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EDITORIAL Reading everything that was sent through I both the Classic and New eras. Each student found myself picturing as, THE DIMENSIONALLY is given a blank form to fill out while watching playing the in , the show and has opportunities to talk about TIMES he says, “It’s reassuring to know that my TRANSCENDENTAL each episode before and after the screening. future is in safe hands.” If the children of the The first group of students decided the THEY ARE Lamplighter School are anything to go by, it LUNCHBOX episode guide should include the title, which certainly is. Doctor was in the episode, which companions A'CHANGIN by the Lamplighter School and monsters were featured and a summary John To think, it all started with a lunchbox. of the plot in their own words. Additionally, by John Davies the students were able to rate the episode Back in the fall of 2013, teacher Jeff Peck of The on a scale of 1 (awful) to 10 (the best) as It didn’t really start as a mild curiosity in a Lamplighter School in Dallas, Texas, noticed well as a scariness rating from 1 (not scary) junkyard. It actually began in a school. If that one of his students brought a TARDIS to 5 (terrifying). At the end of the guide, Barbara Wright hadn’t been intrigued about lunch box to school. “I’d been a the students listed three specific items from , you wouldn’t be reading fan since 1979, when I first saw an omnibus the program they enjoyed and three they these words right now. of in Space on Public Television,” says disliked. Further additions over the years Peck, the school’s drama teacher. “When I have included favorite lines, lessons learned As you will have already seen from the saw the lunch box, I immediately asked the in the episodes, and what changes the beyond-glorious cover supplied by Andy student about it. He’d been watching Doctor students would make if they were directing Hackett (and as I tipped you all off last issue), Who straight through with his father and was the episode. CT458 sees schools feature in its pages. I say moving towards the end of the Pertwee era.” schools but I really mean one in particular: As of the publication of this article, the guide The Lamplighter School. Many lunchtime conversations about the is over 140 pages long (and growing)! It show followed as the curiosity of other contains a smattering of episodes from Series Quite soon after I was appointed as editor students grew. Peck saw this as an opportunity 1-8, plus two dozen episodes from the Classic of Celestial Toyroom, an email arrived from not only to share his love of the program, but Who era, covering almost every Doctor. The Jeff Peck detailing an after-class group to foster a small-scale appreciation society at students have given copies to Sylvester McCoy that ran at his school in Dallas. Two things his school. In the beginning, it took the form and by attending conventions as immediately struck me: firstly, when I was of a summer camp in which students spent field trips. (aka Jo at school Doctor Who was very much a a week examining each of the program’s five Grant) has suggested, via Twitter, that the solitary appreciation, one that often saw me Celestial Toyroom Issue 458 decades (one decade per day). Peck found students watch The Three Doctors this spring receiving disparaging looks and comments as Published by Who Appreciation copies of Mark Campbell’s guide from Virgin for their first Pertwee story. The guide itself I read the latest Target book on a free period; Society Publishing and gave one to each student. has over three hundred e-mail subscribers and, secondly, this email was from Dallas, The guide became a reference point for who receive thrice-yearly updates with the in the of America. America! Front cover by Andy Hackett where certain clips or episodes fell into the newest entries and special tidbits about Children there were actively showing and http://po.st/andyhackett-gd context of a particular season or the program what the kids are up to. sharing their appreciation of Doctor Who as a whole. in a way that would have made my school Layout by Nicholas Hollands For the Fall 2015 semester, the students attending self both Wirrn-green with envy All content is © Peck also wrote to Campbell about the decided to watch an entire series from start but also extraordinarily delighted. Splendid relevant contributor/DWAS summer camp project and he kindly replied to finish, and what better isolation no more! No copyright infringement is intended with a special video message for the series than the current CONTACT US students. “They were thrilled to actually one? With a I immediately agreed to Jeff Peck’s, sorry DWAS, see the person who wrote the book and to side trip to class, Mr Peck’s request to submit to CT and Unit 117, hear him mention our group,” says Peck. watch Terror the result is here. Actually, the results are 33 Queen Street, Soon students suggested writing their own of the here. The initial article detailing reaction Horsham, guide about the show. Thus the seeds for an before the to Series Nine led to a photo opportunity RH13 5AA official after school class began. two-part which then prompted a flurry of limericks FIND US ONLINE modern and, I am delighted to say, there LAMPLIGHTER will be a www.dwasonline.co.uk Called “Who Is Doctor Who”, the classLAMPLIGHTER now adventure, the further feature from the school following the facebook.com/dwasonline meets once a week. Students from ages students took publication on the issue you currently hold in twitter.com/dwas63 seven to ten (second to fourth grade) watch to the project your hands. .com/dwasonline one or two episodes of Doctor Who, from with relish. There - 2 - - 3 - were many anguished cries of “No!” as “To then it totally doesn’t happen. It’s okay Mr. Peck: What do you think of Clara is still alive, he’s really good at acting Be Continued” flashed upon the screen at compared to other seasons. They keep as The Doctor now that he has completed sad and mad that she’s dead. the end of The Zygon Invasion. Elsewhere putting so much action into one