Doctor Who Magazine - Issue 568 - October 2021

BLACK POWDER ROBOTS IN DISGUISE
A new story by Joy Wilkinson Inside The Web of Fear
The OFFICIAL MAGAZINE

of the BBC television series
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CULTURE Marco Polo
How to own The Myth Makers
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24 THE MYTH MAKERS
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32 WATCH THE DOUGHNUT,
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DOCTOR WHO EXHIBITIONS
44 BLACKPOOL AND LONGLEAT
54 THE FACT OF FICTION
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62 APOCRYPHA
‘Glorious Goodwood’
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8 GALAXY FORUM
12 TIME AND SPACE VISUALISER
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74 CROSSWORD & COMPETITIONS
76 COMING SOON
82 SUFFICIENT DATA
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Welcome DWM 568
nnie Mac’s 17-year
A stint as a Radio 1 DJ
began some time
after I stopped
listening to that
particular station, but I’m well
aware of her mighty reputation.
I was intrigued to see her on a recent
edition of Newsnight, being interviewed
about her decision to leave Radio 1. In
a thought-provoking conversation, Kirsty
Wark asked Annie (pictured above) whether
the choice offered by streaming services
meant that the role of the radio DJ was
in danger of becoming redundant.
Annie argued with some conviction that
the opposite was the case – with so much
music easily available to so many people,
the need for human curators was now
greater than ever. “When you have such
a vast array of music at your fingertips
at any time the concept of old and new
is kind of obsolete,” she added, underlining
the point that music lovers are now faced
with an overwhelming number of options.
“There are no boundaries between old
and new anymore.”
Doctor Who is now part of the streaming
revolution that Kirsty Wark referenced,
with nearly every surviving episode readily
available on either BritBox or BBC iPlayer.
The programme’s past has become an
epic, sprawling present that must seem
daunting to the uninitiated. But it’s here
that the similarities with popular music
end – because BritBox and iPlayer can only
offer us Doctor Who episodes that still exist. so much television, even though it now seems so many gaps on the shelves of the BBC
There have been some brilliant animations staggeringly short-sighted to almost everyone archive. We all want to live in that endless
in recent years, but however well the who wasn’t there. And thanks to the present. Young fans have never known
97 missing episodes are reconstructed, dedicated work of ‘missing episode’ hunters anything different, while older fans have
they belong firmly in Doctor Who’s past: we’re able to trace the intercontinental no desire to return to the days of strictly
frustratingly beyond our grasp. In this journeys that many of these programmes rationed, poor-quality bootlegs.
respect, the distinction between old and took when they left the BBC. We’re even Given how interested we are in the history
new that has largely disappeared from films able to tell when many of those precious of this show, it’s curious to note that we really
and music still very much exists with classic film cans finally dropped off the radar. don’t like the idea of any of it being ‘old’.
television – and nobody feels this loss more But why does it matter that so many From the past and the present to the
acutely than Doctor Who fans. of them never came back? And why will future. In our next issue the countdown
We’re able to agree on the answers to we never give up hope of retrieving them? to Series 13 begins with an exclusive
many of the questions posed by Lost in Rightly or wrongly, access to archive Doctor John Bishop interview. We’re back on
Space (and Time), Paul Kirkley’s article on Who has gone from being a rare privilege 16 September. Until then, take care.
page 14. We understand the bureaucratic to feeling like something of an entitlement.
conundrum that led to the destruction of So of course we’re upset that there are
THIS ISSUE’S CONTRIBUTORS INCLUDE

Russ Leach Richard Molesworth Joy Wilkinson
A long-time fan of the programme (Tom Baker was Richard is the project manager for the Doctor Who: The writer of 2018’s The Witchfinders returns with
‘his’ Doctor), Russ was the regular artist for Doctor The Collection Blu-ray box sets. He visited the a new story. “Simpler action heroes blithely embrace
Who Adventures, Blackpool Doctor weaponry,” says
drawing both Who exhibition Joy, “but the Doctor
Peter Capaldi and in 1976, where brilliantly embodies
Jodie Whittaker he was terrified anti-violence.
in the role. He by the Krynoid, the Except when she
makes his DWM Morbius monster doesn’t.” This
debut with this and the Daleks. conflicted history
issue, bringing a He concludes was the spark
slightly different his survey of the for Black Powder,
style to Joy Blackpool and which starts
Wilkinson’s story Longleat exhibitions with a BANG!
Black Powder. on page 44. on page 40.
DOCTOR WHO MAGAZINE 3

Jodie Whittaker’s tenure
as the Doctor will come to
an end in 2022. Showrunner
CHRIS CHIBNALL explains
why he’s also moving on.
naged and
programme is made, ma
n’t be casting the The appointment
too quickly with “I wo pla nne d str ategic ally .
tried to move the is a commercially
next Doctor” and then BB C of a new showrunner
) Jod ie and I let y above the pay
conversation on. sensitive decision (wa
s kno w a yea r ago that this would um ben t showrunner)
Studio
es, to ensure grade of an inc
be our final set of episod it’ll be a join t dec isio n between BBC
ugh time so
and the sho w had eno top dec ision makers at
they Studios and the
to plan what com es nex t. is one of the most
me, 2022 is the BBC. Doctor Who
On a per son al lev el, for bra nds and recognisable
the ir GC SEs valued global
the year my two son s tak e tual property,
pieces of global intellec
A Lev els – I pro mis ed them and my en tho se thin gs are more
and n. at a time wh
wife I’d be clear of the sho w by the tha n ever. There’s
precedence, important and valuable
Work has too ofte n tak en arr ay of tale nt out there who
a tantalising
ye! Oh no, sorry, hello! and I promised wh en I too k the job I’d ntly . It’s time for it
could do this job brillia
B
is r where they
Well, both. Yes, change be mo re pre sen t in the yea in. I’m exc ited to head back
ie to be new aga
coming once more! Jod were both sitting cru cia l exa ms . Th is we r.
ers behind the sofa, as a vie
and I and other memb is an extraordinary job
to have, but I s is one tiny
ffat That shift to BBC Studio
of the team have called know Russell T Da vie s and Ste ven Mo lan dscape is
on. Look at us, life balance example of how the TV
time, and are moving would agr ee tha t a wo rk/ le, com par ed to when
ign ation! (Google unn ing Do ctor unrecognisab
part of The Gr eat Res isn’t possible wh en sho wr yea rs ago.
I accepted the job five
it if you don’t know abo
ut it.)
o. You get to see you r friends and wh ole of tele vis ion has
sation at the
Wh
t less than Simply, the
Jodie and I had a con ver
family maybe 90 per cen n rev olu tion ise d and transformed.
bee
start of our time on the
sho w, where d holidays or time no Apple TV,
three before. No undisturbe There was no Disney+,
wo uld onl y do ma s, ver y few wo rk- eo was just
we agreed we off over Christ and Amazon Prime Vid
ies . That’s how I’d felt when I joined we eke nds or eve nin gs. That’s not Ho w we wa tch , where
ser
talked to all
free the getting going.
myself and the plan I’d I lov e the sho w and tch , wh at’s being
me nts about
a complaint –
uld be the case we watch, when we wa utterly
of our heads of depart and I kne w thi s wo it’s bei ng ma de is all
work, made, how
tin g the m. No t only is that on. Bu t it isn ’t sus tainable, ted .
when recrui
a modern when I signed different, utterly disrup
the standard tour of dut
y for
or desirable, in the lon
g term. set by the BBC
t to the , you ’re The challenge we were
it’s als o equ iva len p abo ut you r life tfl ix. The challenge
Doctor, but
se days.
Yeah, shuddu was to keep up with Ne
life span of entire ser
ies the
say ing : wh o’s nex t?! ple wh o suc cee d us is to keep
epi sod es in e big for the peo
(Broadchurch ran for 24
That’s not my dec isio n. Th cre ativ e rules are
r Who up with Disney+. The
total; we’ll have done
31 of Do cto
nge tha t hap pen ed during our tenure gly rew ritt en by shows like
to thi s cha
duc ed being thrillin
by the end.) I did n’t com e in r Wh o bei ng pro duc tion standards
cto rs. has been Docto WandaVision, while pro
job wanting to cast mu
ltip le Do
oug h BB C Stu dio s, rather than the ds are bei ng red efi ned by
to thr and metho
d thi s ear ly on Department. course, that means
(I accidenta lly sai BBC’s in-house Drama have The Mandalorian. Of
s at our first wo n’t rea lly en too. There’s
DWM’s editor Marcu It’s a diff ere nce wh ich
costs are bei ng rew ritt
in Ca rdi ff Bay, in 2018. you vie w the sho w, but t upward inflation
conversation affected how been up to 35 per cen
com e to cast by which the
He’d said “when you it aff ect s the pro ces ses
ces sor …” and I replied a bit
Jodie’s suc
Top: Showrunner Chris Chibnall.

Above: Jodie Whittaker and Chris
Chibnall with the cast and crew
of Doctor Who in Cardiff during
production of Series 11 (2018).
in the cost of making drama while
we’ve been on the show. So we’re
competing for talent and crew, in
a genre with shows that have up
to $10 million more budget – not
per series, but per episode.
Some of those shows film in and
around Cardiff. We’ve seen an
explosion of production here in the
past five years: at one point recently
there were I think 15 productions
filming in Cardiff alone. Crew members
and studio space are at a premium.
Cardiff is a global production hub
now – and it’s all Doctor Who’s fault,
testament to the vision and work
of Russell, Julie Gardner and Jane
Tranter in bringing Doctor Who
here to shoot, back in 2004. The
infrastructure and talent base that’s
been created is magnificent. And
what a place to work it is: vibrant,
welcoming, creative. We’ve all made
friendships for life, here.
s I write this we’ve just
A completed shoot day 175.

35 weeks of shooting in the
can. 1,575 hours on camera, our
brilliant line producer Steffan Morris
claims. We could’ve finished our time
here: eight episodes, filmed under
strict, efficient COVID protocols. (Our
COVID supervisors and testing teams
are the heroes of this production –
literally keeping everyone safe.)
Then, earlier this year, BBC Director
of Content Charlotte Moore asked
if we’d consider finishing Jodie’s era
with an additional Special, for the
BBC’s planned centenary celebrations
in autumn 2022. So, numbers were
crunched, conversations were had,
deep breaths were taken, more
testing kits were ordered, and
contracts were extended. Onwards,
to the Centenary Special.
So the Thirteenth Doctor will be at
the helm of the TARDIS until autumn
2022. But before that, this autumn, a
new series, now all shot. Our visual
effects teams are at maximum
velocity right now: every day a
load of new shots and sequences
appear, to be commented on
and approved. What a treat that
process is. Segun Akinola is
back in the studio, writing and Left: Jodie as the
recording scores with his group Doctor in 2021.
of incredible performers. Above from top:
It’ll be a series with a difference, Christopher Eccleston,
in these most different of times. One Billie Piper and showrunner
Russell T Davies in their
story, with each episode a different first photocall for Doctor
chapter. More serialised than the Who Series 1 (2005);
show has been in a while. More composer Segun Akinola
recurring characters; old and new with an orchestra at
monsters throughout. We were Abbey Road Studios.
Photo © Charlie Clift; recording
determined to meet the challenges of
a scene for Revolution
this year with a series that had scale, of the Daleks (2021).
fun and scares. And soon it’ll be time
to lift the veil, and start sharing what
we’ve done. Before the goodbyes come
a whole new set of hellos. DWM

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Jodie Whittaker to
“For me,” Chris adds, “leading this
exceptional team has been unrivalled
creative fun, and one of the great joys
of my career. I’m so proud of the people
Leave Doctor Who

we’ve worked with and the stories we’ve
told. To finish our time on the show with
an additional Special, after the pandemic
changed and challenged our production
plans, is a lovely bonus. It’s great that the
climax of the Thirteenth Doctor’s story will
C
hris Chibnall and Jodie Whittaker
will be leaving Doctor Who after be at the heart(s) of the BBC’s centenary
a trio of Specials in 2022. celebrations. I wish our successors as much
Following Series 13 – which will air fun as we’ve had. They’re in for a treat!”
later this year – the first of the Specials Executive producer Matt Strevens, who
will be screened on New Year’s Day 2022, has worked alongside Chris since 2017,
with the second in spring 2022. Jodie’s will also be leaving after the final Special
final feature-length Special, in which the in 2022. BBC Studios will announce plans
Thirteenth Doctor will regenerate, will be for the new generation of Doctor Who
seen in autumn 2022 as part of the BBC’s in due course.
centenary celebrations. Meanwhile, more details about Series
“Jodie and I made a ‘three series and 13 have been revealed. Speaking at San
out’ pact with each other at the start Diego Comic-Con in July, Chris Chibnall
of this once-in-a-lifetime blast,” says explained that 2021 will see six episodes
showrunner Chris Chibnall. “So comprising one serialised story, which he
now our shift is done, and we’re describes as “the most ambitious thing
handing back the TARDIS keys. we’ve done since we’ve been on the
series”. The episodes will also feature
some returning monsters. Mandip
Gill will reprise her role as Yaz
alongside John Bishop, making
his debut as Dan Lewis. It’s
also been confirmed that
Game of Thrones star Jacob
“Jodie’s magnificent, iconic Anderson will be playing the
Doctor has exceeded all our recurring role of Vinder.
high expectations. She’s been the “This is a real-life childhood
gold standard leading actor, shouldering dream, to be a part of Doctor Who,” says
the responsibility of being the first female Jacob. “It was probably the best first day
Doctor with style, strength, warmth, on set I’ve ever had, because I got there
generosity and humour. She captured the and we had to do some press photos
public imagination and continues to inspire right next to the TARDIS. I felt like I was
adoration around the world, as well as 14 again. Not only did I get to go on the
from everyone on the production. I can’t TARDIS but I got my own ship, which had
imagine working with a more inspiring its own world of buttons and levers and
Doctor – so I’m not going to!” switches that you could actually press and
“My heart is so full of love for this play with, and I was like ‘I’m home! This is
show, for the team who make it, for where I’ve always wanted to be.’ It’s been
the fans who watch it and for what an honour to play Vinder and I can’t wait
it has brought to my life,” says Jodie for you all to see him.”
Whittaker. “I cannot thank Chris Series 13 will air this autumn on BBC One.
enough for entrusting me with his
incredible stories. We knew that we
wanted to ride this wave side by side
and pass on the baton together.
So here we are, weeks away from
wrapping on the best job I have
ever had. I don’t think I’ll ever be
able to express what this role has
given me. I will carry the Doctor
and the lessons I’ve learnt forever.”
ø Jodie Whittaker as the Doctor.

O Jacob Anderson as Vinder, a new recurring
character in Series 13.
o Showrunner Chris Chibnall and executive producer
Matt Strevens, pictured in 2018.

Sladen as Sarah Jane
Genesis of Terror Sarah Jane Smith alongside John

Leeson as K9. The series
also featured Alexander
A
udio drama adaptations
of the original scripts
for The Ark in Space and
episode of Terry Nation’s original
script plus an enhanced dramatic
reading of his original storyline
on Britbox Armstrong as super-
computer Mr Smith, Anjli
Mohindra as Rani Chandra,
Genesis of the Daleks are set for 1975’s Genesis of the Daleks. ll series of The Sarah Tommy Knight as Luke Smith,
to be released as part of Big
Finish’s Lost Stories range.
Both titles are due for
release in March 2023 and are
“This is something very special available to pre-order now from
A Jane Adventures are
available to stream on
BritBox UK from August.
Daniel Anthony as Clyde Langer,
Yasmin Paige as Maria Jackson
and Sinead Michael as Sky Smith.
– Doctor Who archaeology bigfinish.com. Doctor Who The Doctor Who spin-off Viewers can find BritBox at
brought thrillingly to life,” says and the Ark is priced £14.99 created by Russell T Davies watch.britbox.co.uk. The service
producer and script editor Simon on CD and £12.99 as a digital was first broadcast on CBBC, offers a seven-day free trial,
Guerrier. “The Ark in Space and download. Daleks! Genesis running for five years from 2007 followed by a £5.99 per month
Genesis of the Daleks are among of Terror is priced £12.99 to 2011. It starred Elisabeth subscription fee.
the best-loved TV stories ever. on CD and £10.99
We’ve uncovered first draft as a digital
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exciting, surprising and
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“Genesis is a very visual
script packed with striking, stark
images,” says Simon. “Nation
even makes the stage directions
exciting. In Doctor Who and the
Ark, the directions were more
functional so Jonathan Morris
has carefully adapted the
script for audio. Although we’ve
kept the original episode titles,
such as Puffball and Camelias
– I think Tom Baker enjoyed O Yasmin Page (as Maria Jackson), Tommy Knight (Luke Smith), Elisabeth Sladen (Sarah Jane
Smith) and Daniel Anthony (Clive Langer), the stars of The Sarah Jane Adventures Series 1 (2007).
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of the aliens and creatures the some of the finest early Doctor
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Chris Chibnall revealed that Series 13 or Yaz is facing
of Doctor Who will be serialised as one certain death?
big story. You’ve been writing in to I just wonder
share your thoughts… if each chapter
will have individual O Dena Harris’ Dalek painting.
SERIAL 13 story titles, or just
s SHANE ISHEEV EMAIL ‘Part One’ etc… so Series 13 will allow more
I’m extremely excited by the time for us to understand and
news that Series 13 is going s HUGH (16) explore each character. The
to be serialised. This type of AUSTRALIA only downside I can see is the
storytelling allows a better build I love the serialised frustration of cliffhangers week
and more investment from the format of the after week.
viewer, which then leads to ‘classic’ show,
better pay-offs, cliffhangers and so it’ll be interesting s KATH HARPER EMAIL
twists. It sounds like a winning seeing how I’m guessing there will be
season to me! it is adapted sub-plots along the way, so
for modern-day it’ll be like a series arc, but
s PAUL BURNS CROYDON Doctor Who. better. It will hopefully allow
O Avery Buffington’s artwork of the Doctor and Clara.
I am fully behind the creative I think Dan will be more depth of characters, more
decisions Chris Chibnall has to Time season (1978-79). But an amazing companion – I am involvement of the audience in
been making during his tenure this will be the first time since really looking forward to seeing those characters and a better,
as showrunner. Following on the show’s return in 2005 that how he interacts with the fuller storyline. Sounds good
from the Timeless Children this approach has been used. Doctor and Yaz. I love Jodie’s to me. My hopes are high.
revelations (which I loved), Chris has obviously proved take on the Doctor and can’t
the show’s format changing he is very adept in serialised wait to see more. s JACK HOLMAN EMAIL
to one serialised story is storytelling with Broadchurch, The show reinvented itself
another surprise, but a very and I cannot wait for those s AARON BURLEY EMAIL in 2005 and now it’s time
welcome one. Obviously, this rug-pulling cliffhangers. Is it too It’s nice to see Chris Chibnall to do it again. This is a good
has been done before with much to hope for that 1970s exploring serialised storytelling, first step. I don’t think we
The War Games (1969), The music sting to return at the especially when it seems to should completely do away
Trial of a Time Lord (1986) end of each Series 13 chapter? be what he’s best at. Chibnall with small, 45-minute,
and, to a lesser extent, the Key That familiar dramatic note just stories usually have a wide cast, contained adventures though.
brought back bittersweet our disappointment when we there was a diorama complete
STAR LETTER memories for me. learned that the exhibition had with mini-Bessie and UNIT
My school chum, David Lake, just finished – there had been Jeeps, displaying how the
s PETER FRANKUM EMAIL and I read about the exhibition some kind of mix-up on the special effect of the ‘tunnel’
Richard Molesworth’s article in a magazine and David’s dates printed in the article. in the heat barrier from The
on the Science Museum’s parents very kindly took us up However, the museum Dæmons had been achieved
BBC exhibition in DWM 567 to London to view it. Imagine attendants were a kindly bunch (a semi-circle of tinsel behind
and allowed us to spend 15 a grease-smeared glass plate,
minutes or so in the area where apparently). Pure magic
the props and costumes were to these 11-year-old boys.
still being stored. Most had Thanks for bringing back
been packed away by this stage the memories.
but a few were still visible.
One exhibit has always stuck Peter’s letter
in my mind, which Richard’s wins him
article didn’t a copy of
touch upon: The Eleven,
a new box
ø DWM 567’s feature
set of audio
on the Science Museum’s
Doctor Who exhibition. adventures
starring Colin
ø The special effect
of the ‘tunnel’ in the Baker as the Sixth Doctor. It’s available
heat barrier from The in September from bigfinish.com priced
Dæmons (1971). £19.99 (CD) and £16.99 (digital).

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s Chris Chibnall, Jodie Whittaker,

O James Johnson’s render of the secret production line from The Power of the Daleks (1966). Mandip Gill, John Bishop and Jacob
Anderson discuss all things Series 13
s BEN BODIE EMAIL title cards from the Hartnell leaving Doctor Who in 2022 at San Diego Comic-Con.
Other programmes that have era make a comeback. Roll after a series of Specials came Go to: tinyurl.com/WhoSDCC
adopted the serialised story on autumn! out of the blue, didn’t it? It’s
format have done amazingly a shame, as I think Jodie has
ratings-wise, for example been great as the Thirteenth
Line of Duty. I think this huge Doctor. Change is always
format change is a very positive a mixture of sadness and
move and should do very well excitement, but we still have a
if it has a compelling story that whole new series of adventures
keeps viewers hooked. with the Thirteenth Doctor to
look forward to in 2022.
s EDWARD LAMBERT (22) s The Doctor returns for her biggest
EMAIL s MATTHEW SMITH EMAIL adventure yet! Watch the trailer for
I live in France and something I was so sad to hear the news Series 13, which gives a first glimpse
that bugs me is that a lot of that Chris Chibnall and Jodie of Jacob Anderson as Vinder.
French people stop watching Whittaker are leaving. Chris Go to: tinyurl.com/Series13Trailer
Doctor Who after seeing has become my favourite writer.
random episodes on TV, I’ve loved his material over
assuming that there isn’t any the last few series. And Jodie,
story arc. I’m sure that having what can I say? She smashed it!
a ‘one serialised story’ format I never knew what the term
will help Doctor Who to get O Paul Bowler’s Silver ‘my Doctor’ meant. Now I do.
a bigger audience, be it in Nemesis-style Cyberman. My face lights up whenever
England or in foreign countries I watch any of Thirteen’s s Character Options’ Al Dewar
where people tend to look for Shortly after the Comic-Con panel, episodes. This was my era. reveals four new First Doctor-era
TV series with this format. it was announced that Jodie Whittaker Thank you, Chris and Jodie! action figure sets, including
and Chris Chibnall would be leaving Sensorites, Voord and Ian Chesterton.
s TOBY HALL EMAIL Doctor Who next year. s LEWIS JEFFERIES (23) Go to: tinyurl.com/60sFigures
My brain is whirring, trying PORTSMOUTH
to work out how all the CHANGE, MY DEAR Travel hopefully, the Thirteenth
information we have fits s PAUL BOWLER EMAIL Doctor once said, and that’s
together in the same story. Well, that news about Jodie what I’ve done. I’ve used
I hope the ‘Next Episode’ Whittaker and Chris Chibnall Jodie Whittaker’s era as
The Daft Dimension BY LEW STRINGER

s The Cybermen return in this
trailer for Maze Theory’s game
The Edge of Reality. Coming to PC
and consoles in September 2021.
Go to: tinyurl.com/CyberEdge
s Who’s taken possession of

a Type 57 TARDIS and why have
they been messing with the
chameleon circuits? Watch this
fan-made series to find out.
Go to: tinyurl.com/Type57TARDIS

Galaxy Forum
ON TWITTER…
@PjLamplight I actually expected
Chris Chibnall to serialise Doctor
Who for Series 11 in 2018, as it was
a successful format for Broadchurch.
I think it’s got some promise,
although with many different
storylines/enemies evident, I hope
it’s not just a gimmick. I’d rather
there was a strong continuity than
a tenuous link.
@JohnMisiewicz1 People keep

comparing this idea to the Key to
Time and The Trial of a Time Lord
seasons but both of those were
in essence a collection of related O George Cairns created this picture in Photoshop using a Clara Oswald action figure.
adventures, not one adventure told
over a series of episodes. Let’s see my mum being pleasantly House and Safari Park. I don’t Skelton’s Dalek voice still gives
what happens… surprised as we approached remember anyone else going me chills to this day.
a weird blue box and dragging into the Doctor Who exhibition
@Missy_u_So_Fine Amazing an eight-year-old me inside. on that trip – I was a lone s BEN TUMULTY IRELAND
if it works, boring if it doesn’t. I had no idea what the rather 12-year-old. My strongest I have always associated Doctor
I’m not prepared to judge either dilapidated K9 was supposed memory is of Davros, but, as Who Magazine with summer
way until it comes out. I’m keeping to be. There was also a you can imagine, generally holidays. I enjoyed 2014, 2015
an open mind. small screen showing each it’s is a bit hazy after 44 and 2017’s mid-summer issues
regeneration scene, which years. I did have my camera on family holidays in County
@FlatcapWhovian It will be I didn’t understand until much in my pocket but the only Down, Northern Ireland. And
fascinating to see how this turns later. But it’s fair to say I was photograph of that day is of I’m nostalgic for 2018’s summer
out and if executed well could take a giraffe! Reading this article issue (527), which coincided
the show in a whole new direction! stirred up the memory and with the end of school and a
I can now recall the whole glorious four-week heatwave
@binaryhands1 Battlestar Galactica experience better. in Fermanagh. Last month’s
2004. Star Trek Discovery. Star Trek ‘Summer Special’ was no
Picard. The Mandalorian. All these s BENJAMIN CALLINICOS EMAIL different, even if I am missing
seasons have story arcs. Doctor Who DWM 567’s articles on Doctor Emily Cook’s Out of the
is following an established trend, Who exhibitions really gave TARDIS interviews.
not setting a new one. me a wave of nostalgia about
the first one that I went to, You’re in luck, Ben – Out of the TARDIS
@ConnartyJames Could it be which was at Llangollen in will return next issue! And finally…
like The Daleks’ Master Plan? Big 2001 or 2002. It was very
overarching threat (the Swarm?). well constructed, with all the DEMATERIALISING
Futuristic allies (Vinder)? Just add props, costumes, the title DINER
the Meddling Monk (please!) and sequences playing on a loop, s LOUISE ROMANA WADE
you could have a winner! Whatever and I remember the ‘Hall of EMAIL
the story I hope it sets us up well Monsters’ being terrifying, In DWM 567, on page 14 you
for the 60th anniversary in 2023. O The Five Doctors by Ken Holtzhouser. with all the blinking flashing suggest eating at Eddie’s Diner
lights around the creatures. in Cardiff Bay, due to it having
intrigued and Mum said she I loved the spooky sound been a location used in Doctor
a reality-free comfort zone would buy me a DVD from effects and music that played Who. However, so fans aren’t
as part of my mental health the gift shop if I went round wherever you went. Roy disappointed if they turn up,
recovery. Episodes such as again on my own. I shot round I just wanted
Can You Hear Me? have truly the darkened corridor full of to make you
inspired me. Whittaker leaving monsters in absolute terror aware that
has hit me enormously, as I’ve and didn’t stop until I reached Eddie’s Diner
looked up to her as the Doctor the bright lights of the TARDIS has been
to remember that it’s OK to control room. True to her shut down
not be OK sometimes. I will be word, she bought me a DVD for over two
truly devastated to see Thirteen of Remembrance of the Daleks, years and
regenerate next year. However, which I later got signed by the whole
I’m excited to see what’s to Sylvester and Sophie. restaurant was
come in the months leading up Nearly 20 years on, I’d like gutted out to
to her regeneration! to thank you for reminding me be refurbished.
of where this journey started
SUMMER HOLIDAYS for me and giving me some of Thanks for letting us
s JAMIE THOMAS WILTSHIRE the history behind it. know, Louise. That’s
I was very excited to see that all for now – please
DWM 567 had an article on s CEDRIC WHITING SOUTHSEA keep sending your
the history of the exhibition I visited Longleat in June letters, photos
at Longleat. It was there that 1977, the same week as the and artwork to
I first encountered Doctor Queen’s Silver Jubilee parade. [email protected]
Who. I vividly remember It was a school trip to Longleat O The Thirteenth Doctor by @silvermoonart. DWM

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Each issue, the Time and Space Visualiser looks
back at a landmark moment and provides updates
on Doctor Who luminaries, past and present…
Tale respectively). Sophie Okonedo has
AWARDS been nominated for Ratched (Outstanding
Congratulations to Guest Actress in a Drama Series), Thomas
Robert Shearman, Brodie-Sangster for The Queen’s Gambit
who has been (Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited
nominated in both or Anthology Series or Movie) and Amy
the World Fantasy Roberts for The Crown (Outstanding Period
Awards and British Costumes). The awards ceremony will take O Karen Gillan heads the cast of Gunpowder Milkshake.
Fantasy Awards place on Monday 20 September.
for his anthology new six-part series Slow Horses
We All Hear FILM for Apple TV. Comic Relief Master
O Author Robert Shearman. Stories in the Dark. Karen Gillan stars in Gunpowder Jonathan Pryce features in the cast.
Photo © Alex Romeo.
Shobna Gulati Milkshake, which has already been
has been awarded a Doctor of Arts released in the US but comes AUDIO
by Bolton University in recognition to UK cinemas and Sky David Tennant plays Loki in the second
of her work in entertainment and the Cinema on 17 September. instalment of Neil Gaiman’s The
community. She also tours the UK To help promote the film, Sandman, which is realised by Audible
in 2022 as Mari in The Rise and Fall Karen has made a talk on 22 September. Gaiman returns as the
of Little Voice. Tickets are available show in her garage! Chillin Narrator and Michael Sheen is back as
now on the production’s website. with Gillan can be found on Lucifer. The cast also includes Arthur
This year’s Emmy nominations You Tube. Darvill as Shakespeare and Louise
are stuffed with Doctor Who Jameson as the Headmaster’s Mother,
alumni, including Brett TELEVISION as well as Brian Cox (the actor, not the
Goldstein for Ted Lasso Pearl Mackie and professor), Miriam Margolyes, Bill Nighy,
(Outstanding Supporting Actor Ayesha Antoine have Paterson Joseph, Kevin McNally, Jessica
in a Comedy Series), Daniel joined the cast of Martin, Ellen Thomas, Annette Badland,
Kaluuya for Saturday Night Live Aardman’s forthcoming Nicholas Boulton, Lachelle Carl and
(Outstanding Guest Actor in a CGI series Lloyd of the Comic Relief Doctor Joanna Lumley.
Comedy Series), Josh O’Connor Flies, which is set to air Dominic
for The Crown (Outstanding Lead on CITV in autumn 2022. Glynn’s single
Actor in a Drama Series), Olivia Alex Mercer is producing The Sheltering
Colman, also for The Crown the new BBC drama Sky is now
(Outstanding Lead Actress in a Crossfire, which is due available on all
Drama Series), and both Tobias to film shortly and has music platforms,
Menzies and O-T Fagbenle in the Keeley Hawes as lead including
Outstanding Supporting Actor actress and producer. Spotify and
in a Drama Series category (for O Pearl Mackie as James Hawes is Apple Music.
The Crown and The Handmaid’s Bill Potts. currently directing the TOBY HADOKE
OBITUARIES Ben in Horror of Fang Rock, died on Stuart Newton, who was a props
20 June, aged 85. man and played the train driver in the
Ralph Watson, who played the David Dukas, the South African- The Trial of a Time Lord Parts One to
uncredited overseer at the generating based actor who played Elias Griffin Jnr Four, died earlier this year.
station in The Underwater Menace, in Rosa, died from heart failure on News has also just reached us that
Captain Knight in The Web of Fear 20 July. He was 51. Jonina Scott, who played Marn in
(a role he later revisited for Big Finish), Clive Scott, another South African, The Sun Makers,
Ettis in The Monster of Peladon and played Linwood in Episode One of died in October
The Mind of Evil. He died on 28 July, O Clive Scott O Andrew Hopkinson 2018, aged 75.
aged 84.
Andrew Hunter, the grams operator Society and an interviewee in the 1977
on Planet of the Spiders, The Seeds of documentary Whose Doctor Who,
Doom, The Sun Makers, The Stones of died on 23 July. He was 66.
Blood, Meglos and The Keeper of Traken, Andrew Hopkinson, Doctor Who
died on 12 July. fan, prop maker and costumier, who
Stephen Payne, the co-founder played the Argolin in Dimensions
O Ralph Watson O David Dukas of the Doctor Who Appreciation in Time, died on 6 July at 55. O Stephen Payne O Jonina Scott

ø Zoe (Wendy Padbury)
THIS MONTH IN... 1968 and the Doctor (Patrick

Troughton) are held
captive by the Quarks in
Haisman and Lincoln
again. Haisman and
The Dominators (1968). Lincoln’s relationship with
the series had already
o Writers Mervyn
Haisman (above) and become strained, as they’d
Henry Lincoln (below). taken their names off The
Ø The Quarks make their Dominators when it was
first appearance in the rewritten and reduced
Doctor Who strip in TV in length by an episode.
Comic issue 872 (cover- This was merely the
dated 31 August 1968). first of a number of
Art by John Canning.
stories that would fall
Ø A publicity photo for
through or require extensive
The War Games (1969)
featuring a Yeti, an Ice
reworking during Patrick
Warrior, a Dalek, Patrick Troughton’s final season. Elsewhere, Dick
Troughton as the Doctor, Sharples’ bizarre comedy The Prison in
a Cyberman and a Quark. Space was abandoned in pre-production,
an additional episode was bolted on to
be recreated by the front of The Mind Robber and Robert
children. Given Holmes’ underwhelming The Krotons was
a sufficiently hastily retrieved from the slush pile. The
large cardboard Invasion ran to an epic length, but even
box, a punctured this was outdone by The War Games,
football and which had to be extended to ten episodes
five paper in an effort to fill empty broadcast slots.
SATURDAY 31 AUGUST cones, any child
could make
It was amid this chaotic atmosphere that
Troughton decided enough was enough.
a Quark outfit Exhausted by the schedule, fearful of
t was a time of change for TV Comic’s indistinguishable from the genuine article. typecasting and dissatisfied with the
I Doctor Who strip. Ever since the

first instalment, the Doctor had
been accompanied by two children, John
So why wasn’t the nation gripped by
Quark-mania? Was there no confidence
or preference among habitual viewers
quality of the scripts, he bowed to pressure
from his wife and handed in his notice.
To mark Troughton’s departure in
and Gillian. Unusually for comic-strip for what is known as Quark life? Episode Ten of The War Games, a Quark
characters, they’d grown up, and the time No. The problem was that the potential appeared alongside a Dalek, a Cybermen,
had come for the Doctor to dump them for lucrative merchandising led to a dispute an Ice Warrior and a Yeti on a ‘thought
on the doorstep of Zebadee University between the BBC and the creators of channel’ conjured by the Time Lords during
before heading off for a new adventure. the Quarks, Mervyn Haisman and Henry the Doctor’s trial. The Doctor described the
In the latest television serial, The Lincoln. The writers had entered into deadly rectangular robots as “servants of
Dominators, the Quarks been delighting negotiations with a merchandise company the cruel Dominators. They tried to enslave
viewers with their ungainly antics for the without the consent of the BBC, who had a peace-loving race.”
past three weeks. They’d been deliberately licensed the Quarks to appear in TV Comic It was a curious sort of recognition; had
designed to be the ‘next’ Daleks, with the without the consent of the writers. The things turned out differently, the Quarks
potential for lucrative merchandising, but situation was never really resolved; the could have been up there with the greats.
they were also monsters that could easily BBC gave the writers a payment to address JONATHAN MORRIS
the TV Comic
issue, the
merchandising
deal fell
ALSO THIS
through MONTH
and the
Doctor Who Saturday the 17th
production On the same day
team decided that Episode 2 of
not to employ The Dominators
was broadcast,
the music paper
Melody Maker
announced the
exciting news that Frazer Hines
was about to record a single entitled
Who’s Dr Who? The blistering guitar
on the single was played by Jimmy
Page, fresh from his first jam session
with the new band that would soon
become known as Led Zeppelin.
The other musicians on Who’s
Dr Who? were legendary session
drummer Clem Cattini and bass player
Alan Hawkshaw (composer of the
themes to Grange Hill and Channel
4 News), plus Alan Whitehead of
Marmalade on backing vocals.
O Frazer Hines is mentioned in Melody Maker.

