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I Too Much Too Young?
Was Davison's Doctor the most
'heroic' of all? Philip MacDonald
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THE FIFTH ODCTOR DH

TELEUISIDH
SEHSnn IB:
B In Production
Ups and downs in Tom Baker's
wake. The making of Season 19
• i
IM The Stories
inwhich Tegan is possessed, the
Doctor plays with fire, Nyssa
discovers herself, and Adric eats
all the pies

SEHSnn 20:
ZB In Production
know?
Better the devils you
The making of Season 20
* t1
3Z The Stories
In which the Doctor goes home,
Tegan is taken hostage, Nyssa
looses her skirt, and Turlough
talks to his hand

SEnsnn 21:
MZ ProductionIn
A lot of good people died. Some
of them during the making of
Season 21

IB The Stories
"/ wouldn't have missed it for anything." In which Davros is thawed.

Chandler is awed, Kamelion is

20 years now since the Fifth Doctor sat up at the foot of a radio ignored, and Peri comes on board
It's
telescope, heralding perhaps the biggest shake-up that Doctor Who had
ever seen. FURTHER ROUERTURES
With a new weekday time-slot, a noticeably more youthful cast, and an
SB The Fifth Doctor on audio
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from the doldrums of Season Eighteen to find itself a new and loyal audience? Davison's audio exploits

That his three seasons are still held in such high esteem by so many fans is
BB The Fifth Doctor in books
testament to the success of Peter Davison's era; a time when Doctor Who Matt Michael pores over Doctor
celebrated two decades of time travel, went twice-weekly, made it big in f,
Five's novel escapades

America, and began to draw on its own standing as a television legend.

B3 The Fifth Doctor in comics
This special issue contains addenda and errata for all of DWM's Fifth
Scott Gray considers the Fifth
Doctor Archiues, exhaustively researched and compiled by Andrew Pixley, as a Doctor's comic strip innings

companion to the original features. We some fascinating

also present
BB Afterword by
features from the finest writers in Doctor Who fandom, considering the highs Peter Davison
and lows of every production from frighteningly fresh perspectives. The man who was the Fifth Doctor
reflects upon his time in the TARDIS
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 think he has a certain amount of tunnel

I vision. He's not always the wisest of men.

Maybe when he sits back and ruminates on
the way things have gone he is wise, but I
think that he's headstrong and he makes
more of a mess of things in the short run until he's
sorted out his own problems. He doesn't always
act for the best. Quite often he'll land in a certain
situation and, obviously, the common sense thing
to do would be simply to leave - to get out of there
because it's dangerous to everyone. But he doesn't
get out, he wants to find out what's going on, he's
got to explore - and thus he gets embroiled in the
story."

Speaking to DWM in January 1982 during the

stodio recording of Time-Flitjfit, Peter Davison had a
great deal to say about the challenge of painting a
face onto the essentially blank canvas of the
famous role he had won a year earlier. "In some
ways it's incredibly taxing," he went on, "because
you are given nothing to go on. You have to go on
and make it your own, which is very strenuous.
Normally, when you approach a part, you are told a
background of the characters you are playing. For
example he might be from the north of England,
had parents like this, went to school in somewhere
hke this, and from there you can build up your idea
of the character. With Doctor Who you can't do
that at all. You can't rely on people saying, 'Oh
well, Tom Baker did it this way, Patrick Troughton
did it that way, etcetera
'
- it has to be a solo effort,

and from ±at point of view it is very taxing."

With the benefit of 20 years' hindsight we can
now see that Peter Davison's initial aspirations for
his characterisarion of the Doctor may have
differed, slightly but significantly, from those of
the man who cast him in the role. Looking back at
the earliest interviews given by Davison and

00 Mui
Too
The sense of danger and i;ulnerability in

Peter Damson's Fifth Doctor galvanhed the series'

dramatic potential, argues Philip MacDona\d.

producer John Nathan-Turner, these differences

seem remarkably clear. Both men were acutely
aware of the need to move the character of the new
Doctor right away from the influence of Tom
Baker's towering and, at the time, definitive inter-
pretadon of the role. Over seven hugely successful
years. Baker had portrayed an increasingly assertive
Doctor, one who would stride into every new situa-
don and take over. In order to ring the changes,
Davison and Nathan-Turner were therefore agreed
that the new Doctor would become a more passive,
perhaps even victimised character. Baker had been
abrasive, slapstick and rude; so Davison was to be
conciliatory, serious and polite. Baker had been
famously branded 'anarchic' and 'Bohemian'; so
Davison was to be 'establishment', with a dash of
 public school about him. But we can perceive just the new Doctor's penchants for cricket and celery "I see - it's the old problem," concluded Simon
as clearly from those early interviews tlrat would be among his defining features. No previous Groom sagely.
Davison's basic instincts regarding exactly how Doctor had been pre-packaged to anything like this It seems, then, that it would be fair to hazard
might best be achieved were
these shifts in gear extent, and there are signs that the actor himself that Peter Davison was less than wholly entranced
subdy different from Nathan-Turner's. Broadly was less than entirely comfortable with the by the signs of pre-imposed gimmickry, be they
speaking, the actor was anticipating the chance to process. Take, for example, the grin-and-bear-it cricket bats or celery sticks, that were destined to
make the break entirely in performance terms, subtext of Davison's reply to a question, in that become part and parcel of the outward trappings of
while the producer was already hatching ideas as to same 1982 DWM interview, seeking elucidation his Doctor. It's fascinating to note, however, that
how external impositions - gimmicks, for want of regarding the mysterious stick of celery: "That is a notwithstanding all the pre-emptive publicity that
a better word - might be pressed into service to question you will have to ask John Nathan-Turner. was put in place before a single scene had been
give the new Doctor a pre-packaged identity. He came to me one day and he said 'I think he recorded, the subtier shades of Davison's Doctor
In early interviews, Davison's talk was often should have this piece of celery on his lapel', and would nevertheless undergo a series of radical
about how his favourite Doctor, Patrick Troughton, that'swhere it has been ever since." changes during his first season. "I am now getting
had succeeded in filtering infinite wisdom and Quite what the always gentlemanly and closer to what I had originally intended," he

THE EDUinRDinn CRICHETinB SHTIBK CDinEIDED UIITH THE

SUCCESS DP BRIOESHEHO REUISITEO RRR CHRRIRTS RP PIRE
- RLL PLRRREL TRRUSERS RRR PLERSRRT RPER PRCES
compassion through an outwardly quirl<y, loveable, diplomatic Peter Davison actually thought of his revealed at the end of that first year. "It's always a
dotty-uncle characterisation; and, in some of his costume remains something of a mystery, but it's dichotomy between what you set out to do and
finest moments, Davison's Doctor would indeed clear that he had littie taste for wearing it to what actually comes over, until you find ways in
achieve exactiy this balance.But it was Nathan- publicity jamborees. Unlike, say, Jon Pertwee, who which to play it to your satisfaction." Before we
Turner who was at the helm of the show, and it was would happily whip out his velvet cape on request examine just what those changes were, it's impor-
his influence that would dictate the broader brush- and whirl into action crying "I am the Doctor!" tant to understand that, in implementing them, the
strokes which conspired to define the new Doctor's with arms aloft, Davison's instincts were closer to actor was influenced not only by his own instincts
outward persona. those of the more reticent Patrick Troughton. "I try but by fiirther changes at the production office. For
A year earlier, one of Nathan-Turner's first acts to do as few as possible promotions as Doctor if John Nathan-Turner was responsible for the
as producer had been to standardise Tom Baker's Who, actually in costume and as the character," he show's big, bold colour schemes, it was his script
costume with a handsome redesign which, while said in 1982, "because I find it, I suppose, some- editors who shaped the flmdamental direction and
unquestionably smartening up the Doctor, what difficult ... If I'm going to do an appearance I underlying tone of the stories themselves.
arguably straitjacketed the actor who played him.
Gone were the ever-changing lapel-badges and the very new Doctor takes a littie
jacket pockets bulging bric-a-brac; in their place time to setde into the role, and
came a sombre burgundy makeover, together with the fact that Davison's debut
the advent of 'Look at me, aren't I enigmatic?' season coincided with the departures
question-mark collars. With the arrival of Baker's and arrivals of no fewer than three
script editors naturally loaned this
particular period of transition an even
more experimental air than usual.
Thoughtfijl, elegiac tales like Castrovalva
and Kinda represent the last hurrah of
outgoing script editor Christopher H
Bidmead's vision of Doctor Who, and it
can be no coincidence that Davison's
Doctor is markedly more bookish,
philosophical and contemplative in
these two stories than in any of the
others of the season - or indeed that

)ung! this

Bidmead's
The
same scholarly,

Frontios.

precise impact
muddle-headed,
half-moon-spectacles-donning version
of the Fifth Doctor would

tenure of Bidmead's successor Antony

later return in

made by the brief

successor the same mentality was advanced a step Root, who dropped into the production
further, to the extent that Davison became the first office on his way to greater things and
L Doctor to be dressed in what always felt more like a stayed long enough to edit Four to
r uniform than a costume. Davison's cricketing garb Doomsday and The Visitation, is less easily
was unquestionably a gimmick - by far the least discernible - but Four to Doomsday, the
impromptu and most overtiy 'designed' costume of very first Davison story to be recorded,
any Doctor to date. Unkindly but memorably nonetheless offers a fascinating
referred to in an early
letter to DWM
as "Andy moment of transition both for Doctor
Pandy's demob Davison's costume also had
suit", Who and for Davison himself It's a
the unfortunate effect of undermining a certain curious and delightfijl rule of thumb
ineffable dignity that might be hoped to be a that the second broadcast story of each
prerequisite of the character. But the fact that the new Doctor is remarkably easy to
Fifth Doctor's Edwardian cricketing shtick coin- Off his own bat: the cricket gear suggested by Davison. ® bbc picture as a Hartnell adventure - it's
cided so obviously with the meteoric success of almost as though, having successfully
period dramas like Bndesh^ad Reuisitcd and Chariots of prefer to do it as me, as the person who plays navigated the stormy waters of the initial regenera-
Fire - all tank-tops, flannel trousers and pleasant Doctor Who." Sure enough, Davison's discomfort tion crisis. Doctor Who instinctively scutdes back to
open faces - went a considerable way towards soft- during his costumed Blue Peter appearance in its thematic origins to give the new incumbent a
ening the blow. In fact, Davison's costume prob- November 1983 to promote The Fiue Doctors was chance to stretch his legs. It's far easier to picture
ably looks more eccentric and incongruous now positively palpable - while his colleague Richard William Hartnell, in fuzzy black and white,
than in it did back then. Hurndall was happy to remain firmly 'in character' bumbhng his way around Nerva Beacon, or the
In April 1981, a photo-call saw Davison batting as the Doctor, Davison resolutely declined to follow Silurian caves, or even the lifts and corridors of
from a makeshift wicket chalked onto the TARDIS suit until the brief and obviously scripted verbal Paradise Towers, than it is to imagine him slotting
doors, and Her Majesty's press were informed that sparring match which concluded the encounter. into any of the other stories in those respective

THe cnmPLETE fifth ctdh

debut seasons. Four to Doomsday is no exception, time peering into inspection hatches with a rescue Adric from the bomb-laden freighter, or his
offering a tiiorouglily Season One-style exploration mouthfijl of wires than any Doctor since Hartnell: last-ditch effort to save Peri by crashlanding Stotz's
of the Urbankan spaceship by the four-man in other words, the Jules Verne explorer-Doctor spaceship on Androzani Minor, provide extreme
TARDIS crew, followed by outbreaks of philosophy, had for the first time in many years resumed ascen- illustrations of what Davison meant when he
historical pageantry, educational asides, uncompli- dancy over the HG Wells scientist-Doctor. Kg had famously described his Doctor as being possessed
cated villainy and dubious physics. But far more already been written out a year earlier, considered a of "a sort of reckless innocence".
significantly, throughout it all Davison's Doctor cop-out for inspiration-starved writers who needed The sense that the Fifth Doctor was an essen-
appears more closely of a piece with Hartnell than to smn guards and spring the Doctor from prison tially trusting character, forever surprised and
with any other Doctor: inquisitive, irascible, cells; and, for similar reasons, the sonic screw- taken aback when the villain's evil intentions were
impatient, and yet at the bottom of it all very firmly driver was sent the same way in The Visitation. Even revealed, represents perhaps his strongest link
a ciuzen of the universe and a gentleman to boot. more remarkably, the new Doctor's fallible streak with Tom Baker's portrayal. Baker's happy-go-
There are aspects of Davison's characterisation was highlighted when, for the first time since the lucky bonhomie evolved in Davison's hands into an
here which, after only two or three more stories, 1960s, a companion was allowed to die. optimistic, even-handed wiUingness to see the
would seldom reappear with quite the same There's littie question that this new sense of good in everything until events proved otherwise.
prominence. danger and vulnerability in the central character "He always starts out being pohte," observed
The third and final occupant of the script galvanised the dramatic potential of the show. Davison in 1983, "but usually gets less and less so
editor's chair during Davison's tenure was Eric Once the initial Hartnellesque dabbling with as disaster looms!"
Saward, under whose influence Doctor Who would acerbic put-downs had been softened (setting aside
move rapidly away from the more openly 'philo- obvious showpiece clashes like his quarrel with
sophical' signatures of the Bidmead stories,
realigning itself as an unashamedly action-
oriented sci-fi adventure show. It was a shift
in emphasis of which Davison himself clearly
approved: "Oh, I Hke the action scenes," he

told DWM in 1982, "which is why EartKshock

is my favourite. On reading it and when we
did it we established a very fast pace. Plus we
had the leap from one place to another - it
wasn't all set in one location which made it
appeal to me."

The desire
tion
on the part of both produc-
team and actor to make a clean
break from Tom Baker's characteri-
sation (Baker is quite pointedly the only
previous incarnation not openly imperson-
ated during Davison's splendid rendition of
the Doctor's post-regenerative lapses in
Castrovdva) was inevitably assisted by the fact
that Davison was, by a considerable margin,
the youngest Doctor to date. "The imphcation

Clockwise from below: the Doctor on the

defensive in Warriors of the Deep; a
floored hero in Castrovalva; the TARDIS
travellers in-fighting in The Visitation ...

DHuisoii FHmausLa DESERieen

HIS DDCTDR HS PDSSESSIIIB H
SORT OF '^RECKLESS IRROCEOCE'
Adric in Earthshock, the Fiftii Doctor is As a result, the Fifth Doctor's essentially placid
shorter and sharper with his companions in disposition offered a tremendous sense of
Four to Doomsday, The Visitation and Kinda, dramatic contrast when his temper frayed, so that
the first three stories to be made, than in his explosive outburstsof moral outrage tended to
any later story), the alternation between the appear in sharper rehef than those of his prede-
new Doctor's generally placid disposition cessor. Tom Baker was required to sail right over
and his sudden attacks of near-panic made the top if his flirious diatribes against the Captain
for a highly effective contrast with his in The Pirate Planet or the Deciders in Full Circle were
immediate predecessor. It's here that to achieve any impact. Davison's diffident, cour-
comparisons with Patrick Troughton are teous Doctor was more freely able to shock both
perhaps most appropriate: whereas Tom antagonists and audience with the sheer vehe-
always is that if you get someone younger to play a Baker's Doctor had been an adept rabble-rouser mence of his invective: wimess his memorable
lead part like that, you tend to try and make him whose easy eloquence would captivate crowds of denunciations of Striker in Enlightenment and the
dashing," the actor once observed, but explained hard-bitten rebels, and Jon Pertwee could switch Cyberleader in Earthshock, or his reaction to the
thatfrom the moment he won the role, he had on acommanding air of villain-disarming suggestion that he massacre the Silurians in
other ideas: "I felt he should be a sort of anti-hero, authority even when trussed to a Maypole, Warriors of the Deep, or his blistering tirade against
not evil so much as that he doesn't go about things Davison's Doctor would repeatedly come across as Plantagenet ("I think - and you did ask what I
in the way a normal hero would." rash, maladroit and desperate when forced into think!") in Frontios. It's notable nevertheless that
As a result, the early Davison stories saw a crisis situations. A new tradition was established these outbursts often prove impotent or even coun-
concerted effort to strip away what Nathan-Turner whereby the struggling Doctor would be hauled terproductive: having listened to the Doctor's
had perceived as the increasing infallibility of Tom away from dismissive authority figures still franti- disquisition on emotional ties, the Cyberleader
Baker's domineering Doctor. The show's easy cally protesting his innocence and babbling dire promptiy exploits them; having heard out the
reliance on technobabble and superhuman Time warnings of the danger to come, a scene replayed Doctor's intemperate opinions on the fiiture of
Lord gifts was cut back severely and, at least in Four to Doomsday, Arc of Infinity, Smkedame and Frontios, Plantagenet peremptorily orders his death;
outside the stories scripted by an evidendy gadget- Warriors of the Deep among others. The manic, and, all other options having failed, the Doctor
obsessed Peter Grimwade, Davison spent far less breathless hyperactivity of his doomed attempt to does indeed massacre the Silurians.

DCTDH UJHD mnGR2ine

 In common with all his incarnations, the Fifth solve situations at times," underlines the extent to carefully subdued teatime standards, is the remark-
Doctor's nature is ftindamentally pacifist. His set- which the character was remodelled during his ably obvious 'romantic' spark that alights between
piece critique of Cold War values at the outset of three seasons. the Doctor and Nerys Hughes' Todd in Kinda.
Warriors of tfie Deep is a standard declaration of There can in fact be Htde doubt that Peter
essential Doctorishness, as are his increduhty at Davison's incarnation became, and still remains by these momentary glimpses into a deeper
the war games in The Awakening ("And you're cele- some considerable margin, the most straightfor- It's
well of emotional potential that would ulti-
bratintj and his disparaging exchange of
that?") wardly 'heroic' of all the Doctors. In Doctor Who's mately define Davison's Doctor, who
glances with Tegan during the jingoistic crusading earhest episodes, the conventional lead role was concealed a sensitive and compassionate soul
song in The Kind's Demons. However, just as had taken by Ian Chesterton, who provided the neces- beneath incisive wit and a propensity for gallows
often been the case with Jon Pertwee's Doctor a sary elements of altruism, ethical rectitude and humour (no previous incarnation would have
decade earlier, this moral baseline was not always heroic action. The Doctor was less accessible, a lorded it quite so gleefully over the Master getting
easily reconciled with the character's actions. shadowy, unpredictable and at times even unreli- "a taste of your own medicine" in Planet of Fire, let
Under Eric Saward, Doctor Who in the early igSos able figure. This portrayal inevitably softened over alone have cracked a joke as sick as the Doctor's
gradually became a more ruthless and death- the years as the Doctor assumed centre-stage and "toast of Littie Hodcombe" aside in The Aujakening).
strewn environment, and it was inevitable that the became the show's moral ideologue, with the His gauche farewell handshake with Todd in Kinda,
Doctor himself would not remain immune to the result that the forthrighdy heroic duties of the male his compassionate but ruthless pursuit of the Mara
new house rules. True, he spends much of the first companions (Steven, Ben, Jamie) decreased by into Tegan's subconscious in Snakedance, and his
degrees until they were required to become unpre- final do-or-die struggle to find the antidote to Peri's
dictable themselves, in order to present a usefirl Spectrox toxaemia, disclose the true touchstones of
contrast with the Doctor's heroism - hence the perhaps the most human Doctor of them all.
wilfijlness of the early Brigadier, Mike Yates' even- At the risk of making a gross generalisation, it

mal treachery, and Harry Sullivan's perilous might be said that there are essentially two kinds of
bungling with control panels and Cyber-bombs. actor who have played the Doctor - each type
Tom Baker had successfully revived some of the entirely vaUd and successfiil, but each quite
Doctor's former unpredictability, but Peter different nonetheless. On the one hand there are
Davison's characterisation signalled the point at
which, even more so than during the Pertwee era,
the Doctor finally became a straightforward action
hero. It's no coincidence that, during the Davison
seasons, the necessary potential for unreliability
was actively hived off onto more morally

... in the paradise garden of Deva Loka with

Todd (Nerys Hughes) in Kinda; and with Tegan

and Turlough, setting the settlers to rights on
the asteroid-blasted planet of Frontios. aus bbc
making awl<ward
half of Resurrection of the Daleks
attempts to palm Colonel Archer's unwanted
revolver off onto other characters,but in that same those whose characterisation appears to be based
story he takes up a gun and sets off to kill Davros. on the amplification of certain traits in the actor's
The fact that he fails to complete this mission own personality to create a 'star' performance - the
comes as something of a rehef, but it's reveaUng obvious examples being Jon Pertwee, Tom Baker
that it occurs to him at all. and Sylvester McCoy. The o±er kind of Doctor is a
Indeed, Davison's Doctor solves quite a few more - the fiindamentally 'acted'
elusive beast
problems by resorting to firearms. In The Visitation performance which relies more strongly on profes-
he blasts open a door with a flintiock, whose sional skills and technique than on the winning
barrel he then blows down, cowboy-style, ways of an overwhelming personality. In this
declaring "I never miss!" Having pursued Omega respect, Peter Davison follows the example not of
through Amsterdam with an anti-matter weapon, Pertwee and Baker, but of Hartnell and Troughton,
he graphically disproves the renegade's jibe that he ambiguous companions Mke Adric, Turlough and the Doctors he watched as a child.
will "never have the courage to use it." He empties even Tegan, whose headstrong qualities allowed Perhaps as a result of this difference in
a gun into Earthshock's Cyberleader. In Planet o/Fire writers to place the Doctor in peril with wild cards approach, during the immediate aftermath of Tom
he even shoots Kamelion dead - admittedly as a like her disastrous attempt to move the TARDIS in Baker's huge success Peter Davison's Doctor was
last resort, but he does it all the same. Alongside But the Fifth Doctor's emotional
Four to Doomsday. perceived in certain quarters as somehow flimsy, as
all this gun-toting comes the gradual reappearance involvement with his companions, and with Tegan if it wasn't quite large enough a performance to fill

of Pertwee-style fisticuffs: he tussles with villagers in particular, is nevertheless considerable. His the legendary role it was required to inhabit. But
and Terileptils alike in The Visitation, angrily roughs feigned displeasure at her rejoining the TARDIS time has proved the undoubted worth of Davison's
up Salateen in The Caucs of Androzani and chops crew in Amsterdam is turned on its head when he meticulous, thoughtful and impressively profound
down a Seabase Four guard with a rather callously sets the controls for the Eyeof Orion only a few performance as the Doctor. The blaze of desperate
007-esque "I'm so sorry" in Warriors of the Deep. and he is sufficientiy shaken by her
stories later; heroism that marks his departure in The Caues of
Speaking in die 50 Years in the TARDIS documentary abrupt deparmre to consider mending his ways. Androzani must surely belie any remaining suspi-
a decade later, Eric Saward went so far as to declare Much has been written over the years about the cions that this was a character who, as he once
flady of the Fifth Doctor: "He was James Bond." perceived sexual frisson between the Fifth Doctor suggested to the colonists of Frontios, came and
The gaping chasm between that analysis and and Tegan - again a phenomenon only made plau- went like a summer cloud. But then again, perhaps
Davison's own observation, back at his first press sible by the smaller than usual age-gap between that's a fitting epitaph for the Doctor who so
call in April 1981, that "I want the Doctor to be a Doctor and companion (although fictionally of passionately championed the ephemerals: after all,
reassuring figure but I would like the audience to course, she's still several hundred years younger in its very transitoriness and subtiety, a summer
become a litrie apprehensive about his ability to than him). Even more overt, at least by Doctor Who's cloud is a rather beautifiil thing, is it not? ®

THE cnmPLeTE pipth ddctoh

 ^nce Charmm
If Peter Damson was surprised when he was offered the chance to become television's fifth Doctor Who,
that was nothing to the shocks that awaited the shoLu's fans as his first season took shape. Andreu; Pixley
^ets doivn u;ith 'the kids' and discovers just o'hat all those youn^ people u;ere doin^ inside the TARDIS ...

an I be his companion?" squealced Sandra who had worked with Davison in All Creatures ... advised the young actor to

I^I^^^^^H^^H Dicldnson, American actress and then-wife of All have firn in and then leave - as he had done.
the role for three years
Creatures Great and Small star Peter Davison as the Christopher Bidmead, Doctor Who's script editor, had now decided to
"
actor contemplated in amazement the offer which move on after a particularly demanding 12 months. After a failed attempt by
VHI^^P BBC producer John Nathan-Turner had just made Nathan-Turner to recruit Ted Rhodes, the script editor of All Creatures Great
over the telephone: "Would you like to be the new Doctor Who?" and Small, the job went to Antony Root, an enthusiastic employee on attach-
It was a Samrday evening October 1980. Nathan-Turner had suspected
in ment from the BBC Script Unit who was helping Bidmead sift through
since the start of the year that Tom Bal<er would be leaving Doctor Who at the storyhne submissions; Root joined the team in November. On Friday 14
end of his seventh season as the popular time traveller, so for the last few November, a new Writer's Guide for the series was issued, including a new
months, the producer had been sounding out some of his favourite actors. oudine about the incoming Doctor for prospective scripters. Root and
Scots actor Iain Cuthbertson - best known for Budflic and Sutherland's law Nathan-Turner emphasised not only the standard background to the Doctor
(and to Doctor Who fans as Garron in The Ribos Operation) - had been consid- (his alien origins, his two hearts) but emphasised his changing relationship
ered, and Nathan-Turner had visited the rotund Richard Griffiths (later to with his own people, the Time Lords. The team wanted Davison's Doctor to
star as the heroes of Bird oJPrey and Pie in the Sky) at the recording of an contrast with the almost invincibly strong and outrageously witty incarna-
edition of his LWT sitcom Nobody's Perfect, only to find that Griffiths would tion delivered by Baker; the new Doctor was to be "fallible and vulnerable
not be available to become the Fifth Doctor. Davison, at the age of 29, was a and only too conscious that life consists largely of things going wrong for
far more youthfiil Doctor than his predecessors; the actor was Icnown to well intentioned people hke himself". Alongside the Doctor would be three
Nathan-Turner from their work together on the popular period drama All young companions, aU arriving in Baker's closing serials. Adric, the 'Artflil
Crcatufes Great and Small, on which the now-producer had been a production Dodger' character from the planet Alzarius played by Matthew Waterhouse,
unit manager. Davison had played young vet Tristan Farnon from the start was just making his broadcast debut in Full Circle. Tegan Jovanka, a no-
of the series to its apparent conclusion earlier that year. nonsense Australian air hostess, had been cast in the form of Janet Fielding
Davison asked for 24 hours to consider the opportunity. He had watched and was due to start work in December on Baker's swansong Logopolis. A
Doctor Who grew up in the igSos, and had fond memories of
regularly as he late addition to make bridging the gap from Baker to Davison more palat-
William Hartnell and Patrick Troughton in the tide role; indeed, he had able for the audience was Nyssa, a refined lady from the planet Traken;
always felt he would like to appear in Doctor Who, but had never seen Actress Sarah Sutton was originally booked for just The Keeper o/Traken, but
himself as the lead. He also feared that Nathan-Turner wanted a 'person- found her contract extended for another three serials in November. The
ality' actor of the calibre of Jon Pertwee or Tom Baker whereas he consid-
, three young stars attended theirown publicity shoot on Wednesday 26
ered himself to be more of a conventional character actor. After talking over November to cement their images firmly in the public eye.
the idea with his agent and some trusted friends, Davison indicated that
perhaps the role was not for him when the producer rang back the next cripts for the new Doctor's debut season would be a mixture of
night. However, Nathan-Turner persuaded Davison to join him for lunch those specially commissioned for the new character, and items
the following week. Phed with drinks, Davison considered the offer for initiated by Bidmead primarily for Baker's Doctor. After months of
another week and - although the prospect of taking over a national institu- development, drafts of Xeraphin, a story about a missing Concorde by
tion from the long-running Baker daunted him - finally agreed with the Grimwade, were being delivered in early December.
director Peter
- producer that he would take over as the Doctor in the New Year. At this Breakdowns were commissioned from writers hke young Andrew Smith
time, Davison was already committed to two sitcoms: Holdincj the Fort for (the author of Full Circle, who now developed The Torson Triumuiratc), foraer (

LWT (the first season of which was just ending its run) and a new BBC actor Rod Beacham (an oudine called Hebos) and mainstream SF novelist
venture, Sink or Siuim, which had just started filming. Doctor Who would have Christopher Priest (who had delivered an abandoned Baker serial. Sealed
to fit in around these.
Davison was formally announced as Baker's successor on Wednesday 5
November, making an appearance on Notioniuide where he was interviewed
about his new role by Sue Lawley. He was formally contracted for 28
episodes as the Doctor on Tuesday
November. Over the next few weeks,
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the actor seldom found himself out of the limelight. While waiting to
record an edition of Sink or Smim on Saturday 8, Davison soaked up the
hectic production atmosphere of BBC sci-fi by joining his wife on the set of

The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy. He then made an appearance on Blue

Peter on Monday 10, when host Sarah Greene spoke to him about how he
would play the role ... and asked if there was any chance of him saving Kg,
for the robot dog's many younger fans (Kg's departure had been publicised
in early October, but Warriors' Gate was yet to be broadcast). Davison then
featured on BBCi's Pebble Mill and Radio 2'sjflhn Dunn Show on Wednesday
3 December, mainly publicising the first season of Sink or Suiim. It was on
Pebble Mill that possible costumes for his Doctor were suggested by young
viewers, and one audience member proposed that Davison should play the
Time Lord "hke Tristan but brave" ~ a description that the actor took on
board for his core character, adding to it the gruffness he recalled from
Harmell's portrayal. After spending Friday 19 December playing a cow for
the fifth episode of The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy (broadcast on
Monday 2 February 1981), Davison also joined his wife for an appearance
on Boxing During this time, Davison met Tom Baker in the
Nitjht at the Mill.

BBC bar (where the noise drowned out the few words of advice which Baker
gave his successor) and Patrick Troughton in the BBC car park. Troughton,

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Sensan 19

Orders, but was now asked for

a new story, The Enemy Within.
Terence Dudley, a veteran
BBC producer and an old
colleague ofNathan-Turner's,
had directed Meglos during
June/July; he now delivered a
workable science-based story-
line about an invasion threat

to Earth entided Day ofWrath.