place and his second year? through the series watch, there were happy so much talking into another. It should be James: If I made a dictionary, under the word cheers each time Ashildir / Me returned, or spread out. It makes it a little hard to keep Celia: I think he’s one of my favorite Doctors. “retro” would be a picture of Peter Capaldi with the reappearance of Missy, Osgood, up. I can see a bunch of the different Doctors in wearing sunglasses. It’s like he just comes out Kate Stewart and, especially, . “It’s him. He’s like the First Doctor where he’s there looking and acting like he would in real so wonderful to see their reactions to the Alexa, age 9: I think it’s better than the kind of a little bit grouchy. He’s kind of like life. He’s not purposefully trying to be cool. show,” says Peck. “I see so much of my other seasons. There’s scary parts, action the in Genesis of the He’s not being paid just to be strange. It’s fellow fans and myself when we were young parts, sad parts, and surprise parts. It’s like because of the way he talks to Davros when just his personality. Every so often, he makes in them. We have tried our hardest not to when Clara was killed in . Davros was pretending to be sick. He and no sense at all and it goes a little too far. I watch the episodes on Saturday so that we You wonder where the Doctor is going to go Clara are really good at figuring things out agree with Abeera about the screwdriver. can all be surprised at our Monday meetings. next and what he’s going to do because she’s together and it’s just a really good team. It It’s difficult for some of them to wait two dead. I still love that it’s scary. took them a while to get along with each Preston: I like him a lot! He always has days to see the show, but the reactions from other but now they get along real well. different emotions and they are different having no spoilers are priceless!” Abeera, age 10: It’s a very complicated He’s kind of like a cat because when things from one episode to the next one. He’s really season. I had to watch two go wrong, he says, “I meant to do that”. adventurous and he puts you in the middle Mr. Peck sat down with his current students times because I didn’t get it the first time. But I also didn’t like that he was playing of things. towards the end of the Ninth Series to talk And then, Clara shows up in the diner in Beethoven’s Fifth in Before the Flood. It just about their experience with the show and the next episode. Plus you thought Me / doesn’t go with the character of the Doctor. Ethan: I think he’s the best Doctor ever. He’s writing the guide. could have saved Clara in Face the cool when he’s strumming the guitar. He Raven but she didn’t. Whatever you think Abeera: He’s different than all makes the Doctor a lot more mysterious. I Mr. Peck: What did you think about Series would happen didn’t happen. You had to pay Doctors. I don’t like that he stopped wearing like the way he is doing his job of being the Nine? attention a lot this year. bow ties and fezzes. And then I got really Doctor. mad when he gave away the sonic Max, age 9: I like this season because it has Celia, age 9: I don’t think it’s the best screwdriver. I was going to refuse to Thomas: I like that he can be mixed in a more mystery and more action. You have to season, but I don’t think it’s the worst. I watch the season, but then I watched it good way. He can be serious at he figure things out a lot more in your head. You think Sleep No More just lost the plot. and I liked it and I liked him. needs to be serious and not serious when get a lot of time to think about it before the Why do they need to fight the Sleep he doesn’t need to be serious. He uses his next episode. Monsters if they keep falling apart every Alexa: I think he’s got a more adventurous intellect in such interesting ways that he time they get close to you? I also don’t like mood instead of being happy and “-y” can do anything he wants to do. His Doctor Thomas, age 9: I think it’s OK. I really liked the fact it was too many two-part episodes. like . There’s a different doesn’t accept a lot of things. However, he Series Eight, and compared with that, Series On the other hand, there were so many mood to the Doctor. I like everything kind of wants revenge and I don’t like that Nine was hard to get used to. I think it’s emotions this year that you feel like you about Capaldi. He’s becoming about him. more complex. I just wish there had been are right smack dab in the middle of my favorite Doctor. fewer two-part episodes this season. the episodes. Max: I think he is very wonderful as the Zach: I really like him because Doctor. He’s like the Tenth Doctor a little bit Ethan, age 9: I think it’s a lot scarier than Zach, age 8: It was pretty good. I he’s really good playing the because he’s so funny with Clara, like David other seasons. The villains are creepier, like think it was the most scary one. Doctor. He had really cool Tenant was with Rose, Martha and Donna. the ghosts in . But you also There were lots of different kinds of sonic sunglasses, but I also Even with Missy, he’s trying to be nice to her, have to look for all the clues in the episode creatures and villains and monsters. like his new screwdriver even though she’s really a terrible person. I to find out what the Hybrid is. The episodes were the right amount that is way, way, way, way loved his grand entrance in The Magician’s of time. I was just sad that Clara way cooler. Apprentice on the tank with the guitar. I Preston, age 8: I like that there is a lot more died. don’t think there’s anything I don’t like about action this year. I don’t know about the Grayson: He’s always him. two-part episodes. Sometimes they work, Grayson, age 8: The season was so full of action. He sometimes they don’t. It depends. really good and awesome. I liked would always get mad Mr. Peck: What was the high point of the all that action and adventure. I but he would also show his season for you? James, age 10: It’s really emotional.LAMPLIGHTER It really liked that we went back in time feelings. He’s reallyLAMPLIGHTER good at gets inside your