Lost in Space
(and Time)
The deliberate destruction of so much Doctor Who now seems barely
credible. PAUL KIRKLEY examines the complexities behind that purge –
and the culture surrounding the recovery of missing episodes.
“I am being diminished. Whittled – is, in part, the story of television itself; one that goes
to the heart of how much cultural capital we place on a
away, piece by piece… Great medium once dismissed as “the idiot’s lantern”.
chunks of my past, detaching “I think there’s probably a rule of thumb that people
don’t take a medium seriously until it’s 50 years old,”
themselves like melting icebergs.” says Dick Fiddy, co-ordinator of Missing Believed
Wiped, a British Film Institute initiative dedicated to
The Doctor, The Five Doctors recovering lost television material. “Certainly that’s
what happened with film. Suddenly, there’s enough of
a history for people to start investigating and writing
P
eople have been underestimating Doctor serious books about it. And, I suppose, for people to
Who for a very long time. In 1963, start feeling nostalgic.”
cautious BBC executives were reluctant In the 1960s and 70s, BBC bosses could only see two
to commit to more than 13 episodes of possible reasons for retaining old episodes of Doctor
the new teatime adventure serial, and Who: domestic repeats and foreign sales. The former
when, 40 years later, Russell T Davies were limited by Equity and the Musicians’ Union to just
announced plans to bring the show back, industry one repeat screening, after which the episodes were
‘experts’ lined up to tell him it would never work. basically just taking up perfectly good, reusable videotape
But has anyone ever been more wrong about Doctor – no small consideration when a 60-minute tape would
Who than the BBC bean-counters who, when asked have cost the average British worker at least five weeks’
Opposite page: William why they were consigning so many of the programme’s wages. Hence the issuing of Wipe/Junk Authorisation
Hartnell as the Doctor early episodes to oblivion in the 1960s and 70s, wrote forms (they of the No Further Interest notoriety), which
in The Massacre of simply: No Further Interest. sealed the fate of dozens of original two-inch videotapes
St Bartholomew’s Eve.
No further interest? of Doctor Who between 1967 and 1974.
No footage survives
from this 1966 story. Half a century on, as fans eagerly await the new Certainly, the people making Doctor Who in the 1960s
versions of The Evil of the Daleks and The Web of weren’t entertaining lofty thoughts of the show’s legacy:
Below left: A videotape
is wiped with a Fear, that’s a phrase that rings laughably hollow. Not their job was just to make 25 minutes of entertainment
powerful magnet. just because the serials’ release on DVD and Blu-ray to fill the gap between Grandstand and Juke Box Jury.
Below right: The Radio is evidence of a viable commercial interest in itself, “There was no question of it being kept,” says Anneke 1
Times cover-dated 7-13 but also because their very existence is testament to
December 1963 promoted the tenacity and resourcefulness of fans – the kind of
the appearance of The fans who cared enough, over the years, to make off-
Beatles on Juke Box Jury. air sound recordings, painstakingly recreate the lost
This episode no longer
survives in the BBC archive,
footage in animated form or, in one case, track down a
and is often cited as one horde of Yetis in the hills of Nigeria.
of the most-missed pieces The story of how so much of Doctor Who came to be
of ‘lost’ television. lost in time – and how much of it eventually came back

Certainly, the people
making Doctor Who
in the 1960s weren’t
entertaining lofty thoughts
of the show’s legacy.
Lost in Space (and Time)
Right: Polly (Anneke returned to the archive, often turning up in the most
Wills), Ben (Michael unlikely places, be it a TV station in Africa or, in the case
Craze) and the Doctor
of The Lion from 1965’s The Crusade, plucked from the
(William Hartnell)
in Episode 1 of The jaws of death on a New Zealand landfill site.
Smugglers (1966). In time, as black-and-white TV fell out of fashion and
Below left from top: overseas broadcast rights expired, buyers had the choice
Richard Landen and of either returning the film cans to the BBC or destroying
Graham Strong made them. Fortunately for us, these rules don’t always seem
audio recordings of to have been rigorously adhered to; presumably, countries
Doctor Who episodes that were in the grip of civil war had more pressing things
during the 1960s.
Below centre:
Freelance photographer
John Cura took
“It was just the nature
‘telesnaps’ of TV shows,
including Doctor Who, 1 Wills, who played companion Polly alongside William
of television in those
in order to create a
visual record for actors
Hartnell and Patrick Troughton’s Doctors. “It was just
the nature of television in those days – practically all your
days – practically
and programme makers.
Below right: Some
work was ditched when you’d finished it.”
“It only seems ridiculous to us now,” agrees Dick Fiddy.
all your work was
of Cura’s telesnaps
from Epsiode 1 of
The Savages (1966).
“At the time it would have made perfect sense. Can you
imagine if the newspapers had found out the BBC was
ditched when you’d
sitting on a hundred thousand videotapes, and instead
of re-using them was using licence payers’ money to buy
finished it.”
new ones? So you can’t play the blame game. I always say ANNEKE WILLS
the search for lost stories should be a treasure hunt, not
a witch hunt.” to worry about. And that’s just as well, as BBC Enterprises
If domestic repeats were a non-starter, foreign sales ended up tossing many of the ones that did come back into
were a potential cash cow; it’s no accident that BBC a skip. That’s not a metaphorical skip, by the way: it was
Enterprises, the corporation’s commercial sales division, an actual skip outside BBC Enterprises’ offices in Ealing,
began life as the tellingly named BBC Exploitation. To get the contents of which were then sent to an incinerator.
round the problem of countries using different broadcast If the decision to reuse the original two-inch master
formats, it was standard practice to make black-and- tapes makes a sort of sense, what’s less easy to understand
white 16mm film telerecordings of the original two-inch is why the BBC was still destroying film copies of Doctor
videotapes – a practice that continued well into the Third Who (which had no re-use value anyway) as late as 1977.
Doctor’s run, which is why so many early 1970s stories This was the same year, lest we forget, that BBC2’s Lively
only survived in monochrome, until clever fans came up Arts series dedicated a whole programme to examining
with ingenious, borderline-magical ways to put the colour Doctor Who as a cultural phenomenon, a year after the
back into Jon Pertwee’s cheeks. formation of the Doctor Who Appreciation Society and a
This global scattering of the Doctor Who seed is the whole four years since the Radio Times tenth-anniversary
reason so many lost episodes have subsequently been special, which had chronicled all the Doctor’s previous
Missing... ish with the BBC to supply off-air ‘telesnaps’

of various productions. “Seeing those for
the first time was incredible,” says Jeremy
taken to a new level with the creation
of fully animated reconstructions.
Recalls Richard Molesworth: “I was
hile 97 episodes of Doctor Who Bentham, who discovered the first batch once interviewed by a newspaper
W are still missing, it would be a
mistake to say they’re entirely
while researching his 1986 book Doctor
Who: The Early Years. “There was a time
journalist who said, ‘There are all these
episodes of Doctor Who you know
lost. Thanks to fans like Richard Landen when old photographs of Doctor Who nothing about.’ They were amazed when
and the late Graham Strong, among weren’t that common, so that was a real I said, ‘Actually, we know practically
others, we’re blessed with complete off-air treasure trove.” everything about them: we’ve got audios,
audio recordings of every story ever made. By matching these telesnaps to the telesnaps, copies of the scripts… The only
While that’s hardly unique – taping off-air soundtracks, fans have been thing we can’t do is see them!”
pop music and comedy programmes, able to enjoy at least
in particular, was common an approximation of the
practice in the 1960s, missing episodes – an
says Dick Fiddy – Doctor experience that’s now been
Who is unusually well
represented for a drama
serial. “If it wasn’t for
those fans lying on their
tummies and recording
the stories, we wouldn’t
have the soundtracks at all,
so hooray for them,” says
Anneke Wills.
There are also
surprisingly good
visual records of many
missing episodes,
thanks to John Cura, a
freelance photographer
who had an arrangement

adventures for a generation unaware that, behind closed
doors, they were gradually being erased from existence.
As secretary of the Doctor Who Fan Club in the early
1970s, Keith Miller was in no doubt about his members’
interest in Doctor Who’s history. “That’s why I started
documenting the episodes from the beginning,” he says.
“Which didn’t go down well with Jon Pertwee. He kept
saying ‘It’s my programme now, it’s got nothing to do
with them [William Hartnell and Patrick Troughton]!’
But I thought, no, it’s Doctor Who, it’s got everything the enormity of what was missing was
to do with them.” crystallised, in that one page of text.”
And yet the BBC was still wiping the tapes – even, Jeremy Bentham himself had first got wind of
incredibly, of Jon Pertwee’s episodes. “It took the BBC a long the problem a few years earlier when producer Tony
time to catch up with the fact there was a paying audience Cash’s team were sourcing clips for the Lively Arts
out there, willing to keep Doctor Who alive,” says Keith. documentary in late 1976. “When his researchers had
As with many large and unwieldy institutions, it’s gone through the film library, that was the revelation,”
possible that one arm of the BBC simply had no idea what says Jeremy. “Until then there’d been a bland assumption
the other one was up to. So the Engineering Department, that everything did exist on the shelves somewhere.”
which was responsible for wiping the two-inch videotapes, In the article, Jeremy vividly likened the library to
might have been doing so in the belief that Enterprises had “some huge Pharaoh’s tomb – a storehouse of treasures
already made film transfers, while Enterprises may have kept safe from the ravages of time”. “There was a little bit
been oblivious to the fact that those film cans contained of that Howard Carter feeling,” he says today, laughing.
the last copies in existence. But the truth is, no one really “Of being inside the tomb and seeing wonderful things…”
cared enough to find out – at least until Sue Malden Except, as we know, quite a lot of treasures hadn’t been
was appointed as the BBC Film Library’s first Archive kept safe from the ravages of time, nor indeed the ravages
Selector in 1978 and, in a stroke of good fortune, chose of BBC economics.
Doctor Who as her template to investigate the scale of the Thankfully, Jeremy wasn’t the first Doctor Who fan to
archive’s depleted stock. take a poke around the BBC’s archive. In 1977, a lucky Top left: Jeremy Bentham
eleventh-hour intervention by Ian Levine almost certainly was DWM’s lead writer
few years later, Sue was visited at the library stopped hours more of the Doctor’s adventures being in the early 1980s. One
A by Jeremy Bentham of Doctor Who Magazine
(or Doctor Who Monthly, as it was then), and it
consigned to the flames. The story of how Ian walked into
the BBC Enterprises store room at Villiers House to find
of his assignments led
him to reveal which
Doctor Who episodes
was his seminal report in DWM’s 1981 Winter Special that all seven episodes of the first Dalek story taped up and were missing from the
first laid bare the tragedy of Doctor Who’s vanishing past. labelled WITHDRAWN, DE-ACCESSIONED AND JUNKED BBC archive.
“There was that one-page listing, with all these is the stuff of legend. Top right: Sue Malden,
mysterious annotations next to them,” recalls Richard Having rescued that priceless piece of television history the BBC Film Library’s
Molesworth, author of the acclaimed book Wiped! Doctor from the incinerator, he went on to discover film copies first Archive Selector,
Who’s Missing Episodes. “Things like: Marco Polo – none, of a further 56 Hartnell and five Troughton episodes. pictured in 1981.
The Web of Fear – 1, The Tenth Planet – 1, 2, 3… I just With typically stubborn tenacity, when copyright rules Above inset: Music
couldn’t work out how we’d arrived at a situation where prevented him from making a private purchase of the producer and DJ Ian
Levine prevented
no episodes of The Power of the Daleks or The Tomb episodes Ian simply went direct to Equity and The Writers’
numerous episodes
of the Cybermen existed. All these wonderful stories I’d Guild, negotiating himself a special dispensation. from being destroyed
been too young to see but had read about in the Radio For Ian, it was the start of a long journey of tracking – including the first
Times special… It was mortifying. It was the first time down lost Doctor Who stories – not just from the vaults 1 Dalek serial.

Right: Producer and station in Cyprus – and,
missing episode expert as much to his surprise as
Paul Vanezis with a reel
anyone’s, promptly turned
of film.
up three lost episodes of
Below: The comedian
The Reign of Terror.
and presenter Bob
Monkhouse was an “My interest was purely
avid collector of selfish,” admits Paul. “I just
films and television wanted to see them. I didn’t
programmes. After his really care if anybody else
death, his collection got to see them. It was just
was catalogued, but
no missing Doctor Who
annoyance, really, at the
was found. thought these stories that
had been so mythologised no
longer existed.”
Other recoveries felt more
like a gift from the gods. In
1983, film cans containing
episodes five and ten of The
1 of the BBC but Daleks’ Master Plan were found in the cellar of the Church
from all over the of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Wandsworth.
world. In 1984, Or it may have been the Mormon Unification Church
a chance remark in Clapham. Or at least near Clapham. Recollections vary
on Radio 2 about to such an extent, many believed the actual source was
Nigerian television comedy legend, and avid film collector, Bob Monkhouse.
being so behind the (It almost certainly wasn’t, says Dick Fiddy.)
times that “Patrick
Troughton was ther finds were more prosaic. Episode two
still Doctor Who”
prompted him to
O of The Daleks’ Master Plan was returned after
spending 20 years in broadcast engineer Francis
Below left: Ben, Polly begin calling up TV stations there. (This was a country, Watson’s cupboard, then a further decade in a carrier bag
and the Doctor (Patrick remember, that was beset by decades of war and civil hanging on a coat hook in his office at Yorkshire Television
Troughton) in Episode
unrest, and had just been seized by yet another military in Leeds. Air Lock, the episode of Galaxy 4 recovered in
One of The Power of the
Daleks (1966). junta.) This somewhat unlikely punt resulted in the 2011, had been acquired at a school fête in Southampton
recovery of three episodes apiece of The Time Meddler three decades earlier, while The Evil of the Daleks Episode
Below right: The Doctor
is “renewed” and sees a and The War Machines – though their return was further 2 and The Faceless Ones Episode 3 were picked up at
reflection of his former self delayed when the London kidnapping of a former Nigerian a film fair in Buckingham.
(William Hartnell) in Episode government minister created a diplomatic incident. The latter discovery led to a memorable afternoon
One of The Power of the After that, Ian began sending telexes to TV stations when Paul Vanezis and fellow organisers of 1987’s
Daleks. These images are in every country known to have bought Doctor Who TellyCon convention in Birmingham were able to surprise
telesnaps taken by John Cura.
and other fans followed on his wake – among them Paul the audience with an emotional screening of that The
Bottom right: The renewed Vanezis. Now best known for returning episodes to their Faceless Ones episode – the Second Doctor, returned to us
Doctor reads from his
500-year diary, as a wary
former glory as part of the Doctor Who Restoration Team, from the ether 20 years after the episode’s first broadcast
Ben and Polly look on. in 1984 Paul used his Cypriot heritage to contact a TV and just three weeks after Patrick Troughton’s death.
no fewer than 27 of her

40 episodes remain lost.
“It’s no good crying over
spilt milk. My duty is to
fill in the gaps as much
as possible.”
Is there a particular
story she’d like to see
returned to the vaults?
“I think The Power of the Daleks, when would have made of the recovery of
Michael Craze and I first meet Pat,” nine of his episodes making headline news
she says. “We met the Daleks – and the front page of the Daily Mirror –
as well, of course, but it was in 2013? “He’d have been tickled pink,”
meeting Pat that stands out. says Anneke. “Absolutely chuckling
The first regeneration was away on his cloud.
an AMAZING THING – But I can also hear
can you put that bit in him asking about
Spilt Milk capitals? Pat was very

brave to do it. So
the money!”
I’d love to be able

n one sense, the absence of to see that, and
I so much early Doctor Who is
a tragedy – but does it also add
transport myself
back. It would be
to the programme’s mythos and mystique? amazing. But they’d
“I like your thinking – I like to be better hurry up, ’cos
mysterious, you know,” says Anneke Wills, I’m getting old…”
laughing. “I’ve come to accept it over the What does she think
years,” she adds, referring to the fact that Patrick Troughton

of the video charts in 1992, Far left: The recovery
its 24,000 copies leaving Kevin of 1967’s The Tomb
of the Cybermen was
Costner’s Robin Hood and
the headline news in
Anthony Hopkins’ Hannibal Gallifrey Guardian in
Lecter trailing in its dust. DWM 184 (published
No Further Interest? Pah. 20 February 1992).
Since DWM listed that Left: The story also
shocking total of 136 missing featured in the March
Doctor Who episodes in 1992 issue of the
1981, 39 have been returned, fanzine DWB.
taking the tally below the Below: The recovery
100 barrier, to 97. That’s of missing episodes
from The Enemy of the
a minor miracle in itself – World (1967-68) and
and a huge credit to all the The Web of Fear (1968)
people who have invested made the national press
time, energy and resources in the UK, including the
in the search. “It amazes me to 11 October 2013 edition
of the Daily Mirror.
this day that so much work has
been undertaken by so many
people,” says Jeremy Bentham.
But since 2013 – when
archive recovery specialist (and self-styled ‘real Indiana
For many years, Jones’) Philip Morris discovered nine lost episodes from
the Second Doctor stories The Web of Fear and The Enemy
1967’s The Tomb of of the World in Nigeria – there’s been a worrying radio
silence. Is it simply that the more leads that are followed
the Cybermen was up, the smaller the window of opportunity becomes?
Not necessarily. “This is all about trust,” says Paul
the Holy Grail of lost Vanezis. “Philip managed to find a way of getting those
episodes back that didn’t involve bribery – which is often 1
Doctor Who stories.
“It was a magical moment,” says Richard Molesworth,
who was in the audience. (Earlier, he’d missed a private
screening for the event’s stewards because he had to go
home and do his paper round.)
All of which begs the question: in an age when every
existing Doctor Who episode is available to stream on
your smartphone, is there perhaps something to be said
for those days when tapes of old stories changed hands
on an illicit underground network, and you had to go
to the equivalent of a Doctor Who speakeasy in order to
source a degraded, fifth-generation copy of The Wheel in
Space Episode 3? And if no Doctor Who episodes had ever
been lost in the Vortex in the first place, might not the
lives of a generation of fans have been a bit more… dull?
“If all the episodes had been there from day one, that
would be slightly boring,” admits Richard Molesworth.
“If they all turned up tomorrow, that would be rather
jolly. But would I swap all those years of writing the
lists and ticking them off? Probably not, because that
was kind of fun, too.”
“As any comics collector will tell you, sometimes
the thrill is in the hunt,” agrees Jeremy Bentham.
For many years, 1967’s The Tomb of the Cybermen
was the Holy Grail of lost Doctor Who stories – so its
discovery at a Hong Kong TV station in 1991 sent
a seismic tremor through fandom. But this prize haul
almost got lost all over
again: having been
posted back to the BBC
from Asia Television,
the films went AWOL
for a month, and were
eventually discovered –
with nothing to identify
them save for the story’s
original production code
(MM) – lying unclaimed
in the loading bay of the
BBC’s Woodlands depot.
Rush-released on BBC
Video, The Tomb of the
Cybermen shot to the top

Above left: The film can 1 what you’re up against in Nigeria. Because he’d worked And yet, look at what’s actually turned up. Of all the
containing the previously in the oil industry, he knew how it worked out there. episodes discovered over the past four decades, only
missing Episode 2 of The Going out there and establishing contacts will get you a lot a handful are from the early Hartnell years (which, to
Web of Fear. The episode further than making telephone calls.” be fair, are well represented in the archives anyway).
was identified by the
In a further twist to the tale, Morris later claimed that But Seasons Three and, in particular, Five have benefited
production code QQ on
the label. the still-missing Web of Fear Episode 3 had been among from a positive gold rush – with the happy result that
his Nigerian discoveries, but had subsequently gone more than half of the once threadbare Patrick Troughton
Above right: Philip Morris,
the entrepreneurial fan AWOL again… era has now been restored.
whose research led to the “The truth is, there’s no point trying to be scientific
recovery of nine episodes loser to home, Jeremy Bentham is keeping about it – anything could turn up at any time,” says Paul
of Doctor Who and several
other ‘lost’ television
C a weather eye on other potential leads, including
film copies that may have been sent to the Royal
Vanezis. “Where did Philip Morris find The Web of Fear
and The Enemy of the World? In the last place they were
programmes.
Navy for ship and submarine crews to watch, and the screened. That’s always the place to start, and then you
Below inset: TV and film
somewhat ghoulish reality that, as the first generation work backwards from there.”
historian Dick Fiddy.
of TV film collectors begins to die off, their stock might One reason the breadcrumb trail is so complicated
Bottom: Sir Charles
go up for sale or donation. “Often, it’s nothing to do with is due to the historic use of a ‘bicycling’ system, under
Summer (William Mervyn)
and the Doctor (William people being secretive,” notes Dick Fiddy. “It’s just that which broadcasters would pass their films onto different
Hartnell) examine a people don’t know what they’ve got.” countries at the behest of the BBC.
neutralised robotic killer So if there are more episodes “The War Machines [recovered
in Episode 4 of The War
Machines (1966). Until
Episodes 1, 3 and 4 of
out there, what might we actually
get to see one day? Received Of all the episodes in Nigeria in 1984] went from
New Zealand to Singapore,
this story were recovered
from Nigeria in 1984, only
wisdom has it that 1964’s Marco
Polo, the oldest missing story, is discovered over the along with a whole bunch
of other Season Three and
Episode 2 existed in the
BBC archive.
the most likely, simply because
more foreign broadcasters bought past four decades, Four stories,” explains
Paul. “That story was on
Doctor Who’s earliest run. The
serial was sold to 25 countries, only a handful a palette with The Savages,
The Smugglers, The Tenth
compared to just one for The
Daleks’ Master Plan – meaning are from the early Planet, The Power of the
Daleks… So the question
only one film print of Master
Plan was ever struck. Hartnell years. is, where were those films
between the screening
in Singapore and The War
Machines ending up in Nigeria? Or take The Tomb of the
Cybermen. When you look at the paperwork, it makes
perfect sense that that story was left behind in Hong Kong.
But the same paperwork tells you The Evil of the Daleks
should be there too. So where’s that gone?”
As tantalising as all this is, there’s something of a ticking
time bomb involved, because the longer 35mm film stock
goes undiscovered, the more it risks becoming degraded
beyond use. Nevertheless, most people in the Doctor Who
recovery business continue to travel hopefully.
“You’ve always got to be optimistic,” says Richard
Molesworth. “You’ve always got to think there’s more
to be found. But at the same time, we’re never going
to know when we’ve found the last missing episode.”
“I’ve still got my original list from 1981, when for
a long time it was 136 episodes and we were firmly
convinced it was never going to drop below that,” says
Jeremy Bentham. “Now, you’ve only got to look at the
number of crossings-out. So I live in hope.”
“I never stop being surprised by things that happen in
the Doctor Who world,” muses Anneke Wills. “You never
know. I wouldn’t close the door – because this show has
its own magic…” DWM

EYE WITNESSES
Marco Polo
The earliest completely missing
story is a lyrical masterpiece – even
if the kids watching in 1964 didn’t
fully appreciate it at the time…
s it possible that the best bits
of Marco Polo have been with
I us all along? Certainly, as

a story that leans so heavily
on John Lucarotti’s rich,
lyrical dialogue – with its
moonlit deserts like “a great
silver sea” and description of the TARDIS
as “a caravan that can defy the passage
of the sun” – the existence of a complete
Above: Mark Eden
soundtrack feels like a minor miracle.
(as Marco), Derren
Nesbitt (Tegana) and On paper, it also looks like an insanely
William Hartnell (the ambitious undertaking to recreate
Doctor) in Marco landscapes as diverse as the Himalayas,
Polo (1964). the Gobi Desert, the snow Plain of Pamir
Right: Ian (William and the Summer Palace at Shang-Tu on a
Russell) and Susan pin-money budget in Lime Grove’s cramped
(Carole Ann Ford)
Studio D. Surely it couldn’t possibly hope to
look on as Marco
remonstrates with match the version of the story in our heads?
the Doctor in the And yet… the existence of photographs
third episode, Five and those glorious telesnaps – another gift
Hundred Eyes. from the gods, only discovered in 2004 –

I’d fallen in love with, which
WHY WE WANT IT BACK
was the Dalek serial.”
Keith Miller, who ran the
Doctor Who Fan Club in the
early 1970s, recalls being
similarly frustrated. “It
seemed to go on forever,”
he says. “I wasn’t terribly
keen on the historical
stories. I felt they were
surreptitiously trying to
teach me history, and
I watched Doctor Who to
get away from being taught!
I was very keen to see the It’s the first missing piece of the jigsaw and, as a story
inside of the TARDIS again. that unfolds across several months and thousands
suggests that, with its ingenious sets and But it does stick in my memory, so it must of miles, it’s still unique in the Doctor Who canon.
beautiful costumes, this journey across the have entertained to some extent.”
‘Roof of the World’ might actually have Presumably Keith would seize upon ON THE RECORD
looked pretty splendid, too. the chance to see it again now? “Perhaps
“Looking at the telesnaps,” says writer on fast-forward,” he says, laughing. “I think Marco Polo was the first time
and historian Jeremy Bentham, “you realise (He’s joking. We think.) that William Hartnell really got to
just how incredible the lighting is: they’re Lifelong Doctor Who fan Dene October grips with Doctor Who. I think he
doing lighting changes to suggest warm had the rare – possibly unique – privilege was uncomfortable coping with
inside, cold outside. There’s a visual depth of seeing the story twice, at either end of his machines and robots… He needed
to the sets; it’s incredibly well crafted.” own Marco Polo-style journey. “I watched human rapport, and he really found his
the serial in the UK when I was five, and stride in Marco Polo. It was all such a happy time.”
again in Australia when my family emigrated John Lucarotti, DWM 124
“There’s a visual later that year,” says Dene. “Marco had
a particular resonance because, the second “Doing that epic story, complete
depth to the sets; time, it echoed the feelings and experience

of travel I’d had, such as the sense of
with brigands and deserts and
snowstorms, in Studio D at Lime
it’s incredibly” well continual movement and feeling lost.

