, the character whose wita not Bottom row (left to right): One of from the story of the same name. The Axon Woman who appeared in the story The Claws of Axon. The Doctor's most persistent enemies are . . . The Daleks! The Zygon first appeared in The Terror of the Zygons. The Ogrons appeared as the henchmen of the Daleks in the story The Day of the Daleks.

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Top row (left to right): who appeared in the Doctor Who story . The Nucleus (John Scott-Martin) was the resident creature for the story The Invisible Enemy. (Peter Pratt) begins to decompose in The Deadly Assassin. One of the dreaded Robots of Death. till! With the instruments aboard What neither the Doctor nor the TARDIS unable to navigate Romana realise, is that the through the murky void of Exo¬ TARDIS had an extra passenger space, the Doctor is, for once, in the flight from Alzarius — the totally at a loss for the solution precocious youth, Adric! He too to the problem he, Romana and faces danger on this new and K-9 now face. They are lost, uninviting planet for the King doomed to wander this realm of and Queen demand periodic space forever! tribute from the villagers — a Determined to the last, the selection of their young who are Doctor makes a landing onto a taken to the royal castle! planet which, if possible, is even The castle itself is a forbidding more bewildering than the place — the home of great evil. marshlands of Alzarius. But there is something vaguely It could be Earth in the familiar about the configuration Middle Ages, and yet there is of the towers, turrets and keep. something strange about this Why should its shape be recogni¬ alien land ... a bleak and barren sable to the travellers, and who is forest. Medieval villagers huddle the mysterious Counsellor in cowls as though shunning Aukon? The Doctor may well some terrible evil, and a peasant learn to his cost the certifying population is kept in check by end Aukon and his servants are the rule of their king and his working towards as the Time of bride, the Queen Camilla. Arising draws near. Photographs by Tony Russell, BBC Enterprises Ltd.© 1980

What would the bespecta¬ Since 1973, BBC Enterprises Davros, a and the cled old lady of wax port¬ has attracted thousands of adults Nimon are all set against elabo¬ raiture say had she and children to the Doctor Who rate, authentic and well-resear¬ strayed, by chance, through the Exhibitions at Longleat and ched backgrounds. Also present open TARDIS doors to her latest Blackpool. Now, for the very are characteristically accurate fantastic offering — The Doctor first time, London has played duplicates of Romana and K-9! Who Experience? The Exhibi¬ host to the magical world of Here is an excursion into fantasy tion's long tradition of aiming at Doctor Who. that demands, and will an adult audience has been The Exhibition, designed by undoubtedly get, a visitor's full totally ignored! With this Michael Wright and his team at attention! Exhibit, which will delight the Madam Tussaud's is, in his words The idea for such a mammoth younger members of its . . a total experience". Strange project began way back in June audience. The public imagination sounds pulsate loudly from all and has taken over four months has, been firmly captured not sides while colourful neon lights of hard work to arrive at the just by the Kings and Queens of flash out from the darkness, commendable finished piece and Europe, but by the adventures of illuminating some of the new alien monsters from the one jovial Gallifreyan Time Lord Doctor's deadliest foes. A current series will be added, . . . fantasy has triumphed! Foamasi, , a Marshman, following their appearances on

24 television. to gather information on your and one part vegetable tallow Judith Craig was the sculptor subject. Today, sculptors gene¬ called "japan wax", since it is who began work on perhaps the rally work from photographs and obtained from a berry which most intricate part of the exhibi¬ measurements taken at sittings. grows in Japan, is melted and tion — making the wax portrait Luckily for Judith, Tom Baker poured into the mould. The of the Time Lord's fourth proved to be an exceptional sub¬ portrait is suddenly transformed. incarnation! ject, agreeing to attend the Gone are the liveliness and Methods of wax portraiture studios for several sittings. shadows of the clay medium — have not fundamentally altered From the finished clay model, the sculptor is left with a bland, in the 200 years since Madame a plaster mould of about twelve translucent translation of the Tussaud's Exhibition first separate pieces is made from the original portrait that once was. opened at Paris in 1770. The first head. Then a wax mixture Judith's difficult task was to step in this highly skilful craft is consisting of three parts beeswax then transpose Tom's lively. friendly face onto a basically passive material which she pain¬ stakingly does with oil paints, colouring in each shadow that the wax might omit. The eyes, chosen from stock or sometimes made specifically to order, are fitted by the sculptor from inside the head. Human hair, matched for colour and texture, is inplanted into the wax head strand by strand and then trimmed and dressed. Tom Baker is unique in that he is the only Madame Tussaud's subject to be portrayed twice in the same exhibition — once as the Doctor and again as Meglos, that prickly individual from Zolpha-Thura who could change his appearance to any that suited him. The "Doctor Who Expe¬ rience", for which there is no additional charge, is open until Above : Tom Baker seems to be on the 31st March, 1981, so get remarkably friendly terms with this inanimate Foamasi. Below left: The two along to Marylebone Road and differing versions of the Doctor (the real take a look at the Time Lord Time Lord and Meglos imitation) are who has given modern mytho¬ joined by Tom Baker. Below right: A closer took at Meglos, last of the Zolpha logy a new hero! A Thurans, caught in mid-transformation. Hovve/cke a k ws' a hone Hr,, A. an Ocean nf c* ne narned wh,* . at ^Ur>a phjs Work' by prod ^ loca,P°fiS"0 died 3 Sea of DMw «