head and makes you think. and getting to see Vikings was acting that stuff. Even though Max: Heaven Sent. It just totally brings on I like how it makes you think one thing, like one of my favorite parts. the mystery of the season. I think it’s going “this will happen” in the next episode, and to lead to stuff for Series Ten. - 4 - - 5 - James: The Magician’s Apprentice, because . He’s been looking so Zach: It helps you remember what Preston: I like that you can write what you they bring back Davros. The best part is that very, very, very, very, very long! It the episode was about and what it was like and what you don’t like because you get Davros is still the same like he was in the was lost in time and space. called a lot better. to express your opinion. classic seasons. They didn’t change him and that’s what makes him good. I like how they Mr. Peck: What about the low Ethan: My favorite part is rating the Mr. Peck: What’s been the hardest or least tied everything together from the first time point? episode on the Scary enjoyable part of writing the guide? we met Davros. Meter because it’s James: Under the fun writing down Preston: The hardest part is figuring out the Abeera: I loved the season finale where the Lake and Before the Flood. my opinions. It’s lesson of the story. Sometimes you can’t tell Doctor gets a new ! It just felt like things happened for kind of like if you what it is. no reason. Suddenly this thing is happening were a critic and you Celia: My favorites were and then suddenly this thing is happening. were rating the show with stars, it’s like the Max: Yeah, like Preston said. Unless they say and . The girl who They’d be running around and then just start same thing with the episode. I really like that what the monster is in the episode, you can’t plays Ashildr / Me does a really good job. talking about something random. It just felt it’s a scale of 1 to 5 because it’s a good set of tell and it makes it harder. And it’s impossible There’s just so much emotion involved and like things were happening randomly and numbers. It’s usually a 3 for me. to find the lessons some times. I like what happened when the Doctor came that confused me. Everything happened but up with different names for everyone. it didn’t fit together. Celia: I like writing it because it’s something Grayson: Sometimes I don’t know what to you can look back on and be proud of. I put down for “Three things I didn’t like about Thomas: My favorite was because Celia: I just couldn’t get a grasp of what was like it also because you’re just getting to the episode” and “What would you do to we get to see that Gallifrey survived. We happening in Sleep No More. experience everything and to write it well improve the episode”. It’s just so good. I also get to see a man turn into a because you know what’s happening. You’re can’t think of anything I don’t like about it. woman Time Lord, which we never see in the Preston: I really didn’t like Heaven Sent not really counting on your memory of the show before this episode. because it was so confusing. It was so hard episode from a long time ago. Alexa: The hardest part is the editing. For to figure out what the Doctor was saying me, since I’m a senior [note: this is a term Alexa: I think my favorite one would be Hell about all the clues. They were too hard to Max: I think it’s kind of cool to write it the students use to describe the fourth grade Bent because it had a whole bunch of action figure out. because people can see that it’s fun and they class, since they will graduate at the end of and mystery. I like that about my episodes. might want to do it. You can kind of try it the year], it’s hard to cross out people’s good Thomas: Yeah, Heaven Sent was just really and like it. writing because there are only three or four Preston: My favorite is confusing. It just keeps switching back and words but you can always add to it. because there was a lot of mystery and the forth and I can’t keep track of it. Abeera: I like writing about my favorite lines. Zygons can pretend to be people really well. You get to choose the funniest line there is Zach: I think the same thing as Grayson. I I like when the Doctor had to make them Max: Face the Raven because Clara died and in the show. don’t want to change anything. press buttons and they didn’t. she’s such a good companion. It just really made me sad. I hope the new companion is Thomas: My favorite part of writing the Thomas: I don’t like having to write about Ethan: I like The Zygon Inversion because it just as good. guide is being able to say what I would do if I things I didn’t like because it’s so hard to had a lot of action. I like how the Zygons trick was the director because I could do anything think of something I didn’t like. Occasionally many people. I like how Bonnie did a good Grayson: Face the Raven because Clara had if I was the director. For example, I could do there’s stuff I don’t like, but most of the time impression of Clara. to die. something to improve the plot. I really like the episodes. I mean, it’s Doctor Who! Grayson: My favorite ones were probably Alexa: Yeah. The same. Face the Raven. Alexa: It’s getting to actually see the episode Under the Lake and Before the Flood because and get your stuff down because some day they were really creepy and it was cool all Ethan: Face the Raven because Clara died you might forget about all the episodes and the ways they tried to capture the ghost. It and also because it didn’t have enough you can just pull out the complete guide and was kind of scary when the people had black action or mystery for me. flip to the page and find out what it is. eyes when they were ghosts. But it was cool there was a person who knows sign language Zach: Maybe my least favorite might have James: The easiest and best part is getting to because she knows how to read lips because been…I don’t know. I just like them all. see the guide after we finish it each time. It’s she really helped figure out that the ghosts published. You can just look back on it and were saying names. LAMPLIGHTERMr. Peck: What has been the most enjoyable