“It’s the personal anchoring that makes
the stories memorable for me,” he adds.
Grove, deserves an award in itself.
It was all brilliant improvisation with
very little.” Waris Hussein, DWM 272
crafted. “Later, when I read the camera script of
Marco Polo, there were moments where
DATA FILE
JEREMY BENTHAM it came alive in my mind – like visual
memories being stirred.” Writer: John Lucarotti
Not that the seven-year-old Jeremy Jeremy Bentham would dearly love the Director: Waris Hussein (episode four:
appreciated it the first time round. “My opportunity to reassess the serial. “Right John Crockett)
junior self couldn’t wait for it to get off the from the moment when the soundtrack First broadcast: 22 February – 4 April 1964,
screen, in the hope we might get some started to get cleaned up, and I read the BBC TV, UK
science fiction back!” he says, chuckling. scripts, I realised it was something special,” Last broadcast: 21 January 1971, ETV, Ethiopia
“I had such a strop at half past five when he says. “And it’s the one that everyone says,
I thought the story was ending, and they statistically, we should be able to see again j The two-inch videotapes of all seven episodes
were back in the TARDIS. Then Susan goes one day, because more prints were struck of were wiped on Thursday 17 August 1967.
to say goodbye to Ping-Cho and is seized Marco Polo than just about any other serial.”
by Tegana, and I thought, ‘Oh God, it’s not And so we live in hope that, like the great j Between August 1964 and October 1970, film
finished – we’ve had five episodes and it merchant explorer himself, Marco Polo will prints were sold to 25 countries (though a handful
still hasn’t ended.’ A week is a long time one day return home. PAUL KIRKLEY either never showed it or didn’t complete the sale).
in the life of a child, By 1972, BBC Enterprises had disposed of all known
and it just seemed an film recordings.
incredibly yawning
chasm to when we j John Cura’s telesnaps of episodes one, two,
might start seeing three, five, six and seven were found in 2004 by
something like what Derek Handley.
AVAILABLE VERSIONS
Above left: The TARDIS is
The soundtrack, with additional narration from
carried on a horse-drawn
cart as the travellers William Russell, was released on CD (BBC, 2003)
journey to Cathay. and later included in Doctor Who: The
Right: Recording a scene Lost Episodes Collection One (BBC,
in which Marco is granted 2019); it was also made available on
an audience with Kublai ‘Desert Sandstorm’ coloured vinyl
Khan (Martin Miller) (Demon Records, 2020). A condensed,
in the sixth episode, 30-minute telesnap reconstruction
Mighty Kublai Khan.
was included on the DVD set
Above right from top: The Beginning (2 Entertain,
Zienia Merton (as
Ping-Cho) rehearses
2006). John Lucarotti’s
a scene with Carole Ann novelisation (Target, 1985)
Ford for the fifth episode, is currently out of print, but
Rider from Shang-Tu; the audiobook (BBC, 2018),
writer John Lucarotti; narrated by Zienia Merton,
director Waris Hussein.
is available on CD/digital.

EYE WITNESSES
The Myth Makers

The next entirely missing serial landed the TARDIS
in Greek mythology – and left Vicki behind…
y October 1965, my father

had stopped watching
Above: The Doctor

(William Hartnell) is
“B Doctor Who with us,” recalls
Mervyn Capel, “declaring
that it was getting weaker
and weaker. So it was left to
his sister, my Auntie Gwen, to
mistaken for Zeus, misread the upcoming Trojan War story
and encounters The Myth Makers as The Mirth Makers…
Odysseus (Ivor I’d read the Puffin paperback The Tale of
Salter) and Troy umpteen times, and I loudly declared
Agamemnon (Francis
that the TARDIS couldn’t go there because
De Wolff ) in Temple
of Secrets, the first Troy was a legend, not real history.
episode of The Myth Apparently, the writer Donald Cotton
Makers (1965). had a similar viewpoint.”
Right: Paris (Barrie Indeed, The Myth Makers was a new
Ingham) engages type of historical adventure for Doctor
in a sword fight Who, building on the comic aspects
with ‘Diomode’ – of Dennis Spooner’s serials to deliver
aka Steven (Peter
Purves) – in episode
a witty, self-aware story that drew on,
two, Small Prophet, and subverted, Homer’s Iliad. Well, it
Quick Return. was supposed to be witty…

there along with
WHY WE WANT IT BACK
Odysseus and the
Doctor. The big
scene (I think)
is the one where
Odysseus puts
the Doctor in his
place. I really
loved the First
Doctor, but this
is one of those
times where
his plans for
escape lead him It’s a clever, literate story, with a distinctive tone
and others into and arguably the biggest swing from high comedy
further trouble. to high drama ever attempted by Doctor Who.
He’s only really
worried about the ON THE RECORD
implications as
much as it affects him, and the companions. “I can’t quite recall why the script
“The trouble was I didn’t see it exactly like that as a child,
but I felt something was wrong.”
ended up as jokey as it did. That
was probably the Donald Tosh
that as a comedy The final episode features a dramatic
tonal shift as the hapless stalemate between
influence since ‘jokey’ was one
of his favourite themes. [I was]
it simply
” wasn’t
the Greeks and Trojans erupts into war –
a sequence that, on audio, is harder to parse
testing the temperature of the
water to see what we could do, and
than the comedy that precedes it. “The how far we could take the format.”
funny. MERVYN CAPEL burning and sack of Troy were suggested
by sound effects rather than too much
John Wiles, DWM Winter Special 1983-84
“The trouble was that as a comedy graphic violence,” Mervyn recalls. “The “Troy was a model photographed via a mirror
it simply wasn’t funny,” says Mervyn. last 20 minutes was genuinely exciting… using the ‘Schüfftan’ process. This involved
“I remember sitting cross and resentful as I was so impressed by the sight of Katarina scraping away a section of the mirror’s silver
my Greek and Trojan heroes were parodied running through the burning streets and backing and filming the reflected model with the
by middle-aged actors who really didn’t helping the wounded Steven into the live action in combination through the hole.”
seem sure whether they should be playing TARDIS, that I promptly sat down and Michael Leeson-Smith, DWM 188
it straight or for laughs.” rewrote the story from her point of view.
“I remember this as a beautiful story,” All of this rather overshadowed Vicki’s DATA FILE
says Dene October, “with lovely wide vistas decision to chance her luck and escape from
(it seemed) and costumes. It starts with Troy with Troilus and his cousin Aeneas.” Writer: Donald Cotton
a sword fight, and my recollection is that Vicki’s departure is built up across the Director: Michael Leeson-Smith
the fight takes place over a lot of space story, yet there’s no moment when she First broadcast: 16 October – 6 November 1965,
and is quite balletic, with Achilles and declares it on screen. “I remember being BBC1, UK
Hector disappearing out of shot, surprised that the production didn’t have Last broadcast: 6 November – 27 November 1972,
reappearing, and running around. a scene between her and the Doctor,” says TV Singapore 5, Singapore
I’m pretty sure a sweep of camera Ian. “We saw her entering the TARDIS
angles and positions are used here and then leaving it.” j The two-inch videotapes of the second, third
to really good effect.” So much of this is done non- and fourth episodes were wiped on 17 August 1967.
“The horse itself was verbally: after Vicki leaves the The first episode survived until 31 January 1969.
a particularly good model,” TARDIS for the last time, she
says Ian McLachlan, “and while gives the blue box a hug before j Between 1966 and 1972, film prints were sold
I never thought for a moment going to find Troilus. It’s one to Australia, Barbados, Zambia, New Zealand,
that the BBC props department of Doctor Who’s most charming Sierra Leone and Singapore. BBC Enterprises
had actually built a full-size model moments, and one we’ll never disposed of its film recordings around 1972.
of the beast, the shots of the horse be able to fully appreciate while
blended in perfectly with the the episodes remain lost. j Producer John Wiles didn’t commission any
live-action sequences.” EDDIE ROBSON telesnaps, but 11 brief off-air clips were filmed on
“It must have been filmed from an 8mm camera during an Australian broadcast.
quite a low angle because it looked
huge and it seemed quite big inside,” AVAILABLE VERSIONS
says Dene. “I remember about
eight soldiers hunkered down in The soundtrack, narrated by Peter Purves, was
released on CD (BBC, 2001) and subsequently
included in Doctor Who: The Lost
Above left: King Priam (Max
TV Episodes Collection One (BBC,
Adrian) welcomes Vicki
(Maureen O’Brien) to Troy, 2019). It’s also available on ‘Trojan
but Cassandra (Frances Sunset’ coloured vinyl (Demon
White) remains suspicious Records, 2021). The 8mm clips
of the new arrival, in Small were released on the
Prophet, Quick Return. Lost in Time DVD (BBC,
Right: The Trojan Horse in the 2004). Donald Cotton’s
third episode, Death of a Spy.
novelisation (Target,
Above right from top: The 1985) is out of print,
mute spy, Cyclops (Tutte
but the audiobook (BBC,
Lemkov), imparts information
to his master, Odysseus, in 2008), read by Stephen
Temple of Secrets; producer Thorne, is available
John Wiles. on CD/digital.

EYE WITNESSES
The Massacre of
St Bartholomew’s Eve
The series’ foray into the French Wars of ome have said this historical
period was an unusual one
Religion vividly dramatises what the Doctor
describes as “a terrible page of the past”… “S to set a Doctor Who story
in,” notes Ian McLachlan,
who saw The Massacre
of St Bartholomew’s Eve as
a child. “Not for me. I studied
these events at school.”
For others watching, the setting was
obscure but potent. Dene October, not long
Above: The Doctor arrived in Australia, felt that “The conflict
(William Hartnell)
between the Huguenots and Catholics was
and Steven (Peter
Purves) visit a Paris a reminder of my being an immigrant. The
tavern in War of God, religious tension was relatable.” Whereas
the first episode of Mervyn Capel recalls that “My father was
The Massacre of a very religious man. He said they shouldn’t
St Bartholomew’s bring God into children’s entertainment.
Eve (1966).
What he’d have made of the Abbot of Amboise
Right: A 16th-century
I hate to think! A cleric portrayed as sinister,
engraving depicting
the horrific massacre and played by the same actor as Doctor
that took place on Who? What sort of message was that?”
St Bartholomew’s William Hartnell was keen on his dual
Day in 1572. role, but Dene was less happy. “Steven’s

to young Dene’s horror: “The Abbot tries
WHY WE WANT IT BACK
to slip out. For me, that’s the Doctor trying
to make a run for it. I see him move to
the door, but he’s stopped. Two guards
move forward. I remember them passing
either side of the camera. Then the scene
changes.” Later Steven finds the Abbot’s
body in the gutter. “I’m trying to see if it
is the Doctor. But Steven is convinced.
This was terrifying, and upsetting. I’m
in meltdown.”
For Mervyn this was “the ultimate twist
“Was the Abbot on the ‘Doctor in Disguise’ trick – that he
wasn’t the Doctor at all.”
the Doctor? The story climaxes with the historical

massacre, in which thousands died. Ian
Definitely. That saw “shots of injured people – victims of

the massacre. I remember it as being very
downbeat.” Viewing “graphic close-ups”
To see William Hartnell as the Abbot in a story
that doesn’t even have telesnaps. This is arguably
the most missing serial of all.
was my viewing”
of an “engraving showing the slaughter
of Protestant men, women and children ON THE RECORD
experience. on the streets,” Mervyn worried about
Anne Chaplet, a servant girl who’d helped “I had the natural advantage
Steven throughout the story. “I was shocked with Bill, with whom I got on
DENE OCTOBER when the Doctor refused to take her on very well, in terms of saying
troubles and anxieties escalated, because board the TARDIS,” he says. Dene points ‘The Doctor’s showing’ if
the Doctor wasn’t there to help. His absence out, with a shudder, that “My memory I didn’t like what he was
ramped up the tension, and was for me, is of burning houses, dead bodies and doing [as the Abbot]. That
incredibly frightening.” blood-curdling screams.” worked like a charm. Because
Mervyn spent the story wondering For Mervyn, this dramatic ending was the Doctor couldn’t show.”
“whether the scheming clergyman was the marred when “a young woman stumbled Paddy Russell, DWM 127
Doctor in disguise. It was, after all, usual into the TARDIS in 1966.” This was new
for the Doctor to masquerade as somebody companion, Dodo Chaplet. Dene is more “A superb script. The
high in the corridors of power.” For Dene, positive: “When Dodo’s name was revealed, costumes were amazing. The
the matter wasn’t in doubt: “Was the Abbot I absolutely believed she was Anne’s atmosphere, I remember, was
the Doctor? Definitely. That was my viewing descendant,” he remembers. “Some people absolutely fantastic, but I’ve
experience. When the Abbot is in the street think it’s tenuous and didn’t come across no evidence of what it looked
below, I remember him looking up and, well, but to me it did.” like.” Peter Purves, DWM 483
I thought, recognising Steven.” Ian, however, agrees with Mervyn:
For Ian too, the Abbot’s identity wasn’t “I found that highly unlikely. A completely DATA FILE
ambiguous. “The big mystery to me,” he impossible coincidence.”
says, “was why the Doctor was pretending Despite this, Ian regards the serial as Writer: John Lucarotti (episode four:
to be the Abbot.” No on-set photographs “one of my favourites, and proof as far as John Lucarotti and Donald Tosh)
were taken of Hartnell as the Abbot, but I’m concerned that the early days of Doctor Director: Paddy Russell
Dene recalls his robes clearly: “A creamy Who produced a wider range of stories than First broadcast: 5 – 26 February 1966, BBC1, UK
colour on the outside, and quite ornate too, any other era.” JAMES COORAY SMITH Last broadcast: 4 December 1972 – 1 January
rather than sackcloth, 1973, RTS, Singapore
with something darker
worn underneath.” j Wiped on 17 August 1967. Shown in six
At the end of the countries between December 1966 and January
third episode the 1973, but BBC Enterprises disposed of all
Abbot was murdered, known film recordings before 1974. No
telesnaps were commissioned by the Doctor
Above left: Jackie Lane Who production office.
as Dodo on Wimbledon
Common, filming her AVAILABLE VERSIONS
first scene for Doctor
Who in Bell of Doom, the The soundtrack, narrated by
fourth and final episode
of The Massacre of
Peter Purves, was released on
St Bartholomew’s Eve. CD and cassette (BBC, 1998),
Right: Steven and
and included in Doctor Who:
Nicholas (David Weston) The Lost Episodes Collection
look on as Anne (Annette Two (BBC, 2019). It’s also
Robertson) is questioned available on ‘Parisian Blaze’
by Gaston (Nicholas Muss) coloured vinyl (Demon
in War of God.
Records, 2020).
Above right from top: John Lucarotti’s
The Doctor disappears
novelisation
completely for episodes
two and three of this story (Target, 1987) is
and – uniquely for Doctor out of print, but
Who – is not credited in the audiobook
the end titles. Instead, (BBC, 2015),
William Hartnell is credited also narrated
as playing the Abbot of
Amboise; director Paddy
by Purves, is
Russell; Nicholas and Steven available on
on the streets of Paris. CD/digital.

EYE WITNESSES
The Savages
This landmark story, broadcast towards filming in a quarry – only the second time
this had been done – made it all seem more
the end of William Hartnell’s third season, real than usual.”
The location work is significant, because
is ripe for reappraisal. this was where the team of producer
Innes Lloyd and story editor Gerry Davis
he Savages is mostly Stuart Black, had tipped me off that this was got their feet properly under the table.
known for two things: going to be a new sort of Doctor Who story,” Lloyd’s previous experience was in Outside
T the departure of Steven

and the adoption of
overall titles for stories.
“Personally, I was
disappointed by this
says Mervyn Capel. “One that would be a bit
weird and something of a political parable.
I was pleased at the idea of a serious Doctor
Who story, as I disliked the programme’s
attempts to be funny or wacky.”
Broadcast events and he immediately sought
to apply this to Doctor Who, which, until
then, had barely strayed outside the studio.
The show acquired a different feel, and
Dene October remembers the capture of
development,” says Ian McLachlan on the Ultimately Mervyn felt that, while Nanina early in Episode 1 as “a long scene
titles question. “Having a different title enjoyable, this dystopian tale set on a and tense, especially when the guards fire
for each episode made the adventures distant planet “was really just one more their light guns and ensnare her in a beam
of the Doctor seem more like an ongoing Rebels vs Rulers runabout, not that of light.” He adds that the story “had Star
narrative.” Well, at least this change means different from The Space Museum [1965]. Trek vibes – the styling of the Elders and
that debates over the ‘proper’ titles for It looked better, though. The location the dressing of the interior sets.” Though
Hartnell stories stretch no further than this.
But there’s more to The Savages than Above: Steven (Peter
that – much more. “My cousin Lance, who Purves) and Dodo
was a close friend of the scriptwriter, Ian (Jackie Lane) run for
their lives from Chal
(Ewen Solon) and
Tor (Patrick Godfrey)
in Episode 1 of The
Savages (1966).
Far left: Dodo
explores the city
of the Elders in
Episode 1.
Left: Exorse (Geoffrey
Frederick) ensnares
Nanina (Clare
Jenkins) with his light
gun in Episode 1.

WHY WE WANT IT BACK
“I was devastated
well with the imaginative and unusual
helmets and uniforms of the guards.”
The Doctor’s ordeal, as his life force is This is a thoughtful, engaging story that heralds a
as a kid when extracted, is the latest of several ominous
threats to the lead character. “I did have
new era for Doctor Who, one very much concerned
with dystopias and the dangers of technology.
Steven left a feeling of something horrible happening

with the last stories of this season,” says
ON THE RECORD
at the end of” Dene. “The darkness permeated all these
stories to different extents, even though the
tone was uneven. It’s so easy to say this in
“I put philosophic material into a
lot of stuff I do and I never tell
The Savages. retrospect – but I really do remember being
worried about the Doctor in certain stories.
anyone… if you do they don’t
want to know you because it
DALLAS JONES It really upset me.” sounds ludicrous. The Savages is
And, of course, there’s Steven’s farewell, a story of human exploitation…
Star Trek had yet to air in the UK, it was which Dene remembers as “one of the [this] was the extra element
already running in Australia, where Dene saddest departures – a bit like Susan’s.” which hooked the adult audience.”
was living at the time. A considerable amount of time is given Ian Stuart Black, DWM 160
“The one sequence that stood out for me,” over to Steven’s final scenes, where the
says Ian, “was when Jano had absorbed Doctor urges him to take on the mantle of “Ian and I certainly discussed
some of the Doctor’s life force and he leading the Elders and the Savages. “I was this theme, but there was nearly
started to basically impersonate the way devastated as a kid when Steven left at the always a subtext of a political or
that Hartnell played the Doctor.” Some of end of The Savages,” says Dallas Jones. social nature in Doctor Who. OK,
this comes across in Frederick Jaeger’s “Many years later I realised it was my first so the kiddies didn’t read it, but the
vocal performance, but on screen it clearly crush. I was 11.” EDDIE ROBSON more astute and intelligent teens and
extended further adults did.” Christopher Barry, DWM 316
than that.
This was one of DATA FILE
the few aspects of
The Savages to make Writer: Ian Stuart Black
a lasting impression Director: Christopher Barry
on Marc Platt, who First broadcast: 28 May – 18 June 1966, BBC1, UK
also recalls how Last broadcast: 20 January – 10 February 1972,
“the city sets were TV Singapore 5, Singapore
in the increasingly
groovy style that j The two-inch videotapes of all four episodes
reaches its climax were wiped at some point before 1970.
in [the 1969 story]
The War Games.” j Between 1966 and 1972, film prints were sold
Surviving pictures to Australia, Barbados, Zambia, New Zealand,
certainly suggest Sierra Leone and Singapore. Around 1973,
an impressive Op BBC Enterprises disposed of its film recordings.
Art look to the
city. Mervyn Capel j Telesnaps for all four episodes were found
praises this aspect in 1993 by Marcus Hearn.
too, also noting
that “The Savages’ j Thirteen brief off-air 8mm film clips survive.
costumes and
make-up contrasted AVAILABLE VERSIONS
Above left: The Doctor The soundtrack, narrated by Peter Purves, was
(William Hartnell) is released on CD (BBC, 2002) and later included in
drained of his life force Doctor Who: The Lost TV Episodes Collection Two
in Episode 2. (BBC, 2019). The 8mm clips were included in the
Above centre: Steven Lost in Time DVD (BBC, 2004). Ian Stuart Black’s
bids an emotional novelisation (Target, 1986) is out of print, but
farewell to Dodo and
Peter Purves’ audiobook reading (BBC, 2021)
the Doctor in Episode 4.
is available on CD/digital.
Right: The Doctor meets
Jano (Frederick Jaeger),
leader of the Elders, in
Episode 1.
Above right from
top: ‘Savages’ Tor
and Chal; writer Ian
Stuart Black; director
Christopher Barry.

EYE WITNESSES
Left: Michael Godfrey

as the vicious pirate
Captain Pike in The
Smugglers (1966).
Above: Ben (Michael
Craze) and Polly
(Anneke Wills) on the
beach in Episode 1.
Below left: The cast
and crew on location in
Nanjizal Bay, Cornwall,
on 23 June 1966.
Below right: The King’s
revenue officer Josiah
Blake (John Ringham)
and his militia men
move to apprehend the
smugglers in Episode 4.
Just as The Enemy of the World’s location
The Smugglers
scenes were a revelation when that serial
was recovered in 2013, the reputation of
The Smugglers would surely rise if we could
see all this filmed material.
“It’s always fun watching newbies
discover the truth of TARDIS travel,”
The First Doctor’s penultimate outing begins Dene continues, “so it was very satisfying
watching Ben and Polly slowly recognise
as a traditional skirmish with pirate folk, but that they aren’t in 20th-century Cornwall.
The close-ups on the incredulous Ben’s
this missing serial has a brutal edge… face were particularly amusing.”
Our correspondents were unanimously
aving ventured outside the studio bemused by the villagers’ misapprehension
to Home Counties quarry pits that Polly was a boy. “I thought it was
H and London streets, Doctor Who

made its furthest foray yet with
The Smugglers. In this story, the
role of 17th-century Cornwall is
played by 20th-century Cornwall.
strange that anyone could mistake Polly
for being anything but the glamorous
woman that she was,” says Ian McLachlan.
“Even if she was wearing breeches!”
Young viewer Mervyn Capel “knew
Dene October – who recalls this story as Treasure Island inside out, had recently
“fast-paced and action-packed” – was struck seen Frazer Hines in [the 1964 BBC serial]
by “the beautiful setting and the way it was Smugglers’ Bay, read the novel it was based
shot. I don’t think I ever considered the on, Moonfleet, and devoured the seven
constrictions of the studio when I was a child;
I just don’t think I noticed. I thought Marco
Above: The Doctor Polo looked spacious, for example. But when
(William Hartnell) I saw The Dalek Invasion of Earth, The War
and Steven (Peter Machines and particularly, this, I noticed a
Purves) visit an inn
in The Massacre of St
change. The scenes looked fresh, wide, and
Bartholomew’s Eve. there were lots of (very) long shots, with
Right:A late 16th amazing clustered shots of cliffs, coves, the
century engraving of church, the sea… it was visually stimulating.
the massacre by Frans Not just beautiful, because when Ben and
Hogenberg. Polly go gallivanting, I had an immediate
sense they might get lost. I’m sure that was
a reaction to there being so much space.”

WHY WE WANT IT BACK
With William Hartnell being rather subdued in

The Tenth Planet, this is his real last hurrah as
the Doctor – and it’s hard to understate just
what a loss those location sequences are.
ON THE RECORD
“Cherub’s knife- “A super story! I had these breeches, and a romantic
throwing skills shirt, and a little waistcoat… I looked like a sailor
boy! Oh dear.” Anneke Wills, DWM 322
were pretty clear “When we had to find a pub exterior, I insisted we
to see, even with”

use an old barn, because pubs in those days were
far simpler, far more rustic. So we
surprised some farmer by saying,
the censored bits. ‘Please, sir, can we use your barn?’
and we dressed it up and put
DENE OCTOBER “Cherub was a brilliant villain. I was scared a pub signpost in the middle of
of him all right, but I liked him too.” a muck heap.” Julia Smith,
Doctor Syn books by Russell Thorndike… The Australian censors cut several DWM Autumn Special 1987
The Smugglers came across as a perfectly segments from the fight scenes – so
acceptable if slightly dull tale heavily based how brutal were they? “I didn’t find it
DATA FILE
on all of the above. My outstanding memory particularly violent,” recalls Ian. “Studio
of it is the early location shot of William fights were never very convincing in those Writer: Brian Hayles
Hartnell, Michael Craze and Anneke Wills days.” In Australia, Dene was unaware Director: Julia Smith
struggling across a windswept Cornish he was watching an edited version: “The First broadcast: 10 September – 1 October 1966,
clifftop, and Hartnell struggling with his absence didn’t make a difference to my BBC1, UK
lines! My mother, who unusually was perception of how violent the pirates were. Last broadcast: 16 March – 6 April 1972,
watching it with me, remarked that it was Cherub’s knife-throwing skills were pretty TV Singapore 5, Singapore
no wonder the BBC were replacing him.” clear to see, even with the censored bits.
“A family member told me that William Cherub’s death is particularly grisly.” j The two-inch videotapes of all four episodes
Hartnell was leaving the series,” says Ian. While Marc Platt appreciates what’s left were wiped at some point before 1970.
“Although disappointed to hear this, I felt it of wholly missing Hartnell stories such as
might be wrong because the Doctor seemed this, The Myth Makers and The Savages, he j Between 1966 and 1972, film prints were sold
to be full of energy in this adventure.” remembers little of the original broadcasts. to Australia, Barbados, Zambia, New Zealand,
The Doctor’s role was enhanced by a “I wonder why they haven’t lodged in my Sierra Leone and Singapore. Around 1974,
story that required him to stay one step memory. Is it the lack of alien monsters? BBC Enterprises disposed of its film recordings.
ahead of the plotting and counter-plotting. God, I’m shallow…” EDDIE ROBSON
“It unsettled me that none of the characters j Telesnaps for all four episodes were found
could really trust each other,” says Dene. Eye Witnesses continues in the next issue. in 1993 by Marcus Hearn.
Top left: The j Five cuts were made by the Australian

Doctor (William Broadcasting Corporation. The excised material
Hartnell) is was located by Damian Shanahan in 1996.
threatened by
Cherub (George
A Cooper). AVAILABLE VERSIONS
Above: Polly
The soundtrack was released on CD (BBC, 2002)
witnesses a murder
at the end of with narration by Anneke Wills. It’s also included
Episode 3. in Doctor Who: The Lost TV Episodes Collection
Right: Innkeeper Two (BBC, 2019). The censor clips were released
Jacob Kewper on the Lost in Time DVD (BBC, 2004). Terrance
(David Blake Kelly) Dicks’ novelisation (Target, 1989) is out of print,
and Polly examine but the audiobook (BBC, 2020), also read by
the unconscious Anneke Wills, remains available on CD/digital.
Ben in Episode 1.
Top right from
above: William
Hartnell gives a
spirited performance
in his penultimate
adventure as the
star of Doctor Who;
director Julia Smith.

What if all the
Watch the missing Doctor Who

episodes from the
1960s existed, and
Doughnut, the ones that do

exist were missing?
JONATHAN MORRIS
Below: Kal (Jeremy

Young) and Za (Derek
Newark) fight to the
death in The Firemaker,
Not the Hole
t’s one of those perennial discussions. If you could
reports from a
parallel universe…
first series, though it just means we feel the loss of The
I
the fourth and final
episode of 100,000 BC choose to have any missing Doctor Who story Aztecs even more keenly. (The soundtrack has recently
(aka An Unearthly recovered, which one would it be? Because the fact been released on ‘sacrificial blood splash’ coloured
Child, 1963) – a story that we’re missing so many William Hartnell and vinyl.) And we have even less from his second series; just
that’s entirely missing
Patrick Troughton episodes is a constant source of episodes two and four of The Crusades, some material
in our parallel universe!
regret. And it will always feel like the ones we really want cut from Planet of Giants when it was edited down, and
Opposite page above:
to see are the ones that have been lost. a very brief shot cut by Australian censors from The Time
A Cyberman emerges
from hibernation The most historically important episode we’re missing is Meddler. We can only imagine how convincing the robot
in Episode 2 of The the very first one, An Unearthly Child, and it’s a particular Doctor in The Chase must have looked.
Tomb of the Cybermen shame because we’re also missing the ‘pilot’ version of Hartnell’s final series is much better represented in the
(1967). the episode too. But, as a story, 100,000 BC doesn’t usually archives, meaning we can enjoy classics like The Myth
Opposite page below: make fans’ ‘most wanted’ lists, as we’ve all struggled to Makers and The Savages in full. It’s frustrating that we’re
Carole Ann Ford as get through the audio recordings of the three prehistoric missing the final episode of the wonderful The Celestial
Susan and William episodes, trying to work out which caveman is which in Toymaker (recently recreated by students from the
Russell as Ian in The
Escape, the third
their interminable arguments about fire. There can’t be University of Central Lancashire), but we should appreciate
episode of The Mutants a single fan who wouldn’t rather see the debut of the Daleks what we have. William Hartnell’s spellbinding portrayal
(aka The Daleks, instead. Of course, we do have the ‘rejected’ version of the Abbot of Amboise, his heartbreaking final scenes
1963-64). of The Dead Planet, retained by the BBC Film
Library by mistake, but this isn’t the episode
that was broadcast in 1963 – although it We’ve all struggled to get
was eventually broadcast in 1993 as part
of BBC2’s Lime Grove celebrations.
Thankfully we do have all of
through the audio recordings
Marco Polo (1964) to enjoy
as an example of
of the three prehistoric
William Hartnell’s
episodes, trying to work out
which caveman is which.
in The Tenth Planet (apart from the regeneration sequence
itself, which was lost after being loaned to Blue Peter), and,
of course, The Feast of Steven, which BBC Four insists on
repeating every Christmas – much to our embarrassment!
Yes, it’s a pity we can’t see the impressive sets and
monocular Monoids of The Ark but on the other hand,
judging by its soundtrack, perhaps it’s for the best that
The Gunfighters doesn’t exist.
e’re much luckier when it comes to Patrick
W Troughton, although there’s the constant

irritation that we’re missing odd episodes
and scenes cut by censors. But, watching the recent
Blu-ray releases of The Power of the Daleks and
The Macra Terror, you’d hardly notice. We’re also
lucky to have so much of The Evil of the Daleks and
The Abominable Snowmen – and who can forget the
excitement when Fury from the Deep and four episodes
of The Wheel in Space were recovered from a Mormon
church cellar. (Later this year The Wheel in Space is
being re-released on DVD and Blu-ray with animated
versions of the missing two episodes.)
On the other hand, there’s hardly any material from
Troughton’s final year – two episodes of The Invasion and
five episodes of The Space Pirates. Yes, I know cosplayers
love to dress up as Dom Issigri, and there’s a lady in New
Zealand who’s made a lovely clay model of Lieutenant Sorba,
but I’d still prefer to be able to watch The Mind Robber.