The pre-eminence of scien-
tific content over more

fantastic elements was down to Bidmead's influence; Nathan-Turner was

also keen to eliminate the whimsy of recent years. Other outiines still avail-
able to the production team were Psychrons by Terence.Greer and The Dogs of
Darkness by Jack Gardner. The Kinda, a serial by chain-smoking Buddhist
lecturer Christopher Bailey about a malignant force attacking a peaceful
people on a paradise planet via a dimension of dreams, was delivered in
mid-December, structured for just two companions. A radio writer called
EricSaward was also at work on The Visitation, a tale of alien intervention in
EngHsh history culminating in the Fire of London. The planned debut serial
for the new Doctor was Project Zeta-Sigma (aka Project '4G'), a scientific Season Eighteen had performed disastrously in the ratings during igSo -
parable advocating nuclear disarmarment by Meijlos authors John Flanagan the result of ITV scheduling the glossy and technically impressive American
and Andrew iWcCulloch. This had been in development during the autumn SF film series Buck Rogers 25th Century in direct opposition
in the on
- when the Doctor's Time Lord nemesis the Master was grafted on, creating Saturdays - and ITV made signs of purchasing the show's second season
a loose trilogy to bridge the regeneration. for Aummn ig8i. Also, the BBC were formulating broadcast strategies for a
new twice-weekly soap opera, and experimented with a number of shows

The end of 1980 and the first

getting Logopolis completed for

month of igSi were largely devoted
its February transmission.
departure in Warriors' Gate in January meant that it was timely for
the BBC to announce plans to give the robot dog a show of its own; The Sun
,
and Daily Mail carried the news on Friday 16. Meanwhile, Natiian-Turner
planned Season Nineteen, which would run to only 26 episodes - two less
than Season 18, those two slots being allocated to the Kg pilot. BBCi
ICg's
to like Angels by running them in various slots. Doctor Who was also selected for
these tests, to run at around 7pm on Mondays and Tuesdays from January
to February 1982, to both test die slot and attempt to find a new audience,
replacing the one lost to ITV.
Davison's image as the Doctor had been the subject of much debate*
which had affected the fine tuning on Project Zeta-Sigma. Botii actor and
producer wanted the Doctor to retain an old-fashioned Enghsh look; a 1

wanted a second season of Sink or Siuim to be recorded during the summer morning suit and hat was considered at one point. A sporting motif was
foran autumn transmission, which meant that recording in June and July suggested - perhaps a polo outfit witii boots, jodhpurs and striped shirt.
for Davison's third serialhad to be delayed, and the seventh serial bumped Davison suggested cricketing - he played
attire the game, and a photograph
back into early 1982. Because of the revenue generated from exhibitions of him wearing cricket whites at an All Creatures charity match was on the
and licence agreements related to Doctor Who, it was agreed that Season wall of the producer's office. By Tuesday 10 February, a period cricketing
Nineteen would be a co-production between BBC TV and BBC Enterprises. outfithad been decided upon; Nathan-Turner want the costume to be
With Logopolis completed, more stories for the new Doctor were hned up highly designed as a recognisable 'uniform', although Davison himself
in February as confidence in Project Zeta-Sigma faded amongst the produc- would have preferred a frock-coat with a more off-the-peg, thrown-together

THe THREE EOUnB STHRS PLHEinB THE OQCTOR'S

IIEUI RSSISTRRTS RTTEHOER THEIR OUIR PHOTRSHRaT,
TO CERIERT THERI FIRRILH IR'^THE PHRLIC EHE
tion team. As Nathan-Turner departed for a holiday in the United States, the look. Nathan-Turner declared that the cryptic question marks on die shirt
serial was dropped back down the schedules, and it was decided to start collar introduced for Baker the previous season should be retained - and at
production instead witii Day oJWrath - soon to be retitled Four to Doomsday. the last moment decided that the Doctor's coat lapel needed something
Dudley rapidly completed his and was rewarded by being commis-
scripts distinctive on it. For no particular reason, a stick of celery was selected.
sioned for a two-part ig20s whodunnit pastiche. Black Orchid, derived from On Wednesday 18 February, Sutton and Fielding had their contracts
an idea called The Beast that had been rejected under the Bidmead regime. renewed beyond the two serials they were already booked to record between
Fantasy authoress Tanith Lee was also asked to develop a story, having April and June. Since The Kinda had been strucmred for two companions, a
contributed a successfirl script to BBCi's other SF adventure series Blake's decision had been taken that Nyssa would be 'written out' for most of the
7
the previous year. narrative, and as such Sutton was booked for only 16 of the 18 shows to be
One of the reasonsthat there was flexibihty in the recording order for made between July igSi and February ig82. Davison's contract was
Davison's early serials was ±at by now the production team knew that amended two days later, followed by a new contract for Waterhouse on
Doctor Who would neither be returning to BBCi as part of the autumn line- Wednesday 25. By now, the fates of the companions had been decided.
up, nor appear in its traditional Saturday tea-time slot of 18 years' standing. Nyssa's continuation in the series had been largely the result of Davison

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 ^jkl dialogue as written; he would play the role 'for real' - but with
WC^' light touches of humour in places. The new regular cast soon
HB* became good friends,sometimes socialising together. Davison was
known for teasing Fielding in particular, and earned the nickname
arguing that her softer character seemed to be the more interesting to 'Chocolate Chip Cookie' because he was 'flavour of the month' with the
explore, while Nathan-Turner had favoured the strong character of Tegan, directors of television commercials.
created by himself and Bidmead. Furthermore, a royalty was due to Johnny With a clip of the regeneration on Did You See ...? at the start of April
Byrne, the credited author of The Keeper ofTraken, every time Nyssa was used. keeping him in the public eye, Davison's press call in cosmme was
Ultimately, it was felt that if one of the characters in the crowded TARDIS arranged for Thursday 15 April, the final day of the first recording block at
was dropped, it should be Adric - and so Waterhouse's contract was for Television Centre for Four to Doomsdaij. With wickets chalked onto the
only 20 episodes. TARDIS prop, Davison fielded balls and questions for the photographers
"'s m and journalists, and featured on BBCi's junior programme Ncuisround that

mith Project

February,
abandoned on Thursday ig
Zeta-Sigma being
Bidmead was asked to contribute a freelance script
afternoon.
During April, Root departed the production office for an indefinite
to introduce the new Doctor; the notion for this serial devel- attachment on Juliet Brauo. However, both Root and Bidmead had been
oped from the dimension-distorting Uthographs of MC Esher, which the impressed by Saward's The Visitation,and recommended the author to
former script-editor recalled seeing in the office of Head of Serials Graeme Nadaan-Turner in February as a permanent script editor. Saward rapidly
McDonald, to whom he and Nathan-Turner had reported. Bidmead's The accepted the producer's out-of-the-blue offer, and arrived to inherit a
was underway in early March, with rapid scripting required to allow
Visitor it number of scripts and stories, including submissions by Terence Greer,
production in August as the fourth story before the cameras.
to enter Jack Gardner and an American writer called Lesley Elizabeth Thomas -
Nathan-Turner was pleased that this arrangement would allow Davison whose Way Down Yonder was being considered for shooting in the southern
time to settle into character before making his debut story. With the second states of the USA. Work was also underway on the IC9 pilot, with Nathan-
season of Holding the Fort recorded, Davison departed for a brief overseas Turner having roughed out a storyline entitled One Girl and Her Dot) for
holiday in March, prior to his first rehearsals at the end of the month. In the another writer to script; the serial would bring back the character of Sarah
meantime, a new set of opening same mould as the 'star field'
credits in the Jane Smith - who had accompanied the Third and Fourth incarnations of
sequence developed for Baker's final season, was being prepared by Sid the Doctor on their travels - and witness witchcraft in the English country-
Sutton of BBC Graphics. side being debunked. Subtitled A Girl's Best Friend, it had been fleshed out by
Rehearsals for the studio-bound Four to Doomsdai) began, and Davison got Root before leaving.
to know his fellow cast members. Waterhouse, a keen devotee of the series, Davison gave another radio interview on Sport on Four on Saturday 2 May,
was unintentionally clumsy in his welcoming of Davison to the show, just prior to starting filming on The Visitation, a script which he enjoyed
pointing out what the actor was doing wrong and how he could never immensely. Location shooting was also the first chance for members of the
follow Baker's record-breaking act. Sutton was far happier and more public to get a closer look at the new Doctor as the crew went out and
relaxed with Davison, finding that, unlike Tom Baker, she could talk to about. During a telephone interview, Davison was asked about the show
him. Fielding became concerned when a requirement for obtain a British going into a twice-weekly slot, and conveyed the question to Nathan-
work permit revealed to Nathan-Turner that she had hed about her age to Turner; although such a decision had indeed been taken, the producer
land the role. She disliked the way that she, Sutton and Waterhouse were denied that this was the case. Meanwhile, The Visitation saw the destruction
referred to as 'the kids' by the production team. Davison had hoped that the of the Doctor's trusty sonic screwdriver after 13 years - the prop being
script or his producer would give him clues as to his character, but found another all-purpose problem-solver which Nathan-Turner felt made the
none forthcoming and elected to apply the brave/gruff Tristan image to the central character too invulnerable.
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decision was formalised on Wednesday 19 August, the same day that

Davison joined Net the Nine O'clock News star Pamela Stephenson for a
photocall to promote the BBC's autumn season (notably Sink or Su)im). On
JVlonday 3 August, Nathan-Turner asked Reid if it was possible for Season
Twenty to be broadcast in autumn 1982 rather than January 1983, allowing
Season Twenty-One to be ttansmitted across Doctor Who's 20th anniversary
in November 1983. On Tuesday 25 August, Reid indicated diat the
Controller of BBCi would not allow Doctor Who to remrn to its aummn slot,
since this would delay a prospective third season of Sink or Sujim, which had
achieved exceptional ratings on its first run. However, the possibility of a
90-minute special to mark Doctor Who's birthday itself was mooted. Already,
writers including Steve Gallagher were being asked to develop scripts for
production in 1982.
Having completed recording on Kinda, Davison and his wife joined
Natiian-Turner in a journey to Tulsa in Oklahoma to attend Panopticon West,
a convention organised by the North American Doctor Who Appreciation
Society - an indicator of the show's escalating cult popularity across the
Adantic. Davison was amazed that people should be so interested in him
when his shows had yet to air on either side of the ocean - but was rather
worried when one member of the audience asked him if he was afraid of
being shot, like John Lennon a few months beforehand.
To help bridge the nine month gap between Loaopolis and Davison's
debut, Nathan-Turner was keen to have more repeats than usual shown
over the summer. Full Circle and The Keeper oJTraken were selected to be rerun
across Mondays to Thursdays on BBCi in August, reaffirming the new char-
acters of Adric and Nyssa. Also, Nathan-Turner managed to sanction a
series of repeats of the
earlier Doctors to be stripped on BBC2 during
November and December. The producer was now very aware of the show's
With Adric now due Enemy Within, Nathan-Turner started
to leave in The rich history - retaining all scripts and production files in his office ratiier
to outiine his replacement during May. The new TARDIS traveller would be than sending diem to die BBC Central Registry - and wanted to keep Doctor
an unscrupulous alien youtli, Turlough, to be introduced in Davison's Who in To df
the public eye. in widi the repeats, on Monday 20 July,
second season; his first few stories would see him acting as an agent of the "
Nathan-Turner suggested to Target Books publishers WH
Allen that a 4
Blacic Guardian, a powerful being whom the Doctor had defied at the novelisation of the very first Doctor Who serial might be released that
climax of ig/g's The Armageddon Factor. autumn.
As June on Doctor Who stood down while Sink or Siuim
arrived, production Costroualua - the new tide given to The Visitor - started location filming at
started filming - and Davison's regeneradon was shown again on Ask Aspel the beginning of September. Looking ahead to the next season, an idea
on Tuesday 2 June. An awlcward situafion arose on The Enemy Within when a submitted by Patrick Mills and John Wagner - two of the writers on the
lack of communicarion between Priest and the BBC led to the author comic steip for Marvel's Doctor Who Weekly - was being considered as a
refusing to undertake rewrites without payment. After some heated vehicle to introduce Turlough; Spoce-Whale was a story about a civilisation
|
exchanges between Priest and Nadran-Turner during June, the serial was living within a vast creature. Also, co-operation widi Heathrow airport was
abandoned, and Saward took on the task of wridng an alternative farewell sought on Xeraphin and a final arrangement was made to pay off Priest foi
|
to Adric himself Sentinel, the working fide for the replacement, would see his work on The Enemy Within, the problems with which script gave Saward 1
Saward mix lots of acdon with the return of some of his favourite monsters an aversion to commissioning novelists with limited television experience. ,

from the series, the Cybermen; this use of an old enemy was approved of by As well as commissioning Snakedance - a sequel to Kinda - from Christopher i

Nathan-Turner. By now, Xeraphin had been scheduled as the final serial of from Bill Lyons (another Blake's 7 writer) The Time o/Neman
Bailey, Parasites ,

the season. Furthermore,on Saturday 27 June, The Sun confirmed
Davison's debut would be seen in a weekday slot.
avison returned to the Doctor Who fold on Saturday 18 July for the
read-through on Kinda, another studio-bound story. However, he
would still be working on Sink or Siuim as well, meaning
was rehearsing as Brian Webber in the mornings and the Doctor in the
afternoons, recording episodes of the sitcom on Sundays amidst his other
work. An internal reorganisation meant that Nathan-Turner was now
reporting to a new boss, David Reid, Head of Series and Serials. His first
season deemed to have been a success and progress on his second satisfac-
tory, the fledgling producer was now told that there was no longer any need
for the more experienced Barry Letiis to act as his executive producer; the
that (about an anti-matter alien entering this universe in Amsterdam) from
Johnny Byrne and The Enlighteners (about a race between sailing ships in
space) from newcomer Barbara Clegg, Saward was also finding himself at
loggerheads with Dudley over the pilot episode of Kg ond Company.
Before Black Orchid began filming, Davison recorded a pilot for a series of
that he BBC 'French Programmes' on Saturday 3 October. The 1920s serial was
then filmed and recorded during October, and Saward's Cyberman story
was retided Earthshock shordy before shooting began at the end of the
month. As with the previous season, Nathan-Turner reahsed that the return
of an old villain and an excuse to show chps from old episodes were ingre-
dients popular widi die die-hard fans, and so both the Cybermen's involve-
ment and Adric's death were closely-guarded secrets. (News of the
Alzarian'spermanent demise met with Waterhouse's initial displeasure.

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 Left, right and facing
page: Davison's fii st
season boasted star
names like Nerys
Hughes, Richard Todd
(Kinda) and Beryl Reld
(.Earthshock), but
there was still room
forhim to face a
monster or two f>

(The Visitation) . bbc

since it meant he could not return to the show.) In the meantime, Steve (broadcast the following
Gallagher, author of Warriors' Gate, was commissioned to write a new serial, Monday) and then embarked
Terminus - about a space station where a ruthless regime is attempting to upon the freezing location
cure a form of galactic leprosy. filming for Time-Fli£)ht, as Xeraphin had become known. Both the use of a

From the start of November, BBCi ran The Five Faces qfDortor Who on real Concorde aircraft - the most expensive prop ever - and the fact that
Monday to Thursdays for five weeks; this showcased Hartnell in the orig- Doctor Who was the first drama series to be allowed to film at Heathrow
inal four-part story from 1963, Troughton in The Krotons from 1968/9, Airport attracted press attention.
Pertwee in Carniual oJMonstcrs from 1973, the tenth anniversary team-up of A feature on the realisation of Peter Howell's igSo arrangement of the
The Three Doctors and concluding with Lotjopolis to show Baker again meta- show's theme tune ran in the BBC Schools programme The Music Arcade on
morphosing into Davison. Blue Peter on Thursday 29 October and Did You Tuesday 2 February. As Four to Doomsday and Kinda were screened, the
See...? on Saturday 7 November both promoted the repeat run, and there problematic production of Time-Flight continued through to the start of
was press coverage from the Daily Mail and Daili) Mirror, with around five February igSz, and scripts for The Enlitjhteners, Terminus and Snakedance
million people tuning in on average. The repeats were prefigured in arrived. Nathan-Turner was now increasingly aware of the show's rich
October when Target managed to issue Terrance Dicks' hastily penned past, and The Time oJNeman was rechristened The Time of Omega to reflect
adaptation of the debut serial under the title Doctor Who and an Unearthly the fact that Nathan-Turner had asked Johnny Byrne to resurrect the
Child. 1<9 ond Company and Earthshock were in simultaneous production in legendary proto-Time Lord previously seen in The Three Doctors. Meanwhile,
mid-November, the former at Pebble Mill Studios in Birmingham and the Saward started to experience problems with The Sonij of the Space Whale;
latter at London's Television Centre. On Saturday 14 November, Davison writer Pat Mills was unclear about the direction in which the BBC wanted
and Dickinson joined a group of fans him to take the story.

dressed as monsters as part of the Lord saw the first public

Friday 5 Feb
Mayor's Show; two days earlier, Davison comments on the new weekday
had appeared with Pertwee in an edition of scheduling of Doctor Who as Tom
the Thames charades show Giue Us a Clue. Vernon presented an edition of
Feedback on BBC Radio 4. The
ith Christmas approaching, opening topic was the scheduling
pubhcity for the new season arrangements for the series, with
and the Kg pilot began in comments like "Such a cavalier treat-
earnest. Sladen appeared on the Todoy ment of a national institution ... at
programme on Radio 4 and Round best a callous disregard for the audi-
Midnight on Radio 2, while John Leeson - ence and at worst an utter contempt .^.^^

the voice of Kg - turned up on Woman's for them". Vernon explained that '.

^
Hour on the day of broadcast, with Kg also John Morell, Head of Programme
encouraging viewers to time into his pilot Planning for BBCi, said "the decision
on on Wednesday 23. A sneak
Pebble Mill hadn't been taken lightiy and when
preview of Black Orchid was shown on Blue the present run comes to an end in
Peter during a feature on costumes on Thursday 10, and an old-style

Cyberman played by David Banks joined Kg in a robot quiz on Larry HT Hn nmERicnn canuEiiTiDn,
Grayson's Generation Game on Saturday 12.

With numerous newspaper features, Doctor Who was now getting a very
nnuison urns hshed if he uihs
high profile. Davison had been associated with the show for over a year and UIORRIEO EBOUT BEinO SHBT
recorded all bar one story of his first season ... but by the end of igSi, his
only broadcast appearances as the Doctor had been in the closing moments late March, he'll think again very seriously where the TARDIS lands next
of Loflopolis and wishing viewers a Merry Christmas in a BBC trailer recorded time round". Morell was then heard explaining that "the series needed a
on the set of Earthshock. On Monday 4 January - as The Guardian bemoaned new lease of life. A new Doctor, a new placing and a new challenge,'"
*
the BBC's failure to understand the "essential Saturdayness" of Doctor Who - while pointing out that the viewing figures were an improvement of the
Peter Davison made his first full appearance as the Doctor in Castroualua Part previous year's Saturday slot. The following day, Joe Steeples of the Daily

One, broadcast in its new Monday slot news magazine

of 6.55pm after the Mail laid the blame for the new slot at the feet of Director General Alasdair
Nationujide (apart from Scotiand, where the programme had been screened Milne, accusing him of having no soul.

at 3.30pm, and in Wales, where it ran at 7.45pm). The second episode Despite protests from the traditionalists, within weeks it was clear that

followed the next day, with Tuesday broadcasts generally going out at the new time slot - with opposition in the form of travel show Wish You
7.05pm (in Wales, these editions aired at 7.45pm on Wednesdays). Graeme Were Here and charades-fest Giue Us a Clue - had give Doctor Who a tremen-
McDonald wrote to Nathan-Turner on Tuesday 5 January commendng that dous ratings boost, with the later episodes of Castroualua attracting over
when he compared Castroualvo to Kg and Company, he felt that the latter had ten million viewers, as opposed to the five million who had stuck with the
more atmosphere to it. Indeed, the audience of eight million who saw Kg early broadcastsof Season Eighteen.
and Company (despite a power black-out hitting the Winter Hill transmitter With Season Nineteen, Doctor Who made an amazing recovery from the
in the North West) was an encouraging sign for the new season. Tom Baker's final season -
disastrous ratings plunge that had hindered
Davison joined Sandra Dickinson to record an appearance on the panel and Peter Davison's high media profile meant that the series was gaining
game So You Think You Knou; What's Good For You.' on Tuesday 5 January more attention than it had enjoyed in years.

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Mon Mar 81 The Visitor

the new Doctor to the Zero Room. ® bbc
9
[working title] storyline commis-
sioned for Wed 1 Apr 81 ; deliv- excellent, especially in all those brilliant stories such as The Web
ered Wed 1 Apr 81
ofFear and Fury From the Deep, where some people in a room were
Wed 8 Apr 81 Costroualua attacked by foam. Of course, William Harmell had been partic-
[worl<ing title] scripts commis- ularly excellent too, especially in those great Dalek advenmres
sioned for Mon 1 Jun 81 ; deliv- and The Lionheart. And Jon Pertwee had also been particularly
ered Mon 1 Jun 81 excellent, especially when battling those Daemons with his
UNIT family. Golly, and we thought Tom Baker had been good.
PHODUETIDn It mrned out he was nothing compared to the others.
Tue 1 Sep 81 Crowborough
1981 brought three key events. In February, Issue 50 of
Wireless & Telegraphy Station, Doctor Who Monthly came with a free colour poster. That may
Duddleswell, E Sussex (Pharos seem inconsequential, but this poster listed every single Doctor
Project]
Who story in order, divided by Doctor. Of course, much of this
Wed 2 Sep 81 Buckhurst Park, information could be found in old copies of The Making ofDoctor
Withyham, E Sussex [Forest with
Who or the Radio Times Tenth Anniversary Special, if you could find
TARDIS] diem, but with this poster the eager 11 year-old could assimilate
Thu3Sep8i Buckhurst Park, the entire history ofDoctor Who at a glance: all those Doctors
Withyham, E Sussex [Forest] and all those stories. You could also see that Tom Baker had
Fri4Sep8i Harrison's Rocks, been hanging around a very long time compared with the rest.
Groombridge, E Sussex [Cliff]; A month later, his Doctor fell from a radio telescope and sat up
' Birchden Wood, Groombridge as Peter Davison. You'd think that Tom, so loved by us all,
• [Forest]; Aytton's Wood, would be more keenly missed that any other Doctor. Not so.
. Groombridge, E Sussex [Forest] Our generation felt it deserved to have a Doctor of its own.
. Tue 15 Sep 81 Television Centre Autumn 1981 served us The Five Faces o/Doctor Who repeats on
Studio 1 : TARDIS Console Room BBC2 — new old adventures at tea-time. Older fans were
Wed 16 Sep 81 Television Centre saddened by the choice of re-runs. Younger fans couldn't have
Studio 1 : TARDIS Console Room; caredless. Harmell, Troughton and Pertwee all shone, and if
Zero Room; TARDIS Corridor;
season proved one thing, it was that it's impossible to have
this
Models a bad Doctor Who. The role was obviously actor-proof. So how
Tue 29 Sep 81 Television Centre Qanuary 1982 was a great time to be 11 years old could Davison be anything but superb? We loved him already.
Studio 6: Doctor's Rest Room; and a fan of Doctor Who. More viewers had No change ofDoctor would be treated with this sort of open-
Models [remount]; Girls' Rest watched Doctor Who in 1979 than at any other minded enthusiasm again. This is not to imply that Davison
Room time in the programme's history, and if it can be performed poorly in any way, or was in any sense a 'bad'
Wed 30 Sep 81 Television Centre surmised that a fixed proportion of the series' Doctor; far from it. But in a few short years, this vast rump of
Studio 6: The Village Square; total audience at any given time will find themselves hooked 'new' fans would be teenagers, and playing with those grown-
* Steps Outside the Top becoming
Library; into loyal devotees, you'll understand why so many up toys of criticism and cynicism. Doctor Who, which once just
Walkway; Archway; Stairs; The bright, serious-minded, pre-teen boys were looking forward to magically appeared on our TV sets was,
it torns out, made by an
Gallery of the Portreeve's Peter Davison's first adventure, Costrouaiua. ever-changing team of producers and script editors. It was
Chamber; Colonnade and Square is still such a thing as an 11 year-old Doctor Who fan to
If there made by people, and people, we discovered as we got older,
Thu 1 Oct 81 Television Centre be found today, then I wonder if they could understand what make mistakes - especially producers, it seemed. What if, we
Studio 6: The Portreeve's was like for us 20 years ago. Nowadays, you can probably
life soon dared to think, someone made a mistake in choosing a
Chamber; Rock-Face Entrance; download a file called 'Every Known Fact About Doctor Who' to new Doctor Who? Once we realised this was possible, a regen-
The Master's TARDIS your PC within seconds. We
had computers back in 1982 of eration was something to be treated with fear rather than
course, but an overnight loan of a the school's ZX81 - and a enthusiam. What if, we thought, this Colin Baker person, or
HHDiD Times spirited attempt to draw a Police Box using six square, grey this Sylvester McCoy chap, simply wasn't up to the job?
Mon 4 Jan 82 Part One: What blocks - would not teach you very much about the Harmell Back in 1982, there were no such doubts and fears. This new
I
are the dangers of Event One? years. But in those days, of course, we didn't need a computer: Doctor Who would be particularly excellent, just as all the rest
, ^
Tue 5 Jan 82 Part Two: Who are we had Jean-Marc L'Officier and Jeremy Benthara. With Jean- had been particularly excellent. So, on the evening of 4 January,
the Warriors? Marc's Programme Guide books and Jeremy's articles in Doctor as we waited to see the first story of what we had already
Mon 11 Jan 82 Part Three: Can Who Monthly, we found all we needed to laiow. There had been learned to call 'The Peter Davison Years', we were certain,
the Doctor solve the mystery of four Doctor Whos, it turned out, all of whom had been unquestioning, of one fact.
the recursive occlusion? excellent, although Patrick Troughton had been particularly It was going to be just brilliant.
Tuei2jan82 Part Four: Will the

Doctor's regeneration succeed?

Writer/script editor Christopher H graph 'Castrovalva' in a bookshop in On Monday 10 August, Nathan-

Bidmead was unsure how Peter London's Charing Cross Road Turner replied to comments made by
Davison would play the part, and so his superior David Reid about the
wrote the Doctor as vulnerable, a Producerjohn Nathan-Turner scripts, indicating that he intended to
contrast to the brash Tom Baker offered a cameo appearance as the reprise the regeneration from Logopolis
model. The zero cabinet was a form of Head of Security at the Pharos Project to re-introduce casual viewers
sensory deprivation tank, partly to Stephanie Turner, the star of the
inspired by a 1960s film called The BBC police dramajuliet Brauo, on Of The read-through for the serial was
Tank. Bidmead first saw Escher's litho- Friday 24 July Monday 7 September, while the

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gallery-only day was Thursday 8 Nyssa abandons her fur jerkin from
October. Editing took place between LogopoWs and loses her crown on a
Monday 12 and Friday 23 October, tree; in Part Four, the Doctor acquires
with dubbing on Wednesday 28 his trademark celery
October, then Saturday 7, Tuesday 17
and Saturday 28 November ^ Recording took place in the after-
noon and evenings of most studio
9 Filming at Buckhurst Park was days between 2.30 and 5.15pm and
keenly attended by the estate owner, then from 7.30 to 10.30pm (there was
Lord De La Warr, who invited the no afternoon recording on 15 and 29
regular cast members, plus Nathan- September). Several model and CSO
Turner, director Fiona Gumming and shots for Part One were completed
production manager Margot Hayhoe after the main recording of Tuesday 29
back for drinks in the evening. Here,
Waterhouse enjoyed his gin rathertoo Visual effects assistant George
much, leading to his vomiting during Reed constructed the metallic web in

the following morning's shoot which Adric is trapped

0 For his first story, Davison had ^ Merchandise: the company View-
considered impersonating aspects of Master International issued its second The serial is now held as D3 tapes Unravelling: Adric wactches
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his predecessors, apart from Tom Doctor Who title in April 1983. The taken from the two-inch broadcast as the unstable Doctor sheds

Baker -and had paid particular atten- Castroualva set contained three discs tapes. 60 minutes' studio footage the last vestiges of his former

tion to videotapes of old episodes each holding 21 special 'stereoscopic' exists on monochrome U-Matictape self. © BBC

which were loaned to him images, photographed both on set

and on location; these could be Extras [additional]: Stuart Fell

Changes of costume for the regu- viewed as in '3D' through the View- Stuntman/Castroualuan Warrior; Doreen
lars were accounted for: in Part Two, Master toy itself Croft CasUouaivan Woman

Four to Doo
The land of Make Believe
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One girl and her frog: Enlightenment (Annie Lambert) CDmmissiDnmB

at the elbow of Monarch (Stratford Johns). ®bbc video Fri Aug 80 Untitled break-
29
down commissioned for Sat 20

discover it is not as deserted as it first appeared. Simple. Dec 80; delivered Mon 1 5 Dec 80

Characterisation was more of a problem. The Doctor had Tue 23 Dec 80 Day of Wrath

just changed and I had no idea what Peter Davidson would be [working title] scripts commis-
like. So I just wrote him as Tristram from All Creatures Great and sioned for Mon i2jan 81; deliv-

Small, though half the time he would still talk like Tom Baker. ered Mon 12 Jan 81

I was also unfamihar with the companions, so I wrote them

with one character trait each. Adric liked maths. Nyssa pointed PHonucTian
out what machines were called. And Tegan was unaccountably Mon 13 Apr 81 Television Centre

cross and thought everyone was mad. Studio 6: Space Ship SS Control;

Monsters were important. On TV they had given up doing TARDIS

proper monsters and just made the baddies men with beards. Tue 14 Apr 81 Television Centre

This was, I felt, wrong. The baddy should be a green, slimy Studio 6: Surgery; Mobiliary

monster. Called something hke 'the Master' ... Monarch! Wed 15 Apr 81 Television Centre

Doctor Who facts were exciting. I loved them. So I had to stick Studio 6: Linkways lA, iS, 4B, 4A,

in mentions of Gallifrey, Artron energy, the Master, Rassilon 3B, 2A; Guest Quarters; Library

and the Eye of Harmony, even though they had nothing to do Tue 28 Apr 81 Television Centre

with the story. Someone had written in to Matrix Data Bank Studio 6: Linkway g; Models;

asking for a hst of rooms in the TARDIS - so Adric would Linkways 2A, 2B m
proclaim that the TARDIS contains "a power room, a bath- Wed 2g Apr 81 Television Centre m
room, even cloisters!" (to which Monarch would reply, "That's Studio 6: Recreation Room; Flora

nice, dear," like a long-suffering parent). Chamber

Jokes were important, too. Luckily, I had just seen a Benny Thu 30 Apr 81 Television Centre
?
9(
Hill in which he played a Chinaman: "I am Lin Futu";
fiinny Studio 5: Throne Room

^H
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hen I

ill^g't)'^
was
"^P
eight, I wrote Doctor Who
noteboolcs with page after page of
pencil. Originality was not my
stories,
"Well, I'd
to me."
never have guessed it - you look in the best of health

The story was, by necessity, made up as it went along. For

it would be about spaceships. Then I would
the first episode,
grow bored of that and make it about robots. Then it would be
RnniD Times
Moni8Jan82
Monarch?
Part One:

Tue 19 Jan 82 Part Two: What

Who is

is
I I I I
t J strong point. Each story would consist of about people floating in space. Eventually I'd find myself a Recreational?

^^^^^^^Bi my favourite bits from the books, annuals, halfway down and it would be time to start
the 12th page Mon 25 Jan 82 Part Three: Will

comics and the TV show, plus the latest facts I had committed thinking about an ending. The monster could shrink, like in Bigon help the Doctor?

to memory from DWM. They would concentrate on the things The Sun Makers! Excellent. I had my story. Tue 26 Jan 82 Part Four: Will
which fascinated me - spaceships, robots and monsters. More Of course, it made no sense. Monarch needs to breathe air - Enlightenment and Persuasion

often than not, the result would be a lot like Four To Doomsday. except in the first episode, when he doesn't. The spaceship is destroy the Doctor?

Starting was easy. One of the first things I had learned from going back and for± to Urbanka to collect humans - but it

the books was that all Doctor Who stories begin with the TARDIS turns out that Urbanka was destroyed, and the baddies want to
landing somewhere which at first appears to be deserted. The invade the Earth. How do they intend to do this? They plan to
Doctor and his companions should then split up to explore and use Adric to persuade the people of Earth to let them take over.

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Why dp they want to invade the Earth? Because ... er ... because Not at all. That is praise. Because Four To Doomsday is
criticism.
its mineral wealth will allow Monarch to travel in time. Right. exacdy the sort of Doctor Who story I wanted to watch, a story
So I think it's fair to say that, as an eight year-old, I'd have that catered perfectly to my tastes and obsessions - space-
written something quite like Four To Doomsday. But that isn't a ships, robots and monsters.