feel proud. LAMPLIGHTER part of writing the guide? Zach: I liked Heaven Sent because it was Grayson: It’s kind of fun writing things down really happy at the end because he finds when they happen in the show. - 6 - - 7 - James: I don’t like having to write things we Zach: It’s probably because there are so of experience with Doctor Who. They are Ethan: We made our guide different. I like or don’t like. It’s hard to do depending many episodes. You can never run out of more fun and creative when writing about don’t think anybody else does, “What’s on the episode. It gets to be really hard to episodes or ideas. It’s always different. something new to them. your favorite line” or “What would you do say, “The Doctor does this” or “The Doctor differently”. Maybe someone might put does that”. Abeera: I like that we keep trying to figure Grayson: It’s because it gives kids a chance some of the details about an episode, but we out the Doctor’s name. Like with the to practise their skills in writing and people put in details nobody else does. Abeera: Yeah, sometimes I can’t think of in , want to see what kids think about the three things I like or don’t like about the you would think he would say his name but episodes. Max: We just have a bigger imagination. We show. Sometimes I only have two or one. It’s he doesn’t. It makes me really mad that they have a childhood imagination and that’s what tough to choose. don’t say it but it makes me keep watching it. Thomas: A 6-11 year old is different than you need to watch the show. Sometimes a 57, 58, or 59 year old. They don’t know people have an older imagination and they Celia: There are some episodes that are so James: When I first watched Doctor Who, as much about Doctor Who as we do. They can’t enjoy the show. We enjoy it more good you just can’t think of anything bad to right after the ’s first episode, might say, (Thomas adopts an “old person” because of our childhood imagination. say. And I also don’t like writing about the the first thing I probably said was, “fantastic” voice) “these new-fangled special effects are confusing episodes. Sometimes I hate having in a terrible British accent. I just got excited very annoying”. We have a different opinion Mr. Peck: Over the years, many people to look away from the episode to write about from there. I just got really into the episodes on that matter. Our opinions are different have said Doctor Who is too scary for kids it. I don’t like having to stop watching it to and soon I was getting really emotional and a lot of people may like to hear a kid’s to watch. How would you respond to that? write things down. about every single step he takes. He’s just point of view. so unique and mysterious. It’s not like some Zach: No! It’s not! It’s not really. It’s just Ethan: Writing about the confusing episodes sci-fi where each character is a . It’s Zach: If people have never seen Doctor Who, people playing. like Heaven Sent is the hardest thing to do not always that there has to be adventure, or they can never ever see it on TV, they can because you can’t tell who the monster is. always adventure. It makes you think in your just read about it and see what it’s about. Grayson: That’s why we have a camp for it head. It’s so good and so interesting. and we watch Doctor Who a bunch of times. Mr. Peck: What is it about the show that Preston: People should read episode guides It’s not scary to me because the actors are makes you a fan? Preston: It has a lot of different emotions. from kids because sometimes grown-ups acting. It’s not happening in real life. They’re Sometimes it’s happy or sad. It’s not just one take things too seriously and we do other playing pretend. Alexa: Hmm. That’s hard. There’s some thing. things. The guide doesn’t have to be serious. mystery that has to be solved and you It can be fun too. Max: I think that sometimes it’s a little scary can’t figure it out, so you have to keep Grayson: I really like it because we get to see at times but it’s not too scary. I think kids going forward to find out the answer to the the TARDIS. You can go in different times. If Celia: It’s because we put a lot of hard work might find it a little scary, but there are also mystery. I want to find out the answers. something bad happens, you can go back in into the guide! People who are beginners or a lot of other good reasons to watch the time and fix it. new to the show on Netflix or Amazon Prime show that I think it doesn’t matter. I do think Celia: It’s because a lot of the parts are can enjoy our guide just as much as people people should pause the show and talk about really funny and I like laughing. I like that Thomas: I was in Florida and I had nothing to who have been watching it for a long time if they feel scared. it’s mysterious and that it makes you think do so I remembered Mr. Peck talking about because we have different opinions. nothing is going to turn out well in the Doctor Who, so I watched it on Netflix and James: Some episodes are too scary for some episode and then it does turn out well in the it was so good. I like the variety of historical James: Since we’re kids, we don’t just say kids. When I first watchedThe Empty Child it end in a really good way. I also love the great figures in the show, like Agatha Christie what the episode is. We say what we think it was really late at night. It was just me and my villains, especially the ones that keep coming and Shakespeare. Even if there aren’t any is, not what anybody found on the Internet. mom at home. I was freaked out by, “Are you back. I think are revolutionary. historical figures, it mentions history. It’s We give our opinions. my mummy?” for a little while but not much. also super scientific and it talks a lot about Max: I enjoy a laugh from all of the Doctors. paradoxes. It also gives me a lot of ideas for Abeera: Grown-ups write Abeera: I think some of the episodes might He can be funny. He can be serious. He’s projects. guides for grown-ups, be too scary for kids to watch. Even some just a very mixed emotion guy. I think it but kids might not of the ones from the Eleventh Doctor