But which stories would I most like to see? When it
comes to Troughton, I know everyone’s desperate to
watch The Tomb of the Cybermen, given its legendary
reputation amongst older fans, but I still want to see
The Web of Fear. Yes, I know Episode 3 came as a huge
disappointment when it was screened as part of the
BFI’s Missing Believed Wiped event, but I still think
the rest of it might be better.
That said, I think I’d choose one of the missing
Hartnells. Much as I’d love to see the Daleks gliding
across Westminster Bridge with the Houses of
Parliament in the background in The Dalek Invasion
of Earth, I’m going to go for The Web Planet. Everyone
who saw it at the time remembers it looking fantastic.
A lunar world with flying butterfly people and
marauding giant ants. Oh, if only we could see it!
But that’s the thing with missing episodes. The
grass is always greener on the other side… Maybe
we should just be grateful for the 97 black-and-white
episodes we do have. DWM

COLLECTIVITY
Props & should be reunited with the bow – so Alex
had better keep his distance from collector
Replicas
John Tobin, who has this very item in his
possession. “It still glows brightly under a
direct light,” he confirms, the prop having
been coated with a special paint for filming.
Luckily John doesn’t own the final puzzle
piece, the Nemesis statue itself – although
he does have an equally dangerous device
to hand. “The Master’s Tissue Compression
Many of us have collections of memorabilia, Eliminator is definitely very special, having
been in so many stories I loved and being
but relatively few are able to obtain anything handled by so many of the principal cast,”
he says, expanding on the appeal of prop
that was actually part of Doctor Who. collecting. “There’s three elements to it for
JAMIE LENMAN meets the fans lucky me. One is owning a piece of magic from
my childhood that I can remember seeing
enough to own screen-used props. on screen and being completely entranced
by. Another is preserving these items and
octor Who is an audio- the customs officers won’t have anything looking after them so they actually survive
D
visual experience – we to say about it… intact for future generations of fans.
can see it, we can hear it, Also lurking in Alex’s arsenal is a And the third is the incredible creativity,
but we can’t touch it. And gleaming arrow, familiar to fans of Silver ingenuity and sheer talent that went into
yet, that’s not strictly true. Nemesis (1988) as part of a deadly living making them in the first place.”
There are physical links to statue. “I like the arrow because it’s a key
this fantastic world that we can hold in our part of the story, which I have a soft spot o this end, John is quick to sing the
hands, enabling us to forge a steel-strong
connection with our favourite show. This
for,” he says, beaming. As viewers know,
however, huge trouble will arise if the arrow
T praises of visual effects designer
Mike Tucker, who worked on the
is the connection that prop collectors crave, show during the mid to late
and as the saying goes: ‘Once you prop, 1980s, building many of
you can’t stop.’ these fantastic curios from
Prop, short for ‘theatrical property’, means scratch. “Mike’s a huge
more or less any physical object used in talent we were so lucky to
any production, from mugs to mechanical have working on the show,”
dogs, and as such represents a vast area he says. “It’s also thanks to
for exploration. Alex from London has him that a lot of props have
amassed a huge collection of screen-used survived, either because 1
knick-knacks from Doctor Who, including
a particularly stylish wallet-filler. “My
favourite item is the Seventh Doctor’s calling
Opposite page, top to bottom,
card from [the 1988 story] Remembrance left to right: The arrow in Silver
of the Daleks,” he says. “It is completely Nemesis (1988); the Marconiscope
unique, the only one made for production, in Pyramids of Mars (1975); the
and it’s the most asked about item in ‘squareness gun’ in The Empty
my collection. [Toy makers] Dapol even Child/The Doctor Dances (2005);
swords in Snakedance (1983); the
made prototype replicas to see if they
could market them, but the project was “My favourite Timey-Wimey Detector in Blink
(2007); the Doctor’s calling card
later abandoned. Only on screen for a few
seconds, but so well remembered!” item is the in Remembrance of the Daleks
(1988); the stethoscope in The
Preferring to source his items from Creature from the Pit (1979); the
auction houses and speciality websites, Seventh Doctor’s TARDIS key in The Android Invasion
(1975); Movellan guns in Destiny
Alex reveals that there’s also a brisk trade
between collectors. “My second purchase calling card. of the Daleks (1979); a Tesh gun in
The Face of Evil (1977); the Vortex
was a Federation Guard sword from manipulator in The Empty Child/
[1983’s] Snakedance, which I bought in It’s completely The Doctor Dances.
July 2011, and I’m in the process of buying Top: The arrow from Silver
it back from a US collector,” he explains.
“Pieces do move around a little bit between
unique.” Alex Nemesis.
Above left: The Doctor’s calling
private collectors, but it’s mainly based card from Remembrance of the
on them contacting each other. I’ve just Daleks.
secured the sword, so it’s on its way back Below: A sword from Snakedance.
to me from the USA as we speak!” Hopefully Prop photos © Alex from London.

PROPS & REPLICAS
to promote her arrival, she gave away

one of the Tesh guns in a competition. I
entered that competition but, to my huge
disappointment, was unsuccessful. Many,
many years later I was round at [VFX
designer] Mat Irvine’s house and I related
that story. He walked out of the room and
returned a short time later and gave me one
of the very guns that I’d tried to win when
I was 13!”
1 they were in his collection or because

he’s worked on their restoration.” “It’s lovely to O like
f course, items
Mike’s gun
Tucker himself is overjoyed that so much are incredibly rare,
of his work is still intact. “Quite a few of know that props having been produced many
the props that John has in his collection are decades ago in very small
things that I made, so it’s lovely to know have a life beyond numbers – or perhaps,
that they have a life beyond the three or like Alex’s calling card,
four days of filming that they were built
for,” he says. “The first Who prop I built
the three or four there might be only one
in existence. This is where
actually never made it screen. It was for The
Mysterious Planet [aka Parts One to Four of
days filming that mass-produced replicas
come into play, providing
The Trial of a Time Lord, 1986] and was the
‘pyramid scope’ that Glitz used to watch the
they were built collectors with a plethora
of easier-to-find (and more
arrival of the Doctor and Peri. The scene as
transmitted had him watching them though
for.” Mike Tucker affordable) items, ranging
from role-play toys to
the telescopic sight of his gun instead!” screen-accurate facsimiles,
Mike’s contributions to Doctor Who I built that people remember fondly, sometimes made by the same people who
speak of a deep devotion to both his craft however, then that makes me very proud.” created the originals.
and the programme itself. “I always As one might expect, Mike has his own Ross Guthrie of Falkirk is the proud
endeavoured to make things that were as collection of props, including a very special owner of a screen-accurate sonic blaster
memorable as the props that I loved when gift. “I’ve managed to retain a few souvenirs (or ‘squareness gun’), as seen in 2005’s
I watched the show as a kid. Props like from my time on the show, although the The Empty Child
Child/The
The Doctor Dances
Dances,
the Movellan guns [from 1979’s Destiny favourite prop that
of the Daleks] or Lawrence Scarman’s I own is a gun from
Marconiscope [from 1975’s Pyramids of The Face of Evil
Mars] are key parts of Doctor Who’s visual [1977]. When
aesthetic. I’m not certain that I ever got Louise Jameson
it quite right with the things that I built appeared on
in that regard. If there are things that Swap Shop
Top left: Visual effects

designer Mike Tucker
prepares to shoot
a scene with model
Daleks for The Day
of the Doctor (2013).
Photo © Mike Tucker.
Top right: Visual

effects assistant Charlie
Lumm with a Tesh gun
constructed for The Face
of Evil. Photo © Mat Irvine.
Right: Collector Ross
Guthrie with a Dalek.
Photo © Ross Guthrie.
Far right: A facsimile

of the sonic blaster (aka
‘squareness gun’) from
The Empty Child/The
Doctor Dances made
by Rubbertoe Replicas.
Photo © Ross Guthrie.

PRINT-A-PROP the world.
Appropriately
enough,
program] TinkerCAD a couple
of years ago,” says Troy.
“I wanted something simple
L
ike something out many fans, such as Troy Wood, and flat to use for printer
of the Doctor’s own are using these devices to calibration tests, and for
adventures, 3D printing produce their own replica props. killing off the last little bit of
machines not only exist but “I have a whole bunch filament on the row,” he adds,
have now become accessible of 3D-printed TARDIS keys referring to the thin strands of
to domestic users across I designed in [graphics plastic exuded by the printer.
“I got into 3D printing
because I was trying to build
an Auton hand for Halloween.
A fellow Whovian recommended
that I try making those bits
out of plastic using the new
3D printer that had recently
been added to our local library.
I immediately knew I had
to have one myself, because
the potential for creating
custom toys and props was
virtually limitless.” lasts a surprisingly long time,”
It sounds like great fun – Troy explains. “In terms of
but perhaps a little expensive? material costs, most smaller
“While the machines items you can fit in the palm
themselves are a bit of an of your hand can be printed
investment at around £200, using only about £2-£5 worth
a single £15 roll of filament of materials.”
Vortex manipulator prop very itchy to wear after a while. I’d always
from the same story: intended to try my hand at leatherwork and
a child-size one from make a custom surrounding strap for it, but
toymakers Character I never got around to it.”
Options, and the larger One fan who did get around to making
Rubbertoe edition. As a leather strap for his Vortex manipulator –
a keen cosplayer, perfect and indeed everything else for it – is James
reproduction of every Sutton of Scarecrow Props. “I spent
detail comes second about five years researching the various
to practicality in some props and making multiple prototypes,
cases. “The CO toy is until I finally landed on my most recent
pretty cool,” he says. version,” he says, grinning. “The maker
“Even though it isn’t of the original even said, ‘At first glance
I’d probably say it was mine until I looked
closer, you’ve done a really nice job on it’ –
which obviously meant the world to me.”
For James, locating the most
accurate parts with which to
construct his own replicas is a key
made by prop experts Rubbertoe element of the appeal, acting as part
Replicas. For him, an object’s detective and part scavenger. “I do
rarity or special provenance is find a lot of the fun making these props
not as important as the item itself. “I don’t comes from the thrill of the chase, hunting
particularly care whether it’s a limited run of screen accurate, it’s much better suited to down items no one has found before,”
200, or a mass-produced item in the tens of my diminutive stature.” That said, Ross still he says. “One of my greatest examples is
thousands, as long as it’s good quality,” has a couple of improvements he’d like to the Timey-Wimey Detector [from 2007’s
he says. “I buy something because it looks make… “As the ‘leather’ bits are actually Blink] that I recently constructed. On that
cool, because it fits in with the surrounding rubbery plastic, it gets particular prop, before I’d looked into 1
items and it has a connection to the show
I love. I don’t particularly care how unique
it is – but to be fair, I don’t know anyone Top left and right:
A CGI design of the
else with a sonic blaster!” Third Doctor’s TARDIS
Ross sees collecting props as a way key, and the finished
of expressing one’s support for a beloved replicas created
institution. “Owning a prop is showing using a 3D printer.
Photo © Troy Wood.
you love the show and are proud to show
off that love. It’s no different to someone Above left: The Vortex
wearing their football team’s strip. manipulator from
Rubbertoe Replicas.
My replicas are always on display. Photo © Ross Guthrie.
I buy them to enjoy looking at, not
Above left inset
as an investment to be buried away
and left: Two replica
somewhere. It’s a bit like being the curator props made by James
of your own museum. Hmm… I could retire Sutton – a Vortex
and do that!” manipulator and the
In addition to his sonic blaster, Ross Timey-Wimey Detector.
Photos © James Sutton.
is also the ‘curator’ of two versions of the

PROPS & REPLICAS
Left: James Sutton cosplays as the and what I was
Tenth Doctor. Photo © James Sutton.
doing at the time
Below left: A digital alarm clock I first saw them.”
of the same model seen in Rose
(2005). Photo © James Sutton.
Hertfordshire’s
John Tobin
Bottom left: HG Wells’ The Time
Machine and screen-accurate copies also has a
of the sonic screwdriver and wealth
TARDIS key from the 1996 TV of items
movie. Photo © Chris Cassell. that may
Right: Splashinator water pistols, look ordinary
like the one used by the Doctor at first glance, but
in The Fires of Pompeii (2008). are in fact straight out of
Below inset: The Doctor (Peter the Doctor’s toolbox, such as
Capaldi) wears his Ray-Ban the famous sonic sunglasses
sunglasses in The Zygon
from 2015’s The Magician’s
Invasion (2015).
Apprentice. “They were
Bottom right: The Doctor’s
stethoscope – the original
retail Ray-Ban sunglasses
OFF THE prop as seen in The Creature

from the Pit and The Horns
purchased by the production
team,” he says, before
SHELF of Nimon (1979-80).

Photo © Alex of London.
addressing a possible pitfall
of prop-collecting. “With anything like that,
it’s crucial to have good provenance. Mine
1 it, only around five components had been were obtained direct from a member of
properly identified, but in most cases the the production team, with accompanying
exact model of what they were looking for documentation.” Of course, there are
had not. For my one, I managed to identify tantalising clues as to their former use,
more than ten further components for the as John soon discovered. “They still have
first time, and find the exact ones used on traces of Peter Capaldi’s make-up on
the original filming prop.” them!” he says, chuckling.
After all’s said and done, however, James
O
ften, programme makers is still a big kid at heart. “The main thing lex of London is also fond of the more
will simply purchase more
commonplace props from
I love about recreating physical items from
the show is getting to play with them after
A innocuous objects in his collection,
including a humble-looking medical
everyday shops, rather than make them I’ve finished them. I mean, that’s the whole instrument. “After the calling card, my
from scratch. What this means is that point, for me.” And it doesn’t have to be
fans are sometimes able to buy screen-
accurate items from their local high
a Zygon detector or a neutron ram – even
the most mundane bits and bobs can be
“It’s crucial
street, as prop-maker James discovered
when hunting for a particular piece
imbued with special properties after having
been used in our favourite show, as James
to have good
from Doctor Who’s 2005 relaunch.
“I genuinely needed a clock for my
explains. “These items represent moments
in my childhood; whether it’s the Doctor
provenance.”
bedroom, so I thought it would be fighting off volcanic aliens with John Tobin
fun to have an accurate clock from a water pistol, Patrick
the show. Rose’s clock was the first Troughton annoying everyone
to spring to mind,” he explains. “The with his recorder, or even favourite item is the
original prop had a cartoon sticker of just Leela wondering Doctor’s stethoscope,”
stars over the logo, making it impossible how long she has to keep he says. “It was used
to find via the brand, but I eventually playing with that yo-yo in The Creature from
found a catalogue from the 1990s for so as not to spoil the the Pit [1979] and
this Morphy Richards alarm clock. Being ‘magic’. For me all these The Horns of Nimon
the first thing we see in the 2005 era episodes are summed up [1979-80], and then
definitely makes it important to me.” by those items, and getting kept in the production
Eighth Doctor expert Chris Cassell to recreate them gives me office by producer John
has also enlarged his collection of such wonderful nostalgia for Nathan-Turner after its use,
screen-accurate items from 1996’s TV each of these points in my life, in case it was needed again.”
movie by tracking down the TARDIS copy As far as Alex is
of HG Wells’ The Time concerned, a screen-
Machine, and even part of used item will always
its tea service. “The book trump a replica,
is an original, sourced however well made.
from a monastery in “The appeal is the
America I think,” says fact it was used in
Chris. “It took a few the show that we all
attempts to find the love and that, often,
correct version in good no one else can own
enough condition the item, as it may be
– even without the the only one made for
Doctor Who link, it’s production. Having
a lovely illustrated book. My cup and key items from any
saucer, again, are an off-the-shelf TV show is fantastic, but
movie matched piece which was quite being able to see your
easy to find.” item on screen is just
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Black Powder
The writer of acclaimed 2018 episode The Witchfinders presents
a new adventure for the Thirteenth Doctor and Yaz…
Story by JOY WILKINSON { Illustrations by RUSS LEACH
community bonfire in the park. A world Ashes. That’s all that was left of the Houses
PART ONE away from this dark alley I really wish I’d of Parliament and King James,
The First Gun never gone down. I know what this kid’s
thinking – if he shoots me now, no one’ll
notice. He’ll get away with it.
a pile of cinders on the bank of the Thames
on November the fifth, 1605. Grey smoke
swirled with the cold river fog, the Doctor
His hand shakes as he points the gun at me, “You’re right,” I hold my hands up. “I’m and me lost in the middle of it.
like it’s his first time. Which could mean not just a kid, I’m a time traveller too.” “That’s annoying,” the Doctor scanned
he’ll panic and fire… or it could mean I’ve got him. For a second. Then he the ashes. “I know James had his demons,
I have a chance. remembers the gun and aims again, less but I didn’t want him dead. Not for another
“My name’s Yaz. I know it looks like I’m shaky, taking charge over this unhinged 20 years at least.”
police, but I’m just a kid from here like you.” woman who might not even be real police. We’d been planning to see James lead
“No, you’re not. Get back or else…” Now I’m a panicked kid too, but I try the State Opening of Parliament after Guy
Smart kid. Panicked kid. BANG! to remember everything I’ve learned Fawkes was banged up. Not to interfere.
A firework goes off over Sheffield – the from her… Not even for a catch-up as we’d technically
only met him before in the future. Simply
because I had to work on Bonfire Night
so the Doctor thought this would be a treat
to keep me going while I was pounding
the freezing streets dealing with rogue
fireworks and frightened dogs.
But even though we hadn’t interfered,
clearly someone else had.
“You said the Gunpowder Plot was
a fixed point in time that couldn’t be
messed with or else – ”
“The whole of Christendom would
be thrown off whack. Can’t you feel it,
shifting? This isn’t a building he’s blown
up. It’s history.” The Doctor frowned at
the sonic. I felt that spark of fear and
excitement. A fuse lit inside. This wasn’t
the treat she’d promised, but that frown
always meant something big was going
down and it was down to us to put it right.
This would warm me up for foot patrols
all winter.
“So now we get to interfere with the
interference?” I asked. “Go back to last
night and make sure Guy Fawkes gets
caught before it blows?”
“If it was him.”
Now I was frowning too. “Who else
would it be?”
“Let’s see.”
I followed as she ran through the smoke
towards the TARDIS, kicking up the ashes
of history behind her.
The TARDIS whisked us back to the night

before, to the undercroft of the House
of Lords before it became ashes – and
never would if we had our way. Torches
were the only things burning here so far,
as we crept along, hushed.
“We should’ve got to him sooner,”
I worried. “Stopped him before it got
this far.”
“Things should go as they went,” she
cautioned. “We only step in at the last
moment, before he lights the fuse. I’ll All we could do was wait. For hours. and it’ll start to look daft. You don’t want
stop him and you arrest him. If it is him.” Freezing in the undercroft, evading the that. Not after the cool barrel thing and the
“What was on the sonic, Doctor?” guards, until Parliament was due to open. mask, and the guns. Sure sign of insecurity,
“Something… impossible.” The only way to be certain that whoever two guns. How about we talk instead?”
Before I could push, she shushed it was wouldn’t get another chance to He took us in. Anger in his eyes turning
me, silent. creep in here and – to something else – curiosity? Then looking
Tink tink tink. His boot spurs, shivering, BANG! BANG! up, to where James would be making his
gave him away. Both guards dropped dead. He was here big entrance somewhere above.
We spied from behind a column, as already, rising out of a barrel, wielding “There’s no time,” he rasped.
a lantern glow swung towards us, carried two smoking pistols and a nasty grin fixed “There’s loads, trust me,” the Doctor
by a man in a cloak and hat so familiar within his jet-black goatee. Guy Fawkes? took charge. “Just tell us who you are and
I half-expected his face to be a mask. I moved to make my arrest, but the why you’re here. Whatever you’re trying
It was him. By his barrels, taking out Doctor made me wait a bit longer as he to achieve, there’ll be another way.”
his fuse and flint. We braced ourselves. took out his fuse and flint, struck a light – “The world is growing too fast. This is
This was the best Bonfire Night ever, Then she moved fast, behind him, my last chance.” He struck the flint. She
arresting Guy Fawkes. strained up on tiptoes and… blew it out. went to blow it out. He went for his pistol.
The Doctor pulled me back as a pack of He turned, grey eyes blazing, like Without thinking, I rushed him – knocked
men charged in to steal our glory… or, to be someone had blown out his birthday him back into the barrels, sending us both
fair, to take their rightful place in history, cake candles. That’s when I saw – the sprawling in a cloud of black powder.
foiling the Gunpowder Plot. It was cool to grin was too fixed. His face was a mask. A As it cleared, I saw his mask, broken
watch from the shadows as they dragged hand-painted, papier-mâché Guy Fawkes. on the floor. And his face, even more
Guy away, but it didn’t make any sense. We He moved to strike the flint. She shook broken. Covered in bullet scars. A crust
stared at each other. It wasn’t him. Unless her head, warning. “Don’t light it again, of old wounds. Healed, but radiating so
history had changed back somehow? or I’ll have to blow it out again, and again, much pain…

He struck the flint. WHOOMF! His hand “We are going back,” she flipped the of what had to be dungeons. “An escape
caught fire in front of my face. We were switches, set a fresh course, “to his first life.” attempt?” I wondered. “Why’s a friar
covered in black powder, human fuses – banged up anyway?”
if he was human – both about to blow! More torches blazed as we crept down “Most were poor without needing to take
“Yaz, get back!” The Doctor dragged me the spiral steps, a couple of centuries a vow of poverty. Options were limited for
up, pulled me with her and we ran. earlier, in a German castle a long way from a skint, bright boy who wanted to learn.
BANG! Westminster. The data had deduced that He’d start off studying his bible, but it
The TARDIS doors slammed on the blast this man was Berthold Schwarz, a medieval wouldn’t be enough. He’d soon get into
as history exploded, hot on our heels. friar and alchemist. My quick internet trouble, wanting more.”
search reckoned he invented the first gun, Suddenly I knew exactly who Schwarz
“He can’t be human,” I gasped, frantically but the TARDIS’ slightly more detailed was and what kind of escape he wanted.
trying to wipe away the black powder. systems begged to differ. The Doctor filled So did the Doctor. “Gold, God and guns,”
“That’s what I thought,” the Doctor me in as we headed down into the dark. she murmured. “An eternally lethal recipe.”
followed my hands, scanning, trying to “Guns are blatantly a bad idea, yet BANG!
get a reading from where I’d touched him. every intelligent civilisation that’s not This time it wasn’t an explosion. This
“No one can take all those bullets to hardwired for pacifism invents them was blazing white light, flooding out of
their skull,” I argued. “He must be alien.” sooner or later. Not very intelligent a cell. The Doctor tripped the lock and
“Probably not,” she consulted the sonic. really,” she sighed. “But it’s never the we sprinted in, squinting to see…
“Well, maybe a bit, but mostly human.” deeds of one dude. Destruction and Schwarz, young, unblemished.
“From the future then?” creation are linked. Big Bangs and what Those same grey eyes were wide with
“Or from the past.” have you. Guns have been around in most awe as they stared across the cell –
“That’s impossible.” galaxies since forever and even on Earth, across dimensions. Opposite him was
“That’s what I thought.” they’re already evolving elsewhere. a luminous portal where a tall figure
She headed to the console, inputting the I think Schwarz was up to something loomed, covered in gold armour,
new data, troubled. else when he stumbled on the impossible. gleaming with alien jewels, a gun at its
“We have to go back again, Doctor. An experiment that went wrong.” side shimmering with starlit diamonds.
Be ready for him this time.” We reached the bottom of the It was like a mirror. Schwarz’s vision
steps, peered along a dark corridor of what he could be. Mesmerising. Even
the Doctor was stunned. On the floor was
a circle scratched in the dirt and the
remains of a mortar and pestle that must
have shattered when he mixed it all up.
Science, religion, alchemy and black
powder, blasting open his big mistake.
The Doctor snapped back to business
as his hand moved to the light. She
couldn’t blow out this flame so easily.
“Stop!” She stepped right into the
firing line. “You haven’t conjured him
and he’s not here to do your bidding.
That’s a Varkladian Knight. Extremely
dangerous. Step back and let me handle
this, please, Schwarz?”
His name made him peel his eyes from
the prize for a second. He considered, like
in the undercroft, but now he was two
centuries younger and way less wise. The
gold glittered in his eyes. He looked back…
and reached out, for the gun.
“No!” The Doctor tried to shut the portal
– too late. The gun was in his hand, not
shaking. It was his first time, but a perfect
fit, like it made him feel invincible. He
knew what to do. First, he shot the Knight.
No BANG! This shot was silent, but there
was a scream worse than anything I’ve
ever heard on all the planets we’ve been
to. The gold vision erupted, gushing black
blood like oil, pouring all over Schwarz.
“Throw it back! Before it closes. This is
your last chance,” the Doctor commanded.
Now she’d switched plans and was
desperately trying to keep the portal open
before it died with the Knight.
Schwarz still had the gun. Its shimmer
was dying too. The blood had sunk into his
pores, pumping into his veins. Now his eyes
glittered with power.
I rushed him – again – to grab the gun
before the portal closed forever. The
last thing I saw was the FLASH from the
barrel as it turned on me. Everything
went black…
Continued next issue

DOCTOR WHO EXHIBITIONS
BLACKPOOL
AND LONGLEAT
RICHARD MOLESWORTH’s account of the earliest
Doctor Who exhibitions concludes with a survey of
Blackpool and Longleat in the first half of the 1980s.
he UK’s two show’s publicity, and he saw the Doctor Who exhibitions as
permanent key tools in promoting the programme.
T
Doctor Who On Tuesday 19 February 1980, Nathan-Turner took
exhibitions – one a train to Blackpool to visit the exhibition, which was
on Blackpool’s currently closed while being renovated for its usual
Golden Mile, Easter opening. He then visited the Longleat exhibition
the other at on Wednesday 26 March (during rehearsals for the first
Longleat House studio block of The Leisure Hive), a visit that coincided
in Wiltshire – opened to great success with that of a film crew from BBC1’s Blue Peter. The
in the early 1970s. ties between the Doctor Who production office and the
By introducing exhibits drawn from Exhibitions Unit were about to be strengthened.
each new season of Doctor Who and
swapping items between the two sites,
the venues had managed to keep themselves remarkably
fresh. Both events were run by the BBC Exhibitions Unit,
a division of BBC Enterprises headed by Terry Sampson,
1980
who was assisted by Lorne Martin and Julie Jones. Martin he Longleat exhibition reopened over the Easter
Wilkie (the son of BBC Visual Effects Department pioneer
Bernard Wilkie) also joined the team in the 1980s.
T Bank Holiday. It now contained a number of
displays from Season 16 that had been moved
As the decade dawned, Doctor Who itself was being from the previous year’s Blackpool exhibition, including
revitalised by new producer John Nathan-Turner, who the model of Kroll from The Power of Kroll (1978-79),
was in the early stages of planning the show’s 18th season. the Pirate Captain, Polyphase Avatron and guard from
Nathan-Turner was conscious of every aspect of the The Pirate Planet (1978), the tableau from The Androids

of Tara (1978) and the Shrivenzale from
The Ribos Operation (1978).
However, new exhibits from Season 17 (1979-80)
were fairly sparse at Longleat this year, owing
partly to the loss of the season’s final story,
Shada. With only five stories to choose potential
exhibits from, rather than the usual six, the
items that made it to Longleat included part of
the jungle set from The Creature
from the Pit (1979), a pair of
Mandrels in another jungle
Season 17 was 1980 it was completely transformed,
now representing the ruin of the
Opposite page above:
The Doctor’s car, Bessie,
set from Nightmare of Eden
(1979), plus models of Erato’s
better represented Dalek city from Destiny of the
Daleks and containing Davros, two
outside the Blackpool
exhibition in 1985.
ship from The Creature from the

Pit and the Movellan ship from
at Blackpool. The Movellans, the ‘freezing chamber’
used in the final episode of the story
Opposite page below: The
entrance to the Longleat
exhibition in 1980.
Destiny of the Daleks (1979).
The large display cabinet
corridor section and one of the ‘Romana regeneration’
guises, which had previously been
Above left: The Morbius
monster from The Brain of
in Longleat’s TARDIS control
room section contained familiar
was full of entirely Zilda’s costume from The Robots
of Death. The three silver Daleks
Morbius (1976), a Fendahl
from Image of the Fendahl
faces from the previous year’s
exhibition: the K1 robot from Robot
new items. remained in residence, one static, the
other two attached to their trolleys
(1977) and a Kraal from
The Android Invasion (1975)
at Longleat in 1980.
(1974-75), V8 from The Robots of Death (1977), the Morbius and circular tracks, allowing them to patrol the whole set. Photos © Derek Handley.
monster from The Brain of Morbius (1976), the exhibition’s The final display case before the shop kiosk and exit was
Above right: The floorplan
gold Dalek and a Kraal from The Android Invasion (1975). given over to the Cailleach and two Ogri from The Stones for the 1980 Longleat
They were joined this year by items that had previously of Blood (1978), all of which had been on display at Longleat exhibition. Image courtesy
been in different areas of Longleat: Stor from The Invasion the previous year. Outside the exhibition, the entry kiosk of unusualexpo.com.
of Time (1978), a Cyberman from Revenge of the Cybermen had some new cartoonish artwork added to it, depicting
(1975) and the full-sized Fendahleen from Image of the both a Dalek and
Fendahl (1977). The silver ‘Sentinel’ Dalek remained housed a Mandrel.
in the first display case by the exhibition’s entrance, where Both exhibitions
it would stay for many years to come. ran until the end
Season 17 was better represented at Blackpool. The of October. In
corridor section of the exhibition was full of entirely the final weeks
new items, including the model Skonnan spaceship from prior to closure,
The Horns of Nimon (1979-80), a trio of Mandrels from the Blackpool
Nightmare of Eden and a tableau of costumes from The exhibition had
Creature from the Pit. The model Jagaroth spaceship and a new display
an impressive recreation of Scaroth sitting in its warp installed at
control cabin, both from City of Death (1979), completed the foot of the
the displays in this section. staircase leading
In the TARDIS control room area (which, as ever, was down from
guarded by the exhibition’s gold Sentinel Dalek), a large the police-box
display based on The Horns of Nimon took up nearly one entrance. This
whole section of display cases. This contained two Nimon, was a Foamasi,
the Nimon travel capsule and the costumes worn by Sorak, making a brief exhibition debut after their appearance
Above: The V5 robot
Soldeed and a Skonnan guard, with two Hymetusite crystals on screen in The Leisure Hive (1980), the first story of from The Robots of Death
added for further verisimilitude. The exhibition’s prop K9 Season 18. The John Nathan-Turner era had begun... (1977), Alpha Centauri
trundled around this cabinet on its own section of track. from The Monster of
A new monster display, containing bays that looked Peladon (1974), a hybrid
Cyberman costume and
as if they’d been coated in tin foil, came next. Each bay
contained a single monster costume, comprising V5 from
The Robots of Death, Alpha Centauri (last seen in 1974’s
1981 a Zygon from Terror of the
Zygons (1975) at Blackpool
in 1980. Photo © Derek Handley.
The Monster of Peladon and making its final appearance ith the resignation of Tom Baker this year,
in the exhibitions this year), one of the title characters
from The Sea Devils (1972), a Zygon from Terror of the
W the Doctor Who exhibitions lost one of their
great champions. Baker had made many visits
Zygons (1975) and a Cyberman hybrid made from the to Blackpool and Longleat over the past few years, his
body section of a costume from The Tomb of the Cybermen appearances helping to draw crowds to both venues.
(1967), a chest unit from The Invasion (1968) and a head To ring the changes after the Fourth Doctor’s departure,
from Revenge of the Cybermen. both exhibitions were given exterior makeovers, with the
The biggest change to the Blackpool exhibition this programme’s new ‘neon’ logo replacing the old ‘diamond’
year was to the Dalek Cavern, which had stayed largely logo on the signage outside both. In Blackpool’s case, this
unchanged since the exhibition first opened in 1974. For extended to painting over the Fourth Doctor artwork that 1