Retitled Four to Doomsday late in Johns appear in the series, having Recording over-ran by 45 minutes
February 1981, the story was moved witnessed the actor's professionalism on Wednesday 15 April
forward in the production schedules to when working on Barloui at Large some
replace the original Serial
Zeta Sigma -a
5W, Project years earlier; Johns had been sounded ^ The opening spaceship shot was
i
nuclear disarmament out in 1969 by Drama head Shaun requested by Nathan-Turner as a
parable by Meglos writers John Sutton about replacing Patrick homage to Star Wars; the nacelles on
Flanagan and Andrew McCulloch. A Troughton as the Doctor, but had were made to glow with reflective tape
casting document for Project Zeta Sigma declined on the grounds that the role
listed the characters as the Doctor, would have been too demanding. In Thursday 30 April 1981: Stratford
Adric, Tegan, Nyssa, the Master/Sergo, rehearsals, Peter Davison worried that Johns did not like wearing his Monarch
Radzik, Meloka, Abulov, Tradfel, Kirtis, he wouldn't be able to match Johns' make-up, and was only too glad to
Stine, Glex and an Autogem - with presence; Nathan-Turner tried to allay remove it after recording;he was disap-
extras including Autogems, Aralians, his fears. Director John Black tried to pointed that he was not recognisable
stupid boy! Adric
Zetans and medics give Davison space to find his feet, but in the finished programme. During
(Matthew Waterhouse) was unconvinced by the new Doctor's recording, an less-than-tactful floor
finds his loyalties called Writer Terence Dudley made all his cricketing motif Black knew Paul manager allegedly told Johns that the
into question. @ BBC revisions very promptly, delivering Shelley (Persuasion) from university; crew in the gallery thought his
script editor Antony Root an extra lil<e Annie Lambert (Enlightenment), performance was over the top. The
scene almost instantly. The script indi- Shelley was selected for his good looks sketches apparently drawn by Tegan
cated that the recreation chamber came courtesy of a friend of John Black
should be adorned with artefacts from Rehearsals for the first block
the different Earth cultures on the ship
(Mayan
began around Monday 30 March 1981, ^ UK Gold screened Four to Doomsday
tapestries, for example). Most while those forthe second started in episodic form in June 1994 and has
of the rewrites had been made by around Monday 16 April. The photocall shown it as a compilation since August
Wednesday March 1981; the mate-
18 for Davison was held at Hammersmith 1994. Dutch viewers first saw
rial with Tegan and Kurkutji speaking Park on Monday 16. Recording took Davison's Doctor in this serial, which
in an Aboriginal dialect was rewritten placein the afternoon and evenings of aired as Monarch in September 1985
on Thursday 26 most studio days between 2.30 and
5.15pm, and then from 7.30 to Four to Doomsday is now held by the
9 Producer John Nathan-Turner 10.30pm; the only day with no after- BBC as D3 tapes taken from the two-
particularly wanted to have Stratford noon recording was Monday 13 April. inch broadcast tapes

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Thu 10 Apr 80 The Kindo

[working title] breakdown

here are many worse Doctor Who stories than
commissioned for Thu 24 Apr 80;
delivered

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sioned for

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Thu 24 Apr 80
Thu 25 Sep 80 The
title]

Mon
15 Dec 80
1
Kindo

scripts commis-
5 Dec 80; deliv-
T Kinda, but there are very few that are worse made.
Everyone remembers the snake, obviously, but
the papier mache snake with the wires
in its natural habitat
cables running across' its
- a jungle
showing is
that has
grey-painted floor, where the trees
camera

I have numbers painted on them and some of the plants have

' grown pots. Fans often single out the unrealistic grassy knoll
' PRDDUCTian that passes for prehistoric Earth in Time-Flight as a nadir of
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Doctor Who design work, but it looks like Walking With Dinosaurs
Studio 8: Guardroom; Dome
compared to Deva Loka.
Central Room Doctor Who stories shouldn't be judged by their production
Thu 30 Jul 81 Television Centre
values, especially 20 years on. Nowadays it's difficult to see
Studio 8: Dome Central Room the difference between the visually stunning Leisure Hiue and
r Fri 31 Jul

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81 Television Centre

Todd's Room; Airlock;

the embarrassingly shoddy JMeglos, or the turgid Four to
Doomsday and the pacy Eorthshock. They all look cheap and
k Corridor; The

Wed 12 Aug 81
Wherever
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cheerful compared to modern film and TV drama.
Time has been a great leveller, and the stories that have
Studio 8: The Wherever; The
stood the test are the ones with entertaining scripts and
Windchimes; A Clearing; Forest
strong central performances. Unformnately, Kinda has the
Outside Dome; A Path hghtest of light entertainment casts and no-one, including the
Thu 13 Aug 81 Television Centre
regulars, really seems to understand the words they're saying.
Studio 8: The Windchimes; Small
Janet Fielding's performance as Tegan is always singled out as
Clearing; A Path; Forest Outside
a tour deforce, but watch it today The memory cheats. Whatever
Dome it is, it's not subtle or complex. You remember it because it's a
Fri 14 Aug 81 Television
bit different, not because it's any good. That said, even at die

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time there was disquiet. It came bottom of the DWM season
survey, with g°/o of the vote. Less than Four to Doomsday and
Timc-FIic|ht. There's nothing wrong with ambition, or trying to
tell a different sort of story, one that demonstrates intelli-

gence. But in this case, it really doesn't cohere. Tellingly, the

Doctor Who-ey bits of the story get in the way - Christopher

Bailey, or his script editor, has squeezed it and squashed it
until ±ere are capture/escape routines and cliffhangers, but
they're tacked on and (always a giveaway) resolved by anti-
climaxes; 'Kill him! Actually, on second thoughts, don't!'
Nyssa isn't in it, but Tegan's subplot doesn't connect to the
main action, Adric does very indeed and the Doctor does
little

littie more than try to explain what we're watching. It's easy to
see why the people who were about i6 when it was first on
championed it - Kinda is a story it's easy to write essays about.
It's got themes, you see. It's got symbolism. And the charac-
ters all have Buddhist names - that's got to be significant,
hasn't it? The symbolism really
Well, in the end, no, not really.
is straight out of Toytown - apples and snakes, machines
trundling through an idylhc garden. How is the end of time
expressed visually? By showing a load of exploding clocks.
There's some stuff about identity being a social construct, and
a bitof Jung, but it's barely explored, It's let alone subverted. the series. And at least it's not a lazy pastiche of old stories. A machine trundling
through an idyllic garden,
not clever - it just keeps telling you its writer has read books Doctor Who stories, at any rate.
yesterday. Bit of Jung not
by people who are. The sequel, Snakedance, one of those Davison stories like
is
shown, s BBC
Kinda's not a dead loss, of course. It has perhaps the most Castrovaha and Frontios which somehow ends up overlooked
intelUgent, visually striking use of video effects in the show's despite being genuinely well-written, made and acted. In that,

history. Peter Davison puts in an excellent performance, the we get a proper alien society, not off-the-shelf colonial stereo-
first one that marks him out as distinct: it's impossible to types; Tegan's possession connects with the main action and ^ Centre Studio 8: Forest

imagine any of his predecessors in his place, and it's a story is actually subversive; there's meaty stuff about tradition and Outside Dome; A Glade; Forest;

that would havebeen impossible in the Tom and Kg show of a leadership; the light entertainment guest stars play to their The Beyond; Panna's Cave
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year before. Simon Rouse's Hindle is a portrait of real strengths; and it wasn't done a decade before, better, by TueiiNovSi Television Centre

madness, not just the scarred loonies that usually pass for it in Ursula K Le Guin. Ignore Kinda, go for Snakedance instead. Studio 8: Airlock [remount]

RHDID TimESS
Men 1 Feb 82 Part One: What is

the significance of the wind-

chimes?

<i Writer Christopher Bailey was a 9 Originally, a plant-like creature run, Nathan-Turner vetoed the final TueiFebSz Part Two: Will

graduate in English from Cambridge appeared in one of Tegan's dreams scene, which showed Sanders and Dukkha release Tegan from his

University. Kinda was partly inspired early on. Visual Effects had designed Hindle walking arm-in-arm through power?

by Ursula K Le Guin's 1972 novel The and started to make the creature when the forest holding a flower, on the Mon8Feb82 Part Three: What
Word for World is Forest, In which a the dream sequences were shortened, grounds that it was too camp is the secret of the Beyond?

high-tech expedition lands on a and the prop was abandoned at TuegFeb82 Part Four: Will

primitive world to find that the natives considerable expense ^ Recording was scheduled to take Hindle succeed?

are more highly developed than place between 7.30 and lo.oopm each
expected and have a relationship via (3^ The singer Marti Webb, who had evening, with an additional session
their dreams enjoyed chart success with Take That between 2.30 and 5.15pm on the
Look Off'r'our Face in February 1980, was second and third days of each
Because The Kinda scripts had been first cast in the role of Todd around block
written for only two companions, the the start of June 1981; however, the
production team decided to drop one partwas finally given to Nerys ^ Thursday 30 July 1981: there were
of the girls and spotlight the other Hughes, with whom John Nathan- heated debates on the studio floor
one, rather than have them share Turner had worked on How Green Was about Hindle's motivation in Part
the material and weaken the story My Valley.'. Mary Morris (Panna) lived Four; actor Simon Rouse was unsure if

structure. Tegan was chosen to be in Switzerland in a mountain home the insane Hindle was worried about
highlighted - but Nyssa actress Sarah she had built herself, and had driven just his own well-being, or if he was

Sutton was not terribly upset when her across Europe in a wrecked Land concerned for the others, too

characterwas written out, since it Rover to appear in the serial

gave her more time to go shopping Wednesday 12 August 1981:

^ The read-through for Kinda took Recording was delayed by ten minutes
0 The Mara's manifestation as a place on Saturday 18 July. Peter due to a videotape breakdown.
snake was also a phallic symbol; this Davison was still involved in produc- Tempers flared between Grimwade
aspect, and other of Bailey's more Swim during late July,
tion of Sink or and a member of his production team
adult concepts, had to be toned down and would record two episodes during regarding the state of the forest set
for a family audience rehearsals for Doctor Who on Sundays
19 and 26July; during this time I) Thursday 13 August 1981: the
^ The Kinda was the first serial to be Davison was scheduled to work on the studio floor became visible while the

script-edited at time of production by sitcom in the mornings and Kinda in tumbling act performed by the
Eric Saward, and the first made for the afternoons. The cast noted with Trickster in Part Three was being shot.

which he would be credited (although amusement the young Matthew Several delays occured when time had

his first broadcast credit would be for Waterhouse giving veteran actor to allocated to sweep leaves back into

Castroualua). Saward enjoyed working Richard Todd some tips on how to act position on the jungle sets. As time
with Bailey; even though Antony Root on television; Todd felt he should play started to run out, Grimwade aban-
had done a lot of work on the scripts Sanders, a character inspired by the doned camera rehearsals and told the
at the start of the year, they still film Sanders of the Riuer, for laughs. actors simply to get to their marks and
Sanders (Richard Todd)
required attention when Saward Director Peter Grimwade toned down go for a take. The Kinda mask was
takes a shine to young
joined the production team in April some of the more sexual elements of required to break when stamped on in
Adric. Don't let him near
1981. The story was titled simply Kinda Janet Fielding's performance as the the script, but the visual effects assis-
your TSS, will you? e bbc
by mid-June possessed Tegan. At the producer's tant responsible for its construction

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had used very thick plaster that incidental music score upon glass ited Production Assistant alongside
refused to shatter, much to the sounds Rosemary Parsons on Block Two, while
director's consternation. Recording Carol Johnson was the uncredited
over-ran by ii minutes,and by 13 Saward asked Bailey for four extra Vision Mixer on Block One. For the Part
minutes on the next and final day, minutes' material to pad out Part Four Four scenes remounted duringthe
Friday 14 August on Wednesday 30 September 1981 sessions for Earthshock, the additional
uncredited crew were as follows:
9 The gallery-only day for video ^ The serial is now held by the BBC Production Manager Geoffrey Manton,
effects took place in TC6 on Thursday as D3 tapes taken from the two-inch Elinor Carruthers. Production Assistant
20 August. The serialwas then edited broadcast tapes. Longer first edits of Jane Ashford. Assistant Floor Manager
between Saturday 22 and Monday 31 One to Three The TARDIS crew
Kinda Parts exist in Nicholas Laughland. Technical Manager
find that paradise isn't
August, and dubbed on Saturday 5, pravate collections on time-coded Alan Jeffery. Lighting Fred Wright.
half as nice as they were
Thursday 17, Friday 25 September U-Matic videotape Costume Designer Dinah Collin. Make-up
led to believe, s bbc
and Saturday 3 October 1981. Artist Joan Stribling. Designer Bernard
Composer Peter Howell based his ^ Credits: Sue Plumb was an uncred- Lloyd-Jones.

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The Doctor and Tegan investigate a strange

burning smell In Pudding Lane ... e bbc cammissiDninG
Mar 80 Inrasion of the Plajue Men
outline submitted

pubs" - a memorable precis of the intelligence-gathering Wed 17 Sep 80 Plague Rats

involved in scouting for locations. At 6.30am on a day of loca- breakdown commissioned for
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tion shooting "the make-up artists in their brightly-lit base- Wedi Oct 80; delivered Wed 1

ment rooms are already at work". Designer Ken Starkey Oct 80

reveals that "ivy is the designer's friend" when it comes to Thu 20 Nov 80 Plague Rots scripts

disguising anachronisms on location. When an actor declines commissioned for Sun 18 Jan 81;
to wear a specially obtained hat in character, the exotically- delivered Mon 26Jan 81

named costume designer Odile Dicks-Mireaux simply says,

"You win some and you lose some." PRDDUCTinn
Clearly, the process of making 25 -minute episodes was Fri 1 May 81 Ealing Studios

more complex, more gruelling and far more pragmatic than Stage 2: London Street; Oven
I'd realised. Yet the real significance of absorbing those verbal Room; Back Room
and visual snippets probably didn't dawn on me until years Tue5May8i Black Park

later. When The Making of a Tcleuision Scries was published, I Country Park, Iver [Woods with
had just moved to London to attend university. I became Pod]

heavily involved in London-based Who fandom during my Wed 6 May 81 Black Park

college years, but the idea of working for the BBC after grad- [Woods]
uating - let alone being on the periphery of the production Thu 7 May 81 Black Park
process - would have seemed a remote possibility. [Woods with TARDIS]
Yet, in 1987, that's was offered a
exacdy what happened. I Fri 8 May 81 Tithe Barn, Hurley

lowly office job within Television Centre itself, working in the [Manor]; Monk's Barn, Hurley

team supporting the several dozen costume designers, and [Road]

their assistants and wardrobe crews, who were based in Wed 20 May 81 Television

London. Among them was Odile Dicks-Mireaux, who proved Centre Studio 3: Stable; Harness
to be as shrewdly practical as she was talented - and many Room; Escape Pod
others, like Colin Lavers, who had designed Peter Davison's Thu 21 May 81 Television Centre

ow that behind-the-scenes featurettes and original costume. Studio 3: TARDIS Girls' Room;
'Making of...' books are commonplace, it may My role, as it evolved over the years, was to liaise between TARDIS Corridor; TARDIS Console
be hard to imagine what was quite so illumi- producers (and their teams) and designers (and their teams) Room; Bakery Back Room; Barn
nating about Doctor Who: The Making of a during all the relevant stages of production - so, showing a Wed3Jun8i Television Centre

Tclcuision Scries. Yet this 60-page book by Alan grasp of what it took for a group of people to turn a script into Studio 3: Hall Window; Main
Road, concentrating on the production of The Visitation (first a programme was quite an advantage. (Incidentally, among Hall; Front Hall; Cellar ;jf
published in hardback in 1982) was something of a revelation the contacts I made later was Ros Parker,
to me - and, I suspect, quite a few others. who became a very approachable
Granted, the previous year A Doy in the Life oj a TV Producer Associate Producer.) I'd like to think it

had shown us the hub of the production process, and earlier did me no harm at all to have arrived
Terrance Dicks had described in some detail the making of with a head start in understanding the
Robot in the mid-ig/os The Making of Doctor Who. The slim process, and for that I'm very gratefitl to
volume about The Visitation, however, was something else Alan Road and his book on The Visitation.
entirely. By focusing on each area of production in turn, and Those brighdy-lit make-up rooms, the
illustrating these potted perspectives with informal pictures logistics faced by production teams,
unlike the regular posed shots of cast or crew, it opened my indeed the whole recording atmosphere,
eyes towhat all those job titles on the credits actually meant. probably wouldn't have seemed so
"A fascinating account of the co-operative effort required to familiar without it.

put the intrepid Doctor in orbit each week, " claimed its back I never did get the chance to attend a
cover - which, apart from the orbital aspect, was a fair sypher dub, as Peter Davison apparendy
The new face of Scottish
summary. Suddenly the practicalities of Doctor Who's produc- liked to do; but nowadays, interviewing actors just after
Widows? No, it's just the
tion were much more understandable in human terms. they've recorded a Big Finish drama, I suppose I do some- cunningly disguised
Some crucial observations stood out. Production Manager times get paid for talking to people in pubs. You win some, Terlleptil Leader. @ bbc
Ros Parker, for example, was "paid for talking to people in and you lose some . .

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Studio 3: Back, Front and Main

l!lHHIIllJtJ4IH!l!l -

» • Halls; Cellar Steps; Back Stairs;

• Passage Way; Cellar; Laboratory; publicity shot of Peter Davison issued Robbins altered some of Mace's lines
Room; Corridor as a postcard by Larkfield later that in rehearsal. The Terileptil heads were
FrisJunSi Television Centre same year created by visual effects assistant
Studio 3: Laboratory; Cellar; Peter Litten
Room; TARDS Console Room 9 Friday 8 May ig8i: filming was
covered by both photographer ^ Merchandising: a shot of Davison
RHDin TimES Richard Farley for the book Doctor from this serial formed the basis of a
Moni5Feb82 Part One: Why Who: The Making of a Telei/ision Series jigsaw issued by Waddingtons in 1982.
are the villagers so afraid? and a reporter from the local news- A Terileptil piece featured in an expan-
Tue iS Feb 82 Part Two: Can paper, the Maidenhead Obseruer. Farley sion set for the chess set issued by
Richard Mace help? also attendedone rehearsal session MBI Incfrom 1992. FHarlequin
Men 22 Feb 82 Part Three: What and was present for the studio produced a number of metal figures
is the final Visitation? Producer John Nathan-Turner was recordings based on characters from The Visitation
Tue 23 Feb 82 Part Four: Will reluctant to cast actor Michael Robbins in 1998, including the Doctor, Adric,
Nyssa defeat the android? as Richard Mace, but was won over Peter Davison was very excited by Tegan, Nyssa, 'Death', the Android
by the persuasiveness of director the script for the serial when he and a Terileptil
Peter Moffatt arrived at rehearsals; he liked Eric
Saward's writing, and the idea of 1^ The serial is now held by the BBC
^ Thursday 7 May 1981: the photocall tinkering with history. Saward asD3 tapes taken from the two-inch
outside the TARDIS begat the standard was unhappy when Michael broadcast tapes

Orchid
.^Jomeone Sotneiuhere (in Summertime) B5I CDRIIELL
• DUimHRBHIUE
• DWM 298

. CDminissianinB In an English country garden, the TARDIS team

Mon show off their party best. Fancy! s bbc

g Feb 81 Staff clearance

requested for Block Orchid;

delivered Mon 16 Feb 81 different to his predecessors. This Doctor can never be still.
He's always artificially doing something: talking to himself,
pnoDUBTinn singing, reacting. Because he often has to carry otherwise
Mon 5 Oct 81 Quainton Road, inexplicable narratives entirely on his own. Davison plays that
Quainton, Bucks [Road; Police with energy: moving from one mark to another and then
Station]; Quainton Road back. If we have to look at him all the time, we're going to get
Railway Station [Cranleigh something to look at! But what's going on inside?
Halt] Listen to the way he delivers the line "why do I always let
Tue 6 Oct 81 Buckhurst Park, my curiosity get the better of me?" as he's lost in the corridors
* Withyham, E Sussex [The of the house. Baker would have rumbled that as an aside, got
Hall/Roof] rid of it. Pertwee would have played it up with a smile.
Wed7-Thur80ct8r Davison means it. He says it with a frustrated sigh that's
Buckhurst Park [The Hall] almost a snarl. His arc through this story is that finally he gets
Frig Oct 81 Buckhurst Park to relax and fit in, but then he's tiresomely, awlcwardly, and
[The Hall; Cricket Pitch] finally dangerously accused of murder. He reacts to Ann's
Tue 20 Oct 81 Television first accusation with tired smiles. His hurt cry of "it wouldn't
Centre Studio 3: TARDIS; be cricket" is a plea that he's just like these people. But the
Drawing Room; Detention problem is there's something more complex inside, and he
Room; Corridor; Tegan and can't hide it. He fits in initially because he's the picture of
Nyssa's Bedroom; Landing; British Imperial aristocracy. He tells Lord Cranleigh that he's
Small Annexe) (when he's actually just medium paced) with
a fast bowler
I
. Wed 21 Oct 81 Television nose-up arrogance. But he doesn't look happy when
Centre Studio 3: Drawing presented with his harlequin costume. There's that wonderfiil
Room; Hall and Stairs; moment when he puts the mask over his face, looking sad
Doctor's Bedroom; Ann's and resigned. He knows he can't escape his own mask. The
Bedroom; Landing Harlequin costume echoes a similar cosmme once worn by
rom what Peter Davison has said about his Lord Peter Wimsey, the very opposite of the Fifth Doctor.
RnDID TimES years on Doctor Who, it's clear he spent a lot of Wimsey conceals his abilities himself. The Doctor has them
Mom Mar 82 Part One: What them feeling frustrated about the lack of time forcibly concealed by his appearance. He is, as Davison often
is the secret of the well- and money. That frustration informs his says, an old man in a young body This frusUrates him. The
furnished cell? performance. Watching him in a story during confidence of experience is let down by appearances. He's not
Tue 2 Mar 82 Part Two: Who is the production of which he felt content, we can see the tech- in charge, like Baker, because he thinks he should still auto-
the Unknown? niques he used to create his Doctor. matically be, and doesn't see why he has to try so hard. When
Davison's first step is to place himself in relation to Tom he gets the chance to show these silly humans that he's telling
Baker's portrayal. He takes just a couple of things from Baker. the truth, he folds his arms and looks triumphant at them as
His delivery of "there's a body through there", and the way he they stare at the TARDIS interior. Then, when they don't offer
holds up the TARDIS key, are veiy Tom. He also plays a the suggested apology, he gets angry at them. What does it

moment of Troughton clown angst, palms slapped on the take for them to take him seriously?! It's not there in the
sides of his face when suspected of murder. But these are dialogue, it's in Davison's choices.
asides, because he's functioning from a central idea radically That could have made for an abrasive, arrogant, character.

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but for Davison's other trait, his generosity. He's favoured by thence us. He looks to the others when settling on lemonade
the direction, but he keeps referring baclc to his companions: to drink, again judging himself by the needs of his friends.
looldng at them, touching them, dipping his voice to give He's the shepherd of lower order batsmen he proves to be on
their response lines the thwack of a witty retort. It's the oppo- the pitch.
site of Baker's tendency to fill the screen with himself. When Those two traits: thinking every moment about the part,
Davison is called 'Doctor Who' here, he immediately glances and of his fellow actors, are what makes him the best char-
back at Tegan, as if he wants to share the joke with her, and acter actor ever to have played the part.

nnmnHnnnii
I) Scripts for Black Orchid were avail- had joined the BBC in 1974 as a on location on Wednesday 6 and
able for pre-production from mid- costume assistant and worked on Thursday 7 October 1981
June; the Visual Effects department series including Suruiuors; Black Orchid Davison's Doctor meets
was assured that there was minimal was her first Doctor Who after 4^ The planned studio crew changed someone else who doesn't
involvement compared to becoming a full designer in 1980
'

need for its before recording: originally, John Farr believe a word he says.
the other serials in the season was to have handled lighting, Laurie Queffe surprise!
9 Photocalls of the regular cast in Taylor sound and Glenys Davies was to
Costume designer Rosalind Ebbutt their fancy dress costumes were held have been the production assistant

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The Doctor, in a shadowy tunnel, awaits
some slow-moving monsters. Bliss! m sbc

Mon29jun8i Staff clearance

Mine's the combinadon of Cybergun (especially when the requested for Centcnal [sicj;'

gun was wielded by weedy Nyssa - you go, girlfriend!) dying ,

clearance agreed on Fri 24 July
Cybergroan and 'guitar-synth bender-control' incidental 81

music. I always love it when Tegan loses it, and her best one
is diving on the TARDIS console in Part Four; a demonstra- PRDDUGfTIDn
tion of irrationality that fits in very nicely with this story's Thu2gOct8i Springwell Lock
(and every Cyberstory's) theme of the loss of humanity. The Quarry, Rickmansworth, Herts
stakes are upped - all the regulars' emotional undercurrents [Gravel Pit Cave Mouth)

go up a notch ("Everyone gets teased occasionally"), the Tue 10 Nov 81 Television

monsters are actually quite good, and someone dies. If Doctor Centre Studio 8: Adric's Room;
Who ever had what they now call a 'series finale', this was it. TARDIS Control Room
And next? "Cyberfleet dispersed. Crew of the freighter Wed 11 Nov 81 Television

returned to Earth." And Adric? Who cares - Concorde has Centre Studio 8: t*!ain Cavern;
been abducted. There's another ordinary (incredibly, luorsc Caves; Small Cavern
than ordinary) story to get involved in. So what was the point Thui2Nov8i Television

of putting real emotions into Doctor Who one week, only to go Centre Studio 8: Small Cavern;
back to square one (and beyond) the next? Normal service has TARDIS; Cyber Control
been resumed: cue Plasmatons on 'blasted heath'. Tue 24 Nov 81 Television

I don't know about you clever lot, but Earthshodc's also just Centre Studio 8: Freighter

about the only 1980s Doctor Who story I understand (yes, really Bridge; Corridor Outside
- I had to have Full Circle and Castroualua explained to me in Wed 25 Nov 81 Television

1993, and your guess is as good as mine about what Fenric Centre Studio 8: Hold;
was up to). The Cybermen want to blow up Earth, and when
their bomb goes wrong they bring in Plan B. So simple - no
time corridors (well, not really), no duplicates, no pulse
loops, no cross-tracing on the exponential time-space axis.
It's also actually funny in places. The Saturday matinee

performance of Mr Ringway doesn't seem to matter as it

normally would. Perhaps it's all in the direction and design -
i^H
I i^B
very so often,
you'd think:
watching Doctor Who
'Yes! They've done
in the igSos,
it! They've
really taut, chunlcyand spirited. Alongside Kinda and Caucs,
much less inept and baffling than usual. Then
Earthshock feels
I turned the corner! They've got their mojo back!' they tried to do
it again and dredged up Warriors of the Deep.

I J If Doctor Who is about anything, it's about was 13. Being into Doctor Who was probably about the
I

^^I^^H shadowy tunnels with slow-moving monsters in most tragic hobby you could admit to at that sad, greasy age
them. Anything else is mere window-dressing. That's the (but then, reader, you know that).
If there's one set of viewers
bottom Une. And, every so often, lohn Nathan-Turner would that twee, sexless old Doctor Whowas never going to engage, it
seem to grasp that, in his odd wonky way, just for a litde was teenagers. To my was merely funny and
peers, Adric
while. appalling. To me, it was worse. The full horror of Adric as
I don't know why,
I belieued in those caves and that
but experienced by fans was that he was too much like us. He is
freighter - even when stomps in, searching for
Beryl the Peril exactly what a 13 year-old nerd would be hke as a companion
Sigourney Weaver's lines. The death of Professor Kyle really - pointing out continuity errors, knowing too much about
Beryl Reid, with space
upset me. Adric's "Just leave!" to Tegan and the Doctor was dull things, not really understanding girls. Kinda taught us
gun and space costume,
gut-wrenching - such venom from Matthew Waterhouse, that the one thing evil cannot withstand is its own reflection,
captaining a space ship.
nerdy outsider in life as in art. On Blue Peter they used to say and Adric proves as much about fans. I was cheering as those
Double bliss! e bbc
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 Writing the scripts, Eric Saward The aforementioned slow-
chose to ignore more detailed aspects moving monsters. 'Dying
ofCyberman continuity (such as Cybergroan' effect not far
established chronology) while off, probably, s bbc
adopting others as suited the plot

i The description of Tegan as a Hold Walkway; Outside

"mouth on legs" was inspired by a Bridge; Stairs; Freighter
comment made about the character Bridge; Corridor
by American fan Heather Nachman Thu 26 Nov 81 Television

Centre Studio 8: Freighter

9 Beryl Reid (Briggs) found the cast Bridge; Corridor; Hold; Models
and crew very serious - particularly
director Peter Grimwade. The crew, Rnaia Times
many of whom thought her casting Mon8Mar82 Part One: What
strange, feared that she had no grasp do the 'Silhouettes' guard?
of the plot at all. Reid attempted to TuegMar82 Part Two: What
lighten the atmosphere in rehearsals - is behind the hatch?
but unfortunately her jokes about her Moni5Mar82 Part Three:
line "We've come out of Warp Drive" acted as Production Manager alongside Bower also created the guns and the Will Scott find the Doctor
being the name of a road went down Geoffrey Manton, but was uncredited TARDIS tool kit in time?
badly, and Grimwade worried that she Tuei6Mar82 Part Four: Can
was not going to deliver the straight ^ Most days saw recording took Nathan-Turner was offered a Radio Adric save Earth?
performance he required place in the afternoon and evenings Times cover to promote the the return
between 2.30 and 5.15pm and then of the Cybermen - but declined, not
^ June Bland (Berger) was the wife of from 7.30 to 10.30pm; the only day wanting to reveal the villains' identity
BBC producer Bill Sellars, who had with no afternoon recording was
directed The Celestial Toymaker in 1966. Tuesday 24 November ^ Merchandise: two 1982
Producerjohn Nathan-Turner had Waddingtons jigsaws were part-based
worked on the Sellars-produced All Thursday 26 November 1981: on images from Earthshock. Fine Art
Creatures Great and Small, and Bland had modelwork was handled by Martin Castings produced models of the
also choreographed a charity show that Bower, who produced the wood and Cybermen from this serial in 1986;
Nathan-Turner had been involved with plastacard space station prop, plus similar figures were issued by
the freighter- which was partly Harlequin Miniatures in 1998
Originally, Laurie Taylor was to have inspired by the Nostromo in the 1979
been the sound supervisor. On Block movie Alien - andmodel of the
a ^ The serial is now held by the BBC
One, trainee Elinor Carruthers also freighter hold showing all the silos. on D3 format tapes

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Hold right there! There's something rather
it

unconventional stowed away in Concorde ... s bbc video

cnmmissinnmB
Fri 14 Mar 80 lamd'm [working
title! storyline commissioned
hanks two decades of Doctor Who from BBC

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to for Fri 21 Mar 80; delivered

Video there are no longer rare episodes to trade, Mon 24 Mar 80

hoard or slaver over. Instead the die-hard fan Mon 22 Sep 80 lanaim
must trawl deeper for ever more obscure mate- [working tide] scripts commis-
rial. DVD can now cater to a taste latent in all of sioned for Thu 20 Nov; Parts
us - Remembrance 0/ the Daleks in particular has offered us key One and Two delivered Mon 1

'lost' scenes of great import as tantalising extras. Perhaps such Dec, and Parts Three and Four
clips leave you wanting more? Wanting, well, eucrythina. on Thu 4 Dec
True, there's a certain frisson in seeing an icon like Pertwee
on the set of Death to the Da!el;s vainly adjusting his bouffant in PRODUCTIDn
the monitor or witnessing his perfectionist tendencies leading Wed 6 Jan 82 Terminal One,
to frustrated anger in studio for Vampire From Space. The actual Heathrow Airport, Hounslow,
moment Colin Baker sits in the space left by Peter Davison to Middx [Concourse]
regenerate into the Sixth Doctor holds an obvious lofty status. Thu 7 Jan 82 Terminal Three,
But what pleasure could anyone take from watching unexpur- Heathrow Airport [Car Park
gated footage from a 90-minute studio recording spool of Roof]
Time-Flight? Mon 11 Jan 82 BA
Short on dialogue and incident, plodess and confused - Maintenance Area, Heathrow
existing behind-the-scenes footage magnifies the flaws of the Airport [Concorde; Runway]
broadcast story a hundredfold. The particular tape DWM Tueigjan82 Television
viewed includes material shot in the Concorde hold, the cavern Centre Studio 8: Heath [Areas
corridors leading to the sanctum and the Xeraphin's Outer A,J,C, K, D, B, H]
Sanctum itself. Without the luxury of fast-forward, given the Wed 20 Jan 82 Television
scientific nature of this study, time does not fly by. Centre Studio 8: Heath [Areas
Those hoping for cheelq' footage of a grinning Davison E, F, I, G, F, A]; Control Centre
debagging his assistants or John Nathan-Turner goofily Office; Corridor; Air Traffic

nibbling at the Doctor's celery stick will be sorely disap- '

Control; CSO shots
pointed. Only on 50 minutes - it seemed longer - do we get Sun 24 Jan 82 Television ^
THB COmPLETE FIPTH DDCTDH
 ^ Centre Studio 8 [remount what we came for when Matthew Waterhouse fluffs one of the
from Wed 20 Jan] three lines he has in his cameo role. "If you continue to
• Mon r Feb 82 Television advance - oh FART!" Later, one of British Airways' finest pilots
• Centre Studio 8: TARDIS strikes a camp pose on hearing anotlier hectoring call from the
Control Room; TARDIS AFJVl: "Oooh, she's so butch!" Certainly these high points
Corridor relieve the tedium of endless corridor scenes, takes and retakes
Tue 2 Feb 82 Television Centre as lighting boys fiddle with their Super Troupers.
Studio 8: Concorde Hold; When however, towards the end of the spool, a bit of the
Corridor; Circus Master's highly advanced stethoscope device clatters to the
Wed 3 Feb 82 Television floor to be whisked away by an anxious prop hand, we're not
Centre Studio 8: Kalid's laughing anymore. The initial tedious repetition of scene after

Quarters; Sanctum scene gives way to palpable tension. After yet another firm,
efficient but increasingly stressed of "Quiet in studio,
call

RnDID TimES please," from the AFM, the of this drama, we

central star
Mon 22 Mar 82 Part One: realise that the Doctor Who no place for gags and
studio is

What is the true destination of pranks. After an hour or so of watching cavern wall paint dry
Speedbird Concorde One Nine we become just as aware as the crew of the studio clock ticking
Two? towards ten.
Tue 23 Mar 82 Part Two: Who Here is final evidence of the old truism trotted out by many
controls the Plasmatons? a Doctor Who veteran: 'It's a very technical show ... sometimes
Mon 29 Mar 82 Part Three: you're secondary to the special effects.' Think of a contempo-
What is the power of the rary BBC videotape series, be it Juliet Brauo or Just Good Friends,
Xeraphin? and you realise that elsewhere actors simply played out contin-
Tue 30 Mar 82 Part Four: Will uous five-minute scenes as if in an electronic theatre.
the Master succeed this time? Doctor Who seems by comparison an interminable series of
ten or 20 second shots, the actors' focus constandy interrupted
by breaks for special effects work. Janet Fielding and Sarah
Sutton struggle manfully on through what is no more than a
walk down another corridor time and again as Adric, Melkur
and then the Terileptil leader are keyed into shot as CSO over-
lays ("Oh! Terileptil's fallen apart!"). Those who think Time-
Flight a shoddy piece of work by people clearly disinterested in
their work will be astonished to see five minutes devoted to
keying in an electronic piece of the Concorde hold floor over a
ttap door hole while the tape in the basement continues to
whirr and the clock ticks. The resultant establishing shot lasts
all of two seconds on screen prior to the TARDIS' materialisa-
Behind the 'magic': the Xeraphin receive a last-minute costume
tion.
check whilst the studio clock ticks on ... @ bbc video
The Time-Flight spool reveals the cold hard logistics of
production line television in the early 1980s. An unintentional
close up masking tape which holds
reveals the spray-painted Of course the contents of this tape will never officially see
the Doctor's time machine together and we also realise that the the light of day in its fijll format. Given the less than enthusi-
TARDIS of his arch enemy is backless and made of plywood. astic release of Time-Flight at the arse end of the BBC's VHS
The magic, could anyone be so misguided to think that Time- schedule, it could be 2018 before Adric's 'fart' - and little else

Flight possesses any in the first place, is not evident here. - is released as an added extra on DVD.

