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T
he 1960s is an endlessly minor attention, buried deep in a handful
fascinating decade for so many of newspapers. There wasn’t even a press
of us who missed the party. Take call. Nowadays, the arrival of a new Doctor
the summer of 1966, for example. is a much bigger deal. Entire television
In July, England won the World programmes are devoted to the reveal, and
Cup, beating West Germany 4-2. In August, mere speculation over Jodie Whittaker’s
The Beatles released Revolver, an album that casting made the front page of the Daily Mail.
many now regard as the pinnacle of their Once the story was confirmed it was a fixture
extraordinary career. And in September, in national newspapers for days. None of this
filming began on The Power of the Daleks, would have happened had The Power of the
Patrick Troughton’s first story as Doctor Who. Daleks not proved that regeneration – as it
I expect I’m the first person to mention would come to be known – was the key to
The Power of the Daleks in the same breath Doctor Who’s longevity.
as these mighty sporting and cultural The impact of that era shows no sign of
achievements but, aside from their proximity, diminishing. This year, fans will be hoping
all three events have something in common that the latest England squad will be
– they’re all considered more important now the first since 1966 to reach the World
than they were at the time. Cup final. In March, Beatles drummer
Fast-forward 52 years, and is it conceivable Ringo Starr visited Buckingham Palace
that an England victory in this year’s World to receive his knighthood. Thanks to
Cup wouldn’t dominate a newspaper such Patrick Troughton’s success, Doctor Who
as the Daily Mirror? In the wake of the 1966 continues to flourish and gain new fans
triumph it wasn’t even mentioned on its front around the world.
26
cover. Revolver was recognised as a fine album I was in Edinburgh recently, and was
at the time, although some critics were baffled pondering all this when we drove past
by its avant-garde leanings. Few could have a pedestrian who caught my eye. He was
predicted its 21st-century reputation as the dressed as the Second Doctor from The
harbinger of a counter-cultural revolution that Power of the Daleks, and was
transformed Britain. However, neither the presumably heading for that
England football team nor weekend’s comic con. None
The Beatles have profited of the shoppers or tourists in
more from hindsight than his path batted an eyelid at his
the Dalek serial. impressively detailed costume.
Chris Bentley’s article
on what we might call
It’s an inescapable fact that
the summer of 1966 lives on in the “Some people
the marketing of each
new Doctor begins on
most unexpected places. And that
Doctor Who is very much part of
found her
page 40. It describes
how Patrick Troughton’s
that legacy.
a bit obnoxious.
casting received only
But then some
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e In the Studio
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Special Edition is In the Studio. Packed
BAFTA’s Must-See Moment
with all-new features and previously Awards, hosted by Sue Perkins on
unseen images, this lavish publication Sunday 13 May. Previous BAFTA
traces the production Television Award wins for Doctor
history of Doctor Who Who have included Best Drama
from its relatively primitive Series in 2006, Best Writer (for
beginnings at Lime Grove Steven Moffat) in 2008 and the
to the cutting edge of Radio Times Audience Award (for
modern television at Roath The Day of the Doctor) in 2014.
Lock. It’s available now, Doctor Who has also been
priced £5.99. announced as a finalist for
the 2018 Hugo Awards,
e Series 9 Soundtrack which annually celebrates
Silva Screen has released Murray Gold’s the best science-fiction or
music for the 2015 series of Doctor Who fantasy works. This year,
as a four-disc CD set and download. the 2017 Doctor Who
Doctor Who Series 9 – Original O Will Jodie's reveal be the Must-See Moment? oSteven Moffat. Christmas Special Twice
Television Soundtrack is available from Upon a Time (written by
J
silvascreen.com priced £15.65. There odie Whittaker’s Thirteenth include: a scene from Steven Moffat and directed
are more details, and a competition to Doctor reveal has been Line of Duty; a clip from by Rachel Talalay) has been
win the CD set, on page 74. nominated for Virgin TV's Blue Planet II; Ariana Grande’s nominated for Best Dramatic
Must-See Moment at this year’s performance at the One Love Performance – Short Form.
e Destination Nerva BAFTA Television Awards. Manchester concert; grime artist The winners will be announced
On Saturday 30 June an unofficial The Must-See Moment Award Stomzy’s appearance on Love at a ceremony held on Sunday
Doctor Who convention, held in aid celebrates the television that got Island; and a dramatic moment 19 August.
of charity, will take place at The Hub the UK talking. The sequence from the latest
in High Wycombe. Nerva promises to revealing that Jodie Whittaker series of Game
be a celebration of the visual effects would be taking on the role of Thrones.
designers and other creative talents of the Thirteenth Doctor was Voting was
behind Doctor Who’s original 1963-89 first shown on BBC One following open to the
run. Guests scheduled to appear include: the Men’s Wimbledon Final on public throughout
Colin Mapson (visual effects designer); Sunday 16 July 2017. You April, and is now
Stephen Mansfield (sculptor, mask and can rewatch it here: closed. Virgin
prop maker); Richard Bignell (Doctor tinyurl.com/JodieReveal TV’s Must-See
Who researcher); Steve Cambden The six nominees for Must- Moment will be
(K9’s assistant operator 1979-80); See Moment have been selected presented at the
Kevin Jon Davies (director of by a panel of judges. They also BAFTA Television O Twice Upon a Time has been nominated for a Hugo Award.
documentary Thirty Years in the
TARDIS); and Dalek experts Jon
Target Audiobooks
Green and Gavin Rymill. Tickets (who played Jackie Tyler in
cost £10 and all proceeds will be the 2005 and 2006 series of
donated to the Thames Valley Air Doctor Who). The Day of the
Ambulance. For further information Doctor by Steven Moffat is
T
see twitter.com/ClassicDrWho or he recently released read by Nicholas Briggs (the
facebook.com/groups/arkinspace Doctor Who Target voice of the Daleks) while
novelisations – Rose, Paul Cornell’s novelisation of
e Brighton Fringe The Christmas Invasion, The Twice Upon a Time is read by
As part of this year’s Brighton Fringe, Day of the Doctor and Twice Mark Gatiss (who played the
Louise Jameson (who played Leela) Upon a Time – have Captain in the story).
is directing the play Morning is Red, been recorded as Rose and The
while Matthew Waterhouse (who talking books by Christmas Invasion
played Adric) is starring in Brighton BBC Audio. are out now on CD
Queen of Slaughtering Places. Both Russell T Davies’ (RRP £20 each)
productions will be shown in the Rose and Jenny and download, with
Old Police Cells below Brighton Town T Colgan’s The Twice Upon a Time
Hall from 10 May to 2 June. For more Christmas Invasion and The Day of the
information and to book tickets, go are both read by O Camille Coduri Doctor following on
to tinyurl.com/MorningIsRed Camille Coduri as Jackie Tyler. Thursday 7 June.

e Daleks on Vinyl
River vs the Four Masters!

The Fourth Doctor audio adventure
Energy of the Daleks is to be issued on
blue 180gm heavyweight vinyl. The full-
cast audio adventure, which stars Tom
I
n January 2019 River Song – Haigh-Ellery. “Firstly, he’s such Although Michelle Gomez Baker as the Fourth Doctor and Louise
time-travelling archaeologist a nice man and so easy to made her Big Finish debut in Jameson as Leela, was originally released
and the Doctor’s wife – will communicate with. Secondly, he the Seventh Doctor story on CD in 2012. Now, a limited edition of
come face to face with four likes to work and he likes to work Valhalla in 2007, this is the 1,500 records will be exclusively available
incarnations of the Master in Big fast. Scenes whizz by and we’re first time she’s played Missy in participating Sainsbury’s stores across
Finish’s fifth series of the audio all enjoying ourselves so much in an audio drama. “Having the UK. A spokesperson for Sainsbury’s
drama The Diary of River Song. that you forget you’re directing Michelle return to Big Finish is said, “We’re really excited to be stocking
The line-up includes Eric an Oscar nominee with over 450 wonderful,” says Jason. “She’s a something as iconic as the Doctor in our
Roberts, who will be reprising his movies under his belt. He’s very lovely lady, who was magnificent stores, so to have Energy of the Daleks
portrayal of the Master for the down to earth – no ego or vanity as Missy in the past couple of on a limited run on blue vinyl is a massive
first time, 22 years on from his involved. I hope we work together seasons of Doctor Who. I can’t treat for us.” The production’s guest
appearance in the 1996 TV Movie. again soon!” wait for everyone to hear her stars include Mark Benton (who played
Eric will be starring alongside and Alex Kingston together!” Clive in the 2005 TV Doctor Who story
fellow Masters Geoffrey The Diary of River Song: Rose) and Sontaran actor Dan Starkey.
Beevers (who played the Series 5 will comprise four Energy of the Daleks will be available on
decayed Master in stories: The Bekdel Test by vinyl from 25 May, price TBC. Meanwhile,
1981’s The Keeper Jonathan Morris, Animal this story, plus all other adventures in
of Traken), Sir Instinct by Roy Gill, The Big Finish’s Fourth Doctor Adventures
Derek Jacobi Lifeboat and the range are available to buy now from
(who played Deathboat by Eddie bigfinish.com on CD or download.
the Master Robson and Concealed
in 2007’s Weapon by Scott
Utopia) and Handcock. The box
Michelle Gomez set is available for pre-
(who played Missy). order now at £23 on
“Working CD or £20 on download
with Eric was from bigfinish.com DWM
a complete
joy,” says Big ø The Master (Eric Roberts),
River (Alex Kingston) and
Finish executive
Missy (Michelle Gomez).
producer Jason
Beyond Keeping up with the cast and crew’s
activities away from the series...
the TARDIS
Compiled by DOMINIC MAY
Time’s Up
s Both Jodie Whittaker and Pearl
Mackie have lately offered their
thoughts about the Time’s Up and
#MeToo movements: Jodie suggested
in NME that “this should be a turning
point”. Meanwhile, Pearl brought End
Violence Against Women campaigner
Andrea Simon to the Olivier Awards on O Pearl Mackie performs The Gates to Freedom.
8 April. The ceremony was hosted
by Catherine Tate, with Pearl presenting Pearl’s Proposal
the award for Best Actress. Both opera s Pearl Mackie performs Angela Davies’
awards at the Oliviers were presented speech The Gates to Freedom for the
by Sharon D Clarke (tinyurl.com/ Almeida Theatre’s Figures of Speech series.
SharonOpera1 and SharonOpera2), On 2 May, Pearl played Lucy in the Radio 2
while Billie Piper contributed to the sitcom pilot Proposal, about how doing the
O The Farrell family from BBC One’s Come Home: Anthony Boyle as Liam, Darcey McNeeley
Special Award video for the Young Vic’s right thing for the one you love can
as Molly, Christopher Eccleston as Greg and Lola Petticrew as Laura.
David Lan. Piper and her Yerma cast go seriously wrong.
helped kick-start Safe Space, Equity’s Eccleston Pilot later, David and Peter Davison attended
anti-harassment campaign. Capaldi’s Welcome s Christopher Eccleston discusses his a Birmingham screening benefitting Baby
Peter Capaldi is backing the I Welcome career at Manchester’s Pilot Light Lifeline. The film is produced by David’s
Bradley Rocks – Families Together campaign, supporting TV Festival on 6 May (booking via wife, Georgia Tennant. David plays
s Bradley Walsh will front The Family the progress of a private member’s tinyurl.com/PilotEcc). He is currently Drostan Hynd in The War Machine, new
Chase on Saturday evenings later this year, parliamentary bill enabling families divided starring in the title role of Macbeth at the downloadable content for the game Call
with Cardiff auditions currently taking by conflict and persecution to be reunited in Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford- of Duty: WWII.
place and applications open until 6 July (all Britain. On 9 April, Peter hosted the national upon-Avon. Chris was interviewed on
family members must be over 16). Bradley children’s writing competition Voices Lorraine on 10 April and discussed his role Quickies
appears in the Coventry-based feature film 2018 for a second year. In March, Game as Greg in BBC One’s Come Home. The s John Barrowman attended Chicago’s
Nativity Rocks! This Ain’t No Silent Night, of Thrones’ David Bradley unveiled an composer for the series was Murray Gold. reopening at the Cambridge Theatre on
due on 23 November. unusual throne made entirely out of cricket 11 April. He appeared on Good Morning
bats at Hillers Farm Shop in Alcester. Camp David Britain on 12 April ahead of his London
s David Tennant is tipped for the Pinter Leicester Square Theatre shows. John
Lucas School Reunions at the Pinter theatre season later this year Hurt’s final leading role, as former
s Matt Lucas returned to Aylward and is Cale Erendreich in the US release of screenwriter and film director Ralph
Primary School in Harrow to celebrate Bad Samaritan from 4 May. David will play Maitland in That Good Night, is in
its new building on 26 March. He was at Walt, an ‘obedient’ husband and loving cinemas from 11 May (trailer at
Haberdashers’ Aske’s Boys School in Elstree father in the eight-part HBO comedy series tinyurl.com/ThatGoodHurt). Colin
on 27 March for A Funny Thing Happened Camping. RSC Hamlet and Richard II Baker’s Bucks Free Press column
on the Way to the Coach Park, entertaining costumes worn by David were auctioned described his lengthy corridor wait at
O At Radio 2, Steven Moffat and Russell pupils with a ‘travelogue’ of reminiscences on behalf of the Stitch in Time campaign Stoke Mandeville Hospital’s A&E during
T Davies bump into Michael Grade, the man benefitting the school’s foundation. Matt in April. On 28 March David co-hosted March (tinyurl.com/TimeCorridor). The
who tried to cancel Doctor Who in 1985! reprises the voice of Benny in Sherlock Absolute Radio’s The Christian O’Connell story later made the national newspapers.
Photo © Russell T Davies.
Gnomes, which is released in the UK on Breakfast Show for probably the last time, Rachel Talalay directed CW’s The Flash:
On Target 11 May. as O’Connell is departing. David, Peter Fury Rogue, broadcast on 24 April.
s Russell T Davies and Steven Capaldi and Ingrid Oliver
Moffat chatted about their Target Sharon at the Playhouse attended the You, Me Obituaries
novelisations during Radio 2’s Graham s Following positive reviews for & Him screening s Writer Rupert Laight, whose
Norton show on 14 April. During the her Hampstead Caroline, or Change at London’s television credits included The Sarah Jane
interview Russell revealed that his BBC performance as Caroline Thibodeaux, Charlotte Street Adventures stories The Gift and Lost in
One drama A Very English Scandal will Sharon D Clarke will transfer with the Hotel on 29 Time, passed away on 23 March, aged just
air on Sundays from mid-May. The serial show to London’s Playhouse Theatre from March. Two days 42. David Grey, who played Rinchin in
features Eve Myles as Gwen Parry-Jones. 20 November for an initial 12 weeks (trailer The Abominable Snowmen (1967) died on
at tinyurl.com/ChangeSharon with tickets o Sharon D 21 April, aged 92. Derek Dodd, who
Clarke in
Queens of Scots via carolineorchange.co.uk). She chatted
Caroline,
was the designer of The Power of
s Jenna Coleman travelled from about the production on Radio 4’s Loose or Change. the Daleks (1966) and The Wheel in
Melbourne to Glasgow in April, filming Ends on 24 March, also discussing Space (1968), died in April. Peter
as Joanna for the four-part BBC One Doctor Who. Billie Piper’s Fletcher, the boom operator for
psychological thriller The Cry. Karen Yerma has received a great 100,000 BC (aka An Unearthly
Gillan has become the patron of Edinburgh review from The New Child, 1963) and many subsequent
College’s Performing Arts Studio Scotland York Times (tinyurl.com/ episodes, died on 25 December
(PASS), having studied there from 2004 to BillieNYT) and she is the 2017. DWM has lately learned of the
2005. She will support students with talks subject of Variety’s latest death of Thane Bettany (Tarak in
and masterclasses, and sponsor an annual Stagecraft Podcast 1980’s State of Decay) in November
award (tinyurl.com/KarenPass). (tinyurl.com/BillieCast). 2015, aged 85. DWM

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Last month, four 21st-century Doctor some of the episodes I grew up the spirit of Terrance Dicks’ and
Who stories were adapted as Target with are now immortalised as Malcolm Hulke’s Target stories
novelisations: 2005’s Rose, the 2005 Target novelisations. on so many levels,
Christmas Special The Christmas Invasion, What’s fascinating right down to the O Ben Smith cosplays as a Mondasian Cyberman.
Photo © Nathan Smith.
2013’s 50th Anniversary Special The Day of about these books creation of an
the Doctor and the 2017 Christmas Special is the new insights elaborate backstory any story, I wouldn’t care
Twice Upon a Time. You’ve been telling us they offer. Steven for someone who – I just think it would be fun.
what you think of the new books... Moffat’s take on The gets off’ed right
Day of the Doctor is away by an Auton s KEIRAN SMITH EMAIL
Target Range a good example. Told (Wilson with the I think The Christmas Invasion
s MARTYN DORE LONDON from the perspective lottery money) is the hidden gem of the latest
Just want to say how much of multiple Doctors, just as Hulke did Target novelisations. I remember
I enjoyed your article on the with reinstated with Shughie growing up watching that
new Target books in DWM 524 material from the McPherson in the episode and thinking what
– as well as reading the books draft script and novelisation The a magical and intense festive
O Anthony Dry’s cover art
themselves! So far I have only plenty of metatextual for Twice Upon a Time. Dinosaur Invasion. story it was. Jenny T Colgan
finished Rose and it brought references, it is a joy Russell even has adapted the story well, adding in
a smile to my face every time to read. It’s so exciting to be the punchy chapter titles some new aspects to shake the
it referenced something that able to experience episodes from down just right! story up a bit. I think 2007’s The
would happen in later episodes. my childhood in a new way, just Shakespeare Code would also
I’m looking forward to reading like fans that read the original s STEVE HIGGINS MISSOURI work well as a Target book.
the others and maybe trying Target Books. I would love to see the Target
to get hold of some of the range continue with further s MACAULY CAIRNS EMAIL
older titles too. s MATT MINNESOTA adaptations. It would be These new books are my first
I love the new Target Books! interesting to see veteran insight into Target releases. I’m
s RICHARD LLOYD EMAIL Russell T Davies’ Rose might be Target author Terrance Dicks really looking forward to reading
As a younger fan, I’m thrilled that my favourite. It really captures do an adaptation. Absolutely more. I’d like to see 2005’s
Father’s Day novelised next as
STAR LETTER
I feel there is still a lot more to
discover about Pete, Jackie and
that man in the car...
BROUGHT TO BOOK to body, forever
striding to make the s ELIZABETH R USA
s REVAN JOICEY EMAIL right decisions by the As a US fan I haven’t gotten my
After having been trapped universe. The evolution of hands on physical copies of the
inside the Doctor’s sprawling the character in this book, books yet, but I absolutely could
consciousness for the past couple from McGann’s egocentric not wait to read The Day of
of days I now feel a mixture of swashbuckler to Hurt’s pained the Doctor so I bought a digital
slight exhaustion and boundless warrior, to the dandy and the copy. I was not disappointed
curiosity. Steven Moffat has clown (which is which?), is one at all! I love how Steven Moffat
masterfully adapted his classic that I’m sure fans will be poring structured and narrated the
story The Day of the Doctor as over for years and years. Moffat book as well as all the little
a Target book, and expanded has created a text that stands extra bits that weren’t in the
it in countless ways that have as a mighty companion to televised episode. I think it’d be
delighted me and, I’m sure, an episode I already thought really amazing to novelise 2008’s
many other readers. We always had said it all. Silence in the Library/Forest of
knew the Doctor was a tortured the Dead now that we’ve mostly
soul, but this insight into his Revan’s letter wins him a copy of The got all of River Song’s story.
many brains’ inner workings Tenth Doctor Chronicles, a new box set of
has completely captivated me. audio adventures. It’s available now from s NEIL BAIRD
Moffat has truly captured Big Finish, priced £23 on NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
the idea of the Doctor, CD or £20 to download. The Stolen Earth/Journey’s
not as many different End [2008] should be turned
quirky men and women, o Two incarnations into a Target book. According
but as one heroic soul, (Matt Smith and David to Russell T Davies and Ben
Tennant) join forces in The
bouncing from body Day of the Doctor (2013).
Cook’s The Writer’s Tale,
following the serial’s

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Who-related videos…
O The Doctor by Emily Dicker, age 12.
conception there was so

much that was cut due to s Stuart Manning, in collaboration
the budget – this could now with motion designer Jonny Eveson,
O The new TARDIS team by Keiron Ward.
be reinstated. The Shadow has created a title sequence concept for
Proclamation with every alien my TV. I had a similar sensation s ROBERT SIENICKI POLAND Jodie Whittaker’s Doctor Who. Go to:
we know of and the Blon when my postman delivered the The Day of the Doctor Target tinyurl.com/JodieTitles
cameo! Alonso getting his new Target novels last weekend; it book is currently shipping to
TARDIS trip! ‘Meta Ten’ and took me back to a service station Poland so hopefully I can read it
Rose getting their own in 1975 when I discovered my soon. I would love 2011’s
TARDIS! Oh, and one more first one, Doctor Who and the The Doctor’s Wife to get the
thing, Russell: please let’s Daleks, en route to a school trip Target treatment, written by
have Lethbridge-Stewart to Penzance. I saved up so I could Neil Gaiman.
running the Subwave Network. buy every book as they were
published and I had forgotten s BEN WILLIAMS EMAIL
s PAUL DYSON-KNIGHT quite what a thrill this was. In A novelisation of 2007’s Blink s Remember that time the Doctor
LANCASTER these days of Blu-ray and digital would be interesting. Perhaps turned up in Only Fools and Horses?
I’m a bloke in his mid-50s streaming I’m surprised at just we could delve into the Doctor No? Then watch this cleverly edited
who, on 26 March 2005, was how powerful the written word and Martha’s time in the 1960s Twitter video by Pip Madeley. Go to:
transported back to being an can still be and am so impressed and jump back and forth between tinyurl.com/WhoFools
eight-year-old boy when I heard by the quality of these new them and Sally Sparrow? The Lie
the Doctor Who theme tune on additions. Here’s hoping for of the Land [2017] deserves
many more! a novelisation too. I thought there
was little world-
building in the
TV episode and
a novel would be
able to solve that. s During his Out of the TARDIS
interview in DWM 524, Jon Culshaw
Moving on now to answers a question from the TARDIS
some of the other in the voices of three Doctors. Go to:
articles in the last tinyurl.com/CulshawImpressions
O Series 1 characters by Robert Sienicki. issue of DWM… 1
The Daft Dimension BY LEW STRINGER
s Behind the scenes of Big Finish’s

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hours on keyboard and organ ‘logo police’! As a Glaswegian, Peter’s family. Peter’s niece
@shepgeek The Day of the Doctor is recreating my own atmospheric your heading for the features had Jenny was overjoyed and gave
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Alas, my career went another from north of the border: ‘polis’ was certain that Peter was
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@TLFirth Loving new comic strip, The in issue 524’s Production Notes s DEAN STONER EMAIL helped to give him such a great send-off.
Clockwise War, so far in DWM 524 – the about words we hear in a certain It was lovely to see such an Finally for this issue…
concept of malfunctioning regenerations intonation because of Doctor in-depth and well-deserved
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time. It’s nice to involve the Time Lords I always hear in the manner of 524. I was honoured to represent s T MATTHEW CROOKS (30)
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summed up DWM perfectly on Cybermen. I find it hard to resist farewell in Barnes, Croydon, on she said, “Mr Crooks, have you
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I got from the RESL Mania article of what makes your magazine to her, “You know that was on
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of the albums and singles qualified to say as a regular “Wow, really?!”
of the time and spent hours reader since issue 51 in the early
immersing myself in such tracks 80s!). In a previous job, I was It’s always great to hear from our readers,
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Not everything that’s filmed and recorded for Doctor Who makes it
to the screen. Over the decades, numerous scenes and sequences
have been cut. Many are unremarkable, but others include some of
the most intriguing dialogue ever written for the series...
Feature by ANDREW PIXLEY n Illustration by ADRIAN SALMON
asn’t that fake needed physically cutting, and splicing Donald Wilson decreed that the Opposite page: How it
W
Casualty scene in the ends together. The more splices, four-part serial was not “wholly might have looked… the
Shakri attacks Rory, Amy
The Lie of the Land the more a tape was prone to breaking. satisfactory” so the final two instalments
and the Doctor with
(2017) brilliant? In 1964, producer Verity Lambert told were accelerated by transferring both a vicious eye bolt in The
Actually getting directors that ideally their episodes onto 35mm film for extensive editing Power of Three (2012).
Amanda Mealing and should not require more than five edits; down into a single programme. A cat Left inset: The cat from
Tony Marshall for that bit where Connie each splice meant an additional succumbing to the toxicity of Planet of Giants (1964)
and Noel were dealing with another allocation from the budget insecticide DN6 was also appeared to survive in
emergency, but blending it in with the towards a replacement tape. deleted from broadcast. the story as transmitted.
Monks. “Have we got an ID on the driver A good way of So, what to trim? 1965 Below: Kate (Sheena
yet?” asked the deputy clinical lead identifying missing wasn’t a great year for Marsha) confronts
Pa Clanton (Reed de Rouen)
regarding her latest patient. “She had moments from early Adrienne Hill. First, she
in The O.K. Corral, the
nothing on her,” replied the receptionist. studio work is to compare landed the regular role final episode of The
“It’s lucky that Monk was passing. He existing recordings of Sandra Orlando in Gunfighters (1966).
literally tore the door off and pulled her against the camera script BBC1’s soap opera 199
out before the car exploded.” “Praise on which the director Park Lane, only for the
be to the benevolence of the Monks,” planned every shot. The BBC series to be cancelled within
agreed Connie. no longer holds camera scripts a fortnight. Then she got the 1
What do you mean there’s no such for some of the 1960s episodes, but
scene? It’s there in the script, at the start
of the episode. It’s what the family are
the first notable edit seems to be in The
Wall of Lies, the fourth episode of Marco MANY TRIMS IN THE
watching on TV before the arrival of the
Memory Police. It was recorded at Studio
Polo (1964). This edit removed the
start of a tent scene where the Doctor
EARLY YEARS WERE
7 of Roath Lock on Sunday 12 February
2017. It’s even referred to in Doctor Who
bemoaned his lack of progress repairing
a vital TARDIS circuit.
CLEAN EXCISIONS OF
Magazine’s preview of the episode.
But no... it didn’t make it to the final
Those old enough to have watched
Doctor Who on VHS video may
A SINGLE SEQUENCE
broadcast. It’s one of numerous instances
where an editing decision changed the
remember that you could generally
detect 1960s edits, as the top of the
AT SCENE BREAKS.
finished show. A side-effect of schedules, picture momentarily kicked sideways
budgets and things that go snip in the when the frame resequenced. Thanks
night. So let’s take a look at these missing to the clean-ups employed on the DVDs,
moments, bearing in mind that, as with younger fans will be oblivious to this.
broadcast running times, magazine word Many trims in the early years were
counts are finite. Thus – as with the clean excisions of a single sequence at
material under discussion – some choice scene breaks or on a fade to black. Some
moments have been pared along the way. were creatively contentious; in The O.K.
But that’s the whole point of editing... Corral, the fourth episode of 1966 story
The Gunfighters, producer Innes Lloyd
hen Doctor Who began cut the scene where Kate prevented Pa
W in 1963, it was generally

recorded on two-inch
videotape – a tricky beast
to edit using fiddly iron filings to locate
Clanton from shooting Wyatt Earp. This
led director Rex Tucker to remove his
name from the end credits in protest.
In 1964, the equivalent of an entire
magnetic patterns indicating a picture episode of Planet of Giants was recorded
change, identifying where the tape and abandoned. Head of Drama Serials

THE CUTTING-ROOM FLOOR
Right: Adrienne Hill’s abortive escape in Part Three of The
Katarina had little to say Happiness Patrol (1988), or the Captain
in The Daleks’ Master Plan
and Mags abandoning the Doctor and
(1965-66).
Ace, only to rejoin them a few scenes
Far right: The fate of the
later in Part One of The Greatest Show
boatswain (Lee Ross)
in The Curse of the in the Galaxy (1988-89).
Black Spot (2011) was Doctor Who’s 21st-century revival
unresolved. is made shot-by-shot like a film, with
Below left: The Doctor digital equipment ensuring that every
(Tom Baker) struggles frame is malleable. This method, which
with his conscience in is fundamentally the way that Spearhead
Part Six of Genesis of the from Space and the 1996 TV Movie
Daleks (1975).
were made, allows more restructuring
Below right: The samurai between performance and transmission.
(Bernard Horsfall) from
Part Two of The Deadly
A number of sequences have been
Assassin (1977). cut since the series returned in 2005,
Bottom: Daleks close in on including Elton’s prelude to Love &
Bellal (Arnold Yarrow) and 1 Doctor Who gig as new companion of two videotape machines together to Monsters (2006) and exchanges with
the Doctor (Jon Pertwee) Katarina, but started by filming her produce a new master tape. This new his unseen landlady. The Curse of the
as they try to gain access death scene for her fifth episode. On flexibility had an immediate effect, Black Spot (2011) lost not only the
to the City of the Exxilons paper, Katarina had only 93 scripted with The Ambassadors of Death (1970) entire plot element of the Siren taking
in Part Three of Death to
lines, and 15 of these didn’t make it to having almost 40 major omissions. The Captain Avery’s crew in an attempt to
the Daleks (1974).
the screen due to the deletion of scenes preceding serial, Spearhead from Space, ‘cure’ them of their tattoos, but material
from Horse of Destruction, the fourth was made entirely on film to avoid causing the Fancy’s boatswain to
episode of The Myth Makers (1965), and using a Television Centre disrupted by ‘vanish’ after barricading himself in the
Day of Armageddon, the second episode industrial action. Shot-by-shot production magazine room. During the storm, he
of The Daleks’ Master Plan (1965-66). allowed intricate tightening with more attempted to break a rusty chain with
After all, why invest in a character who’ll edits than would be practical on tape. his sword, creating a severed, reflective
soon be joining “the choir invisible”? During the 1980s, entire sequences metal surface which acted as a gateway
By 1970, it was possible to avoid or sub-plots could easily be removed. for the Siren.
physical splices by locking the outputs Examples include Ace and Susan Q’s
T
here’ll be banter, there’ll be
running down corridors,” Amy
MEANS TO AN END Daleks sweep around the

corner towards the city’s
promised in deleted dialogue
from The God Complex (2011).
patterned wall and open fire Corridors are ripe for culling, be it in
F
rom the early 1970s, from their originally intended with their machine guns. Count Scarlioni’s chateau during City of
when more than one position. Here are some t Genesis of the Daleks Part Death (1979) or at Buckingham Palace
episode was often examples of episode endings Five: Holding two wires, the in The Beast Below (2010). Is Leela
recorded at a time, more that were moved... connection of which could at the Correction Centre in The Sun
flexible editing meant that wipe out the Daleks and Makers (1977) yet? Yes? Then on we go
under- and over-running t Death to the Daleks Part complete his mission, the – don’t need the corridors on the way.
instalments could be Three: “Get back!” Bellal anguished Doctor ponders: Occasionally the ends don’t knit
balanced out, sometimes by warns the Doctor as he sees “Do I have the right?” together neatly. One of the scenes cut
shifting cliffhangers away an advancing threat. Two t The Deadly Assassin from Part One of Ghost Light (1989) saw
Part Two: A samurai warrior’s Ace tampering with a telephone, thus
sword cleaves the Doctor’s alerting Josiah to intruders and causing
scarf, and he falls from him to activate tracking equipment such
a cliff edge. as the rocking horse’s glowing eye that
we see at 3’ 26”. In Part One of Image of
the Fendahl (1977), Ted Moss’ nervous
fingering of his chest when talking to the
Doctor would have been explained had we
seen him subsequently remove a hidden
pentagram charm from around his neck.
Episode 3 of The Enemy of the World
(1968) offered an abrupt conclusion to
Astrid’s escape after Denes’ shooting.
This was caused by the deletion of her
attempting to get the wounded Denes
away while the dying man pleaded
with her to abandon him. In Part One
of Silver Nemesis (1988), the Doctor’s
escape from Windsor Castle using
hypnotic powers was more convincing
than his departure in the version that
was broadcast, while the original
opening of Part Three of The Androids
of Tara (1978) would have revealed the
Doctor’s reason for suddenly attacking
‘Strella’ in the previous cliffhanger.

