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Journey Planet Page 5 - Editorials Page 44 - On Target! - The Whovian Art of Chris Achilleos James Bacon by Colin Harris Chris Garcia Colin Harris Page 48 - The Mutation of Time: Doctor Who Fandom in Alissa McKersie Britain 1963 - 1990 by Matthew Kilburn Page 11 - The Lost Episodes by Michael Lee Page 55 - My Life of Doctor Who by Ken Patterson Page 13 - My American Experience with Doctor Who by Page 58 - Radio Free Skaro by Warren Frey Jim Mann Page 60 - You Don’t Choose the Yarn Life, The Yarn Life Page 15 - Doctor Who and Shakespeare by Nicholas Chooses You by Michael Capra Whyte Page 62 - Back in the Days When Our Telly Was Black and Page 19 - Why Can’t The All Be Like “The Talons of White by Christine and Joe Halse Weng-Chiang” ~or~ I’m Glad They’re Not All Like “The Talons of Weng-Chiang” Page 66 - A Crack in Time and Space by Sabine Furlong Page 22 - Walking in the Footsteps, Following the TARDIS Page 70 - Trial of a Time-Lord Fan by Tim Davis Tracks by James Bacon Page 72 - Doctor Who - The Doctor’s Silence A Review by Page 26 - Nightmare in Pantone 2955c by James Bacon Christopher J Garcia Page 28 - Before & After The Doctor by Chris Garcia Page 76 - Instant Fanzine Featuring Michael Carroll, Christopher Erickson, Nancy Page 32 - Instant Fanzine - Who Authors Write Gonzalez, Des Grogan, Nalini Haynes, Ruth Leibig, Esther Featuring Simon Clark, Eoin Colfer, Paul McAuley, Kim MacCallum-Stewert, Jean Martin, Michael Michela, Helena Newman, Lance Parkin, Alastair Reynolds Nash, Mark Oshiro, Padraig O Mealoid, Jesi Pershing, Liam Proven, James Shields, Erin Underwood, Linda Wenzel- burger, Roland Willis Ten Word Review - The Angels Take Manhattan: “Ah, there you are! I seem to be stuck up here. “Suicide by Angel is a quick way off the show.” So you’re my replacements. Humph. A dandy Chris Ross and a clown. Have you done anything?” 2 The First Doctor to the Second and Third in “The Three Doctors” art Credits Cover, Pages 2, 5, 9, 32, 33, 76 by Pixel New Generation Doctor Who Fan Art Wrangler Michael Carroll Page 3 - Teagan A., Age 7 (http://www.michaelowencarroll.com) Page 3 - Gage K., Age 9 Page 6 - Photo taken by John Scalzi Page 3 - Andrew R., Age 9 Pages 8, 9, 61 - Photos courtesy of Alissa Pages 32, 37, 41, 80 - Rylie R., Age 9 McKersie Pages 10, 49, 52 - Zine covers courtesy Page 34 - Rena J., Age 13 Matthew Kilburn Page 35 - Lizzy S. , Age 10 Page 24 - Examiner.com Page 36 - Elyse G., Age 9 Page 28, 29, 30, 31 by Michael the Pure Page 38 - Mia G., Age 7 (http://michaelthepure.devianart.com) Page 39 - Ty S., Age 7 Pages 44-47, BaCover - Chris Achilleos Pages 40, 86, 87 - Zoe W., Age 7 (http://chrisachilleos.com) Page 42 - Justin M., Age 12 Page 48 found on http://fanlore.com Pages 76, 90 - Ashton Y., Age 6 Page 59 - Maurine “Mo” Starkey Page 77 - Ethan E., Age 6 Pages 60, 61 - Photos of the TAFF Scarf knit by Leigh Ann Hildebrand from Page 78 - Ayden S., Age 10 https://www.facebook.com/pages/The- Page 92 - Nolan E., Age 10 TAFF-Scarf/75793518764? Page 96 - Jamie C., Age 9 Page 62-64 Courtesy Christine and Joe Halse Page 65-69 Courtesy Sabine Furlong Pages 72-73 by Chris Garcia “Now just a minute! There’s nothing “only” Ten Word Review - Eleventh Hour about being a girl, your Majesty.” “Madman in a box eats odd food and fixes Sarah Jane - “The Monster of Peladon” 3 cracks. “ Deborah Stanish “As we learn about each other, so we learn “We’re always in trouble! Isn’t this extraordi- about ourselves.” nary - it follows us everywhere! The Doctor - “The Edge of Destruction” 4 The Doctor - “Marco Polo” James Bacon Shop, was just as bad. Peter Davison, Janet Fielding 01 811 8055 or a Stamp Addressed Envelope (Tegan) and Mark Strickson (Turlough) joined Mike to BBC Television Centre Read to talk about the Five Doctors, in 1984. Colin Baker and Nicola Bryant (Peri) received an unexpect- I barely remember watching some Tom Baker ed phone call from an old adversary on the show, and episodes, and enjoying them, although we were also Sarah Greene and Mike Read spoke to Colin Baker encouraged by an Aunt - Nora, I think - or maybe by again followed by the cutting of a TARDIS cake to cel- Dad to hide behind the couch, as that was what people ebrate the programme’s 23rd birthday. did back then. Or maybe the announcer said they did. As for Blue Peter, I loved this programme, and I watched a lot of Peter Davison and a few