9al’f°rnia the s"ternat'onai Astro^*' S,m,,ar strua *UCb features as C?.ntinued -*Ca [FANTAblitT ___ ' Mosc^ *as oftfcte « hne QUACKS Rjrrv MARIES 4 I The USA has a National 1 Museum of Quackery m the 1 town of St Louis fj™3" The Indonesian Observer V Argentavis Ma y *** incredible array of worth3SS newspaper announced in I have been the l'flCens may \ machines are displayed. Most November 1980 that a certain ever to f/v u argest bird I of these contraptions haye district of West Java had an? 8 million years ‘ imposed a novel tax on I been confiscated by the what now ArapZa9°' /n 1 authorities from P^on\ couples wishing to marry. The sured 7 7 fept, 9ent'na, mea- potential bridgeroom must 1 doctors. They include the sPanof25fee?niThaw/ni I Wahl Powersage (which claims present at least 50 rats to his I to massage the ' personal f/ village chief before the \ glands" and "clear the cob- wedding is allowed. This rule 1 webs out of the bram will presumably be ignored | the Magnetic-Wave Helmet, as soon as the present plague I and Ghadiali's Spectro- of rats if over. I Chrome. This last was sup Empre«ai caathf.5 I nosed to cure all known ail- Vments cost a small fortune conversed free,"ne the ANCIENT MEDICINE a"d a"med Z”,th *« \ and cUlnecI of nothm M An American student was studying disputes which thl c m 9reatlv arn, . t"e £fnpn I a stout cast-iron box conta a piece of leg-bone from someone 1 ning a 1,000 watt light bulb, who died near the banks of the invincible but"h' H's U I n of Mater and a set Sudanese Nile around 400BC when existence of disbelia she discovered, quite accidentally, radical for som ‘ d Was a I the presence of tetracycline, an a Practical j0£the c°ui antibiotic. It seems to have come Unknown to Did W'as from the mold-like bacteria Strep- 7atben,at,cian Le ot the tomycetes which occurs naturally also Present at r-L ard E“l in the desert soil of Sudan and himself to o/!i Urtl He • ntr, would have infected their stores of >. (a’ bt Wlth the' grain. The ancient Sudanese could exists; reply/" «, x' fherefor not have known about this but it si”*1*“*™. would have protected them from many infectious diseases. ab°ut frostbite * • 2u'o k had been defeated h® be,|eve I^almo^aton^ retUrna An the field of Doctor Who His most recent story, recently stepped in the way. News of the lithe sheer volume of Terrance concluded on television, is State forthcoming Doctor Who WDicks output is unrivalled. of Decay, the horrific tale of a vampire story reached the ears of He is still the longest running medieval planet ruled by the BBC Classic Serials Division script-editor the series has ever vampires. who, at that time, were putting had — a tenure spanning a period Talking about the story together a very lavish and expen¬ from the Patrick Troughton Terrance Dicks admits the sive version of Dracula, featuring serial. The Invasion, to Jon concept for the plot dates back a Louis Jourdan. Worried that the Pertwee's departure after Planet few years to the days of Philip Doctor Who tale might cut across of the Spiders. He has signed his Hinchcliffe as producer and their production an appeal was name to four television Doctor Robert Holmes as script-editor. made to the BBC chiefs with a Who stories and has penned no This pair had already established result that The Vampire Muta¬ less than forty novels for the quite a reputation for them¬ tions had to be shelved. phenomenally successful Target selves presenting some of the Terrance's pen was quickly put Books Doctor Who series — plus goriest material ever seen on to use again and by doing a a veritable string of special Doctor Who. Robert Holmes slightly rushed job the publications. and Terrance Dicks began production staff were able to When not slaving over a hot discussions over a story, to open open the season on time with the typewriter Terrance Dicks travels the fifteenth season, that would lighthouse story Horror of Fang widely to promote the Target feature vampires. With a speed Rock. Doctor Who series. Recently, for for which he has since become No script is ever wasted how¬ the National Children's Book renowned, he soon compiled ever and The Vampire Mutations Week Festival he was in Northern initial scripts for a segment storyline lay around amidst a pile Ireland, appearing at schools and provisionally titled The Vampire of possible stories until the libraries to lecture about Doctor Mutations\ recent advent of producer John Who and his involvement with it. Then, unhappy co-incidence Nathan-Turner. He liked the