Characters’ backgrounds have for the Christmas Special was moments
sometimes been sacrificed in favour away. When Night Terrors was dropped
of plot development. In The Eleventh back from the third to the ninth
Hour (2010), Rory Williams originally episode of the 2011 run, the Eye Patch
admitted that he trained to be a doctor. Lady seen by Amy was expurgated
Later, the Doctor asked him: “How because she had already been revealed
do you train to be doctor and end up as Madame Kovarian in A Good Man
a nurse?” “Unsuccessfully,” explained Goes to War. However, the fake ‘life
Rory. More seriously, in Part Four force dying’ ending recorded for The
of Battlefield (1989), as Brigadier Parting of the Ways (2005) – where
Lethbridge-Stewart looked at the the Ninth Doctor didn’t regenerate
remains of Flight-Lieutenant Lavel he – or Donna giving her car keys to a
declared: “UNIT looks after its own, woman who wasn’t Rose in Partners
alive or dead. And I want these ashes in Crime (2008), were never intended
buried with honour.” Occasionally, for transmission. These sequences Sometimes elements of continuity Above: Charles Dickens
a scene was written intentionally as were added in an effort to keep the real would have been established during (Simon Callow) has a
padding in case of an underrun, like endings of the episodes a surprise for a deleted scene. The planet Telos’ merry Christmas at last in
The Unquiet Dead (2005).
Clent discussing Walter’s commitment as many people as possible. first onscreen namecheck came
to battling the glaciers, which was Tiny, fan-pleasing continuity from Professor Parry in the opening Left: As scripted,
the Cybermen in The
omitted from the fifth episode references occasionally moments of The Tomb of the Cybermen Moonbase (1967) would
of The Ice Warriors (1967). vanish as the pace is (1967). It should have come months have explained that they
Some of the lost tightened up. The earlier, from a Cyberman in Episode 3 came from Telos.
background information Doctor’s bio-data of The Moonbase: “We were the first Below: The identity
has related to the Doctor record was seen in space travellers from Mondas. We of Madame Kovarian
himself, notably in Part the 1976 story The left before it was destroyed. We have (Frances Barber), the lady
Four of Remembrance of Deadly Assassin, and come from the planet Telos.” Cultural with the eye patch, was
revealed in A Good Man
the Daleks (1988) when Romana was going to references got lopped too, such as the
Goes to War (2011).
he stated: “I am far more mention having viewed Doctor’s recollection of 1930s crooner
than ‘just another Time it in Part One of The Al Bowlly in The Satan Pit (2006) or
Lord’.” In the Forest of the Ribos Operation (1978). the War Doctor’s exclamation in The
Night (2014) originally featured Rose would have recalled Day of the Doctor (2013) that his
the Doctor describing his childhood having met Charles Dickens in Aliens replacements were “Dick Van Dyke and
memories of looking into Gallifrey’s of London (2005). The Doctor would Mary Poppins”.
Untempered Schism: “I saw a forest have reminisced about adventures on Technically, something can go amiss
rise and fall. Saplings that thickened Necros and Spiridon in Victory of the that isn’t detected until the episode 1
into trees. Leaves that sucked in Daleks (2010) and Stangmoor Prison
the sunlight of a thousand million
summers. The great trees falling and
in The Almost People (2011), explained
how Dream Crabs caught him on
THE EYE PATCH LADY SEEN
sinking into the earth and hardening
into diamonds and coal. I saw it all rise
Androzani Delta in Last Christmas
(2014) and pondered on Osirans, the
BY AMY WAS EXPURGATED
and fall like a wave of the sea.”
It isn’t just timing or technical
Flood and “various ambassadors” in
Empress of Mars (2017).
BECAUSE SHE HAD
necessities that lead to edits – some
sequences have been deleted because
ALREADY BEEN REVEALED
of a more global change of plan. The
original conclusion of Journey’s End
AS MADAME KOVARIAN.
(2008) saw two Cybermen appearing
in the TARDIS, leading into The Next
Doctor (2008)… shots that were
deemed redundant given that a teaser

THE CUTTING-ROOM FLOOR
Right: Noah (Kenton scheduled to appear on merchandise. (1971) where the Master lifted a knife
Moore) undergoes a In Journey’s End, the Doctor threw to sacrifice Jo Grant. Marsh's successor,
horrifying transformation
in Part Three of The Ark
his other self some coral, explaining: Bill Slater, felt that shots of a spider
in Space (1975). The end “Chunk of TARDIS. Grow your own.” crawling over the Doctor’s arm in Part
of this scene, in which he This was removed before broadcast, Three of The Deadly Assassin were
begs Vira to kill him, was even though it had been earmarked unsuitable for a family audience.
removed before broadcast. to feature in an expansion set for the Nobody, however, can foresee
Below: Sarah Jane Battles in Time card game. real-life tragedy. The beheading of the
Smith (Elisabeth Sladen) Careful censorship came into play at cyborg Sheriff of Nottingham was
originally rolled a rock at
various levels. “Only on two occasions post-modern fun when Robot of
the advancing Cybermen
in The Five Doctors (1983). have I had to actually edit out sequences Sherwood was recorded in May 2014.
1 is being edited. The Doctor’s party which I thought were too frightening,” Months later, when the jihadist group
approaching Hooverville in Evolution of explained producer Philip Hinchcliffe in known as Islamic State released a video
the Daleks (2007) wasn’t included due to the 1977 documentary Whose Doctor showing the similar fate of US journalists,
lack of coverage caused by location rain. Who. The first instance was at 7’ 40” it was clear that this scene would be
The TARDIS’ invisible status via a split- into Part Three of The Ark in Space inappropriate for the finished episode. A
screen film effect in Terror of the Zygons (1975) where Noah, transforming into a shoot-out with youth gangs in the Doctor
(1975) was felt to have mis-matched Wirrn, told Vira: “I’m in torment! These Who TV movie was similarly excised
lighting. Sarah rolling a lacklustre rock creatures...” Throwing a blaster at her for its BBC1 broadcast after a gunman
at advancing Cybermen in The Five feet, he pleaded: “Vira, shoot me! Kill opened fire at Dunblane Primary School
Doctors (1983) showed that some shots me! Please... For pity’s sake kill me!” in March 1996. And after the loss of 23
just ain’t gonna work. A single-shot scene from Part One of lives at the Manchester Arena bombing
For budgetary reasons, intensive CGI The Seeds of Doom (1976) was cut for on 22 May 2017, comments about
or post-production effort is a prime similar reasons. At 18’ 45”, the action “terrorists” were expunged from the
target for the frugal producer. Much originally cut to the sick bay where following weekend’s screening of The
of the conversation between Rose and Winlett was mutating into a Krynoid; Pyramid at the End of the World.
Cassandra in The End of the World hearing an approaching aircraft, he
(2005) was omitted, saving time and attempted to raise himself from his bed, ltering the soundtrack can
expense in digitally creating the latter.
Likewise, a scene showing the Doctor’s
hands being sucked into a Zygon console
was pruned from The Zygon Invasion
but sank back with an anguished moan.
Above the producer, BBC executives
cast an eagle eye on content. Head of
Drama Serials Ronnie Marsh asked
A make significant changes to an
episode. For example, 2011’s
The Rebel Flesh was supposed
to include a chef computer with a broad
(2015). Some cuts are made so late in director Christopher Barry to remove Yorkshire accent. In 42 (2007), the SS
the day that they remove items that are a shot from the climax of The Dæmons Icarus was redubbed the SS Pentallian
because the science-fiction film Sunshine
SARAH ROLLING A LACKLUSTRE ROCK AT featured a similarly named vessel. In
previous decades, the absence of sound
ADVANCING CYBERMEN SHOWED THAT altered key scenes. The sudden death
of the Coal Hill headmaster during
SOME SHOTS JUST AIN'T GONNA WORK. Remembrance of the Daleks Part Two
was originally accompanied by a Dalek
voice: “Alert, security is compromised,
terminate agent.” The appearance

SLUGGING IT OUT locked in a cupboard. It’s like
your wedding all over again.”
“Wedding?” asks Clara. “That
L
ight-hearted moments “Sir!” smiles Benton. As the wasn’t my wedding,” protests
are an important part Brigadier leaves, he adds: the Doctor, “that was my
of Doctor Who, but if “Sergeant – well done.” stag night.” “No, hang on,
they don’t also propel the t Dalek (28’ 55”): The Doctor wasn’t it the faculty dance?”
plot then they can end up chides the Dalek on its asks Missy. “No, that was
on the cutting-room floor... downloading of the internet, the laser slugs,” the Doctor
asking if it’s found “Lots reminds her. “Of course, yes,
t Invasion of the Dinosaurs of naked bodies and people the slugs,” agrees Missy.
Part Five (8’ 29”): After being arguing about the revival
told to get the troops ready of Buffy, did that help? Did
by the Brigadier, Sergeant you go in the chat rooms?
Benton suddenly remembers: Find a date? Gonna hook
“About me being under up with a coffee machine?”
arrest, sir; who’s going to t The Magician’s
guard me?” “I can’t spare men Apprentice (33’ 33”):
to look after you, Benton. Confined in the waiting room
of the Gunslinger in A Town Called You’ll have to guard yourself,” with the Doctor and Clara,
Mercy (2012) was preceded by strange, replies Lethbridge-Stewart. Missy observes: “Tied up and
beautiful music, its creator Kahler-
Jex explaining: “I’d play it during the
procedures, to drown out the screams.
Now he’s appropriated it.”
Most spectacularly though, entire
new scenes and climaxes can – at a
push – be created via the magic of ADR:
Additional Dialogue Recording. The
broadcast version of The Power of Three
(2012) featured a whole new conclusion
compared to what was originally material that clarified the role Top left: The Gunslinger
recorded. New close-ups of of the Ancient Haemovore. (Andrew Brooke) in A Town
the Doctor, Amy and Rory The DVD range offers Called Mercy (2012).
speaking covering dialogue viewers alternative, Above left: Sergeant
were recorded a month feature-length edits like Benton (John Levene)
after main production Battlefield, plus off-cuts and the Brigadier
(Nicholas Courtney)
had completed, reducing from early edits (Part in Part Five of Invasion
the Shakri to a mysterious One of 1987’s Delta of the Dinosaurs (1974).
minimum as a hologram. and the Bannermen), Above centre: The Doctor
An initial confrontation studio spools (Jo (Christopher Eccleston)
between Rory and the alien meeting Filer in The in Dalek (2005).
was deleted, and later on the Claws of Axos, 1971), and Above right: Missy
Doctor and his friends were attacked film rushes (a hapless looter (Michelle Gomez) in
with the Shakri’s “vicious eye bolt” in Part One of Invasion of the The Magician’s Apprentice
leading to a physical struggle which Dinosaurs, 1974). Elsewhere, (2015).
ended with the blinded alien screaming: BBC Three’s Doctor Who Far left: The Ancient
“The Shakri will find you! We cannot be Confidential offered glimpses Haemovore (Raymond
Trickett) from The Curse
destroyed! The Seven shall come for you!” of lost moments, such as
of Fenric (1989).
a Doctor/Amy conversation
Left: Clare Higgins
hile most early edits from 2010’s The Hungry
W
as Ohila of the
are erased, fragments Earth. A few years later, Sisterhood of Karn.
exist – on paper, back-up the Doctor’s talk with
drives, domestic tapes Ohila from The Magician’s
and in foreign lands. The authors of Apprentice (2015) became
Target novelisations often drew upon a special prologue.
the camera scripts; Doctor Who and There’s lots more
the Auton Invasion offers numerous besides. This has
exchanges excised from its source story, been a handful of
Spearhead from Space. Barry Letts known unknowns from
trimmed a radio broadcast with Jon countless unknown
Pertwee providing a newsreader’s voice unknowns. And if there’s
from Episode 5 of Inferno (1970), lest the odd missing, or
viewers suspected that the Doctor had something repeats, or the
tuned into one of Pertwee’s routines focus shifts suddenly, or
from his sitcom The Navy Lark (1959- something repeats, or a
77). This section of the episode was, thought halts in the middle
however, retained for a North American of a then it means that this
audience unaware of its context. text was overlong, and only
In February 1991, BBC Video released made it to the page thanks
an extended The Curse of Fenric (1989) to the reconstructive skills
containing just over six minutes of new of an editor. DWM

Missing W
hen scenes and
dialogue compete
for space,
there are often
casualties in the
Persons
cutting room.
Some actors are
ultimately never heard. If they’re very
unlucky, they aren’t even seen.
Possibly the earliest Doctor Who
cast member to go missing between
performance and programme was
Bill McGuirk – indeed, his role in
the show was a bit of a puzzle for
emergent fandom in the 1980s. He
wasn’t credited in the Radio Times (not
Sometimes edits can remove entire unusual for minor roles at this point in
the show’s history)… but he was listed
characters from episodes of Doctor as ‘Policeman’ at the end of Episode
Three of Terror of the Autons (1971).
Who – even after a performance As such, it was assumed that he was
one of the two Auton constables who
has been recorded... kidnapped the Doctor at the end of
Episode Two. So why wasn’t he billed
at the end of that instalment as well?
Feature by ANDREW PIXLEY
Right: Donna (Catherine

Tate) and the Doctor (David
Tennant) meet the elderly
Agatha Christie (Daphne
Oxenford) in a scene cut
from The Unicorn and the
Wasp (2008).

My wife’s got some.” in Twice Upon a Time (2017). Take a look Above left: A production
The Master offers at the Doctor Who Extra that appears document from 1970,
a few more for the on that disc and you’ll see him comment stating the cast list for
the third episode of
policeman’s spouse, on the plight of the Cybermen’s planet:
Doctor Who serial EEE
eliciting the response: “Mondas! It’s melting.” (ie, Terror of the Autons).
“Better not sir – they Bill McGuirk is credited as
M
might say you were ajor restructuring to The ‘Policeman’, but did not
bribing the police.” The Unicorn and the Wasp (2008) appear in the broadcast
officer then expresses was undertaken prior to programme.
concern for the seated transmission. This left the Above centre: William
figures wearing the hot main 1926 narrative intact with the McGuirk was previously
‘Guard in Corridor’ in
masks. “You all right young Agatha Christie, but eliminated The Enemy of the World
in there, mate?” he the bookending scenes with her older (1967-68).
asks the Auton Leader. self in 1976. “Although it was a lovely Above right: Living plastic
Receiving no reply, the sequence, it just seemed unnecessary,” attacks in Terror of the
In fact, Episode Three originally had officer fears that the ‘man’ has fainted. said director Graeme Harper in Autons Episode Four.
a third policeman – a real one! Lifting the carnival head away, the a podcast commentary, while on the Left inset: Okorie Chukwu
Bill’s single scene was recorded on policeman exclaims: “What’s going DVD showrunner Russell T Davies as a Snowcap technician
the evening of Saturday 24 October on here?” and is shot dead by explained: “You got the feeling in a cut scene from Twice
1970, but wasn’t included when the the Auton’s wrist gun. that everything was taking Upon a Time (2017).
episode was shown on Saturday 16 All that remains of that part in the past tense … It Bottom left and centre:
January 1971; nevertheless, his caption sequence is the camera took all the drama out of A nurse (Natalie Barrett)
and Agatha Christie,
slide credit remained. Originally, after script, the videotape it.” This meant the loss in a cut scene from The
the Doctor and Brigadier’s visit to the having long since been of two cast members: Unicorn and the Wasp.
Farrels’ factory, there was to have been wiped. In more recent Daphne Oxenford as Bottom right: Phylip
a sequence filmed on location of a police times digital technology ‘Old Agatha’ and Natalie Harries as ‘Choleric Man’
car pulling up alongside the coach of has made the preservation Barrett as her nurse. in The Girl in the
Auton daffodil men. Inside, the Master of material easier, allowing Fortunately the Complete Fireplace (2006).
and the Auton Leader are studying a map edited sequences to eventually Fourth Series DVD box
for their planned stops to hand out the appear on DVD and Blu-ray. set includes these touching
deadly daffs when Rex Farrel suddenly Phylip Harries’ portrayal of ‘Choleric sequences of the famous novelist in the
notices the approaching officer. The Man’ in the 2006 episode The Girl in the final days of her life, resolving the one
Auton Leader dons its carnival head Fireplace is an example of this. While mystery that had baffled her. 1
moments before the constable enters omitted from the BBC One broadcast, he
to enquire: “Everything all right, sir?
… Wondered if you’d broken down?”
can be found on disc, brandishing a riding
crop and raging at the Doctor: “Have you
"Although it was a
The Master explains how they were
planning the next stage on their Plastics
seen a horse? … Damned animal! I’ll whip
it within an inch of its life, as soon as
lovely sequence, it just
Promotion Tour, and the officer replies:
“Oh yes, I know sir. Saw you the other
I find it!” Another character to belatedly
appear on DVD/Blu-ray is the Snowcap
seemed unnecessary."
day. Giving out daffodils weren’t you? base technician played by Okorie Chukwu GRAEME HARPER

Missing Persons
Right: A mother (Devon
Black) and her little boy
(Max Furst) in a scene
cut from The Snowmen
(2012).
Far right: The evil
snowmen as they appeared
in the original edit.
Below left: The little boy
was completely absent
from the finished episode.
Below inset: A sinister
Snowman as viewed from
the boy’s window.
Below right: This scene
from Part Six of Frontier 1 A similar shift in focus saw the mind about snowmen,” replies his mother, 15 occasions. It’s not going to happen
in Space (1973) was cut
omission of actors Max Furst and appearing alongside him. “It’s time for on my watch.” Within minutes he’s being
from the finished episode.
Devon Black as son and mother in two bed.” “But Mummy, look at it,” insists stretchered away after being shot by
sequences from the pre-credits of The the boy. “It’s the snowman we made last the escapee. The heavily restructured
Snowmen (2012). The backstory of the year!” Subsequent to scenes introducing The Power of Three (2012) originally
young Walter Simeon took priority, Captain Latimer, the adult Dr Simeon contained an amusing vignette, in
meaning that the Christmas Eve 1892 and Clara, the little boy would have which Amy and Rory helped out two
opening no longer required a small boy been shown staring down in surprise at parka-clad bomb-disposal experts in
peeking through the curtains at the jolly three identical snowmen, their mouths an icy blue alien tent. The experts were
snowman in All Saint’s Lane. “Mummy... opening in a menacing expression. Conroy (portrayed by Okezie Morro,
do snowmen come back?” he calls. “Never If characters add comparatively later heard in Big Finish’s The Mist) and
little to a narrative, their omission may Sullivan (Henry Luxemburg). “Conroy,
not have much impact. Alex Giannini if this transport convoy is blown up, the
appeared fleetingly as the prison Emperor’s expedition will never get to
governor of the Stormcage facility which Alexa Minor and the entire galaxy will
held Dr River Song in The Impossible be at war,” insists the senior Sullivan
Astronaut (2011), informing his charge, as the countdown reaches 45 seconds.
“During my predecessor’s time you The Ponds make an appearance to snip
escaped from this prison on no less than the vital wire – the entire sequence was
similarly snipped, with no damage to
The opening no character or storyline.
The final instalment of Frontier in
longer required Space (1973) features a credit for Bill
Mitchell (the husky voiced Canadian
a small boy behind the famous ads for Denim
aftershave) as a newscaster, despite
peeking through his absence. The newscaster was to
have featured in an early scene in
the curtains of an the President’s office, making this
announcement: “Two more of our
upper room at the cargo ships were boarded in space
jolly snowman
by Draconians … News of these latest
incidents provoked spontaneous mass
standing below.
rallies all over the Earth. One of these
rallies was addressed by Congressman

Silent Partners
but at the end of the 1971 Bavarian series
of this was Off We Go – as Mary,
due to engage a serving wench seen
S
ome characters only in expositional dialogue departing silently from
just make it into the concerning the Earth/ the action at 12’ 46” in
Doctor Who universe, Draconia conflict. “It must the finished programme.
albeit with their dialogue make things very difficult However, prior to this
deleted. Following for you madam – she should have been
a non-speaking role having to work seen and heard in
in The Macra with a man Wessex Castle’s kitchens
Terror (1967), like that,” being chatted up by Hal
Luan Peters comments the the archer. “If you’re
returned five masseuse, so great a warrior, why
years later to allowing her didn’t you go to the
play Sheila in employer to wars with the other
Frontier in Space reminisce about menfolk?” she asks
Episode Three how the actions during the flirtation.
following parts the of General Williams Concluding the scene
Hammer horrors Lust for had been unintentionally by apologising
a Vampire and Twins of Evil instrumental in triggering to Lady Eleanor
(both 1971), six episodes the space war. “So it was (“Forgive me my lady.
of Coronation Street and all General Williams’ fault?” Tis all the fault of this
the TV pilot Go Girl (1971). she observes. saucy archer fellow”),
Luan can be glimpsed A few months later, Part Jacqueline departed
administering a temple One of The Time Warrior for the regular role
massage to the stressed (1973-74) fleetingly featured of WPC Hawkins in
Earth President in Frontier, Jacqueline Stanbury – star Dixon of Dock Green.
Brook, Leader of the Opposition in the comic actress Bella Emberg was back exchange with astronaut Guy Crayford,
World Congress.” In summer 1976 as Mrs Croot in a scene ultimately discussing a newly landed object (ie,
Mitchell would return as the alien deleted from The Runaway Bride the TARDIS).
Zor on the story LP Doctor (2006). Mrs Croot calls out, Series regulars aren’t safe from
Who and the Pescatons. “Congratulations! Oh, you deletion either. Jennifer Hennessy
make a lovely couple!” recorded a scene as Bill’s foster mum
S
ome omissions as deeply embarrassed Moira for the start of Knock Knock
change the bride Donna Noble (2017), while the following instalment,
impact and alights from a bus Oxygen, originally concluded by
sense of a story. with the Doctor in an revealing Michelle Gomez’s Missy
The Zygon Invasion attempt to reach her own inside the vault.
(2015) originally featured wedding. Similarly, These missing persons were all once
James Bailey in the role of regular bit-part player Dave part of stories that were too long to
‘Walsh’s Son’. In Turkmenistan, Carter appeared in Part Four tell without some judicious editing.
after the Doctor says that he just of The Android Invasion (1975) as British Ultimately, they suffered the same fate
wants to enter the church and talk to Space Defence employee Grierson, but bestowed upon the War Lord by the
the suspected Zygons and ‘hostages’ was also credited in Part One, despite Doctor’s people: dematerialisation
inside, UNIT’s Colonel Walsh opens the fact that his contribution had been from time and space, as though they
Above left inset: Sheila
fire at the building, yelling: “COME excised. Its content? A scanner room had never existed. DWM (Luan Peters) massages
OUT WITH YOUR HANDS RAISED!” the President of Earth
She stops firing, and after a moment’s (Vera Fusek) in Episode
silence a young man emerges. “Mum,” Three of Frontier in Space.
he begins, to which the UNIT officer Above right and inset:
responds, “You’re not my son, sir.” Mary (Jacqueline
Stanbury) makes a brief
“Mummy,” continues the man. “You take
appearance alongside
one more step towards me, I’m gonna Lady Eleanor (June
shoot,” warns the Colonel. “Mummy,” Brown) in Part One of The
continues her target, taking a step Time Warrior (1973-74).
towards Walsh as the Colonel opens fire. The script shows that
“For God’s sake!” exclaims the Doctor, Mary originally had
a flirtatious conversation
running forwards to kneel beside the
with Hal the archer.
fallen figure. “I’m a professional!” states
Left inset: Grierson
Walsh, watching as her ‘son’ changes
(Dave Carter), seen here
into a Zygon. “He’s still a living thing!” in Part Four of The
says the furious Doctor. “Not for Android Invasion (1975),
much longer,” adds the Colonel. In the was to have featured in
subsequent scene, Walsh’s “I just shot Part One as well.
my son” was redubbed to, “I just lost Left: Elton Pope (Marc
my men.” Warren) talks to Mrs Croot
(Bella Emberg) in Love
Occasionally, characters are deleted
& Monsters (2006).
from one episode but appear in others. Mrs Croot was edited
For example, having delivered a fun out from The Runaway
cameo in Love & Monsters (2006), Bride (2006).