others. it was joined at the hip with Doctor Who. There have For me, Doctor Who was less about the show been over 20 episodes of Blue Peter featuring Doctor itself and more about the other BBC programmes that Who, the first being in 1964 when the Daleks were it turned up on. That included Saturday morning shows wheeled on, to calm frightened children as Valerie Sin- as well as Blue Peter during the week. Now these were gleton assured children it was all going to be OK. good for me, as nothing lasted more than about ten I of course loved, or was infatuated with, some minutes, so a new segment would always start before I of the Blue Peter presenters. Tina Heath, Sarah Greene started to drift or get bored. And Battle of the Planets and Janet Ellis were my favourites, and I also loved was on around the same time (before, after, or during, Caron Keating. Seeing an Irishwoman, be it one from depending). the North, on the show was awesome, and she was I just watched an interview between Noel Ed- beyond beautiful. monds, and Tom Baker and Elisabeth Sladen, he starts Tina had K9 on the show, Sarah Greene intro- by saying, ‘Tell us a little bit about the new series, it duced Peter Davison when he was the new Doctor. looks all a bit frightening’. Janet Ellis and the team spoke with Peter Da- ‘Yes it is very frightening and very tense and vison and had a selection of monsters on for Doctor very exciting and very secret and terribly secret... it’s Who’s twentieth anniversary and to feature “Trial of a amazing,’ says Tom Baker, priming the world for fear. Timelord”. Janet Ellis talked to Colin Baker and Bonnie Humour rebounds though as Liz Sladen interjects, ‘It Langford. All exciting stuff, I suppose. But it just never wouldn’t give anything away to say we land in a quarry’. captured me enough. Of course, I have gone back since I was too young for this particular interview, and enjoyed episodes, and of course loved Christo- but it gives an example of the way it was. Doctor Who pher Eccleston as The Doctor; but back then, it was would enter my life through these programmes and just OK. then I might get interested, but usually Saturday eve- ning was a bad time; I’d be on the street playing, and am The BBC web pages connecting Doctor Who and I wrong to think that Buck Rogers, Battlestar Galactica Blue Peter - http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/classic/bluepeter/ and The A-Team were just more exciting? drwho/index.shtml The level of BBC incestuousness is incredible. Blue Peter – make your own Doctor Who Theatre with As well as the 1976 interview with Baker and Slad- Leslie Judd and John Noakes - http://www.bbc.co.uk/ en, Noel Edmonds chatted to Matthew Waterhouse cult/classic/bluepeter/drwho/scrapbook/index.shtml (Adric) in 1980, Sarah Sutton (Nyssa) in 1981 and of Swap Shop - Tom Baker and Elisabeth Sladen inter- course Peter Davison as the new Doctor (and Jesus viewed by Noel Edmonds - https://www.youtube.com/ was that everywhere - he was on for about 20 min- watch?v=gSxdwlGYaM0 utes). Blue Peter - Doctor Who clips celebrating the 50th an- Saturday SuperStore, the successor to Swap niversary - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JS8Et- JNxL3M “You can’t rewrite history. Not one line!” “And just who are you to condemn us to The Doctor - “The Aztecs” death? I think we’d better pit our wits against them and defeat them.” 5 The Doctor -”The Dalek Invasion of Earth Chris Garcia Journey Planet is entering its 7th year of existence, has had some wonderful essays and art, I don’t remember watching a lot of Doctor and we’re heading into a period where we’ll be firing Who as a kid, but somehow I got all the referenc- off a lot of issues really quickly. Some are in areas es my friends would make. I can tell you about the you probably never expected us to go into (like first time I met a Doctor, though. I was working at SPORTS!) and others that will are certainly in our Timecon in 1990; my friend Andy Poulain couldn’t wheelhouse. I hope you’ll stick around with us! This make it, so I took over as him for the weekend. issue was one of the most fun I’ve ever had laying an He was working the Green Room with my friend, issue out. It also gave me an excuse to watch a lot Scott, so I had someone I know. My job was simple: more Who, and when is that ever a bad thing? make sure the guests were fed and watered.
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