Anthony Ainley playing

the Master playing Kafid.
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either ... e bbc video

^ when the story was first proposed Since observed by yours faithfully,
in March 1980, it was considered a God."
contender for the final serial of Season
Eighteen Director Ron Jones was disap-
pointed that the only scenes he could
I) Part One had the Doctor film were those set at the airport
misquoting the end of an anonymous scenes, since he was concerned that
limerick, while commenting upon the the scenes on the prehistoric heath
naive t8th century philosophy: "To be would lack authenticity in the studio
is to be perceived." The line of
thinking the Doctor scorned was ^ A new two-and-a-half inch model
derived from the Anglo-Irish bishop TARDIS was constructed by visual
and scientist George Berkeley, who effects designer Peter Logan using four
suggested that the spiritual existed colour photographs of a real Police Box
only so far as it was perceived by on each side and a flashing light
human senses. This had been the
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 lamona
Happy birthday? While the public face of Doctor Who's 20th anniuersary year was all smiles,
Life
jelly and ice-cream was in short supply u;hen production on Peter Dauison's second set

of Stories ran into no end of trouble. Season Tu;enty, by Andretu Pixley.

Piansvfei
earnest
Doctor Who's 20th anniversary
in February 1982^ when the regular cast
season got underway in
of Peter
was made first to

fully enjoy better

allow Arc of Injinity (formerly The Time of Omega) to hope-
weather over its early May location shoot in Amsterdam.
Davison, Janet Fielding and Sarah Sutton were recontracted. Once more, this attracted significant press attention, with several papers
By now it had been decided that Nyssa would be written out carrying pictures of the regular cast enjoying the Dutch surroundings. In the
^ . in Terminus, the fourth serial of Season Twenty; accordingly, meantime, Saward started to line up potential storylines for Season Twenty-
Sutton was contracted on Wednesday 10 to appear in only 20 episodes out of One, including Domain by Philip Martin (author of the oudandishly violent
26 before the end of the year. The number of shows in which Fielding was 1970s BBC thriller Gangsters), Bill Lyons' Parasites and Poison fi-om Rod
to appear was also in doubt; she was hired, also on Wednesday 10, to feature Beacham. Nathan-Turner was also sounding out major actors from the
in 18 episodes to be made before the end of January 1983. Davison was show's history about their availability for the special 20th anniversary story,
booked on Thursday 11 for the fiill run of 26. which he hoped would mark the climax of his period as producer on Doctor
Alongside Turlough, another new companion was being considered. Like Who. It was unofficial series consultant Ian Levine who first reahsed that
Kg, this was to be a robot - only this time, shaped like a man. The robot had every serial of Season Twenty contained an element of the Doctor's past,
been demonstrated to producer John Nathan-Turner during production of thereby celebrating the show's anniversary; this idea thrilled Kevin O'Shea
Earthshock in November 1981, and both he and script editor Eric Saward had of the BBC Press Office when Nathan-Turner mentioned it to him, and was
seen the potential in at least a pilot story. As such, Terence Dudley was used to promote the new season.
asked to develop a suitable two-part plot entided The Android at the end of By now, Nathan-Turner was looking for other projects to set up which
February; this would also be the annual outing for Anthony Ainley's Master, would allow him to leave Doctor Who. Although he rehshed being in charge
last seen in Time-Flight. of the programme, using his showmanship to promote it everywhere he
The Visitation and Black Orchid were screened on BBCi - but the year's could, Nathan-Turner wanted to extend his producing credits. Now that it
major surprises came in Earthshock, with the return of the redesigned was clear that Kg and Company would not be developing into a series, he and
Cybermen and the demise of Adric, Part Four's sombre, silent credits roUing Saward turned their attentions elsewhere. Aware of the BBC's long-term
over a shot of thelate companion's shattered badge for JVlathematical interest in soap operas, Nathan-Turner set about reviving Compact, a 1960s
Excellence. The return of the Mondasian cyborgs prompted the BBC2 televi- BBC soap opera about a magazine editorial office, and discussed this with
sion discussion show Did You See . . . ? to devote much of its Samrday 13 originators Peter Ling and Hazel Adair with a view to relaunching the show
March edition to an irreverent look back at Doctor Who's monsters, complete under the tide Impact.
with some interesting extracts from old stories including The Web Planet and
The Inuasioti. Old foes were also the subject of a 'Back Pages' article in Radio iewer reaction to Season Nineteen had been collated in a BBC
Times promoting the later episodes of Earthshock. Adric's death gained even Audience Research report which showed that although Peter
more attention from parents of upset children, promoting letters and arti- Davison had largely been accepted as the Doctor, some viewers felt
cles in the popular press. As if the show's profile couldn't get any higher, that he should have stuck to being All Creatures' Tristan Farnon.
Davison was interviewed by Donny McLeod on Pebble Mill at One on Tuesday Furthermore, Doctor Who was enjoyed by far more boys than girls, and some
16 March (hours before BBCi viewers saw Captain Briggs' freighter explode younger members of the audience had been disturbed and upset by Adric's
with a young Alzarian aboard) and was surprised to see Eamonn Andrews death. Nathan-Turner was even more aware of fandom by now, and a single
emerge from the TARDIS in Trafalgar Square on Thursday 18 March to sheet of news about production on the series started to be issued from his
inform the young actor, "This is Your Life." This rare example of Thames office to devotees who wrote in.
Television, an ITV station, promoting a BBC star, required the co-operation During May, it became clear that scripting problems on [The Sontj of the]

of Nathan-Turner, who had arranged for the unsuspecting actor to attend Space Whale were insurmountable. With the nine-week break in production
the filming of a bogus special trailer for Australia, allowing the surprise to

be sprung; the resulting show was broadcast on Thursday 25 March.

Spurred on by the climax of Earthshock, ten million tuned in for the opening
instalment of Time-Fliijht, taking Doctor Who back into die Top 30 shows of
the week. With his new-found fame, Davison loaned his name to a collec-
tion of short genre stories published by Sparrow Books - Peter Dauison's Book
of Alien JVIonsters - which he promoted on Pebble Mill. The actor was also
completing his third and final season of Holding the Fort for LWT.
During March 1982, work began on a proposal from writer Eric Pringle
entided War Game. Meanwhile, Saward had opted to write the final serial of
the new season himself; in the wake of the popular and attention-grabbing
Earthshock, Saward and Nathan-Turner decided to repeat the trick with the
show's most famous aUen adversaries, the Daleks, who would face the Fifth
Doctor for the first time in a story entided The Return. Part Four of Time-Flitjht
drew Season Nineteen to a close on Tuesday 30 March (except, naturally, for
viewers in Wales) , its teasing clifflianger leaving viewers to think that Tegan
had left the series.
The following day, the film cameras started rolling on Snakedance at the
BBC Television Film Studios in Ealing. For this new season. Fielding and
Sutton were allowed to set aside their original Air Austraha and Traken
Union costumes for a more diverse wardrobe. On Sunday 4 April, Davison
appeared at the Su)ap Shop Auiards show to collect the award for 'Best Man on
TV' (broadcast Sunday and the generally positive reaction to
11 April),

Davison's debut year (not to mention Adric's explosive departure)

Hello stranger, goodbyegirl: the press met Mark Strickson as Turlough and
continued to be felt in the letters pages of the Radio Times.
bade adieu to Sarah Sutton's Nyssa at a photocall on 15 September 1982.
Snakedance was to be the second serial broadcast in the new season, but it

THE CDmPLETE PIPTH CTDR

Sensan ZD

for Season Three of Sink or Suiim looming in early June, tlie decision was
talcen to abandon Pat Mills' story and hurriedly commission a replacement
from Peter Grimwade. This new serial, Maujdryn Undcad, was delivered very
rapidly, and introduced Turlough as an alien youth incarcerated at a British

public school for reasons as yet unknown. The main plot revolved around
encounters in two separate time zones with a spacecraft containing a group
of scientists who craved an end to their immortahty. Again drawing upon
the show's past, Grimwade hoped to feamre the character of science teacher
Ian Chesterton - one of the Doctor's original companions from 1963 - in
his narrative, but when actor William Russell proved unavailable, the story
was rapidly rewritten around Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, the former head
of UNIT last seen in the 1975 serial Terror of the Zy^ons.

ith a tide of interest in Doctor Who still swelling across the

Adantic, the BBC was contacted in June 1983 by an
actor/writer called John Ostrander
who was looking into the possibility of With the availability of the key actors looking good for
obtaining a licence to stage a Doctor Who play March 1983, Nathan-Turner started to contract stars for the
entided The Inheritors qf Time in the USA. A raft of anniversary project, now being referred to as The Six Doctors,
new submissions for the series itself were also on Thursday 29 July. To write this landmark show, Saward
being considered: Andrew Stephenson encouraged a somewhat reluctant Nathan-Turner to call on
submitted a breakdown of The House That Ur-Cjak die services of the much-admired Robert Holmes, a prolific
Built, while another Blake's 7 writer, Colin Davis, writer and script editor for the series
between 1968 and 1978.
was working on The Place Where All Times Meet.
During the production break, young actor s Davison returned from work on Sink or Swim for
Mark Strickson was contracted to play Turlough the location shoot at Trent Park for Moujdryn
for an initial on Monday 14 June;
18 episodes Undead, Nathan-Turner was sounded out about
thisconcluded a long search on the part of another Doctor Who spin-off - this time a feature film
Nathan-Turner, who feared he would never find proposed by Anthony Williams of Sandfire Productions, a
the right actor. Strickson was told very litde company based at Pinewood Smdios. In the meantime.
about his character at the outset, and was Holmes started to become increasingly bothered about die
delighted to find that Saward had strong ideas number of characters and monsters from the show's history
on how to make the new companion interesting. which Natiian-Turner and Saward wanted him to cram into i

Veteran actor Valentine Dyall was also booked to The Six Doctors. This was essentially a story featuring the
reprise his role as the Black Guardian in three Cybermen and the Master in which the Cybermen create a
linked serials beginning with Mauidryn Undead. duplicate of the First Doctor - the so-called 'sixdi' Doctor -
Seven 50-minute slots became unexpectedly as part of a plan to give them mastery of time. Anticipating
available when an American film series revival entided Bret Maucrick had Holmes' unease with the assignment, Saward arranged for another of his
ceased production prematurely in March. Nathan-Turner saw this as an predecessors, Terrance Dicks, to stand by witii an alternative. At the same
excellent opportunity to run more than the usual summer repeats - which time, the Christophers Bidmead and Bailey were commissioned for break-
were now considered essential, given that the twice-weekly formatmeant downs of The Wanderers (about a form of alien infestation with control over
the programme was off the air for nine months of the year. He proposed gravity) and May Time respectively Early in September, Saward informed
Doctor Who and the Monsters, a showcase for the series' three most famous Eric Pringle that War Game was being put on hold as being too expensive to
villains: the Ice Warriors in the 1972 Jon Pertwee story The Curse o/Peladon; produce.
the Daleks in the 1975 Tom Baker adventure Genesis o/the Daleks; and, During August and September, Nicholas Courtney reprised his role of
bringing things up to date, the Cybermen in Earthshock. When one of the Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart in Mawdryn Undead, and was soon invited to
slots was given over to a repeat of Star Trelc, Genesis of the Daleks was trimmed remrn for the anniversary special. On Thursday 15 September, a photocall
down into two 45 -minute episodes by veteran television director David was held to introduce Mark Strickson to tiie series and also to highlight the
Sullivan Proudfoot on Samrday 10 June. The Curse ofPeladon kicked off the imminent departure of Sarah Sutton. Scripts for Bailey's Manuiatch (formerly
broadcasts on Monday 12 June, and with the shows airing in a 7.20pm slot May Time) and Warriors qf the Deep by Johnny Byrne were commissioned. This
around five on average mned in for nostalgia value over the summer
million latter serialagain used returning foes - in this case, the Silurians from
- although these broadcasts were again not scheduled by BBC Cymru. 1970's Doctor Who and the Silurians and their aquatic cousins from its 1972
Sutton's deparmre from the series was announced by the press on sequel. The Sea Deuils.
Thursday 15 July, on the eve of the actress accompanying Nathan-Turner and With Mauidryn Undead's recording complete, Janet Fielding married jour-
Ainley to a massive Doctor Who convention in Chicago the following nalist Nicholas Davies in Wandsworth on Saturday 25 September - but her
weekend. On his retorn firom America, Nathan-Turner continued to sound the honeymoon was short-lived, as she started filming at Ealing on Terminus
out Patrick Troughton as to his availability for the anniversary special, which the following week. Meanwhile, on Wednesday 29 September, Davison took
had since been confirmed by David Reid as a 90-minute production. part in the production of an edition of Top Secret. On Wednesday 6 October,
WiUiam Hartnell having died in April 1975, the producer considered hiring actor lUchard Hurndall was contracted to feamre as die fake First Doctor in
character actor Geoffrey Bayldon (Catujeazle, etc) to portray the First Doctor. the problematic anniversary special; his casting was the result of Nathan-
Turner recalling the actor's resemblance to William Harmell in a repeat of a the exterior work on The King's
Blakf'5
7 episode during the summer. Demons (formerly The Android).
Industrial action at the BBC from the electricians' union the EEPTU Joining the cast at this
rumbled in the background during the troubled recordings for Terminus. A freezing venue was Gerald
number of problems accumulated to force a situation whereby on the final Flood, a prominent television
day of recording, Wednesday 27 October, there were still a number of and stage actor best known
scenes outstanding, which would require a remount; Sarah Sutton's depar- for the espionage series The
ture party went ahead, even al±ough it was premature. In the meantime, Flood was playing
Ratcatchers;
after a concerted attempt, Holmes reluctandy dropped out of the anniver- King John, who would be
sary project. Dicks stepped into the breach, delivering his breakdown for The revealed as the shape-
Fine Doctors, on Monday i November. The expensive-to-realise and over- changing robot Kamelion - the new robotic companion for the Doctor,
complex scripts for Warriors oj the Deep started to arrive during October, when whose voice Flood would also provide.
Philip Martin was commissioned to develop his scripts for Domain. During this trip to the south-east, Nathan-Turner was able to meet with
Filming at Ealing on Enlightenment began as planned in the first week of Tom Baker, who was acting in a play in Brighton, and sound him out about
November - but when rehearsals started the following week, cast and crew the possibility of appearing alongside the now-confirmed Patrick Troughton
learned that the EEPTU action had been stepped up, and as such the and Jon Pertwee in The Fiue Doctors. Baker was unsure about his involvement,
planned studio sessions later in the month had been abandoned. and was given as much of Dicks' script as had then been written. The
Production on Doctor Who entered a few weeks of limbo. By now, Saward had revised special saw the Doctors being drawn with their companions to a
written The Return, scripts for which had won the broad approval of Dalek Death Zone on Gallifrey where they encounter various old foes on their trip
creator Terry Nation, who was based in California. Nathan-Turner was also to Rassilon's tomb; the Fourth Doctor was to play a major role in the Time
starting the build-up to the 20th anniversary celebrations, which he Lord Capitol, uncovering the figure who aimed to gain the immortality of
announced at a convention on Saturday 13 November. It was hoped that Rassilon.
there would be a television documentary about the series to be shown
alongside The Fiue Doctors, and also a major Doctor Who event would be run by id-December saw the first day of The King's Demons' recording
BBC Enterprises at Longleat House, the stately home of Lord Bath - home block in the now strike-free Television Centre being allocated
to an exhibition of Doctor Who props and costumes since 1974. The Longleat to complete Terminus before the expiry of Sutton's contract. As
eventwas developed by Terry Sampson and Lorne Martin of BBC Enterprises it turned out, the two-day recording on The King's Demons also fell victim to
who, after many visits in 1982, secured use of six acres of the estate; a remount, when it became humanoid robot prop around
clear that the
Sampson's friendship with Tom Baker also meant that which the had been written did not fimction
serial
the former Doctor would be attending. Meanwhile, to correctly partiy because in the intervening months one
whet appetites for the new season, Davison appeared of its designers had been killed in an accident. Having
on BBCi's on Samrday 20 November
Sflturdaij Superstore become aware of these problems during the autumn,
to books with John Craven - along
discuss children's Nathan-Turner had already decided that although
with a clip from the forthcoming Arc o_fIn_finiti|. Kamelion would be introduced in The Kings' Demons, its
With die production situation on Enlightenment - and appearances in firrther stories would be minimal, and a
for that matter the completion of Terminus not resolved serial to write the robot out as soon as possible was
- by Thursday 25 November, Nathan-Turner had taken needed.
die tough decision to scrap The Return and to allocate At this time, Davison and Anthony Aiialey were also in
its planned studio sessions for the completion of rehearsals for Cinderella, a traditional pantomime written
Enlightenment. was then in pre-production
The Return and directed by Nathan-Turner and performed at the
under director Peter Grimwade; the cancellation Assembly Theatre, Tunbridge Wells. Davison played
caused Gnmwade to invite his team out for a meal to Buttons, with Sandra Dickinson as fairy godmother
commiserate, but Nathan-Turner was not present Misozel and Ainley (the Master) as Baron Hardup.
when the invitation was issued. The producer took this Produced by Lovett Bicldbrd (director of The Leisure Hive),
as a personal snub, and with Grimwade also aggrieved designed by Tony Burrough (The Keeper oJTraken, Four to
that his development of Turlough had not been Doomsday, Blade Orchid) and with costumes by Richard

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acknowledged by the BBC, relations began to sour between Nathan-Turner
and one of his most popular directors. In the meantime, Saward was
making other attempts to move on fi'om Doctor Who by developing a
science fiction series with Barbara Clegg; the project, Gateujay, was pitched
to the BBC but rejected during Spring 1983.
As December began, Pringle found his War Games project re-activated in
an amended form (soon retitied The Awakening),and the production team
headed away from the strike-bound Television Centre to Bodiam Casde for
MR RRR TRRHER URIRR
Croft (Mauidryn Undead), the show ran from Thursday 23 December 1982 to
Samrday 15 January 1983. Davison also promoted this in a Christmas edition
new of Russell Harty on Tuesday 21 December and an extract from the panto
appeared on Nationu)ide on Friday 17 December. Strickson married actress
JulieBrennan in a quiet service just before Christmas. Kg and Company was
given a muted second outing, this time on BBC2, on Christmas Eve -
netting a mere two million viewers on this occasion. As the end of 1982
arrived. The Fiue Doctors special was announced by The Sun on Thursday 30

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 December, days before the 20th season of Doctor Who would begin
broadcasting on BBCi.
By referring to Omega as 'The Renegade', Nathan-Turner and his
team managed to keep the return of the rogue Gallifreyan a surprise
for most viewers when Arc of Injinity kicked off the new season on
Monday 3 January 1983. Although this first episode went out at the
of the week, for Season Twenty Doctor Who generally ran
start in the
new pattern of around 6.50pm on Tuesdays and 6.45pm on
Wednesdays - placing it opposite the urban Central soap opera
Crossroads in most regions, followed by the popular rural soap
Emmerdalf Farm on Tuesdays and This Is Your Life on Wednesdays. It
had been planned for filming on The Return (also known as Warhead)
to take place on Tuesday 4 and Wednesday 5 January, but instead
Davison continued his work at Tunbridge Wells. And although an
item about the start of Doctor Who's 20th season was offered to the
Todayprogramme (described as an interview with "fan club loony"),
Radio 4's morning news programme did not in fact cover the event.

uring January, Saward started to line up more stories for the

next season; scripts for Warriors of the Deep and The
Auiakcning began to arrive, and several new storylines were Meanwhile, audience data was starting to arrive on the new season,
commissioned, among them Ghost Planet by Robin Squire and The Cold War showing that on average the Tuesday/Wednesday pattern had seen tiie series
by Saward's former girlfi^iend Paula Woolsey Dicks' script for The Five Doctors drop to seven million viewers, over two million down on the previous year's
was also completed, although changes were necessary when it became clear Monday/Tuesday pairing. A new method of measuring audience reaction
that Baker would not agree to appearing with his fellow Doctors in the had been introduced (no figures having been recorded the previous season)
special. As a result, clearances were obtained in mid-January to use several as Appreciation Index replaced Reaction Index, and Doctor Who's scores were
minutes' worth of material showing Baker alongside Lalla Ward as Romana generally higher than in the ig8o/8i run of shows. But no episodes were
in Shada, the partially-completed serial which had been abandoned due to getting particularly high audiences, with the Wednesday instalment being
industrial action in December 1979. invariably better-rated than the Tuesday one.
Fortunately, Enlightenment was not heading the same way as Shada. One On Tuesday 22 February, the BBC in-house publication Ariel ran a feature
day was spent on completing the Kamelion scenes for The Kind's Demons with aboutBBC Enterprises striking the deal for the special Longleat event with
anow fiinctioning metal man, after which the two studio sessions booked the Marquis of Bath,
and a formight later the magazine carried a piece by
saw EnH(|htcnment and hence the 'Black Guardian trilogy'
for The Return Nathan-Turner on the special and Season Twenty-One. Afi:er a few weeks'
completed by Tuesday i February. The delay in production meant that break, Davison, Fielding and Strickson were joined by the massed ranks of
several of the original guest cast who had been booked for the original Doctors and companions from the show's past as read-throughs for The Fine
Doctors took place at the end of February. Over this period of production,
OUER THIS PEHIOO QF publicity about the show's forthcoming anniversary moved up a gear.
f»

PHODUCTIDH, PUBLIGITII HBDUT Davison and a previously interview-shy Troughton appeared along with K9
• and a Dalek on BBCi's Brealcfast Time on Tuesday i March to promote the
THE SHOWS POHTHCOniinS Longleat event, a few days before the unit departed to North Wales for tfie

nnniuERSHRS mousD up h behr extensive location shoot on the special.

In die meantime, on Friday 4 March, Stafford Hildred of The Daily Star
a ^cording two months earlier were no longer available, and one of tiiese praised Peter Davison for managing to successfully follow Tom Baker in tiie
roles fell to Leee John, a member of the pop group Imaginatioii,;,which role. By now, Davison had discussed with Nathan-Turner about whether he
again bought Doctor Who some exposure. would or would not be staying for a fourth season of Doctor Who; he had
Snalcedance screened in the second half of January. Radio Times ran a colour been contracted on Monday 8 November 1982 for a further batch of 26
feature in its Back Pa^es section on Thursday 27 January to promote both the programmes, but with no option for a fourth season. Because of the
return of the dependable Brigadierand the debut of the untrustworthy production problems which had plagued his second season and the disap-
Turlough in Maujdryn Undead the following week. This serial caused conti- pointing lack of resources allocated to the show - plus a few issues with
nuity concerns among fans, since it placed the Brigadier in retirement prior elements of the scripts - Davison decided to decline the offer and depart
to his supposedly earlier escapades in command of UNIT; general conflision after his third year in the role. He also had friendly disagreements with
bubbled over into BBCi's viewer comment programme Points of View after Nathan-Turner over the producer's apparent desire to reduce the British feel
the serial had concluded on Friday 11 February. Terminus likewise attracted of the series by introducing companions of other nationahties in an attempt
audience reaction when it was screened later in February (with Part One to make it saleable overseas. By now, Janet Fielding and Mark Strickson had
being shown a day earlier on BBC Cymru than on the rest of the network); also indicated that they did not wish to remain with the series beyond the
in this case, it was the mistaken beUef that the Lazar's disease depicted in current year; Strickson was impatient to move onto the next stage of his
the serial was a medically accurate depiction of leprosy that drew career and his new contract on Tuesday 8 February was only for 20 episodes.
complaints from the The Leoprocy Mission [sic] for misrepresentation of As the scripts started to take shape for the show's 21st season, it was clear
the malady. that there would be major changes ahead.

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Sitting uncomfortably: 'the Renegade',

CDmmissioninB also known as Omega (Ian Collier), s bbc

Tue 15 Dec 81 The Time of Neman

outline submitted Undead looked better. It was an odd decision, even so, as my
Wed 1 3 )an 82 The Time of Omega memories of Doctor Who didn't stretch back to the Brigadier.
[working title] scripts commis- But I think it was a reflection of how The Past ruled back then.
sioned for Wed 10 Feb 82. In a way, it seemed a chance to capture what we thought we'd
Parts One to Three delivered Mon never own - early Doctor Who. With no idea that, years later,
1 Mar 82; Part Four delivered Tue we'd be able to buy tapes of The Deadly Assassin or Spearhead
30 Mar 82 From Space, a story set on Gallifrey, or with the Brigadier in,
was exactiy what we did want. Now, however. Arc o/Injiniti) and
PRDDUCTIOn stories of its type seem very much less important. With the
Men 3 May 82 Amsterdam: originals available, there's no longer the need for imitations.
Schipol Airport [Arrivals For the purposes of this Special, it's a pity I haven't some
Hall/Runway]; Muntplein [Flower special nugget of information that links me uniquely with Arc:

Market/Telephone] a claim that my uncle played the Ergon, perhaps, but that
Tue 4 May 82 Amsterdam: would seem unlikely, even if it were true. Or revealing that I
Blauburgwal [Chase/Old House]; was in Amsterdam when Peter Davison brushed past me,
NieuwezijdsVoorburgwal [Tram doing his Omega bit - although quite where I'd have to have
lines]; Bob's Youth Hostel, 92 been for this to happen, I'm unsure. The unlovely back streets
NieuwezijdsVoorburgwal [Youth of Doctor Who's Amsterdam share httle with the busy and
Hostel]; Singel [Canal/Hostel]; vibrant capital I visited more recently The programme's focus

Herenstraat [Search/Streets]; on call phones and one ugly fountain must have depressed
219 Lijn Baansgracht Police Holland's Tourist Board no end. Not that Arc didn't cross my
Station [Police Station]; mind. I thought of it brieflyon my approach to Dam Square -
Hoopman Bodega, 4 Leidesplein now there's a place that ought to have looked good on camera,
[Cafe/Telephone]; Vondelpark a great court flanked by huge churches and the Royal Palace,
Youth Hostel, 5 Zandpad [Youth and an 'Omega' jewellers on the corner. Not thatyou see any of
Hostel]; Sint Nicolasstraat, this in the programme.
Amsterdam [Chase/Streets] Anyway, Arc's last episode is its best - just. Overall, less of
Wed 5 May 82 Amsterdam: the Time Lords and more of the man-hunt of the finale would
Armstelveld [Organ pitch]; have made a better story. Omega, re-born but shunned by all
Prinsengrach [Street/Flower

Stall]; Huis Frankendael, 72

mnderstand
-
one don't much
indeed, much of Season Twenty.
Injiniti) nor,
thing: I like Arc of societies, is

there's
something of a Frankenstein's Monster - and
some evidence the production team spotted this, with
Middenweg [Frankendael House] It's the Phantom Menace of Doctor Who, the point Davison's Omega adopting a rather unnatural walk. His scene
Thu 6 May 82 Amsterdam: where expectation gave way to a spiral of disil- with the child late in Part Four even pays vague homage to a
Amstel Sluize [Lock/Canal lusionment; it's also self-important, and as poignant moment in the original Karloff film of 1931. It's all

Siding]; The Skinny Bridge boring as anyone who talks about themselves at length. It too little too late, though.
[Bridge] thought all its audience were dyed-in-the-wool fans, when Arc of Infinity plays to the home crowd and fails - but not
Fri 7 May 82 Amsterdam: they weren't - the Guardian trilogy being a more consistent just because it's set on Gallifrey, or because it has Omega or
Blauburgwal Central Station offender than Season Twenty-Two in that regard. Arc o/Infinitij the Time Lords in it. That argument doesn't take into account
[Forecourt]; Dam Square is the start of Doctor Who's mid-ig8os rut. The Deadly Assassin's appeal, which also remmed an old villain
[Chase]; Damrak [Chase] You see, the passage of time puts a different perspective on on the Doctor's little-seen homeworld without ever feeling so
Mon 17 May 82 Television Centre the wisdom of reviving old monsters and such. Come with me suffocatingly exclusive. However, Assassin's setting can be
Studio 1: Hostel; Cafe; TARDIS back to 1983 : I'd a video recorder by now, a chunlcy top-loader seen as only a framework for the main action, which the '

Corridor; Console Room - but a wondrous thing. To my eyes, its sole purpose for viewer can choose to tune in or out on without losing its

Tue 18 May 82 Television Centre existing was to record Doctor Who. But which stories? With central revenge plot. Arc, on the other hand, just doesn't have
Studio 1: Companions' Room; tapes a dear £10, 1 had to be selective. I chose stories to record enough edge-of-the-seat incident, humour, style or pace to
The Crypt; Pump House; Service on the strength of a clutch of preview picmres in Doctor Who make us forgive or forget its inward-looking script. Arc of
Passage Monthly, as was - a disastrous system that landed me with a Infinity snubs its audience alright, but not just by parroting
Mon 31 May 82 Television Centre copy of the Concorde story instead of Earthshoclc. I skipped Arc Doctor Who lore; by failing to offer anything dramatic to play
Studio 1 : Hedin's Office; The because, going by tie photos of Nick Courtney, Maiudryn alongside it.