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DWM
INTERVIEW
Editor Will Oswald has been responsible for numerous

missing scenes while assembling and polishing episodes
of Doctor Who. Along the way, however, he’s
instigated a surprising amount of new material...
Interview by ANDREW PIXLEY
‟
J
ohn Boorman once said assembled by editor Ray Lovejoy. Belonging (1999-2009), successful
to me that editing is the Graduating in computer science at sleuthing series such as Dalziel and
last chance to rewrite,” Queen’s University, Will joined BBC Pascoe (1996-2007) and The Last
says Will Oswald, Cymru as a trainee film editor in 1979. Detective (2003-07), Casualty (1986-)
recalling the words of He also worked at Granada before and BBC One’s post-modern take on the
Above: Editor Will the film director behind becoming a founder member of the legend of Robin Hood (2006-09).
Oswald on the set of the likes of Deliverance and Excalibur. Cardiff-based independent production Will joined the Doctor Who team
2015’s Hell Bent. And Will himself has used that skill to company Teliesyn, where he headed up in early 2007, working with director
Below: Dev Ashton execute rewrites as the award-winning the post-production department. He Graeme Harper on the episodes 42 and
(Gary Powell), Kath editor of many Doctor Who episodes then moved to another Cardiff company, Utopia. Since then, he’s handled over 30
McDonnell (Michelle across the last decade, including the POV, before going freelance in 1996. episodes, earning industry nominations
Collins), Abi Lerner
(Vinette Robinson)
2017 Christmas Special. “The first cut of Winning BAFTA Cymru awards for and becoming the expert who director
and the Doctor (David Twice Upon a Time was 93 minutes and Best Editing on the courtroom drama Rachel Talalay refers to as her “go to
Tennant) try to help had to come down to 60,” he recalls. The Bench (2001-02), Doctor Who guy” in the crafting of her series finales
Korwin McDonnell “A lot of work...” spin-off Torchwood and Steven Moffat’s since 2014. He’s also worked on The
(Matthew Chambers) At the age of 11, Belfast-born Sherlock (2010-), Will’s Sarah Jane Adventures and Torchwood:
in 42 (2008). This
Will was captivated by the futuristic credits include BBC Children of Earth. Oh, and his agent
was the first Doctor
Who episode that Will grace of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Cymru’s drama is Jessica Carney – granddaughter to
worked on. Space Odyssey (1968), a film expertly William Hartnell, the original Doctor...

departure to Tivoli. Structurally Above left: The scene
a whole time loop came out, resulting in The Zygon Invasion
unfortunately in the deletion of a really (2015) where Norlander
(Gretchen Egolf) and
lovely scene beautifully played by Paul Kate Stewart (Jemma
“The Zygon Invasion/Inversion

Kaye as Prentis. One of the unexpected Redgrave) meet was
problems was trying to explain to the improved by Will in
is a great example of how you

director [Daniel O’Hara] that in order editing.
to travel forward 20 minutes in time Above right: Prentis
you don’t need the TARDIS – you just sit (Paul Kaye) is confused
can change the ‘meaning’ round and wait and in 20 minutes you’ll
be there! We can get so tangled up in
by the Doctor (Peter
Capaldi) in Before the
of a scene with the edit.”

Flood (2015).
plots about time travel that sometimes
Left inset: Ianto Jones
the obvious can slip by us.”
(Gareth David-Lloyd),
Listing one of his hobbies as the American cop, Norlander – who was Crafting the pre-credits of the 2012 Rhys Williams (Kai Owen)
“designing a proper computer interface actually a Zygon – and Kate Stewart. In Christmas Special The Snowmen, Will and Gwen Cooper (Eve
for non-linear editing machines”, Will the original script I felt we had blown remembers that he “tried to introduce Myles) in Torchwood:
encourages others to pursue their Norlander’s Zygon cover too early, so the idea that the snow came from a ‘lost Children of Earth (2009).
dreams as he did, offering to by restructuring and particularly comet’. There was one at about the right Below: The eponymous
pass on his experience and coming out early on a scene period [Comet Holmes, discovered by aliens in The Zygon
Inversion (2015).
skills via online videos I could change the written astronomer Edwin Holmes in November
and in his capacity as meaning to be more 1892], so I thought we could tie it in to
a visiting lecturer at in keeping with what the story.” As scripted, this sequence
the National Film and we needed. It’s was originally, as Will puts it, “soooo
Television School. He’s a great example of different because we hadn’t solved the
currently preparing how you can change ‘Great Intelligence problem’. What was
a presentation for the ‘meaning’ of it? I remember getting to the stage in the
Falmouth University’s a scene with the edit. cutting room with the director, all the
Department of Film and There’s a great quote producers and execs and asking, ‘What
Television and working on from Stanley Kubrick [to do you think the Great Intelligence is?’ 1
the new BBC Two/Amazon his biographer Alexander
Prime series Good Omens, Walker]: ‘I would say that
starring David Tennant. everything that precedes editing
As with events in the Doctor Who is purely to get material to edit.’
universe, Will’s editing operates on the Actually, the full quote is: ‘If
principle of ‘fixed points’. “It tends not I wanted to be facetious I would
to be so much for time reasons – as the say that everything that precedes
BBC have usually been flexible – but editing is purely to get material
to get the strongest and clearest story to edit.’ But that shows you the
structure,” he says. power of deletion!”
Will edited half of the episodes
H
aving analysed the script in the 2015 series. “Before the
and studied the rushes, he Flood was a challenge. As I recall,
usually begins by blocking out there was a problem with the
the master shots of a scene. Doctor’s motivation for going
He then allows the dialogue and action to Tivoli after his arrival
within to emerge naturally, driving his in 1980 and then basically
selection of shots as well as identifying running away. This journey
his entry and exit points to determine was a scene which had been
the optimum rhythm which actually recorded in the TARDIS, and it
hides his own work from the viewer. was rewritten with new
“The Zygon Invasion/Inversion dialogue in ADR [additional
[2015] was one that had a radical dialogue recording], with
change,” recalls Will. “The biggest a new scene constructed
change editorially was the scene with out of material from the

THE
DWM Will Oswald

INTERVIEW
was pretty much all down to me

– Rachel loved it.
“The unusual thing editorially about
Heaven Sent is that – being essentially
a ‘one-hander’ – there is no one else to
cut to for reaction shots. It depended
to a much greater extent than normal
on Peter’s great performance, Rachel’s
Above left: Peter 1 And, one by one, everyone had a start with a set of shots about reading; staging and Steven’s intricate plotting.
Capaldi discusses different idea. [Writer] Steven Moffat indeed, the text is visible in deep When the shoot was almost over, and
a scene for 2015’s came in and said: ‘No it’s the snow background in some early scenes. So therefore the cut was almost complete,
Heaven Sent with
director Rachel Talalay.
reflecting back the boy’s emotions.’ I I pulled it up as a voiceover narration at I did notice a tiny but annoying plotting
could only say: ‘But that can’t be, as the top of the show, which Steven then error. The repeated writing of the word
Above right: Young
Walter (Cameron
the snowman is saying things we don’t rewrote to emphasise more strongly. ‘BIRD’ didn’t make sense because – as
Strefford) is about to know the boy is thinking.’ Bam! Steven scripted – the word was never erased.
T
have a life-changing immediately gets going on all cylinders here was a lot of There were only two places
experience in the
pre-credits sequence
and says: ‘Right. We’ll ADR this new “ juggling to get it could happen: when the
dialogue...’ And within 60 seconds the this opening castle rotates and the
of the 2012 Christmas
problem is resolved, and the snow now sequence skulls fall in the water
Special The Snowmen.
reflects what the young boy as tight as possible. because the vibration
Right inset: The rotating
is thinking. Technically – as a very could remove it, or –
castle in Heaven Sent.
“Sometimes, asking a crucial question boring aside – this was as Steven suggested
Below left: The caption
at the right time is the key role of the made more difficult – have it blown away
in Cold War (2013) gave
the location and year editor,” Will continues. “I’m never afraid as the Veil’s point of when a hidden door
as the North Pole, 1983. of appearing the stupidest person in the view had to be visible opens and a gust of
Below inset: room. If I don’t get it the audience won’t on the TV screens in wind hits it. Neither of
Cold War’s Skaldak get it. The whole front end of that show the castle; these were these had been shot and
(Spencer Wilding). was recut to clarify that story point.” inserted as overlays but the set had been struck.
Below right: In a scene Thinking back to Peter Capaldi’s required the existing footage I created a lighting effect on
that was edited out, virtuoso performance in 2015’s Heaven being synced up to the action. the floor of the door opening and
Captain Zhukov (Liam Sent, Will says: “The opening changed The Doctor seeking the solution [colourist] Gareth Spensley recreated
Cunningham) tells because in the script, as I recall, the to the puzzle of the castle was an and improved it by adding a sliding door
Professor Grisenko
(David Warner) that
Doctor was supposed to read a screed of extended sequence that Rachel Talalay VFX. I think the sand blowing away was
he also prefers text on the wall of the castle. There was and I worked really hard to get right. a pick-up shot. It’s that sort of team
Ultravox’s “early stuff”. no way I could hold up an already slow The final, frantic editing sequence effort and conversation in the cutting
room that makes for a great show.”
MARS ATTACKS As a more intricate example of the

synchronisation between the footage of
the Doctor and the Veil’s perspective,
W
ill offered director in a native Martian tongue, Will adds: “If you want an extreme
Douglas Mackinnon translated by subtitles version of this, watch The Stolen Earth
a suggestion as a as a prelude to Skaldak’s [2008] when Harriet Jones calls all the
potential audience grabber for the declaration of the ancient Ice various teams – Sarah Jane Smith and
submarine drama Cold War (2013). Warrior code: “Harm one of Luke, Martha Jones and Francine, and
“I tried to sell the idea that we us – and you harm us all… / Captain Jack – together [at 28’ 51”].
start with the tag line, so that the By the Moons, this I swear.” There was a four-way split-screen on
episode had a different style from The teaser was subsequently all the computers, all of them different
the normal Doctor Who opener,” he tightened to remove odd arrangements. This all had to sync and
says, describing the first cutting copy. lines of dialogue (such as intercut to build the sequence. As you
This began with an alien alphabet Captain Zhukov telling change the cut, you have to alter all of
offering the visual version of a phrase Professor Grisenko that he them and that has a ripple effect down
too preferred Ultravox’s the show.
“early stuff” to Vienna) and “The biggest single story and
action such as Zhukov and financial difference I made on Doctor
his crew checking that Who was probably in The Stolen Earth
their attack signals were and Journey’s End,” he explains. “The
genuine in a code folder. original plan was to have the Supreme
Dalek’s auditorium built and shot, then

“In fact the VFX and sound design are Above left: Recording on
all really important storytelling tools, the set of Davros’ lair for
and as an editor you really do need to Journey’s End (2008).
be on top of them to get the most out of Above right: Luke Smith
“Once I saw the rushes and twigged

(Thomas Knight) and
the material you’re given. Often I’ll be
his mother, Sarah Jane
retiming action inside a shot by split- (Elisabeth Sladen), in The
what the problem was, I instantly screening and time shifting. It’s invisible
to even the most expert eye but it makes
Stolen Earth (2008).
Below: After the scenes
had a solution in my head.”

all the difference to pacing, correcting featuring the Supreme
continuity and performance. A classic Dalek were recorded
example is Sarah Jane Smith and Luke for The Stolen Earth/
rebuild Davros’ lair out of the same set “Once I saw the day’s rushes and in The Stolen Earth, where at one point Journey’s End, the
set was re-dressed as
components and relight it so it looked twigged what the problem was, I slipped his entrance into the shot by
Davros’ lair. This caused
substantially different. The Supreme I instantly had a solution in my head. about six frames, just to make the whole problems which Will was
Dalek scenes were all shot and the set I said, ‘I think I can solve this fairly thing that much slicker. In Twice Upon able to fix in the edit.
deconstructed and rebuilt and relit. easily. Leave it with me. I’ll get you a Time, there is a frame – that was going
So... shooting starts. The next day at a cut by the end of the day as proof of to have a set extension put in anyway
eight o’clock in the morning [executive concept.’ The solution was in Davros’ – where I could reposition the three
producers] Russell T Davies and lair to put the Supreme Dalek on a groups of actors to accelerate the action.
Julie Gardner are in my cutting room hologram screen and filter the dialogue People do get a bit over-obsessed by
worrying about how they were going so that it came via speakers. When VFX of course – they cost a lot of money.
to solve ‘the problem’ – a problem Davros spoke and the camera was on But as an editor, if you’re thinking of
that, I was at that stage, unaware we the Dalek deck, the sound was filtered them as effects rather than story beats
had. Basically the two sets looked too in reverse. It solved the problem with then you’ve lost the plot. Literally.”
similar; you had no idea where you the geography of the Dalek ship using Will likes to keep his art invisible,
were once the scenes started to be fairly simple VFX and sound design, hidden in the fabric of the adventure.
intercut. Russell was really beating saving the equivalent of the entire “It’s not just little trims and scene
himself up about it, saying: ‘I should editing budget for half the series. It also deletions. It’s about analysing where
have made it clearer in the script.’ Julie points up the need to always be thinking the problem is and trying to come up
suggested a CGI job, which producers about the sound design as you edit; the with solutions that might help.
hate, because, as they say: ‘There is no sound is going to be half the show and is As I was saying, it’s the last
money tree.’ such an important storytelling tool. chance to rewrite!” DWM

THE
DWM
INTERVIEW
Three Times
a Lady
From the scorching heat of
San Helios to the relative
comfort of a Big Finish studio,
Michelle Ryan is breathing
new life into cat burglar
Lady Christina de Souza...
Interview by BENJAMIN COOK
T
he aristocracy survives
‟ for a reason: we’re
ready for anything,”
Lady Christina once
said, before jumping
down a massive hole,
outflying some killer alien stingrays and
snogging the face off the Tenth Doctor.
Not bad for a day’s work. Was the lady
who played her, Michelle Ryan, ready
to reprise the role for Big Finish – not
once, but twice – nine years after she
portrayed her in Doctor Who’s 200th TV
serial, 2009’s Planet of the Dead?
“Nine years!” she exclaims, with a
laugh. “I cannot get over it having been
nine years. Then to get these scripts
through… I was sort of wondering, ‘Am
I going to be able to pick her up? Am
I going to be able to find her again?’ I was
wondering, ‘Has my voice got deeper?
Or huskier?’ But it really didn’t take long,
especially with such great writing.”
First came a guest role in Last
Chance, the fourth instalment of April’s
The Tenth Doctor Chronicles, narrated
by 20-year-old actor-impressionist
Jacob Dudman. “I think Jake’s great. He
sounded so much like David [Tennant],
it instantly transported me back to David
being there,” says Michelle. Then Big
Finish announced that Lady Christina
was getting her own spin-off series, to
be released in September. It’s called,
simply, Lady Christina. Because she’s
worth it. And it comprises four audio
adventures: John Dorney’s It Takes
a Thief, James Goss’ Skin Deep, Tim
Dawson’s Portrait of a Lady and Donald
McLeary’s Death on the Mile.
“It’s amazing, actually, the emotion
memory of certain roles. You can find

them again like that,” says Michelle,
clicking her fingers. “And Lady Christina
de Souza is one of them for me. I was
quite surprised, really. Nine years is
a long time.”
Had Michelle been wondering what
the Lady had been up to since Planet
of the Dead? “Definitely. Even back
then, I was curious as to what
Christina was going to
do next, so nine years
later…! Because she
was so much fun to
play, and people
really found her courageous, and Katherine Reimer in Steven Moffat’s BBC Opposite page:
Michelle Ryan as cat
enthralling, I think. he’s already talking One series Jekyll and the lead in short-
burglar Lady Christina
I mean, some people about writing and lived US TV drama Bionic Woman. In de Souza in Planet of
found her a bit directing his own 2008, she’d portrayed sorceress Nimueh the Dead (2009).
obnoxious. But then material. That’s in the first series of BBC One’s Merlin. Above left: Michelle
some people loved her really the way to go, More recently, she’s played Elanor in as Zoe Slater, making
adventurous spirit.” especially when you can 2015 sci-fi film Andron, starring Alec her departure from
A Big Finish studio put content anywhere. He Baldwin and Danny Glover. 1 EastEnders in June 2005.
isn’t quite Dubai’s Margham does the whole YouTube Above right: Big
Desert, though, where much of Planet thing. I’m not on any social Finish’s Lady Christina
of the Dead was shot. “Playing the role media. I’m an ’84 baby, so I’ve adventures will feature
Sontarans, Sylvia Noble
in Dubai was a real 360 thing. You’re got one foot in technology, but (Jacqueline King),
completely embodied in it. And the sand also I’m slightly suspicious of it. Slitheen, and Sam Bishop
got everywhere. Playing it now, it’s the But Jake has much more control (Warren Brown) from the
same character, but without that full- over how he’s perceived, and fame UNIT audio series.
body-ness, I guess. It’s all in your mind. as an entity has shifted completely Left inset: In 2007
But the scripts are so good that doesn’t since I did EastEnders. Anyone can Michelle starred as Jaime
really matter. And there’s less sand in say anything now, on social media. Sommers in the US TV
series The Bionic Woman.
studio, which really helps too.” That terrifies me a bit.
I think I’d find it harder Left: The Doctor (David
M
Tennant) and Lady
ichelle started acting while now, if I were that
Christina are transported
still at school. She was just young and in a show across the universe in
16 when she landed the high- that huge.” Planet of the Dead.
profile role of Zoe Slater in In 2009, Doctor Who
EastEnders, in 2000. At Big Finish, she’s wasn’t Michelle’s first
impressed by the drive of her young brush with sci-fi and
Last Chance co-star, who’s just starting fantasy. Two years
out in the industry himself: “Jake is earlier, she’d played
forging his own path, which is really psychiatric nurse
“Playing it now, it’s

the same, but without
that full-body-ness.
It’s all in your mind.”
THE
DWM Michelle Ryan

INTERVIEW
Above left: Lady 1 “I get offered a lot of sci-fi and action

Christina steals a roles,” she says. “The women tend to
priceless goblet at the
be incredibly damaged. Or larger than
beginning of Planet of
the Dead. life, but hiding, like, a manic depression.
Obviously, Doctor Who is much
Above right: Gina
Bellman as Claire, lighter.” She believes sci-fi often
James Nesbitt as Dr offers up meatier roles for women,
Tom Jackman and “I guess because the threat is far greater obviously I’d never take that away from with how David played the Doctor.”
Michelle as Katherine than anything that we know. If you’ve David – he’s the Doctor – but Lady As you’ve gathered, Michelle’s
Reimer in Steven got a threat of aliens or something from Christina matched him, didn’t she? David memories of filming Doctor Who,
Moffat’s BBC One
drama Jekyll (2007).
another world, then it’s all hands to the was very gracious in allowing me room in Cardiff as well as Dubai, are all
deck. There isn’t time for gender politics to play that. ‘Okay, I can step back a incredibly happy ones. “Well, it was
Below: A publicity
shot of Michelle and
or, like, ‘Oh, you don’t measure up.’ It’s second here and let Michelle take the a great gang of people,” she says.
David Tennant in the like, ‘You will measure up, because for lead.’ David has a strength, but in a very “Watching some clips on YouTube the
Margham Desert. the sake of humanity you will!’” disarming way, so there was never any other day, I was like, ‘Ahhhh, it was such
Indeed, in Planet of the Dead Lady status or ego. He was so professional. If it a brilliant job.’ And you don’t forget
Christina gave the Doctor a run for had been another, alpha male character, those times. Like when we were all on
his money. She thought of him as her there could have been a battle dynamic, the bus” – this is the Number 200 bus,
companion. “Well, thank goodness sort of one-upmanship between those which fell through a wormhole onto
you’ve got me,” she told him. “Everyone characters, but it was always done in the desert planet San Helios, getting
do exactly as I say.” a really jovial way, and that’s a lot to do smashed up in the process – “and there
“Suddenly she was the protagonist,”
says Michelle, grinning. “I mean,

“IT’S NOT ACTUALLY PROPER COCKNEY”
‟
T
he Doctor and Lady the Master [in 2009-10 TV serial very breathy, then he does that not actually proper cockney.
Christina have just rode The End of Time]. He’s saving ‘Wellll’ and the ‘Aahhhh’, and It’s, like, a mockney,” says Jake.
a rhino into the TARDIS, loads of endangered species, he’s quite – ugh – in the throat. “You know, his cockney accent
away from a spaceship,” explains so in one of the TARDIS hangars I’ve been losing my voice on isn’t always on point. No, he’s
Jacob Dudman at the recording he’s got, like, two of all some days, especially when brilliant. But it’s like Estuary
of Big Finish’s Last Chance, in the animals.” Like on I’m shouting as Tennant. English, and there are certain
which he voices the Tenth Doctor Noah’s Ark? “Exactly, So you pick up on words he’ll
– and a host of other characters – yeah.” Does Jake little nuances and slip up on.”
opposite Michelle Ryan. have to do the vocal mannerisms,
What’s Ten doing with Lady animal noises too? but also make
Christina? “He’s on his last “Thankfully not.” the part your
great holiday; a trip around the Last Chance is own. I’m sure
universe before he goes to face Michelle’s first time David Bradley
reprising Christina thought that
since 2009 TV episode about taking on
Planet of the Dead. William Hartnell’s
“She got back into character First Doctor [in 2017’s
instantly,” says Jake. “She had no Twice Upon
right to get back into character a Time]. If it
that quickly that well. She comes across
brought the same energy to it as as someone
she did nine years ago.” trying to sound
And the key, for Jake, to exactly like
nailing the Tenth Doctor? “You David Tennant,
have certain hooks from which it’s going to feel
you can draw in the rest of the fake.” And of
character,” he says. “Tennant’s Ten’s accent: “It’s
“If anyone’s in any doubt,

was an actual, full-on sandstorm. In Above left: Jacob
Dudman, the new voice
fact, I still have the scar, funnily enough.
of the Tenth Doctor, in
Look, along here…”
She’s not joking. Michelle shows me have a cup of tea with Jodie. the recording studio.
Above inset: The Doctor
You will fall in love with her,

a tiny scar on her finger. How, exactly?! and Lady Christina in
“From the Perspex glass,” she explains. Planet of the Dead.
“Because I pointed, stupidly… I don’t
know, I was in a bit of a daydream.
I went and put my finger through the
as a person and as an actor.” Above right: Michelle
with Jacob during
production of Big
window of the bus – while we were fine, because Doctor Who is such an someone’s been cast, trying to tear them Finish’s The Tenth Doctor
cowering from the storm, I think – and incredible, supportive team. I’ve always down before they’ve even done it is so Chronicles (2018).
there was a bit of glass hanging down, said so. If you were going to step into counterproductive. Debate is great, but Below: Michelle with
and I didn’t realise. Yeah, oww. So any lead role, that’s the one. give Jodie a chance, I say. It’s a brilliant some of the cast and
crew of the forthcoming
whenever I see that now, it’s my Doctor “And casting Jodie is the right step opportunity, as Doctor Who is for so Lady Christina audios.
Who scar.” Beats stealing a prop, for the show too. They’re taking what many actors, and I think there needs to
doesn’t it? “Exactly. It’s like a Doctor could be seen as a risk, but in five years’ be a little bit more of, like, trusting that
Who tattoo.” time won’t feel that way at all. It ever she’s an incredible choice.” DWM
M
so slightly shifts the dynamic, and it
ichelle is excited for the keeps Doctor Who relevant. It’s a fresh, The Tenth Doctor Chronicles is
future of Doctor Who on TV different take on the role. Where’s the available now from bigfinish.com. Lady
too, now that Jodie Whittaker risk in that?” And to the naysayers? Christina is released in
has been cast. “Actually, “Well, shut up and watch it first,” September.
I know Jodie a bit,” Michelle reveals. says Michelle, smiling. “Once
“We did a talk together – about
female roles, and empowerment, and
atmospheres on set – for the Bird’s Eye
View Film Festival [celebrating female
filmmaking], in 2014. She’s such an
incredible person. And so talented.
She’s so good. Then there’s her
energy… If anyone’s in any
doubt, just sit and have a cup
of tea with Jodie. I swear, you
will fall in love with her, as a
person and as an actor. There’s
just something special about her,
which is why she’s built such
a great career and standing.
“You cannot overestimate the
sheer volume of work fronting
a series, but Jodie will be totally

Say Hello To...
The Time Team is a legend woven – brace yourself – the 2018 Time Team won’t
be watching every episode in order. That’s
throughout history. And legends never die. been done. Instead, each issue, a few of the
Team will get together to watch three or
four episodes from different eras – some old
Feature by BENJAMIN COOK episodes, some newer ones, some amazing
Photographs by REBECCA NEED-MENEAR episodes, some even more amazing ones –
connected by a common theme (this issue:
M
Doctors’ first episodes).
eet Doctor Who line-up (Chris, Emma, Michael and Will), And these Time Teamers – all 90s kids,
Magazine’s brand- whose continuing mission was to watch Wilderness Years babies – include fans who’ve
new Time Team. all of ‘modern’ Who in order. Which they watched every existing episode already, and
All 12 of them. accomplished (in 2017, the Team reached the others who, though fans of the ‘modern’ show,
Long-time readers 2011 series) – or would have accomplished haven’t seen anything from pre-2005. This
know the Time had the BBC not kept making more episodes. will be their first time. (Remember yours?
Team of old. When SELFISH BBC! Your first Pertwee? Your first encounter
the feature began Last November, the Time Team’s song with Vicki, or Turlough, or Ace? The first
in June 1999, the ended. But the feature never ends. Of course time you watched the devastating climax to
four-strong Team (Clayton, Jac, Peter and it’s back – with an exciting, new line-up! Earthshock?) Now imagine how lucky you’d
Richard)’s mission was to watch all then-696 A Time Team fit for 2018: renewed, be if you still had it all to come.
episodes of Doctor Who, in order, from the regenerated, and with slightly more cast Or perhaps you do. If you’re new, or
start. “No escape” promised the tagline. By members, but as brilliant, open-minded new-ish, to Doctor Who – hello, welcome,
the time they’d finished, it was December and forthright as ever. And there’s still “no pull up a pew! – and don’t know where to
2009 (they’d been allowed the occasional escape”. (Seriously. All new start or which episodes to check out next,
toilet break) and Doctor Who had been back Time Teamers have been why not watch along with the Team? These
on TV for almost half a decade. micro-chipped with GPS episodes will make for a great taster menu.
The Time Team relaunched in January tracking devices.) Discover how glorious, and gloriously nuts,
2011, with a fresh There are a few tweaks this show can be.
to the format too. Firstly You’ll get to know the new Team quite
well too, but here are some quick
introductions…

Antoinette Belle, 21
Ant studies philosophy at
the University of Nottingham.
She describes herself as
an “orange juice-drinker,
clothes-shrinker and
overthinker”. At primary
school she fell in love with Doctor Who’s Rose,
Martha and Donna: “They were the strong,
fierce friends I lacked, reminding me to stand
firm in the face of alien landscapes – the
horrors of being an introverted kid.”
Beth Axford, 20
Beth is a digital co-ordinator
at Plan International,
a charity that advances
children’s rights and
equality for girls, and she’s
the founder of the Time
Ladies blog (thetimeladies.com), which counts
Chris Chibnall among its fans. Beth thinks
that 2006’s Love & Monsters is “the greatest
Doctor Who episode ever made”. And she’s Jacob Dudman, 20 Above: The new Time Team with
correct. (Please don’t write in.) Jake is an actor-impressionist. DWM's Benjamin Cook (centre).
He narrates Big Finish’s The
Christel Dee, 26 Tenth and Eleventh Doctor
Christel works at BBC Studios. Chronicles. His favourite TV Sam Saffold, 21
She’s Doctor Who’s digital episode is 2006’s The Girl in Sam studies film production
marketing manager. From the Fireplace, but he’s only at the University of
2015 till earlier this year, she seen seven episodes of 20th-century Who. Westminster. “What’s
hosted Doctor Who: The Fan Jake studies filmmaking at the University of a film? It’s like a Vine
Show. She writes cosplay the Arts London (UAL). Buzz Lightyear and complication, but
articles for DWM. Her cats, Biscuit and Hope, Fireman Sam are his “all-time heroes”. sometimes Timothée
have their own Instagram. And she knows Chalamet’s in it,” he explains, helpfully. Films
more about the Pet Shop Boys than you do. Kezia Newson, 26 Sam’s adored recently include Lady Bird,
Kezia is a creative content The Shape of Water and Black Panther.
Claudia Boleyn, 24 producer at Penguin Sam is African-American, English and Indian.
Claudia is a singer-songwriter Random House and, with He has a small obsession with typewriters.
and vlogger. On YouTube, Beth, runs the Time Ladies.
she talks about mental She’s watched every Zainab Sheriff, 20
health, LGBTQ issues surviving episode of Doctor Zainab studies pharmacy
and fandoms. She spent Who. Kezia’s heroes are Verity Lambert and at King’s College London.
last summer unofficially Jane Austen: “For doing what they loved, She’s a black belt in karate.
novelising Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. despite what people thought of them, and Her family is originally
“I’ve not been tracked down by JK’s lawyers for persisting always.” from Tanzania and she
yet,” she says. Claudia studies English lit and has a non-identical twin
creative writing at the Open University. Luke Cutforth, 24 sister. “She’s kept a log of my sleep talking
Luke is a YouTuber (he has over the years, which cracks us up,”
Dan James Frank, 20 over 570,000 subscribers), says Zainab. “Turns out I sometimes
Dan studies theatre and writer and director. His debut sleep talk in languages I don’t speak
acting at the University feature film, The Drowning fluently, like Arabic and Gujarati!”
of Bedfordshire. He’s often of Arthur Braxton, starring
told he looks like “that guy James Tarpey and Johnny
from Mamma Mia!”. Dan Vegas, is currently in post-production. He’s
is half-Indian, a massive evangelical about dogs. “One day I’m gonna be
fan of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and stroking a stranger’s dog and it’s just gonna bite
his favourite Doctor Who episode is 2009’s off my arm,” Luke says. “But until that day…”
The Waters of Mars. He’s Claudia’s brother.
Miles Hall, 21
Gerard Groves, 21 Miles is an actor, writer
Gerard is a broadcast and illustrator. He studies
journalist at BBC News. animation at UAL. His
He’s the only member of the third-year dissertation was
Time Team to have made about minimalism in film.
Christopher Eccleston cry. (So we’re about to show him
He’s interviewed the Ninth Time and the Rani, natch). Jodie Whittaker’s
Doctor actor twice (tinyurl.com/Gerard-Chris casting has reinvigorated his interest in Doctor
and tinyurl.com/Gerard-Chris2). Gerard can Who. Other TV shows Miles enjoys include And… breathe. Now turn the page for
often be found painting, watching movies, Game of Thrones, Black Mirror, Mr Robot, the first all-new Time Team feature…
or listening to Bowie. Stranger Things and Bojack Horseman.