28 story very much and approached frightening on occasions, he says, The "Director-Joining-Date" is Terrance to re-write it for the but the final interpretations of really where the writer's involve¬ current line-up of regular cast, what will actually be seen by the ment with the project ceases Romana, Adric and K-9. home audience lies with the with any re-scripting being When it came to writing the director and producer. effected by the script-editor. screenplay for State of Decay Although the producer gives Drastic changes though, Terrance Terrance Dicks confessed to the go-ahead for a script to be Dicks points out, cannot be totally ignoring the first scripts written, most of the early work made without the writer's he had written so that, to all on a given Doctor Who story is approval. In that respect the intents and purposes, it was a conducted between the writer story is still the writer's new story. and the script-editor. Christopher property. Terrance Dicks is justifiably Bidmead was thus Terrance's Freelance book writing is the proud of the way the story immediate point of contact while other side of Terrance Dicks' life emerged in its final television he was putting together the and in particular the Doctor Who form. It is unashamedly a horror scripts for State of Decay. series. His first Doctor Who book story in the style of the Hammer Writing the scripts is quite an was a joint effort between him Films productions and indeed its involved process, points out and the late Malcom Hulke. location filming was done in the Dicks, usually requiring several Called The Making of Doctor same Berkshire forest so beloved evolutionary stages — first draft, Who the first edition was of the Hammer film directors. then rewrite, amendments, published by Piccolo Books in Broached on the subject of second rewrite and so on until 1972. Terrance had written parental concern for children the deadline of "Director-Joining before with Malcolm Hulke when being subjected to horror film -Date" by which time the the two of them had laboured material in Doctor Who Dicks is completed rehearsal script must evening after evening typing out unrepentant. The series has be ready for the chosen director the scripts for the epic length always been noted for being to look over. 1969 serial The War Games — an

29 with the book. This now-out-of¬ print edition of the book was 75% by Malcolm Hulke and 25% by Terrance. Positions were reversed when Target Books elected to rewrite and update the second edition for release in Autumn 1976. The majority of this version was by Terrance. This month sees the re-release of that book in time to catch the Christmas market. Sadly the book is not updated due, primarily, to the costs involved. Of the forty novels he has so far penned Terrance Dicks has no particular favourite although he admits to enjoying novelising Robert Holmes' material. And, being very knowledgable about the series, he is perfectly at home writing about any of the four Doctors. Quite naturally, devoted fans are always pressing him to give preference to the older stories as they are less well remembered than ones seen recently on tele¬ vision. Terrance professes to wanting to do the complete Dalek series first but will not commit himself to saying which one would be tackled first until contracts are worked out between Target, the BBC, the original writers and himself. As regards the future, Terrance Dicks is as busy as ever. He is back in the BBC fold now as script-editor for the Sunday Classics series which has Barry Letts as executive producer. His first production is Great Expec¬ tations by Charles Dickens which is to be presented as a twelve parter — an ironic twist considering his preference for four part stories in Doctor Who. On the Target front he is currently enjoying a brief respite from non-stop Doctor Who nove¬ lising. The books for the early part of the next year have been written by others — namely Creature from the Pit by David Fisher and Enemy of the World by Ian Marter - and the next emergency story that had to be from science-fiction enthusiast one he plans to tackle, not hurriedly put together when George Hay who had seen the surprisingly, is State of Decay. other projects for that season American book The Making of After that, who knows? A had fallen through. Star Trek. He suggested the Hartnell voyage? A Pertwee The inspiration for The project to Malcolm Hulke who in adventure? Or maybe the first Making of Doctor Who had come turn went to Terrance for help adventure of the new Doctor?

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Caught up in a web of intrigue and mystery, the Doctor (Tom Baker) and Leela (Louise Jameson) find themselves at odd with the Chang, the leader of the Black Scorpion Tong and the masked oriental known as Weng Chiang.

Weng Chiang is searching for a cabinet which houses a distilation chamber — a terrible creation which processes human beings, extracting their life essences. On these two pages we

Above: A portrait of Louise Jameson as Leela, uncharacteristically out present a collection of scenes of buckskin bikini and togged out in Victorian fashion. Below: In from the six part story, trans¬ episode 3 Leela is trapped in a London sewer with a giant rat! Below mitted over the period from 26th right: A scene from part 4 of The Talons of Weng Chiang. The Doctor (Tom Baker) and Leela plan a course of action. February to 2nd April 1977.

32 Above left: The sinister Li H'sen Chang (John Bennett) is the leader of the Black Scorpion Tong and is under the influence of the evil Weng Chiang. Above: A portrait of the Doctor (Tom Baker). Below: Mr Sin (Deep Roy) pulls a wicked looking knife on Leela in part 2 of the adventure The Talons of Weng Chiang.

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