were has enough mystery but not too much, like Mr. Peck: Why should people read a Doctor understand the words scary and he had a lot humor. I think some Nancy Drew and stuff like that. It has a good Who episode guide written by kids? that the grown-ups put of the episodes you should watch when you amount of mystery and action altogether. in there. Our guides are eight and up. Alexa: Adults have different opinions than will actually help kids Ethan: I agree with Celia and Maxwell.LAMPLIGHTER It’s kids and they’ve seen the show longer out because weLAMPLIGHTER sum it Celia: When I hear people say that it’s too the humor of the Doctor. Clara too, like than kids. Some students in the class are up better. That helps. scary, I think, “What are you talking about! when she tells someone to shut up. The new Whovians and they might see things Is that all you’re worried about?” The show companions can be funny too, like Rose. differently than people who have lots is really good and you learn a lot of lessons - 8 - - 9 - from it. I was scared by the wooden clown me. Maybe the new companion could be like Thomas: I would like a kind character like the Doctor. Trillions of Daleks and Cybermen! faces in and the Weeping a monster who is also the Doctor’s friend. Neville Longbottom from . Where are they? They were sucked into the Angels are scary for some people. Other She’s split on both sides. She has to help the Maybe the companion could be a robot or portal but where did they go? What about than those things, I think it’s okay. Doctor and other monsters. like or . the ? When will we get to see Raxacoricofallapatorius? Preston: I even think you could watch Doctor Preston: I want the companion to be Mr. Peck: If you were producer Steven Who if you are seven. Maybe even a six year mysterious like the Doctor. I want them to Moffat, what would you do in the show next Zach: Maybe he could go back to the old. Some episodes can be scary, but some be adventurous. I want them to show a lot year for Series 10? dinosaur times. Maybe there could be an can be not as scary. Maybe they get scared of mixed emotions. They shouldn’t be happy episode where there could be a bunch more or not but they should try to watch it. all the time. Grayson: I want The Zygons and ghosts with monsters like the Adipose. They look cute the black eyes to team together against the but they’re harmful. Maybe the Weeping Ethan: It just depends. Some people might Abeera: I want them to be somebody like Doctor. I want the Doctor to go to a war. Angels could come back. Maybe the Daleks. watch it and have nightmares. Some people Ashildr / Me. She would question the Doctor Maybe Abzorbaloff. might not. But I think six or seven years old a lot and be very adventurous and has learned Max: I would like the Doctor to be trapped is a good place to start. a lot of lessons because she lives everlasting. for a long time, like when he went to Celia: I want a monster team-up too. I’d like She can stay longer with the Doctor. The E-Space. He really has a hard time figuring somebody we don’t know to teleport to the Alexa: It might be a little scary for people who Doctor will die one day but she won’t. She out how to get out. He has to battle a ton of Doctor and stay with him the whole season, have a little bit of nerves. Some episodes would stay with him a much longer time monsters and one giant one. Really hardcore which should be one long continuous are scary, but then there are some that are because all the other companions have died stuff for him to deal with. Maybe bring back episode, like Max said. I would like it to end awesomely scary and they are fun to watch or gone away. I also kind of want Missy to a companion who died as a ghost. And we at a good stopping point, but he has to go because of that. be the companion because they keep talking need Captain Jack back! I also think the cast through all of the monsters to get there. And about the Hybrid. Maybe she’s a hybrid, too. and crew should be able to give more ideas to in the end, it should be the Daleks and finally Thomas: I would say if the kid is too young But I’d also really like Clara back. the show. The companions would probably Missy. Or maybe the monsters team up by it would be too scary, like maybe a five or six have great ideas about an episode all about accident! Maybe they all get sent to this year old. But, when you are older, like eight James: I want a companion more like . them and also ideas about the Doctor. place and the Doctor and the monsters have plus, you get used to the scarier movies. It is I want her to not keep calling the Doctor to work together to get out. They have been less scary because you have seen stuff like it every time she sees a little bit of trouble. Thomas: I would keep the Doctor funny. I enemies for a long time but this time they before and you know it is not real. I’ve been hearing a lot of “Doctor! Doctor! would put more action in the season. I found have to team up. Doctor!” from the new season. Always some of this season’s episodes lacked the Mr. Peck: Now that Clara has left, what kind calling the Doctor. It’s been really annoying kind of action you want in every Doctor Who Preston: I want a lot of action and I agree of person or characteristics would you like recently that the Doctor has to be in every episode. with Celia and Grayson. We need a big to see in the new companion? single scene. Every so often, I want to see monster team-up. the companion deal with something. James: Sontar-ha! We need a real Zach: Maybe there could be more than one story right now, right this second. They’re Abeera: Now that the Doctor has lost part companion. Maybe the Doctor could go Max: I want a companion more like the my favorite villains ever, next to the Zygons. of his memory, I kind of want him to go back back in time and save them from something. Brigadier. Somebody like that who really Also, there are a lot of companions that to Gallifrey and find a new bunch of Daleks Maybe they can be aliens. Maybe they can enjoys spending time with the Doctor and is mysteriously go off. You know, they just get