THE TIME TEAM
Doctors’
First Episodes
“Where am I? Who am I? And who are you?”
The Time Team – with a fresh, 2018 intake – meets three brand-new Doctors…
Compiled by BENJAMIN COOK n Photographs by REBECCA NEED-MENEAR
This issue’s Time Team: Christel Dee, Jacob Dudman, Kezia Newson, Luke Cutforth and Miles Hall
S
tarting is hard. First title seems to be passed down.) They’re about above a comfy red sofa. Nine-inch TARDISes
impressions stick. A Doctor’s to watch three Doctors’ very first episodes. bookend the TV. Doctor Who books, DVDs, and
debut episode has to say: But where to begin? figurines, all sorts of ephemera, line the shelves.
‘Hey, I’m the Doctor. You’re Face down on a bed of heather in a forest “Can we sing along to the theme tune?”
gonna like me.’ It has to say: near Epping? No Wi-Fi. asks Jake, cueing up today’s first episode –
‘Here’s what I’m about. Don’t On the disco planet Lakertya? Plenty of 2005’s Rose, the Ninth Doctor’s smash-hit
be afraid.’ It has to promise us Wi-Fi, but quite death-y. inaugural adventure.
the trip of a lifetime. ‘Do you wanna come with In a windowless basement at the western “It feels like we’re on Gogglebox,” beams
me?’ A lot’s riding on first episodes. end of Oxford Street? Bit dingy. Christel. “Can we swear?” [No – Ed.]
Ask Christel, Jake, Kezia, Luke and Miles – So we plump for a well-lit living room instead, Before the Team’s post-regeneration
five of Doctor Who Magazine’s newest recruits. in Lambeth, South London. A framed Dalek madness takes hold – memory loss, erratic
Fresh faces. Same name: the Time Team. poster looks down behaviour, bad manners, terrible dress sense
Always the Time Team. (The from the wall (nope, too late) – Luke hits play…

ROSE (2005)
JAKE: “I still think of Rose as being, like, Far left: The Doctor
six years ago. It’s 13!” removes Auton Mickey
MILES: “That’s bonkers.” (Noel Clarke)’s head.
You know this opening so well. The Left: Rose (Billie Piper)
Earth, hanging in space. Rose’s alarm in the lair of the
clock. Her pink bedroom. Her mum, Nestene Consciousness.
Jackie. Henrik’s. Trafalgar Square. Below: Rose and the Doctor
Mickey breakdancing (JAKE: “Why?” (Christopher Eccleston) on
MILES: “To be fair, I’d rather see a few the London Embankment.
seconds of goofy dancing than someone Below left inset: Autons
dropping an exposition bomb about what go on the attack in the
a laugh Mickey is”). Lottery money. shopping centre.
Down to the basement. Wilson. Wilson?!
Then the Doctor shows up, to rescue But the Doctor gatecrashes dinner,
Rose from death by mannequin. decapitates plastic Mickey and scarpers
LUKE: “I like that Christopher in the TARDIS, to Victoria Embankment,
Eccleston’s first word is ‘Run!’ That’s with Rose.
what Doctor Who’s always been about. KEZIA: “Isn’t it a bit weird that she and
You think it’s about this semi-magic the Doctor are holding hands already, as
semi-human travelling around the they run across Westminster Bridge?”
universe, trying to save it… but most of LUKE: “Yeahhh. Well. Her boyfriend’s
the time it’s just about running away.” dead.”
MILES: “He’s a man on the run.” MILES: “She’s right on the rebound.”
The Doctor sends Rose home (“Go Under the London Eye, the Doctor
and have your lovely beans on toast”), and Rose reach boss-level Auton: the
so he can blow up her job. glowing red heart of the Nestene
KEZIA: “I hate how patronising he is.” Consciousness. (It’s a talking vat of
CHRISTEL: “He’s just come out of the plastic goo.) Actual, human Mickey’s
Time War. He wants to be on his own.” here too – not dead after all. “You’re
KEZIA: “But you don’t know that stinking,” Rose tells him.
at this point. He just comes across as LUKE: “Has he wet himself?”
a bit of a git.” JAKE: “He has been there all day…”
The next day, the Doctor The Doctor tries
drops round Rose’s, to flick persuading the
through Heat, arm-wrestle Consciousness not to
an Auton (those living, invade Earth. But the
plastic, shop-window goo ain’t listening,
dummies) and destroy so Rose uses her
Jackie’s coffee table. gymnastics skills to
CHRISTEL: “He’s the save the Doctor, the
Doctor. He’s wacky.” day, and the planet.
MILES: “Nah, he’s shady. All over London,
His look, for me, is huge. This shop-window dummies
dark, shadowy dude. He’s quite shake, spasm… and freeze?
imposing, with the short haircut –” MILES: “They’re Mickey dancing!”
LUKE: “And the leather jacket. He’s like LUKE: “This needs some Big Shaq.
the older man you meet in the club –” Please put ‘the ting goes skrrrahh,
CHRISTEL: “Yeah, standing in the corner.” pap’ over this.”
KEZIA: “No!!” So will Rose stay on Earth and
LUKE: “– surrounded by teenagers. Like, fill her life with work, and food,
‘I’m still a kid. With my leather jacket. and sleep? Funnily enough, no.
How do you do, fellow kids?’” The TARDIS beckons…
KEZIA: “I feel like Rose: he’s an enigma, MILES: “Mickey’s not even
intriguing, a goofball uncle, then he arguing. It’s a harsh note to end
makes that speech about ‘the turn of on: ‘Thanks.’ ‘Thanks for what?’
the Earth’ and I’m like, ‘Oh my gawd, ‘Exactly.’”
I’m drawn in.’ That’s how to launch JAKE: “But what an amazing
a Doctor. This is so well-written.” episode. Great British TV. It’s
Rose visits Clive, a middle-aged almost perfect. If it wasn’t for that
man obsessed with the Doctor (JAKE: wheelie bin –”
“Should’ve been a Russell T Davies CHRISTEL: “It’s a masterpiece. By
cameo”), while her boyfriend, Mickey, the end of the episode, you know
gets eaten by a wheelie bin. who the Doctor is. Mysterious
LUKE: “That CGI hasn’t stood the test man. Goofy. Alien. With a box
of time.” that can travel in time and space.
MILES: “And the burp’s still poor.” You know who Rose is. She
CHRISTEL: “I don’t mind it. And I liked worked in a shop, then saved
it as a kid.” the world. And we know where
Mickey’s now an Auton duplicate, we’re headed. We’re headed for
hell-bent on p-p-picking up p-p-p-pizza. amazing adventures.” 1

THE TIME TEAM
SPEARHEAD
FROM SPACE scientist, the Doctor’s equal – but she’s
so unrelatable here.”
minutes from the end of the episode, the
Doctor is kidnapped by two suspiciously
Above left: Jon Pertwee Episode 1 (1970) JAKE: “And the pacing’s a lot slower.” sweaty, plasticky men in white coats
is the Doctor!
MILES: “It’s all desk meetings and (JAKE: “What they need is some anti-
Above right: Brigadier 1 MILES: “This title sequence is wavy phone calls.” plastic. Or anti-sweat.” KEZIA: “That’s
Lethbridge-Stewart
(Nicholas Courtney)
as heck.” JAKE: “If this was a Steven Moffat deodorant, surely?”), but he escapes in a
and Dr Elizabeth Shaw And we’re off! This is Miles’ first-ever episode, this would all have happened wheelchair (JAKE: “He should wheel into
(Caroline John) try Third Doctor episode. Luke’s too. Filmed within 20 seconds. And been sonic.” the TARDIS, like Clara on her bike”),
to evade the press in 1969 and broadcast in 1970… CHRISTEL: “I watch a lot of classic Who then gets shot by a trigger-happy UNIT
at the Ashbridge KEZIA: “It’s got the same opening on 1.5 speed.” soldier. That escalated quickly.
Cottage Hospital.
shot as Rose! Looking down on Earth, Liz and the Brig visit the Doctor in MILES: “‘See you next week!’ That was
Right inset: The from space…” hospital. “Oh no!” he says, clocking his such an abrupt ending. I kind of love it,
Doctor takes a shower
JAKE: “Now zoom into Jon Pertwee’s new face in Liz’s make-up mirror. though. He hasn’t done anything
and reveals his tattoo
in Spearhead from pink bedroom.” “That’s not me at all.” all episode, and all of a
Space Episode 2. The TARDIS lands in Oxley Wood, LUKE: “Me, when I wake sudden he’s shooting along
Below right: Epping. The newly regenerated Third up and open my selfie in a wheelchair. Can we
Channing (Hugh Doctor stumbles out, then faints. camera.” watch Episode 2?”
Burden) and two MILES: “Is he all right? He’s just KO’ed. MILES: “He’s really LUKE: “I enjoyed this
of his Autons He’s kind of stopped moving.” going for it. He’s more episode, but I didn’t
attempt to abduct In London, an old pal of the Doctor’s, human, more vulnerable, find out enough about
the Doctor.
Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart (KEZIA: than the other Doctors the Doctor to care about
“Dishy as! He’s such a babe”), is trying to I’ve seen.” tuning in next week.
recruit Dr Elizabeth Shaw (MILES: “It’s LUKE: “But he’s still And there’s no captivating
Lady Penelope! This is so Thunderbirds”) recognisably the Doctor. He companion for me to care
to UNIT – a military organisation that seems friendly. Innocent. Playful. about either.”
deals with the odd, the unexplained, Like a puppy.” MILES: “She hands the Doctor a mirror.
anything on Earth, or even beyond. “Little KEZIA: “He’s an absolute don.” That’s literally all she does.”
blue men with three heads?” scoffs Liz. CHRISTEL: “Later on, he’s more Austin KEZIA: “It’s amazing how much the
KEZIA: “Rose was so easy to relate to, Powers. And he has a tattoo. We see it companions’ involvement can draw you
but here’s Liz, who’s going to be the when he takes a shower.” in – or not – to a story.”
companion, and she’s quite aloof. I like MILES: “No way?! That’s amazing. Every JAKE: “It’s an apt introduction to
her later on – she’s fab and glam, a Doctor should get a shower scene.” Pertwee, though – scooting off in a
Hang about, wheelchair. That’s very him. I couldn’t
something’s imagine William Hartnell or Patrick
happening. Three Troughton doing that.”

TIME AND
THE RANI
Part One (1987)
LUKE: “I don’t care when this was made.

Time does not forgive how bad that looks.”
JAKE: “Is this the title sequence?”
This is just the pre-titles. We’ve leapt
ahead 17 years, to the Seventh Doctor’s
debut episode. It’s 1987 and a CGI
TARDIS is getting CGI shot at. It
crash-lands on Lakertya, a barren planet
with a sky as pink as Rose’s bedroom.
Enter the Rani (KEZIA: “What a boss!”)
and her hirsute henchman, Urak, who
find the Sixth Doctor and his companion,
Mel, unconscious on the TARDIS floor.
“Leave the girl,” says the Rani. “It’s the
man I want.”
MILES: “Wait, the Ninth Doctor had
those glowing lights on his walls, too!”
Above left: The newly
JAKE: “What, roundels? They’ve been regenerated Doctor
in every TARDIS, almost.” (Sylvester McCoy) tries
MILES: “NO. WAY! What for? Mood Eccleston’s gritty and intense. Pertwee MILES: “I feel like the classic show leans to recover his memory
lighting?” has a huge ego. But Sylv’s just lovely.” too heavily on cliffhangers, though. Sure, with help from ‘Mel’ –
Then, for no good reason, the Sixth KEZIA: “And he’s not condescending to they’re fantastic, but –” but this is the Rani (Kate
O’Mara) in disguise!
Doctor regenerates. who he thinks is his companion. That’s LUKE: “I agree, they’re cheap tricks.
MILES: “WHOAAA!!! That was different.” a breath of fresh air.” The real skill is in what Russell T Davies Above right: The
real Melanie (Bonnie
LUKE: “Okay. Seriously. What am JAKE: “But I wish he’d take that coat off.” did: write a show so captivating that you
Langford).
I watching? There was no build-up. MILES: “Why, you wanna see his tattoo?” want to come back just because it’s good.
Left inset: The Sixth
Has Doctor Who started? Luckily, in the TARDIS, the Doctor I want to spend more time with Rose,
Doctor (Sylvester McCoy
Did someone drop out?” finds some natty new threads. Mickey, Jackie, and the Doctor.” in a wig) regenerates
Well – oh boy, okay – Sixth KEZIA: “Weird that the Rani kind of MILES: “But it’s all part of the same into his seventh
Doctor actor Colin Baker made helps him pick his costume.” story – from Liz, to Mel, to Rose, and all incarnation.
an abrupt departure between LUKE: “He isn’t driving the Doctors. When I was a kid I’d watch
seasons, and declined to the story at all, is he? cartoons, The Simpsons, all these shows
come back to record It’s about her. This is where, every episode, the story resets.
a regeneration. So that a strong female-driven Doctor Who never did that. It’s one
there was his successor, narrative, like Rose. narrative. What other kids’ show has the
Sylvester McCoy, in Maybe that’s what new guts to do that? That’s why I hold Doctor
a curly blond wig. Doctors need. The Who so dear.”
LUKE: “They didn’t even Rani’s smart, funny, and CHRISTEL: “YES! This! I used to be really
get the same guy back?! kick-ass. Even Mel’s as turned off by classic Who. I thought,
Whoa, show us again.” tough as nails.” ‘It’s old. It’s long. It’s dreary. It’s
JAKE: “I hope Series 11 starts with As if on cue, Mel takes the impenetrable.’ Then I started watching
Jodie Whittaker in a Peter Capaldi wig. trip of a lifetime: into one of the Rani’s it, and I had the same reaction as you,
‘Rack it up, Jodie!’” booby traps. Now she’s caught in Miles: ‘Oh my God, it’s the same show.
The Rani (evil genius/Time Lord/ a deadly CGI bubble. SCREAM!!! That Doctor’s like my Doctor! Wait,
scientist) takes the Doctor to her MILES: “NO! What a cliffhanger.” they’ve got roundels too?!’ In our heads,
laboratory, where he wakes up and falls LUKE: “Does Mel die? Is this where Bonnie we go, ‘There’s new Who, and there’s
over. A lot. Langford stops being in Doctor Who?” classic Who,’ but there isn’t. I realised,
MILES: “Oh no. Oh, dude. Again?” JAKE: “Yeah, she explodes next episode.” it’s all part of the same thing –”
LUKE: “This is just silly. It’s too CBeebies. LUKE: “Shut up! Is that true? MILES: “And there’s so much more
He’s a bumbling idiot in a stupid coat.” They have just written out out there. We’re only getting
Then the episode plays its joker: the a Doctor, so I genuinely fear for started.” DWM
Rani is cosplaying as Mel, to fool the Mel. Actually, of these three
amnesiac Doctor. episodes – and I know you
Next issue:
MILES: “Oh, c’mon…” won’t like this – I preferred
Claudia, Dan,
CHRISTEL: “She’s found Mel’s exact outfit? this one’s ending. It makes
Luke, Miles, Sam
Where the hell did the Rani find that top?” me go, ‘I wonder what
and Zainab tackle
KEZIA: “She reads DWM’s cosplay tips.” happens next,’ the most.”
‘tearjerkers’.
CHRISTEL: “Of course she does.” KEZIA: “Not the Third Doctor
While the real Mel is busy getting getting shot?”
captured by Lakertyan rebel Ikona, LUKE: “But we
escaping, getting recaptured, etc (LUKE: know the Doctor
“I quite like Mel.” MILES: “That voice won’t die.
can’t be real, though?”), the Doctor is Especially
playing the spoons for the Rani – and in his first
winning over the Time Team. episode.”
JAKE: “He’s got so much energy.”
CHRISTEL: “And he’s so funny.

Janet Fielding OUT OF THE TARDIS
Doctor Who Magazine’s
TARDIS tin contains 120
tantalising, taxing and
trivial questions. Each
interviewee must answer
a random selection…
Interview by EMILY COOK
J
anet Fielding – who played Australian air
hostess Tegan in the early 1980s – has
invited us to her flat. “It looks like Dracula’s
seaside castle,” she explains in advance,
aptly describing the building where she
lives. We press the buzzer and a heavy front door is
released to let us in. Janet greets us on the other side
with a confident smile. The windows in her spacious
sitting room look out across the seafront. Despite the
grey and drizzly weather, it’s an impressive view.
Janet disappears into her kitchen for a few
moments before emerging with a plate of fancy
chocolate biscuits and two mugs of tea. Refreshments
on hand, our attention turns to the TARDIS tin…
Which day of your life would you most

like to relive?
Well it depends for what: relive in order to
change or relive in order to just simply relive?
Good point! Let’s go with to relive because you really
enjoyed it. It would be the day we were out
west in Queensland touring. We were out on
the Savanna grasslands and there were these
volcanic cores sticking up out of the plain. We
stopped the vehicles and just stood there for
about an hour or so and watched the sunset.
Nobody said a word. We just stood there – and
it was magical. That was with a group called
Popular Theatre Troupe. We used to bring an
English writer/director called Albert Hunt
out to Australia to work with us – that’s how
I came to the UK, by bringing one of his plays
to England. So we did The Roundhouse and
Oval House Theatre and toured it around.
Ken Campbell, who had the Science Fiction
Theatre of Liverpool, came to see the show
and offered me work. He was the one director
that I really wanted to meet when I came to
England. And so I ended up staying. I came for
three months and here I am, 40 years later.
Which day would you relive in order to change it then?
A friend of mine was dying; she had terminal
cancer. And I’d relive that day so I could try to
provide better comfort. I don’t think I handled it
well enough.
What hobbies did you have as a child?

Annoying my brothers – that was a good
one. How many brothers do you have? Three –
all younger. Surely, as their big sister, it was

your job to annoy them? Annoy them and boss on with my grandmother – Grandma was When are you happiest?
them. My big hobby when I was at high school a bit of a suffragette. And Russell…? He’d be Walking along the cliffs on a sunny day.
was debating and public speaking. I also outnumbered, which I think’s fair enough.
collected stamps for a while, and I did ballet. He’s tall. The rest of us would all be short. How many number one albums from the past
Stack us one on top of each other and we’d be year can you name?
Did you first date live up to your expectations? about the same height as Russell. None, but then I don’t really listen to Radio 1
First date with whom? Your first boyfriend. anymore. I loathe that whole X Factor sound –
I beat him in a public speaking competition – Have we been visited by aliens yet? it all sounds the same. The other day I did buy
that’s where I met him. We went out for 18 I very much doubt it. Although there are a CD. What did you buy? Rae Morris. She’s
months but I can’t remember where our first a couple of people that you look at and you good! Yeah, I really like her. She’s a bit 1
date was. It was Brisbane in 1970 – it would think, “Could be…”
have been pretty grim. Nowadays Brisbane’s Opposite page: Janet Fielding
as plucky air hostess Tegan
lovely though. In which one of the seven deadly sins do you Jovanka in a publicity shot
indulge most often: anger, sloth, gluttony, from Logopolis (1981).
Apart from Doctor Who, which established TV avarice, envy, pride or lust? Above left: The cast
show would you most like to be part of? I’m hitting that button on all of them [laughs]. of The IT Crowd, one
The IT Crowd. It’s brilliant. I can always cheer Equally? No, actually avarice isn’t one of my of Janet’s favourite
myself up by watching The IT Crowd. besetting sins. Nor is envy. On occasions TV shows.
gluttony, definitely. Sloth, definitely. Pride, Above centre:
I can always not really. Lust, it’s getting a bit late for lust.
I don’t know about anger. I think probably
Janet would love
to meet American
cheer myself sloth. Why sloth? You always feel guilty when abolitionist Harriet
Tubman.
up by watching
you don’t do enough.
Above right: Russell
T Davies would be
The IT Crowd. another ideal dinner

party guest.
Left: Janet delves
Which three people – alive or dead – would be into the TARDIS tin.
your ideal dinner party guests? Photo © Emily Cook.
My grandmother – my father’s mother. Did
you get on well? Yes. She died when I was 12.
She used to wear her hair slicked back with
olive oil. Fielding is my grandmother’s
name; my real surname’s Mahoney, but
there was another Janet Mahoney
when I joined Equity [the actors’ union]
so I had to change my name and
I chose hers.
Russell T Davies because he’s
brilliant. We exchange the odd email
and he’s just incredible. And for a tall
person, he’s really nice! [laughs] I’d
like to meet Harriet Tubman. Harriet
Tubman was a slave who escaped
from slavery in Maryland and went
into the South 13 times to
rescue members of
her family. She
was an early
suffragette as
well. She was an
amazing woman.
I think she’d get

OUT OF THE TARDIS Janet Fielding
1 quirky, young, from Blackpool. So my
answer is Rae Morris, even though she hasn’t
had a number one album.
Do you watch daytime TV?

Nope. Never? No. What’s on? Loose Women, The
Jeremy Kyle Show… Oh for goodness sake! In the
agency [Janet used to be an agent] we used to
sometimes watch The Jerry Springer Show at
lunchtime. But that’s when I was working.
What’s the most embarrassing item in your

wardrobe?
I don’t have any. Got rid of them. I’m not a
hoarder. Do you look back at things you used to
wear and think, "Why did I wear that?!" Not much
actually. Although I hated those shorts [that
Tegan wore in the 1983 series of Doctor Who].
Uncomfortable, impractical, cold. They were
a sort of mushroom, old lady’s pink. John
Nathan-Turner [Doctor Who’s then producer] What is the nicest thing a fan has ever
designed them. said to you?
I did feel proud in Los Angeles when two
Do you like watching yourself on TV? women who worked at NASA told me
Are you mad? Course not! I hate it. Tegan had inspired them to become space
scientists. I thought, “YES!” Changing the
Can you remember your first fan letter? world. And there was another woman at
No, I can’t. I used to do my fan mail with that convention who worked in the air force,
my stepdaughters. I remember getting some sitting at the back of planes co-ordinating the
weird ones. But I’ve also had some very whoever’s signing the autograph was horrible battle. She gave me one of her medals because
funny ones, and ones from kids that are just to you? It would have been so awful if I’d been she said Tegan had inspired her. That was
really sweet. Grant Gordon – he’s a composer off because I was tired and hot, which we pretty amazing.
whose group The Divine Comedy did the were. So you do have a responsibility. You’ve
music for Father Ted – wrote a really nice got to be kind. Sweet or savoury?
thing in a book about his dad called Cobras For me, the perfect combination is Divine
in the Rough. There was an excerpt in which Who would play you in a movie of your life? chocolate with a hint of salt. So a bit of both.
I figured. Grant’s father had lost his job and You can’t answer ‘me’? [laughs] No, sorry.
was depressed but he somehow managed to Melissa McCarthy. If you had three wishes, what would they be?
get the money together to buy and repair this That I’d get to build the Project Motorhouse
bomb of a car to drive down to Longleat to get What’s your all-time favourite film? development and that it is a success.
his son to this event [the 1983 Doctor Who Some Like It Hot. You can’t What’s Project Motorhouse? It’s the
celebration] to meet Tegan. And because he go past Some Like It Hot, I’m charity I run. We’re trying to
was able to do that, it put enough air under sorry you just can’t. I sit redevelop a site in Ramsgate
his wings to be able to start turning things down and watch it at least and use the proceeds from
around – it was the beginning of him lifting once or twice a year. It’s running it to subsidise
out of depression. I was so pleased that Grant joyous. The performances youth work. We do youth
managed to get to Longleat and meet me. And are wonderful, projects because the town
I was so glad that after all that time of waiting, the script is traditionally has quite
I was really nice to him. Could you imagine brilliant. And a bit of deprivation. My
getting to the top of the queue and then it’s so funny. second wish is that I’d die
before I get nut-nut. And
Above left: A US one-sheet poster for the classic comedy Some Like It Hot (1959). thirdly I would wish women
Above right: “Are you mad?” Photo © Emily Cook. throughout the world to
Right inset: Janet’s charity is developing this site in Ramsgate. achieve equality. Throughout the
Below: A publicity shot of Tegan from 1983’s Terminus. world. Maybe we’re getting there in
“I hated those shorts.” the West but I’m not sure about other places…
If you could travel back in time and offer your

younger self some advice, what would it be?
Worry less. I still can be a terrible
worrier. You know, a girl needs
a hobby and my hobby was
worrying. I just… oops! [Janet
accidently drops the question into
her half-drunk cup of tea.] That
question’s not going to be coming
out again any time soon! DWM
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NEW FACES PART ONE: The 1960s and 70s
From standard press calls at Television Centre
to a specially filmed teaser trailer, the ways in
which each of Doctor Who’s new leading actors
were introduced to the public have varied
considerably since the 1960s.
Feature by CHRIS BENTLEY

