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The Fourth Doctor: the Well-Mannered War & Damaged Goods Free FREE THE FOURTH DOCTOR: THE WELL-MANNERED WAR & DAMAGED GOODS PDF Gareth Roberts,John Dorney,Russell T. Davies,Tom Webster,Tom Baker,Lalla Ward,Sylvester McCoy | none | 31 May 2015 | Big Finish Productions Ltd | 9781781784419 | English | Maidenhead, United Kingdom The Well-Mannered War (audio story) | Tardis | Fandom It is the second and to date last piece of full-length prose fiction to have been published by the television scriptwriter Russell T Davieswho later became the chief writer and executive producer of the Doctor Who television series when it was revived in Davies's first The Fourth Doctor: The Well-Mannered War & Damaged Goods published fiction, a novelisation of his children's television serial Dark Seasonhad been released by BBC Books in In July it was announced that Big Finish Productions were to produce an audio drama adaptation of the novel, as part of their licensed Doctor Who range. The adaptation was released in Aprilavailable as a standalone title, or in a special box set with an adaptation of Gareth Roberts 's Fourth Doctor novel The Well-Mannered War. The novel is set in Britain inand involves the Seventh Doctor and his companions Chris Cwej and Roz Forrester living on a working-class council estate while attempting to track down an infinitely powerful Gallifreyan weapon before it falls into the wrong hands. A young boy living on the estate, Gabriel Tyler, appears to be the focus of strange powers, and also for the attentions of Eva Jericho, whose own grievously ill young son seems to be linked to Gabriel in some way, through a secret Gabriel's mother Winnie has long tried to hide. Davies had already established himself as a successful The Fourth Doctor: The Well-Mannered War & Damaged Goods of children's television byhaving penned well-received serials such as Dark Season and Century Fallsand winning a BAFTA Children's Award for an The Fourth Doctor: The Well-Mannered War & Damaged Goods of Children's Warda series he both wrote for and produced from to A staff scriptwriter at Granada Televisionhe was beginning to move into adult television, writing for soap operas such as Families and Revelationsthe latter of which he created. Despite being a professional writer and long-time Doctor Who fan, Davies had no initial interest in writing for Virgin's Doctor Who novel series, concentrating instead on his television career. With Doctor Who out of production, I suggested he'd be an ideal choice to write one of the novels, and gave him a contact at Virgin Publishing. Davies himself gave his own account of the book's origins in Doctor Who Magazine' s history of the New Adventures range. I bashed out the first two chapters in my spare time. I sent in this The Fourth Doctor: The Well-Mannered War & Damaged Goods lazy submission, which just said, 'I've got no idea what happens in the end, but trust me. I write'. The arrogance of youth! However, Davies found himself commissioned to write for the range by Levene, with his book forming part of the 'Psi-Powers' arc which was overarching the storyline of the novels at the time, although Davies claimed: "I'm not sure I completely understood the Brotherhood arc to be honest! I just kept it vague and hoped someone else would make sense of it. There are several aspects of Damaged Goods which contain elements present throughout much of Davies's other work. The inclusion of a family named Tyler, in particular, is a trademark of the writer — Tylers also appear in RevelationsQueer as FolkThe Second Coming and the re-launch of Doctor Who itself. The scene in which Mrs Jericho prepares a dinner laced with rat poison for her husband is replicated almost exactly in the concluding episode of Davies's religious telefantasy drama The Second Comingwhere the leading character of Judith prepares a similarly poisoned meal for her lover Steve. There is an even more direct link to Dark Seasonwith the novel's epilogue featuring a mention of the main character, Marcie, from that serial. Damaged Goods contains a gay character, David, and homosexuality is a recurring theme explored in much of Davies's writing, as he himself noted in an article for The Guardian newspaper in She was too busy taking over the world to do anything particularly lesbian, though she did keep a Teutonic Valkyrie by her side at all times Once I'd started, I never stopped I even wrote a Doctor Who novel in which the six-foot blond, blue- eyed companion interrupts the hunt for an interdimensional Gallifreyan War Machine to get a blowjob in the back of a taxi. Like you do. Davies's major breakthrough television series, Queer as Folkwas centred around the lives of three gay men in Manchesterone of whom, Vince Tyler, is portrayed as a fanatical Doctor Who fan. Although never clearly seen on screen, part of the set