that got left over after the war and they are be somebody from Gallifrey. like his best friend. Just like James said, Clara dropped off somewhere. A lot of them just underground and attack Gallifrey. I don’t keeps asking for help, so I want someone get dropped off in normal life. How want it to be a giant episode for the whole Grayson: I think they should be like Clara and kind of bold. would they get their jobs back season. I want each episode to be a always want to get in the action and not be if they have been with the new story like last year. I don’t think scared of everything. Celia: One thing I would like to see is an Doctor for so long? I want the Doctor should be trapped adventurous companion who doesn’t go to see what happens to somewhere because that Alexa: I’d like to see an adventurous, kind anywhere without bringing their pet cat. them. Also, whatever could get a little boring. person and maybe a really smart person, We need a cat in The TARDIS. I’d like the happened to all those I’d have him trapped one kind of like . companion to consider themselves smarter Daleks and Cybermen episode. than the Doctor, like when K-9 was there, that ended up in the Ethan: I think that companion should be witty because he wasn’t afraid to correct the other dimension in Series Ethan: I also agree and adventurous and happy. TheyLAMPLIGHTER would Doctor. I can agree with James and Max, 2? They were in a war LAMPLIGHTERwith what Celia said. comply with the Doctor, but not that much. though. I can imagine a scene where the and then they get I want more I don’t want to see a smart-alec companion Doctor runs in and the new companion says, sucked into another because that would just ruin the show for “I’ve got it all taken care of”. dimension by - 10 - - 11 - Top Row: Mr. Peck, Will, Max, Preston, Xander, Celia, Ethan, James, Grayson. Seated/Kneeling: Abeera, Alexa, Thomas

All photographs in this spread © Ana Bohanan monsters to team up against the Doctor. I’m Preston: I feel pretty proud and it’s pretty This story is one example of many in the show’s talking the Daleks, the Mire, the Zygons, the cool for kids. I think the same thing that THE MILLENNIUM history that steals just about everything from Cybermen, the . All of them. I Ethan said. Maybe more kids will write somewhere else. The Mind Robber uses want a lot more mysteries and action. I want about the show. WHOVIAN already existing children’s stories to form its there to be only one companion, not two. own adventure for the characters. As always, Celia: I think it’s an opportunity for kids to be by Joshua N Stevens it manages this very well. On many different Alexa: I would want to go on line and let noticed more for what they do. It feels good levels this use of fairy tales is effective. They other people come up with the episodes. to be noticed. I feel like it’s going to inspire As a newer fan of Doctor Who, I am keen provide something that young viewers will Sometimes I have these amazing dreams some other schools to do the same thing or to watch everything from its past. These recognise, even without understanding (or where I’m in an actual episode of Doctor maybe even some grown-ups. features see me exploring each ‘classic’-era perhaps helping in the understanding of) the Who. I came up with these amazing Doctor, and the show in general at the time. plot, as well as being a very clever device in monsters in my dreams. Some people do Abeera: People in DWAS are finally going to an interesting plot. that too in their dreams. They just want to get to see how kids think about Doctor Who! The : 1966-69 say it out loud or write it down but no one Many people seem to struggle watching black will . I know that writes James: People who are like me, who read Next in my journey, I’m looking at the Second and white television now that we are so used a lot of the episodes and I’m not saying he about Doctor Who, they watch Doctor Who - Doctor in a rather briefer article than with to colour. I don’t really have a problem with shouldn’t, but I think he needs to give more we watch Doctor Who. We’re kind of similar. the First Doctor. I will, of course, be writing it, and think that it actually adds to the feel of chances to other people. We might have the same ideas and might more about this era and others over on my many Doctor Who stories, The Mind Robber end up being just like each other. I agree blog in the future… being one of them. The whole storybook Mr. Peck: How does it feel to know your with everyone else. I think it might inspire atmosphere is added to by the black and thoughts and words are going into DWAS’ people to do their own thing. Story in Focus – The Mind Robber (1968) white format: these characters are the black official fanzine and will be read by fans and white illustrations come to life. around the world? Thomas: It feels great knowing that people I have chosen to inspect The Mind Robber all over the world have a chance to see what in an attempt to find out what makes the Now, to the character of the . It is Alexa: It’s kind of amazing because we’re we are doing. It would be cool if we inspire Second Doctor so unique. a bit of a pointless exercise comparing this a bunch of random kids from an awesome others to make their own guide. It just feels character to the later invented arch-enemy school who are writing an episode guide for great people all around the world will have This unusual adventure is close to fantasy of the Doctor, but I will do so anyway. I want all the Whovians around the whole entire heard of us. in its genre, but still has that science-fiction this Master to be the same Master we now world and that all of us are ten years old or element. There are some ambitious visuals know. Why did the Doctor not think of who less. We’re doing a really big thing that got Max: I think it will be really cool to know that throughout the story, staring with the empty this person might be? Perhaps he was made us into a magazine and that’s amazing. people know about us here at Lamplighter void, then the TARDIS falling apart, and the to temporarily forget his childhood