Left: Matt Smith is
revealed as the series’
new star in Doctor Who
Confidential: The Eleventh
Doctor, broadcast on
3 January 2009.
S
Below inset: A publicity
shot of Patrick Troughton
omething unprecedented his hair. You just thought, ‘Oh, that’s him.’ who explained, “Our problem in as the new Doctor, taking
happened on 3 January The trouble is it’s the first day. It’s one choosing the new Doctor Who was a walk on the planet
2009. For the first time, hour into the process and you’ve been very difficult because we have decided Vulcan in Episode One
of The Power of the
the BBC devoted half bracing yourself for months and you can’t to make considerable changes in the Daleks (1966).
an hour of the Saturday believe it. We thought, ‘We have to keep personality of the character. We believe
Bottom: Troughton as the
peak-time television going and keep looking and keep finding we have found exactly the man we want.” Doctor, in a picture taken
schedule to a programme people,’ but in the end it was Matt.” There was no press call to introduce at Riverside Studios on
conceived purely to introduce viewers At this point, Matt Smith was still the new Doctor, but Troughton did 22 October 1966.
to the new star of the corporation’s some four months away from recording take part in a photoshoot at the BBC’s
longest-running drama series. Broadcast his first scene as the Doctor: the Riverside Studios in Hammersmith on
on BBC One from 5.35pm that evening, regeneration at the climax of The End Saturday 22 October during recording
Doctor Who Confidential: The Eleventh of Time Part Two, shot on of his initial serial, The Power
Doctor was also simulcast as part of 12 May 2009. Between of the Daleks. These
the BBC’s Big Screens project on giant 10 March and 4 May, he were the first publicity
outdoor screens in city centres around performed a dual role photos of Troughton in
the country, including Manchester, Hull, in Benedek Fliegauf’s costume as he posed
Leeds, Birmingham, Derby, Swindon, bleak science-fiction by the TARDIS console
Liverpool, Norwich and Swansea. film Clone (aka Womb, and on the episode’s
Featuring contributions from the 2010) and prepared mercury swamp set –
incumbant Doctor David Tennant, head for his next part by the shoot also included
writers Russell T Davies and Steven watching The Tomb a special session of
Moffat, BBC Fiction Controller Jane of the Cybermen (1967) colour photography
Tranter, BBC Wales Head of Drama on DVD during location taken by Jane Baun for
Julie Gardner, actress Elisabeth Sladen photography in Germany. The Observer Magazine. 1
(Sarah Jane Smith) and executive The Eleventh Doctor’s costume
producer Piers Wenger, the programme was then revealed to the public on
discussed the process of changing Doctor
Who’s lead actor, the qualities that the
20 July as recording began on The Time
of Angels/Flesh and Stone at Dunraven There was no press call to
programme-makers look for in casting
the role, and the performances of each
Bay near Bridgend in Wales. Viewers
still had to wait until 1 January 2010 introduce the new Doctor,
of the previous Doctors from William
Hartnell to Christopher Eccleston.
to see the new Doctor on screen – The
End of Time Part Two aired almost but Troughton did take
Along the way, Moffat sprinkled
tantalising clues to the identity of the new
exactly a year after Smith’s appearance
on Doctor Who Confidential. part in a photoshoot.
Doctor and revealed that a 26-year-old
A
would be the youngest actor to be cast ll this was a far cry from the way
in the part. Finally, after 24 minutes, in which Smith’s 20th-century
a largely unknown actor named Matt predecessors were introduced
Smith suddenly appeared, all mad hair to the British public, particularly
and expressive hands, responding to an during the 1960s and 70s when the
obvious question. replacement of the series’ lead actor
“How do I feel? I’m flabbergasted,” didn’t even warrant a mention on the
said Smith. “I haven’t slept really, to be BBC’s own news bulletins.
honest. Truthfully I haven’t. I probably After William Hartnell agreed to stand
look a bit ‘bags under the eyes’ now. down from the role he had originated
Because it’s sort of an iconic part of our three years earlier, the BBC revealed
culture and, like, my granddad knows the news to the press on Friday 5 August
about it, my dad knows about it, and 1966 and a brief notice of his departure
it’s been going since 1963. I think it was published in the Daily Mail the
has the iconic status that Robin Hood next morning. Patrick Troughton
or Sherlock Holmes have, and I’m had already been contracted as
taking that on. That’s my responsibility. Hartnell’s replacement that
It’s exciting. Nerve-racking. Exciting. Tuesday, but basic reports
Exciting. It stops me sleeping.” of the appointment
Clips from Smith’s previous BBC work didn’t appear in the
in Party Animals (2007) and Ruby in the press until Friday
Smoke (2006) were shown and Moffat 2 September. The
described how the actor had made an Daily Telegraph’s
immediate impression on the first day Norman Hare
of auditions. “Literally on the first day, spoke to
I think the second or third person through BBC Head
the door was the one we wanted. He was of Drama
just spot on right from the beginning – the Sydney
way he said the lines, the way he looked, Newman

NEW FACES
C
Below: Jon Pertwee 1 The following Saturday, Troughton’s omic actor Jon Pertwee was swinging Dr Who”. Two days later, the
poses with a Yeti at Doctor made his broadcast debut at the revealed as the Third Doctor at Express also published a full interview
Cavendish Place in
end of The Tenth Planet Episode 4. a press call on Tuesday 17 June. with Pertwee in which he confessed that
London on 17 June 1969.
After nearly three years in the role, Dressed in a dark contemporary although he’d only seen two episodes of
Right inset: Pertwee at
Troughton decided to leave the series suit and floral tie, the actor larked about the series, his children, Dariel and Sean,
the Favourite Doll factory
in Holloway, London, on in 1969. This was announced by the with a Yeti from the series’ 1968 serial were great fans. “I wanted a larger
13 September 1969. This BBC on Monday 6 January but the The Web of Fear, and posed with that audience to accept me as a straight actor
was his first day’s filming press notices the next day were almost week’s issue of Radio Times; the cover and not a comedian,” he said. “I will play
for Spearhead from incidental. The Times simply stated, promoted High Jinks, a new BBC1 variety Doctor Who absolutely straight with no
Space (1970). “The BBC wants a new Dr Who for the series which began on 20 June. Pertwee baggy trousers. And I shall probably use
Bottom: The Radio Times Saturday afternoon television serial. told reporters that the next series of my own voice for a change.”
cover for 3-9 January Patrick Troughton, Dr Who since Doctor Who would be set on Earth in the Filming of Pertwee’s debut serial,
1970, marking Pertwee’s
first television appearance
November, 1966, plans to quit the role 1980s. “I won’t be wearing the Victorian Spearhead from Space, began on
as the Doctor. this summer.” His successor was not clothes that the other Doctor Whos have 13 September at the Favourite Doll
contracted until Wednesday 21 May, and used,” he assured them. “I will be in Factory in Holloway where he posed for
the casting was then kept under wraps a modern day suit.” publicity photos with a collection of toys.
for a further month until the week that The story appeared in various He was pictured climbing a wall ladder
Troughton’s final episode, The War newspapers on Saturday 21 June, at another photocall on 19 September
Games Episode 10, was broadcast. including The Times and The Sun, and at TCC Condensers in Ealing, and was
it even made the front page of the then joined by Caroline John (as
Daily Express where Pertwee companion Liz Shaw) for more
was described as “the new photos on 6 November, this
time at Madame Tussauds
in Westminster.
Location filming for
the next story, Doctor
Who and the Silurians,
began on 12 November
and on the following
Monday, 17 November,
Pertwee and Nicholas
Courtney (as Brigadier
Lethbridge-Stewart) posed for
photos with a helicopter on Hankley
Common near Elstead in Surrey. These
pictures provided all the early publicity
images of Pertwee’s Doctor in advance
of his broadcast debut.
That autumn, the BBC, ITV and
BREMA (the British Radio Equipment
Manufacturers Association) staged
a joint Colour Exhibition in the forecourt
of Euston Station in central London. This
was designed to promote the launch of
the UK’s full-colour broadcasting service
on 15 November 1969 and dispel fears
that watching colour television could
make men sterile. The exhibition opened
on 11 November and Pertwee made
his first public appearance there in full
costume on 21 November, together with
Caroline John and Nicholas Courtney.
The following month, Pertwee
recorded his first television interview
Dressed in a dark
contemporary suit
and floral tie, the
actor larked about
with a Yeti from the
series’ 1968 serial
The Web of Fear.
THE DOCTOR’S DILEMMA
I
n Doctor Who Confidential: the Doctor going to wear?’ is
The Eleventh Doctor, David a question you’re asked 14 times
Tennant spoke of his own a day. You realise that you’ve got
experience of taking on the role to make these quite fundamental
of the Tenth Doctor in 2005. “It’s decisions that will define what
a very exciting journey to go on,” you are in this role, and you’re
he said. “It’s a great honour to be making all those decisions before
in the middle of something that you’ve started filming. So it can
gets that much attention and love be a little bit intimidating.
from people, but it can be quite “But then scripts start
overwhelming at times. It’s a big arriving and you start seeing
decision to take something like what you’re dealing with. It
this on, and of course you don’t becomes something more real
really know that at the time. You and tangible and then you start
don’t quite know what you’re treating it like an acting job –
letting yourself in for. which at the end of the day is
“There’s the initial decision to what it is, but you’d be forgiven
take the part at all and then once for thinking it was something
you’ve done that you slowly start slightly bigger than that from
to realise you’ve got to make all the hoo-hah that seems to
some quite big decisions. ‘What’s whip up around it.”
about Doctor Who, speaking to Robert Pebble Mill at One and BBC North West To the amazement of his colleagues,
Robinson on 23 December for an regional news programme Look North. Baker returned to work on a building
instalment of Junior Points of View The London Evening Standard broke site in Ebury Street, Belgravia, where
which was broadcast on 2 January the story in the afternoon, leading with he was employed as a labourer, making
1970, the day before Spearhead from a photo of Baker on the front page of the tea and operating a kango drill. Working
Space Episode 1 was transmitted. The second edition, while the national papers out his notice to the end of the week,
new Doctor was also featured on the carried the announcement on Saturday 16 he arranged a small send-off party with
front cover of that week’s Radio Times February. In the Daily Mail, showbusiness drinks and tapas from Partridges in
(issue 2408) with the caption “Who? reporter Roderick Gilchrist quoted Sloane Street. As Baker recounted in his
Jon Pertwee, that’s Dr Who.” Baker’s thoughts about the role he was 1997 autobiography Who on Earth
The programme celebrated its tenth taking on. “It’s a fascinating part, probably is Tom Baker?, a journalist from the
anniversary in 1973, but by the end of as interesting to an actor as Macbeth, Daily Express arrived during the party
the year Pertwee had decided to make which I have also played,” said Baker. and arranged a photoshoot for the
the 1974 series his last. Although his “You have to suggest somebody who is following morning, Friday 22 February –
BBC salary had increased incrementally from another world, but who has human Baker’s last day on the site.
year-on-year, the high rate of inflation characteristics. I’m really quite fascinated “Never was there such keenness at
meant that in real terms he was earning by science fiction and I’m working on a photocall the next day,” Baker wrote. Above: David Tennant
in 2005, preparing for
less (per episode) for his fifth series ways of bringing my own interpretation “We all stood in line with our tools at his first publicity photos
than he had for his first in 1970. The and identity to the part.” Baker was also hand and obeyed the snapper’s every as the Doctor.
BBC declined Pertwee’s request for reported to have a £1,000-a-week contract whim. The Daily Express! It was difficult Below: Tom Baker is
a considerably increased remuneration for Doctor Who, although in reality he to work after our taste of stardom but menaced by a Cyberman
and his contract was not renewed. He would initially be earning a fraction of that somehow the day passed. The next (Pat Gorman) for a press
announced his departure to the press amount, having been offered just half the morning we were all famous. A lovely call at Television Centre
on Friday 8 February 1974 and the story salary paid to Jon Pertwee. picture and a very warm little article 1 on 15 February 1974.
appeared in the papers the next day, but
his replacement had already been cast.
V
iewers were still reeling from
the shock news of Pertwee’s exit
when a press call was arranged
at BBC Television Centre on
Friday 15 February to introduce the
new Doctor. Much like Matt Smith,
Tom Baker was relatively unknown
to television viewers, although he had
recently been third billed as the evil
magician Koura in The Golden Voyage
of Sinbad (1973), which had opened on
general release across the country at
the end of January 1974. Dressed for
the press call in a white suit, a Peruvian
sweater and an expensive leather coat
with a fur collar, Baker was accompanied
by Elisabeth Sladen and actor Pat
Gorman, the latter wearing a Cyberman
costume from The Invasion (1968).
The trio posed for photographs outside
the Bridge Lounge and Baker was then
interviewed for lunchtime chat show

NEW FACES
THE WOOD NORTON EFFECT Who Dinosaur
Book, Target’s
1 too. That lunchtime I shook hands Doctor Who
and swore eternal friendship with Elisabeth Sladen, and then in and the Brain of Morbius
everyone and full of tears and good a UNIT Jeep with Ian Marter novelisation, the Airfix
resolution I tottered off past Mozart’s and Nicholas Courtney, all Painting by Numbers set and
house. I never saw them again. I was dressed in their costumes for the TV Comic strip. Four of
Doctor Who now. I was an alien.” that serial. the photos were also use on
The resulting photographs 224-piece jigsaw puzzles.
B
aker recorded his first scene became the primary
as the Doctor, the regeneration promotional images
sequence for Planet of the of the new Doctor
S
Spiders Part Six, on 2 April and hortly after recording for the 1975 series.
made his screen debut as the Fourth began on Tom Baker’s They were also used
Doctor when the episode aired on 8 June first series, a publicity as source material for
– just 16 weeks after his introduction photoshoot was arranged much of the Doctor
to the press. Recording for his first at Wood Norton Hall near Who merchandise
series began on 28 April and Baker was Evesham in Worcestershire, produced over the next
comfortably established in the role by where all the exteriors were two years, referenced
14 November when he was interviewed being recorded for Robot. by the artists working
for Points West, the BBC’s regional news On 2 May 1974, Baker posed on The Dr Who Annual
programme for the west of England. for photos in Bessie with 1976, The Doctor
During a break in filming Revenge of the
Cybermen on location in Wookey Hole
Caves near Wells in Somerset, Baker hours work, afterwards I go to a pub and Baker had also been interviewed by Above left: Tom Baker
was asked whether he thought Doctor meet friends and talk or go to the movies. a variety of radio programmes during the with Bessie on 2 May
Who was going to change his life. Presumably some of that will change, but year – Radio 2’s Late Night Extra on 25 1974, during recording
of his first serial, Robot
“Yes, yes, it will affect my life, it’s a very, very small price to pay.” February, Radio 1’s Newsbeat on 7 June, (1974-75).
I understand,” he told reporter Gwyn On 9 December, another press Radio 4’s Kaleidoscope on 29 August and
Above right: This
Richards. “This has never really happened photocall was arranged outside the Radio 4 regional programme Morning Whitman jigsaw puzzle
to me before because most of the parts BBC’s Television Rehearsal Rooms Sou’West on 30 September. These features the Brigadier
I’ve played in the past have been dogs in Victoria Road, Acton, to generate culminated in a further interview for (Nicholas Courtney),
or bears or Rasputin or whatever, additional publicity for the forthcoming Newsbeat on 27 December to promote the the Doctor and Harry
so that when my make-up is off I’m series. Taking a break from rehearsing broadcast of Robot Part One the next day. Sullivan (Ian Marter)
in Robot.
not recognised. Presumably I will be the last two parts of Revenge of the While meagre by current standards,
recognised by a great number of people Cybermen, Baker was joined by Elisabeth this level of press and broadcast Below: Baker was
working on a building
and the anonymity of my ordinary life will Sladen and actor Ian Marter, who would interest in Tom Baker’s casting was
site in Belgravia
disappear. My ordinary life is one of a shortly be seen as new companion Harry indicative of a growing recognition of when his Doctor Who
quiet-living bachelor who likes some fun. Sullivan. The trio were pictured in and the programme’s popularity and cultural casting was revealed
I mean, I work like a dog on this series, around the Doctor’s car Bessie, with importance. By the end of the Fourth by the press.
and I go home at night and do a few Baker in full costume. Doctor’s tenure, that recognition had
been cemented by viewing figures
which had peaked at over 16 million
“It was difficult to work after our in October 1979. When Baker
announced that he was handing
taste of stardom but somehow over the TARDIS key to a new

Doctor in the autumn of 1980, it
the day passed.” TOM BAKER ushered in a whole new style of

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COSPLAY
The
Fourth
Doctor’s
Scarf
It’s the Doctor’s most
recognisable accessory,
the show’s defining
item of clothing.
But how best to get
a scarf of your own?
Feature by JAMIE LENMAN
‛T
he Oncoming Storm’, ‘The
Beast of Trenzalore’, ‘The
Butcher of Skull Moon’ or
even, sometimes, ‘John’…
the Doctor is known by many
names on many different
worlds. But for the past
43 years, our favourite alien
has been known by the public and
especially the press as a scarf-wearing Time
Lord. In fact some journalists and members
of the public seem to think that the Doctor has
always worn a long, striped scarf.
This is an image so firmly embedded in
the minds of the audience that it can’t be
erased by time or cricket whites. Six years
before producer John Nathan-Turner began
his crusade to introduce distinctive, easily
identifiable uniforms for the Doctor and his
companions, his predecessor Barry Letts and
costume designer James Acheson had already
cracked it. Almost by accident, they created
a totem of British popular culture – a woollen
icon of teatime telly.
So what better place to start if you want to
emulate your TV hero? In recent years cosplay
has seen a meteoric rise in popularity and

Opposite page: Jamie
Lenman wears his
BBC-licensed Doctor Who
scarf. Photo © Jamie Lenman.
Far left: James Acheson’s
original costume design for
the Fourth Doctor.
Left centre and right:
Gene Fender and his scarf.
Photos © Gene Fender.
Below: A 1975 publicity

photo of Tom Baker
as the Doctor in his
iconic knitwear.
barely a weekend goes by without convention

halls up and down the country heaving with
wizards, superheroes, and Mickey-Mouse-if-he-
were-a-post-apocalyptic-bounty-hunter-and-
also-R2D2. The Doctor Who fan community,
always ahead of the curve, continues to ride
this wave. And it wasn’t always as easy as
simply grabbing one of several quality-made
and minutely detailed replica scarves off the
shelf… so where did you get your ludicrous
neck-warmer from, back in the day?
W
ell the first port of call, as in most
cases for most things, was your
granny. If you were very lucky and
you asked especially nicely, your nan or some
other witty little knitter would conjure you
up a scarf of your very own… but chances
are it probably wouldn’t be SA (that’s ‘screen
accurate’). How could you look into your loved
one’s face and say “thank you” when the Doctor
doesn’t fight galactic evil in peach-and-navy
stripes? Many years ago, somebody special
knitted me a whopper of a scarf in black and
red, as if Dennis the Menace ran around
the universe defeating softies with a sonic
peashooter (come on cosplayers!). In the
words of Catchphrase host Roy Walker,
If you were
“It’s good, but it’s not right.”
Let’s face it, you’re going to have to get
very lucky,
knitting yourself. And before you do that,
you’re going to have to freeze-frame an awful
lot of old episodes, just like Gene Fender
of doctorwhoscarf.com did. “My story is your nan or
probably the same as that of many others
who first saw Tom Baker in the 1980s on some other
PBS,” says Gene, who lives in Englewood,
Colorado. “I paused the off-air video recording witty little
to study every stitch.” Later, Gene was lucky
enough to receive a copy of the official BBC
knitter would
pattern, straight from the producer of show
himself. “John Nathan-Turner was very kind
conjure you
to respond to as many fan letters as he could.
He must’ve sent out countless copies and took
up a scarf of
care to sign the BBC letterhead.”
With so many people writing in to ask how
your very own.
to knit Doctor Who scarves, it’s surprising that
it took the BBC so long to license their own 1

COSPLAY The Fourth Doctor’s Scarf
1 version. Or did it? In 1976, Dissatisfied with the patterns on this and other
a company called Today Promotions resources, Gene created his own – “to bridge the
began selling a quality replica of gap between accuracy and user-friendliness” –
the famous prop, and one currently and ended up inheriting Brimelow’s site from
resides in Gene’s collection. There him, for which he is forever grateful.
also exists a set of instructions for Doctorwhoscarf.com is an impressively
a decidedly psychedelic version comprehensive guide for those who want to
of the scarf, which was available create their own masterpiece – from detailed
from renowned pattern-providers patterns and colour matching to stitching
Hayfield in the 1970s – bright tips and wool recommendations, it’s a tribute
greens, reds and yellows abound to the sort of passion that our favourite TV
in this peculiar offering. show elicits. “Being able to provide a resource
Sadly, like the BBC has been great in itself,” says Gene, “but
instructions, neither of these collaborating and interacting with cosplayers,
commercially available items fans and knitters is even more rewarding. I’m
proved to be a precise copy of amazed at the enthusiasm.”
anything that the Doctor had But why has the scarf in particular grabbed
actually worn, so the quest for the imagination of these people? Why is it
perfection continued. Eventually, more beloved than, say, the sonic screwdriver,
with a little help from his friends, which runs along several incarnations? And
Gene succeeded in establishing why does it remain so popular when there are
the exact details for each prop easier-to-source items like tweed jackets and
and replicating all of them. Panama hats?
“In recent years the available “It endures because it’s so instantly
archive photography has been recognisable,” says Gene. “It’s also one of
tremendously helpful, as have the most accessible items for fans to make
a few collaborators,” he explains. themselves. Some needles, some yarn, a little
One of these knitting knowledge and off you go!”
collaborators was What’s next on the agenda for Gene then,
Chris Brimelow, having conquered the stripes and loops?
one-time owner “Knitting doesn’t stop at the scarf,” he
of a genuine says, inadvertently coining one of the most
Above: The Hayfield scarf knitting pattern. screen-worn inspirational call-to-arms for fibre crafters
scarf and everywhere. “There hasn’t been a complete
Below: Lalla Ward’s Romana had a scarf of her own when
she joined the Doctor in Destiny of the Daleks (1979). former pattern for Sylvester’s question-mark jumper
webmaster published anywhere, and that needs to
Right: Jamie in his much-loved, but completely inaccurate,
red-and-black scarf. Photo © Jamie Lenman. of Gene’s site. happen.” Spoken like a man on a mission.
With any luck, in a few years we might even
have the details and instructions for a woollen
Dalek at our disposal.
S
o what about the non-knitters among us?
How are we meant to measure Osiran
logic puzzles or heave our assistants up
treacherous cliff faces? Fear not – help is at
hand/neck. With the smash revival of the
programme in the middle of the noughties
and its subsequent explosion in global
popularity, manufacturers finally twigged
that the demand for wearable Doctor
Who merchandise was a worthwhile
enterprise. In 2012 scarf specialist
Lovarzi began making officially
licensed, ultra-precise replicas of
the prop available to buy for the
discerning fan.
Lovarzi currently produces
four different versions of
the Fourth Doctor’s most
famous affectation, and
have gone so far as calling
Somehow the
red-and-black
one just feels
a little bit more
like... well, me.
Woolly Thinking
F
or Tom Baker’s first full this replica, was
serial as the Doctor, used for a few
James Acheson based the stories and some
character’s look on a poster publicity shots
painted by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec during the making
in 1892, featuring Lautrec’s friend of Season 15
Artistide Bruant in a familiar scarf (1977-78). Later,
and hat. Acheson gave several balls in Seasons 16
of wool to expert needle-clicker (1978) and 17
Begonia Pope, who proceeded to knit (1979-80), the stunt scarf was sewn
every last thread into a scarf some on to the end of the original, which
20 metres long. The production team by this time had been considerably
loved the happy accident and, after shortened by general wear and tear,
a little shortening, it became part of to create the looping monster seen
the iconic costume. in those stories.
Baker wore several Eventually, costume
different scarves over designer June Hudson
his seven-year tenure created a totally new
in the role, most with outfit for Baker’s
only slight variations last season with a
and one strikingly luxurious burgundy
unique. Fairly early colour scheme
on, a shorter replica and a matching,
of the original was ultra-long scarf.
created with subtle Sadly, this scarf
discrepancies in pattern was unravelled
and colour, for use in by the Doctor
stunt work. A further following his fourth
scarf, a replica of regeneration.
upon Gene’s knowledge to ensure they are as In the end, it’s up to you how
accurate as possible. There’s even a short- you obtain your dream Doctor Who
scale version available for those who want the scarf. You can pick up the needles
bohemian look, but don’t plan on tripping up yourself and just keep going till
any recently resurrected crystal-based tyrants the wool runs out, or you can grab
with it. And yet – even with such a high- your choice of several commercially
quality product now easy to get hold of, many available options, all created with the
cosplayers are still knitting their own. Why? aim of perfectly mirroring the one
“I chose to make my own primarily as it that floated through the grey TARDIS
worked out cheaper than buying a replica,” corridors and over the quarry-like
says Dominic Greenwood-Martin, a cosplayer surfaces of countless alien planets.
from Milton Keynes. “But as well as that, I have one of these myself, the BBC’s
I wanted to make it for the creative aspect own version (it’s not quite the right Top centre: This 1892
of it. I do genuinely feel that process helped stitch although it’s very comfy and poster by Henri de
Toulouse-Lautrec
me develop a life skill!” the colours are pretty good), but you
provided inspiration
Having decided that the scarf worn by the know what? Even though it’s hanging for the Fourth
Doctor in Season 12 was “the quintessential there on the hat stand, winking at me, Doctor’s costume.
Baker scarf – the first and the most iconic”, more often than not I find myself Top left: The Doctor
Dominic found a pattern online and got to wearing the red-and-black one. has fun with his scarf
work. “Of course,” he says, “being my first Somehow the red-and-black one in The Masque
project, it didn’t go perfectly in my choices of just feels a bit more like… well, of Mandragora
yarn, but I’m quite proud of how it turned out.” me. It’s long and stripy like the (1976).
So did Dominic take up this hobby especially Doctor’s but it’s got my own Top right: The
so he could make his own scarf? “It was colours in it – it’s mine. Doctor’s burgundy
costume for the
a massive incentive to start knitting,” he So if you want to pore over the 1980-81 season
confirms. “I come from a family of knitters shows or visit Gene’s website was designed by
so it was definitely the trigger I needed to get and put together your own June Hudson.
me to join them. I’ve continued knitting ever thread-for-thread replica then Above:
since, having created two Season 18 [1980-81] go for it, but how about – and go Cosplayer Dominic
scarves, a full-length one for myself and with me on this – maybe put just Greenwood-Martin
a micro-length one for my six-year-old niece!” the one stripe of your favourite poses with Zygons
made by James
There’s a tangible sense of pride and colour in there? A hot pink or
Burgess.
accomplishment emanating from Dominic as a cool teal maybe – tucked Photo © Dominic
he wanders around comic cons in his Fourth up in a fold where most folks Greenwood-Martin.
Doctor outfit, knowing that every inch of that might not even see it. A little Left: Jamie
preposterous scarf is his own work. It may not piece of you in the most iconic with items from
be a stitch-for-stitch TV replica, but it’s his winterwear that ever graced his Doctor Who
collection.
version – the only one like it in existence. the small screen. DWM Photo © Jamie Lenman.

The Fact of Fiction
Exploring the hidden depths of Doctor Who’s most intriguing stories...
Planet of the Dead

A glamorous cat burglar joins forces FIRST BROADCAST: 11 April 2009
with the Doctor on a double-decker Night at the International Gallery, London.
bus, in Doctor Who’s one and An acrobatic thief foils four security guards
and a fence of laser beams by descending
only Easter Special… on wires to swipe a golden cup…
Feature by ALAN BARNES 01m 11s The opening theft sequence

(indeed, the entire spine of the story)
T
came to co-writer and executive producer
hird Doctor actor Jon Russell T Davies in a “sudden fit of ideas”
Pertwee liked to say that on the afternoon of Monday 28 July 2008
there was nothing scarier – as described in a lengthy email to DWM’s
than finding a Yeti in your Benjamin Cook, eventually published in The
loo in Tooting Bec. He meant Writer’s Tale: The Final Chapter (BBC Books,
that Doctor Who was at its 2010). What if the one-off companion for
most engaging when exotic alien monsters the 2009 Easter Special was a “top-class,
menaced the world of the mundane; when glamorous cat burglar”, he wondered? “The
the end of the Earth lay at the end of the Black Canary, that sort of thing. Scene 1,
Northern Line. Planet of the Dead is the she’s flying down on wires to steal something
story of a handful of relentlessly ordinary valuable…” The original Black Canary
people, not unlike you, who one night (real name Dinah Drake) was a DC Comics
catch a bus bound for somewhere like character created by writer Robert
Brixton and are suddenly transported to Kanigher and artist Carmine
a hostile alien world… Infantino in 1947. She wasn’t
Yes, Planet of the Dead builds to primarily a thief, however –
a threat to the Earth entire – but rather a glamorous vigilante
saving planets and galaxies and whose usual modus operandi
universes and realities boils down to was to pose as a thief in order to
saving relentlessly ordinary people. infiltrate criminal gangs, so she
People like Angela and Nathan and Lou could bust them from the inside.
and Carmen, whose psychic gift wins (She wore black, and then she
her ten small but all-important pounds ‘sang’ – like a canary, geddit?)
each and every week – little more than
the price of her chops-and-gravy supper, 01m 40s One
plus next week’s stake. Even antiques-lifting of the security
Lara Croft-alike Christina shows her essential guards sees
ordinariness when she reveals that “Daddy that the cup has
lost everything” when he invested been swapped
his fortune in the Icelandic banks – at the for a golden cat figurine. By Japanese
time, a startlingly up-to-the-minute tradition, the maneki-neko, or
reference to then-current international ‘beckoning cat’, invites good fortune…
financial crisis (since the Kaupthing, in this case, for a cat burglar.
Landsbanki and Glitnir banks had all
collapsed early in October 2008, during 01m 51s The thief – Christina – raises
the scripting process). her balaclava, revealing that she
In that sense, we can draw a direct shares her features with those of
line between Planet of the Dead and former EastEnders regular Michelle
the series’ very first episode, An Ryan, who’d more recently played
Unearthly Child (1963) – the story of the witch Nimueh in the first season
two cardigan-wearing nobodies from of BBC Wales’ other Saturday
an unhappening part of London who night fantasy series, Merlin (2008).
one night stopped by a junkyard and…
ended up missing their chops-and-gravy Above: The Doctor (David Tennant) and
supper (probably). Lady Christina (Michelle Ryan) explore the
Because great Doctor Who isn’t desert planet.
about the Yeti in the loo; it’s about the Opposite page top: The Doctor deduces the
people stuck in the loo with the Yeti. true nature of the sand on the alien world.