BLACKPOOL
AND LONGLEAT
Spiders. The imposing Melkur from The Keeper of
Traken glared balefully from another cabinet, while
the Gaztak spaceship model from Meglos followed,
leading to the model of the Hydrax tower from State
of Decay (1980) and finally the gold Sentinel Dalek.
The first display in the TARDIS control
room area was a tableau based on the Tachyon
Generator set from The Leisure Hive, which
featured two Foamasi and three Argolin (one
of whom was Mena), alongside three of the
enigmatic red statues that decorated the original
set, a triangular Perspex equipment tower and the
Tachyon Generator itself. As with the previous year,
the exhibition’s prop K9 circled this display cabinet
1 had adorned the outer wall for on a motorised tracking system.
many years, replacing him with The ‘tin foil’ bays were next, in a scaled-down version
a huge version of the new logo. of the previous year’s display now containing the hybrid
Both venues had Season 18 Cyberman. (This latest version seemed to comprise a
(1980-81) from which to draw costume from The Tomb of the Cybermen, a chest unit
new exhibits, and this time there from The Invasion and a head from 1968’s The Wheel in
were seven stories to choose Space.) This was joined by Stor the Sontaran from The
from rather than the meagre five Invasion of Time (a transfer from the previous year’s
of Season 17. Longleat populated Longleat), a Mandrel from Nightmare of Eden, V5 from
its corridor section almost The Robots of Death, a Zygon from Terror of the Zygons
Above left: A exclusively with items from Baker’s last season. The decaying and an Ice Warrior last seen in The Monster of Peladon.
flyer for the 1981 Master from The Keeper of Traken (1981) was the first At some point during the year, the Ice Warrior mannequin
Blackpool exhibition. of the new items, followed by a Marshman from Full Circle toppled over, causing irreparable damage to the helmet
Above right: The model (1980) that replaced a Mandrel in the jungle set, the model and prompting its permanent withdrawal from display
of the Starliner from after seven years at the exhibition.
Full Circle (1980) at
Blackpool in 1981. Longleat populated Two Gundans and the MZ Gun from Warriors’ Gate
occupied another mock stone-walled display case,
Below: The eponymous
alien cactus from
Meglos (1980) at
its corridor section which then led to the Dalek Cavern, unchanged from the
previous year’s Destiny of the Daleks makeover. Finally,
Blackpool in 1981.
Bottom: The model
almost exclusively the Monitor’s costume from Logopolis took up the final
display case before the shop kiosk.
of the Jagaroth
spaceship from City
with items from Tom As usual, both exhibitions closed to the public in late
October. In late November, the hybrid 1960s Cyberman
of Death (1979) at
Longleat in 1981. Baker’s last season. costume was shipped back from Blackpool to London,
where it was worn by David Banks (in a line-up of robots
Photos © Derek Handley.
of the Pharos Project radio telescope from Logopolis (1981), alongside K9, Metal Mickey and R2-D2) for an edition of
two Argolin and a Foamasi from The Leisure Hive, and two Larry Grayson’s Generation Game. Although the Earthshock
Gundans and the Tharil Lazlo from Warriors’ Cybermen costumes had already been used in the studio by
Gate (1981). this time, John Nathan-Turner insisted they shouldn’t be
In the TARDIS control room section, the seen on screen before the story’s debut the following year,
model of the Jagaroth spaceship from City of arranging for the exhibition costume to be used instead.
Death and a Nimon from The Horns of Nimon
had been imported from the previous year’s
Blackpool display. On the other side of the
room, the display cabinet for old monsters
saw the departure of the Sontaran Stor
1982
and the addition of the Pirate Captain and hen the Longleat exhibition opened over the bank
Polyphase Avatron from The Pirate Planet.
Blackpool was the larger of the two
W holiday weekend of 1982, the silver Sentinel Dalek
was still the first display seen by visitors, and the
exhibitions and had substantially more final TARDIS control room display cabinet still housed
Season 18 items awaiting visitors at the a collection of villains from the show’s past, with V8, the
bottom of its staircase. The model Starliner Revenge Cyberman and the Kraal departing, and a Gundan
from Full Circle from Warriors’ Gate, a Nimon from The Horns of Nimon,
(1980) led to a a Marshman from Full Circle and a Mandrel from Nightmare
recreation of the of Eden all moving in.
Tigellan jungle from Apart from these displays, all the other items in the
Meglos (1980), exhibition were new to Longleat. One item had made the
complete with the move from the previous year’s Blackpool exhibition – the
cactus-like version Hydrax tower model from State of Decay – but everything
of Meglos itself plus else was making its exhibition debut. All but one of the new
Bell Plants, and exhibits hailed from Peter Davison’s debut season as the
then to another Doctor; the one exception was a display containing the High
display from Full Priest and High Priestess of Hecate (along with Longleat’s
Circle, depicting own K9 replica), both of which hailed from the spin-off pilot,
the Outlers’ cave, K9 and Company (1981).
piled high with From Season 19, the exhibition contained the prop black
river fruits and orchid flower and George Cranleigh’s book of the same
containing two name from Black Orchid (1982), which was followed by
Marshmen and the Terileptil leader from The Visitation (1982). A display
a number of Marsh captioned ‘The Castrovalvans’ showcased the unusual

EXHIBITION MEMORIES
hunting garb worn by

two of the inhabitants
of Castrovalva (1982),
preceding an
impressive recreation
of the freighter silo
bays from Earthshock
(1982) that contained
two of the new y first visit to Longleat was in 1980,”
Cyberman costumes
created for that
“M remembers Si Hart, who travelled there
from Dorset. “My parents took me shortly
story. In the TARDIS after my fifth birthday. I remember asking my mum
control room section if that was the Doctor’s actual brain bubbling in the
a collection of tank at the exit. It was, of course, Morbius!”
four Plasmatons was on display, grouped around Kalid’s That same summer, Wiltshire teenager Darren
globe from Time-Flight (1982) and the green, frog-like Giddings had a slightly less edifying experience.
countenance of Persuasion from Four to Doomsday (1982). “I took a coach trip to Longleat just to go to
The Longleat exhibition had a couple of notable visitors the exhibition,” he recalls. “I went round it in
this year. A film crew from BBC1’s Disney Time shot 20 minutes, spent the £5 spoils from my paper
linking material at Longleat House, including a section round at the merchandise stall, then had to wait
inside the exhibition; the show went out on Boxing Day. four hours outside the coach because the driver
The venue was also visited by Peter Davison (in costume wouldn’t let me back on until it was time to leave. Reading the latest
as the Fifth Doctor) over the weekend of 28 and 29 August, Doctor Who Weekly saw me through the desperate hours…”
alongside producer John Nathan-Turner. While Davison At Blackpool in 1981, the monsters
met fans and signed autographs, Nathan-Turner had were spilling out onto the streets.
discussions with representatives from Longleat House and “Me and my mate Woody were threatened
BBC Enterprises about a proposed 20th anniversary event outside the exhibition by a Foamasi!”
for the following year. says John Williams. “I think it was trying
At Blackpool, one import from the previous year’s to get the BBC Sound Effects album I was
Longleat exhibition was the model of the Pharos Project clutching. I actually pinned the carrier bag
from Logopolis, which appeared in the corridor section of to my bedroom wall, such was my passion
the exhibition. Another was the decayed Master from The for collecting.”
Keeper of Traken, which joined the selection of old foes in The same over-familiar lizard fell foul of
the tin-foil bay in the TARDIS control room section, while one visitor, though. “I went with my teenage
the Tharil Lazlo joined the Gundans and MZ in their display uncle,” says Sean Alexander. “He was
cabinet. Apart from these, and the gold Sentinel Dalek, a bit rebellious, and – to illustrate the point
everything else in the corridor section of the Blackpool – he kneed the Foamasi in the stomach.
exhibition originated from the show’s 19th season. Fortunately, nobody was inside the costume at the time, but I’m not
First up was the bejewelled Terileptil sure my uncle knew that…”
Android from The Visitation, alongside the Filmmaker Kevin Jon Davies was
Soliton gas machine from the same story. This part of a Doctor Who Appreciation
was followed by the Trickster costume and Society coach trip to Blackpool Top left: A Terileptil from
TSS machine from Kinda (1982), with the two during the same summer. “About The Visitation (1982)
London-based Terileptils from The Visitation 40 fans converged on a boarding at Longleat in 1982.
positioned opposite. Round the corner were house for the weekend,” he Above left: A mask worn
the final two of the Urbankan trio, Monarch remembers. “We invaded the by a priest of Hecate from
K9 and Company (1981)
and Enlightenment, from Four to Doomsday, exhibition en masse, then watched at Longleat in 1982.
an assortment of models that included a poor quality pirated VHS tapes all
Above from top:
Concorde from Time-Flight and the doomed evening. Sadly, the landlady turned A display of masks,
freighter from Earthshock – plus, in its usual the TV off at 10.30pm, telling the moulds and ‘Scars and
spot, the gold Sentinel Dalek. disgruntled paying customers, Wounds’ at Blackpool in
In the TARDIS control room section, ‘You’ve had yer fillums!’” 1981; the brain of Morbius
an impressive display from Earthshock Meanwhile, Hull fan Harry in its jar at Longleat in
1981; Foamasi from
replaced the Leisure Hive tableau from Dobermann was watching the
The Leisure Hive (1980)
the previous year; now it comprised more exhibition’s own TV set and pining for at Blackpool in 1981.
freighter silo bays, and the Cyber Leader his departed hero. “They were showing Photos © Derek Handley.
and three Cybermen grouped around Tom Baker’s regeneration scene on a Left: A flyer for the 1982
the Cyberscope. A rather incongruous loop,” he recalls. “I stood in front of it, Blackpool exhibition
presence, K9 still patrolled this bay on saying, ‘Tom, Tom, come back, Tom.’ featuring the new Doctor,
his circular track. Next to this were the I was 22 at the time…” BOB FISCHER played by Peter Davison.
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1 Sontaran, the Mandrel and the Zygon from the
previous year, adding a Foamasi, a Marshman and the
above-mentioned decaying Master. This was followed
by the Warriors’ Gate display from the previous year,
only with Lazlo the Tharil added.
The Dalek Cavern was given a makeover this year.
Halved in size, it lost one of the tracks for the motorised
Daleks; only a single animated Dalek remained, with the
other two now static, like Davros. For some reason, the
new look given to the display represented the archways
and staircases of Castrovalva from the story of the same
name. A Castrovalvan hunting costume lurked behind one
Dalek, while three more of the costumes occupied the case
in what used to be the second half of the Dalek Cavern.
Finally, the cabinet before the gift kiosk now contained
a solitary Plasmaton from Time-Flight.
The Blackpool Illuminations this autumn saw the Doctor
Who-themed light display make a welcome return to the
attraction, only this time with a large cartoonish version
of the Fifth Doctor replacing the Fourth.
EXHIBITION MEMORIES
Above: Producer John he overcrowded 20th anniversary celebration at Longleat was 1983
Nathan-Turner (centre,
wearing sunglasses)
T frustrating for Northampton fan Nick Dimmock, who queued
unsuccessfully to enter. “About 50 yards ahead of us there octor Who’s 20th anniversary dominated all
signs autographs for fans
waiting in the enormous
were UNIT soldiers putting out signs saying: ‘YOU MAY NOT GET IN
PAST THIS POINT’. They sent out Tegan and Turlough to console us…”
D things this year, and the two permanent Doctor
Who exhibitions were no exception. The grounds
queue to enter the
Doctor Who Celebration For his part, Shauno Eels camped in a nearby field – and was of Longleat House hosted a two-day convention over the
at Longleat in 1983. amazed that the exhibition had been augmented with sets from the Easter Bank Holiday weekend on 3 and 4 April, attracting
Below left: The souvenir as yet unscreened The Five Doctors (1983). “The UNIT office and an overwhelming number of attendees and causing gridlock
commemorative new TARDIS console looked great,” he recalls. “But there was a bit in the roads around the estate. A number of marquees were
programme for the 1983 of stone-flagged Dark Tower corridor which looked fake as hell. erected in the grounds, housing video screenings, displays
Doctor Who Celebration. It was much better on screen.” of props and costumes, and even a number of sets from
Below right: An Elsewhere, 13-year-old Ian Knight was waiting impatiently for the yet-to-be-screened The Five Doctors (1983), which
inflatable Fifth Doctor autographs. “I asked John Nathan-Turner to sign my programme,” had concluded its studio recording just days beforehand.
and a Dalek were
he remembers. “And he exclaimed: ‘Typical – Tom Baker has taken The giant Doctor Who figures from the previous autumn’s
among the specially
commissioned characters up so much room there’s nowhere left for me to sign!’” Blackpool Illuminations greeted visitors to the event.
and monsters on display Norfolk fan Richard Crane was so frustrated by the autograph The permanent Longleat Doctor Who exhibition also
at the entrance to the queues, he complained to the BBC. “They sent me an apology and opened during this weekend, remaining open right through
Longleat event. a 7” single of the theme music!” he says, laughing. “On the day, we to October, as usual. Once past the silver Sentinel Dalek,
Colour photos © Nick Dimmock.
gave up and looked around Longleat House – where we bumped into the Terileptil leader from The Visitation returned from the
Jon Pertwee.” BOB FISCHER previous year, to be joined by the Terileptil Android, which
was moved down from the previous
year’s Blackpool exhibition. Other
old faces in the exhibition included
a Mandrel (Nightmare of Eden), a Bell
Plant (from Meglos), SV7 (The Robots
of Death), a Zygon (Terror of the
Zygons) and the Melkur (The Keeper of
Traken), the last two imported from the
previous year’s Blackpool exhibition.
The 20th season was represented
by a display of items from Snakedance
(1983), including the fake Mara used
in the final episode’s procession,
masked attendant demons and puppet
snakes. Two of Mawdryn’s people
from Mawdryn Undead (1983) and the
Garm from Terminus (1983)
completed the new displays.
One reason for the lack
of new items this year was
the curtailment of the 20th
season due to the cancellation
of the planned four-part Dalek
story The Return. This
reduced the pool of new
stories from which display
items could be chosen, and
the lack of any real ‘monsters’
in most of the stories this
year further hampered the
exhibition organisers.

Things were slightly better at Blackpool, although many The Pirate Planet, the latter of which
of its props and exhibits had initially been needed for display had been on display at Longleat for
at the Easter Longleat convention and had to be hurriedly the past few years.
returned north at the earliest opportunity. However, the lack Next door, the Dalek Cavern had
of new monsters this year was still something of a problem, undergone yet another redecoration. The Castrovalvan Above left: The TARDIS
leading to a couple of display cases being given over to arches had been removed, to be replaced by a bleak console, as used in the
a varied selection of items from the programme’s past. brickwork backdrop in which the three silver Daleks TV series, was displayed
First up, at the foot of the stairs down from the entry and Davros were all displayed – again, with only one at the Longleat event.
kiosk, were the High Priest and High Priestess of Hecate of the Daleks on a motorised trolley track. Curiously, Above centre: A Cyberman
from K9 and Company, both of which had been at Longleat this display seemed to anticipate the setting of the from Earthshock (1982)
the previous year. Around the corner was a mechanised 1984 story Resurrection of the Daleks, which hadn’t at Longleat in 1983.
Warriors’ Gate Gundan, which lunged forward with an axe even entered production when the exhibition opened. Above right: Melkur
every so often and shared a case with a Mandrel (Nightmare However, Resurrection of the Daleks owed a major debt from The Keeper of
Traken (1981) at
of Eden) and a Terileptil (The Visitation); all three were to The Return, which was initially planned to finish the Longleat in 1983.
left-over items from the previous year’s exhibition. A large show’s 20th season, and it’s possible that this display Colour photos © Derek Handley.
display from Mawdryn Undead followed, recreating the was originally based on The Return, only for plans to be Below: A flyer for the
interior of the transmat capsule and featuring the costumes scuppered when the story was cancelled. 1984 Blackpool exhibition
of the Black Guardian, plus Mawdryn and his fellow mutants. The final display case before the shop kiosk featured featuring the new Doctor,
another vintage item, a Kraal from The Android Invasion, played by Colin Baker.
One reason for the helping to underline the dearth of new material on
display. The exterior of the Blackpool exhibition had been
lack of new items revamped with a new, large artwork panel that put Peter
Davison’s Fifth Doctor centre stage.
this year was the Towards the end of 1983 Blackpool was hit by a fierce
storm, with winds that tore the roof off the police-box
curtailment of the entry kiosk. As a result, a new police-box kiosk had to be
built for the following year.
20th season.
Opposite this was a Sea Devil from The Sea Devils, a case
with three Earthshock Cybermen plus their Cyberscope in
the now-familiar freighter silo background, and the Black
1984
Orchid display from the previous year’s Longleat exhibition. hen the Blackpool exhibition opened to visitors
Another of the miscellaneous exhibits came next, in
the form of a display case stuffed with such items as the
W at Easter 1984, the venue had undergone some
of the biggest changes in its history. Gone was
Doctor’s harlequin costume from Black Orchid, the White the motorised tracking section for K9. Also uprooted was
Guardian’s headdress and outfit from Enlightenment the gold Sentinel Dalek, which had been moved from its
(1983), and the heads of a Cyberman from The Tomb of position by the entrance to the TARDIS
the Cybermen, a Sea Devil, Sutekh (both head and mask) control room section – a cabinet it had
from Pyramids of Mars (1975), a Mutt from The Mutants occupied ever since the exhibition
(1972) and the head of the Doctor’s lion costume from opened in 1974. Outside, the large
The Masque of Mandragora (1976). mural on the wall next to the new
The gold Sentinel Dalek guarded the entrance to the police-box entry kiosk was updated,
TARDIS control room area for the final time this year. with the first four Doctors added to
Inside, the first display case housed a tableau based on the left of Peter Davison’s Fifth (using
Arc of Infinity (1983), featuring Omega, the Ergon and artwork clearly inspired by the cover
three Time Lords based on the costumes worn by Hedin, of the LP Doctor Who – The Music,
Thalia and Zorac. The exhibition’s dummy K9 prop was which had been released the previous
still mounted on its track in this display case but, like year), and Colin Baker’s Sixth Doctor
the gold Dalek, its days were numbered. Next to this added to Davison’s right.
was a display based on Terminus, including two of the The first exhibit at the foot of the
Vanir costumes and a costume that almost-but-not-quite staircase now comprised two of the
resembled the skeletal remains of the Terminus pilot. exhibition Daleks – the gold Sentinel
Another miscellaneous case followed, housing a and a silver prop moved from the
Marshman from Full Circle, Monarch from Four to Dalek area in the control room section.
Doomsday, the decayed Master from The Keeper of Traken, Both these Daleks had been repainted
a Plasmaton and Kalid’s globe from Time-Flight, a Foamasi grey and black to resemble the
from The Leisure Hive, an Axon from The Claws of Axos colour scheme most recently seen in
(1971) and the Pirate Captain (plus Polyphase Avatron) from Resurrection of the Daleks. Around 1

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Above left: The exterior 1 the corner was a display of old monsters: the Gundan The last-but-one display case contained another
of the Blackpool and Terileptil remained from the previous year, joined by selection of old items, including a Marshman from Full
exhibition in 1984. an Axon from The Claws of Axos, a Plasmaton and Kalid’s Circle, the decayed Master from The Keeper of Traken,
Photo © Bob Fischer.
globe (both from Time-Flight), plus a ‘thermal suit’ from a Mandrel from Nightmare of Eden, a Sea Devil from
Above right: A tableau Planet of Fire (1984), confusingly captioned as ‘The Logar’. The Sea Devils, the exhibition’s now-static K9 replica,
from Resurrection of the
Props from the recently aired 21st season took up most of the Pirate Captain from The Pirate Planet, a Zygon from
Daleks (1984) featuring
a Dalek trooper, Davros the rest of the corridor section. One display held three Sea Terror of the Zygons (which had returned from a year’s
and Daleks at Blackpool Devils and a Silurian from Warriors sabbatical in Longleat) and the
of the Deep (1984), next to Mestor
in 1984.
Below: The Ergon from from The Twin Dilemma (1984). The once-silver Earthshock Cyberscope.
The final bay was modelled
Another Sea Devil and Silurian,
Arc of Infinity (1983)
and a Marshman from
Full Circle (1980) at
plus the Myrka from Warriors of Daleks had been on Resurrection of the Daleks.
One motorised Dalek remained
Longleat in 1984.
the Deep, was in a nearby cabinet,
as was Sharaz Jek and the Queen repainted to better alongside a second static Dalek,
and Davros now sported the mask
Bat from The Caves of Androzani
(1984), now occupying the display resemble the worn by actor Terry Molloy.
Both of these once-silver Daleks
case vacated by the gold Sentinel
Dalek. The Black Orchid display grey-and-black had been repainted to better
resemble the grey-and-black
from the previous year’s exhibition
was retained in the same position. liveries familiar liveries familiar from the Daleks
in Resurrection. They were joined
The large cabinet containing
props and costumes from the series from the Daleks in the display by a mannequin
wearing a Dalek Trooper
was updated and rearranged; it
now contained such items as the in Resurrection. costume, and the destroyed Dalek
skirt section prop that had been
Mara prop from Snakedance, the constructed for this story. The
Coronet of Rassilon from The Five Doctors and a hunting brickwork of the abandoned warehouse setting, which had
spear from Castrovalva, alongside many items left over debuted the previous year in this display area, now made
from the previous year. Gone, however, were the harlequin more sense as a backdrop.
and White Guardian costumes. The final display case before the shop area contained
Inside the TARDIS control room, the first display case, the rather bedraggled Yeti prop used for the filming of
based on Frontios (1984), contained three Tractators, The Five Doctors but originally made for The Web of Fear
their mining machine and a spherical cage prop containing (1968). A small display case by the exit stairs contained
a figure dressed as Plantagenet. Next to this was the the now-redundant Fifth Doctor’s costume.
Magma Creature from The Caves of Androzani, followed At Longleat House, a small alteration to the exhibition’s
by the Terminus display from the previous year, now corridor layout during the closed season had split one
containing the Garm, transferred of the larger display cabinets in two, allowing for extra
from Longleat. display space. The Ergon from Arc of Infinity had moved
down from Blackpool (where it was displayed the previous
year) and was now the first new item in the exhibition after
the silver Sentinel Dalek. This was followed by a cabinet
that held the Terileptil leader and the Terileptil Android
(both from The Visitation), a Priest of Hecate from K9 and
Company and a Marshman from Full Circle.
New items from Season 21 followed: the full-sized Malus
head from The Awakening (1984) poked through a stone
wall, followed by the smaller Malus prop as seen on the
TARDIS wall in that story. A lone Tractator from Frontios
was also positioned nearby. The exhibition’s dummy K9
prop and the Jagaroth spaceship model from City of Death
were also in cabinets in the corridor section, as were
Omega and Thalia from Arc of Infinity, both of which had
been on display at Blackpool the previous year.
In the TARDIS control room section, a single Cyberman
from Earthshock occupied one bay; its mouth section had
been detached and was now animated, flapping about
in a most unbecoming manner. (The lack of Earthshock
Cybermen in both exhibitions this year was undoubtedly
due to the costumes being requisitioned for use in the

EXHIBITION MEMORIES
production of Attack of the Cybermen over the summer Left: Patrick Mulkern
period.) This bay was followed by a cabinet containing two (left) and Richard
Marson (right) wrestle
Sea Devils and a Silurian from Warriors of the Deep. with a Dalek at
Opposite, in the large display of monsters, old Blackpool in 1985.
favourites such as a Mandrel from Nightmare of Eden, the Below: Patrick Mulkern
Fendahleen from Image of the Fendahl, the K1 robot from poses with a Cyberman
Robot and the gold Dalek were joined by SV7 from The at Blackpool in 1985.
Robots of Death, Melkur from The Keeper of Traken and Photos © Richard Marson.
a Dalek Trooper from Resurrection of the Daleks.

Colin Baker travelled to Blackpool Pleasure Beach
on Tuesday 21 August, appearing in costume as the
Sixth Doctor to officially launch the new Space Invader
attraction at the theme park. John Nathan-Turner joined
Baker on this visit; the sight of Baker’s Doctor in the theme
park inspired him to consider the Pleasure Beach as the
setting for a new story in the show’s 23rd season.
Both the Blackpool and Longleat Doctor Who exhibitions
closed to the public at the end of October, as was the norm.
1985
octor Who faced troubling times in 1985. The n Blackpool in 1985, Teesside
D series had been placed on an 18-month hiatus by
BBC1 Controller Michael Grade in late February,
I fan Stephen Roddam was… well,
converted. “We got chatting
forcing the curtailment of the Blackpool-set story as part to the staff, and a pal and I got to be
of the now-axed 23rd season. When Doctor Who resumed Cybermen for an hour,” he says, beaming.
production in 1986, the season would comprise newly “I stood at the bottom of the stairs as
commissioned stories, but with a reduced episode count. visitors entered the exhibition, then scared
This unhappy state of affairs was the backdrop to the the life out of them. I kept still until they
opening of both the Blackpool and Longleat exhibitions moved past, then followed them!”
over the Easter Bank Holiday in 1985. Future TV director Richard Marson was
At Longleat, many of the first few display cases in the a teenage member of the “fan glitterati”
exhibition remained unchanged, with the silver Sentinel – as John Nathan-Turner sarcastically
Dalek, the Ergon, the large Malus head and the model described them. “I’d been in the studio,”
Jagaroth spaceship all occupying the same positions as he says, “to witness the last line of
before. A Sea Devil from Warriors of the Deep and the Revelation of the Daleks being recorded:
Melkur from The Keeper of Traken joined the Marshman in ‘I’ll take you to… Blackpool!’ And I have happy memories
its cabinet, replacing the Terileptil leader and High Priest of two weekends in 1984 and 85, when we gathered to gossip,
of Hecate. In the corridor section, new items from the 22nd scheme and try not to get food poisoning in the dodgy B&Bs. How can
season included the model of Cybercontrol from Attack of the I forget Doctor Who Appreciation Society co-ordinator David Saunders
Cybermen (1985), a Morlox head from Timelash (1985) and squealing on a ride at the Pleasure Beach? You couldn’t call yourself
a tableau based on Attack of the Cybermen including a Cryon, a serious fan if you hadn’t ‘done’ Blackpool.” BOB FISCHER
a Cyberman and two partially Cyber-converted humans.
In the final display case before entering the TARDIS control
room section, a Caves of Androzani display featured three by a Tractator from Frontios and a seated Varos guard
items moved from the previous year’s Blackpool exhibition – inside the rather chunky electric buggy used in Vengeance
the Magma Creature, Sharaz Jek and the Queen Bat. Inside on Varos (1985), while a second Varos guard stood nearby.
Below left: The Malus
the TARDIS control room itself, a lone Silurian from Warriors At Blackpool, the organisers had decided to position from The Awakening
of the Deep filled one case, while the Mandrel, SV7 and the Bessie, the Doctor’s car (most recently seen on screen in (1982) at Longleat
Fendahleen had all been relocated from the other side of the The Five Doctors), and a prop Dalek from Revelation of the in 1984.
control room to make up a new display. Daleks (1985) – sections of which harked all the way back Below right: Mestor from
Their relocation was necessitated by the very bulky to The Dalek Invasion of Earth (1964) – on the pavement The Twin Dilemma (1984)
objects now filling the display area on the other side of the outside the police-box entrance kiosk, where passing visitors at Blackpool in 1985.
TARDIS console. The gold Dalek and K1 robot were joined could pay to have their photos taken with them. Inclement
weather and sly souvenir hunters caused
the Dalek prop to rapidly deteriorate and in
1986 the BBC auctioned it off. After changing
hands a few times and being sympathetically
restored, it’s now owned by the Lord of the
Rings film director Peter Jackson.
Inside the Blackpool exhibition, many of
the exhibits and displays from the previous
year remained largely unchanged. The two
Daleks still occupied the cabinet at the foot of
the stairs, while the Terileptil, Gundan, Axon,
Plasmaton and ‘The Logar’ still stood round
the corner, as did the three Sea Devils and the
Silurian from Warriors of the Deep and Mestor
from The Twin Dilemma. The cabinet of props,
masks and costumes was also mainly unchanged
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1 based on The Two Doctor Who not due to return to BBC1 until the autumn of
Doctors (1985), 1986, there would be no new props and costumes to display
featuring the Sontarans the following year. There was no pressure regarding the
Stike and Varl Longleat House space, but BBC Enterprises had to decide
alongside the Kartz- whether or not to renew the lease on the basement of 111
Reimer module and Central Promenade in Blackpool. In early January 1986,
the small Malus model they announced that the Blackpool Doctor Who Exhibition
from The Awakening, had permanently closed. Blackpool’s unbroken 12-year run
which had been on had come to an end.
display at Longleat the A number of items that had appeared at Blackpool in
previous year. The 1985 were transferred to a new, touring Doctor Who
final case prior to the Exhibition that went to America in the spring of 1986.
TARDIS control room These included a Tractator from Frontios, Mestor’s head
was now occupied from The Twin Dilemma, a Silurian and Sea Devil from
by a guard from Warriors of the Deep, Stike the Sontaran from The Two
Vengeance on Varos. Doctors, the Cyberman with the Cyber Leader head plus the
Inside the TARDIS Cryon head from Attack of the Cybermen, the small Malus
control room, both the Frontios and Resurrection of the model from The Awakening, a Robot head from The Robots
Above left: The
transparent Dalek shell Daleks displays lingered from the previous year. A new of Death, a Mutt head from The Mutants, a Marshman mask
and memorial stone display based on Attack of the Cybermen shared the from Full Circle, a Kraal head from The Android Invasion,
for the Doctor from cabinet with the Frontios props and contained two Cryons, Sutekh’s head from Pyramids of Mars and a High Priest
Revelation of the Daleks a Cyberman and a second Cyberman sporting the Cyber of Hecate head from K9 and Company. Other items from
(1985) at Blackpool in Controller’s distinctive helmet. Blackpool – such as the ‘Dalek
1985. Photo © Derek Handley.
Above centre and right:
Colin Baker and Nicola
A new display based on Revelation
of the Daleks was next, featuring As the doors Brain’, designed by Tony Oxley and
first seen at the BBC Special Effects
Bryant (in costume as
the Doctor and Peri)
the ‘glass’ Dalek seen in this story
alongside the Doctor’s gravestone. closed on the Exhibition at the Science Museum
in 1972 – were transferred to the
arrive at the Blackpool
exhibition on 30 August
Sandwiched between this and the
Resurrection display was a collection Blackpool and Longleat exhibition.
But when the Doctor Who
1985 to help raise funds
for Children in Need;
Colin signs autographs
of props and monsters similar
to the previous year’s offering. Longleat Doctor Exhibition at Longleat House in
Wiltshire reopened its doors over the
for fans.
Below: Doctor Who
This time the display included a
Dalek Trooper from Resurrection Who exhibitions, Easter Bank Holiday in 1986, it would
no longer be symbiotically linked
stars, past and present,
join astronomer Patrick
of the Daleks, a Marshman from
Full Circle, the Cyberscope from the future of both to its larger brother on Blackpool’s
Golden Mile. A major chapter in the
Moore to give host Terry
Wogan a cheque for
Children in Need during
Earthshock, a Vanir and the Garm
(both from Terminus), a Mandrel was in doubt. history of Doctor Who exhibitions
had come to an end. DWM
from Nightmare of Eden, the
the telethon broadcast
exhibition’s dummy K9 prop, a Zygon from Terror of the
live on BBC1 on 22
November 1985. Zygons, a Sea Devil from The Sea Devils and Tegan’s
spacesuit from Enlightenment. The final display case
Right: A flyer for
the 1985 Blackpool before the shop kiosk was now home to the Pirate Captain
exhibition. from The Pirate Planet.
The Blackpool exhibition was visited by Colin Baker and
his co-star Nicola Bryant, accompanied by producer John
Nathan-Turner, on Friday 30 August.
The purpose of the visit was to raise
funds for the BBC’s annual Children
in Need appeal, with all the proceeds
from ticket sales at the exhibition
on that Friday and Saturday being
donated to the charity. The trio signed
autographs for many hours in the
TARDIS control room section, while
volunteers with collection buckets
took donations from those attending.
Footage from this event was screened
on BBC1’s Children in Need telethon
that November, and a cheque for
£1,000 was handed to presenter Terry
Wogan by an impressive line-up of
Doctor Who actors past and present.
However, as the doors closed on
the Blackpool and Longleat Doctor
Who exhibitions in October 1985,
the future of both was in doubt. With

The Fact of Fiction
Revealing the secrets of the Doctor’s adventures – scene by scene.
The Web of Fear

This 1968 story transformed the familar surroundings of the
London Underground into a deadly trap for the Second Doctor.
ALAN BARNES takes a branch line to terror…
he gruff Professor Travers Daleks’ Master Plan (1965-66), Travers Doctor’s second semi-regular Earthbound
T
(Jack Watling) is much was only the second named character to associate – in an episode that’s sadly still
aged when we meet him make a return appearance, becoming the absent from the BBC archive.
again in The Web of Fear Doctor’s first semi-regular Earthbound Adapting The Web of Fear for Target
– “over 40 years” having associate in the process. A remarkable Books, Terrance Dicks dramatised the first
passed since the events distinction, but Travers’ significance meeting between the Doctor and then-
of The Abominable Snowmen (1967), 12 tends to be eclipsed by the arrival of the Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart: “Although
episodes earlier. After the Monk (Peter neither of them realised it, this was in
Butterworth) in three episodes of The its way as historic an encounter as that
between Stanley and Doctor Livingstone…”
This was a clear ‘retcon’, of course –
because at the time, the Colonel surely
Above: Jack Watling

as Professor Travers
in The Web of Fear
(1968).
Above right inset:
Jamie (Frazer Hines),
Victoria (Deborah
Watling) and Travers
in The Abominable
Snowmen (1967).