friend, and about our team. Our booklet is going forest of words. The fairy tale setup very and in The Mind Robber is the Ethan: I’ll feel good because other kids might to people all around the world. I hope it much lends itself to the current TARDIS team same Time Lord? We may learn that he is be inspired by us and they might want to write will inspire kids to put more effort into their arrangement – with the characters a crucial in fact a writer from 1926 (and the Television an episode guide too. It wouldn’t just be a writing in school and at home. part in the plot – along with the Second Companion book tells me the character is one school thing. I’d like to see a lot of kids Doctor’s personality. most likely Frank Richards), but could this not add to our guide from other schools in the just be another of the Master’s cover stories? world. That would be cool. It might give kids Obviously he’s not really meant to be the evil a better future because it might help them Gallifreyan we know, but there’s some room get a job writing articles or something. I also If you would like to for fan fiction here (I expect there is some want them to be happy doing it because it’s subscribe to the e-mail somewhere). fun and exciting. You can post it to the public list and receive the guide and people can see all of your hard work. There was some puzzle-solving for the three times a year, please Doctor in this story, but I would have liked Grayson: I feel like they’re really going to like contact Jeff Peck of The this to have been developed further. A more it. It’s fun to let people read your stuff. complex plot would not, perhaps, have been Lamplighter School at accepted in the way they are now (or are they Zach: Maybe if we start getting more people jpeck@ simply forced upon us?). A greater mystery reading our words, it might makeLAMPLIGHTER them thelamplighterschool.org LAMPLIGHTERcould have been presented for the Doctor, bigger fans. Maybe they’ll make a thousand with a sense of excitement as the viewer more episodes. Maybe Doctor Who will get can travel with him as he solves it – a plot more fans. littered with both herrings and clever - 14 - - 15 - references that only make sense on a second suited to the thrill of adventure as well as made up. This series could easily have been For me, in the time where everything is viewing would have been ideal here. This is being more than capable of making the set ‘a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away’ available on a million and one different sites something we are spoilt with a lot now – the right decision when it comes to saving the but it revolves around our little lump of rock, to download or stream, it is odd to think that intricately planned feel of the programme – universe. of all places. The Doctor has a fondness for this huge quantity of art (and that is what and that I had very much taken for granted us, this makes us feel important. it is) was physically put in a skip and lost before experiencing the Classic era. It could be that, when a Time Lord forever. The only hope of these episodes regenerates, a body and personality is Despite using The Mind Robber as the focus being available again is if they happen to be chosen that is needed in their life. The for this article, there is a certain story format returned by various countries who bought Doctor was old and weary, not often in the that must be mentioned, also. When I think the episodes back in the day. How frustrating mood for a laugh. Suddenly he becomes an about the Second Doctor, it is about the in this world where we expect everything enthusiastic, bouncing bunny ready to joke classic base-under-siege tales and the earth- now, this moment. There’s not a thing we and run and explore everything, as well as based UNIT-featuring prototypes. The show can do to get those episodes back. having a deep sense of age and seriousness in this era moves away from alternation in him. Troughton – and later Smith – shows between historical and heavy sci-fi to a place A great job has been done animating some of phenomenal acting skill in the role, with the somewhere in between. There is a greater the missing episodes in some of the largely ability to flit between moods and judge the focus on social dynamics and well developed complete serials, and I think this should scene perfectly. The Doctor, while being very characters as the show finds its feet and be done with the rest, even if it means I have decided that maybe I should have much alien, must also be someone who is gains confidence. recreating the whole story in animated form. used Tomb of the Cybermen here instead, as caring and tolerant. This balance is achieved Yes, it would be very expensive, so perhaps it might have given me more to write about perfectly. The Second Doctor seems to be often some money could be raised beforehand. the Second Doctor’s era in general. The Mind forgotten. He does not have the advantage Possibly through crowdfunding, with donors Robber can be taken to pieces and examined I have not, of course had the time yet to of being the first to play the part, and has receiving the DVD once completed? It would on many levels, but it remains a hastily pulled see (or hear) every single one of Patrick the great disadvantage now of adventuring be great for fans to be able to watch every together adventure that might drag on if Troughton’s stories, but I have hopefully in black and white. This, to me, makes it episode of Doctor Who in some form. it wasn’t for its sheer genius. Doctor Who been able to get a good grasp of the era. easy for his time to go unnoticed – and thus often produces its very best under pressure, unappreciated – to many newer fans. The Era – ’s Tenure and I gather that the hectic schedule in the The show just feels like a fun and exciting 1960s provided plenty of that. romp, exactly what appeals to many people. It is often said that Patrick Troughton had We may think of ourselves as serious fans, the most difficult time, or did the best, in the The Doctor – Patrick Troughton getting annoyed at people who don’t take role of the Doctor, as