Curiously, our daredevil crackswoman was we’re afforded a brief glimpse of the distinctive
seen hoiking herself on wires back towards columns of the Cardiff branch of House of
the hole in the gallery dome at 01m 37s – but Fraser in the background, aka the exploding
having (presumably) arrived on the roof, she’s Henrik’s department store in Rose (2005).
now returned inside the building: why? As a Adam James is the son of Polly James,
double-bluff, perhaps? who featured in The Awakening (1984) as
We’ll see the International Gallery again schoolteacher Jane Hampden… and the
in The Sarah Jane Adventures episode godson of Third Doctor actor Jon Pertwee.
Mona Lisa’s Revenge (also 2009) – in which Not long before recording Planet of the Dead,
curator Harding (Jeff Rawle) will have cause he’d guest-starred in an episode of conmen
to complain how he’d wanted security to be drama Hustle also directed by James Strong:
improved “after that Cup of Æthelstan fiasco New Recruits, broadcast 15 January 2009.
at Easter”!
05m 46s The Doctor (David Tennant) is
02m 05s Exiting into a “tracking a hole in the fabric of reality” –
backstreet, Christina and, as the 200 enters the south side of the
sees the driver of her (fictional) Gladwell road tunnel, he shows in Part One of The Time Warrior (1973-74),
getaway car being Christina a device for detecting “rhondium the Third Doctor set up an “alarm clock”
placed under arrest. particles”. Which is surely one of the most of sorts – in fact, a “rhondium sensor”
In the Draft 5 script, dated 24 November obscure continuity references in Doctor Who for detecting “delta particles”. When said
2008, she named her ‘lover’ – the “ruggedly history. Seeking to identify the person or particles were detected, a “little cylinder”
handsome man in his 30s” seen thrown persons responsible for spiriting scientists began to oscillate – just as a “little dish” on the
over the side of an “expensive sports car away from a top secret security establishment Tenth’s sensor begins to oscillates, too.
surrounded by ARMED POLICE OFFICERS” –
when she sighed, “Oh, Dmitry.”
In his email to Cook, Davies gave his cat
Co-writer Gareth 06m 30s The 200
begins to shudder
burglar the ad hoc name ‘Hermione’ – and
described how after she’d seen her getaway Roberts outlined a and shake. Much
of the overlapping
driver arrested, she ran off into a busy London
street… and “past a police box!” version of the story dialogue scripted for
this sequence didn’t make it to the screen.
02m 49s Desperate set around an open- The Doctor barks an order to his fellow
passengers: “Stay in your seats! No one move!”
to evade the police,
Christina boards top tourist bus. Meanwhile, the senior Lou (Reginald Tsiboe)
tells his wife Carmen (Ellen Thomas), “Hold 1
a 200 bus – numbered
to reflect the fact
that Planet of the Dead was the 200th
Doctor Who story broadcast (according to
a not-uncontroversial scheme, but let’s not
Essential Info
go there). On screen, the ‘City Roam’ 200
shuttles between Victoria and Brixton, taking t Planet of the Dead was the t Under director James Strong,
in Vauxhall and Oval en route. In reality, the first episode made following Tenth shooting of the first Doctor
200 is a single-decker that shuttles between Doctor actor David Tennant’s sort- Who episode to be made in high
Mitcham Fair Green and Lambton Road in of sabbatical, playing Hamlet for definition began on Monday 19
Raynes Park, both in south-west London. The the Royal Shakespeare Company. January 2009, when the opening Above: Weather conditions in Dubai
current Transport for London (TfL) service With Catherine Tate’s Donna having International Gallery scenes were proved challenging.
that most closely follows the route of the departed the TARDIS at the end recorded at the National Museum Left: Director James Strong.
fictional 200 is the 2, between Marylebone of the 2008 series, the 2009 of Wales on Museum Avenue,
Below left: Gareth Roberts’ 1993
Station and Norwood Bus Garage, via Easter Special would have Cardiff – previously book The Highest Science.
Neathouse Place (close to Victoria), Vauxhall to be designed around a featured in Dalek
Bus Station and Brixton Station (but not one-off companion type (2005) and The Lazarus plant on Corporation Road, Newport
Oval, alas). – initially envisaged as Experiment (2007). The – previously used for the ‘Dalek
Before Davies came up with cat burglar a female pilot in a space various ‘road tunnel’ test chamber’ scenes in The Stolen
‘Hermione’, co-writer Gareth Roberts outlined war. Several possible scenes were recorded Earth/Journey’s End (2008). Six
a version of the story set around an open-top scenarios were considered at the A4232 Butetown days’ work at Upper Boat Studios,
tourist bus, complete with a tour guide named by executive producer Russell T Tunnel on both of the next two covering UNIT Mobile HQ and bus
Rebecca, whom he envisaged as a once-only Davies and his chosen co-writer Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Other interior scenes, were interspersed
proxy companion: “our version of Tracy Gareth Roberts before the story London exteriors were recorded throughout the UK location
Turnblad from [1988 film/2002 musical] coalesced around the image of a in an alley off The Friary – an area schedule before the production flew
Hairspray – a big, happy, fat girl” who’d London bus transported to a far-off previously seen in the opening to the Margham Desert in Dubai –
eventually become the ambassador for an realm – not so far removed from moments of The Sound of Drums where three days’ recording over
alien species (the Chelonians; see later). the commuter train transported to (2007) – and on Lloyd George Tuesday 12th to Saturday 14th was
a distant planet in Roberts’ earlier Avenue on Thursday 22nd. The ‘bus disrupted by sandstorms.
The Tenth Doctor also boards the 200… Doctor Who: The stop’ sequences were recorded on
and wishes Christina a Happy Easter! New Adventures St Mary Street on Monday 26th. t Planet of the Dead ranked
novel The Highest Tritovore spaceship interiors were 191st (out of 241) in Doctor Who
04m 23s Dogged Detective Inspector McMillan Science (Virgin recorded between Tuesday 3 and Magazine’s ‘First 50 Years’ poll
(Adam James) has spotted Christina aboard Publishing, 1993). Friday 6 February at the Mir Steel of 2014.
the 200 as it passes along the street… and

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1 on to me, sweetheart! Hold on!” Young script, the two alien watchers’ “angry
Barclay (Daniel Kaluuya) calls out to the front: chirrups” were written out quite
“Oy! Driver! What you doing, man?!” As the literally. Here, for example: <Chirrup
interior is flooded with bright white light, chirrup> began Praygat. <Chirp chirrup
middle-aged shopper Angela (Victoria Alcock) chirrup?> queried Sorvin. <Chirp chap!
is directed to cover her eyes, screaming: Chirrup!!> replied Praygat.
“Turn it off!” After Nathan (David Ames)
comes “half-falling” down from the top deck, 08m 55s There are three suns in the
the Doctor staggers forward to the front – as sky: the bus’ shadow matches the
scripted, calling, “Hold on – Driver! Stop highest of these, light from which must
the bus!!!” And so: the “terrified” driver surely swamp the lesser light cast 09m 40s The Doctor sonics his usual tortoise
slammed on the brakes, resulting in a by its smaller or more distant sister just shell-framed glasses, shading their lenses and
“MASSIVE JOLT!!” below; and clearly, the sun just above the blackening their frame. By the time of The
horizon line is either rising or setting. All Witch’s Familiar (2015), the Twelfth Doctor
07m 02s Sergeant of which explains why we never see anyone (Peter Capaldi) has graduated to a pair of
Dennison (Glenn with three shadows. So is this a planet full-on sonic sunglasses – so were the Tenth’s
Doherty) reports that without night? ‘sonicked shades’ the prototype?
units are in position It’s like “when all them planets were up
at the north side of in the sky,” exclaims Barclay – recalling the 10m 19s Barclay
the tunnel – armed officers, ready to ambush events of The Stolen Earth/Journey’s End demands to know if
an unarmed fugitive who’s not even driving (2008), when (as Nathan points out) the the Doctor’s particle-
her getaway vehicle. Wouldn’t it have been whole planet was transported across space. detecting device
simpler, less legally iffy, and far less likely Daniel Kaluuya, playing Barclay, has caused the flight of the
to risk harm to the 200’s innocent passengers, since graduated to Hollywood 200. “Oh, humans on buses, always blaming
if Dennison had simply boarded the bus at its roles: he gained an Academy me,” complains the Doctor – a reference back
next scheduled stop, and arrested Christina Award nomination as Best to Midnight (2008), when his fellow tourists
there? It’s not as if her every move isn’t being Actor for his leading role in on the Crusader 50 began to wonder if he’d
watched on CCTV… Get Out (2017); still more been responsible for the uncanny events
recently, he played unfolding aboard: “You called us ‘humans’,
The 200 has failed to emerge at the T’Challa’s best friend like you’re not one of us…”
north end of the tunnel… because it’s W’Kabi in Black
run to a stop amid the sand dunes of Panther (2018). 11m 17s The Doctor has thrown sand to show
an alien world! the outline of the “door in space” that the bus
09m 10s The bus passed through. Impatient, the bus driver has
08m 04s is “still intact”, rushed into it… and arrived back on Earth
Stepping out says the driver a smouldering skeleton, in a shot that was
of the now- – in dialogue initially vetoed by the BBC’s Editorial
trashed 200, written to Policy department.
the Doctor explain away
says that the end of the line is the visible 11m 46s The metal-framed bus protected
now “a little bit further than damage the passengers in its passage through the
Brixton” – suggesting that the inflicted wormhole… rather like a Faraday cage,
bus had been travelling north on the bus concludes Christina (named, of course, after
to south, from Victoria. But for when a electrical sciences pioneer Michael Faraday,
one thing, the bus had entered container was 1791-1867). The subsequent Christina/
the south entrance of the accidentally Doctor exchange – in which Christina
Gladwell road tunnel, heading north; dropped points out that a Faraday cage needs to be
for another, we’ll eventually learn that on its roof closed, and the Doctor speculates that the
the Doctor’s TARDIS was parked at at a Dubai wormhole’s “slightly different dynamics”
Buckingham Palace… just over half a dockside. mean that despite the bus being ripped open,
mile’s walk north of Victoria Station. he thinks there’s “enough metal to make it
All the evidence suggests, then, work” – was arguably the most desperate of
that the 200 had been travelling Russell T Davies’ emergency post-shipping
south to north, towards Victoria – accident script revisions.
ie, back towards the TARDIS; back
the way the Doctor came. Those 12m 52s Self-appointed team leader
rhondium particles must have led Christina convenes a meeting of the
him a merry dance… passengers. As recorded, the seventh point
on Christina’s agenda – “Assessment and
08m 18s The Doctor and company application of knowledge” – was actually
are being watched from afar, via “point eight”. The original seventh item was
a TV screen. Throughout the
Above right: The Doctor and a Tritovore look on as

Lady Christina takes a dive.
Top right: Barclay (Daniel Kaluuya) and Nathan (David
Ames) have travelled further than they intended.
Opposite page top left: Lady Christina takes charge.

European heritage, since ‘de Souza’ is Magambo lies when the Doctor asks if she
a variant of the common Portuguese language saluted him; in The Sontaran Stratagem/The
surname ‘Sousa’. Doctor Who fans will, of Poison Sky (2008), he’d repeatedly ordered
course, recognise actor Edward de Souza UNIT personnel not to salute him.
(1932-), aka Space Security Agent Marc
Cory from Mission to the Unknown (1965), 22m 33s UNIT’s
as another scion of the same clan. on-site scientific
advisor is Dr Malcolm
20m 39s Christina responds en Français to Taylor (Lee Evans)
the Doctor’s habitual «Allons-y» – “Let’s go” – who, as scripted,
– saying, «Oui, mais pas si nous allonsvers un we first saw “at his desk, wiring stuff up.
cauchemar.» Literally: “Yes, but not if we go Singing pom-pom-pom.” The Third and Fourth
into a nightmare.” But why should she think Doctors served as scientific advisors to UNIT –
niftily edited out: “Point seven, rations,” began that? So far as she’s concerned, all she’s doing but unlike Malcolm, neither wore a white coat
Christina – turning her attention to Angela, is following him to the top of a sand dune, for emblazoned with a UNIT crest, or an identity
with her jute shopper. “Angela Whittaker, how no clearly expressed reason! card. So is this required uniform for UNIT
much food have you got there?” she asked. scientific advisors now?
“Just the weekly shop,” replied Angela. “Then 20m 49s Looking out
you’re in charge of rations. Any water?” from the crest of a 23m 25s Malcolm claims to have “read all the
continued Christina. “Just orange juice and sand dune, the Doctor files” on the Doctor – prompting the Doctor
milk,” said Angela. “Guard them with your and Christina see what to ask, “What was your favourite, the giant
life,” ordered Christina. “I will do!” promised look like storm clouds, robot?” True, an accidental infusion of energy
Angela, earning Christina’s approval: “Good hundreds of miles away – “But getting closer,” caused experimental prototype robot K1
girl. Now – point eight…” The cut dialogue was observes the Doctor. At which point, a tiny fly (Michael Kilgarriff) to grow to giant size in the
included as a deleted scene in the Complete is crawling down his tie… on a planet that’s final episode of Robot (1974-75), but it was
Specials Blu-ray/DVD release. been entirely stripped of its wildlife, as we’ll never actually referred to as “the giant robot”
Angela might have been an Eileen. For soon discover. Some mistake, surely? Maybe – except in the title of Terrance Dicks’ Target
a time, Davies considered abandoning his not: we’ll also soon discover that the chirping Books novelisation, Doctor Who and the Giant
Catwoman-like thief (“A character who’s never creatures watching on remotely are humanoid Robot (1975).
actually existed in the real world, ever”), flies named Tritovores. So what if the ‘fly’ is
instead making the Doctor’s proxy companion their camera? Or a baby Tritovore equipped 23m 37s The Doctor
“plain Eileen”, the “most ordinary housewife with a miniature camera, even? goes to the driver’s
in the world” – played by “someone like Kathy cab to speak more
Burke”. (In the event, Christina endured after 21m 58s Having sonicked Barclay’s mobile so privately to Malcolm,
none of the possible ‘Eileen’ actors available at he might call UNIT on Earth – a refinement asking him to
the time excited the production team enough.) of the “jiggery-pokery” the Ninth Doctor analyse the wormhole. This was another
(Christopher Eccleston) performed on Rose’s revision made in the wake of the shipping
13m 43s Moments phone in The End of the World (2005) – the accident; originally, the Doctor ran upstairs
later, after the Doctor Doctor has got through to the Captain. to talk to Malcolm off speakerphone –
says that their passing ‘Magambo in awe!’ commanded stage unaware that Christina was “at the bottom
through the wormhole directions. “Gulp. She takes the mobile.” of the stairs, listening”. 1
was just an accident,
Carmen cuts over, insisting: “No, it wasn’t.”
As scripted, Christina came in with, “Point
nine, don’t interrupt.” But the Doctor said he MISSIONS IMPOSSIBLE
didn’t mind: “Carmen, what is it, what d’you
D
mean...?” Whereupon Carmen continued with aredevil thief Christina Hunt (Tom Cruise) uses two
her on-screen speech, directed to be delivered carries a special super-thin cables suspended
in a “hushed and creepy” fashion. winch to assist from his belt to drop from the
her manoeuvres at roof of a high-security
14m 22s Weekly £10 lottery winner Carmen the International Gallery – later computer room, without
has demonstrated “low-level psychic ability, described in stage directions tripping sensors in the
exacerbated by an alien sun”. But as we’ve as “a super-compact-techno- floor. But that Mission: impregnable Topkapi Palace in
seen, there are three suns outside! winch, sleek and black, Mission Impossible scene order to swipe an ancient royal
Impossible-style”. The reference itself seemingly owed treasure – not a golden cup, but
Death is coming; riding on the wind, predicts is revealing, because her two big much to a sequence an emerald-encrusted dagger
Carmen. The Doctor promises to get all the stunts seemingly owe more than a in the heist thriller – leaving a replica in its place.
passengers back to Earth… where UNIT is little to a much-parodied scene from Topkapi (1964). (Strangely, Planet of the Dead
arriving, in force, at the road tunnel. big-screen TV revival movie Mission: There, acrobatic also features a sort-of ‘human
Impossible (1996) – in which Ethan ‘human fly’ Guilio fly’ – two of them, in fact.)
17m 48s The UNIT officer in charge is Captain (Gilles Ségal)
Erisa Magambo (Noma Dumezweni) – whose employed a not- Far left: The episode begins
parallel world counterpart had sent Donna dissimilar winch to with a daring robbery.
Noble (Catherine Tate) back into her personal descend from Left: Christina escapes the
timeline to reset history on its proper course a high point scene of the crime.
in Turn Left (2008). above a room Above: One-sheet posters for
in Istanbul’s Mission: Impossible (1996) and
20m 09s Christina is properly the Lady supposedly Topkapi (1964).
Christina de Souza – suggesting southern

The Fact of Fiction
1 24m 06s Malcolm uses a unique unit of introduced in Roberts’ New
measurement to record the energy signature Adventures novel The Highest
of the wormhole – the Malcolm (or rather, Science (1993), into a “space
‘malcolm’?). Pioneering mechanical engineer war” scenario… but as the story
James Watt (1732-1819) didn’t name the developed, and it was decided to
electrical watt after himself, as Malcolm record in a desert location, Davies
implies; in fact, the watt wasn’t formally realised that “we can’t ask an actor
adopted until 1908, after a proposal made by to wear a tortoise suit in the bloody
Charles William Siemens in 1882. It’s odd, desert – we’ll kill him”. So he came
though, that the Doctor doesn’t correct him: up with “Friendly Outer-Space
in The Space Museum (1965), the First Doctor Flies” as an alternative…
(William Hartnell) claimed to have been
present when Watt was inspired to invent the 29m 12s Having proved his
steam engine. peaceful credentials to the Tritovores, the 35m 58s At the bottom of the spaceship’s
100 malcolms = 1 bernard, apparently, Doctor now learns that they’re on the planet gravity well lies a (displaced) crystal nucleus
explicitly named after Quatermass. But San Helios – in the Scorpion Nebula, on that the Doctor could use to help power the
does this refer to the fictional Professor “the other side of the universe”. Not the bus. “But it must be half a mile down,” he
Quatermass, introduced in the BBC sci-fi constellation Scorpius, then – which lies observed in Draft 5.
serial The Quatermass Experiment (1953) – elsewhere in Earth’s galaxy, the Milky Way.
whose adventures the younger Malcolm might In the Doctor’s absence, Christina uses her
plausibly have watched on TV and/or film? Or 29m 30s The burgling gear to descend the well…
to a real-life Quatermass, perhaps the same Tritovores came to
‘Bernard’ mentioned by Professor Rachel trade with the 100 38m 24s The Doctor
Jensen (Pamela Salem), another van-dwelling billion inhabitants of and Christina keep in
military scientific adviser, in Remembrance of San Helios, seeking touch via Tritovore
the Daleks (1988)? We’re never told… payment in the “waste matter” they feed devices – and it’s
on. Not unlike the Mantasphids, whom the remarkable that the
In the desert, the Doctor and Christina Tenth Doctor encountered not long before, earless Tritovores possess “internal comms”
are confronted by a fly-headed alien during the course of the animated adventure that fit human lugs perfectly.
being… who forces them on, into a crashed The Infinite Quest (2007) – although the The Doctor says that he once had a friend
spaceship. Mantasphids forcibly invaded planets for dung. who called him “spaceman”; that friend being
Donna, of course. He goes on to detail a few of
26m 42s Freezing San Helios was stripped bare by the ‘storm’ the space/time locations he’s visited, including
February weather on – shown to be a swarm of metal-boned World War I (a displaced portion of which
location at the disused ‘stingrays’ whose flight formation rips he visited in The War Games, 1969) plus
Mir Steel plant caused wormholes into existence, enabling them to the creation of the universe (in Castrovalva,
the actors’ breath to move to other planets. Next in line: Earth! 1982) and its end (in Utopia, 2007). “The
visibly condense – and since the spaceship was war between China and Japan,” might refer
supposedly sat in a sunburned desert, Russell 35m 18s The opening part of this scene was to the Sino-Japanese Wars of either 1894-
T Davies hastily devised the Doctor’s lines cut in post-production. It began with the 95 or 1937-45 (or a future conflict). From
about how its ‘photafine’ steel hull turns cold Doctor explaining to the Tritovores what Christina’s backpack, the Doctor produces the
when it’s hot. he needed, now he knew that Angela had golden goblet she stole from the International
accidentally drained the bus’ tank: “Diesel, the Gallery – the cup he last saw at the court
27m 15s Subordinate Sorvin (Paul Kasey) bus, the 200, it uses diesel – it’s oil, it’s petrol, of the newly anointed Anglo-Saxon King
has brought his captives before Praygat it’s a mineral, from rocks, have you got any Æthelstan (c 894-939) in 924 AD, when it was
(Ruari Mears) – the superior Tritovore being sort of engine fuel I could have a look at?” He given as a coronation gift by the Welsh king
indicated by “fussier insignia” on his boiler was met with a barrage of chirps from Praygat Hywel Dda (c 880-950). She’s a thief!
suit, according to stage directions. At an and Sorvin, which he translated to Christina:
earlier point, Davies had asked Gareth Roberts “It’s no good, they use dry-filaments, not a 40m 21s The Doctor’s
to incorporate the tortoise-like Chelonians, drop of petrol!” explanation about
how the crash-causing
stingray that Christina
TOMORROW IS HERE discovers at the bottom

of the well was dormant in the cold was
added at the same time as the “photafine hull”
U
nbeatable founder Joshua Naismith dialogue (see above).
‟ global call (David Harewood), whom
tariffs” and the Tenth Doctor will go on 42m 00s Christina has retrieved the crystal
“Tomorrow to encounter in The End of nucleus… but as all prepare to exit the ship,
is here” read the hoardings Time (2009-10). Naismith’s the Tritovores fall prey to another stingray
on either side of the 200 Neon is not to be confused – Praygat first, then Sorvin, according to the
– promoting Neon, a with the LG NeON® script. Alas, poor Tritovores. In an ‘exclusive’
mobile telecoms mobile phone published on 30 January 2009, Daily Mirror
service offered range, announced Above: The Neon advert. ‘Head of Showbiz’ Tom Bryant had claimed that
by the Naismith between Far left: Joshua Naismith Doctor Who’s “bosses” wanted the Tritovore
company, production and (David Harewood) in The (sic) to “become as iconic as the Daleks and the
named after broadcast of End of Time (2009-10). Cybermen”; and that Davies was “hoping to
its billionaire the episode. Left: An LG NeON phone. use the creatures in three other special shows”.
They didn’t, and he wasn’t. Alas.

43m 28s Back at the bus, the Doctor has inside of the window of the Mobile HQ door, The Doctor sonics Christina’s handcuffs and
attached the crystal’s clamps to its wheels… so it reads reversed from without? she flies the 200 away. They could’ve been
then asks Christina if there’s a hammer in her so good together…
bag. He should know; he rifled through it at 53m 08s The Doctor
38m 47s. proposes that 57m 47s So, what
Magambo recruits happened next?
44m 29s The nucleus Nathan and Barclay, Captain Erisa
isn’t compatible with affording them both Magambo called in the
the bus’ mechanics, the opportunity to be killed in action – perhaps Tenth Doctor to help
explains the Doctor during the Zygon insurgency six years later, her investigate moving trees in Greenwich
(meaning he’ll have when UNIT will be “neutralised in the UK” (as Park in Don’t Step on the Grass, a four-
to hammer the cup into scrap). “Bus, reported in The Zygon Invasion, 2015). part comic mini-series published by IDW in
spaceship; spaceship, bus,” he continues… 2010. Dr Malcolm Taylor is presumed to be
channelling the ghost of comic magician 54m 59s McMillan arrests Christina – but if the ‘Malcolm’ whom Kate Stewart (Jemma
Tommy Cooper doing his famous “Glass, he’s waited such a long time to say it, as he Redgrave) charged with fitting new batteries
bottle; bottle, glass” routine? claims, he should know better than to skimp on in the Tower of London ravens in The Day
the formal wording of her caution. “You do not of the Doctor (2013). And Lady Christina de
46m 08s Meanwhile, Captain Magambo urges have to say anything, etcetera, etcetera,” won’t Souza ran into the same Doctor again, this
Malcolm to close the wormhole before the cut it, because if he doesn’t tell her that “it may time in Africa, in the recent Big Finish Tenth
Doctor brings the 200 through… at gunpoint. harm your defence if you do not mention when Doctor Chronicles audio release (narrated
The deleted final portion of this scene can also questioned something which you later rely by Jacob Dudman). Later this year, Michelle
be found on the Complete Specials release. on in court” (etc) – legally speaking, nothing Ryan returns to the role in four Lady Christina
“You don’t even know what button to press,” Christina says can be given in evidence! audio adventures… DWM
said the terrified Malcolm. “Transmit, F8,”
replied Magambo – whereupon Malcolm 55m 40s As Christina
scooped up the keyboard behind his back, is taken away, Carmen
telling her: “To get to that button. You’ll have tells the Doctor to be
to shoot me.” careful, because his
“song is ending” –
"You be careful. echoing what Ood Sigma (voiced by Silas