those Anglicised Scottish
Essential
aristocrats found in the
Highland regiments?” And
so the Colonel donned a cap
with a tartan strip, very like
the one worn by Lieutenant-
Colonel Colin Campbell
INFO
Mitchell (1925-96), CO of the
1st Battalion of the Argyll t The Doctor first ran into the robot Yeti, ferocious
and Sutherland Highlanders, pawns of a cosmic Intelligence, in the Himalayan-set
whose strong-arm tactics The Abominable Snowmen (1967).
in reoccupying parts of the Confident that the Doctor’s latest
city of Aden had made him enemies would be a hit with
a controversial (but popular) younger viewers, producer-in-
figure in the summer of 1967. waiting Peter Bryant commissioned
Camfield’s input was a sequel from writers Mervyn
enthusiastically endorsed Haisman and Henry Lincoln on
The Colonel ends by newly arrived story editor Derrick

Sherwin – who also found much to build
Wednesday 27 September 1967, three
days before the first episode of The
on in The Web of Fear. Early in Episode 2, Abominable Snowmen aired. Former
his first scene by in a scene that was such a late addition to Yeti-hunter Professor Travers also
the script that the pages were handwritten returned in the sequel, once again
casting a withering without camera directions, Anne Travers played by seasoned film actor Jack
asks the Doctor’s ward, Victoria, to Watling – father to Deborah, who
glance in the confirm when she first met the Professor:
“In 1935? In Tibet?” If the Tibet expedition
played the Doctor’s orphaned charge Victoria.
direction of an was “over 40 years ago”, The Web of

Fear can’t take place earlier than 1975.
t The biggest challenge facing first-time Doctor
Who designer David Myerscough-Jones was
irksome politician. The Sherwin-authored semi-sequel The
Invasion (1968) will be said, explicitly,
recreating the tunnels and platforms of the London
Underground network within the confines of the
seemed no more significant a to take place “four years” BBC’s Lime Grove
character than unctuous TV after The Web of Fear… Studios. Returning
journalist Harold Chorley, and meaning that the many to the series after
no more likely to reappear. subsequent stories featuring the a lengthy gap
Indeed, one can easily imagine Lethbridge-Stewart-led UNIT following The
Chorley becoming a recurring can’t occur earlier than 1979. Daleks’ Master Plan
pest – reporting on the loss Sherwin’s intention seems (1965-66), director
of the Mars Probe in The to have been for all these Douglas Camfield
Ambassadors of Death (1970), stories to be set on a ‘near hoped to pre-film
the opening of the Devil’s future’ Earth. Later, under a few selected
Hump in The Dæmons (1971) another production team, sequences on London Transport premises – at
or the global peace conference Mawdryn Undead (1983) Aldwych station for the TARDIS landing and the
in Day of the Daleks (1972). apparently ‘retconned’ the travellers’ immediate explorations, then at the
UNIT stories, suggesting they gated entrance to Covent Garden.
ut fortune favoured occurred around the time of
B the Colonel instead,

following his promotion
to Brigadier in The Invasion
their original transmission –
which could place The Web of
Fear as early as 1964 (ie, four
t But when London Transport’s terms and
conditions proved impractical, the TARDIS arrival
scenes were reworked for Ealing Film Studios – which
(1968). There can be no years before 1968). Certainly, also hosted various tunnel scenes and the Doctor’s
doubt that the essence of the the illuminated map in the Yeti encounter at Charing Cross for Episode 1,
character we’d come to love is ops room shows the London plus the attack on Captain Knight’s party and the
present in Mervyn Haisman and Underground system as it was Monument scenes for Episode 2, over three days
Henry Lincoln’s draft scripts: he prior to 1 December 1968 – the in December. The private museum scenes were
ends his first scene by casting a day Aldersgate was renamed also pre-filmed, on Wednesday 3 January 1968.
withering glance in the direction Barbican, and the new Victoria
of an irksome politician, for Line began running as far as t Six successive weeks of episode-per-week
example (01m 45s into Episode Warren Street (the next station studio recordings began on Saturday 13 January.
3). But he wasn’t quite fully along from Goodge Street on Owed a week’s holiday, leading man Patrick
formed. In those drafts, the the Northern). Troughton was written out of Episode 2. The
Colonel was simply ‘Lethbridge’ – the So maybe the Professor Top left: Colonel third episode introduced the character of Colonel
‘Stewart’ was visibly inserted into the was wrong, and he first Lethbridge-Stewart Lethbridge-Stewart – a part that was originally
camera scripts at the last minute, hovering met the Doctor and friends (Nicholas Courtney) given to 55-year-old Scots-born actor David
encounters the
above the lines of the text. 30 years ago, or so? Langton, formerly a major in the Northumberland
Doctor (Patrick
Director Douglas Camfield – a man 1964, 1968 or 1975, Troughton) for Hussars. When Langton dropped out to take
once forced by injury to withdraw his whatever your preference the first time in another job, Camfield promoted 38-year-old
application to join the SAS – had leaped – and it’s so muddled Episode 3. Nicholas Courtney, who’d been
on the character. “I did a bit of thinking,” and muddied, it can only Above left inset Bret Vyon in the first four
Above from top:
he said, in an interview quoted in issue be a matter of personal from top: Reporter episodes of The Daleks’ Writers Mervyn
93 of Doctor Who Magazine. “Could we preference – there can Harold Chorley Master Plan, from the role Haisman and
make him more interesting, younger and be no question about (Jon Rollason); of Captain Knight… and Henry Lincoln;
the Colonel takes designer David
more dashing? Someone like ‘Mad Mitch’ one thing: that The Web drafted in Ralph Watson
charge; director Myerscough-Jones.
of the Argylls, who was making headlines of Fear was Doctor Douglas Camfield. as Courtney’s replacement.
out in Aden. Perhaps he could be one of Who’s future.

The Fact of Fiction
The Abominable Snowmen – are
Episode 1 described in Terrance Dicks’ Target
FIRST BROADCAST: 3 February 1968 Books novelisation (published in
1974). With his associate Mackay
The TARDIS is in flight, with the doors open! having been killed in Tibet, Travers
The Doctor, Jamie and Victoria struggle took the Yeti back to England to
to avoid being sucked out into the Vortex... prove his story about meeting robot
Yeti and their controlling alien
00m 28s We’re Intelligence. Unable to reactivate
following from the end the Yeti’s silver control sphere,
of the final episode everyone assumed Travers was
of The Enemy of the attempting an “elaborate fraud” –
World (1967-68) – but with his story having caused
after the Doctor’s “a considerable stir” nonetheless,
identical double, Salamander (Patrick eccentric collector Emil Julius (his
Troughton), dematerialised the ship but was name changed from the TV original)
dragged out through the doors he’d failed had worked for the BBC during
to close. A few unseen moments have passed
by in between: when we saw them last, the
Silverstein scoffs when the war. Like Travers, he too
had been involved in a story
Doctor (also Patrick Troughton) and Victoria
(Deborah Watling) were sliding past the
Travers tells him that he’s of alien activity on a snowy
mountainside – playing
TARDIS console, not clinging to its base, and
Jamie (Frazer Hines) was hanging onto the
successfully reactivated Dr Spielmann in the ATV
sci-fi serial The Trollenberg
overturned pedestal of the armillary sphere,
not holding onto wall roundels.
the Yeti’s control sphere. Terror (1956-57).
Jamie succeeds in closing the TARDIS offered “a handsome sum” for the Yeti. 06m 39s After
doors… and a length of what looks Discredited and broke, Travers accepted Travers’ daughter
suspiciously like power cable gets the offer, but kept the sphere: “Determined Anne (Tina Packer)
sandwiched underneath them as they shut. to justify himself to the world, he had escorts the Professor
The Doctor tells Victoria how Salamander begun to examine the sphere with the aim away, the sphere
was sucked out of the TARDIS – which seems of discovering its secrets. With incredible smashes through
unnecessary, since she watched it happen. determination he had embarked upon the a window, returning the Yeti to life. This
In fact, the rest of his scripted sentence was study of the still-new science of electronics.” ‘Mark Two’ Yeti is even more ferocious,
omitted on recording: the villain had been Hence Travers’ unlikely transformation with glowing eyes; has the Intelligence
sucked out “by the air pressure caused by from anthropologist to tech-head. uploaded an upgrade via the sphere?
the speed velocity”, apparently. In their draft scripts, writers Mervyn
At the moment, Salamander is “floating 04m 30s Silverstein Haisman and Henry Lincoln set this
around in time and space” – a line that scoffs when Travers sequence inside the real-life Natural History
would seem to leave the way clear for the tells him that Museum in South Kensington. Originally,
Doctor’s evil double to return at some point. he’s successfully Silverstein didn’t feature; instead, an unlucky
reactivated the Yeti’s commissionaire named Arnold found himself
02m 17s A Yeti control sphere, but looking up in horror at the reactivated Yeti.
stands in a private now it’s disappeared: “You try to scare Stage directions emphasised how Arnold
museum… and for me, take your Yeti back. Why? Money! You was never seen clearly: off-camera when
the third successive want to rob me.” Silverstein’s name and he told Travers “Locking-up time, sir”
episode, we hear the accent suggest a crude stereotype. In fact, and “in shadow” when Travers nodded in
ominous overtones of Austrian-born actor Frederick Schrecker acknowledgment. In this version, the sphere
the third movement of Béla Bartók’s 1936 (1892-1976), a graduate of the Viennese didn’t smash a window: instead, it simply
composition Musik für Saiteninstrumente, Academy of Dramatic Art, had fled to rolled across the floor towards the Yeti,
Schlagzeug und Celesta (‘Music for Strings, London at the time of the Nazi occupation, whose chest flap slowly opened. Then: “The
Percussion and Celesta’ – the latter being co-founding a Paddington-based cabaret camera traverses and we can see Arnold’s
a bell piano that gives a glockenspiel-like of émigrés and torch light approaching as he goes on his
sound). The production team were doubtless exiles, and rounds… He whistles almost soundlessly
unaware of the fact that Bartók’s weird between his teeth. His torch lights up
Musik had already been used to terrify the motionless form of the Yeti as he
television viewers, albeit only in the Los passes it. CU [close-up] Yeti’s head.
Angeles area – since horror-movie hostess Suddenly it turns, following
Vampira had made her gliding entrance to Arnold’s direction. CU rear
the sinister strains of the same Adagio view of Arnold. He stops.
in episodes of The Vampira Show Puzzled, he turns round.
(1954-55). As before, we hear the In horror, his eyes look
Berlin Symphony Orchestra conducted upwards.” Arnold was never
by Ferenc Fricsay, taken from seen clearly because he’d
a 1959 Deutsche Grammophon LP. later appear in the guise of
Old Professor Travers (Jack Staff Sergeant Arnold – the
Watling) pleads with museum
owner Julius Silverstein
(Frederick Schrecker) to Top: Museum
return the Yeti robot that’s owner Julius
Silverstein
lain dormant in Silverstein’s
(Frederick
collection for 30 years. The Schrecker).
circumstances by which
Left: A ‘Mark
Silverstein acquired the Yeti Two’ Yeti
– a memento of the Tibet comes to life.
expedition documented in

with the
GENTLEMEN OF THE PRESS Abominable
Snowmen
arold Chorley was of Doctor Who’s Yeti (in Highgate Yeti was originally dated 10
H originally conceived
as a Member
of Parliament,
escorted into the Goodge Street
Cemetery, of all places): BBC2
interviewer Alan Whicker, for an
edition of Whicker’s World called
A Handful of Horrors. (Subtitle:
November 1967 – meaning that
the sequence was filmed a few
weeks before Sherwin prepared
the final camera scripts. One
HQ in Episode 3. In the camera I don’t like my monsters to presumes Whicker would have
scripts prepared by have Oedipus had some contact with the Doctor
story editor Derrick complexes.) Who production office around the
Sherwin and director Whicker time… which raises the possibility
Douglas Camfield, interviewed Dalek that the re-presentation of
the character creator Terry Chorley, like the surname of dead
was reimagined Nation (among CO Colonel Pemberton, might
as an oleaginous, others) for the have been an office in-joke.
bespectacled, nattily programme,
dressed TV reporter eventually
stranded at the scene of the broadcast on Saturday 27 January Left: Chorley interviews Captain
Knight (Ralph Watson).
Yeti incursion. 1968 at 8.40pm – a few hours
At the time, a famously after the final episode of The Right: TV journalist Alan
Whicker meets a Yeti in Highgate
bespectacled, nattily dressed Enemy of the World was shown.
Cemetery during a 1968 edition
TV journalist had recently been There’s evidence that a of Whicker’s World.
filmed in an encounter with one publicity still showing Whicker
first person to encounter the reactivated Yeti you think that? Could we not have run into camera script. In the draft version, Travers
having become the main agent of the alien something? Could it no’ be an accident?” The featured on film only in Episode 1, and
Great Intelligence and infiltrated the military. Doctor hoped otherwise: “Let’s just say that Chorley, originally conceived as a Member
The ‘commissionaire Arnold’ idea was I’d prefer to think that this was planned.” of Parliament, didn’t arrive before Episode
later thrown out, seemingly by story Victoria realised why: “You mean… if this is 3: see Gentleman of the Press, above.
editor Derrick Sherwin in cahoots with just an accident, we could be here forever?” Meanwhile, the Doctor explains how the
director Douglas Camfield. Whereupon the Stage directions indicated: “Her voice trails device he cobbled together to escape the
Silverstein character appeared in a scene away as the awful truth strikes home.” web has moved the TARDIS “perhaps half
intended to be pre-filmed inside the actual Most of the music heard throughout The a mile from where we were expected to
Natural History Museum on Thursday 21 Web of Fear came from albums of stock land”. In Episode 6, we’ll find out he was
December 1967, after the museum had music. Heard here, and in every other almost exactly right…
closed for Christmas. For unknown reasons, episode: an extract from Andromede, by the The scanner shows a curved, tiled ceiling
the planned shoot (also meant to feature French composer François Bayle, taken from swathed in shadows. In the draft, Jamie
a different commissionaire, played by the De Wolfe library LP Lunar Probe (1967). suggested it might be a tomb, causing
Desmond Cullum-Jones) was abandoned, Victoria to shudder. “No, no, I’m sure it’s
and the scene was reworked for Silverstein’s An army HQ has been established beneath not,” said the Doctor, casting a quick look
private collection. Why? In the original Goodge Street underground station. at his Scots friend.
draft, Anne described how, as far as the
museum was concerned, the Yeti was “just 09m 12s Captain Knight (Ralph Watson) 13m 04s The trio
a model” – and one wonders if the real-life describes his recently deceased exit the TARDIS
museum trustees might have balked at the commanding officer to London Television to the tense strains
suggestion that an institution of its global journalist Harold Chorley (Jon Rollason) – of Space-Time Music
reputation would ever have housed a mere the unlucky “Colonel Pemberton” having Pt 2 by the prolific
model of a cryptozoological unknown. been named after Victor Pemberton, whose Wilfred Josephs –
Presumably, Silverstein was later found short stint as assistant story editor on Pt 1 having been heard in the third episode
horribly killed, with his prize Yeti gone, Doctor Who had ended not long before. of The Tomb of the Cybermen (1967). 1
around the time his arch-rival and his Douglas Camfield
daughter made a late-night call to his private often reused actors Left: The Doctor
residence. Which surely would have made he’d encountered on and his friends
Travers the prime suspect for Silverstein’s past productions: Jon try to work out
where the TARDIS
murder – as Terrance Dicks realised: Rollason, for example,
has landed.
“Because of their past association, Professor had previously played
Travers came briefly under suspicion but a policeman in two
the alibi provided by his daughter, plus Camfield-directed
Travers’s horrified insistence that the Yeti episodes of the
must be found, convinced the Police of his Midlands-set comedy-
innocence.” (Lucky, that!) drama Swizzlewick
(1964).
08m 43s Cobwebs Chorley has less joy
accumulate around when he attempts to
the TARDIS as it hangs interview the grumpy
in space – causing the Travers, come to
Doctor to conclude assist Anne… in the
that “something or concluding part of
someone is holding us here”. In the first the same scene, one
known draft, Jamie asked: “Och what makes that was new to the

The Fact of Fiction Right: Staff
Sergeant Arnold
(Jack Woolgar)
on patrol in
1 Soon, Victoria points out a sign reading The travellers the London
‘COVENT GARDEN’. They’re on the duck into an Underground.
platform of an underground station, says embrasure as three
the Doctor: “A little after your time, I think, soldiers approach,
Victoria.” He’s correct – although the unspooling a power
original London underground railway cable. The Doctor
linking Paddington to Farringdon first began goes to see where
running in 1863, three years before Victoria the cable leads to…
met the Doctor, Covent Garden station itself
wasn’t opened until 1907.
14m 34s Exhausted

from climbing the
stairs – 193 of them,
in reality – the Doctor
and his friends emerge 18m 13s Craftsman
into the station’s Weams (Stephen
booking hall. A plan to film this scene in situ Whittaker) pauses,
on the morning of Sunday 17 December telling Corporal
1967 had to be abandoned (see Essential Blake (Richardson
Info) – but unaltered stage directions still Morgan) he heard
described how: “Beyond the grille we something. Camfield
glimpse Long Acre.” Despite the daylight, recruited both Whittaker and Morgan after Square on the way from Covent Garden,
the exit is barred – a fact the Doctor was directing them in episodes of the twice-weekly on the Piccadilly (passing through Strand
able to account for in the first known draft: police serial Z Cars. The former had played en route). It’s unclear exactly where the
“Probably a Sunday – some stations close.” Stan Finch in the two-parter Finch and Sons Doctor’s party ran into the soldiers (note the
‘LONDONERS FLEE! MENACE SPREADS’ (1967), the latter had been an ambulance quick fade between scenes at 16m 13s) – but
proclaims a hoarding beside a newspaper man in the same serial, plus an episode of if they hadn’t changed course, their route
seller’s cobweb-covered corpse… and so the The Placer (also 1967). would have taken them straight to Piccadilly
trio return to the platform, intending to walk They’re accompanied by Staff Sergeant Circus: straight into the metaphorical lion’s
through to the next station. Of course, if the Arnold (Jack Woolgar) – whose face may mouth, as we’ll find out in Episode 6…
Doctor had a device to open the grille, they have been oddly familiar to Doctor Who’s
wouldn’t need to… so perhaps that’s why juvenile audience. The previous summer, 21m 17s Arriving at the entrance to
he’s suddenly acquired a sonic screwdriver, Woolgar had played the distinctly Doctor-like HQ – presumably having passed through
perfect for such an eventuality, in the very ‘Professor’ in the now-mostly-lost ABC-TV Tottenham Court Road en route – Arnold
next story – Fury from the Deep (1968). adaptation of CS Lewis’ The Lion, the Witch dragoons a soldier (Bernard G High) to
& the Wardrobe (1967). Earlier still, he’d help Weams with the cable while Blake
15m 42s The Doctor guested in Fat Annie (1966), an episode of watches over Jamie and Victoria. Like
uses a meter to check the ABC medical soap Emergency-Ward 10 Richardson Morgan and Stephen Whittaker,
there’s no charge written by Derrick Sherwin. Bernard G High had also appeared in
running through the Z Cars: Finch and Sons. Following his
rails – seemingly 19m 33s Meanwhile, single line here, and his salute in the next
the same one he the Doctor’s followed scene, he wouldn’t reappear in Doctor Who
used on the main doors to The Tomb of the other end of the until the second episode of the likewise
the Cybermen – then tells Jamie he might cable to a pile of Camfield-directed Terror of the Zygons
have been fried, electrified or “graunched” explosives, heaped on (1975) – playing the un-named Corporal
(apparently). According to Frazer Hines a platform at Charing gassed unconscious beside the Brigadier
in the 2021 DVD/Blu-ray commentary, the Cross. It’s the northbound Northern Line in the Fox Inn. Playing the same character,
latter was a slang term inserted by Patrick platform, we presume, because the Doctor perhaps – if we presume this enterprising
Troughton. Its exact meaning is unclear. must have changed lines at Leicester squaddie somehow contrived to escape the
web and was rewarded with promotion,
plus recruitment into the United Nations
DEEPER UNDERGROUND was used by the US Army Signal
Corps, then as a hostel for
Intelligence Taskforce…?
A mysterious clattering can be heard
troops (hence ‘transit camp’) in the split-second before the patronising
oodge Street HQ had the Blitz is indeed situated deep until it was damaged by fire Knight asks Anne, “What’s a girl like you
G been “a transit camp

in the Second World
War”, Arnold tells
Jamie and Victoria in Episode 1.
beneath Goodge Street station.
(Another, at Camden Town,
would later double up as the
tunnels of Megropolis One in
in 1956. It remains in use as
a storage facility named the
Eisenhower Centre… with
a ground-level entrance on
doing in a job like this?” (A crew member
dropping a pencil on the Lime Grove
floor, perhaps?)
One of the eight deep-level location filming for the 1977 Chenies Street, just as Arnold 23m 19s While Arnold
air-raid shelters originally built story The Sun Makers.) From tells Chorley tries to verify that
to shelter the population from 1943, the Goodge Street shelter in Episode 3. Far left: Jamie Jamie and Victoria
and Victoria were alone in the
are questioned tunnels, the Doctor
by Arnold.
has been watching
Left: Leela (Louise from hiding as two Yeti use guns to spray
Jameson), Cordo
(Roy Macready)
the explosives with web… exiting the
and the Doctor platform to the sound of Palpitations by
(Tom Baker) in John Scott, previously heard in the first
the tunnels of episode of The Tomb of the Cybermen.
Megropolis One
in The Sun
Cleared by Knight, Weams detonates
Makers (1977).
the explosives at Charing Cross…
while the Doctor is right beside them!

he doesn’t think the Yeti got the Doctor – cutting-room floor: “YETI B discharges
Episode 2 leading the boy to ask, not unreasonably: cobweb gun at cam. (sheet of glass in
FIRST BROADCAST: 10 February 1968 “What makes you so sure?” Stage directions front). Sh. [shot] obscured by foam.” It
required Arnold’s none-too-convincing seems like Camfield meant to effectively
01m 02s Jamie and answer – “I dunno. Just a hunch” – to be ‘kill’ the watching viewer, by spraying the
Victoria told Arnold, delivered after a “slight pause” – a pause inside of their TV screen with Yeti web.
too late, that the that would seem to have been meant as Joseph O’Connell had previously played
Doctor was with them. a major clue regarding the identity of the a policeman in a Camfield-directed Z Cars:
Significantly, though, spy in the Goodge Street fortress… The Great Fur Robbery (1967).
we never saw Arnold’s Next, Jamie admits he might know
reaction; equally significantly, he now where the Doctor is, so Arnold asks him to 15m 56s Back
volunteers to go in search of the Doctor… lead him there; another clue! In his Target in the ops room,
In the earliest draft, Knight wondered novelisation, Terrance Dicks points out why Blake tells Weams
if all three were members of some larger 18th-century Culloden refugee Jamie might that he suspects
protest group, but Anne thought it unlikely: not trust the Sergeant: “Although their coats a foreign power to
“…how did they get across the surface?” were khaki rather than red, Jamie found be responsible for the
The blast recorder has failed to register it hard to forget that English soldiers were web: “Bacteriological warfare, that’s what
an explosion, leading Knight to suspect his traditional enemies…” that stuff is in the tunnels.” Most of the
Jamie and Victoria of being party to rest of this scene, up until Weams saw
sabotage. The end of this scene was the fungus moving on the indicator board,
dropped prior to recording. “Surely not…” didn’t feature in the final script… suggestive
said Anne, looking dubious. “Well, what else of more Sherwin-authored padding.
could they want down here?” countered “Stone me!” says Weams, seemingly
Knight. “Publicity? Thrills? I think it’s time channelling noted East Cheam resident
I had a chat with these two. You come too, Anthony Aloysius St John Hancock. Next,
Anne… Better rope in Chorley as well. Time
he was some use…” Which explains why the
civilian Chorley will be present at Jamie and
“Bacteriological
Victoria’s subsequent interrogation.
warfare, that’s
06m 29s Having
heard Jamie and
what that stuff is
Victoria describe how
the Yeti are robots
11m 43s Returning
from a mission to in the tunnels.”
controlled by spheres Holborn to fetch CORPORAL BLAKE
in their chests (in oddly ammunition, a party
undramatised dialogue), Anne brings Travers commanded by Knight Blake describes how their “crowd” includes
to the common room… where the Professor runs into two Yeti. “civvies, REs, REME” – ie, civilians,
eventually identifies Jamie and Victoria as his Two privates succumb to the creatures Royal Engineers and Royal Electrical and
former acquaintances, unchanged from when in an Ealing-shot film sequence – including Mechanical Engineers. “A right old Fred
he first met them in Tibet, more than 40 O’Brien (Joseph O’Connell), who gets Karno’s Army, innit?” he adds – alluding
years before. “The time machine. It was cobweb from a Yeti gun sprayed into his to the music-hall impresario Karno,
all true then?” he asks Jamie and Victoria. face. On screen, the gun ‘fires’ side-on… a popular purveyor of slapstick comedy
In fact, the Professor never learned but Douglas Camfield’s film editing script whose name was given to Kitchener’s World
that the Doctor and friends were time indicates an alternative shot lost to the War I volunteers. Hence the marching 1
travellers at any point during the
course of The Abominable Snowmen;
on the face of it, he still thought
the Doctor was an unscrupulous
newspaperman come to steal a march
on the Yeti! But Victoria described
the Doctor’s time machine to Thonmi
(David Spenser) in Episode 4, so the
young monk might have told Travers
about it later… presuming the Doctor
and friends didn’t reveal all to the
Professor themselves, perhaps when
he led them back up the mountainside
at the end of Episode 6. (Later,
Travers tells Anne that the Doctor
and Jamie are all that Victoria’s got
in the world – something else he can
only have learned in an off-screen
moment in Tibet.)
08m 06s
Returning
with news that Left: A party
led by Captain
the tunnel at
Knight is
Charing Cross captured by
is intact, despite the Yeti.
the detonator on the platform having
been triggered, Arnold tells Jamie

The Fact of Fiction Right: The fungus
continues its
inexorable advance.
1 tune: “We are Fred Karno’s Army / The To avoid hiring actor
ragtime infantry / We cannot fight, we Nicholas Courtney
cannot shoot / What bleeding use are we?” for such a fleeting
“It’s that fungus stuff, it’s moving again,” appearance, walk-on
says Weams, pointing to the indicator board. Maurice Brookes
The draft script incorporated a platform – previously seen
sequence here, set at Euston Square: manning Knight’s
“A solid wall of cobwebs spreads across the barricade – stood
platform. A Yeti comes into shot (from the in… making him the
cobwebs) it carries a small glass pyramid first person to play
and moves across the platform and out Lethbridge-Stewart,
of view. Slowly the wall of cobwebs follow technically speaking.
it and obliterate the screen.” A few scenes
back (at 14m 59s), the Yeti holding Jamie, The fungus is
Arnold and the remainder of Knight’s proceeding along
party were suddenly, inexplicably recalled. the Circle Line in
Was this what they were recalled to do – both directions. At Monument, Jamie archway reading ‘STAIRCASE TO BANK
ie, guide the web along the Circle Line? and Evans find themselves trapped… STATION’: “We’ve got a chance, boyo!” They
Next: Knight’s party runs into lost hurried on… but the Yeti moved as if to
Holborn ammo truck driver Evans (Derek follow them. Plainly, Haisman and Lincoln
Pollitt) – who makes his entrance singing Episode 3 set this scene at Monument for this specific
the traditional Welsh language tune Sosban FIRST BROADCAST: 17 February 1968 reason – because Bank and Monument are
Fach (Little Saucepan): “Sosban fach yn the only two Tube stations linked by an
berwi ar y tân…” – “A little saucepan is A Yeti emerges from the web, bearing escalator (opened on 18 September 1933).
boiling on the fire…” a pyramid. Evans shoots the pyramid, In their draft, the writers set out a subsequent
but the fungus rolls on regardless. film sequence to be shot in situ, with the
21m 29s camera at the head of the Monument
Evans saw a 00m 48s “It doesn’t escalator: “Jamie and Evans come into
Yeti carrying work!” howls Jamie shot and run towards the escalator. Jamie
a pyramid at – and well might pauses and looks back. CU Yeti following
King’s Cross he complain, since them. Track with Yeti to head of stationary
– and Jamie smashing a pyramid escalator. Jamie and Evans are now half
wants to smash in a secret room in the way down. Yeti starts to follow them…”
it, thinking that inner sanctum of Det-Sen monastery was
will destroy enough to destroy the Intelligence in The 01m 45s Victoria
the Intelligence (as it did in Tibet). So: Abominable Snowmen. In that instance, the discovers the Doctor in
with Knight’s party having headed back to pyramid in the monastery was a conduit to the grip of an unknown
Goodge Street, Jamie and Evans arrive at the greater mass of the Intelligence spilling, Colonel (Nicholas
Cannon Street, travelling anti-clockwise on like the fungus, out of a cave on the mountain Courtney) – named
the Circle Line towards Monument. “We’ve beyond. We’re never told how this pyramid Lethbridge-Stewart,
gone miles out of our way,” complains Jamie is different – but it’s not unreasonable to it later transpires. But how did the Doctor
– so how did they end up here? Presuming presume that the Intelligence was Great get here? Terrance Dicks explains how, after
they left Knight’s group somewhere in the enough to recognise a fatal weakness and the charges were set off at Charing Cross:
vicinity of Tottenham Court Road, they must fix it. (In the Target telling, Terrance Dicks “He could dimly remember picking himself
have gone south along the Northern Line explains: “Jamie suddenly realised that up and running frantically into the tunnels,
to Charing Cross (via Leicester Square and the pyramid they’d destroyed must have presumably in a mild state of shell-shock.”
the now-defunct Strand) then along the contained only a fraction of the Intelligence’s By the time the shock wore off: “the Doctor
Circle (via Temple, Blackfriars and Mansion power, just enough to control that one Yeti.”) realised he had no idea how long he’d been
House). The more direct route would have Jamie and Evans escape through an running or in what direction. He might
been to head eastbound on the Central to archway before the Yeti reactivates. In the even have passed through other stations in
meet the Yeti with the pyramid at Liverpool draft, Evans pointed out a sign over the his headlong flight.” Whereupon he found
Street – but since Liverpool Street has himself caught in the light of the Colonel’s
already fallen to the fungus, probably it’s
just as well they went the way they did.
A booted foot in torch, and ordered to raise his hands…
But where did this epochal encounter
22m 34s Victoria slipped out to find her

army gaiters steps occur? Right now they’d appear to be
somewhere on the Northern Line, between
friends when she heard Anne suggest that
the Doctor controls the Yeti… but a booted
back into the Leicester Square and Charing Cross –
because, heading south from Goodge Street,
foot in army gaiters steps back into the
shadows as she approaches. Next episode,
shadows as Victoria Victoria must have already passed through
Tottenham Court Road before Knight’s
we’ll discover that this foot belongs to
a certain Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart.
approaches. party, on their way back to HQ. Later, in
Travers’ lab, the Doctor will describe how
he “wandered around a bit, got lost and saw
Right: Victoria the fungus” – but in that case, he must have
moves nervously ventured eastbound on the Circle Line from
through the
Charing Cross, towards Westminster, before
tunnels.
the fungus in the southern section began to
Far right: Maurice
move. He must, therefore, have run into the
Brooks stood
in for Nicholas Colonel later – after returning to Charing
Courtney Cross, perhaps? The Colonel seems to have
when Colonel started out in Holborn, just two stops from
Lethbridge- Goodge Street; on the face of it, it’s hard to
Stewart made his explain why he’s been in the tunnels so long.
first appearance
in Episode 2.
But perhaps he, too, was shell-shocked by
his encounter with the Yeti?