dressing for Vince's bedroom as seen in the first episode of the series was a copy of Damaged Goodsincluded as an in-joke by the set dressers. Purists might argue that a book full of sex, drugs and squalor can't really be Doctor The Fourth Doctor: The Well-Mannered War & Damaged Goodsbut they would be forgetting that the essence of the series and those like it is in portraying ordinary people's reactions to the unprecedented. It's done so brilliantly here that, much as I abhor scores, rankings and superlatives, I'll admit that Damaged Goods is currently my favourite New Adventure. However, not all readers agreed with Owen's assessment that the setting and themes of Damaged Goods were one of its strengths. I don't buy science fiction, especially not Doctor Whofor a lesson in modern sociology. I certainly would not have bought Damaged Goods had I known that is precisely what I would be getting. Generally, however, reaction to the novel was extremely positive, with other online reviews around the time of the book's release praising Davies's work. Certainly, Damaged Goods is one of the best novels Virgin has released in Sullivan's website also includes a monthly updated list of the most popular Doctor Who novels, "The Doctor Who Novel Rankings", based on votes e-mailed in by readers and running since As of the 4 January edition of the novel rankings, Damaged Goods was placed eighth in the list of The Fourth Doctor: The Well-Mannered War & Damaged Goods popular New Adventures novels. InDoctor Who Magazine ran their own one-off readers' poll to find the most The Fourth Doctor: The Well- Mannered War & Damaged Goods New Adventures as part of their celebrations of Doctor Who' s 35th anniversary. Damaged Goods received votes from readers, with an average score of 7. After having been commissioned to write the novel, Davies had originally planned to take three months off writing for television in order to complete it. He was then also commissioned to write for two major ITV television series, leaving him very short of time in which to complete the book, eventually writing the manuscript in only five weeks. This sudden amount of work did, however, have the unexpected result of Granada Television purchasing the media rights for the novel on 2 Februarywith a view to Davies possibly scripting a television adaptation for them. It would have stripped out all the sci-fi stuff — including the Doctor, obviously! I think the treatment was called The Mother War. Nothing happened with that because I was just too busy on The Grand. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Redirected from Damaged Goods Doctor Who novel. The Man Who. Special 56, springpage Script Doctors: Paul Cornell. Issuecover dated 2 Februarypage Subscription link. The Fourth Doctor: The Well-Mannered War & Damaged Goods September 15, Shelf Life: Damaged Goods. Issuecover dated September 25,pages 21— The best and worst of Virgin. Issuecover dated 3 Junepage Doctor Who Magazine. Tunbridge Wells : Panini UK : 5. September Big Finish Productions. Retrieved 28 July Virgin New Adventures. Original Sin Sky Pirates! Oh No It Isn't! Russell T Davies. Damaged Goods. Namespaces Article Talk. Views Read Edit View history. Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file. Download as PDF Printable version. Add links. Doctor Who book: Virgin New Adventures. Featuring: Seventh Doctor ChrisRoz. Doctor Who: Novel Adaptations, Volume 2: Damaged Goods / The Well-Mannered War by Gareth Roberts Uniquely, it portrayed Romana borrowing articles of clothing from the Doctor's old wardrobe. The ending, where the Doctor defeats the Black Guardian by banishing himself to the Time Vortexmay explain why, in The Leisure Hiveit felt like years had passed for the Doctor and Romana. Barclow - an Earth -type planet on the fringes of space at an inestimably distant point in the future. Two factions claim it: humans from the nearby The Fourth Doctor: The Well-Mannered War & Damaged Goods world of Metralubit and a small group of Chelonian troopers. Yet in nearly two hundred years of conflict, not one shot has been fired in anger, there are regular socials in the trenches and the military commanders are the best of friends. The DoctorRomana II and K9 arrive in the midst of these bizarre hostilities to find there's real trouble to come. A crucial election on Metralubit is looming and K9 is forced to begin a new career as a politician. Romana meets an old friend and the Doctor finds that a sinister hidden force may be attempting to alter the war's friendly nature. What are the plans of Galateathe leader of the beautiful robotic Femdroids? Who is killing soldiers on both sides of the battle The Fourth Doctor: The Well-Mannered War & Damaged Goods Will K9's oratory save the day? Fandom may earn an affiliate commission on sales made from links on this page.
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