Matrix; Omega's TARDIS;

TARDIS; Chamber; Computer
Room
Tue
Studio
1

Computer Room;
Jun 82 Television Centre
1: Omega's TARDIS;
Gallifrey
onHiiinaiMiii
9 Writerjohnny Byrne wanted most accomplice on Gallifrey to transmit February 1982, and a third draft of Part
Corridor; Corridor; Rest Area; of the Omega storyline to have taken the Doctor's bio-data to Omega, One was delivered on Thursday 11

Security Compound place before the start of Part One, so providing a fresh way to involve the March. Acknowledging delivery of Part
Wed 2 Jun 82 Television Centre that the serial's narrative would slowly Time Lords' homeworld Three the following day, script editor
Studio 1: Council Chamber; unravel to reveal what had already EricSaward indicated he wanted to
Termination Area; Castellan's been set up. Originally, Omega's 4^ Interviews for cast members were save a lot of the film sequences forthe
Office; Amsterdam Pumping return from the anti-matter universe held in early April 1982. Sean Arnold climax of the serial. The story had
House; A Time Lord's Office was to weaken the Doctor, triggering was considered forthe Castellan gained the title Arc of Infinity by the
regeneration nightmares. This led to of March. On Tuesday 13 April,
start
RnaiD Times the concept of 'bonding' between the Byrne submitted several drafts of Saward apologised to Byrne forthe
Mon 3 Jan 83 Part One: What is Doctor and Omega -which in turn his scripts: Parts One and Two were delayin sending him the revised Part

the mystery in Amsterdam? ^ suggested that Omega should have an originally delivered on Friday 26 Four script with its altered chase

CTDH LUHD mnGosinE

 sequence. Saward later made tiTniag office thought that the costume was
"-edits on Part Four too sensational and had banned it

tf'
a Thursday 29 April 1982: a film Sj^ Thursday 6 May 1982: it was after
read-througli was held on this day. this heavy day of filming that the cast
Peter Davison surely felt that the and crew enjoyed a night out in the
chance reunion of Tegan and the ,
city, with Janet Fielding (Tegan)
Doctor in Amsterdam was ludicrous, attracting a lot of unwanted attention
and there was no real reason for the as they wandered into Amsterdam's
serial to be set in the city; nevertheless, notorious red light district
lie enjoyed the location filming

9 Monday 31 May 1982: Ian Collier

Producer John Nathan-Turner (Omega) found that the Omega mask
engaged in crowd control around was a disaster, as he could not hear
Amsterdam, as lots of tracl<ing shots himself speak over the noise of the
were ruined by people pointing at the servos which were intended to operate
camera. An old lady whom he the light-activated jaw. Most of his
attempted to steeraway from the lines had to be redubbed later. The Wed
Peter Davison and Sarah Sutton wait their ;Y 5 Jan 83 Part Two:
shoot thought he was a thief and studio session over-ran by an hour cue on the Omega's TARDIS set. © bbc Who is attempting to Bond with
attacked him. During the shoot, the Doctor?
Nathan-Turner decided to play a joke Credits: Rod Waldron was to have as D3 tapes taken from the two-inch Tue 11 Jan 83 Part Three: Who is

on Alistair Loos of the Daily Star, been Videotape Editor on the entire broadcast tapes. Timecoded VHS the traitor on Gallifrey?
claimingthat Loos could have an but was replaced by Graham
serial, copies of several studio recordings Wed i2jan 83 Part Four: Who
exclusive photograph of a revealing Hutchings on Part One exist in private hands. A timecoded will win the battle for control of
new outfit - and then withdrawing his first edit of Part Four on U-Matic tape the Matrix?
offer, allegedly because the press tj^ The serial is now held by the BBC survives

if*

Sndkedance
Union of the Snake
nuim HRCHIUE
DWM 227

Oedipus wrecks: stroppy teenager cammissiDiimG

Lon (Martin Clunes). ® bbc
Men 28 Sep 81 Smkedance
[working title] breakdown
passing of the Fourth Doctor was symbolic of the loss of child- commissioned; delivered Mon 19
hood innocence. Such a change seemed unthinkable in 1981; Ort8i
regeneration was something that happened in old Target Mon g Nov 81 Smkeiance
books, not on TV. But two years later we knew better. Through [working title] scripts commis-
journals such as DWM, which was growing up alongside us, sioned for Mon 11 Jan 82.
feeding us interviews, analysis and photographs, the past of Parts One and Two delivered Fri

the serieswas open for close scrutiny more than ever before. 29 Jan 82; Parts Three and Four
And at the same time, the programme was looking back in delivered Mon 8 Feb 82
much the same way.
We came to understand that change was inevitable, and told PHDDUCTIOn
ourselves it was good. Our hearts hardened. Adolescence beck- Wed 31 Mar 82 Ealing Film
oned, and with it, a thousand scary questions. The search for Studios Stage 2: Ruins in

answers would intoxicate and humiliate us over the next few Manussan Hills

years, but the show was always our companion, even if we Mon 12 Apr 82 Television Centre
guiltily disowned it a Uttle as the decade progressed. But back Studio 6: The Market Place [Quiet
in 1983, as if seeking stability in the changing world, fan and Corner; Outside Mirror Hall;
programme clung closely together. Doctor Who had become our Outside Fortune Teller's Booth;
show, and never more so than with Snalcedance. Fortune Teller's Booth; Puppet
The Mara can't bear its own reflection - but writer Booth; Lane Between Stalls]
Christopher Bailey holds up a mirror to us, so that we might Tue 1 3 Apr 82 Television Centre

learn from seeing things as they are. A shockingly young Studio 6: Ambril's Room;
iWartin Clunes gives us Lon, his best brat behaving badly. He is Corridor; Outside Ambril's Room
bored, looking for his place in life. His mother, both confi- Wed 14 Apr 82 Television Centre

dante and carer - he has no girlfriend - is the only woman he Studio 6: A Cell; Corridor;

knows. He sulks and doesn't get on at parties. He knows he Ambril's Corridor; Hall of
wants to be with someone he fancies but has no clue what to do Mirrors
when he's alone with them ("What happens now?" he aslcs Mon 26 Apr 82 Television Centre
Tegan hopeflilly). He has little taste in clothes and parades any Studio 6: Cave [Outside Entrance;
new disastrous outfit before his mum for her approval. Jesus, Snake Mouth; Inside Entrance;
hile Kinda is generally applauded due to and people say that Whizzkid is supposed to be a Doctor Who Near Entrance]; Lon and Tanha's

I I I I
''^'^^'^^'^ wisdom (blah blah Buddhist fan of the period. Suite

I I I I P^'^^''^^> l^'^h blah doesn't matter if the With Lon as the shifting side of our young selves struggling Tue 27 Apr 82 Television Centre

t ^ J snake is crap, honest), its sequel wins fewer to stride off into puberty, add to the mix the Snake luring us out Studio S: Cave [Pictogram
^^HBHIB plaudits. It's generally labelled a straight- of our garden of innocence. In Snakedance, the iMara clearly Chamber; Long Tunnel; Main
forward adventure story, lacking that depth and subtlety its represents the evils of adolescence in all their crushingly Chamber; Hidden Chamber]
prequel possessed in such enigmatic abundance. A pity, since, embarrassing forms. Once this evil takes hold, your voice Wed 28 Apr 82 Television Centre
with hindsight, it's obvious that Snal<edance is allegorical of starts lowering without warning. You wind up day-dreaming to Studio S: Cave [Main Chamber];
something far closer to home for the typical Doctor Who fan. the point of losing all contact with real You find yourself
life. TARDIS Console Room; TARDIS
I was 12 in 1983, one of that breed of fans for whom the frequentiy going red in the face, and laughing madly at things Companions' Room ^
THE CamPLETE PIPTH CTDR
^ HHDia TimES with your mates without ever really getting the joke. To say mountains
-
if he could. This avoidance of all responsibility pays
Tue i8Jan 83 Part One: Who is nothing, boys, of the angst over that secret snake of yours you off that's what Snakfdancc is actually saying! Just sit back,

Dojjen? try so hard to conceal, which has a truly hideous life of its own enjoy the ride, and trust that you'll find the answers in yourself.
Wed ig Jan 83 Part Two: What that you can't control ... Oh, the shame, the shame. It's a shame that the answers the show eventually found

are the powers of the Great How do you combat this dark force within you? You follow after looking inward for so long weren't ones that made sense

Crystal? the example of a sexless, selfless hero who's above such either for the fans or for the general public. But in 1983 the

Tue 25 Jan 83 Part Three: Can concerns. And the Doctor, a young man himself, got the tip-off show knew what was what. The lesson taught conclusively by

Dojjen help the Doctor? from Dojjen. He's and wiser, and yet he's actually
clearly older Snakedance is that despite all the embarrassments of adoles-

Wed 26 Jan 83 Part Four: Will the the impemous part of you ±at would just run away into the cence ... it's alright. And, hey, you know what? No-one dies.

Dortor prevent the Becoming?

lil:lh^!l[IIJail7TT?¥
0 Head of Serials David April and Thursday 15 April
Reid passed his comments on the
Snakedance scripts to Nathan-Turner on Recording took place in the after-
Monday 22 February 1982. Reid felt noon and evenings of most studio days
much of the storytelling was obscure between 2.30 and 5.15pm and then
and confusing, picking out both the 7.30 and 10.30pm; the only days with
intercut shots of Dojjen - a character no afternoon recording were Monday
not properly introduced until Part Four 12 and Monday 26 April
-and the threat of the unseen Mara.
He also thought that the Part Three Set designer Jan Spoczynski had
cliffhanger was weak. Nathan-Turner wanted the studio sets to be made by
and script editor Eric Saward an outside contractor; this request was
responded on Wednesday 24, initially refused - but at a late stage the
explaining that the character of Dojjen work was tendered out after all,

appeared in the script to create a sense resulting in a rushed job Spoczsynski

of suspense and uncertainty, while the was unhappy with. The set for Lon's
Mara was adequately established as a Chamber had been previously used in

threat in Part One. They agreed that A Son^ for Europe

Ealing studios: Davison and 9 At the time the script was being Bailey's style of storytelling was eccen-
Sutton on the slopes of the developed, it had been decided that tric, but liked its originality; the team Both Fielding and Sarah Sutton
Manussan Hills with Jonathon the character of Nyssa would soon be did, however, promise Reid that the (Nyssa) disliked their new regular
Morris (Chela), sbbc rest (jfthe scripts for the season were costumes. Although Nathan-Turner
written out of the series. Producer John
Nathan-Turner felt that Nyssa had more conventional science fiction wanted each of the girls to have a
been fully explored, but agreed with adventures - specific 'look', he had taken on board
actress Sarah Sutton that throughout complaints about their 'uniforms' of
her last four stories Nyssa should be 0 Casting: Cumming had worked old. He wanted Tegan to be at the

shown maturing into a young lady with Colette O'Neill (Tanha) and Brian height of fashion -with her own 'Tegan
Grellis (Megaphone Man) before, and Cut' from a West End hairdresser
1^ As in Kinda, writer Christopher wanted to work with John Carson
Bailey again derived certain character (Ambril) and Brian Miller (Dugdale). Wednesday 28 April 1982: the Mara
names from religious terms: 'Tanha' She also consciously cast two actors prop was made and designed by
after a Palestinian word meaning a new to television - Martin Clunes and visual effects designer Andy Lazell

thirst or desire for fulfilment, and Jonathon Morris, who was recom- with his assistant Steve Lucas. Inside
'Chela' after a Hindu term for a mended by Nathan-Turner after seeing were a series of hinged mechanisms,
servant or disciple of philosophy. him acting in Bristol with Tom Baker in operated by an air ram on a pivoted
Dugdale was originally 'Duchan', which Feasting mith Panthers. Originally, Alan base. Cast and crew were in fits of
is a platform used by a Hebrew priest Dobie was offered the role of Ambril on laughter when the 'dying Mara' made a

Tuesday March 1982, while Moira

2 rude noise, caused by the pump used
After directing Castroualua, Fiona Redmond and Sylvia Syms were offered to force pinkyoghurt mixture goo
Cumming had expressed to Nathan- Tanha on Monday 8 and Wednesday 10 through its jaws
Turner her preference for scripts with March respectively
more character elements, as opposed 1^ Editing took place between
to hardware-oriented science-fiction - Scenes showing Tegan talking to Thursday 13 and Monday 24 May. Cut
The Doctor focuses on the
which was one of the reasons for her the snake's skull image in the mirror from Part One was Tanha apologising
Great Crystal in a bid to end
the Mara's Becoming ...
being assigned Snakedance. She were added to the script on Tuesday 9 about Lon's behaviour to Ambril, while
©BBC watched Kinda several times to prepare March 1982 Part Three lost a short scene in which
the Doctor and Nyssa discuss quantum

0 Wednesday March 1982: Three

31 theory and mathematics while looking
grass snakes were used, one of which at Dojjen's journal in the cell
was poisonous and was not to be
handled. Preston Lockwood (Dojjen) Composer Peter Howell used the
was less than happy about holding live Fairlight computer synthesiser to both
snakes; working on the assumption manipulate various sounds digitally (in

that she could not ask an actor to do the 'mirror' themes) and also compose
what she couldn't do herself, Cumming ethnic-sounding music forthe
agreed to handle a snake to show him Janissary Band. Dubbing took place on
how easy it was. However, whereas Tuesday 6, Thursday 8, Monday 12 and
Cumming's cold hands were soothing Wednesday 14 July 1982
to the creature, which stayed docile,
when it was placed in the apprehensive Credits: June Collins was an
Lockwood's sweaty palms, the snake uncredited Production Associate, trailing
started to perk up. Peter Davison also Angela Smith
found the snakes un-nerving
0 The serial is now held by the BBC ai

Rehearsals for the two studio D3 tapes taken from the two-inch
recording blocks began on Thursday 1 broadcast tapes

DCTDR UJHD mRGOSinE

Mdwdryn Undead
War Baby MM RilReiiT SHEHRmnil
DUim HRCHIUE
DWM 234
Hello, Mr Chips: the Doctor confers with
the Brigadier (Nicholas Courtney). © bbc cammissianinB
Thu27May82 Moiudryn
Undcod breakdown commis-
world - but when you grow old that world forgets you, and sioned for Thu 3 Jun 82; deliv-
you end up selling secondhand cars somewhere, or teaching ered Wed 2jun 82
0-level Maths. Producer John Nathan-Turner's now Fri 4 Jun 82 Maujdryn Undead
customary flashback sequence is incredibly poignant, because scripts commissioned for Hon
itshows all the Brigadier has lost. Don't all those Axons and 12 Jul 82. Part One delivered
Zygons look quaint and silly in their sepia tints? That's Thu ioJun82; Part Two Thu 17
because they're nothing to do with the 'real' world of the Jun 82; Part Three Thu 24 Jun
Brigadier, who claims that in over 30 years of soldiering he's 82; and Part Four Thu 1 Jul 82
never seen such destructive power as displayed by the British
schoolboy. PRDDUCTIOn
Nicholas Courtney has never been better than playing his Tue24Aug82 Middlesex
dual Brigadiers. His 1977 version still seems young and keen, Polytechnic, Trent Park, Barnet
eager to take control of the situation when he ±inks there has [School Front, Back and
been a plane crash. Six years and the Brigadier looks
later, TerraceJ
fatter, his moustache has gone, and he's given to bouts of Wed 25 Aug 82 Middlesex
depression and paranoia. Clearly ajoke to bo± boys and staff, Polytechnic, Trent Park
his only reminder of better days is a single photograph on his [Country Lane; Field; Brig's
desk. The Brigadier has been destroyed, not by the Daleks or Hut]
Cybermen, but by algebraic formulae, quadratic equations Thu 25 Aug 82 Trent Park
and the very triviality of life. [Obelisk; Hilltop; Outside
And suddenly he's confronted by a Doctor who looks only a Capsule]
few years older than the students he's teaching. No wonder Fri 26 Aug 82 Trent Park
the poor man spends so much of the story in a bad mood. [Hilltop]
At a time when the series so gleefully Qrumpeted its past, Wed 8 Sep 82 Television
Maujdryn is reflective rather than celebratory. Nathan-Turner Centre Studio 6: TARDIS
has often been accused of pandering to the fans and their Console Room; School Sick
desire to wallow in the show's history - but here, when what Bay; School Corridor; Transmat
fliey really want is tiieir UNIT stories back, he dares to give Capsule
was only five years old when Terror of the Zygons was them a story which is all about how time has moved on. I was Thu g Sep 82 Television Centre
broadcast. Consequendy, Mamdryn Undead was the annoyed when the Brig had a nice cosy UNIT reunion in The Studio 6: TARDIS Console
first time I ever saw the Brigadier in action. I've seen Fiue Doctors, and disgusted when he was given a wife and heli- Room; School Corridor; School
all the UNIT of course, but for
stories subsequently, copter in Battlefield. I still find the decline of the Brigadier into Sick Bay; Transmat Capsule;
me of Lethbridge-Stewart has always
the character obscurity one of the single most moving things in the whole Hut
been informed by what he was to become later - a maths of Doctor Who, and those later attempts to jolly him up again Wed 22 Sep 82 Television
teacher in a boy's boarding school. And knowledge of that has seem artificial and childish. Centre Studio 8; TARDIS
always given those action stories a bitter sweetness I find irre- All of this makes the story sound rather bleak. On the Console Room [remount];
sistible. contrary - the joy of Maujdryn is watching how the tired and TARDIS Corridor; Corridor;
Season Twenty an exercise in nostalgia. But Mauidryn
is cynical Brigadier, let loose again on a new adventure in space Inner Room; Control Centre;
Undead is the only story of ±at season actually to be about and time, is gradually restored to the man we know and love. Capsule; Gallery Corridor;
nostalgia, and about the sense of loss it inspires. Whilst fans It's often accused of being too colourful and noisy a story - Laboratory
the world over moaned that Omega wasn't half as good in Arc but surely that's the point. ends up being a wonderfully opti-
It Thu 23 Sep 82 Television
as hewas in The Three Doctors, Mauidryn focused on the disap- mistic tale about how uplifting exposure to the Doctor can be, Centre Studio 8: TARDIS
pointment of looking back to the past, rather than just and in doing so pays Doctor Who the programme the most Corridor; Gallery Corridor;
causing it. glowing of tributes. The Fiue Doctors may be a glorious romp Control Centre; Corridors;
In Time-Fhijht, Peter Grimwade's first Doctor Who script, the with old monsters and assistants galore. But it's Mawdryn Laboratory; Inner Room
Doctor speculates that the Brig might by now be a General; Undead, with its emphasis on compassion and rebirth, ±at Fri 24 Sep 82 Television Centre
four stories later he can hardly beheve that his old friend has sums up the spirit of the show in its anniversary year far more Studio 8: Infinity; Corridor;
left and assumes his being at a school
the military altogether, profoundly. Frankly, I love it. And it always makes me cry. Gallery Corridor; TARDIS
must be an undercover operation. The truth is much more And I really couldn't care less about all that UNIT dating Corridor; Laboratory
harsh, and much more reahstic. In your heyday you save the thing either.
HnDID TIIHES
Tue 1 Feb 83 Part One: Who is

lil:l.^!llljja!4jiT!¥ Turlough?
Wed 2 Feb 83 Part Two: What
has happened to the Brigadier?
d The desire to bring back an old Limitation Effect', as mentioned in the Leth bridge Stewart being retired at the Tue 8 Feb 83 Part Three: Why
character stemmed from fan and unof- 1972 serial Day of the Daleks; Nicholas time of the 1977 Silver Jubilee would is Mawdryn Undead?
ficial series consultant Ian Levine, who Courtney (the Brigadier) Jokingly not fit with established continuity. Wed 9 Feb 83 Part Four: Will
had discussed the idea with writer referred to this as the 'Slimovitch Nathan-Turner, was, however, deter- the Black Guardian succeed?
Peter Grimwade. After the decision Imitation Effect' during production. mined to keep the 1977 date
was tal<en to use the Brigadier, Levine Levine also advised producer John
loaned Grimwade videotapes of the Nathan-Turner that the UNIT stories of ^ In Grimwade's script for Part Four,
UNIT serials. Looking through the the Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker eras the line "Reverse the polarity" was
scripts before production, Levine had been envisaged as being set in the originally "Reverse the trajectory"
recommended that the time paradox near future - approximately between
was referred to as the 'Blinovitch 1975 and 1980 -and so the idea of Q^ The serial originally ended

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The brains of the outfit: with Tegan entering the TARDIS first,
the undying Mawdryn only to find Turlough trying to operate
(David Coliings). ® bbc the controls. When the Doctor and
Nyssa arrive, the Doctor puts a hand
on Turlough's shoulder: "He has been
thinking about Adric. Tegan glares at
Turlough. He looks at her for a
moment, then turns back to the
Doctor. He smiles innocently"
On Thursday 15 July 1982, it was
announced that Sarah Sutton (Nyssa)
would be leaving the series. The
following day, Sutton joined Nathan-
Turner, Anthony Ainley (the Master)
The reading went ahead, and Nathan-
Turner felt that Strickson was the best
choice forthe part; his colleague Gary
Downie had told him that Strickson
had been reliable on Angels. Offered
both the part of Turlough and the
Angels role, Strickson was angry to
discover that his acceptance of further
episodes had been assumed by the
Angels team, and scripts already
rewritten accordingly. Given the
weekend to consider his choice, the
actormade his decision after being
knocked off his bicycle by a lorry. He
opted for Doctor Who. A member of the
Society of Fight Directors, Strickson
signed on to do all his own stunt
on the series. When choosing his
costume, Strickson wanted it to look
dark and contrast with the other regu-
lars, causingthe costume designerto
say he looked like a funeral director
9 Casting: Nick Hedges and John
Maighan also read for the part of
Ibbotson
4^ Tuesday 24 August 1982: the
Brigadier's Humber Imperial was
hired from Midland Film Services.
Filming of the serial at Trent Park was
covered by the Times Higher Educational
Supplement on Friday 3 September,
with a photograph of the opening
(3^ Wednesday 8 September 1982:
Director Peter Moffatt and his team
had hoped to find better lookalikes for
the young Tegan and Nyssa; Lucy
Baker, one of the children featured,
would continue working as Lucy
Benjamin, and was later cast as Lisa
Shaw in EastEnders. A black-and-white
photograph of the younger Brigadier-
a BBC publicity shot taken during
filming for The Clams of Axos - could be
seen on the Brigadier's Hut set.
Grimwade was disappointed by the
cosy and agreeable performance of
Sheila Gill as the Matron, having
envisaged a harridan. The head-dress
work designed for David Coliings to wear as
Mawdryn contained a battery
the alien
mechanism to make the cranium
appear to pulse
Various edits were made to Part
Two. The start of a TARDIS scene was
cut to remove Nyssa explaining that
their trip to Earth didn't take long
because they were close by already. A
short scene showing Tegan peering
into the empty capsule was removed,
as was the end of a scene between the
1983 Brigadier and the Doctor in
which the old soldier recalls that
Tegan was Australian; the start of a
scene between the 1977 Brigadier and
Tegan in the hut was also removed.

and Daiek creator Terry Nation in scene involving the Humber The flashback sequence featuring
Chicago at the largest Doctor Who former companions was compiled by
convention thus far. The event was During rehearsals, Peter Davison Ian Levine
covered by the Daily Express the had been concerned about various
following Monday plot holes; he was amazed to see that Dave Jervis was originally sched-
the finished serial flowed smoothly. uled to have handled video effects, but
^ Mark Strickson faced a dilemma Nicholas Courtney had read the script he was replaced by Robin Lobb. The
when he was offered the part of on holiday in Provence, but could not TARDIS dematerialisation effect called
Turlough. A recent appearance as an understand it; he worked hard to for the use of Quantel in conjunction
ambulance driver on Angels had got create small differences between the with a new piece of equipment called
him noticed, and Strickson discovered two Brigadiers. Valentine Dyall, who 'Tipsy'; this was used to isolate the
that this minor character was being rejoined Doctor Who as the Black Police Box prop in the Part Four scene
considered as a regular when one of Guardian with this story, was in poor where the Brigadier sees the ship
the regular cast, Al Ashton, was taken health, but carried on regardless depart
ill. On the Friday of Strickson's audi-
tion for Turlough, Nathan-Turner was Most of the studio recordings took 9 Fans of the series were swift to
visited by the producer of Angels, Julia place between 2.30 and 5.15pm and spot the 'UNIT dating' continuity
Smith, and told that there was little then 7.30 and 10.30pm; the only day clash. The Friday 11 February edition of
point in seeing Strickson (the penulti- with no afternoon recording was Points ofV\ew aired letters concerning
mate interviewee) as she was offering Wednesday 8 September. An addi- the use of the years 1977 and 1983 for
him a firm job on her show. Strickson tional morning session from 11.00 to the Brigadier's retirement, when it
was also keen to at least read for the 12.00 noon was scheduled for had been assumed that the UNIT
role with Nathan-Turner and Saward. Thursday 9 September stories were set in the future (a setting
of 1975 is hinted at in The Web of Fear,
and Sarah states that she comes from
Trust no-one: the Doctor turns
1980 in Pyramids of Mars). Viewer Ian J
his bacl< on the treacherous
Scott-Horne wrote to the Radio Times a
Turfough (Marl< Striclcson).

Big mista[<e
few weeks later to ask where the
... e bbc
Doctor had been in the 1977
sequences; in the same issue, one
Brian Boyd praised both the return of
the Brigadier and the introduction of
Tu riough

0 Tuesday 6 February 1983: BBC in-

house magazine Ariel carried an article
about Fielding being made up as a
3,345 year-old shortly before her
wedding day in an item entitled The
Bride was able to blush after all

<3^ The serial is now held by the BBC

as D3 tapes taken from the two-inch
Hitting the ground running broadcast tapes. The 16mm film

aboard Mawdryn's ship, e bbc sequences, including out-takes, exist

in a private collection

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There's never been a Bor like this one, etc:
Liza Goddard, Peter Benson and Peter Davison, e bbc commissinmnB
Mon 10 Aug 81 Terminus

[working title] storyline

seem to have been a particularly joyless production: the commissioned for Mon 31 Aug
director wasn't happy, the star wasn't happy, the producer 81; delivered Wed 2 Sep 81
wasn't happy - but where sometimes such an atmosphere Tuei5Sep8i Part One
contributes to creative tension, many viewers clearly feel that commissioned for Mon g Nov
what is commonly held to have been at best a sullen on-set 81; delivered Thu 29 Oct 8;

ambience is all-too-clearly conveyed on screen. So where with rewritten Thu 26 Nov

Logopolis or The Caues ofAndrozani
semi-meaningless adjectives Thu 3 Dec 81 Parts Two to Four
like 'atmospheric' or 'doom-laden' are tossed around, the commissioned for Thu 21 Jan
best Terminus can hope for is 'depressing'. And thus has this 82 (Part Two) and Mon 22 Feb
story become the least-cherished in a contentiously unloved 82 (remainder). Part Two deliv-
season - not disliked as with Arc oJInjinity, nor scorned like ered Fri 8Jan 82 and the
The King's Demons ... just abandoned. remainder on Mon 8 Feb 82
Now, no-one's trying to suggest that Terminus is on a par
with, say, Androzoni as an ambitiously prestigious bit of televi- PHDnucTian
sion masquerading as Doctor Who. Terminus is raggedy-arsed, TuezSSepSi Television
shoestring-budget TV that frequendy looks it. It is so far from Centre Presentation Studio B:

unique in this respect, though, that this alone cannot explain model shots
its lack of popularity among the devotees; the Garm isn't any Wed 2g-Thur30 Sep 81
worse than your average monster, ditto some slightly Ealing Film Studios Stage 3B:
oudandish costumes and CSO work which might best be Corridor; Underfloor Ducting
described as quaintly brave. It's been slammed for the near- Mon 11 Oct 81 Television
superfluous sub-plot involving Tegan and Turlough, but this Centre Studio S: TARDIS
was the era of Doctor Who the soap opera - the twice-weekly Corridor; Adric-Turlough's
slot was a try-out for EastEnders, after all. It hardly seems fair to Bedroom; Nyssa and Tegan's
derive criucal ammunition from the fact that Terminus evokes Bedroom; TARDIS Console
the genre it is being crowbarred into more successfully than Room; Liner Corridor
ack in February 1983, there was broadcast on many of its peers; maybe the objectives are wrong, but it's Tue 12 Oct 82 Television Centre
BBCi a four-part adventure serial - a compo- hardly fair to damn the serial for meeting them. If 'damn' is Studio S: Liner Corridor; Liner
nent of the 2oth series of Doctor Who - entitled the right word - after all, so few people seem to care either Control Room; TARDIS Console
Terminus. I think this is worth establishing at the way. Room; Terminus Door; Liner
outset; it often seems as if no-one - not the fans And if one ignores the hammy conclusions to the latter two Corridor Lower Deck
not the general public, and certainly not anyone concerned episodes - another respect in which Terminus hardly breaks the Mon 25 Oct 82 Television
with its production - wants to remember this fact. Except me. mould - there's not much else wrong with it: it's got a Centre Studio 8: Terminus
Someone - it could have been a philosopher, it might magnificent, spooky opening episode; the incidental music's Receiving Area; Terminus
equally have been Charles M Schulz - once stated that there is fine, certainly better than Roger Limb's other score for the Elevator; Terminus Stockyard;
nothing worse than not being loved. This does not mean season; it's got Peter Benson as Bor giving the finest sustained Tunnel deep inside Terminus;
being hated; one might say, for instance, that The Tiuin comedic performance in tfie show post-Douglas Adams. No- Terminus Control Room
Dilemma or Sillier Nemesis is hated. In some ways this is an one, least of all me, is proclaiming Terminus to be anything far Tue 26 Oct 82 Television Centre
acceptable position; at least everyone, on both sides of the above the norm. It epitomises the norm - it's got its prob- Studio 8: Storage Tank/Recovery
knows where he or she stands. Indifference is more
division, lems, it fights against them, sometimes it succeeds and some- Room; Deep inside Terminus;
nebulous and harder to bear - and, apparently, the standard times it doesn't. So far, so Doctor Who. But still - and after this Storage Tank/Vanir HQ; Storage
response to Terminus, once voted by fanzine International long, probably for all time - it must be the most forgotten Tank/Equipment Store;
Elertromatix as potentially the least exciting video release BBC story in the canon; few children of the Thatcher era will excit- Terminus Lower Catwalk;
Worldwide could sanction. edly recall 'the bit when all the lepers come out of the lifts'. Terminus Main Area; Storage
Now, meet the artist who was any judge of his or
I've yet to All of which might be rather apt, really - just as the Vanir Tank/Lazar Ward; Terminus
her own work, and so the dissatisfaction of, say Eric Saward won't go into the forbidden zone, just as no-one will admit to Control Room
or Peter Davison with Season Twenty as a whole might Lazar's disease in the family ... Terminus really isn't something Wed 27 Oct 82 Television
conceivably be dismissed as irrelevant. Terminus does, though. Doctor Who fans want to acknowledge. It's a bit of a leper. Centre Studio 8: Terminus
Tunnel; Terminus Catwalk;
Terminus Damaged Area;

lil:I^^IIIIIJai4rTi¥ Terminus Control Room

Sat 18 Dec 82 Television
Centre Studio 1 : Liner Control
(i Developing his storyline, writer ^ Tuesday 28 September: rehearsals drones mending the panel broken by Room and TARDIS Corridor/
Steve Gallagher envisaged the Vanir as sequences were conducted
for the film Tegan and Turlough in Part Three were Control Room [remount]
being something like monks in charge on the same day as the model abandoned. Valentine Dyall's lines as
of plague hospitals of the Middle recording. Gallagher was asked by the the Black Guardian were played into RHOin TimES
Ages, with Lazar's Disease substituting production office to view the model studio from tape. Dry ice was used for Tue 15 Feb 83 Part One: What
the Black Death sequences for Terminus in a preview the purifying gas is the secret of the screaming
theatre at Broadcasting House, and skull?
9 In his scripts, Gallagher also noted was disappointed by the videotaped Extras: one of the female extras Wed 16 Feb 83 Part Two: Who
that "The Vanir's treatment of Lazars effects in comparison to more sophis- playing a Lazar was replaced on the are the Vanir?
is always impersonal"; when Sigurd ticated modelwork seen in the US day by Kathy Burke, who later became Tue 22 Feb 83 Part Three: Will
and Valgard capture Nyssa, they "half- cinema a prominent comedy actress in Harry Nyssa survive?
drag and half-carry her, assuming that Programme and
Enfield's Teleuision Wed 23 Feb 83 Part Four: Can
she can't manage for herself" Monday 25 October: shots of the Gimme, Gimme, Gimme! the Doctor save Terminus?