Carson) told him in Planet of the Ood
Because your song (2008): “I think your song must end

soon…” In The End of Time, the Doctor
is ending, sir." CARMEN will learn exactly what the ‘It’ is that’s
“returning through the dark” – ie,
Gallifrey – and the identity of the person
46m 33s The “anti-gravity clamps” cause the who will “knock four times”. Carmen is
200 to rise into the air, but its registration a genuine clairvoyant then, but that isn’t
number has suddenly become RUA 461W… so unusual: in Image of the Fendahl (1977),
when a few moments before, it had been the Fourth Doctor (Tom Baker) described
W974 GHM – just as DI McMillan had spelled how “telepathy and precognition are normal
out in London, all that time ago. in anyone whose childhood was spent near
The Seventh Doctor saw a flying bus, fitted a time fissure” – such as Fetchborough
with parts from a space cruiser, in Delta and denizen Martha Tyler (Daphne Heard). The
the Bannermen (1987). Is that what gave him same was true of 19th-century servant girl
the idea? Gwyneth (Eve Myles) in The Unquiet Dead
“Do you think this thing will survive the (2005), whose second sight the Ninth Doctor
journey back?” asks Christina. “Only one also ascribed to her having grown up “on top”
way to find out,” replies the Doctor. Again, of a time rift – in Cardiff, on this occasion.
these lines were inserted after that portside So does Carmen’s clairvoyance imply the
accident. Originally, he simply called out: existence of an as-yet-unidentified time-
“Here we go!” space breach close to her
childhood home?
48m 22s The bus
emerges from the
Earth side of the
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wormhole, which
can now be closed –
ending Magambo and Malcolm’s stand-off.
Stage directions ran: “She lowers the gun. The
relief!” Indeed: The Fact of Fiction calculates DVD/BLU-RAY
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two minutes. Specials
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50m 00s Having closed the wormhole, BBC Worldwide Above: Dr Malcolm Taylor
Malcolm goes to watch as Magambo’s troops YEAR 2010 (Lee Evans), UNIT’s
scientific advisor.
shoot down the three stingrays that have AVAILABILITY
followed through – but which idiot squaddie Out now Opposite page top:
The Doctor flies the bus!
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50,000 light years from Earth, a revivalist in New New York. Anna Hope reprises her
movement of humans has settled on a planet television role and is joined by actor and
orbiting a star in Galaxy M87. The humans comedian Kieran Hodgson as Devon Pryce,
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When Thorn goes missing in the upper
Right: Novice Hame
levels of the Elevator Lodge, Devon (Anna Hope) and the
stumbles on a creepy conversion ceremony Tenth Doctor (David
where native New New Yorkers are being Tennant) in 2007’s
transformed into Lumen, the servitor Gridlock.
automatons of the Lux. He also meets Below left: Hame returns
Hame, who is investigating other mysterious as a senator in Tales from
disappearances; together, they learn of New Earth.
a conspiracy to convert the city’s entire Below right: Yasmin
population into Lumen. The truthful acting Bannerman as Jabe in the
2005 episode The End of
of Hodgson and Jacobs-Morgan is key here, the World.
as their characters’ beautifully portrayed In Tales from New Earth
relationship comes to a tragic conclusion. Yasmin plays Sapling
With Devon established as a smart, Vale, a cutting from Jabe.
determined and resourceful protagonist, it’s
somewhat disappointing to see him reduced to promises of a fresh
the role of companion when the Tenth Doctor power source
takes centre stage in the next two stories. for New Caelum,
Roland Moore’s Death in the New Forest finds Devon becomes
Devon visiting Thorn’s family in the New
Forest Continental Plantation, home of the
involved with
opponents of a Novice Hame of the Sisters
tree people. There he meets the Doctor, who
is investigating why Termitons, eight-foot-tall
plan to use cloud-
mining technology
of Plenitude is now a senator
termite people, are apparently slaughtering
clerics connected to the Deciduan Code, the
to harness the
energy of the
in the Great Parliament that
treekind religion.
The Doctor is working with Sapling Vale
planet’s ice clouds.
In what might be
sits in New New York.
(Yasmin Bannerman), a cutting from Jabe of read as an allegory of the fracking who zooms around the skies of New Earth
the Forest of Cheem (Bannerman’s character controversy, the cloud-mining could with a rocket pack strapped to his back. In
in 2005 episode The End of the World). irrevocably damage the floating tundra that’s a blistering performance, Hadoke makes
Together with Devon, they go in search of home to a thriving population of sky penguins Oscar an instantly memorable and irresistibly
the Termitons’ next target, an elderly tree and solar bears, but once again it’s the Lux endearing character.
named Xylem Maple Dorm – a delightful guest that poses a greater threat. Events come to a suitably epic conclusion
appearance by former Play School presenter This outrageously enjoyable tale boasts in Matt Fitton’s The Cats of New Cairo, with
Derek Griffiths. They soon discover another Green Wing’s Julian Rhind-Tutt as the Hame and Devon travelling to the titular
sinister Lux conspiracy, but there’s a neat twist representative of the Cloudburst energy catkind settlement for a meeting with the
which turns the tables and ignites an exciting company and Nina Toussaint-White Most Exalted High Persian (James Dreyfus),
race against time in the final act. (Mels in 2011’s Let’s Kill Hitler) as an figurehead of the Order of Fortitude. Hame
environmentalist bird person, but both are is disturbed to learn that the High Persian
A
dvance publicity suggested thoroughly upstaged by Toby Hadoke as a has already negotiated an arrangement
that the Tenth Doctor only jet-propelled polar bear. Like the deranged with the Lux that will be ratified during a
appeared in these stories via spawn of Iorek Byrnison and the Cresta bear, forthcoming stellar conjunction, but before
reported speech in Devon’s Oscar McLeod is a solar bear revolutionary she and Devon can expose these plans to the
narration, but in truth that approach senate, their shuttle is attacked and crash-
is soon abandoned and the Doctor is lands in the desert. The tense finale places all
very evidently speaking for himself, life on New Earth in jeopardy but thankfully
exchanging dialogue and interacting leaves the door open for further tales. Such
with the other characters, courtesy of a deliciously exhilarating concoction fully
Hodgson’s often uncanny David Tennant deserves to become an ongoing series –
impression. However, this has the effect although preferably without the David Tennant
of disconnecting the listener from the impressions next time.
narrative; instead of remaining immersed
I
in the unfolding events, I found myself n a similar vein, the Fifth Doctor
repeatedly assessing the accuracy of adventure Serpent in the Silver
the impersonation. That said, Hodgson’s Mask is a charmingly silly romp that
Tenth Doctor ultimately proves an takes the form of a country house
acceptable substitute in whodunnit, albeit one in which the country
Tennant’s absence and is house is actually a space station on the outer
rather less distracting edges of the Kuiper Belt. For the last in
by the time he pops up the latest trilogy of audios set in the
again in The Skies of era of Doctor Who’s 1982 series, Peter
New Earth. Davison’s Doctor brings Tegan (Janet
Penned by Paul Fielding), Nyssa (Sarah Sutton) and
Morris, the third Adric (Matthew Waterhouse)
story introduces to Argentia station in search of the
Devon to New Caelum diothenene crystals he needs
and Nest City, mile- to make a new sonic
wide structures screwdriver, replacing the one
floating high above he lost during the events of
the ground. While The Visitation (1982).
looking into the The travellers’ arrival
Lux Corporation’s coincides with the funeral 1

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1 of mining magnate Carlo Mazzini in the
Right: Matthew
station’s Temple of Optimism. There, the Waterhouse as Adric, Peter
Doctor and his companions are introduced to Davison as the Fifth Doctor,
the relatives of the deceased, all ‘demi-clones’ Janet Fielding as Tegan
born from cloned material and identical and Sarah Sutton as Nyssa
in appearance except for what the Doctor (seated) in a publicity shot
for the 1982 series.
describes as “a few genetic twists here and
All four star in Serpent
there for variety”. Guest star Samuel West in the Silver Mask.
delivers a tour-de-force performance as all six Bottom: The First Doctor
family members, from chrono-archaeologist (William Hartnell) and
Angelo (a spot-on impression of Tom Steven (Peter Purves)
Courtenay) and mining manager Francesco in The Massacre of St
(evoking Fred Truman) to Italian cosmetologist Bartholomew’s Eve (1966).
Purves narrates the First
Maria and her empty-headed twins Peter and
Doctor story on The Second
Paul. “We gave Paul blue eyes to match the Doctor Who Audio Annual.
sofa,” Maria tells Nyssa.
Naturally, the reading of the
will is the catalyst for murder and
before long the Mazzini family
are dropping like flies at the
hands of a mysterious figure in a
silver mask. The station’s Killoran
chief of police, Superintendent
Galgo (played by impressionist
Although the emphasis is
Phil Cornwell), is incapacitated by
a venomous Naumek, prompting
comedic, there are plenty of
the Doctor and his companions to scares and even a romantic
track down the culprit before he
(or possibly she) gets away with opportunity for Tegan.
the Mazzini moolah.
David Llewellyn’s sparkling script is an Doctor in Part Two: “Such powerful thighs! Holmes, but here they owe more to Scooby-
unashamed mash-up of the Ealing classic Do you enjoy physical pursuits?” Doo, complete with talking dog, mystery gang
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) and Agatha The only downside is that the primary and melodramatic unmasking of the villain
Christie’s 1939 novel And Then There Were allure of a whodunnit is the opportunity (who would have got away with it if it weren’t
None. Although the emphasis is comedic, for the audience to work out the identity for those meddling kids).
there are plenty of scares and even a romantic of the murderer for themselves, and in Despite this (and perhaps because of it),
opportunity for Tegan as she becomes involves this case the solution turns out to be the whole thing is tremendous fun and the
with handsome schoolteacher Joe Mazzini such a bonkers cheat that no one could producers are to be applauded for taking a
(also played by West). The adventure will possibly deduce it from the evidence. In the risk. In less assured hands this could easily
probably be best remembered for an entirely accompanying cast and crew interviews, have ended up as an embarrassing farce.
different romantic interlude however, namely director Barnaby Edwards attributes the Serpent in the Silver Mask is, however,
smouldering Maria’s attempt to seduce the Doctor’s methods to those of Sherlock a triumph. DWM
Talking book to build a world and paying off

with a climax that uses time
travel in a surprising way.
o The Second Doctor Who Purves, Anneke Wills, Geoffrey The remaining stories each
Audio Annual Beevers, Matthew Waterhouse take up no more than 20
Read by Peter Purves, Anneke Wills, and Nicola Bryant. Purves opens minutes, but all are engaging
Geoffrey Beevers, Matthew Waterhouse, proceedings with a reading of and evoke a feeling of nostalgia.
Nicola Bryant RRP £13.25 (CD) the short essay The Equations Matthew Waterhouse gets a
of Doctor Who from the 1966 double helping with the Fourth
Available from BBC Audio edition, before launching Doctor tale Double Trouble
into the same year’s Peril in (1976) and Fifth Doctor/Adric
W
e live in an era of Mechanistria. At 50 minutes, outing Planet of Fear (1982).
plentiful original prose this is the longest story in the These contrasting stories allow
adventures; however, collection as the first Dr Who Matthew to show off a wide
between 1965 and 1985 just (sic) lands on an alien planet narrative range, while Nicola Anneke Wills’ and Geoffrey
about the only source of fresh under the yoke Bryant gives us The Radio Waves Beevers’ readings of the Second
literary exploits for the Doctor of mechanical (1985), as the Sixth Doctor foils and Third Doctor stories The
were the Doctor Who annuals. creatures. It’s a plan by the Master that Sour Note (1968) and Scorched
These story collections are deceptively wouldn’t be out of place Earth (1975) maintain the
fondly remembered, and, sophisticated, in the modern series. This quality from earlier in the set,
after the success of last year’s taking time tale has the distinction and everything is rounded off
Doctor Who Audio Annual, of being the final with music and sound effects
BBC Audio has come up with story published from BBC Audio. With plenty
a second volume. in the original of stories yet to be adapted,
As before, it’s six Doctors 20-year one hopes we’ll be treated to
in six adventures read in span of the further Audio Annuals in years
comforting manner by Peter annuals. to come. MARK WRIGHT

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The Enemy
of the World
DVD
BBC Studios
RRP £12.99
WRITTEN BY David Whitaker
DIRECTED BY Barry Letts
STARRING Patrick Troughton (the Doctor),
Frazer Hines (Jamie), Deborah Watling (Victoria)
H
ere we are in 2018, the
year in which The Enemy
of the World’s intrepid
Astrid Ferrier will have to
renew her helicopter licence. those episodes whole,
Above: Astrid
From on-screen evidence, eager to broadcast their Ferrier (Mary
we know this story occurs between 16 August immediate reaction to this Peach) and Giles
2017 and 31 December this year. It makes astonishing find. Contrary Kent (Bill Kerr)
sense that writer David Whitaker was thinking to received wisdom, many prepare the
‘50 years in the future’ when he wrote it in found themselves saying Doctor (Patrick
Troughton) for
1967… but let’s just say it’s meant to be set they preferred Enemy to
his impersonation
round about now. Web. Now, with a host of of Salamander
In 2013, film prints of this long-lost new DVD extras offering in Episode 4 of
six-part adventure were returned to the us a fresh look at the The Enemy of the
BBC alongside episodes of the following fraught circumstances World (1967-68).
story, The Web of Fear. The episodes under which this serial Far left: Patrick
were swiftly remastered and released on was made, will we be Troughton plays
iTunes. Back then, Whitaker’s vision of less kind? both the Doctor
and Ramón
the future seemed wide of the mark. The doppelgänger
Salamander.
We’re still aspect of this story is both
a long way from being able to shuttle its greatest strength and
from Hungary to Australia in a couple its greatest weakness. Patrick Troughton
of hours, but the brinkmanship seen in has a lot of fun playing not only the Doctor
The Enemy of the World – masterminded but also Salamander, the villainous would-
by an ambitious, unscrupulous and be dictator. This central conceit is what this
larger-than-life statesman – seems more story is known for – Salamander is the most
prescient today than it did five years ago. celebrated of the many Doctor doubles we’ve
A lot has changed in the intervening period. seen over the years. On closer inspection,
Even so, has our perspective on The Enemy of however, it doesn’t drive the plot in the
the World changed that much? Following its way you’d expect. The Doctor’s uncanny,
iTunes release in 2013 it was rush-released and entirely coincidental, resemblance to
on DVD. There was no chance to create the Salamander isn’t utilised to manoeuvre
kind of supporting documentary material Jamie and Victoria into place – they inveigle
common on other Doctor Who titles, but this their way into Salamander’s confidence by
was only a small disappointment at the time. pretending to save his life. A plan is laid out in
Given the rare opportunity of being able to Episode 1: for the Doctor to walk straight into
watch some old Doctor Who that Salamander’s research station at Kanowa and
had been unseen since it was bring out proof of wrongdoing. When it comes
broadcast in the 1960s (or
70s for some people
overseas), we were
The doppelgänger
happy to immerse
ourselves in the
aspect of this
fiction without
worrying too
story is both its
much about greatest strength
what went on
behind the and its greatest
scenes. Fans
swallowed weakness.
to fruition in Episode 5, they’ve already come Special Features
clean to security chief Donald Bruce who, Toby Hadoke is on
presumably, could have got them into the a mission. On Treasures
base himself. Lost and Found, the prolific
In short, the limitations of recording Doctor Who interviewer
episodic TV in the late 1960s made it sets out to discover a new
impractical to stage this encounter with fact about The Enemy of
an ‘evil twin’. Troughton had to hurriedly the World. Given that the
switch make-up and costume between takes, primary motivation for this
necessitating scripts that were written around Special Edition was the opportunity to include reflected any of the political tensions of
the practicalities of shooting. The filming of bonus material, I’m not sure it was wise to the day. Perhaps it’s odd to suggest that
the climactic sequence, where the Doctor and start by saying we already know everything this chaotic production has a broader
Salamander meet, went disastrously wrong – there is to be known. purpose than just being a bit of knockabout
with only a scant few seconds of split-screen At the heart of this documentary, however, entertainment, but this lovingly curated
material being salvaged. is a superb interview with David Troughton, Special Edition demonstrates that it’s still
Overcoming this fundamental flaw, The who talks at length about his father. And adored nonetheless. RICHARD ATKINSON
Enemy of the World scores highly in two naturally Toby succeeds in his mission, finding
respects that make it deserving of any praise a nugget of treasure at the end of his journey. Above left: Location
that’s lavished on it. Obviously, you have to admire how the filming for the hovercraft
sequence in Episode 1.
Despite its darker moments, this story producers of these extras rise to the
delivers the kind of imaginative and challenge of finding a new way to Above right: Astrid
persuades the Doctor
absurd escapism that is central frame old material, especially since
to help her defeat
to many of the best Doctor Who so many of the people involved Salamander.
stories. And it’s populated with in this story have passed away.
Left inset: Deborah
a colourful array of extraordinary Although it’s slightly ironic when Watling as Victoria.
characters. It’s as if Patrick archive footage of Barry Letts
Right: The hapless
Troughton’s joyous interpretation cuts from a comment about Fedorin (David
of Salamander has prompted getting on and telling the story Nettheim).
everyone else to push things rather than bothering with clever
that little bit further. As we move tricks, to footage of Toby peering
through this world we meet the twitchy quizzically at an iPhone.
politician Fedorin, earnest servant girl One of the people we’ve lost since this
Fariah, the incredulous Donald Bruce, the story was returned is Deborah Watling, who
bitchy henchman Benik and, of course, the played companion Victoria. On Remembering
dazzlingly intense double-agent Giles Kent. Deborah Watling family members and
Then there’s Colin and Mary – two youngsters a broad selection of Doctor Who stars
who were part of a community held captive recall what a vibrant woman she was.
by Salamander. You can’t deny that Adam Recovering the Past, meanwhile,
Verney’s portrayal of Colin is amusingly tells the story of how The Enemy of
theatrical, but who wouldn’t go a bit crazy the World was found. It’s probably
if they were locked in a cellar and told the what you’d expect: the man who
world had come to end? tracked these episodes down – Phillip
In addition to striking the right tone, Morris – giving us a solid account of the
it’s vital that Doctor Who is ambitious. recovery mission.
The director, Barry Letts, was relatively There’s also a short piece about restoring
inexperienced here, but that didn’t stop him the film prints, clips of Jon Pertwee from
doing his best to make the kind of programme the 1991 VHS release The Troughton Years,
he wanted to make. The Enemy of the World a photo gallery with some rare behind-the-
set him on a path to writing and producing scenes pictures, and PDFs of the original
some of the most successful Doctor Who of scripts and Radio Times listings.
the 1970s. It gave him experience of all the The extras are rounded off by some witty
things that could go wrong with the scripts and informative production subtitles and
and the effects. And it gave him a unique a commentary that gathers together an
insight into the pressures the production impressive selection of people involved in
schedule put on the series’ lead actor. the production.
The Enemy of the World is both fun and Questioned by moderator Simon Harries,
a pivotal moment in the series’ history, and Benik actor Milton Johns is quite dismissive
it’s certainly worth revisiting once in a while. of the idea that The Enemy of the World

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Books
Reviewed this issue
Target Books
o Rose by Russell T Davies
For the first time in over 25 years years
o The Christmas Invasion
by Jenny T Colgan
there are new titles in the Target Books
o The Day of the Doctor by Steven Moffat range. But do these novelisations
o Twice Upon a Time by Paul Cornell live up to the hype?
BBC Books RRP £6.99 each
P
lenty of people will tell you
that the Target books were
the principal way to relive
old episodes of Doctor Who
in the days before we had
easy access to recordings.
Well, yes, but they were also objects of joy
in themselves: beautifully packaged, bite-
sized novels that gave us the chance to
explore our favourite TV series in an
entirely different medium. At their
best, they conjured up vivid worlds
that couldn’t be staged on a TV
budget, presenting thoroughly
realised characters who leapt
off the page. Even the
less-celebrated Target
books – those that were
rumoured to have been
dashed off in the
space of a weekend
– offered clarity.
Flying in the face
of how many fans like
to collect their Doctor
Who, the range was
boldly inconsistent. Some
books were brilliant, some
disappointing. They often
contradicted each other. In
short, they were just like the
TV series they were based on.
Those who argue that there
is no need for novelisations in
an era of DVDs, Blu-rays and
streaming are missing the
point. These books were
the pinnacle of Doctor
Who merchandise.
So it’s brilliant that they’re
back. Since 2011, BBC Books
has been issuing reprints of
the old Targets. Every 20th-
century Doctor Who story
(with the exception of 1984’s
Resurrection of the Daleks
and 1985’s Revelation of the
Daleks) has been adapted.
Now, finally, they’ve taken
the plunge and published four
titles from the untapped wealth
of stories broadcast over the
last 13 years – picking a notable
story from the eras of Eccleston,
Tennant, Smith and Capaldi.

Russell T Davies kicks things off with his
Opposite page: Rose
adaptation of Rose, the story that in 2005 Tyler (Billie Piper)
rebooted Doctor Who for a new generation. and her boyfriend
Russell clearly has a strong understanding Mickey Smith (Noel
of what the Target Books range is all about. Clarke) in Rose
Before you start reading, stopping off at the (2005).
contents pages, you’ll see chapter titles such Right: Autons on the
as Descent into Terror, Enter the Doctor and rampage in Rose.
The Battle of London, which feel like they Bottom: David
could have been written by prolific Target Tennant as the
Doctor and Billie
novelist Terrance Dicks. (Although it’s Paul Piper as Rose in
Cornell, in his adaptation of Twice Upon a a publicity shot
Time, who can’t resist the most commonly from The Christmas
used chapter heading from back in the day – Invasion (2005).
Escape to Danger.)
A
dapting his own script,
Russell is the most inclined
to embellish what we saw
on screen. He starts by setting the
scene for our heroine Rose’s first
Adapting his own script, Russell
encounter with both the deadly
Autons and the Doctor, spinning
is the most inclined to embellish
an entire chapter out of the
televised line “Wilson, I’ve got
what we saw on screen.
the lottery money!” contribution to the original Doctor Who Christmas Special. It is, no doubt,
Also extended is the scene where BBC One broadcast is important to some younger fans who recall
Rose meets Doctor-expert Clive. alluded to, and many being introduced to a new Doctor for the first
Russell cheekily throws a couple chapters end on expertly time. But David Tennant is hardly in it...
of future Doctors into the mix of crafted punch lines. As the A bold creative choice then, but it’s something
photos that Clive shows to her. Auton Mickey drives Rose of a mystery why something that favoured
It’s Rose’s boyfriend Mickey, off for a pizza, they realise the Tenth Doctor wasn’t chosen – 2008’s The
however, who gains the most from further they have no money. “How are we going to Stolen Earth/Journey’s End perhaps.
investigation. While his TV manifestation pay?” asks Rose. “Plastic,” says Mickey. Let’s Nevertheless, Jenny T Colgan does a fine
obviously benefitted from the talents of actor hope Russell can be persuaded to write up job. And if you’ve ever wanted to know what an
Noel Clarke, he never really played the some more of his stories in future, unconscious Time Lord smells like, this is the
character quite how it’s laid out here on as this is a beautiful rendering book for you. While the Doctor is tucked up in
the page. Watching him – working in a of a landmark episode. bed, we’re able to concentrate on Rose. Over
garage, itching to get down the pub to Which brings us to the course of the book she’s terrified, then
watch football with his mates – it was The Christmas Invasion hopeful and finally begins to fall headlong in
tempting to pigeonhole Mickey as some – something of a smaller love with the new Doctor.
kind of blokey stereotype. Brought to landmark perhaps. Jenny also imagines up some tragically
book, the character is an orphan with Sure, in 2005 thwarted romance for space scientist
a mass of all-too-real insecurities. It’s it started the Daniel Llewellyn, who is the principle
a much better Mickey, one who is kind tradition of the point-of-view character for events that
and doesn’t need to be the hero. And his take place at UNIT command.
friends – who lend some LGBT representation She chooses not to dwell quite so
into the story – add extra peril to much on Prime Minister Harriet
the much-extended, totally Jones, who makes an enemy of
thrilling Auton attack on the the Doctor by firing on the
streets of London at the retreating alien invaders.
end of the book. I felt sure that the Doctor’s
Russell takes the line that triggers her
trouble to explain why the downfall – “Don’t you 1
Nestene Consciousness
and Autons differ from
those seen in the 1970s.
Adapting previous
Auton stories, Terrance
Dicks made up for
what wasn’t seen on
screen, describing the
Nestenes as part crab,
part spider and part
octopus. Russell, however,
fashions this plastic-obsessed
extraterrestrial as
a more otherworldly and
grislier proposition.
Alongside the horror there
are plenty of laughs. Early on,
Graham Norton’s unscheduled

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1 think she looks tired” – was based on an was smashed to pieces on the arrival of the
observation made in real life either about Sycorax spaceship. Such scenes possibly
Margaret Thatcher or then-current PM Tony helped us imagine that the events depicted
Blair. An internet search to confirm this, could happen the following Christmas (the
however, very much backs up the claim Jenny action on screen being set
makes in her Afterword – that Doctor Who a year in the future at that point).
has popularised the phrase. Cleverly, A lost year does, inevitably, pale
Jenny chooses to give the scenario into insignificance when it comes
some contemporary relevance to the novelisation of the 50th
by introducing a subtle nod to Anniversary Special, The Day
current political issues. of the Doctor. Steven Moffat –
Elsewhere, the links to our like Russell, tackling one of his
own reality aren’t as deft. For own episodes – set himself the
example, the London skyscraper challenge of writing the same
known as the Gherkin is described story from the perspective of a
as “half-finished” – when in fact it variety of different Doctors. It should
would have been complete for three years. come as no surprise that the way he does
A minor quibble, but the real-life elements it is astonishingly clever. The book starts
on original broadcast helped root the story with Chapter 8 – covering the final minutes
– this recently completed London landmark of the Eighth Doctor’s life. It then moves onto
Chapter 11, wherein the Eleventh Doctor
Far left: The Doctor is introduced, and later Chapter 10, when
(Paul McGann) prepares the Tenth arrives on the scene. Jumbled up
to regenerate in The to reflect the narrative as it appeared on
Night of the Doctor TV, Chapters 1 to 7 follow the actions of the
(2013).
War Doctor, meaning that the chapters in
Above inset: The Moment sequence follow events as they happen to the
(Billie Piper) takes the
form of Rose in The Day
Doctor over his various incarnations. Chapter
of the Doctor (2013). 9 is, like Christopher Eccleston back in 2013,
Below: Three Doctors
missing altogether.
(David Tennant, John Ahead of each chapter is a series of
Hurt and Matt Smith) introductions from the book’s narrator that
and Clara Oswald (Jenna read very much like the column Steven used
Coleman) in The Day to write for Doctor Who Magazine. This
of the Doctor.
narrator, by the way, is at pains to explain

Steven’s approach is
refreshingly original, but
not without precedent
in the Target range.
where Chapter 9 has got to. He walks a fine up the most recent story to be televised, it’s the two Doctors of his story simply by calling
line when it comes to breaking the literary easier to attach his prose to some very fresh David Bradley’s character the First Doctor
equivalent of the fourth wall – this running memories of the action on TV. when he has to.
commentary being the home for some Paul adopts a style that accurately mimics Peter Capaldi’s Doctor, meanwhile, is
audacious in-jokes, the best of which is those early books. On page one of Chapter 1 served well by this choice of novelisation. In
halfway down page 23 (and best not spoiled). he uses phrases like “his heavily lined light of his impending demise, he’s in
The only slight issue with having the book’s face blazed with intelligence”, “the a reflective mood. Paul provides us
narrator challenge us to identify who is mysterious traveller in space and with some unexpected insight into
writing the succeeding chapters is that, for time known as the Doctor” and the Twelfth Doctor, giving him
the most part, they are all the Doctor. And “a terrifying encounter with the a wife that he lived a long life
although the different Doctors have differing Cybermen” that, once again, with – presumably during the
personalities, here they all have a tendency to evoke the sharp and economical years he was living at St Luke’s
err towards the kind of wisecracking dialogue prose of Terrance Dicks. University. Paul also captures
Steven habitually writes. Perhaps this is a Steven’s approach necessitated Jodie Whittaker’s first moments
good excuse to re-read the book as, second a never-ending array of nicknames – as the Doctor beautifully –
time around, you’d be able to read it with the such as “Tennis Shoes”, “Tight Suit” and describing her in words that are,
right voices in mind. “Captain Swagger” – whereas Paul again, evocative of Target’s ‘house style’.
mainly differentiates between (“A swish of blond hair, astonished eyes and
A
nother problem with the mystery a pleasing, goofy grin.”) I hope it’s not the
author format is that rather than use last time we see an interpretation of these
Above left: The
the first and third person to identify Twelfth Doctor features on the printed page.
which Doctor we’re talking about, Steven (Peter Capaldi) All four of these books add delightful and
introduces a convention where the Doctor meets his first unexpected insights. At the same time,
switches between ‘him’ and ‘me’ based on incarnation they remain laudably faithful to the TV
whether he thinks he’s acting as ‘himself’ or (David Bradley) episodes we know and love. Hopefully
in Twice Upon
the identity he’s created – that of ‘the Doctor’. the next series of Doctor Who will
a Time (2017).
In practice, that’s not quite as complicated as recruit yet another generation of fans.
Above right:
it sounds and, in addition to facilitating the The Twelfth
Wouldn’t it be great if some of these
concealment of certain twists and turns, it’s Doctor boys and girls didn’t turn straight
also very much on topic. The whole issue of regenerates. to Netflix in order to catch up, but
what the Doctor thinks about himself, in the Above inset: The instead experienced these tales
light of one apocalyptic day, is very much at Thirteenth Doctor as presented here?
the heart of the book. (Jodie Whittaker) RICHARD ATKINSON
Steven’s approach is refreshingly original, makes her Target
Books debut in
but this departure is not totally without
Twice Upon a Time.
precedent in the Target range. The First
Right: The Twelfth
Doctor stories adapted by Donald Cotton
Doctor prepares for
had a similarly whimsical tone, and his the end in Twice
novelisation of 1965’s The Romans adopted Upon a Time.
a similar epistolary format. Likewise, some
of the later Seventh Doctor adaptations of TV
stories from the 1989 series – most notably
Marc Platt’s Battlefield (reprinted last year)
and Ian Briggs’ The Curse of Fenric – are
more elaborate than your average Target
book. So it’s pleasing that this batch of four
books exhibits some variety too.
In contrast to The Day of the Doctor, Paul
Cornell’s take on the 2017 Christmas Special,
Twice Upon a Time, is possibly the most
straightforward. Perhaps, because he’s writing