Since last we saw him, the scratch explained he was getting suspicious in his
on the Doctor’s face has healed… old age. In the tunnels, Arnold suddenly
In the draft, the sight of Victoria caused stopped, as if he were listening – and
the Colonel to exclaim, “Good Heavens! It’s told the Colonel his ears were burning:
a girl!” He then called for Chorley to come “Someone talking about us I reckon.”
out… but not journalist Chorley, rather the In the draft, these scenes were meant
“badly frightened” Rt Hon Harold Chorley as another clue to the identity of the
MP, clutching a document case. “Another Intelligence’s agent – since the sight
one!” he said. “You’ll have to speak to of Arnold had made Travers stop work,
Captain Knight about this Lethbridge… saying: “I’ve just remembered where…
Security needs tightening up. Too many no wait a minute – that’s impossible…”
interfering people wandering about down The suggestion was that Travers had half-
here.” Yes, concurred the Colonel – “with The Doctor’s plan to slow the fungus remembered when he first saw Arnold
a meaning look at Chorley”. by blowing up the tunnels around Goodge – as a commissionaire in the Natural
Street suffers a setback when someone History Museum. This had implications
04m 01s In the in league with the Intelligence leaves for later in the story, as we’ll see.
common room at the main door open, letting a Yeti in
Goodge Street, to spray the explosives store with web… Left behind while the
the Colonel gives Colonel and others go
his credentials to 21m 08s The first of three short scenes to fetch explosives,
Knight – explaining dropped from the camera script was and the Doctor and
MP Chorley’s presence in the draft: meant to follow the Doctor’s suggestion friends hunt Chorley,
“Cabinet wanted a first hand report of a traitor in HQ – with Travers casting Travers finds
on the situation… been detailed to a quizzical look after Arnold poked his Weams’ corpse…
accompany him.” News that the spread
of the fungus had cut Goodge Street off
head round the door of Anne’s laboratory.
Then, after the returned Jamie and Evans
then shrinks back
from the Yeti
FURTHER
from the outside world made MP Chorley
incandescent – “But this is impossible! I’m
due to report to the Cabinet this evening”
– and he strode out. “Sorry to inflict him
released the Doctor from the common
room, where they’d been shut in by
Chorley, Travers looked up from his work
and asked Anne, “I suppose Lethbridge
that’s loose
inside HQ! DWM INFO
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07m 13s Passing AVAILABILITY
through St Paul’s, Out now
Evans asks Jamie for
“sixpence” to buy a VIDEO
bar of chocolate from COMPANY BBC Video
a vending machine – YEAR 2003
but the so-called ‘tanner’ went out with AVAILABILITY
decimalisation on 15 February 1971, Deleted
making The Web of Fear yet harder to
date: see page 56. True, it might be an old SOUNDTRACK
machine. True, the sixpence was still legal COMPANY BBC Audio
tender (worth 2½ new pence) until 30 YEAR 2021
June 1980. True, it might just be a slip NARRATOR Frazer Hines
of Evans’ tongue. But whatever the AVAILABILITY
case, it doesn’t matter – because the In The Lost
mechanism releases a bar when Evans TV Episodes
tries it, regardless. (There’s lovely.) Collection Five:
Alas, off-screen ‘telesnaps’ fail to show 1967-1969
which particular chocolate bar Evans
acquired. Chances are it was unbranded, NOVELISATION
like the on-set machine itself. (Both Doctor Who and the Web
Cadbury’s and Nestlé machines used of Fear
to be common on the Tube.) COMPANY
WH Allen & Co/
10m 28s Off-screen telesnaps also fail Target Books
to show whether or not the Colonel’s YEAR 1976
state-of-play slideshow began, as AUTHOR
directed, with an image of the Natural Terrance Dicks
History Museum “veiled by a thin AVAILABILITY
mist”. Certainly, the Colonel Out of print
describes how the area of
the mist quickly expanded AUDIOBOOK
“to include South Ken Doctor Who and the Web
[Kensington] tube station” of Fear
– suggesting that, by COMPANY BBC
Top: Knight looks
pure coincidence, Worldwide
on in horror as the
Silverstein’s private fungus begin to YEAR 2017
gallery must have been infiltrate the base. NARRATOR
situated in the same Right: Anne Travers David Troughton
area as the Cromwell (Tina Packer). AVAILABILITY Out now
Road museum.

STEVE LYONS looks at
APOCRYPHA the adventures we might

have missed between
television episodes.
‘GLORIOUS
GOODWOOD’
“Hey, looks like something on the track ahead. Better slow down. It looks
like a couple of old dustbins and a garden ornament. Hey, crikey, the
What Is It? A one-off live
Daleks and… and Aggedor. Oh, I wish the Doctor was here. Still, now’s
performance synched to pre-recorded
audio clips, staged at the Goodwood my chance to prove what I can do for a change. Here they come!”
Motor Circuit in West Sussex.
Sarah Jane Smith takes the Whomobile
Who Wrote It? Unknown. out on a test drive – but the Daleks are
tracking the vehicle and move in to
When Was It? Saturday 18 May 1974. capture its occupants for interrogation.
S
Where Does It Fit? It can only be o, the Doctor really does call his
between The Monster of Peladon futuristic car the Whomobile.
and Planet of the Spiders. (Part That’s the big revelation of
Three of the latter was broadcast this ‘lost’ non-televised story
later the same day.) – the only time the name has
ever been applied ‘in universe’.
It seems only fitting, as the car received
star billing – alongside Sarah Jane and the
Daleks – in promotional material for this
mini motor-show-based adventure.
As the Whomobile whizzes around the
Goodwood circuit, with a non-speaking
driver at the wheel, Sarah chats with
the Doctor via radio from the passenger The show wasn’t Far left from top:
The Daleks delight the
seat. He’s confined to UNIT HQ on the staged, as stated, at crowd at Goodwood
Brigadier’s orders, undergoing a medical ‘Glorious Goodwood’: on 18 May 1974;
assessment. (Translation: Jon Pertwee a horse-racing festival Sarah Jane Smith
contributed to the audio track but wasn’t held yearly at the (Elisabeth Sladen)
present on the day, having recorded nearby Goodwood and the Doctor
(Jon Pertwee) in The
his final scenes for Doctor Who a few Racecourse. Were
Monster of Peladon
weeks earlier.) we to name it for the (1974); Sarah and the
This story, unlike the Whomobile, event that truly hosted Doctor in Planet of
Why Does It Matter? It was a rare remains officially nameless. Online fandom it, it would become the Spiders (1974);
chance to see a current Doctor Who has attached the name Glorious Doctor Who at the
star in a live adventure. Goodwood to it, based on the BBC Volume 3 (BBC
Audio, 2005).
title given in the sleeve notes
How Do I Find It? The full and links of the CD release. Above: The Doctor
in Invasion of the
performance has been lost to Dinosaurs (1974).
time, but the audio inserts were
Below: The
unearthed for the 2005 CD collection ‘Whomobile’ in Planet
Doctor Who at the BBC Volume 3. of the Spiders.
BBC South also caught a snippet
of the action and have made the
clip available on YouTube – see
tinyurl.com/DrWhoGoodwood

Left: An advert for
the Goodwood event.
Below left:
Nicholas G Hare,
the producer of the
Goodwood event,
shared his memories
with BBC Audio’s
Michael Stevens
in October 2005.
Image courtesy of
Michael Stevens.
Below right inset:
Elisabeth Sladen
is interviewed at
Goodwood after the
adventure.
Bottom: Sarah Jane
backs away towards
the Whomobile as
the Daleks advance
on her… and a giant
spider explodes.
Hares Goodwood British Leyland Test Day

– which isn’t quite as catchy.
That said, Sarah does refer to “glorious
Goodwood”. It’s how she describes her
location to the Doctor, in a weak play
on words that caused all the confusion
in the first place. She gets back on-brand
by praising British Leyland, whose cars
were on show at her actual location.
Meanwhile, the Doctor has “a funny from nearby barracks).
feeling in my ESP nerve-endings” that Today, we can only
Sarah may be racing into trouble… imagine the ensuing
pyrotechnics, which
S ure enough, the Goodwood audience

is made privy to reports from
a Dalek patrol leader to its Dalek
Supreme. It has located the Doctor’s
force the monsters into
a hasty retreat. “I think
the Doctor will be well
pleased with the way
vehicle, although he isn’t in it. The Dalek I handled that,” boasts
notes the presence of a human crowd Sarah, but we may
and dutifully lists the events’ sponsors never know what she
again. This story, then, is firmly set on did beyond that single
the day of its performance: more grist for button push.
the never-ending UNIT ‘dating’ debate. Glorious Goodwood
The Whomobile is ambushed by four was a unique treat for
Daleks, with two unlikely allies. Sarah fans able to get to the
recognises the Daleks and Aggedor from event. For those who
her recent trips to Exxilon and Peladon couldn’t – for reasons
(in Death to the Daleks and The Monster to the Hares Group and to Formula One of geography or of not being born yet – it
of Peladon respectively), but apparently legend Stirling Moss: a regular Goodwood can’t be recreated. Even for the lucky few,
not the giant spider, which must hail visitor whose seven-year-old daughter was there would have been a price to pay.
from her future. (The Doctor is still in his due to drive a miniature car at the show. The Test Day continued until 6.00pm and
third incarnation, so Planet of the Spiders Sarah hits the Whomobile’s Emergency Doctor Who started on BBC1 at 5.40.
can’t have happened yet.) She threatens Rescue call button, which summons troops In an age before home video, how many
to report the invaders to British Leyland, to her assistance (real soldiers, drafted would have missed it? DWM

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The Web of Fear

Special Edition Review by ROBERT FAIRCLOUGH
together with animators David

Devjak and Adam Boyes.
The commentaries are
a real joy to listen to. As well
as tackling all aspects of the
story’s production, they range
through such diverse subjects
as the transformative power
of theatre on troubled young
people’s lives to the Yeti actors
sniffing their monster costumes
to discover which one had been
urinated in. You can’t get more
culturally diverse than that. are inexpressive and the arm
In Shapeshifter Animation gestures oddly unnatural. But,
Process, David Devjak outlines as Devjak says, it’s early days
the advantages motion capture and, considering the leaps in
has over traditional 2D animation; animation quality over the last
Blu-ray the movements of a real performer
are recorded using a ‘motion-capture
few releases, it surely won’t be
long before motion capture proves itself.
skeleton’, then linked to a computer-created On the plus side, the sets and lighting
Starring Patrick Troughton (Dr. Who), Frazer Hines
avatar to make its movements as natural in the reconstituted Episode 3 are
(Jamie) and Deborah Watling (Victoria)
as possible. David suggests that, thanks consistent with the rest of the serial,
BBC Studios RRP £19.99 (Blu-ray), £14.99 (DVD),
to this technique, it may now be possible while the rendering of the Yetis is
£29.99 (Blu-ray steelbook)
to animate serials like Marco Polo (1964) especially successful. For instance, a shot
and The Highlanders (1966-67), previously of a Yeti figurine fades into an image of
or those wondering whether considered too complicated to realise. a full-size robot, accurately recreating
F
to ‘double-dip’ for the Some viewers may find that this new style Douglas Camfield’s stylish direction.
Special Edition of The Web of animation doesn’t succeed as well as Equally authentic is the shot of a Yeti
of Fear, the claustrophobic the 2D technique in recreating looming into view as the end credits roll.
classic from 1968, the the characterisations The contribution of documentary
simple answer is yes. of the actors; the faces producer-director Steve Broster is a real
Not only does it feature the first
missing episode recreated through
motion-capture animation, but
there’s a satisfying abundance
of special features. The seven
commentaries (two on Episode 1)
feature no fewer than ten people
involved in the story’s production,
Top right: A work-in-

progress shot from The
Web of Fear’s newly
animated Episode 3.
Top right inset: Animation
producer David Devjak.
Right: The latest animated
version of Patrick
Troughton’s Doctor.
Far right: Frazer
Hines (seated)
records material
for the making-of
documentary Going
Underground.

asset. Going Underground is
a superb example of how to craft The otherworldly
a behind-the-scenes feature.
It’s one of the most thorough sound of the Great
in the range and is appropriately
framed by scenes of Frazer Hines
Intelligence fungus
exploring a deserted London
Underground, before encountering
was initially
the suffocating web. The eerie
location feels like 21st-century
achieved by Hodgson
payback for Doctor Who not being
allowed to film there in 1967.
blowing bubbles
There’s some excellent research
in Going Underground. The most
through detergent.
fascinating is the revelation from Jack their origins could be: the otherworldly
Woolgar’s son Tim that his father, who sound of the Great Intelligence fungus
played Staff Sergeant Arnold, had a plaster was initially achieved by Hodgson blowing out various vocal mannerisms for the Great
cast made of his face for a visual effect. bubbles through detergent. On his Intelligence), while there’s an excellent
One of the resulting rubber masks was fitted commentary, he also discloses that the new telesnap recreation of Episode 3 as
over a skull and acid was poured on it so it Yeti’s roar was a combination of his own an alternative to the 2021 reconstruction.
melted to reveal the bone underneath, a voice and his dog’s bark – finally laying to In the absence of the actual Episode 3, this
spectacle considered too horrific to use. Tim rest the myth that the beasts’ howl was the Special Edition really does have everything
still has one his father’s face masks, as well distorted sound of a flushing toilet. a fan of The Web of Fear could want, not
as a battered Yeti figurine; he endearingly Elsewhere, an interesting curio is least the acknowledgment from many of
admits that “Dad was prone to The Many Voices of Jack Woolgar those involved that Douglas Camfield was
putting the odd prop in his pocket.” (recordings of the actor trying one of Doctor Who’s finest directors. DWM
Going Underground’s big
plus, as with the commentaries, Top left: The fungus
is the inclusion of the spirited begins to engulf
Tina Packer, who played Anne another Tube station.
Travers. The founder of her own Above left: Sound
Shakespeare theatre company in designer Brian Hodgson.
America, it’s wonderful to hear how Top right: A Yeti
the classical actress was charmed out carries a pyramid in the
of her “snooty” attitude to Doctor Who animated Episode 3.
by Camfield. In the end she relished playing Above: Tim Woolgar,
the series’ “first feminist” who, with son of actor Jack
Troughton’s encouragement, developed Woolgar, with a Yeti
figure taken as a
an intellectual flirtation with the Doctor. ‘souvenir’ by his father.
Left inset: Tina
n underrated aspect of the 1960s Packer, who played
A stories is how important their

disturbing soundscapes were,
and in Going Underground
the series’ original sound designer, Brian
Anne Travers.
Left: Victoria and
Anne with a Yeti
control sphere.
Hodgson, reveals how charmingly low-tech

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a few of that episode’s problems. The
Audio Frequencies script is fairly linear, with few surprises

along the way, and the benevolent
nature of the alien force means it’s
hard to register any real threat. Luckily
to the programme’s roots that gives us the the Doctor is on hand with some great
Reviewed this issue distinct impression we could be listening gadgety moments, and a fantastically
to something from Eccleston’s second goofy scene featuring the Serapheem’s
o The Ninth Doctor Adventures: television series – if he’d made one – and preoccupation with spaghetti means our
Respond to All Calls thus the whole thing is tinged with a interest is well and truly held until the
Featuring The Ninth Doctor pleasant nostalgia for those heady days end. A neat tale, told with confidence and
RRP £24.99 (CD), £19.99 (digital), £35.99 (vinyl) of the mid-2000s. brio, cast very much in the mould of its
o Killing Time Our main man is once again on fine parent series.
Featuring The War Master, Jo Grant and Nyssa form, firing a volley of quips at the After the modern-day mystery, we
RRP £24.99 (CD), £19.99 (digital) surrounding apes and betraying very little have a journey into the past. Set in
o After the Daleks of the troubles that normally crease his post-war Paris, Tim Foley’s Fright Motif
Featuring Susan Foreman and David Campbell prodigious brow. Pearl Appleby provides makes great use of the location, making
RRP £14.99 (CD), £12.99 (digital) the perfect foil for his clowning, playing it sure we get all the major landmarks ‘in
straight against the grinning Gallifreyan shot’. Damian Lynch appears genuinely
Available from bigfinish.com in a time-honoured tradition, one that oppressed as Artie, a pianist who’s lost
reaches back at least as far as our own his mojo, and Gemma Whelan provides
Review and illustration dear Brigadier. Forbes Masson puts in a the driving force as his gal-pal Zazie.
by JAMIE LENMAN frayed performance as worried dad Kurt, Yet stealing the show is Adrian Schiller
successfully weaving a genuine bond as Maurice Le Bon, a deliciously dry
n May this year, the with Mirren Mack’s teenaged Marnie, concierge caught in the Doctor’s jubilant
I
world was reunited with despite having very little dialogue with tailwind. Although he’s hardly a pivotal
Christopher Eccleston’s her. Indeed, the scene in which father character, it’s Maurice we come to know
take on telly’s top time and daughter manage to share a heart- best and Maurice who undergoes the
traveller in Big Finish’s to-heart without actually being aware biggest change throughout proceedings,
sprawling inaugural set, of the other’s presence is both touching
The Ravagers. With Respond to All Calls, and enlightening, a tribute to McMullin’s
the masters of audio continue to expand nimble writing.
the Ninth Doctor’s era, throwing a few With a story centred on a well-
curveballs along the way. meaning extra-terrestrial accidentally
The first thing to notice about Lisa disappearing a street full of children, it’s
McMullin’s opener – Girl, Deconstructed impossible not to think of 2006’s Fear
– is how familiar it feels. After three hours Her. It has to be said that Girl suffers from
wheeling around the Vortex in Ravagers,
it almost seems like a novelty to have
the Doctor turn up on an ordinary street
talking to ordinary people. It’s this return

so it’s he who makes the deepest
impression on the piece.
Elsewhere, the idea of an invisible,
music-eating entity is fabulously realised
through Iain Meadows’ inventive
sound design; scenes of it ‘chewing’ ne of the Master’s most valuable
We can practically
on various noises are heaps of fun.
Rather less successful is the concept
of what it wants with poor Artie and hear that huge grin O skills, beyond unfeasibly accurate
disguise and shrinking people like
clothes in a dryer, is his ability to
the means by which our ragtag bunch
battle against it, both of which veer
across Christopher land cushy jobs. From the vicar of a small
hamlet to an interplanetary ambassador,
away from science fiction towards
something more like magic. Taken at
Eccleston’s face one has to wonder how he’s able to inveigle
himself into these positions of influence. It’s
face value, however, it’s a thumping
race up and down the Champs-
throughout the this question that Killing Time, the sixth set
in Big Finish’s War Master spin-off, sets out
Élysées with plenty of hold-your-
breath moments – yet more terrific
whole endeavour. to address.
Starting us off is James Goss’ The
teatime treats. of Acassus, covered in birds and squirrels, Sincerest Form of Flattery, charting the
By the time Timothy X Atack’s Planet to a chrome sentinel carrying our bearded miscreant’s desperate struggle for power
of the End rolls around, we’re fairly sure hero up the side of a golden pyramid with in a troubled corner of the cosmos. From
we’ve got the measure of Respond to All a dead rabbit cradled in his hands. Rather the beginning, Derek Jacobi’s rapport with
Calls. Thrillingly, though, this is where the than being throwaway set-pieces, these Alexandria Riley’s social climber Calantha
curveball hits us and throws everything out seemingly incongruous elements are all is electric, forming the backbone of this
of the window. Set on one of Big Finish’s essential to the plot and come together for politically minded epic. Jacobi is perhaps
many cemetery worlds, Planet immediately a tremendous climax – clever and funny our poshest Master, emphasising the ‘Lord’
conjures a sense of scale far beyond the and tense all at once. in Time Lord with his careful diction and
previous instalments, hinting at the larger Of course, the reason that impeccable manners, and as such it’s
universe glimpsed in Doctor Who’s many tie- something as wild as Planet intriguing to see him on the bottom
in book ranges. To trip from fields of graves can sit in the in the same box rung of society. Meanwhile,
into the Doctor’s own mind for a prolonged as more traditional fare Calantha serves as his mirror
period suggests a determination to do things like Girl and Fright is that image, working her way 1
that might not have been possible on the they’re held together by an
small screen, and happily the contrast is incandescent display from
Top: Tom Webster’s cover art
complementary rather than jarring. Christopher Eccleston.
for Girl, Deconstructed (left)
Amidst a throng of memorable turns, Although we can’t see it, and Planet of the End (right).
Margaret Clunie’s android gardener, Fred, we can practically hear
Above inset: Pearl Appleby
loses no time in winning our hearts with that huge grin across his plays DC Jana Lee.
her well-meaning threats and flippant face throughout the whole
Far left inset: Nick Fletcher
robotic charm, taking the prize for endeavour, and it really plays one of the Incorporation.
‘character we most wish would become does feel like the Doctor
Left: Christopher Eccleston as
a regular companion’ within minutes. is actively enjoying himself. Be the Doctor in Series 1 (2005).
Also worthy of praise is Akshay Khanna it poking around an abandoned
as the ludicrous Sacriston Hinge, wringing house, cowering from a formless
just the right amount of comedy entity or turned into a statue for the
from the ancient bureaucrat, best part of a century, he’s
as well as Nick Fletcher having the time of his
and Jan Francis as the lives – and so
insidious Incorporation, are we.
making the most of two
relatively small parts.
With a flair for
imagery and a wry
sense of humour, Atack
creates gorgeous vistas
– from the frozen captives

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1 up from the
Right: Katy Manning
inside, unable to
and Sir Derek Jacobi.
rid herself of her
Below inset: Writer
purring shadow. Lou Morgan.
While it may not
be particularly
gripping, Flattery
is certainly a rich
and thorough
examination of the
Master’s real work
– the sort of thing he
spends years doing
before popping up
on the seat of some galactic council – and
therefore provides a crucial insight into our
favourite baddie.
As the filling in a Master sandwich of
sorts, Lou Morgan’s A Quiet Night and The
Orphan are so similar they might as well be
twins. The decision to slot them in between
the House of Cards-style drama of James
Goss’ two bookends was a canny one.
Both see the Master posing as a trusted
figure in order to extort some MacGuffin
or other from one of the Doctor’s friends –
first Katy Manning’s Jo
Jones and then Sarah
Sutton’s Nyssa. Our Jacobi’s rendition of landscape of the Stagnant
Protocol for a triumphant
venerated guest stars
reprise their roles with
the renegade in coup de grâce. As with
every Master outing, the
careful allowance for
the passage of time,
extremis is lurid, juiciest bits are whenever
his mask of sanity starts
delivering suitably older
interpretations whilst
disturbing and to slip. Jacobi’s rendition
of the renegade in extremis
still embodying all the
traits that endeared us
utterly captivating. – starving to death and
howling with laughter at the
to them in first place. the giddying pattern of gaslighting memory of some particularly
Jo is dotty and submissive but feisty when and manipulation emerges to the point entertaining torture – is lurid,
roused, while Nyssa is calm and dedicated, where it becomes rather hard to listen disturbing and utterly captivating. If
giving way to fury and disgust when to our heroines being used so cruelly. anything, it’s a pity we don’t see more
recalling her father’s murder. Moreover, the fact that we know the Doctor of this side, rather than the grandfatherly
For his part, Jacobi does his best cuddly- won’t turn up at the last minute makes figure he more usually projects.
old-man bit, delivering his lines with such Night and Orphan hit all the harder, and by The trick, of course, is to get the balance
sweetness that if it wasn’t for Rob Harvey’s the end we’re rather confused about who just right. Killing Time deftly demonstrates
excellent music cues, underscoring the exactly we’re supposed to be rooting for. that, between them, Goss and Morgan have
implied threat in every utterance, we’d be Finally, Goss’ closing chapter, Unfinished hit upon that ineffable formula that makes
none the wiser. As each scenario unfolds, Business, plunges us back to the tumultuous the Master so frightfully fascinating. DWM
After the Daleks back to the finale of 1964’s The Dalek

Invasion of Earth, as she solemnly watches
Campbell with ease,
while Lucy Briers
the TARDIS leave without her. Carole Ann and Oli Higginson
Ford’s recreation of the part she originated bring a humbling
gets more impressive as time goes on, humanity to the
although the delivery of her narration does plight of the
sometimes make it tricky to discern whose many masterless
perspective we’re seeing events from. Robomen. As the de
After the Daleks finds time within its four facto villain, Jonathan
short episodes to ask a myriad Guy Lewis’ ambitious Marcus Bray
of important questions about dares to suggest that the
how to rebuild civilisation, people of Earth might
in ways that feel suitably have been influenced
reminiscent of Dalek creator by their aggressors
Terry Nation’s seminal series more than they would
Survivors. Sean Biggerstaff like to admit.
inhabits the big-hearted David Surely, if any idea
deserves a series of
Above right inset: Carole Ann its own, it’s this one –
lthough we’ve checked in with Ford returns as Susan. simultaneously paying
A the Doctor’s granddaughter
Susan on a few occasions over
Right: A Roboman (Peter
Badger) in The Dalek
Invasion of Earth
tribute to a revered
classic while carving out new
the years, Roland Moore’s entry to Big paths that we’re simply
(1964).
Finish’s Early Years line takes us right itching to follow.

The Wheel in Space
rescuing her
Audiobook from being a

human Cyberman,
“all brain and no
Featuring The Second Doctor, Jamie and Zoe heart”. No wonder she chooses to join
Written by Terrance Dicks Jamie in the end.
Read by David Troughton Condensing six episodes into a punchy
BBC Audio RRP £20 (CD), £9 (digital) novelisation helps to address the script’s
longueurs but doesn’t allow Dicks much
space to add additional flourishes. Even
he Wheel in Space is, so, he invents a scene where Gemma
T
sadly, one of the Second comments that the Doctor’s whole
Doctor’s missing stories: physical make-up is extraordinary –
its six episodes were until the Doctor quickly changes the
transmitted just once, subject. Dicks’ Second Doctor is perfect:
in 1968, and then wiped. a mass of contradictions, he can be
In the early 1980s, Doctor Who Magazine into paranoia, denial and madness, Dr
stated that this was a “mystery story”,
without even providing a detailed
Corwyn’s concern forms the heart of
the narrative. Dicks highlights Bennett’s
Condensing
synopsis to pore over. But in 1988 it
was brought back to life courtesy of
unsuitability for command – his dislike
of being contradicted, his impetuosity as
six episodes
a Terrance Dicks novelisation, wrapped
in Ian Burgess’ beautiful cover
he issues and withdraws commands on
a whim – and turns The Wheel
into a punchy
art of a Cyberman looming like in Space into the story of his novelisation helps
a mechanical ghost across breakdown.
the Wheel. The same design This is also a great story to address the
is resurrected for this for Jamie. At the outset,
audiobook version. he’s had to wave goodbye script’s longeurs.
In the interim, fans have to his fellow companion
become more familiar with the Victoria. He’s then “young or old, wise or foolish” and has
story, thanks to the rediscovery stranded alone on a rocket a surprisingly ruthless streak, sending
of Episodes 3 and 6 (available on when the TARDIS malfunctions his companions on a dangerous
the Lost in Time DVD) and the and the Doctor gets bashed on spacewalk as “a calculated risk”.
release of the TV soundtrack. the head. He has to rely on his Narrating, David Troughton captures
It’s fair to say that this wits and comes out of it looking his father’s voice and, more importantly,
hasn’t done The Wheel very good – managing to the nature of his performance: a joy in
in Space any favours; signal to the Wheel, prevent the possibilities of the universe combined
the critical consensus the TARDIS from being with a sort of weary acceptance of
is that it’s overlong, destroyed, invent a lasting its darker corners. As ever, Nicholas
dull and clunky. Patrick pseudonym for the Doctor, Briggs provides the Cyberman voices
Troughton’s second series and form a connection with Zoe, with period authenticity. The result
was packed with stories of is a superior experience to listening
isolated outposts besieged by to the TV soundtrack. MATT MICHAEL
monsters, and this one is seemingly
the runt of the litter.
The novelisation doesn’t entirely
contradict this view: if anything, the
Cybermen’s plan seems even more
convoluted when set down on paper.
They can apparently hijack a rocket
ship, infiltrate Cybermats into the
Wheel space station, disable its
defences and ionise a star to cause
a meteor shower, but they aren’t able
to just walk in and take over. Dicks
faithfully reproduces this without
comment, wry or otherwise.
However, what Dicks realised
Top: Narrator
is that the Cyber-plan is just David Troughton.
a MacGuffin in David
Above left inset:
Whitaker’s script, which Controller Jarvis
is more interested in the Bennett (Michael
psychology of the base’s Turner) and Dr
occupants than in the Gemma Corwyn
Cybermen themselves. (Anne Ridler)
in The Wheel in
This should be obvious
Space (1968).
from the presence of the
Left: Frazer Hines
crew’s psychiatrist, Dr
as Jamie and
Gemma Corwyn. As the Wendy Padbury
highly strung Commander as Zoe.
Jarvis Bennett descends

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The Essential
Terrance Dicks
Volume 1 Book
Written by Terrance Dicks
he death of scriptwriter and Comprises The Dalek Invasion of Earth,
T author Terrance Dicks in the

summer of 2019 hit many
fans hard. Social media posts
were flooded with stories of
how ‘Uncle Terrance’ taught us to read, and
The Abominable Snowmen, The Wheel in Space,
The Auton Invasion, The Day of the Daleks
BBC Books RRP £25 (hardback), £9.99 (digital)
how our choice of his books from the school and David Whitaker were just as important
library increased – even doubled – our – but he was much more prolific. His sheer
expected reading age. ubiquity, coupled with the distinctive bold
Dicks wasn’t alone in this – the volumes lettering of Doctor Who novelisations, made
by fellow Target authors Malcolm Hulke him easy to find in the children’s section.
Books were sorted by the author’s surname,
not the brand or publisher, so Dicks’ works
pushed aside Monica Dickens and Haydn
Dimmock to create
our own personal time
capsule of the mysterious
Doctor and his friends.
I could eulogise
more, and indeed
Frank Cottrell-Boyce’s
foreword to this
new collection does
just that. Ten of
Dicks’ most popular
novelisations have
been condensed into
two commemorative
hardback volumes,
and that’s something
to celebrate. I say
‘popular’ rather
than best, because
the selections were
made from a poll of
fans and, as the votes rolled in, it became
clear some people were voting for the
story as televised, not the actual novel.
While there’s no such thing as a ‘bad’ Dicks
book, there were many in his most prolific
phase that were clearly just doing the job
rather than advancing the art. Luckily,
though, the eventual winners are all good
representations of the Target library.
One story sticks out in this first volume.
There was a strong push from voters to
include The Wheel in Space; one of the
later additions to the range, it’s been out
of print for a long time and eBay vendors
price it accordingly. In truth, it was never
the strongest story
on TV and the print Left: Ian Burgess’
cover painting for the
adaptation could
1988 novelisation
generously be Doctor Who – The
described as ‘solid’. Wheel in Space.
However, there are Above left inset:
gems even in the most The first paperback
workmanlike of Dicks’ edition of Doctor Who
books; his description and the Dalek Invasion
here of our first view of Earth (Target,
1977). Cover art
of the Cybermen has
by Chris Achilleos.
rarely been bettered.