he had the challenge of Doctor Who seriously, but when, really, does being the first new face after he original. He Much friendlier than his predecessor; less that matter? The show is pretty far-fetched, certainly deserves this credit because, in my serious, more fun, younger, more excitable I think many watch it as an escape from the opinion, he improved the character of the and bouncy. It is often said that Patrick relatively depressing and unexciting world Doctor, and developed many characteristics Troughton’s Doctor has a lot in common we live in – in fact, it that his successors would go on to inherit – with the Eleventh Doctor. This is probably serves to remind us far more than . Troughton’s why the two of them are my favourites. The how fantastic this Doctor is, for me, just as archetypal as the Second Doctor just seems so excited about universe we live in popular . everything, a personality that is. How incredible is Missing Episodes really suits the character. everything, however mundane, that we Something that must be mentioned whilst We now know the alien encounter in looking at the Second Doctor’s era is the well now, and he is life. Our not-so- huge number of missing episodes from getting used to his life of boring planet Troughton’s tenure. I haven’t ignored these. exploration. The Doctor harbours the only A few years ago I read the DWM specials stole a TARDIS, and now known life in the collecting Telesnaps and episode summaries he’s regenerated for (what universe, but on these adventures. I hadn’t expected to we must assume is) the with Doctor Who enjoy reading them, but found that they first time. He LAMPLIGHTERhas escaped comes a whole were surprisingly interesting. SomethingLAMPLIGHTER that the body of the grumpy old new universe of really improved the experience was listening man he was at the time, and excitement, but one to the soundtracks (which I borrowed from now is somebody very much that is so obviously the library). - 16 - - 17 - “Hell Bent” by Ange Chan

Heaven Sent, Hell Bent The is the prophecy All the enemies are where they’re meant Ghosts of the echoes Hiding deep in Gallifrey Monitored afar from the Council For the Doctor to find without delay Delivering hope in a heartbeat Rock ‘n’ roll grief brings hallucinations Shifting tattoo static in reality Still talking to the Impossible Girl Travelling to the ends of time Travelling from time to time Where The Doctor’s arrogance is exposed But the Time Lord cloister Four knocks to answer Ashildr’s presence Rings bells to mark his presence Watching beautiful stars die Shadows darken, where fear hides Revealing Clara’s truth; The Doctor is sought out Nothing lasts forever An uneven challenge presented But memories of the past and A line is drawn in the sand The future is never promised A call to arms. A call to home Now the Doctor’s is complete Familiarity breeds contempt Memory wiped like an old computer Multiple images in broken shards TARDIS still lost in Trap Street Frustrating the High Synod From memory to story to song Blame laid at the feet In the Diner of dreams Of the High Time Lord Where time isn’t healing The Doctor’s plan remains unarmed Wrapped in a lie Defeating the firing squad Of perpetual dimension Who are true to the Doctor’s allegiance? Seconds from death Mutiny on the Council’s hands Too close to mention Loyalty in the twelve unarmed men Standing at the edge One for each On the precipice of life Torture chamber for the living Their hearts are still together The Hybrid prophecy; exaggerated truth But they’re halved with a virtual knife The Impossible Girl who cheated the Raven Polarity reversed Is perpetually moments from death To deliver the ultimate fate Fractured time across the years Destination Gallifrey Memory erased of the Doctor Travelling the long way round Cloisters hiding place Leaving of Clara Reveals the crypt and Forgotten on the ground Weeping angels form a maze where Cybermen reach and grab

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The Zygons love to change their shape The will give you a scare They break cities for goodness sake And when you look at that thing there They like stuff to rumble You will like to And buildings to tumble And you start to think When did that bald guy leave and where From them you can never escape The always come at dawn Will (age 8) and Ethan (age 9) Abeera (age 10), Preston (age 8), Davros was sitting on his chair Trevor (age 10) And act out a really big con Wondering how to get his hair They’re made out of plastic The Doctor beat him And always act drastic He was very grim They keep blasting, now everyone’s gone The Doctor then gave him a scare Thomas (age 9) and Collin (age 7) Alexa (age 9) and Celia (age 9) The Sandmen have yellow top hats The Daleks don’t like the Doctor The Sandmen also have green bats He’s too much of a concoctor The Sandmen do nothing He is too clever Except lots of bluffing They beat him never And they love a silly black cat He’s also a big fat talker Will (age 8) and Ethan (age 9) The Angels were pretty creepy Thomas (age 9) and Collin (age 7) Which made them start feeling weepy I hope you don’t blink The Master was evil and bad Not even a wink He always made the Doctor sad

I hope you are not too sleepy He’s now called Missy Max (age 9) and James (age 10) But he’s no sissy The scary Raven will take souls When he kills, he never feels sad The Sontarans started chanting The Raven kills you; it’s his goal Alexa (age 9) and Celia (age 9) They like seeing humans panting He will swoop at you Don’t drive with Atmos And he will know who Or a small cactus He sees you; he’s not like a mole With General Stall commanding Abeera (age 10), Preston (age 8), , he ran a mile Max (age 9) and James (age 10) Trevor (age 10) He was the only one with style Poor Jamie was dead There was a chancellor named Goth A mask on his head A Time Lord as smart as a moth His best friend the cat was named Kyle The Doctor found him Xander (age 8) and Nicholas (age 8) So grim to the brim He died groaning like a big sloth Celia (age 9)

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