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encountered by the
Doctor in Series 9. 33 34
ACROSS 28 Evil menace from Hakol – The _____ (5) 21 Mickey’s friend in the novelisation of Rose (5)
1 Mickey’s friend in the novelisation of Rose (7) 30 Major in 20 Across 22 Vorg and Shirna for example (7)
4 Pretender to the throne of Tara (7) 31 The Doctor told Charles Dickens that the death 26 How the troops referred to army officer Arnold (5)
7 An invader of time (4) of Little ____ cracked him up (4) 27 Susan’s got twisted on a number of occasions (5)
9 (and 21 Across) Target book cover artist (6,9) 32 Mordred and Ancelyn for example (7) 28 Mickey’s friend in the novelisation of Rose (4)
11 (and 34 Across) Circumstances that resulted 34 See 11 Across 29 Gunfighter hired by the Clantons (4)
from the Great Vampire’s rule (5,2,5) 32 Production code of The Space Pirates (1,1)
12 Arthur Terrall surmised that the Doctor was a DOWN
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13 The Doctor said the Macra used to be the 2 Security officer on the Hyperion III (5)
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15 Type of roast prepared by the Doctor for Peri (3) 4 General who allied himself with Meglos (7)
16 Pamela _____ – played Toos and Rachel Jensen (5) 5 Leela’s changed colour (4)
18 Home planet of the ‘Vampires of Venice’ (9) 6 Instrument that the Doctor pretended to play
20 The novelisation of Doctor Who and the for Emperor Nero (4)
Silurians (3,4,8) 8 One of the ‘Missing Episodes’ books (3,8,4)
21 See 9 Across 10 Character played by Sarah Greene (5)
23 _____ 9 – Ace’s explosives (5) 12 The Krynoid and Vervoids for example (6)
24 The ___ Devils (3) 14 An ally of 10 Down (6) LAST ISSUE’S PRIZE WORD: DAVROS
25 _______ of the Ood – liberation campaigners (7) 17 Surname of actor who played one of the
27 Story planned for the unmade Season 27 – Doctor’s companions (6)
Earth ___ (3) 19 She helped defeat the enemy of the world (6)

BLAKE’S 7 MEN OF WAR
DVD BOX SET AUDIO ORIGINAL CD
B N
lake’s 7 was ew from BBC Audio is
a BBC science- Men of War, featuring
fiction drama the First Doctor and
that briefly his companions Steven
rivalled Doctor Who for Taylor and Sara Kingdom. The
popularity. Fifty-two adventure is read by Peter
episodes were broadcast Purves, who played Steven
between 1978 and in the TV series.
1981. The series was the The story is set in the First
brainchild of Terry Nation, World War. On the battlefields
who had created the Daleks of France, British soldiers are vanishing from the front-line
for Doctor Who in 1963. trenches. Captain Mark Steadman witnesses one of his comrades
Several hundred years in being pulled down beneath the mud and realises that something is
the future, political dissident Roj Blake (Gareth Thomas) leads terribly wrong.
a small group of rebels against the forces of the Terran When the Doctor, Steven and Sara arrive on the scene, Steadman
Federation – a totalitarian government that ruthlessly enforces helps with their investigation. The Doctor declares that something
control over its people. has gone amiss with the timeline of the war. Meanwhile, a crater in
When Blake tires to fight back, he is deported to a remote no-man’s land reveals the horror of the missing men’s fate. Soon,
penal colony. But on his way he joins forces with follow prisoners the Doctor and his companions are in terrible danger…
to take control of a technologically advanced alien spacecraft Men of War is written by Justin Richards and available now,
called the Liberator… RRP £10.99. We’ve got copies of the CD to give away. If you
DWM has FIVE copies of Blake’s 7: The Complete Series 1-4 would like to be in with a chance of winning one, correctly
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What is the name of the main computer partly set during the First World War?
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AUDIO DRAMA CD ANGELA BRUCE DVD
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he Lure of the Nomad is a he latest interviewee in
brand-new, full-cast Sixth Doctor Reeltime’s Myth Makers
audio drama from Big Finish. series of DVD releases is
Responding to a distress Angela Bruce, who played
call from a mysterious hulk, the Doctor Brigadier Winifred Bambera in the
and his companion, space pilot Matthew 1989 story Battlefield. In 2011, Angela
Sharpe, walk into a desperate situation. returned to the role in the Big Finish
Responsible for renovating the abandoned audio adventure Animal.
craft are the multi-tentacled semibionic In this edition of Myth Makers,
Makara. However, the Makara are now murdering their employers. Angela chats to interviewer Sophie
The Doctor deduces that the Makara have been programmed Aldred about her life and career as
to kill. But who is behind this? And what is their motivation? they take a tour of the locations
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AUDIO DRAMA
UNIT:
Cyber-Reality
BIG FINISH
RRP £23 (CD), £20 (download)
RELEASED May
Written by MATT FITTON,

GUY ADAMS
K
STARRING ate Stewart and Osgood So Kate’s got quite a bee in her bonnet
Jemma Redgrave Kate Stewart are back for a sixth run about finding them and stopping them.
Ingrid Oliver Osgood of their UNIT spin-off, But because they’ve captured [UNIT
James Joyce Captain Josh Carter and they’re about to soldier] Sam Bishop, the Auctioneers
Ramon Tikaram Colonel Shindi come up against two now have a trump card.”
Warren Brown Sam Bishop of the Doctor’s greatest The bigger baddies start arriving
Kerry Fox Julia Hertley-Price
foes. But first, they have some enemies in Telepresence and Code Silver,
Louis Tamone Lt Commander Parsons
Derek Jacobi The War Master
of their own to deal with... which writer Guy Adams describes as
Nicholas Briggs The Cybermen Opening episode Game Theory deals “a two-part Cybermen story without
with the Auctioneers, characters the Cybermen in half of it. The pleasure
seeded throughout 2017’s Encounters. was in trying to turn that into a point
“They’re a human group of underground of mood and anticipation. It’s a strange
black-marketeers who pick up and balance to achieve, but I quite liked
exploit alien technology and sell it to the pacing of it, being able to spend an
the highest bidder,” explains writer hour just building the tension. A lot of
Matt Fitton. “They’ve got a network the great Cybermen stories have been Above: Part of Tom
across the globe with various overseers about eerie stone caverns or ice caves Webster’s art for
running things, and they always manage or spacecraft hangers before the tombs Master of Worlds,
to escape UNIT’s clutches just when are punctured and the Cybermen start the fourth story in
UNIT: Cyber-Reality.
they seem to be tracking them down. marching. It’s those moments before

T H E
JEMMA AND DEREK lovely. It was a lovely thing
NEW BREED
to be able to say when I got
A
home: ‘I was working with lthough its cover art depicts the
L
ast time Kate Stewart for me,” she says, “and a bit Derek Jacobi today!’ ‘You were Cybermen’s most recent design
and an incarnation of of an honour, because he’s just what? Derek Jacobi, mum?!’” from the TV series, Cyber-Reality
the Master appeared one of the greatest actors of introduces a previously unseen
in the same story, his or any generation. And it model, with its own distinct MO. “These are a
Kate almost didn’t make it was wonderful to work with ‘new breed’ of Cybermen,” Matt Fitton writes
out alive. “Terrifying,” says him on audio, because I’ve in the stage directions for Master of Worlds,
Jemma Redgrave, when we ask listened to him on the radio specifying sound design somewhere between
for her memories of meeting and he’s so brilliant at that. the Cybus models from 2006’s Rise of the
Missy in the 2014 episode “I kept forgetting myself,” Cybermen, and the “sleeker Nightmare in
Death in Heaven. “I have rarely she admits, “because I was Silver version” introduced in 2013.
encountered anything quite so listening to him, and then
psychotic in my life as Michelle [I’d realise], ‘Oh yes, it’s me!’
Gomez’ Master!” I wanted to be so good,
Cyber-Reality features Derek because I wanted to impress.
Jacobi’s take on the character. One always puts a pressure
For Kate, it’s a similarly scary on oneself, and you can never
interaction, but behind the be as good as you want to be.
scenes Jemma loved every “But it wasn’t about me, it
second. “Working with Derek was about him, and working
Jacobi was such a lovely thing with him was really, really,
“Essentially these are a very successful
breed of Cybermen that are powering
There are sci-fi twists on modern-day themselves from dimension to dimension and
Above: Sir Derek Jacobi
technology across the whole box set. “We and Jemma Redgrave. taking over planets as they go,” Matt tells
were looking at the idea of virtual reality – Left: Osgood (Ingrid
DWM. “They’ve developed this method of
the headsets you get now where you can Oliver) experiences conversion which owes something to what
physically be in our world, but visually and virtual reality in Game we’ve seen in the Cybus episodes with the
experientially in a different world,” says Theory. Bluetooth headsets, and the
Matt. “That was the inspiration for some Below centre: Sir Derek worm things in Nightmare
technology the Auctioneers have been as the War Master. in Silver. So it’s a mash-up
playing with, which Osgood gets hold of. Above right: The of lots of different Cyber
We discover that not only can you see Cybermen reborn in The technologies, which are
other worlds with it, but it provides a link Age of Steel (2006). being used by these very
to them as well.” Right: A Cybermite successful Cybermen.”
from Nightmare in
“I thought it would be interesting to “The thing that really fascinated me was:
Silver (2013).
let the team experience another world, what do Cybermen do?” says Guy Adams,
Below right: Art for
albeit one that is familiar enough for whose scripts introduce the new models.
Code Silver, the first
them to interact with,” adds Guy. part of Cyber-Reality. “They come up out of the sewers, they have
“And I liked being able to take them a little bit of a shout, they convert us all…
and then what? When the entire Earth,
There are sci-fi twists on

or whatever planet they’re on, is entirely
occupied with Cybermen, do they set up
modern-day technology
TV stations? Do they set up theatres? Are
they reveal themselves that I’ve always they going to start doing book clubs to read
across the whole box set.

enjoyed the most, so I quite enjoyed Haynes Manuals? Presumably they go off
making that last an hour.” and invade somewhere else – but then does
Once the Cybermen have arrived in full everyone entirely leave the planet? Are they
force, Matt’s finale, Master of Worlds, just gathering lots and lots more Cybermen?
adds the Master (mid-Time War, as played somewhere that was a little And if they do leave the planet behind,
by Sir Derek Jacobi) to the mix. “He’s part more remote, a little more what’s the planet for?
of the UNIT family, really,” Matt observes. post-apocalyptic, with strange “So I started trying to fill all these logical
“In the Jon Pertwee years, he cropped up hybrid animals. The idea is holes that a Doctor Who story doesn’t
as often as [UNIT regulars] Benton and that everything we experience always have to worry about,” he says.
Yates, so he knows UNIT inside out. Once is through our heads, so even “I don’t think it’s essential, but sometimes
he realises who Kate is, he can’t help though you’re arguably only it’s nice to look at that problem and think,
digging at her about her father. He likes there mentally, the technology ‘Can I turn that into something interesting?’
to get under the skin of the people who is strong enough that it So for me, these Cybermen were about what
are trying to control him.” doesn’t really matter that happens to planets that are left behind.”
Matt’s story forces UNIT to work with, your body’s not there.
rather than against, the Master. “I think You can feel the heat.
Kate recognises his genius,” he says, “and You can sweat. You can
if they haven’t got the Doctor on hand, get out of breath just by
then here is a useful Time Lord who may thinking you’re running.
be able to help. But she’s heard about You could die there.
him, she’s read about him, and she won’t I thought that was an
give him an inch. She doesn’t trust him, interesting concept
and I think she’s probably prepared to to play with, and
shoot him if she has to.” potentially quite scary…”

Coming Soon…
The Fourth Doctor

Adventures
Series 7 Volume 2
AUDIO DRAMA
T
his year’s run of Fourth
Doctor and Leela audio
dramas is about to
conclude, with the
remaining four titles
available individually or
in a collected box set. The first takes the BIG FINISH back the villain from 1975’s Pyramids
Above: Tom Baker and
TARDIS to a 1940s street where nothing RRP £23 (CD), £20 (download) of Mars. “The brief was ‘Sutekh’, and Louise Jameson return
is quite as the Doctor expects. RELEASED May that was it,” recalls writer Guy Adams. as the Doctor and
“It’s a bit like the opening of [1974’s] “Because Pyramids was a marvellous Leela for another series
Invasion of the Dinosaurs, I suppose,” chunk of Edwardian Gothic, I wanted this of adventures.
Written by JUSTIN RICHARDS,
says The Shadow of London writer Justin DAN STARKEY, GUY ADAMS story to be futuristic sci-fi, so it’s set in Below left: The Fourth
Richards. “It’s an environment that the a big, shiny city – although one that's Doctor rides again!
Doctor knows should be bustling with influenced by Egyptian leanings.” Part of Anthony Lamb’s
STARRING artwork for Kill the
life and activity, but there doesn’t seem Tom Baker The Doctor Exploring the planet Drummond, Leela Doctor by Guy Adams,
to be very much going on at all. And the Louise Jameson Leela learns about everything from fashion the third disc in the
people they do see are behaving rather Darren Boyd Hemmings to poverty. “The whole world is almost box set.
oddly. They seem to be caricatures of the Timothy Speyer Fanshaw designed to make no sense at all to Below right: Anthony
people you’d expect to find. Everything Catherine Bailey Maddox Leela,” says Guy. “To Leela, the notion of Lamb’s covers for The
Dan Starkey Hadean/Liddell/Mr Richards Shadow of London by
seems exaggerated.” the clothes you wear saying something
Keith Barron Lord Tulip Justin Richards, The
But the people are the least of the Greg Haiste Ron Tulip
about you – of being anything other than
Bad Penny by Dan
Doctor and Leela’s problems. “They Andrew Ryan Edwin pure practicality – is just alien. The idea
Starkey and The Age of
hear someone being attacked and find Laura Rees Deborah/Major Harris of homelessness is strange: what sort of Sutekh by Guy Adams.
their dead body, and a few other bodies Sophia Myles Rania Chuma tribe would live in big gleaming buildings,
as well,” Justin continues. “It doesn’t Gabriel Woolf Sutekh but leave people to feed out of the
take them too long to realise that Eleanor Crooks Kendra bin? Leela can’t walk by when she
there’s some monster on the loose and John Dorney Charlton Joyce sees suffering, and her automatic
causing trouble!” Barnaby Edwards Ash/Stall Owner assumption when seeing a world
Next is The Bad Penny, written by Dan this divided is, ‘It’s all right,
Starkey. “The Doctor detects a temporal because I’m here with the Doctor
anomaly which draws the TARDIS off and we fix things like this.’ But of
course. He finds it on a rainy evening course, it’s actually one of
in a rather shabby London hotel,” says those problems that he can’t
Dan. “There’s a slightly strange clientele, altogether fix.”
and a hotelier who owes a little bit to Drummond eventually changes,
Basil Fawlty – and also Rigsby from but not for the better. “Sutekh
Rising Damp. This is Ron Tulip, whose takes the opportunity to
destiny is thrashed out in build himself a little
an interesting way.” home from home,”
Was it tricky to write explains Guy. “This
such an intricate, timey- is a man who can
wimey story? “I [filled] half move through space
a notebook trying to make with his mind, wipe
the plot work!” admits people out just by
Dan. “There were lots of breathing on them.
timelines with arrows going It’s very difficult [as a
in different directions. I writer] to work with something
could have had enough plot that powerful, which I imagine is
for a good six episodes, why Pyramids of Mars keeps him
but it probably would sat on a chair until right at the
have been a less satisfying very end of four episodes. That’s
story. With two, it doesn’t the whole point – you can’t let that
overstay its welcome.” evil out of the bottle. So with The
Kill the Doctor! and Age of Sutekh, I thought, ‘Well, the
The Age of Sutekh form best thing to do is probably let
the finale, which brings it out...’”

AUDIO READING
Men of War BBC AUDIO RRP £10.99 (CD)

RELEASED 3 May
T
Written by JUSTIN RICHARDS
his year, BBC Audio is Narrated by PETER PURVES
trying something new
with its ‘Audio Originals’
line: a run of linked stories France,” says Michael.
exploring one historical “British soldiers are
era with three different disappearing from
Doctors, all written by Justin Richards. duty, and Captain Mark
“The spur for the trilogy was the Steadman has lost several
centenary of the First World War, which on his watch. He meets
culminates this year – after more than three strangers in the
four years of conflict, a ceasefire came trenches – the First
into effect on 11 November 1918,” Doctor, Steven Taylor
explains range editor Michael Stevens. and Sara Kingdom. The
“Justin devised the central idea and the Doctor is outraged when he
three individual storylines that contribute learns that the Battle of the
to it, and the choice of specific settings Somme has not yet commenced
was his. Real events of the war form – according to established history,
a backdrop to the characters and it’s several weeks overdue! This
scenarios the three Doctors meet in is his first inkling
their respective stories. that something Right: Lee
Johnson’s cover art
“Men of War kicks the whole thing off has gone wrong for Men of War.
on 1 August 1916, in the battlefields of with time…”
T
he Fifth Doctor has sent
AUDIO READING his companion to St Neot’s
Trap for Fools

Refuge – a space version
of an English public school.
“Turlough is pretty
annoyed that he’s been
dumped, as he sees it, by the Doctor,”
BIG FINISH explains writer Stephen Fewell. “Because
RRP £2.99 I knew [original Turlough actor] Mark
(download) Strickson was narrating, I wanted to give
RELEASED May him lots of interesting characters and put
Turlough at the centre of the story. The
Written by Doctor is still very much there, but it’s
STEPHEN FEWELL almost as if he’s put Turlough in the firing
Narrated by line – he’s put him in the thick of things,
MARK STRICKSON to force him to use the experience and
the resources he has as a person. Instead
of being locked up in a room, as he was
in many of his stories on television, that he carries on wearing his uniform,
he’s getting to the bottom of what’s particularly as he seems so out of place
happening and resolving it.” and unhappy in it originally. He seemed
Stephen was partly inspired by the fact fairly desperate to get away, in fact, to
that in the TV series Turlough wore the tune of almost killing the Doctor to
a school uniform until his final escape! So it’s interesting that he didn’t
appearance. “And then all of a sudden, let go, and I was thinking about why
as everyone knows he’s going to that is.
leave, they splash out on a new “Most characters leave the Doctor
pair of shorts! I presume because they’re growing up – they’re
it was intentional – it maturing in some way, they’re coming
presented a good image into their own in some way – and
for marketing, and it let all certainly Turlough seems eager to take on
the viewers know who he responsibility for his past, for his planet,
was every week. But if when he leaves. So I was thinking about
you think about him as him maturing, but it also got me thinking
a character, as a real about how, as a country, we seem to not
person, it’s a little odd let go of the British public school system.
There seemed to be a parallel there: an
Left: Peter Davison as the Doctor opportunity to take Turlough back to that
and Mark Strickson as Turlough in environment and explore some of the
Mawdryn Undead (1983).
potential in it, but also see if he can grow
Above right: Mark Strickson up – and see if maybe it’s time for us to
records his narration.
grow up as well.”

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BIG FINISH
MAY RELEASES Victorian investigators broke our hearts when
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(download) RELEASED May
by Justin Richards. BBC Audio, £9.99 (CD) TV serial, 1977’s The Talons of Weng- Although the story
Chiang, a new era began in 2009 when is about Litefoot’s
s The Fourth Doctor Adventures: Series 7 Written by PAUL MORRIS
Volume 2 [Fourth Doctor] actors Christopher Benjamin and Trevor disappearance, Trevor
by Justin Richards, Dan Starkey, Guy Adams. Baxter reprised the roles in a Big Finish Baxter appears in
STARRING
Big Finish, £25 (CD), £20 (download) audio drama. Its success led to reunions flashbacks to older Christopher Benjamin
with the Fourth Doctor, new adventures episodes – and also in new Henry Gordon Jago
s The Lure of the Nomad [Sixth Doctor] by
Matthew J Elliott. Big Finish, £14.99 (CD), with the Sixth, Tenth, and Eleventh, and scenes. “I approached Trevor Baxter Professor George Litefoot
£12.99 (download) – most notably – an eponymous Trevor’s agent and Lisa Bowerman Ellie Higson
spin-off. Scripts for the 14th season of discussed the project with Conrad Asquith Inspector Quick
s Trap for Fools [Fifth Doctor] by Stephen
Jago & Litefoot had just been completed her, asking if we might Louise Jameson Leela
Fewell. Big Finish, £2.99 (download) Colin Baker The Doctor
when Trevor passed away last July. have permission from the
s UNIT: Cyber-Reality by Matt Fitton, Guy “Although we’d known for many agency and his estate Rowena Cooper Queen Victoria
Adams. Big Finish, £23 (CD), £20 (download) David Warner Dr Luke Betterman
years that Trevor was ill, his death left to use existing dialogue
Jamie Newall Aubrey
s Jago & Litefoot Forever everyone who worked on Jago & Litefoot within the production,”
Stephen Critchlow
by Paul Morris. reeling,” says producer David Richardson. David explains. “She told Sir Humphrey Eagleton/Charlie Lucas
Big Finish, £16.99 (CD), £14.99 (download) “There was no talk of continuing – in me he would have loved
s Torchwood: We Always Get Out Alive fact, when I saw Christopher at the that. Our writer Paul Morris
by Guy Adams. Big Finish, £9.99 (CD), £7.99 funeral, we both quietly agreed that we began the epic task of going through
Above: Tom
(download) couldn’t continue. We wouldn’t recast all of Litefoot’s recorded dialogue from Webster’s cover art
Litefoot, and we wouldn’t have Jago previous seasons, cherry-picking what for Jago & Litefoot
JUNE RELEASES going it alone.” might be used within the edit to give Forever.
s Jenny – The Doctor’s Daughter But executive producer Jason Haigh- Litefoot a full and dynamic presence in Below: Jago &
by Matt Fitton, John Dorney, Christian
Ellery wanted one last story. “Initially I certain scenes.” Litefoot stars
Brassington, Adrian Poynton. Trevor Baxter
argued against it,” says David. “As the How will David remember Trevor?
Big Finish, £23 (CD), £20 (download) and Christopher
thought sunk in, I realised it would be a “Despite his illness and physical frailty,
s The Second Doctor Volume 2 [Second Benjamin became
beautiful opportunity to honour Trevor. he came to the studio with more vitality
Doctor] by Tony Jones, Julian Richards, Rob good friends.
I came up with the title before a word than someone half his age,” he replies.
Nisbet. Big Finish, £25 (CD), £20 (download)
of the script had been written – Jago “He loved life, cherished every minute of
s Iron Bright [Sixth Doctor] by Chris Chapman. & Litefoot Forever. It was a mission it, and he was funny – he took the work
Big Finish, £14.99 (CD), £12.99 (download) statement, to say that they’ll always be very seriously, but in between takes and
s The Darkened Earth [Sixth Doctor] out there having adventures, being best in the green room the wit and badinage
by John Pritchard. Big Finish, £2.99 (download) friends and saving the world.” with Christopher were relentless. We
s Torchwood: Goodbye Piccadilly When we last heard from the duo, would cry with laughter at
by James Goss. Big Finish, £9.99 (CD), they had escaped a parallel world only to every recording. And he
£7.99 (download) find their own London altered. Series 14 adored Christopher – like
would have revealed that an invasion had Jago and Litefoot, they
Thursday 7 June taken place in their absence, obscured were very different
s The Day of the Doctor [multi-Doctor] from the population by a mass delusion. people but they
by Steven Moffat. BBC Audio, £20 (CD) Their investigations of the forces behind were inseparable.
s Twice Upon a Time [multi-Doctor] it would have culminated at Christmas, They’d started
by Paul Cornell. BBC Audio, £20 (CD) during the New Regency’s pantomime. seeing each
“It’s possible we may find a way to get other socially,
that lost season out there in a different visiting art
BLU-RAY form,” David says. “I do hope it might be galleries and
Monday 11 June heard one day.” having lunch.
s Doctor Who – The Collection: Season 12, Forever picks up at New Year, after The strange
[Fourth Doctor] BBC Studios, £39.99 those unmade episodes. “It’s a simple thing is that it
story: Litefoot has gone missing, and doesn’t really feel
Jago is on a mission with his friends to like he’s dead, to
MAGAZINES find him,” says David. “Along the way me. That amount of
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Thursday 7 June
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ILLUSTRATION BY BEN MORRIS
Sneaky peeks into the secret diaries

of characters in the Doctor’s orbit...
#7: Nilson
Warriors of the Deep (1984)
to him as it does to all marine and

Additional
reptile life. (Make a note of this fact,
Lured Lieutenant Michaels to the
it may prove important later.)
reactor chamber having made the
walkway slippery and removed
the screws from the safety rail.
Additional
Solow’s guinea pig has died. It turns
He slipped but did not fall into the
out she locked it in a strong box but
cooling pool. That man is careful!
forgot to provide any air-holes.
Perhaps too careful to live...
“The demise of your pet does not
concern me,” I told her. “You’re
Additional
a hard man, Nilson,” she said.
Solow’s guinea pig has escaped.
“But you forget, I’m a doctor. Death,
I told her that when she finds it,
even of rodent life, does not come
she should lock it in a strong box
easily to me.” “Yes, I know you’re
so it won’t bother her until our task
a doctor,” I said. “Somehow it does
is completed.
keep coming up in conversation.”
Additional
As he is essential to the base’s function, Attempt to kill Lieutenant Michaels
Agent Nilson’s report on But
Michaels is careful to the point of paranoia.
operations of Sea Base 4 just because he is paranoid doesn’t
number two: While he was in the
The atmosphere is tense. So tense chemical store, I arranged for one
mean that I’m not out to get him! of the shelves of hexachromite
you could cut it with a brick. The l Maddox – A student on
computer has been ordering practice gas canisters to fall on him.
attachment to obser ve Michaels Unfortunately, he dodged out of
missile runs almost daily, leaving the in action. Dr Solow believes
crew demoralised and exhausted, the way so it didn’t prove as lethal
Maddox is psychologically unsuited
despite the best efforts of the base’s to be a sync-operator. He may be
make-up and hairstyling unit. I myself
of use to us, while he lives. After that,
have opted for some dark eye-shadow we will be able to use Maddox to
his usefulness will be at an end. Additional
and a little blusher to bring out my l Karina – An ensign in charge neutralise the base and destroy all
Attempt to kill Lieutenant Michaels
cheekbones, but even the most of telling us what the scanners vital circuitry to do with missiles
successful! It was child’s play.
glamorous makeover cannot hold say. She has a soft spot for and communications and other
I electrocuted him and placed his
back the inexorable tide of war. Maddox. This is a weakness which stuff if there’s time. Then Solow
body in his bath with his toaster
In my position as lieutenant and I will leave in an escape pod
may be exploited before it proves before filling it with water. “He
with special responsibilities for the and our power bloc (which I need
her downfall. must have been rewiring his toaster
psychosurgical unit, I have gathered not name) will wipe out the base.
Dr Solow – My fellow agent. Prone to in the bath,” said Vorshak when he
essential knowledge about the workings
l
bleating about her medical training – yes

love, Nothing must go wrong, because
saw the body. “A tragic accident.
of the base and its crew: we all know you’re a doctor – she It could happen to anyone.” The if something does go wrong we fail.
is displaying troubling signs credulous fool! And failure is not an option.
l Commander Vorshak – An of being afflicted with
unimaginative plodder, unable to Additional
a conscience. Additional
see the truth even if it is staring l Bulic – An officer with Something has gone wrong.
Maddox suspects foul play in
him in the face. Of course, he a habit of delivering Sentinel Six has detected an
Michaels’ death but Vorshak has
trusts me implicitly. Vain and spontaneous outbursts unidentified flying
dismissed his suspicions.
aloof, he prowls the bridge of redundant exposition. object, one of our
Now that Michaels is as
with his fingers tucked into his If you want to be told reconnaissance
dead as some marine
belt as though he is advertising something you already probes has been
life that’s been near
a furniture retailer. I am sure know, he’s your man. destroyed and the
some hexachromite
I heard him muttering “Four l Preston – Another officer computer has started
gas, it is time for
years’ interest free credit” I have seen about the another missile run.
Solow and I to make
at one point. place. Blonde, I think. But we must finish
l Lieutenant Michaels –
our move. We will
l Paroli – I have what we have started.
use Maddox’s imminent
The sync-operator. literally no idea. breakdown to persuade Vorshak to If all else fails, we can always rely
release the conditioning disc. Then on Solow’s martial arts skills...
As told to Jonathan Morris

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Editor Will Oswald has been responsible for numerous

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“The Zygon Invasion/Inversion

is a great example of how you

of a scene with the edit.”

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DWM Will Oswald

was pretty much all down to me

MARS ATTACKS As a more intricate example of the

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“Playing it now, it’s

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“If anyone’s in any doubt,

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