Far left and below inset:
The first paperback
editions of Doctor Who
and the Abominable
Snowmen, Doctor Who
and the Auton Invasion
and Doctor Who and
the Day of the Daleks
(all published by Target
in 1974). Cover art
by Chris Achilleos.
Left: Travers (Jack
Watling) is pleased to see
that the Doctor (Patrick
Troughton) is being held
prisoner by the monks
of Det-Sen monastery
in The Abominable
Snowmen (1967).
Bottom left: The Doctor
(William Hartnell) and
Tyler (Bernard Kay)
in The Dalek Invasion
icks received some of Earth (1964).
D criticism for his

formulaic approach to
the novels, yet it’s the recurring
Bottom right: Author
Terrance Dicks in the
mid-1970s.
tropes that make them
distinctly his. Where
would we be without it starts with a catch-up on the climax
the TARDIS’ “wheezing, of The War Games. The Abominable
groaning sound” or his Snowmen begins with a potted history
references to the Fourth of Professor Travers and the spark that
Doctor’s hairdo as “a ignited his quest to find Tibet’s legendary
shock of curls”. There beast. The Day of the Daleks, meanwhile,
are chapter titles where presents us with the best opening chapter
aliens attack, journeys of any Target book, building an entire
are dangerous and dystopian world through the eyes of a
characters face “an end lone rebel and his fated journey through
and a beginning”. For the labour camps of the 22nd century.
those readers coming How many readers were disappointed to
new to the books, there discover that this element was entirely
are some real treats missing from the TV version?
awaiting you, even if Talking of disappointment, it’s a shame
you’re familiar with the this new collection doesn’t include the
TV stories. illustrations from the original editions –
For the record, though it’s still a joy to see these stories
The Dalek Invasion of dusted off and given a new outing. They
Earth has the best of might have been selected by Doctor Who
Dicks’ opening lines: “Through the ruin of Unearthly Child rather than the chuckling fans, but Dicks wasn’t writing for fans
a city stalked the ruin of a man.” As for the space-grandad he eventually became. of one programme – that was just the
First Doctor, in Dicks’ hands he’s the tetchy Indeed, the first incarnation’s reputation hook to get them interested. His focus
old man of legend, the stern one from An was shaped by Dicks’ words, which were was enthusiastic readers who wanted
a cracking story featuring exciting
As for the First Doctor, in Dicks’ adventures and likeable characters.
By delivering exactly that,
hands he’s the tetchy old man of Terrance Dicks made fans of us all.
JIM SANGSTER
legend rather than the chuckling
space-grandad he eventually became.
more readily available
to fans than the episodes
themselves.
In this age of feature-
packed Blu-ray box sets,
we might credit Dicks with
inventing the ‘deleted scene’
or ‘bonus content’, in the
form of sequences or entire
chapters that reveal events
not shown on screen. After
publishing a trio of reprints
from the 1960s, Target
Books began their run of new
adaptations with The Auton
Invasion. A retelling of the TV
story Spearhead from Space,

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Bessie Come Home recalls here). Secondly, writer Paul Magrs conversationally.
prevents this whimsy from becoming twee Sometimes she’s coy,
by including an explanation for Bessie’s sometimes disarmingly
previously unsuspected sentience: she’s direct: “Who hasn’t
shocked into consciousness when the Doctor had some work
wires her up to the TARDIS console, just done at my
before we see her on-screen introduction age?” She leans
in Doctor Who and the Silurians (1970). in to impart
Bessie is “chatty, urbane, sophisticated some naughty
and witty” – her own description, but it confidence, like
shows remarkable self-awareness. She has the fact that it was
hidden depths: on the surface she may look her, not the Doctor, in
control at Devil’s End. She leans back, sourly,
Bessie is as she remembers the indignity of being
abandoned in the Death Zone of Gallifrey.
“chatty, urbane, She even has rivalries: the Whomobile,
smug and shiny, usurped her in the Doctor’s
sophisticated affections. There’s a wistfulness to her
recollections of “the howling wilderness
Audiobook and witty” – years” when the Doctor really did leave
her for his first love, the TARDIS.
Featuring Bessie
her own words. This isn’t just a biography of Bessie;
there’s a wider story unfolding in the
Written by Paul Magrs like an old car, but inside, her background that will continue in the
Read by Stephanie Cole workings are arcane. She next two releases. A mysterious
BBC Audio RRP £10.99 (CD), £9 (digital) can travel at 200 miles per young man in a Rolls-Royce
hour without harming her seems desperate to get his
his is only the second entry passengers and can even hands on the Doctor’s old
T
in BBC Audio’s Beyond drive herself. friends and offers Bessie’s
the Doctor series, which Stephanie Cole gives current owner, Mr Foreman,
explains what happened voice to Bessie, and vast sums of money for her.
to friends and companions absolutely nails the script’s The spine of the story involves
after they stopped travelling intent. Bessie is a grande Bessie coming out of retirement
with the Doctor, and already it throws us a dame of advancing years who’s one last time in an attempt to foil
curveball. Rather than one of the Doctor’s lived through adventures beyond the young man and find some way
many human (or human-ish) companions, imagining and watched from the wings as to warn the Doctor.
or even one of the robots, this focuses on the the Doctor has battled giant robots, Daleks But really, the joy of this is hearing
“sprightly yellow roadster” he drove around and dinosaurs. By its nature, this must be Bessie’s stories of parties in Chelsea in the
the British countryside through the 1970s different from previous companion-led 1920s and black marketeers in the Blitz,
(and, occasionally, the 1980s). stories; Bessie never got captured, escaped, of the glory years when she played a small
“What next?” I hear you cry. “The chained up in a dank cellar or threatened but significant part in saving the world
Whomobile Chronicles? Doctor Who in an with death to blackmail the Doctor. Instead, every Saturday tea-time, in the process
Exciting Adventure with Clara’s Motorbike?” she picked up titbits along the way, as she becoming almost as iconic as that famous
It’s worth mentioning a couple of things. rushed the Doctor and his friends from blue box. “Time
Firstly, Bessie was never just the place to place. robs us all of
Doctor’s car. She had a character Magrs structures our special
that remains a small but beautiful this like ‘An Evening glow” – but
part of the classic UNIT years – she with Bessie’, as the car not this lady.
even played a key role in the capture engages us MATT MICHAEL
of the Master at the end of 1971’s
The Dæmons (an event she proudly
Top inset: Writer Paul

Magrs and narrator
Stephanie Cole.
Above inset: The Master
(Roger Delgado) is
captured – with help
from Bessie – in The
Dæmons (1971).
Right: Bessie, with
Tom Baker’s Doctor
at the wheel, in Robot
(1974-75).

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THE ESSENTIAL
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he Essential Terrance Dicks
T is a two-volume collection
featuring a selection of
the author’s Doctor Who
novelisations as chosen by fans.
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12 13 14 15
With a foreword by acclaimed writer
Frank Cottrell-Boyce, Volume 1 contains
16
complete and unabridged versions
of The Dalek Invasion of Earth, The
17 18 19
Abominable Snowmen, The Wheel in
Space, The Auton Invasion and The Day
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readers who
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31 32
the letters
in the yellow
33 34 35 36
squares of
the crossword 37 38
to form the
name of 39 40
a planet
visited by the 41 42
Sixth Doctor.
ACROSS 39 Dr Judson’s nurse (5) 32 New regular character in Series 13 (3)

1 (and 25 Down) Vessel used by the Cybermen 41 Character played by Michael Sheard (4) 34 Crewmember on the Sandminer (4)
in their attack on The Wheel in Space (6,7) 42 One of Traken’s consuls (6) 36 A Trog in the P7E planet (4)
4 Jabel, for example (4) 40 Father of Elliot Northover (2)
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machine self-destruct (4) 6 Final episode of a First Doctor story missing
16 Turlough’s nickname for Ibbotson (5) from the archives (4,2,4)
17 Escape to _____ – episode of The Web Planet (6) 8 Another name for Earth (7)
19 Donald ___ – played Warne and Eckersley (3) 9 Alien encountered by the Sixth Doctor (7)
20 ______ Web – the Master used it to trap Adric (6) 11 Item won by Glitz in a card game (3)
21 Possible use for psychic paper (1,1) 13 ___ Brother – game show that the Ninth Doctor
23 Actor cast to play Vinder in Series 13 (5,8) appeared on (3)
26 Son of the firemaker (2) 14 DWM comic featuring the Fifth Doctor
27 See 7 Across (3,5,2,4)
28 Elton Pope’s favourite band (1,1,1) 18 The Hand of Omega was a ______ Stellar
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Terrance
Dicks’ novelisation
set of three
audio adventures
starring Christopher
Eccleston as the
of David Whitaker’s Ninth Doctor.
1968 story The In Girl, Deconstructed
Wheel in Space. The by Lisa McMullin, the
adventure features Doctor joins forces
the Second Doctor and Jamie, and introduces Zoe Heriot. with missing persons
When the TARDIS materialises inside a rocket ship, the detective Jana Lee
Doctor and Jamie are alarmed by the presence of a hostile to help solve the mystery of a girl who’s gone to pieces.
Servo Robot. They discover that the rocket is drifting in the Tim Foley’s Fright Motif is set in post-war Paris. Musician
orbit of a giant space station and are eventually rescued. Artie Berger has lost his mojo but gained a predator –
However, it soon becomes apparent the space station has something that seeps through the cracks of dissonance
been infiltrated by Cybermats – the first stage of a complex to devour the unwary.
plan by the Cybermen to invade Earth… Planet of the End by Timothy X Atack sends the Doctor
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he God of Phantoms is a Doctor Who story by
KILLING TIME
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AUDIO DRAMA
he latest release
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The TARDIS brings the Doctor and Leela to a colony world
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Trapped in the middle of an escalating conflict, the Doctor the War Master, with Katy
and Leela investigate the source of the spirits and find Manning as Jo Jones and
a diabolical machine, Sarah Sutton as Nyssa.
a terrible secret... The set comprises The
and a foe long Sincerest Form of Flattery and Unfinished Business by James
since forgotten. Goss and A Quiet Night In and The Orphan by Lou Morgan.
Philip Hinchcliffe For centuries, the Stagnant Protocol has been forgotten
Presents: The God of by the universe; an empire populated by a race that can
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We talk to the talents behind the upcoming Doctor Who releases.
DVD/BLU-RAY
The Evil of the Daleks love The Evil of the Daleks!” Waterfield and Theodore Maxtible. But the
“I
BBC STUDIOS proclaims Toby Hadoke. Daleks are there too, seeking to augment
RRP RRP £18.99 (Blu-ray), It’s a typically bold themselves with the ‘human factor’ – an
£12.99 (DVD), £29.99 (Blu-ray conversation-starter from one experiment that sparks a civil war on their
steelbook) of Doctor Who’s proudest home planet, Skaro. Frustratingly, the whole
RELEASED 27 September cheerleaders. Toby has story was wiped from the BBC archive
played a major role in the commentaries shortly after broadcast. Only Episode
for the spanking new animated 2, found and returned in the
Featuring Patrick Troughton
version of this epic story, coming 1980s, exists in its entirety.
(Dr. Who), Frazer Hines
to DVD and Blu-ray in September. However, all seven episodes
(Jamie) and Deborah
“It has everything,” he have now been fully animated,
Watling (Victoria)
continues. “Episode 1 has the and are included on the new
Second Doctor and Jamie in the release in both widescreen
Swinging Sixties, which is fairly colour and authentic 4:3 aspect
unusual in itself. And then it turns ratio black-and-white. For 3D
Top: The Doctor examines into my favourite type of Doctor animator Rob Ritchie, it’s the end
Waterfield and Maxtible’s Who – back in the past, with BBC of a journey that began with his
laboratory in the new actors in period costumes on period sets first DIY fan films, produced in 2011.
animated version of the 1967
doing period acting… with aliens!” “Ten years ago, I did test animations
story The Evil of the Daleks.
Broadcast from May to July 1967, this for The Evil of the Daleks and put them on
Right: Toby Hadoke
seven-part adventure sees our heroic duo Youtube… and they got me the gig working on
moderates the commentaries
on the new release. transported from Beatles-era London to the the official releases!” recalls Rob. “The Dalek
1860s laboratory of time meddlers Edward civil war in Episode 7 is something I’ve always

wanted to get my teeth into. It ended up of sliding doors opening and
being the last thing we worked on, and closing. It kills the animation
went down to the wire a bit – but I’m really dead if something like that
happy with what we’ve done.” doesn’t have a sound effect,
Producer-director AnneMarie Walsh is so I’ve added those.”
equally pleased. “This is a big step up from In addition, filmmaker Steve
The Faceless Ones animation,” she Broster has reunited some
says of the 2020 release of the of the original cast
1967 story. “We have more and crew for a new
flexibility with the character documentary, The
movements in this, so there’s Dalek Factor,
a lot more expression. including actor
It really comes out with Frazer Hines,
characters like Waterfield second unit director Hadoke has recorded new conversations
and Maxtible. Waterfield’s Timothy Combe, designer with Frazer Hines, David Tilley and
sideburns are amazing…” Chris Thompson, assistant Timothy Combe.
floor manager David Tilley, and “Tim is just so sharp and remembers so
he soundtracks for all seven Charlotte Martinus, daughter of much,” says Toby. “You ask what you think
T episodes, recorded off-air by
Graham Strong in 1967, have been
director Derek. “We took some of them
back to Grim’s Dyke Hotel, the original
is an innocuous question that might get
a vague answer, but he gives you all the
given a fresh polish by audio engineer Mark location,” says Steve. “Frazer and Tim details with absolute clarity.” The duo have
Ayres. “They were all restored for the 2003 hadn’t seen each other since the 1960s, also recorded a bonus commentary track
[CD soundtrack] version,” he explains. “But so that was great. And when David started for an extensive photo gallery.
I stripped them back to basics and started out as a child actor in the 1950s, one of Telesnap recreations of the missing
again using the latest tools, because I can his first roles was alongside… yes, that episodes are accompanied by the original
do it an awful lot better now.” man Frazer again!” audio, alongside behind-the-scenes footage
Mark has also subtly enhanced the audio The surviving Episode 2 – newly restored from the story’s Ealing shoot, narrated
for the animated episodes. “There are a by Peter Crocker – is included, accompanied by visual effects designers Peter Day and
few additional Dalek explosions,” he says. by a new commentary from Chris Michaeljohn Harris. A previously unreleased
“And in the original they missed a couple Thompson and Doctor Who Magazine 2018 interview with Chris Thompson is
writer Philip Newman. The included, too. And there’s no shortage of
late Deborah Watling, whose further archive nuggets: Patrick Troughton’s
“The Dalek civil war in character Victoria makes her
debut in this episode, features
introduction to the 1968 repeat screening,
a 1992 BBC audiobook version narrated by
Episode 7 is something on a separate commentary
track recorded for the 2004
Tom Baker, contemporary camera scripts
and Radio Times cuttings.
I’ve always wanted to get Lost in Time DVD release.
Archive interviews with Derek
AnneMarie Walsh is justifiably proud.
“It’s been a pleasure to work with such
my teeth into.” ROB RITCHIE Martinus and actor Sonny
Caldinez are included with the
a dedicated, professional and skilled team
in bringing this story to life,” she says.
animated episodes, and Toby “It’s been lost for too long!” BOB FISCHER
Top left: Animator Rob

Ritchie.
Top right: Kemel, Victoria,
Waterfield, Jamie, Maxtible
and the Doctor are prisoners
of the Daleks on Skaro.
Above left inset: Producer
AnneMarie Walsh.
Above right: Jamie and the
Doctor follow a clue that
takes them to the Tricolour
coffee bar.
Far left: Maxtible cowers
before a Dalek.
Left: Kemel carries the
unconscious Victoria.

Coming Soon…
AUDIO DRAMA
Previews by DAN TOSTEVIN
RELEASED September
The Lost Resort
BIG FINISH
RRP £22.99 (CD),
£19.99 (digital)
Comprises:
and Other Stories
n 2019, Big Finish began a new throughout, where lots of truths are told
I
The Lost Resort storyline set in the aftermath of that have been buried for a while.”
by AK Benedict Earthshock (1982). It forced the Alexandra’s script is set on Soresia,
The Perils of Nellie Bly Fifth Doctor and his surviving a planetoid that’s home to the Welkin
by Sarah Ward companions, Nyssa and Tegan, Sanatorium. “It’s like those old-fashioned
Nightmare of the Daleks to confront the death of Adric spa hotels and sanatoriums in Switzerland,
by Martyn Waites in a way they never had on screen, or on the south coast – slightly posh and
STARRING when a newcomer – the Roman slave airy and breezy,” she explains. “It’s
The Doctor Peter Davison Marcipor – boarded the TARDIS in his supposed to revivify and
Nyssa Sarah Sutton place. When Marc was almost lost bring back life – only it brings
Tegan Jovanka Janet Fielding to Cyber-conversion, the Doctor death instead!”
Marc George Watkins decided he couldn’t keep putting There’s a guest appearance
Adric Matthew Waterhouse people in danger and abandoned from the late Adric, who had
Foster Ajjaz Awad his companions to travel alone. long been a favourite character
Aether Beauregarde Anna Barry
A collection of three new adventures of Alexandra’s. “I fell for him
The Daleks Nicholas Briggs
Sylvie Chandrika Chevli
brings the saga to a conclusion, picking hard,” she says. “I adored his mind.
Thad Clare Louise Connolly up from the gang’s reunion at the end of He taught me to love maths! So when
Nellie Bly Sydney Feder Madquake (2020). I talked to Scott [Handcock, producer] about
Second Mate Ryan Forde Iosco “They’re all very awkward with each other,” writing for the Fifth Doctor, I said, ‘Is there
Chelmer Alana Maria says AK Benedict, who kicks things off with any way I can write for Adric at all?’ There’s
Franco/Luchino Glen McCready the four-part story The Lost Resort. “Everyone so much left there to explore, in terms of the
Growler Daniel O’Meara is being amiable but prickly – there’s lots way the Doctor feels towards him.”
Nora Alibe Parsons going on underneath the surface, where their In The Perils of Nellie Bly, a two-parter
Carlyss Peer Marion Jones
relationships are being redefined – and we see by Sarah Ward, the TARDIS crew visit Earth
Fabrico Julia Sandiford
Jez Kayi Ushe
how that plays out when placed in a dangerous during the eponymous journalist’s mission
situation. They definitely have confrontations to circumnavigate the globe.

“Nellie Bly is an intrepid reporter who
wants to try to beat the record set by The Marc Arc
Phileas Fogg in Jules Verne’s Around the
World in Eighty Days,” explains Sarah. “She he story of Marc was always, at
pitches it to her editor, who says, ‘You’ll
never get away with travelling around
T joining the TARDIS
crew post-Earthshock
this point, for
Marc to exit…”
the world. You need 20 cases for all your has been overseen by producer Marc’s
clothes!’ And she’s absolutely determined Scott Handcock. adventures have asked
to prove him wrong.” “The cast themselves have difficult questions about the
Bly had become famous for exposing the spoken at length about how, back roles of Doctor and companion,
conditions inside asylums. “She pretended in the 1980s, Doctor Who never exploring everything from risks
she was insane and got herself committed,” really dealt with the emotional and responsibilities to grief and
says Sarah. “So that is the sort of person truth of travelling in time and guilt. “I love that Doctor Who has
you’re dealing with – that gives you a space,” says Scott. “Given Adric’s room for us to tell very different
massive insight into how tenacious she is.” death was one of the most kinds of stories,” says Scott.
Because of Bly’s profile, rival newspapers significant character exits of the “We can do more contemplative
sent their own reporters around the world 1980s, you can’t resist exploring stories, but you can also have silly
to try to beat her, which inspired Sarah that in a little bit more depth – romps with Slitheen. What’s been
to invent a fictional saboteur. “In real and a little bit more honestly. really lovely is that we’ve been
life, another journalist was going around So that’s something I wanted able to give Peter Davison, Sarah
the world in the opposite direction, and to do with the introduction Sutton and Janet Fielding some
actually very nearly beat Nellie,” says of Marc, and how the idea of meatier, more thoughtful material
Sarah. “Whereas in the script, the journalist a young male companion haunted and really show off what they can
is on the same ship as Nellie, trying to that TARDIS team. do. It’s something Big Finish is Above inset: George
Watkins returns as Marc.
scupper her plans. “But when you’re plugging the great at across the board, but I’m
“I slide the action into the final bit of gaps on TV, you can’t do anything glad we were able to explore some Above: Adric (Matthew
Waterhouse) in
Nellie’s travels. She’s on a boat about to go too extended without stretching more grown-up themes in the last
Earthshock (1982).
into San Francisco Bay and she’s stuck in credulity,” he adds. “So the plan few seasons.”
a storm. That’s true life. She’s raging at the
wind in her very opening sentence,
saying, ‘You’ve got to die down!
I want to get to dry land, and
then there’s a train waiting.’
So it’s putting the Doctor
right there at the point
where it’s all going to fail –
and, of course, the Doctor
and his companions can try
to help her.”
or the grand finale, Martyn

F Waites was asked to come up with
something completely new for the
Doctor’s oldest enemies. Nightmare of the
Daleks, another two-parter, is the result.
“My pitch was ‘Nightmare on Elm Street
meets the Daleks’,” Martyn recalls. “It’s
set on a drilling rig on a water planet, and
the workers there are starting to have
nightmares about these metal things that
“My pitch was

‘Nightmare on Elm
Street meets the Opposite page: Tom
Daleks’.” MARTYN WAITES Webster’s cover art
for The Lost Resort
and Other Stories.
are appearing around these clanking, Opposite page inset:

Writer AK Benedict.
dripping corridors, chasing them and killing
them. And if they’re killed in their dreams, Above left inset:
Writer Martyn Waites.
then they die in real life.
“It’s using the idea of Dalek intelligence Above: The cast
and crew includes
rather than their physicality,” he says. (back row) Ryan
“They’ve been on this planet and they’ve Forde Iosco, Daniel
lost their corporeal form, so they’re trying O’Meara, George
to regain it. They’re doing that by attacking Watkins, (front row)
through sleep and through dreams, and writer Sarah Ward,
Janet Fielding, Sarah
that was a twist that I didn’t think had
Sutton, Sydney Feder,
been done before. They’re the most feared Carlyss Peer and
creatures in the universe, but it’s not just Peter Davison.
because of their physical capabilities – it’s
what they’re capable of mentally, as well.”

Coming Soon…
ou wait ages for a renegade Missy

Y
Time Lord and then two
come along at once.
After guest-starring
in both previous seasons
of Missy, the audio
spin-off starring Michelle Gomez, Rufus
Hound’s incarnation of the Meddling
Monk has become Missy’s not-entirely-
willing companion.
“I’m a big believer, when things work out
with people, that you reach out and grab
hold of them for dear life,” says producer
David Richardson. “It was obvious when we
did the first Missy box set that the scenes
with Rufus and Michelle together were pure
gold, so we knew immediately we wanted
to bring him back for the second set. And
as we were making the second set, we
thought, ‘Let’s do the whole of the third
series with the Monk and Missy.’
“It gives Michelle
something wonderful to RELEASED September
play off,” he continues. “It’s BIG FINISH
Missy and the Monk
great doing a Missy spin-off, RRP £24.99 (CD),
but what we really needed £19.99 (digital) goes off in an unexpected and Rufus are supremely creative actors,”
was somebody for her to direction. She’s a character he says. “They’re quite unusual in that,
have a dynamic with – just Comprises: with so many nuances, when we deliver scripts to them, I’ve got
like she had that wonderful Body and Soulless and yet she can play in absolutely no idea how they will deliver the
dynamic with Peter Capaldi by James Goss such extremes as well. lines – in a really great way! They will play
in the TV show.” War Seed It’s wonderful to be able with the words; they will make something
Peter Capaldi’s Doctor by Johnny Candon to push those boundaries.” new out of it; they will make suggestions
was a hero juxtaposed Two Monks, One Mistress For David, part of what which will improve it. Having that energy
against Missy’s villainy; with by James Kettle makes Missy and the Monk and that creativity to explore avenues with
the Monk, things are more work is the willingness the text is so exciting.”
complicated. “The Monk STARRING of the two lead actors In particular, David remembers recording
Missy Michelle Gomez
isn’t good,” says David, to experiment. “Michelle a scene from the opening episode – Body
The Monk/Prime-Monk Rufus Hound
“but he’s not outrageously Prime Tania Rodrigues
and Soulless by
evil either. He’s just morally
grey. I don’t think he’s got
Gasher Ashley Zhangazha
Kalvor Commander/Aztec Priest Glen “Missy decides she’d like James Goss –
in which Missy
any morality at all, really!”
And, of course, Missy
McCready
Soldier 2/VAD Soldier/Medic Anjella
Mackintosh
to do something good, separates the
Monk’s brain from
herself might not be all bad.
“Johnny Candon explores Richard Temple John Telfer
Anastasia Temple Lynsey Murrell
which of course goes his body. “It’s
the Monk calling
that in the second script,”
David says of War Seed.
The Seed Samuel Collings
The Nun Gemma Whelan
off in an unexpected Missy rude,” he
explains. “When
“Missy decides she’d like
to try to do something
Alfredo James Smillie
Francesca Sheena Bhattessa
direction.” DAVID RICHARDSON
we recorded that,
Rufus gave a
good, which of course delivery of ‘rude’.
And then he went,
Above: Tom
‘Oh, hang on, I’ve got some other things…’
Webster’s cover And he would offer all these other deliveries
art for Missy and – so different and totally surprising. He just
the Monk. worked at it until he found the one which
Right: Rufus Hound was the most hilarious.”
in the studio. For the final episode – James Kettle’s Two
Monks, One Mistress – the duo are joined by
Gemma Whelan. She plays the Nun, a female
incarnation of the Monk, who was introduced
unexpectedly in April’s Dalek Universe 1. “It
was a tough one,” David admits, “because
I worried intensely about the fact that, by
doing this episode, we might be undermining
Dalek Universe 1 for people who hadn’t
heard it. But we had to weigh that up
against the opportunity of doing something
brilliant with these three characters, and
it just seemed too exciting for words.
“That episode is set in Italy at the time
of the Borgias,” he explains. “Missy and
Monk arrive there and don’t initially realise
who they’re meeting…”

Upcoming
Releases
AUDIOS
SEPTEMBER RELEASES
s The Lost Resort and Other Stories
[Fifth Doctor]
by AK Benedict,
Martyn Waites,
Sarah Ward
Big Finish £22.99 (CD),
£19.99 (digital)
s The Sixth Doctor

Left: Tom Webster’s
Adventures: The Eleven
by Chris Chapman,
The Eleventh Doctor

cover art for The
Eleventh Doctor Nigel Fairs,
Chronicles: Lizzie Hopley
Volume Two. Big Finish £19.99 (CD),
Chronicles Volume Two Below: Jacob

Dudman plays the
Eleventh Doctor.
£16.99 (digital)
s The Eleventh Doctor

Chronicles: Volume Two
hree years after the first volume, down to London anyway,” Alfie explains. “So I built by Daniel Blythe,
The Eleventh Doctor Chronicles him a sound studio at my place. It was cushions, Christopher Cooper,
T is back – and it’s regenerated.

Jacob Dudman returns to lead
the series, but rather than doing
so as narrator alongside a single
bedding… I think there were actually some of my
clothes in there, if you looked very carefully!”
The first story is Doris V Sutherland’s The
Evolving Dead, a zombie adventure that Alfie
Tessa North,
Doris V Sutherland
Big Finish £22.99 (CD),
£19.99 (digital)
guest actor in each episode, he now plays the says has “references to classic zombie movies
Doctor outright as part of a much larger cast. and directors, and a solid emotional core that s Missy and the Monk
“I was having one of our regular meetings helps keep the whole thing grounded.” by Johnny Candon,
with the head of BBC Audio,” recalls The second is The Day Before They James Goss,
director and executive producer Came, written by Daniel Blythe James Kettle
Nicholas Briggs. “He said he’d really and set in the 1980s. “It’s a Big Finish £24.99 (CD),
enjoyed Jake’s performance in our small-scale story in a seaside £19.99 (digital)
first volume of The Eleventh Doctor town out of season,” says Alfie.
Chronicles, but he rather sweetly “It’s very different from the one s Torchwood: Curios
hoped I wouldn’t be too upset if he that comes before it, which has [Bilis Manger]
voiced a criticism. ‘Well, he’s the BBC, a lot of action and running around by James Goss
so he can say what he likes,’ I thought. and lasers. We switch gears, and it’s Big Finish £10.99 (CD),
So I tensed myself for something very contemplative. £8.99 (digital)
damning, and then he said he “We then go from the
thought these Chronicles would RELEASED September very human to the very, Thursday 2 September
be much more effective without BIG FINISH very alien,” he says of s The TV Episodes Collection
the narration. I wholeheartedly RRP £22.99 (CD), Christopher Cooper’s The [First Doctor;
agreed, and we immediately set £19.99 (digital) Melting Pot, which takes us comprises narrated
about changing our plans. to the troubled planet of Piir. soundtracks of
“It’s made a huge difference Comprises: “It opens in an alien diner The Sensorites,
to the feel of the stories,” Nick The Evolving Dead with lots of different voices.” The Romans, The Space
continues. “Jake’s interpretation by Doris V Sutherland Finally, Tessa North’s Museum, The Ark,
of the Eleventh Doctor is so The Day Before They Came A Tragical History explores The Gunfighters and
uncannily accurate that at times by Daniel Blythe an old London gaol. “It’s all The War Machines]
I found myself, when directing, The Melting Pot about what it means to be BBC Audio £13 (digital)
accidentally calling him Matt. by Christopher Cooper trapped, and people’s ideas
The brilliant thing is that Jake A Tragical History of freedom,” Alfie explains.
by Tessa North BLU-RAY/DVD
and I are huge fans of Matt While the previous volume
Smith’s performance, and we STARRING featured companions and Monday
both know all the different The Doctor Jacob Dudman allies from the TV series, via 16 August
elements of it. So I can say, ‘Ooh, Babs Ayesha Antoine both the narration and the s The Evil of
can you do one of those things Maxwell/Headshot Tom Alexander guest voices, the supporting the Daleks
when he…?’, and Jake always Evo/Eleanor Pearce Avita Jay characters in Volume Two are [Second Doctor]
Kayla Worthington Jo Woodcock
knows what I mean and has all new. Future instalments BBC Studios
Ray Joe Barnes
several other ideas to throw in. will take that further. “It’s £18.99 (Blu-ray),
Lee Jacob Daniels
It’s glorious, and feels like we’ve Spongiform Nicholas Briggs something that excites me £12.99 (DVD),
really brought that smashing era Elix Milly Thomas about the range, especially £29.99 (Blu-ray
of the show back to life.” Arvin Joe Jameson going forward,” says Alfie. steelbook)
There are four episodes in Preacher Stem Nicholas Asbury “There’s a new companion
Volume Two, half of which were Gonch/Piir Mother Jeany Spark coming in the future. We’re
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5 The Infinite Quest e The Tenth Planet l The Faceless Ones
6 Dreamland f The Moonbase m Fury from the Deep
⁷ Can You Hear Me? (60 seconds) g The Power of the Daleks n The Web of Fear
⁸ Daleks! h Shada (again) o The Evil of the Daleks

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BLACK POWDER ROBOTS IN DISGUISE

A new story by Joy Wilkinson Inside The Web of Fear

The OFFICIAL MAGAZINE

Why I’m leaving

Photo © Derek Handley

Email: [email protected] Doctor Who Magazine™ Issue 568 Published August

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Top: Showrunner Chris Chibnall.

s I write this we’ve just

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Spilt Milk capitals? Pat was very

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the Doctor? The story climaxes with the historical

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