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The hollow man: Striker (Keith Barron) toys with
Tue 22 Sep 81 The Enlightcners
the ephemeral Doctor (Peter Davison), e bbc
breakdown commissioned for

Mon 5 Oct 81 ; delivered Wed 7

Oct 81 - he begs the Doctor to promise that they will leave the ship
Thu 22 Oct 81 The Etilijfiteners (thereby hopefully nixing the hex) - but when he is faced with
Part One commissioned for the idea that maybe the curse will come true, he'd rather throw
Mon 16 Nov 81; delivered Mon himself into the depths of space than suffer immortality.
16 Nov 81 The clear message is that ephemeral life is better. "Parasites!
Tue 5 Jan 82 The Enli^hfcners That's what Eternals are! You feed on living minds, " the Doctor
Parts Two to Four commis- says to Striker, before mocking the Eternal's stance: "Living
sioned for Mon 1 Feb 82 (Part minds are contaminated with crude emotions; organic, irra-
Two) and Mon 8 Mar 82 tional, creative - entertaining." In one regard this echoes the
(remainder). Parts Two and anti-Cybermen argument made the year before in Earthshocic,
Three delivered Mon 1 Feb 82; but the counter-argument is an interesting inversion. Where a
Part Four delivered Wed 3 Mar CyberUfe, the series tells us, is one without emotion and appre-
82 ciation of the finer things in life, an Eternal life is even worse.
Life without death. Enlightenment tells us, is no life at all.
PRODUBTIDIl One of the most interesting things to watch
is Marriner's
Wed 3 Nov 81 Ealing Film curious infamation witii Tegan. Right until the end, as die
Studios Stage 3B: Striker's White Guardian banishes IWarriner and Stryker to the Eternal's
Deck void, he claims to "need" Tegan. "You are life itself," he tells
Thu 4 Nov 81 Ealing Film her. "Without you, I am nothing." Tegan assumes his feelings
Studios Stage 3B: Wrack's are a burgeoning love for her, but Marriner's reply reveals a
Deck; Space starkly literal truth behind his declaration: "Love? What is love?
Fri5Nov8i Ealing Film I want existence."
Studios Stage 3B: Striker's Deck In Part Four, during the Black and White Guardian's
Mon8-Frii2Nov8r Ealing Qnlightenmcnt is often praised for all the wrong discourse on the nature of the universe, you can begin to infer
Film Studios: model filming reasons. Much is made of the impact of the some±ing else of this story's love of 'ephemerals'. White
Mon 17 Jan 83 Television cliffhanger to Part One (the ship is in space!) makes it clear that good cannot exist without evil - there can be
Centre Studio i:TARDIS and the elaborate wrong-footing of the detailed no shadow without light - but the impUcation is that the 'grey
Passage; TARDIS Console Edwardian nautical setting built up in these first area' in between, that area in which things actually happen, is
Room; Wrack Alleyway; Wrack 25 minutes. And that's all fair and true. But Enlightenment is the domain of the mortal. It's Turlough's tiny action, his
Gridroom; about so much more than an intergalactic yacht race. As well as refusal to take the power offered by 'Enlightenment', that
Tue 18 Jan 83 Television having to tell a story of its own, Enlightenment has to wrap up the finally tips the balance and ensures that the good guys win.
Centre Studio 1: Wrack trilogy of tales concerning Turlough's arrival and his bargain Enlightenment, we are told, is "the wisdom which knows all
Stateroom; Wrack Alleyway; with the Black Guardian. And it does its job well - but it has things, and which will enable me to achieve that which I desire
Wrack Corridor; Wrack more to say than just that. the most". Turlough's offered this, but the final suggestion is
Wheelhouse; Wrack The Eternals in Enlightenment are discontented with their way that the greatest wisdom is found in knowing your limits,
Companionway of life, getting their kicks vicariously from mortal lifeforms. understanding your 'smallness'. Two stories earlier, this
Sun 30 Jan 83 Television They call them "toys", and can only experience emotion by lesson was learnt the hard way by Mawdryn, whose painfttl
Centre Studio 1 : Striker borrowing it from them. It's obviously a pretty shallow way to cycle of perpemal regeneration led him and his fellow immor-
Wheelhouse; Striker go about things, and the distant and cold Striker shows this tals to realise that boundless power and endless hfe aren't
Companionway; Striker probably better than any other in the story. He seems quite the wonderfitl things they may appear. This is echoed in
Alleyway; Striker Tegan's concerned about nothing else but the diversion of the race, but The Fiue Doctors, too, with Borusa's prize of immortality being
Cabin; Striker Corridor his involvement is without joy or urgency. It's hollow. Even littie more than a living death.
Mon 31 Jan 83 Television deathis nothing to an Eternal; they just 'transfer' back to their At heart. Enlightenment has a message common to a lot of
Centre Studio 1: Striker
^ dimension, there to take another form. They may have endless
but they don't know how to live it.
life,
Doctor
special
Who - that the lives of the
and worth fighting
little people are precious,
for. Beings like the Guardians and
As Turlough's allegiances begin to waver, the Black the Eternals may have unimaginable power at their fingertips,
Guardian threatens him: "I condemn you to everlasting life. but they lack, and are jealous of, one thing: the ability to live,
You will never leave this ship!" Turlough is terrified by the idea and to die.

iii!H!iiiija!iriTi¥
^ Writer Barbara Clegg started acting Wyndham's The Chrysalids. She knew detached Eternals came from Clegg's
while at university and pursued a stage Doctor Who script editor Eric Saward observations of various rich relatives'
carrer in the 19505, becoming a regular from her work in radio drama -and, responses to other parts of herfamily,
cast member in the ATV soap opera having watched Doctor Who with her almost as if they were playing with
Emergency Ward 10. In 1961 she wrote children, submitted a story idea, heard 'lesser beings'. Having heard of solar
several Coronation Street episodes; this back promptly and went to meet winds, Clegg developed the idea of
led to more soap opera scripts, for Saward. Both Saward and producer sailing boats in space, while the trick
ATV's Crossroads and for BBC radio John Nathan-Turner thought her story- about gaining 'enlightenment' itself
series including Mrs Dale's Diary. Clegg linewas something new and different, was derived from the Biblical Tree of
The Doctor listens to the
was particularly prolific on radio, her and she was commissioned at once Knowledge. The author wrote the Black
whine of the ancient
work including a 1981 Radio 4 Saturday and White Guardians into her serial on
Marriner (sorry). ® bbc
Night Theatre adaptation of John 4^ The idea for the remote and request

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^ On Friday 20 November
agreed tliatClegg would rewrite her
1981, it was harness partially broke, with the actor
taking the impact -and as a result he
complex Grid Room
in consultation with video effects
set was designed ^ Alleyway; Striker Foc'sle;

Wrack Black Grid Room;

first version of Part One, wiiich was found walking painful forthe next fort- designer Dave Chapman. For Wrack's Wrack Alleyway; Striker

delivered on Saturday 12 December night. Cumming toyed with the idea of multi-image 'focus' sequence. Baron Companionway; Striker Ladder

putting the deck set on gimbals to stood in The

front of black drapes. to Hold; Striker Hold

^ Towards the end of May 1982 prob- simulate a ship's movement, but the scenes in Wrack's Grid Room were Tue 1 Feb 83 Television Centre
lems with another script, The Space effect was achieved simply by moving completed with only ten seconds to Studio 1 : Striker Stateroom;

Whale, meant that for a short time the cameras. The shots of Turlough spare before the 10.00pm deadline Striker Wheelhouse; Striker
Clegg'sThe Enligliteners was scheduled floating in space were filmed on 35mm Companionway; Striker

as Serial 6F, to be directed by Peter (not 16mm), so they could be inte- ^ Tuesday 18 January 1983: an error in Alleyway
Moffatt - but it was soon replaced by grated with model shots costuming meant that Marriner only
the hastily-written Maiudryn Undead. had two stripes of rank when he should RnDia TiniES
The Enlighteners dropped back again, ^ Model sequences shot on 35mm have had three. The Doctor swapping Tue 1 Mar 83 Part One: Will

with Clegg delivering a new version of film at Ealing Film Studios were based his celery for a fresh sprig at the .the White Guardian be able to
Part Two on Monday 17 May and a on detailed storyboards produced by banquet was an ad-lib. None of the help the Doctor?

revised Part Four on Monday 21 June visual effects designer Mike Kelt. The cast or extras were allowed to eat or Wed 2 Mar 83 Part Two: Who
model boats were built and refurbished drink any of the food used in the are the Eternals?

Saward wrote to Clegg on Tuesday from research undertaken by Kelt at banquet scene. Front Axial Projection Tue 8 Mar 83 Part Three: Will

10 August 1982 to say that he wanted the Maritime Museum. Most of the was used to make the Enlightenment Turlough succeed in his

more material for Part Four, which was ships were rod-mounted, and those crystal glow. There was an over- run of mission?

under-running. Revised rehearsal with moving oars housed a battery- 30 minutes due to videotape and set Wed g Mar 83 Part Four: What
scripts were sent to Clegg on Monday powered motor; the model of Davey's problems is Enlightenment?
20 September, along with a note in ship was not destroyed, with the effect
which Saward explained why he had achieved by cutting to film of an explo- ^ Monday 31 January 1983; a repro-
retitled the serial Enh,ghtenment, feeling sion. The table-top model of Venus was duction of a September 1901 edition of
it to be stronger and more mysterious. made from carved polystyrene on a The Times was used in the Part One
On Friday 24 September, Saward wooden base, and the 'heat haze' was scenes in the Foc'sle. A recording break
informed Clegg that Fiona Cumming achieved by placing a bar heater just
had been appointed as director and out of shot below the camera
would like to meet Clegg for lunch.
Cumming had already asked about Wednesday 3 November 1982: the
giving Striker's ship a name, since this role of Jackson had been expanded by
would need to appear on the crew's Saward and Cumming when Part Two
uniforms; the name SS Shadoiv was under-ran, but Tony Caunter (who
eventually assigned by Cumming played him) was double-booked on
another show. To release Caunter, all

Parts One and Two under-ran by a Jackson's scenes were filmed first

minute and a half and two minutes Foc'sle believe anything:

respectively. More material was ^ For a while during November, it was Turlough (Mark Strickson)

required: the Part One dialogue hoped that the second studio session shares tall tales with the crew

between and Jackson in the

Collier would be salvageable even though the of the SS Shadow. ® bbc

Foc'sle about The America was first had been abandoned. When it

extended; in Part Two, Jackson was became clearthat Sallis would not be allowed make-up to be added to Mark
written in to provide information origi- new dates, the role of
available on the Strickson's neck for when the Black
nally given in reported speech. Part was offered to Michael Jayston
Striker Guardian attempts to throttle Turlough
Three's cliffhangerwas intended to on Tuesday 30 November, then Nigel in Part Two
show Turlough suffocating in the grid- Hawthorne on Wednesday 8 December
room, but when the instalment ran and Donald Houston on Wednesday 15 A gallery-only session was held at
some scenes from Part Four were
short December. The new studio dates for the end of thefirst week of February.
moved back to extend it. The charac- January were confirmed on Wednesday Editing between Tuesday 8 and
ters ofjenkinsand Grogan were not 8 December Saturday ig February was minimal. Part
named in the original script One lost a shot of the TARDIS arriving.
^ Before the producer's run-through, Part Four lost a scene between Wrack
was Cumming who came up with
It Cumming alerted Nathan-Turner to and Turlough; here. Wrack laughs as
the notion that the Eternals would not problems which the regular cast were the Chinese mariner walks the plank
blink, and many of the actors playing having with their characters. Davison and Turlough is amazed too see that
the Eternals were all cast for their said that there was no rapport between the man has simply vanished. A shot of
ability to give a 'detached' perform- the trio of the Doctor, Tegan and Striker saying that the Doctor is too
ance. Cumming recalled Peter Sallis Turlough - and Tegan, in particular, late to stop Wrack was also dropped
(originally Striker) playing such a role was acting in such a 'bolshy' manner
in the 1974 BBC drama The Pallisers, a that the Doctor would be inclined to Cumming had not worked with
series on which she and Nathan-Turner dump her from his crew. Fielding also composer Malcolm Clarke before. His
had worked. Lynda Baron was a good felt that both Turlough and Tegan were incidental score ran to over 32 minutes,
friend of Nathan-Turner's; her intelligent characters and should not in addition to which (at Cumming's
daughter, Sarah Lee, became the simply be written as foils forthe request) almost five minutes' worth of
show's production secretary from Doctor. As a result, Nathan-Turner The Milonga from Borges at 80 was used
Frontiosto Reuelation of the Daieks asked Davison, Strickson and Fielding in Parts Three and Four, and Dick Mills

to find a new dynamic to make the contributed seven minutes' 'visual

Dolore Whiteman, who had played characters work better in future music' forthe last two instalments. The
Tegan's Aunt Vanessa in Logopolis, music had to be written quickly; Clarke
attended a photocall at Television <^ Recording took place in the after- did not receive an edited Part One until
Centre on Monday 18 October for the noon and evenings of each studio day Sunday 20 February, little over a week
photograph of her character seen in from 2.30 to 5.15pm and then from before transmission
Tegan's cabin in Part Two 7.30 to 10.30pm
^ UK Gold first screened the serial in

Forthe film scene in which Monday 17 January 1983: Kelt was episodic form in August 1994
Dynamic duo? Tegan (Janet
Turlough jumps off the ship, Mark appalled to see how fragile the TARDIS
Fielding) looking anything
Strickson was placed in a harness console was, and suggested to Nathan- Enh'ghtenment is now held by the
but 'bolshy' at Wrack's
attached to a Kirby wire to cross the 30' Turner that a new one should be built. BBC as D3 tapes taken from the two-
reception. @ bbc
drop. However, during filming the Due to the need to employ CSO, the inch broadcast tapes

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Silver nemesis: Davison poses with the
Mon 22 Feb 82 The Android
'disastrous' Kamelion. @ bbc
scripts commissioned forThu 1

Jul 82; delivered Thu 22 Apr 82

inspected such ingenious contraptions as the skull-crusher,

PRDDUCTIDn the Judas cradle and the strappado that you begin to appreciate
Sun 5 Dec 82 Bodiam Castle, the sheer depths of depravity we humans are capable of And
Bodiam, East Sussex then, suddenly, there she was: the iron maiden. Not just any
[Woodland Near Castle; old iron maiden either, but the absolute spitting image of the
Castle] one in The King's Demons.
Mon 6 Dec 82 Bodiam Castle The thing about the iron maiden, as an informative placard
[Castle] was at pains to remind us in several different languages, is that
Tue 7 Dec 82 Bodiam Castle it's of unhistoric piffle. Although such imple-
largely a pile
[Castle; Castle Stable; Castle ments undoubtedly existed in medisval times, scholars are
Tower] agreed that they were probably nothing more than an unpleas-
Sun 19 Dec 82 Television andy claustrophobic variation on the pillory - something in
Centre Studio 1 : Dungeon; which to lock miscreants for a couple of hours to give them a
Corridor; Great Hall; Guest chance to consider their misdeeds. The idea that they were
Chamber ever lined with murderous spikes is a romantic invention of
Mon 20 Dec 82 Television the i8th century, a product of the late Georgian vogue for
Centre Studio i: Castle blood-and-thunder Gothic novels which popularised an
Corridor; Dungeon; Great Hall; imperfectly understood medieval past. The Holy Terror star
King's Chamber; Master's Peter Guinness may well shove Johnny Depp's mother inside
TARDIS; TARDIS Console Room one in Sleepy Hollou), but he's allowed to - Sleepy Hollou) is set
Sun 16 Jan 83 Television over 500 years after The ICing's Demons.
Centre Studio 1 : King's Unfortunately, the iron maiden blunder
is far from being
Chamber [remount]; TARDIS the only gaffe in the cod-medisval vision of Plantagenet
Console Room [remount] England we're offered by The King's Demons, which as a histor-
ical document has less in common with Simon Schama than
RHOia Times with thefirst series of The Blade Adder (originally shown just a
Tue 15 Mar 83 Part One; Who few weeks after the Doctor's escape from Fitzwilliam Castie,
is the true demon? and boasting some suspiciously similar-looking sets too!). We
Wed 16 Mar 83 Part Two: inding myself in Amsterdam recently, the should applaud writer Terence Dudley's well-intentioned chal-
Which of the King's champions prospect of spotting the odd Arc qflnjinity loca- lenge to the facile and inadequate folk image of 'Bad King
will succeed? popped into my head.
tion quite understandably John', but the rest of his historical revisionism is decidedly
What I was an encounter with
didn't expect suspect. Once you've dismissed, as many righdy have, (he
something from the other end of Season 20, Doctor's ludicrous suggestions that Magna Carta was the
Tucked away behind an easily-missed doorway in an unre- foundation-stone of 'parliamentary democracy', that John was
markable stone edifice on the north bank of the Singel, not 50 in favour ofit, and that preventing it would somehow allow the
feet from the belltower that appears in the opening location Master to gain control of the Earth, is there anything left in The
shot of Arc 0/ Injinity, lurks one of the city's less noted Kind's Demons to enjoy or respect?
museums. You won't find Van Gogh's Sunflowers or Weil yes, happily, there is. As ably demonstrated by the
Rembrandt's Night Watch here, nor will you learn anything recent success of A Knitjht's Tale (which, funnily enough, was
about Ann Frank, or shipbuilding, or tulips, or indeed any also a working tide for The Kind's Demons), historical swash-
other herbal product with which the Dutch capital may be bucklers don't necessarily require historical authenticity to
associated. For this, in all its delightfijUy un-touristy shabbi- succeed. Like A Knighfs Tale, The King's Demons gets by on an
ness, is Amsterdam's Torture Museum. engagingly lively atmosphere, a splendid guest cast, some
None of your flashy son rt lumierc Chamber of Horrors great music and sumpmous location work (at Bodiam Castie
nonsense here, you understand: no articulated mannequins in ICent - and you should go there too, by the way. It's beau-
repetitively beheading one another in slow motion. Just a tifiil).

mind-boggling array of implements of tormre through the So let's be kind to The King's Demons. It's nobody's favourite
ages, crammed into a succession of winding corridors that Doctor Who story; I doubt that it's even anyone's favourite
make the Longleat exhibition look positively spacious. Davison story. But for all its faults it's a very warm, comforting
As my companion and I proceeded down these ghoulish litde slice of Doctor Who, It's like an old dressing-gown that
passageways, we had cause to reflect on the sheer imagination you've never quite got around to throwing away - a litde tatty,
of our ancestors. Everyone's familiar with old chestnuts like a littie embarrassing, but just sometimes, when nobody's
the scold's bridle and the rack, but it's not until you've about, a wonderflilly comfy thing to slip on. .

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9 Newly-trained director Tony Virgo usable condition. The jousting Davison (the Doctor) and Anthony
was booked on Wednesday 16 sequence was too ambitious and the Ainley (the Master); Davison and
December 1981 and joined the crew on crew ran out of time to shoot all ofit Ainley rehearsed Doctor Who in the
Never ones to stand out in
Monday 25 October 1982 mornings before being released to
a crowd, the TARDIS crew
blended in seamlessly in
9 Rehearsals for studio recording work on the pantomime. Davison felt
mediaeval England ... @ bbc
^ Bodiam Castle was selected as overlapped with rehearsals for the that Kamelion was a disaster from
being the closest castle to London in pantomime Cinderella, starring Peter the outset

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«^ Jakob Lindberg pre-recorded
lute music forthe King's Song
|Television Centre on Friday 10
December. Incidental music was
recorded by Lindberg on Monday 7
February at Maida Vale Studio M, with
,j,Tim Barry recording percussion on
Wednesday g February in addition to
Jonathan Gibbs' music recording on
Saturday 5 February
his minutes late due to a camera fault, ^ Extras (additional): Tammy Punwa,
at while lighting problems dogged work Sharon Rose, Christine Finnes, Mary
on Monday 20 December Kirby, Nicky Trew, Valerie Vay,
Barbara Champion, Mike Dixon, Bill
4^ Editing took place between Friday Barnsley, Ron O'Neill, Les Fuller, Joe
14 and Tuesday 25 January, with Farley, Dawn
Devey, Steve Jackson
dubbing on Tuesday 8 and Friday 18 John Stoner Male Seruant;
Spectators;
February 1983. Mark Strickson Nick Orton, Steve Roger Knights; Sue
(Turlough) dubbed a section of Part Kear, Audrey Harvey Ladies.
Two on Tuesday 10 February

There were numerous technical ^ The serial is now held by the BBC
Turlough, hoping the spikes really icerea
problems in studio. Recording on as D3 tapes taken from the two-inch
romantic invention of the 18th century. ® bbc
Sunday ig December began 11 broadcast tapes

Five Doctors
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it's that man again: Anthony Ainley's Master returns to BDiniiiissionme

menace the five ... er, four-ish Doctors. Typical . © bbc video Wed 1 Dec 82 The Fiue Doctors

commissioned
If Roy Wood had and it really could be Christmas
his wish,
every day, he'd soon get fed up with unwrapping presents and PRODUCTian
eating mrkey. But tiiat's precisely what Doctor Who was like in Sat 5 Mar 83 Plas Brondanw,
1983; every story had the formerly precious treat of an old Llanfrothen, Gwynedd [Eye of
friend or foe returning. And so, unbelievably, The Fine Doctors is Orion; Rose Garden]
the second story within the year about a traitor
on the High Men 7 -Tue 8 Mar 83 Carreg-
Council. Any hope whatsoever that the Time Lords might Y-Foel-Gron, nr Ffestiniog,
present remoteness, mystery or power is rendered futile. Gwynedd [Wasteland 1]
Instead, they deliver something far more precious - the Wed9Mar83 Carreg-Y-Foel-
Council Chamber scene. Presumably, this comic masterpiece, Gron [Wasteland i; Wasteland
in which Paul Jericho's performance almost knocks down the 2]

walls (delivering "we have a power-boosted open-ended Thu 10 Mar 83 Manod

transmat beam" as though every word were of vital import), Quarries, Ffestiniog, Gwynedd
and Philip Latham and Anthony Ainley appear to compete for [Caves; Wasteland 2]
the 'most marbles orally secreted' titie - was not reshot Frill Mar 83 Manod Quarries
because the gallery was rendered helpless with laughter. I have [Wasteland 2]; Plas Brondanw
an actor friend, whose party piece is to enact said scene, and [Eye of Orion - remount]
even without the setting - seemingly the boardroom of a Sun 13 Mar - Mon 14 Mar 83
Berkshire sofhvare house - it is enduringly hysterical. Manod Quarries [Wasteland 2]
Elsewhere, it's a busy day for the Doctor - the action appears Tue 15 Mar 83 Cwm Bychan,
to span late morning until early evening of a single day. Each of Llanbedr, Gwynedd [Wasteland
the old Doctors gets a vignette adventure or two on the way to 3]
the main action, and as an anthology rather than a novel, the Thu 17 Mar 83 Tilehouse Lane,
production shines. JVliraculously, the Daleks hadn't appeared Denham Green, Bucks [Road];
for a few years, and the textbook cameo here (the timeless Haylings House, Denham
silhouette heralding subsequent pursuit down claustrophobic Green, Bucks [UNIT HQ]; 2/15
corridors) feels special and leaves one wanting more. West Common Road, Uxbndge,
Moreover, if seeing the Second and Third Doctors rejoin tiieir Middx [Sarah's House; Bus
old friends does not evoke so much as a wistfirl sniff then Stop]
he very tide of Doctor Who's 20th anniversary you're as emotionless as the beautifiilly-filmed Cybermen. Fri 18 Mar 83 Ealing Film
celebration was enough to warn of the paucity of Wisely, writer Terrance Dicks ignores the causal ramifica- Studios: UNIT; Roof
invention within.Not only repeating the premise tions of the Fifth Doctor having experienced the events of the Tue 29 Mar 83 Television
of the previous decade's reunion, the story also story three times previously - and ploughs on regardless, Centre Studio 6 : Game
adapts The Three Doctors' title, unsubdy inviting cheekily having the Second Doctor say of die Third, "still Control; Tower Corridor;
comparison with the earlier story, and harshly illuminating the finding menace in your own shadow", as if they met to Gallifrey Corridor; Gallifrey
fact that this one doesn't really boast five Doctors at all. compare notes on a regular basis. At the end of The Three Capitol; Conference Room;
Ten years previously William Hartnell did appear, albeit fleet- Doctors, having learned more about the Time Lords than ever TARDIS Console
ingly; this time old footage and another actor represent him. before. Doctor Who was significandy changed, with the Doctor Wed 30 Mar 83 Television
There's nothing wrong with Richard Hurndall's performance regaining his freedom and the UNIT era effectively ended.
At Centre Studio 6: Conference
whatsoever - he's a believable Time Lord (and would have been the end of The Five Doctors, nothing at all has changed. The story Room; Capitol Corndors; Game
an inspired choice for Lord President Borusa). But he's not takes from the series, but does not give. Control; Metal Corridors;
William Hartnell. Just look. Hugely entertaining, sentimental and exciting. The Fiue TARDIS Console
Tom Baker's reticence to participate should have triggered a Doctors is more ftin than Doctor Who had been for quite a few Thu 31 Mar 83 Television
complete rethink for the project - if you went to see the Rolling years. But like slaughtering your last chicken, it's a tactical Centre Studio 6: Tower Main
Stones and the guy with the lips didn't turn up, you'd feel rather than a strategic move. How very apt that each time an Gate; Rassilon's Tomb; Tower
cheated. Although his establishing scene is every bit as charac- old Doctor appears, the present one weakens. His true enemies Anteroom; TARDIS Console
teristic as the others, it's impossible to imagine Baker here are not Borusa and the Master, but his previous selves.
performing alongside them and his absence makes precious Exercises like this can serve to end or revisit series, but do littie RHDID TIIHES
room for a crowded cast Hst. However, the spontaneous wit, to perpetuate ongoing ones. Following a season that had Fri Nov 83 [no synopsis]
25
which had defined much of the series - and which is very much already featiired Gallifrey, The Brigadier and tiie Master, The
present and correct in the Shado clips - is missing. Just listen. Fiue Doctors is not so much a special, as a typical.

THE CamPLETE PIPTH ODCTDH

Party over\ Back to workl On the morning after the season before, Doctor Who has a

uery sore head. But not to luorry - the real han^ouer u;on't kick in until much later.

"
The last days of the Fifth Doctor and the making of Season Tujenty-One, by Andrew Pixley.

Davison's third year on Dortor Who began amidst tlie celebration on the second day - was spent urging people without tickets not
Peter intense media build up to tire BBC's celebration at Longleat, to come along. A cavalcade of new merchandise was available for fans to
and the production of the anniversary programme, The Five spend their money on: numerous T-shirts and stickers, stationery, a
Doctors, which would maintain high levels of publicity TAIUDIS playtent, a Viewmaster of Castroualva, some Profile Prints artwork

through the summer to its November transmission. The of famous monsters by Andrew Skilleter, and various new books. BBC
viewer research conducted on Season 20 was somewhat mixed, but gener- Software embraced the new home technology of the microcomputer witii

ally positive - so
mix would continue much as before as script editor
the Doctor Who: The First Adventure written by a 17-year-old devotee. And, to keep

Eric Saward continuedto arrange scripts for the new season. Anthony the show in the public eye, BBC2 screened the 1966 movie Daieks - Invasion
Steven, a veteran BBC writer, was commissioned to write A Stitch in Time - a Earth 215 oAD in a season of science-fiction movies on Tuesday 5 April. In
possible story to introduce the Doctor's sixth incarnation at the end of the the meantime, disgruntied families who queued to enter Longleat and then
new season. The decision was also taken to rework Eric Pringle's The saw nothing aired their grievances in the papers; a Mrs J M Foster stated her
Aiuakeninfl into a two-part story for the new season since there was insuffi- disappointment at the event in The Daily Mail on Friday 8 April, and others
cient material to sustain its four-part structure. followed suit.

Press coverage of the anniversary serial during the broadcast of A significant number of those attending the Longleat event were
Enlightenment in the early part of March was extensive, and there was more American, and organisations such as the Doctor Who Fan Club o/America and
to come as the series drew to its premature and rather muted conclusion NADWAS (North America Doctor Who Appreciation Society) were growing
with The King's Demons mid-way through the month. BBC continuity trailed larger - attracting 30,000 members at their peak. Organisers Ron Katz and
details of the 'Twenty Years of a Time Lord' event at Longleat over Easter
Weekend. A press call - with Tom Baker's Doctor represented by his 'DDCTDR lUHD' HHD
in 1BB3-By
facsimile from Madame Tussauds - was held on Thursday 17 March, with
most papers covering the story the next day Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee
PRDBRBLB ITS BIBBEST PBBLIC
and Peter Davison were all interviewed by Sue Lawley on Nationiuide, whilst PBBPILE SIBCE TBE BIRUE BP
Verity Lambert, the show's original producer and now a major figure in the
film and television world, gave her recollections of the show's launch to
BRLEBBIRRIR IH TBE ERRLB 1BBBB
Richard Kershaw. Over the next week, Davison presented the award for Best Chad Roark met Nathan-Turner at the event and discussed another major
Children's Programme at the BAFTA ceremony and was joined by Janet event for November - this time in Chicago. Nathan-Turner was very

Fielding and Mark Strickson to chat to viewers on Saturday Superstore on 26 supportive of tiie DWFCA, regularly conOributing to the Whovian Times

March. Letters featured on Points of View on Friday 25 criticised Anthony newsletter issued by the large, commercial organisation.

Ainley's less-than-convincing French accent as heard in The King's Demons With Longleat completed and two months before production on Season
(the first episode of which had rated very low with less than six million Twenty-One began, Davison took a well-earned holiday with his wife in
viewers). With the BBC Radiophonic Workshop celebrating its 25th Australia - another country where Doctor Who was popular and where the

anniversary at the same time (prompting items on Woman's Hour, The Steue ABC network (which had screened Doctor Who since 1965) had agreed to co-
Jones Shou) and Nationwide on Thursday 30 March; the latter featuring a clip finance The Five Doctors via BBC Enterprises. After his return, Davison was

from The Ark), the publication of The Doctor Who Technical Manual by Severn then involved in a special new Christmas Day episode of All Creatures Great
House, and Suchards issuing an Invasion 0/ the Daleks Easter Egg, Doctor Who and Small, recreating his role as Tristan Farnon; this was made between
had seldom had so much publicity. Monday 25 and Friday 3 June, and a clause in Davison's contract
April

As The Five Doctors was being recorded at the end of March, Saward lined initially noted "Hair to be cut/styled to tiie BBC's requiremets but in consul-

up another story for the new season. With the enforced break in production tation with 'Dr Who'". Thoughts were now given to the serial in which

for Enlightenment over the Christmas period, director Fiona Cumming had Davison would depart, and Saward was still keen to have Robert Holmes
taken a last minute holiday in Lanzarote and sent a postcard to producer contribute to the series after the troubled attempt at The Six Doctors. At the

John Nathan-Turner, suggesting the island as a location for a Doctor Who start of May, Saward commissioned Holmes for a narrative called Cham
serial. Keen to maintain at least one story each year having overseas Reaction.

shooting, Nathan-Turner agreed. Despite personal issues with the

producer, Peter Grimwade was commissioned for Planet oJFire - on the

proviso that it should be filmed in Lanzarote, include the Master, write out
Turlough and introduce a new female companion. Peri - a diminutive form
of Perpugilliam Brown - was developed by Saward and Nathan-Turner as a
botany student; as a nod to the dedicated fan following the series now had
inAmerican syndication, it was also decided that Peri would be a native of
tiieUSA.
On the Bank Hohday morning of Satirrday 2 April, Natiian-Turner was
interviewed by Patrick Stoddard for tiie Radio 4 programme Breakauiay, and
encouraged Doctor Who fans to consider seeing the stars of tiie show at
Longleat tiiat weekend. Thus, over Sunday 3 and Monday 4, the stately
home throbbed with crowds for Twenty Years of a Time Lord which far
exceeded what BBC Enterprises had ever expected. Many guests who had
worked on both sides of the cameras in the show's history mrned up,
including all the surviving Doctors and many companions. Episodes still
held by the BBC were shown on projector screens and sets from The Five
Doctors were on display. 13,000 tickets had been pre-sold for the event, but
over tire weekend a total of 56,000 people actually attended. The event
made the BBC evening news because of the chaos caused on the country Janet Fielding, Peter Davison and Sarah Surton address the party faithful
roads by those attempting to attend the event without having booked Twenty Years of a Time Lord eve%
tickets, and most of The Ed Steiuart Show - which was broadcast live from the
SEHsnn Zt

Left: "Shall I give

it another year?
Nahhhh!" Right:
Don't just sit

there! Shoot him

now, you fools!
Below: The
Doctor realises
the gravity of
the situation on
Frontios.A.i ijisc

Furthermore, looking ahead to Season Twenty-Two, the

notion of doing double-length episodes of Doctor Who had
been put forward; BBC Drama seldom made half-hour
shows anymore, apart from soap opera serials, and longer
episodes might also be more attractive for overseas sales.
As such, Timelash by Glen McCoy was the first of the new
stories to have scripts commissioned for 45 -minute episodes during mid- on Thursday 28 July, promoting an item die next day on Breakfast Time and
June, afew weeks after scripts for Robin Squire's Ghost Planet were commiS' alsoan interview between Davison and Fran Morrison - witii Nadian-Turner
sioned. Auditions for Peri were held during May, by which time Janet
in attendance - on South East at Six, the local opt-out on Nationu)ide, on Friday
Fielding's deparmre from the series - in Resurrection of the Daleks, a slighdy 29. As usual, the popular press was alive with suggestions as to whom
revised version of the abortive The Return - had been made public. Davison
Davison's replacement might be, witii Brian Blessed being a popular choice
did another press photocall with a number of the previous Doctor Who girls and die Daily Express hinting tiiat die new Doctor might be a woman (a
on Friday 20 May, and Lionheart - who distrib- gimmick repeated from Baker's deparmre in igSo).
uted Doctor Who in North America - announced
Davison and his wife tiien appeared togetiier on Brealfast
that they would be attempting to have a coast-to-
Time on Wednesday 3 August just before recording of The
coast gala screening of The Fiue Doctors
on PBS Aujalcenini) got underway.
stations over the anniversary in November.
By May, Nathan-Turner and Saward had
t was an unpleasant news event that saw Doctor
Who
finahsed their plans to spread the departure of
next in the tabloids, as Peter Arne - a guest star in the
Tegan, Turlough, Kamehon and the Doctor
throughout the season, while introducing the new
I forthcoming
Wanderers)
serial Frontios (die new tide for The
was found battered to dearfi in his flat on
Doctor in the final serial to give a taster of the
Tuesday 2 August; his role as Mr Range was rapidly filled
future; Davison was unhappy not to be
initially
by WiUiam Lucas when rehearsals for the studio-bound
doing three complete seasons in the role. During
serial began a couple of weeks later. Scripts for Philip
the spring, Nathan-Turner already had in mind
Martin's Domain - now called Planet of Fear - continued to
one actor to replace Davison - an actor called
new 45 -minute format, and Liuanthian was
arrive in die
Cohn Baker who had been prominent in the BBC commissioned from Brian Finch. And, as die press
drama The Brothers and whom he recalled being
continued to suggest all manner of bizarre names to fit die
very entertaining around the fime of Arc qflnjinity
bill as Doctor Number Six, Colin Baker was presented to
(which Baker had guested in). Baker visited
the world on Friday19 August - alongside Nicola Bryant
Nathan-Turner to discuss the role just before
who had been contracted for 12 episodes Tuesday
g
production began on Warriors 0/ the Deep - the first
August. Extracts of Baker'sCommander Maxil gunning
serial of the new season - in mid-June. Although
down Davison's Doctor in Arc of Infinity were shown on the
the offer which Baker accepted was kept secret, a
BBC Neuis along with a brief interview widi the new actor.
chance meeting with Davison meant that the current Doctor soon guessed The following week, tfie remaining scripts for Baker's debut story - now
the identity of his successor. Davison's departure was hinted at in an
entitied The Tuiin Dilemma - were delivered by Anthony Steven.
edition of Take Tu;o broadcast on Tuesday 21 June.
World International's Doctor Who Annual appeared in August, with die
Warriors of the Deep encountered various problems in production; the
Doctor, Tegan and Turlough working widi die Brigadier and UNIT and
planned location filming was postponed because the crews were needed again thwarting the Master in various tales; the anniversary annual also
elsewhere to cover the General Election that had been called for Tuesday contained feamres on the history of die series and its cosmmes. To keep
14
June.As such, the outside broadcast recording was sandwiched between the Who
Doctor firmly in the minds of BBCi viewers during the summer,
two studio sessions where diere was a great deal of unhappiness widi the Natiian-Turner had initially selectedtwo repeats - The Visitation and Black
costume of the undersea creamre the Myrka, which was not ready for use. Orchid - for screening on a nighdy basis during August, and was dien allo-
As production progressed on the unhappy serial, Natiian-Turner selected cated an extra four slots at short notice which prompted an out-of-sequence
British actress Nicola Bryant to play Peri Brown. Bryant, who had American repeat of Kinda between die two while die press interviewed Colin Baker,
citizenship through her marriage to an American drama coach, was encour- and Peter Davison continued recording on Frontios at Television Centre. The
aged to play down her marital status and give the impression that she hailed was now undergoing final editing and dubbing, with a short-
Five Doctors
from America when presented to tire press on Tuesday and during an ened version made for 'networking' across the PBS stations organised by
5 July,
interview on BBCi's Breal<fast Time die following morning. Lionheart. Nadian-Turner allowed a sneak preview of The Awakening to
With more script ideas, including Hex
by Peter Ling and Hazel Adair and appear on Noel Edmunds' The Late, Late Brealfast Show on Samrday lo;
Children of Seth by Christopher Bailey, commissioned, the production team Davison was present to receive a 'Golden Egg Award' for 'Technical
embarked upon location shooting for The Awakening and in late June, Excellence in a Dramatic Programme' on behalf of die show - the incident
Nathan-Turner continued his appearances along with stars such as Anthony being die now famous out-take of a horse demohshing a prop lych gate
Ainley at events such as a NADWAS in Columbo Ohio on Saturday 23 and during filming. At die same time, the Daleks were active in London again as
Sunday 24 July Peter Davison's deparmre was announced on tiie BBC News location shooting on Resurrection of the Daleks in mid-September provided

mi
 Left: Chicago's The Ultimate
Celebration saw Davison
joined by three of his prede-
cessors. Right: Perpugilllam
Brown is introduced to the

press. BBC Below: The

Doctor resorts to gunplay in
Warriors af the Deep^mz

another ideal photo opportunity for the British press.
W.H.Allen also managed to strike fiill distribution deals for their books
in the lucrative markets of North America and Australia. The company, who
had been publishing the Doctor Who novelisations in hardback under their
own name and via Target Books in paperback, now issued a major hard-
back volume to celebrate the anniversary. Hitting the shops on Thursday 15
September, Peter Haining's lavish compendium of interviews and articles -
entitled Doctor Who: A Celebration - launched a new range of large format
hardbacks for W.H. Allen about the show, and was even discussed by
former producer Barry Letts on Radio I's The John Dunn Show on Thursday
22 September. In the meantime, writers Pip and Jane Baker were asked to
develop a storyline about a new female Time Lord enemy for the Doctor
called Too Cleuer By Far.
Colin Baker was formally contracted to play the Doctor on Tuesday 4
October, the day before the second smdio session on Janet Fielding's final
Daleh, began at Television Centre. The following
story, Resurrection of the
week saw the release of Doctor Who: Reuen^e of the Cybermen, one of the very
first tidesfrom the fledgling BBC Video arm of BBC Enterprises as its
suggested by Nathan-Turner,
thiswent on sale on Thursday
3 November and included
numerous interviews along
with a history of the show
written by fan advisor to
Nathan-Turner, Ian Levine.
During the month, articles about the anniversary itself appeared everywhere
from The Times to campus newspapers in the USA. Mark Strickson
completed his final fiill story when Planet oJFire finished taping in the
second week of the anniversary month. While shooting on Davison's swan-
song, The Caues oJAndrozani (the new tide for Chain Reaction) got underway in
a rain-sodden Dorset, a strike-affected Rodio Times hit the news-stands on
Thursday 17 November with Andrew Skilleter's cover art depicting the five
Doctors and the Master - heralding the UK broadcast of The Fiue Doctors.
Unfortunately for British fans, America was to get the better deal over the
anniversary week for two reasons. Firsdy, BBCi scheduhng had decided that
it would be best for The Fiue Doctors to be delayed from its intended transmis-

dipped toes
its into the rapidly expanding market of pre-recorded video-
tapes. Edited into a single compilation and sporting a cover with images
drawn from anywhere other than the story concerned, Reuenfle 0/ the
Cybermen hit the shelves in VHS, Betamax and Video 2000 formats on
Monday 10 October at a price of £39.95 - making television Doctor Who
buyable and consumable for the true devotee for the first time; Thorn EMI
sion of Wednesday 23 November - the actual anniversary - and instead go
out two days later during the annual Children in Need telethon supported by
the BBC. However, the Lionheart coast-to-coast screening would go ahead
on the anniversary itself Secondly, a commercial organisation called Spirit
of Light staged an expensive convention called Doctor Who: The Ultimote
Celebration in Chicago over three days from Friday 25 November - and since

had released both the 1960s Peter Cushing movies in 1982. And, also from they could offer large business fees, had managed to book nearly every cast
the show's past, two instalments of the missing epic member associated with the show, including all four
The Dalela' Master Plan came to light in cans of film surviving Doctors. This had forced the cancellation of
stored in the basement of a London church. a British convention which was then being organised
by the DWAS around the same time.

The British press

journey to Lanzarote
were out in force for the
made by the Doctor Who
British viewers were, however,
Doctor Who over the
bombarded by
week leading up to The Fiue Doctors.
team to film exterior sequences for Planet 0/ Fielding, Strickson and Nicholas Courtney came
Fire in mid-October. Davison and new girl Nicola together on BBCi's Pebble Mill on Monday 21 to

Bryant agreed to adopt James Bond style poses for discuss the special (a clip of which had been shown
photographers, while Nathan-Turner blackmailed on the previous Saturday's Saturday Superstore) - while
another reporter into not doing a sensationalist item later the same day, Richard Hurndall and Peter

about a guest cast member who was homosexual. Back
in London, mid-way through recording of the
Television Centre, the National Film Theatre staged a
two-day celebration of Doctor Who over the weekend of
Saturday 29 and Sunday 30 October. Doctor Who: The
showcased around 80 episodes of the
Dcuelopinjj Art
from the unbroadcast pilot to The Kintj's Demons
series,
Part Two, interspersed with panelsand interviews with
castand crew - an unprecedented sort of event for a
Davison joined a line-up of Doctor Who monsters on
serial at the ever Who-friendly Blue Peter to preview the show;
the two Doctors arrived in a minibus paid for by
donations from the Longleat event and some more
clips of old episodes were shown. BBC2's closedown
on Wednesday 23 paid tribute to the show by showing
colour slides from the series and - much to Nathan-
Turner's dismay - the Dicks novelisation of The Fiue
Doctors appeared on bookshop shelves before the trans-

mere television programme, but one which was so mission of the story itself The producer had gone to

^^THE SERIES IS HDIU KIEE EEUI BRDUnn. THE

PEELinES in IT ERE EF R IRERE REHLT EHRRRCTER.
THE EECTER IS FIRRLLH EEEIRRIRE TB EREUI UP'
heavily subscribed to that it convinced the British Film Institute of the prof- great lengths to stop too many details of the special becoming known, to
itability of screenings of cult television material. Local NFT arts cinemas the extent of having passages of text removed firom Haining's A Celebration.
also screened batches of the episodes around the UK, starting with Tyneside Unhappy with W.H.AUen, Nathan-Turner discussed having the licence for
in mid-December and continuing with Leicester in January 1984. Doctor Who the novelisations given to the BBC, although the unease was soon resolved,
also became a subject for academic media smdy as Macmillan published and pubUcations continued as normal.
Doctor Who: The Unfoldinij Text by John Tulloch and Manuel Alvarado. When The Fiue Doctors went out on Friday 25, Doctor Who was probably at
As with the show's tenth anniversary. Radio Times produced one of their its highest profile since the wave of Dalekmania of 1964/65 - and seven-

increasingly rare special magazine issues for Doctor Who's latest milestone; and-a-half milhon viewers mned in. Although the special was marred in

THE camPLeTE pipth dctdr

MM
 some regions by superimposed ChildrEn in Need captions, BBCi viewers in
London saw Davison donating the Doctor's coat (as worn up to Warriors of
money for the good cause - although, as the actor told
the Deep) to raise

presenter Terry Wogan, he was in fact en route for America at that moment
- the item having been recorded at Broadcasting House on the morning of
Monday 14 November. Attended by 20,000 fans and all four surviving
Doctors, The Ultimate Celebration was viewed both as a success and a disaster,
with fantastic guests and screenings spoilt by poor organisation. A BBC
film crew was in attendance at the event, with coverage appearing on
Sunday 27 on Did You Sec ... as well as the BBC Neujs and Neiusround on
.>

Monday 28. Cashing in on the popularity of the series, BBC Records

licensed an Australian novelty record entided Doctor Who Is Gonna Fix It by a
group called Bullamakanka and released it in the UK; meanwhile David
Booth Pubhshing suggested a Doctor Who pop-up book which never went
into production.

ack at the production office - things were not going smoothly.

had again taken its
Industrial action, this time by scenery shifters,
toll, and the smdio session for The Cave of Androzani planned
first

for the start of December had been abandoned. In addition to this, Steven's
scripts for The Tmin Dilemma had proved unusable, forcing Saward into a the Radio Times and through the magazine to a BaclcPafle featore heralding
substantial rewrite of the later episodes. The Caves 0/ Androzani finally entered the first encounter between the fifth Doctor and his arch enemies. Both
the recording smdios at Television Centre in mid-December - with Davison episodes were also promoted by highlighted clips shown on BBC Brealffast
having made a second 'Golden Egg' appearance on The Late, Late Brcalffast Time on the day of broadcast, and the first featured as one of the television
Shoiu on Saturday 10 December. highlights of the week on Did You See ...? on Sunday 12. Brealcfast Time also
Warriors of the Deep kicked oflf Season Twenty-One of Doctor Who on previewed the first appearance of Peri in that evening's Planet of Fire Part
Thursday 5 January; for this third and final year as the show's star, Peter One on Thursday 23 February, and most of the tabloids carried stories
Davison found his episodes going out at 6.40pm on Thursdays and Fridays. about Nicola Bryant that morning too.
The following week, the delayed final smdio session for Davison was finally The 6.50pm scheduling on Wednesdays for Resurrection of the Daleks paid
completed at Television Centre, and production wrapped on The Caues of off as it gameshow Name That Tune
gained viewers against ITV's lightweight
Androzani and Davison's tenure as a Time Lord. Colin Baker was introduced over the two Olympian weeks. The new Thursday/Friday schedule had done
to the press in cosmme on Tuesday 10 January, and from then on was the litde to improve Doctor Who's overall audience which continued to hover
« • main focus of the tabloid cameras. The regeneration itself was recorded on around the seven million mark - the Friday episode getting a lower audi-
•> ,
»: » Davison's final night in smdio, Thursday 12 January, hours after the broad- ence since this was a night when the viewing pubhc ttaditionally aban-
cast of Warriors of the Deep Part Three. The following day, Davison was doned their television sets and went out for the evening. However, the
Dalek instalments - and Tegan's departore - gained almost a million more
THE EfID BF llRmElill''S eHU EHIU viewers than the 25 minute instalments, giving some reassurance to the

'DaCTDII UIHD^ HPPEiliiiPE EUeHli- BBC that the duration change was a good move.
After the Lanzarote-based serial had been shown and audiences saw
uiHERe PRnin '•tmb TiifiEe^ to Turlough rejoin his own people, and highly-regarded
Peter Davison's final

CDLLEBE nEUISPHPERS IR THE HSR advenmre, The Caues of Androzani was shown from Thursday 8 March - and
before the serial had even completed, all the interviews and promotional
conti-acted to appear as Henry Mynors in a BBC adaptation ofAnna of the Fiuc features were already starting to focus on his garishly cosmmes successor.
ToiDnswhich would begin production in Birmingham on Tuesday 24 Shordy after 7pm on Friday 16 March 1984, BBCi viewers awaited the new
January.With his Doctor Who work complete, on Thursday 16 February, incarnation of a much-loved TV hero of over twenty-years standing, as the
Davison was paid for the additional four-part story which he had been short-sighted, mild-mannered cricket-loving young genderaan of time and
contracted to but never made. space selflessly laid down another of his lives so that others might live.
With the demise of Nationwide and the introduction of its Sixty Minutes Davison and his successor both attended the Greenwood Theatre to
replacement. Doctor Who now began in the earlier 6.40pm slot which placed discuss the regeneration on Harty on Tuesday 20 March. On Samrday 17
it opposite either news programmes and the ever-popular Crossroads on March, The Scotsman commented "The series is now breaking new ground,
Thursdays, and more news programmes and the start of the very popular the feelings init are of a more adult character. The Doctor ... is beginning

new American action series The A Team on Fridays. to grow up." And so, Peter Davison's era as the Doctor was over. In his
As The Awakening and Frontios were broadcast in late January, production three years the show had regained its lost viewers, establishing itself again
continued with the belated The Tuiin Dilemma. For the broadcast of as one of the BBC's flagship dramas. The scripts had aimed for a new level
Resurrection of the Daleb in mid-February, Nathan-Turner was confironted of more adult complexity, while the production team had learnt to exploit
with a choice because of the BBC's scheduling of their Winter Olympics the show's past. The merchandise world for the series had exploded in a
coverage: Doctor Who could go ofi^ the air for two weeks, or Resurrection of the way not seen since the ig6os, and Doctor Who had proudly celebrated the
Dalelcs could be screened in two double-length episodes as a dry run for the two-decade milestone seldom attained by a drama series. It had grown up
following season. Unformnately, coverage of the world-class sports from in many ways - but adulthood would see the show being given a far
Sarajevo in Yugoslavia also knocked Davison and a Dalek off the cover of rougher ride than it had enjoyed in its adolescence ...
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 Warriors of the Deep
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Lessons in scaring the kiddies #i: Don't make
your monster look like he's smiling ... © bbc
cammissiDiiiiiii
Fri 10 Sep 82 Warriors of the Deep
I had the opportunity evenings and watch being
to sit for six
[working title] scripts commis-
recorded. Janet Fielding and wet green paint ... foam rubber
sioned. Parts One and Two deliv-
doors that bounced ... noisy costumes that crackled as the
ered Mon 25 Oct 82, Part Three
actors walked, drowning out their lines ... the Myrka
on Mom 3 Dec 82 and Part Four
Images burned onto my mind, not because they were dreadfiil
onThuSJan 83
(with hindsight, they obviously were), but because I was so
excited to be able to see my favourite TV show in the world
'
PRODUBTian actually being made. No amount of book-writing or audio-
Thu23jun83 Television Centre
producing can ever supplant tiiat fantastic moment when I
Studio 6: PS Unit; Airlock Five;
saw for the first time Peter Davison doing a re-take, or Mark
Corridor; TARDIS
Strickson tripping over a Silurian foot. This was Doctor Who
Fri24jun83 Television Centre
coming together before my eyes.
Studio 6: Airlock One; Corridor;
Now, of course, I can look back at Warriors and say, with some
Detention Area
justification, that it's not really very good in the final analysis.
Tue 28 Jun 83 Royal Engineers
Poor Pennant Roberts, one of die most charming and creative
Diving Establishment,
directors I've ever met, lumbered with a story diat was frankly
Marchwood, Hants: Hydro Tank
unmakeable on Doctor Who's budget, let down by a lighting
Wed 29 Jun 83 Shepperton
director who clearly didn't understand the script and a terrible,
Studios Stage A: Sea Base Four
terrible 'monster'. I read the script some days before seeing die
Cooling Chamber; Silurian Ship
studio nights (don't tell John Nadian-Turner ... d'oh!) and
Thu3oJun83 Shepperton
tiiought it was great. Which it is, in print - a clever story that
Studios Stage A: Silurian Ship;
never tells you whether Sea Base Four is part of an Eastern or
Sea Devil Ice Chamber
Western Bloc (die mix of names and nationalities being delib-
Mon 4-Thu 7jul 83 Visual Effects
erately misleading), and follows a political theme right
Workshop, Acton: models
tiirough, die Silurians being httie more dian the small guys in
Wed 13 Jul 83 Television Centre
the midst of someone else's war. Good dialogue, a terrific
Studio Bridge Complex; I wrote my first ever piece of
6: ighteen years ago, downbeat ending and Silurians who are intelligent, cynical and
Computer Bank Bay
I I
professional 'journalism' (in the loosest sense manipulative. Of course, die O-anslation to screen lets it down -
Thu 14 Jul 83 Television Centre
I mi M of the word) - the GalUfieij Guardian page in issue die Silurians squawk likePinky and Perky, die supposedly
Studio 6: Bridge Complex;
^^^J| 85 of The Official Doctor Who Magazine. I'd clausti-ophobic human base is reaUsed in bright white decor,
Chemical Store ^^^K^B been hired on a freelance basis by then editor and there are some less-dian-attentive performances firom
FrM5jul83 Television Centre Alan MacKenzie to supply the written content for the mag. great actors, all apparentiy playing the wrong roles (it's as if
Studio 5: Storage Area; Corridor; Three issues later, my first review- of anything Whoish was someone has thrown the names of the cast and the characters
Bridge Entrance printed - a review containing the immortal words, "Warriors of into a hat, matching tiiem up completely at random).
the Deep was a flawless story". This phrase has haunted me Which me to my final personal memory of Warriors:
brings
RHDID TIHIES ever since. In my defence, I should point out that although always be careful who you slag off in print, because you never
Thu 5 Jan 84 Part One these were the words you read, they weren't the ones I wrote, know when you'll find yourself in their
house in London,
Fri 6 Jan 84 Part Two as is plain to see from the subsequent paragraphs - which
drinking tea, enjoying their company, their
warmdi and their
Thu 12 Jan 84 Part Three underline the point I'd originally made. Before someone's red humour while them about their career - when
interviewing
Fri 13 Jan 84 Part Four pencil got toit, the offending sentence ran: "By no stretch
of they'll suddenly "And do you know, some bastard said in
say,
the imagination could you call Warriors of the Deep a flawless a Doctor Who magazine once that my performance was 'over
story. Nevertheless ..." But marking, as it did, a significant
the top', which is just rude and unpleasant. Good thing I
point in my career, I always look back at Johnny Byrne's ambi- never met him!"
tious adventure with more affection than it deserves. Rest assured, I took the coward's way out. "Oh no," I said,
Going back even further in time. Warriors was the first story "What an unpleasant person he must have been ..."

HRCHIUE EHTRH
One of writer Johnny
inspirations
Byrne's key
was the problem faced by
Ian Levine, who felt that Byrne had got ^ Pennant Roberts was engaged as
the basic premise of the Silurians all director on Tuesday 22 February 1983 to
military planners of the day; although wrong. Since he was now working on join the production on Monday 25 April.
nuclear weaponry was now available to another project in the USA, Byrne was The first studio session should have
be unleashed against any opponents, unavailable to take on the rewrites taken place on Wednesday 29 and
could those in command rely on the himself, and had no alternative but to Thursday 3oJune, but Programme
weapons operators to perform their accept the changes made by script Planning shifted this back by a week
required tasks? For reference, Byrne editor Eric Saward. Unhappy with the due to the calling of a General Election
was supplied with copies of Doctor Who result - particularly the deaths ofVor-
and the Silurians and The Sea Deuils. shak and and the depictions of
Icthar, IngndPitt was originally up for the
Watching these, he formed the notion both the Sea Base and Myrka - he had roles ofKarinaor Preston, but was
that the Sea Devils were bred simply for words with Saward, and so soured his offered the more substantial role of
"Eat hexachromide gas (lethal
battle as a commando force, and would relationship with the production office. Solow. Icthar was originally to have
be underthe Silunans' control Byrne submitted a storyline entitled The
to marine and reptile life, you been played by Robert Ashby (later
know), you filthy lizard!" Place of Serenity (aka The Guardians of used in Timelash), but he dropped out
A Sea Devil expires. ® bbc
Many scnpt alterations were re- Prophecy) to Saward in July 1983, but it and the part went to Norman Comer,
quested by unofficial senes consultant was never formally commissioned first cast as '2nd Silunan Companion'

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(J^ Read-th roughs took place on uling had already taken place on the late starts caused recording to over-run
Tuesday 14 June and Saturday 2 July. serial and remounts and rescripting to 10.30pm on this final night. Planned
During rehearsals, Myrka operators were impossible given such a short CSO shots of the Sea Devils moving on
John Asquith and William Perrie were deadline. It was decided to record the the sea bed were scrapped
taken to the Visual Effects workshop at following day with the unfinished
Western Avenue to see the costume Myrka; on the day, taping over-ran due In a memo to Visual Effects head
only to find that it was not ready. The to problems with the creature Michealjohn Harris, Mat Irvine outlined
team's lack of preparation time was his problems with the serial - particu-
drawn to John Nathan-Turner's atten- ^ Tuesday 28june 1983: The water larly the Myrka, which effects assistant
tion, but the producer did not appre- tank at the Underwater Diving School Stuart Murdoch had worked hard to get
ciate the extent of the problems inSouthampton should have been ready in time. Irvine also stated that it

filledand warmed in advance of use. had been known in advance that he

Richard Gregory of freelance prop Instead, it was filled on the morning of would be three weeks late joining the
builders Imagineering constructed the the taping session, was freezing cold production, but no alternative arrange-
Sea Devil masks to a design by Judy and made Davison very uncomfortable. ments had been made
Pepperdine. The Silurian masks were
redesigned by Mat Irvine 9 Friday 15 July 1983: Davison was still ^ Warriors of the Deep is now held by
having to battle with Nathan-Turner to the BBC on D3. UK Gold screened it in

^ During the first day of studio bringhumourto his character. He did, episodic form in August 1994 and as a
The Doctor disguises himself
recording, Nathan-Turner was called by however, manage to add the "What compilation since November 1993
in Seabase 4 coveralls. Hmm.
Visual Effects to say that the Myrka have you been eating?" gag where the
Still beige though, aren't
would not be ready for recording the Doctor dons a radiation suit taken from ^ Extras [additional]: James
they...?® BBC
following day. Considerable resched- a marine guard in Part Two. Numerous Coombes Voice of Sentinel Six

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probe makes its presence felt, s bbc
cnmiiiiBSiDiiiiic
AugSi War Game story idea

The Aiuakenint), I'm surprised how much I agree with it now, 17- submitted

odd years later. I claim up front that there's not a dull moment Thu 3 Mar 82 War Come
or a dull line in the whole thing. I mention the skills of the [working title] breakdown
director, Michael Owen Morris, primarily shown in his ability commissioned for Thu 1 Jul 82

to counterpoint disparate elements (the cutting between the (changed to Mon igjul);

pounding hoofbeats and the gentle schoolteacher in the delivered Fri iSJul 82

opening sequences, the Roundhead soldiers standing outside Thu 2 Sep 82 Part One
a telephone kiosk, the i6th century boy running through a field commissioned for Mon 1 1 Oct 82;

bordered by electricity pylons). I highlight my favourite shot delivered Wed 10 Nov 82

from any Peter Davison story - the Doctor's face being revealed Fri 3 Dec 82 Part Two
as the TAm)IS' Time Rotor drops slowly out of shot - and my commissioned for Mon 1 0 Jan 83,

favourite line from any Peter Davison story - the Doctor's with Parts Three and Four

response of "Fluently!" when accused of speaking treason. I following on Mon 28 Feb 83.

draw attention to the fact that, despite it being only two Part Two delivered Fri 7 Jan 83
episodes long, the story has an extended TARDIS-bound Mon 13 Dec 82 The Aiuakcning

epilogue in which nothing really happens, and 'doesn't Part One re-commissioned;
happen' with style. I carp in a gentie manner about the lack of delivered Fri / Jan 83
explanation for the ghosdy visitations of the old man and the
scarred boy, and also about the fact that characters in front of PHODUGTIDn
the camera seem to be continually ambushed by characters Tuei9Jul83 Tarrant Monkton,
was at the University of Warwick, studying for a hiding behind it, but these are minor criticisms. Dorset [Ford]; Church of St

degree in physics, when The Awakening was first Director Michael Owen Morris never worked on the show Bartholomew, Shapwick, Dorset
shown. Future Who novelists Justin Richards and again; neither did the writer, Eric Pringle. Given that, together, [Church/Meadow]; Market Cross,
Craig Hinton were at Warwick at the same time, they produced a story which is one of the three or four best Shapwick [Village Green]

studying English and Mathematics respectively. Davisons ever made, and which showcases Davison's Doctor Wed 20 Jul 83 Church of St
Justinwas co-editing a small fanzine called Black ond White better than any other story, one has to wonder what they were Bartholomew, Shapwick
Guordian (it seemed funny at the time) and he asked me to supposed to have done wrong ... [Church]; Bishops Court Farm,

review The Aiuakcninij for him. It was the first real piece of I haven't seen The Aiuakening since it was on. I don't really Shapwick [Barn/Farmyard
analytical reviewing I'd ever done. Now that I'm something of Icnow why, unless it's perhaps that I hesitate to overwrite my /Farmhouse]
a media tart, I find it rather humbling to look back and see fond memories with harsh truth, but I remember it as being Thu 21 Jul 83 Martin, Hants

where it all started. something made with care, which wasn't exactly true of all the [Village Green]; Martin Down,
I have that copy of Blade and White Guardian in front of me stories around that time. And I find, as I read my old review and Hants [Hillside]

now (Gary Russell and David Howe also have pieces in there
J write my new one, that I'm feeling a warm nostalgia for all those Fri 22 Jul 83 Darners Cottage,
- it's a small world, or it was then). And reading my piece on years ago, for my friends, and for the Doctor Who I remember. Martin [Stable]

Thu 4 Aug 83 Television Centre

Studio 6: Barn; Underground

cnninnHiinnii Passage; TARDIS Corridor;

Church Nave
Fri 5 Aug 83 Television Centre

9 Writer Eric Pringle's first Doctor Who only the first two scripts were commis- Saturday 27 September, but heard Studio 6: Crypt; Church Nave;

commission was The Angarath, a four- sioned - on Monday 11 August

initially nothing for some time - largely because Vestry; Wolsey's Parlour; Box

part story intended for Season Four- 1975 to be delivered by Wednesday 1 script editor Robert Holmes was heavily Room
teen. Because Pringle was a new writer. October. Pringle delivered his scripts on involved in problems with The Hand of Sat G Aug 83 Television
^
THE CamPLETE PIPTH CTDH
 DH ^1
to produce, he wanted to discuss reporters who turned up
it
paid more
with Pringle before commissioning him attention towards Peter Davison's
wife,Sandra Dickinson - much to
^ The first script for War Game was Nathan-Turner's irritation. Two
accepted on Thursday 2 December drummers. Sergeant Cooney and
1982, on the understanding that Pringle Drummer Tuite, were supplied by The
would undertake rewrites; Pringle Piping School at the Guards Depot in
delivered Part Two and then redrafted Brookwood, Surrey
Part One as guided by Saward

(]^ The model church that implodes in

^ Saward's and expansion
insertion Part Two was made in plaster by Visual
of elements such as the Hakol probe, EflFectsassistant George Reed, who
Raaga and tinclavic (described as a took numerous reference photographs
"black spongy substance") was to at the Shapwick location. The minia-
emphasise the science fiction aspects ture sequence itself was filmed on a
of the Malus' presence on Earth, and model stage at the Visual
The Doctor puts the finishing
Effects work-
Fear and its replacement, The Seeds of detract from its representation as an shop on Western Avenue
touches to his cunning May Doom. Pringle therefore went ahead and agent of the devil
Queen substitute. @ bbc
completed Parts Three and Four without
Peter Howell's incidental music
a commission, submitting these on 9 On Monday 16 May 1983, Head of score was realised as a joint effort
Wednesday 10 March 1976. Producer Series David Reid commented to John with Dick Mills.
^ Centre Studio 6: Box Room; Philip Hinchcliffe informed Pringle that Nathan-Turner: "I urge you to be
Wolsey's Parlour; Crypt; Church they were not what was wanted on careful with this story ... Many of the Extras [additional]: Ray Sergeant
Nave; TARDIS Console Room Wednesday 23 June 1976; the serial was images ... are pure horror movie and replaced Vaughan Collins as a Farm
not developed further you run a great risk of makingthis too Hand/Domestic/Villager. In studio:
RnniD Times frightening for your TX time" Jimmy Mac was Face and Torso; Nigel
Thuigjan84 Part One On Wednesday September 1982,
1
Tisdall Phantom CavaWer; Nigel
Fri2oJan84 Part Two Eric Saward wrote to Pringle saying ^^ Thursday 21 July 1983: The village Tisdall, Scott Free, Sean McCabe
that he liked the outline for War Game green at Martin was used for the main Phantom Roundheads; Bob Tarff, Peter
- but, fearing it might prove expensive location photocall, although the Dukes Troopers.

Frontios
Atmosphere BU mHRH BHTISS
OlUm HRCHIUE
DWM220
Lessons in scaring the kiddies #2: Don't make your monster
EDinniissioninB look disconcertingly like Terence Trent D'Arby ... © bbc
Tue 24 Aug 82 The Wanderers
breakdown commissioned
in the Radio Times special that the Doctor would find "that a
Fri 26 Nov 82 frotious [working
Time Lord's TARDIS is not always his castle". And the Doctor
title] [sic] scripts commissioned
was wearing his glasses! Yum.
for Tue 1 Feb 83; delivered Wed
,

Bidmead's stories have come in for some criticism lately as

16 Feb 83
the comic excesses of the late Tom Baker period have swung
back into fashion. For myself, I've always loved his mix of high
PRDDUCTIOn science and smashing dialogue, and was intrigued to imagine
Wed 24 Aug 83 Television Centre
how he might tackle a Doctor Who monster story.
I
Studio 6: Excavation Area; Hatch
The opening shots in which Captain Revere is sucked into
1 from Research Room; Raw
the earth aren't terribly well done, but from the wonderfiil
Tunnels; Central Cave
TARDIS scene onwards - "Not hat people are you?" - you're
'

Thu 25 Aug 83 Television Centre

in safe hands. who co-created the character of
Bidmead,
'
Studio 6: Raw Tunnel; TARDIS;
Davison's Doctor, has him just right
here: vulnerable without
'
Large Cave; Tunnel System;
being wet; desperate
without being a victim; witty,
Smaller Cave; Outside Small Cave
resourcefiil and tremendously useful in a crisis, like any good
Fri 26 Aug 83 Television Centre
Doctor should be. Likewise, Tegan and Turlough have a good
Studio 5: Medical Shelter; Tunnel
deal to do and you can see how much the regulars relished
System; Raw Tunnel
getting their teeth (or their slavering lips, in Mark Strickson's
Wed 7 Sep 83 Television Centre
case) into such juicy stuff.
Studio 6: High Street; Colony
Like the great Nigel Kneale, Bidmead has a wonderfiil knack
Ship Hull; Colony Ship Entrance;
for atmospheric backstory, producing such lovely nuggets as
Outside Medical Centre
the legend tiiat "Frontios buries its own dead" or that creepy
Thu 8 Sep 83 Television Centre
scene in which Lesley Dunlop remembers that Captain Revere
Studio 6: Research Room; Tunnel
once told her that "the earth was hungry". I also love the notion
System; Out on the Hull; TARDIS;
that the leader's son is called 'Plantagenet', Bidmead
Raw Tunnel
reasoning tiiat a fragile colony would want to keep in touch
Fri
9 Sep 83 Television Centre h, Frontios. The shattered TARDIS. The deadly with its own history. The colony itself, although still terribly
Studio 6: Colony Ship Corridors; hat-stand. The chicken vol-au-vents. It was English (which is rather nice) is refreshingly behevable in its
State Room; TARDIS; effects
1984, the season after the slightly dull anniver- seediness. The glowing agitator lamps are a marvellous detail,
shots sary one - and, barring the odd hiccough, didn't as the terrific scene in
is which the Doctor saves young
the future look very bright indeed Plantagenet's using wires and a damp clotii. The story
life
RnniD TIHIES Frontios, former script editor Christopher H Bidmead's builds very cleverly and with increasing spookiness until the
Thu 26 Jan 84 Part One excellent third script for the series, was first glimpsed in that revelation that the problem is under everyone's feet ...
Fri 27 Jan 84 Part Two ever-so-exciting trailer for the upcoming season. There were And so to the Tractators. Well, tfiere's something about those
Thu 2 Feb 84 Part Three flashes of industrial grimness reminiscent of Genesis of the sightless eyes and die way they sway about, isn't there? It's just
Fri 3 Feb 84 Part Four Dalelc. It looked gloomy and atmospheric. There was that hint a shame that sometiiing couldn't be done in the leg department.

DCTDH UJHD ITlRGRZinE

And remember all those tantalising ideas in the book? The out a planet and pilot around the cosmos? Despite the fact that
Gravis with a rotten human head as its translation device, and I've become very fond of the programme's sillier stories in

the digging machine using bones to polish the tunnels ... recent years, this one remains my kind of adventure. Perhaps
The guest cast are terrific, with particular honours going to that's because it's pure Doctor Who. Just close your eyes and you
JefF Rawle and William Lucas, but almost everyone enters could easily imagine the First Doctor and his companions
properly into the spirit of things in the way Doctor Who actors exceeding the temporal boundaries and winding up beneath
used to; no hint of camp or send-up here. Of course, the plot the blasted soil of Frontios.
ends up a little bizarre: didn't someone else want to hollow Just remember, not a word to the Time Lords ...

iiiiih^!iiiijain!TT¥
^ The original designer for the serial amazed to be told that the take was fluffed her lines when saying "rocks
was to have been Barrie Dobbins, who good and to move on to the next scene and boulders" - causing the whole cast
died tragically at the start of July 1983 to fall about laughing
^ Friday 26 August 1983: There was a
The Tractator costumes were 15-minute over-run caused by visual Composer Paddy Kingsland
inside the spaceship: the
designed by Visual Effects' Dave Havard effects problems, a camera fault and decided to make the underground
Doctor goes for a nose
and made by an outside contractor. The the Tractators not being ready chambers seem larger than they were
around the ducting. For a
idea of the Tractators being able to curl on screen by giving them an echoing
change, s bbc
up was attempted one camera shot
in 1^ By the time of the second recording church-like sound, using pan pipes,

where a Tractator was seen from the block, William Lucas (Mr Range) had percussion and bass drum in his 42-
back lying on its side, but when the caught the 'flu, but struggled on minute long electronic score
actor inside was unable to get up such
shots were abandoned. The creatures Wednesday 7 September 1983: The ^ On Monday 5 March 1984, Saward
could also crawl on their stomachs regular cast expected an explosion as wrote to Bidmead to suggest that he
they emerged from the TARDIS, but might develop a new story featuring
Construction of the mining this did not take place on recording. the Tractators and the Master
machine was contracted out to a To allow Plantagenet to be 'sucked
company called Any Effects, but into the earth', several air-beds were ^ UK Gold screened the serial in

director Ron Jones was so disappointed inflated beneath a hole cut in the episodic form in September 1994 and
with the result that he cut its use down stage floor. The area was then covered as a compilation since November 1993
to a minimum with cork chippings. As Rawle lay in

place, the beds were deflated. Havard Timecoded first edits of all four

0 At one point during recording, Jeff was unhappy with this sequence episodes exist in private hands on VHS
Rawle (Plantagenet), an old friend of
Mark Strickson, put his foot through Thursday 8 September 1983: ^ Credits [additional]: Ed Stevenson
some stairs. Rawle assumed that the Frontios'penultimate scene required was an uncredited Assistant Floor

scene would be re-recorded, and was several takes because Janet Fielding Manager alongside Joanna Guritz

Resurrection of the Daleks

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Foam dome: Davros (Terry Molloy) surveys
the results of the Movellan virus, s bbc cammissioiiiiio
Men 29 Mar 82 Staff clearance

or us Americans, the first PBS airing of Resurrection requested to write The Return; all

was a glimpse of Doctor Who with its trousers scripts accepted Thu 25 Nov 82
down. With the last half missing its music and
sound effects, I was initially annoyed by the PRODUETIOn
mistal<e, feeling it distracted from a slam-bang Sum 1 Sep 83 Curlew Street,

advenmre. Later it became a symbol of the failure of a gun-heavy Bermondsey, London [Wapping

approach to Who - it's hard for something to be gritty drama High Street/Walkway/

when the explosions sound like popped paper bags. When I Warehouse]; Shad Thames,

finally admitted Who could be a bit silly, it was ideal for redub- Bermondsey [Side

bing (bouncing-bedspring noises over the close-ups of Davison Street/Wapping High Street]

moaning on the slab, that sort of thing). Moni2Sep83 Butler's Wharf,

But mostly, the missing gloss showed me which elements Bermondsey [Wapping
of the episodes were strong in isolation, while mercilessly Pierhead]; Shad Thames [Street];

exposing any cod acting or taclcy writing. It helped me to learn Lafone Street, Bermondsey

how the story pieces fit toge±er - crucial for a budding writer. [Phone Box/Wapping High Street]

And while the story as a whole is flawed, many of the pieces Wed 21 Sep 83 Television Centre
aren't - great music, great design, the regulars working hard. Studio 8: Space Station -

The military types,despite their lack offirst names, are sketched Corridor outside Prison; Prison;

with a grace absent from previous Dalek stories - subtle high- Bridge

lights include Mercer fireezing up when the man next to him is Thu 22 Sep 83 Television Centre

shot, the survivors looking to Styles rather ±an Mercer for Studio 8: Space Station -

orders, and Styles' humanly flubbed wish for "cool spring Corridor [self-destruct]; Self-

mountain water". Matthew Robinson's direction is stardingly Destruction Chamber; Corridor

good - the camera roams through the sets rather than across Deep Inside; Corridor by Airlock;

the surface. Whole sequences, like Turlough's disappearance, Corridor [laboratory]; Laboratory

are done in one uninterrupted tracking shot. The blue-filtered Fri23Sep83 Television
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film makes London look as creepy as an alien world - linking Lytton's, or Stien's. (The canisters in the warehouse could just
the run-down city with the neglected space station, and evoking be a decoy to lure the soldiers, and the virus released at the end
World's End without recycling it. I even admired the script's could be sometiiing Davros had just brewed up as insurance.)
minute-by- minute efficiency and pace - while learning how not Looking at individual pieces of Resurrection taught me to
to structure a story from its sidelined regular characters, pinpoint problems and fix them. Even the story's unrelievedly
random cutting between barely-connected subplots and illog- grim and violent tone could become a strength with a single
ical expediencies (why does the DaIek Supreme allow Turlough confined change. From the Doctor's confrontation with Davros:
to "roam freely", rather than hold him prisoner?) "The universe is Doctor ... It is a universal way of life."
at war.
It strains credibility that the Daleks would attempt so many "Which I do not accept."
grandiose plans while they're still at the mercy of the Movellan ended with those Unes, with the Doctor lowering
If the scene
virus. But look at how much of the story falls into place with tiny his gun and deciding to take Davros back to the authorities, it
rewrites to cut the Movellan angle ... Instead of a demoralised would be one of the defining moments of Doctor Who. Doing so
rabble, the Daleks are at the top of their game, rescuing Davros even amidst all the carnage would underline that the Doctor
to help them with an audacious invasion scheme involving stands for something better than all that, even (or especially)
human dupUcates. As the one who created the DaIek Factor, when caught up in violent events. Even if he failed, it would be
he's perfecdy suited to solve their duplicates' conditioning his choice rather than a cop-out non-decision. There's room for
Daiek duplicate Stein problems. Suddenly all the plot threads relate to the same the world of the Doctor to be horrifying and bleak, so long as he
(Rodney Bewes) prepares central ideas of loyalty and brainwashing, whether Kiston's, still clearly stands for something better.
tlie Doctor for a spot of
brain-draining. @ bbc

IIIHHIIlli^^!«IHl>
Centre Studio 8: Space Producer John Nathan-Turner first Jean Sheward and visual effects round the studio kicking props, which
Station - Airlock Corridor; met DaIek creator Terry Nation at a designer Peter Wragg. The two-day the cast and crew found upsetting.
Laboratory; Corridor outside lab; convention in Chicago in July 1982, location shoot for The Return was Rula Lenska (Styles) returned to studio
Corridor Deep Inside; TARDIS when he suggested that the anniver- scheduled for 4-5 January 1983, with on this day to pose for publicity photo-
Console Room sary season should climax with a DaIek studio recording from i6-i8January graphs, none having been taken of her
Wed 5 Oct 83 Television Centre serial. was agreed that script editor
It and then 3oJanuary-i February. Dates in the previous session. For two of the
Studio 6: Warehouse - Alien Eric Saward could write this story, were rearranged around the remount studio days, visual effects designer
Artefact Level pending Nation's approval. Saward's of Enlightenment before The Return was Peter Wragg was taken ill, leaving
Thu 6 Oct 83 Television Centre storyline was first sent to Nation in cancelled by the Planning department assistant George Reed to take his place
Studio 6: Warehouse - Time September, the writer starting work on
Corridor Level the scripts the following month. Early Director Matthew Robinson was After leaving Doctor Who, Janet
Fri 7 Oct 83 Television Centre in November, Nation passed comment known to Nathan-Turner from his work Fielding went on to shoot appearances
Studio 6: Space Ship on the storyline. Although basically on Angels; Nathan-Turner invited him to in Euston Films' Minder, Central's
Duplication Chamber; Ante- acceptable, he felt that the Daleks were work on the rescheduled DaIek story, Murphy's Mob, the BBC's Hold the Back
Chamber; Reception Area; too vulnerable and that their first now known as Resurrection of the Daleks, Page and Blind Justice. After a period
Corridor; Bridge appearance was not spectacular early in 1983 working on The Satellite Shop for SIcy,
enough; he also objected to the pres- Fielding moved into artiste manage-
nnniD TimEB ence of the DaIek Emperor (originally 0 The role of Stien was offered to Mel ment, where one of her clients was
Wed 8 Feb 84 Part One created by David WhitakerforTV Smith on Thursday 28 July; Styles was Eighth Doctor Paul McGann
Wed 15 Feb 84 Part Two Century 21 comic strips), which was offered to Polly Adams on Wednesday
3
redesignated the DaIek Supreme. He August and Diane Keen on Wednesday The montage of clips showing old
also forbade the killing of Davros 10 August; on Thursday 11 August, companions was compiled by Ian
Laird was offered to Miriam Margolyes Levine; the omitted clip of Leela was to
From the outset, Saward wanted to and Archer to Patrick Mower. The have been taken from The Face of Euil
make Lytton an interesting and casting of LeslieGrantham in the small Part One. A number of scenes were
appealing anti-hero who might return role of Kiston came about because dropped in editing: in Part Two, the
in future serials. Unofficial series Grantham had played the lead in a Doctor and Stien about to leave the
consultant Ian Levine had Saward view small theatre play about television TARDIS; in Part Three, Turlough telling
Destiny of the Daleks, to see Davros' written by Robinson. Tegan that he is ready to give up, plus
cryogenic prison. Lytton ordering his aide to take two
^ Preparing for his role as Davros, men to kill Davros; and in Part Four,
was planned that the TARDIS
It Terry Molloy studied tapes of Michael some of Davros reasoning with the
would land on Wapping Pier Head - Wisher in Genesis of the Daleks Doctor at gunpoint, Tegan telling
but the warehouse owners asked for Turiough that the Daleks cannot blast
too much money, and so the shoot was The exploding DaIek used in the fall their way into the TARDIS, and the pair
relocated to Bermondsey from the warehouse was one of a returning to Earth in the TARDIS.

Kiston (Leslie Grantham)

number of expendable dummies made
looks on as Davros oversees
Crew for The Return included of expanded foam from a mould ^ UK Gold screened the serial
designer Malcolm Thornton, costume created by effects assistant Roger episodic form in September 1994, and
the manufacture of the
deadly Movellan virus o bbc
designer Jan Wright, make-up designer Perkins. The new Davros mask was as a compilation from November 1993
modelled and styled by visual effects
assistant Stan Mitchell. The Dalek-like <^ Mute 16mm film of the model work
eye-stalks on the troopers' helmets was for the serial exists in private hands
concocted by costume designer Janet
Tharby and freelance prop builder (J^ A number of credited extras did
Richard Gregory; Nathan-Turner was not, in fact, attend the recordings:
displeased with this element, which he Martin Nelson replaced Robert Peters
first saw during the studio recording as a Trooper; Ginny Rose replaced
Karen Halliday as a Creu;member;
The 16mm model sequences saw Adrian Scott replaced Nicholas Currt
the first use on Doctor Who of a motion as the Chemist; the Soldier played by
control rig for the space station attack Simon Crane was also played by Kevin
O'Brien; Peter Roy was the Van Driuer;
1^ Thursday 6 October 1983: Robinson Derek Holt did not appear and Ulric
deliberately scheduled Tegan's farewell Browne appeared only as an Escapee,
scene for the end of the recording day. not a Trooper. Credits: Jane Beckett
Fielding worked herself up by going was an uncredited Vision Mixer

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Turlough (Mark Strickson) sets teenage pulses racing.

Malkon (Edward Highmore) doesn't. Probably, sbbc cammissianinB .

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Not that they made it easy. For story after story, Turlough commissioned for Men 1 1 Apr 83;
showed himself to be devious, conniving, selfish, cowardly delivered Mon 11 Apr 83 ;

and untrustworthy He had strange scary eyebrows and - worst Wed 20 Apr 83 Scripts commis- ;

of all - he was ginger. But despite this, Vislor Turlough became sioned for Wed 25 May 83 I

an instant DW 'cover boy' (see DWM 76) and my number one

pin-up of 1984. So how to explain this avid fascination? PRDDUGTIDn
I know in my heart that it wasn't just about me being of a Frii4 0ct83 Lanzarote: Playa
certain age when Turlough happened along. With hindsight, Papagayo [Beach/Boat]
it's easy to see that Doctor Who had never had a regular character Sat 15 Oct 83 Lanzarote: High
with such ambiguous morals and questionable motives before. Observation Point, Miradordel
Turlough was an astonishing and refreshing change from two- Rio [Balcony/Apartment/

dimensional, squealing girls and boys that had gone before. Upstairs]; Quay and Cafe, Orzola

The moral ambiguity he brought to the series nudged Who [Rocks/Jetty/Cafe]

gently closer to being 'real' drama about 'real' people. Mon 17 Oct 83 Lanzarote:
Turlough was genuinely human (for an alien) ... and on top of Montanas del Fuego
everything else, he was pretty cute. [Ridge/Asphalt Triangle/Beyond
Planet of Fire edges daringly into an adult world of teenage Cave of Doves/Valley of
girls running off with strange men to Morocco (or indeed Tranquillity/Guide's Cave]

Androzani Minor), with more on their mind than collecting Tuei8 0ct83 Lanzarote:
plant specimens. It is stuffed fiill of attractive people in shorts. Montanas del Fuego [Ridge/Cave
Not only does Turlough take off his trousers and finally thow of Doves/Steep Hill/High
away his school tie forever, but it also showcases Peri before Area/Volcano Mouth]
she became a grotesque parody of herself The transition that Wed ig Oct 83 Lanzarote:
began in early 1983 when Tegan re-appeared in Amsterdam Montanas del Fuego [Yellow
wearing a boned corset top and continued when Nyssa's Area/Los Hornitos]
clothes dropped off in Terminus peaks here, under the baking Wed 26 Oct 83 Television Centre

Imost exactly halfway into Part One of Planet of Lanzarote/Sarn sun, turning up the sexual heat for the show's Studio 1 : Bunker; Inner Tunnel;
Fire, Turlough takes off his shorts. He then gets week-night audience. Tunnel Entrance; Seismic Control
all wet and is - for a fleeting moment - truly The fact that there are holes in the plot large enough to drive Centre; Collonade; Hall of Fire

Gobsmacked, I watched open-mouthed

heroic. a herd of Tythonians through is immaterial. Planet of Fire Thu 27 Oct 83 Television Centre

Who meandered into virgin territory ...

as Dortor succeeds in stretching the traditional expectations and moral Studio 1: Hall of Fire

I was just i6 when

Planet oJFire was first shown. I'd been a absolutes of Who. There no embarrassing latex monster, no
is Wed 9 Nov 83 Television Centre

Who fan all my life, but as I grew older and began taking a hysterical screaming, hardly any nasty deaths and no easy Studio 6: Seismic Control Centre;
different kind of interest in characters from other shows like answers. Indeed, the traditional element of the plot - ±e Doctor's TARDIS Console Room;

Bodie (The Professionals) and Tony Verdeschi (Space: ipgg), my Master storyline - is sidehned by the huge, flindamental ques- Tegan's Old Room; Kamelion's
favourite programme of all remained utterly destitute in the tions the story raises: who can you trust, what should you Room
male totty stakes. It had been barren for many years, in fact. believe in, and do you look good in shorts? As a result, it Thu 10 Nov 83 Television Centre

Unless you were hot for a man in uniform or a skirt, your presses perilously close to becoming successfijl mainstream Studio 6: Wrecked Ship; Master's
choices were stricdy limited. Harry Sullivan wasn't about to TV, more accessible to the viewing public at large. Lab [side]; Ruins
ignite the passion of many, and the less said about Adric the This is a fitting finale for the gorgeous Vislor. His true loyal- Fri 11 Nov 83 Television Centre

better. When the news about the new Fifth Doctor broke in the ties remain shielded and when the truth finally
to the very end, Studio 6: Ruins; Master's

press I was beseiged with doubts. How could Tristan Farnon,

who I'd fancied madly for several years, now be the Doctor?
comes out, gone before we are allowed to explore
Turlough is

his mitigating circumstances or take comfort from knowing

TARDIS; Master's Lab; ^
When it came to the crunch, however, my lust evaporated as that he was probably a decent bloke after all, and someone you
Peter Davisondonned his cricket whites. Fancying the Doctor could allow yourself to love.
"Do you know the way back
was against nature, unclean, unholy (some years later, ±is Postscript: the Galhfrei) convention, Los Angeles, 2001. 1 find
to Lanzarote, Kamellon?"
theory was to be utterly disproved with the arrival of Mr myself sitting next to another Brit in the bar. "Hi," he says to
"Well, you hum It and I'll
McGann, but that's a story for another time). Doctor Who in the me, "I'm Mark." know who you are," I manage to gasp,
"I
play it ..." © BBC
igSos had nothing to offer a young hot-blooded fangirl except trying to remember how to brea±e. Poor Mr Strickson didn't
a Tegan haircut. And then came Turlough. know the half of it Which was probably just as well.
.

cnminaiinnii
Background notes for Peri noted [her father] died he was the same age this, however, saying that an American
that she would be introduced to the as the Doctor appears now." The new companion was more likely to
Doctor while on holiday "in whichever Doctor/companion relationship was displease American audiences, since it

country we decide to film next season's hoped to echo the popularThird was Doctor Who's Britishness which
foreign story". Peri's father died when Doctor/Jo Grant pairing of the 1970s they found appealing; he simply
she was just 13; her mother, Janine, has wanted to continue to break with the
since married Howard, whom Peri ^ At the time, British Doctor Who fans convention that the Doctor's compan-
dislikes; Howard has three children of feared that Peri's introduction was an ions should always be English -a
his own, whom Janine appears to care attempt by the production team to process started with Tegan. However,
for more. was noted that the Doctor
It court American fandom for the show. script editor Eric Saward later alleged
"replaces the gap in Peri's life. When Producer John Nathan-Turner denied that Peri was created as a direct

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 attempt to increase the show's Friday 14 October 1983: While the 4^ Friday 11 November 1983: A hand-
marketability in North America sequence showing Peri floundering in held camera was used in Part Two
the water was being shot, a German where Peri and the K-Master leave the
^ Writer Peter Grimwade's original naturist from the adjoining nudist TARDIS, since it was easier to rock to
setting for the Earth scenes was the beach, convinced that Nicola Bryant simulate the subsequent earthquake;
fictitious Greek island of 'Aeschyllos' was in trouble, came to her rescue. The some debris was dropped on the set,
production team attempted to explain including the lightwright piece of poly-
^ There were two recces to Lanzarote: that they were filming a television styrene masonry that strikes the K-
the first in summer 1983, and the main series; displeased, the nudist ruined Master. A lightweight dummy of the
one in early September. The second one later take by running across the Master's TARDIS was also used in Part
visit, to find camera locations, spanned background of the shot. Grimwade was Three, for scenes showing the Sarns
three days; joining director Fiona disappointed with the casting of the lifting it into an upright position
Gumming were production manager relatively young Dallas Adams as
The Doctor and Turlough find Corinne Hollingsworth, production Howard, having envisaged Peri's step- (3^ Turlough's code, "VTEC 9/12/44",
little time for sightseeing on associate June Collins, Nathan-Turner father as an older man, akin to the was derived from Nathan-Turner's date
their trip to Lanzarote. e bbc
and Saward. Grimwade was not Egyptologist Howard Carter. of birth. Peri's passport gave her birth
allowed to attend; Nathan-Turner felt November 1965 and her
date as 13
that writers were not needed on recces. Sunday 16 October 1983: Press home address as "45th 2057 Street, St
^ Inside Console; CSO shots Grimwade later said that if he had photographers arranged a James Michelle, Pasadena, California"
been allowed to visit the proposed Bond-style photoshoot of Peter
nniDia Tim^s locations, he could have written a far Davison and Nicola Bryant on their day 0 Peter Howell's incidental music
Thu 23 Feb 84 Part One more effective script, showing off the off Davison donned a dinner jacket, score was based on the atmosphere
Fri 24 Feb 84 Part Two scenery to its best advantage while Bryant wore a bikini, echoing the conjured up by the location film, using
Thu 1 Mar 84 Part Three style of Ursula Andress in Dr No dry whistling noises and acoustic
Fri 2 Mar 84 Part Four Saward felt that Peri was written for elements. Peter Wyngarde dubbed
in a 'wimpy' way, and undertook a Guest stars Dallas Adams and Peter some of his scenes on Monday 16
number of rewrites; however, her Wyngarde decided to release some January 1984
opening scene with Howard was turtles from the hotel pool into the sea
judged strong enough to be used as on their last night on the island. It was ^ Planet of Fire was the last serial
the audition piece for the character thought that the turtles had been directed by Gumming; commitments
stolen, and the police were called in on Yorkshire Television's Emmerdale
^ Casting interviews took place in Farm prevented her from working on
early September; on Monday 5, ^ Recording took place in the after- Season Twenty-Two, although she was
Michael Troughton was seen for the noon and evenings of most studio days provisionally booked to direct the
part of Roskal, along with Stephen from 2.30 to 5.15pm and then between unmade The Ultimate Foe by Wally K
Garlick (who was rejected on the 7.30 and 10.30pm; the only day with no Daly over May/June 1986
grounds that he had only recently afternoon recordingwas Wednesday 26
appeared in Mawdryn Undead ) ^ Timecoded VHS recordings of much
^ Wednesday 9 November 1983: The of the studio material exists, some of
<^ A company called Lanzarote Villas TARDIS set was erected hurriedly, and which appeared in the closing credits
helped with the shoot; the daughter of the paint on the floor was still wet, to the November 1994 BBC Video
the firm's owner acting as interpreter sticking to Strickson's bare feet release More Than 30 Years in the TARDIS

The Caves of Androzani

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oommissiiiiiiiiB "I owe it to my friend to try ..." The Fifth Doctor bows
out in style, forfeiting his life to save Peri, s eec video
Fri 6 May 83 Chain Rcortion

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commissioned for Mon 23 May 83 he Caves of Androzani was the story that killed
Thu 28 Jul 83 ThcCauesof
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for Tue 30 Aug 83

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the television series.

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team achieved on
the production
Androzani - especially given what had preceded
mean

it that season - was extraordinary. Here was a production that

the character - 1 mean

was accomplished and polished, that was witty and dark, that
Pit, Stokeford Heath, Dorset was played with conviction. The design was good, the
[Androzani Minor] hghting (for a change) was moody and fitting. It was a
Thu 15 Dec 83 Television Centre triumphant debut for director Graeme Harper, and a
Studio 6: Cave; Gallery; Chellak's triumphant return for writer Robert Holmes. Its being a
Office; Conglomerate HQ; regeneration story served only to draw attention to its
Workshop; Lift; The Narrows; HQ strengths. The fact that a monster which Terminus or Warriors
Cave; Chellak's Quarters of the Deep (or any one of a dozen other recent stories) would
Fri 16 Dec 83 Television Centre have given their eye-teeth for is cited as the only embarrass-
Studio 6: Chellak's Office and ment is testament to its achievement.
Quarters; Cave HQ; And this is the heart of the problem.
Conglomerate HQ; Detention To a degree - arguably a large degree - the programme was
Cell; Cave; Workshop; Cave 2 already playing to its past strengths as perceived by those in
Sat 17 Dec 83 Television Centre charge.The fresh, forward-looking approach of Tom Baker's
Studio 6: Caves; Control Room; flnalseason had, by the time his successor moved on,
Conglomerate HQ; The Narrows changed into an orgy of introspection. Most obviously, the
Wed ri Jan 84 Television ^ Daleks were back together with Davros. But so were the

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Silurians and the Sea Devils, ratlier less impressively than in
their previous appearances. Add to that a few killer
policemen, an exploding church, mix thoroughly and you
have a season of greatest hits that rivals the 'official' anniver-
sary story we had just been dished up.
So the evident success of something as fresh and new as
Androzani gave the production team a new sense of direction -
something to build on that wasn't rooted in the days of
Venusian karate and Madame Nostradamus's knitting. It isn't

difficult to see that they spent the following season trying to

build on and repeat that success.
But without an innate understanding of Atidrozani's real
strengths, the results were, at best, piecemeal. In fact, 'the
only elements that were singled out and repeated were the
dark humour and overt violence. However tame they might
look today, thereis no doubt that the acid bath in Vengeance on

Varosand the blood dripping from Lytton's hands in Attack of

the Cybermen - andmany other sequences and incidents -
made Doctor Who seem a very unpleasant place for children to
spend their Saturday tea-times. Gone was the cosy frisson of
hiding behind the sofa as the monster emerged, and in came
the explicit nastiness of the sell-through video age.
The result is perhaps as predictable looking back now as it
was surprising at the time. The irony now, as then, is that the
basic elements that the team should have been using were a
sound and witty script and a passionate and talented director year instead of 13 , it meant a lucrative US sale every four years Twisted genius Sharazjek >

- which were about to come together again in what is easily instead of every two. And the US programmers were unlikely (Christopher Gable), whose g
the best story of Colin Baker's tenure: Reuelation of the Daleks. to be impressed by the notion of a ground-breaking UK tele- lust for beauty has tragic

The of the hiatus caused by this misinterpretation of

result vision series that provided new material for broadcast only consequences, s bbc video

Androzani's success was the curtailing of Doctor Who seasons to every four years. Whatever its quality, whatever its merits,
14 episodes. That may not sound so awfiil now that we look whateverits potential for US distribution, the entire Sylvester

forward to a of zero new television episodes a year, but

total McCoy era of Doctor Who provided less than a single US season ^ Centre Studio 5: General's

at a time when the BBC was short of money, when it was of series programming. Quarters and Office; Workshop;

relying increasingly on overseas sales to subsidise its opera- Whether it was ever true that Doctor Who made more money Armoury; Cave
tions and define its success, it was a death blow. from overseas sales than it cost to produce, it wasn't true Thu 12 Jan 84 Television Centre

For a television series of the nature of Who to be screened anymore. It was perceived as rather old, and a bit tired, and Studio 6: Lift Shaft; Cave;

in theUS it must have at least 22 hour-long episodes. The very expensive. Armoury; Workshop; TARDIS;
programme was sold to the US in blocks of episodes that And if there is one story that led to this more than any The Narrows; Gallery
allowed a complete US-style season (or more). With BBC TV other, it is The Caves 0/ Androzani. The end of an era; the end of
now only making the equivalent of seven hours available every a programme. RnDIO TilHES
Thu 8 Mar 84 Part One
Frig Mar 84 Part Two
ThuisMar84 Part Three

Fri 16 Mar 84 Part Four

Script editor Eric Saward added The cave maps In Chellak's office
the brief appearance of the Magma were prepared with assistance from
creature in Part One. Producer John Frank Baguley of the National Caving
Nathan-Turner was less than happy Association. Morgus' asides to camera
with the creature when he saw It In were a happy mistake, arising from
studio Harper's directions being relayed
Incorrectly to actor John Normlngton
The BBC paid local pheasant on the studio fioor. The animated maps

shooters a fee not to fire their guns seen In Jek's workshop were created on
during the three days' filming at BBC Model B microcomputers. One of
Stokeford Heath. Nicola Bryant (Perl) the gun-runner extras, Les Conrad, was
had a cold and was losing her voice, the father of the brothers who played
so director Graeme Harper released Romulus and Remus In the next story,
her from shooting early The Twin Dilemma. The companions
recorded their flashback appearances
^ Thursday 17 November 1983: on this evening; Janet Fielding and
During the chase sequence, one of the Mark Strlckson were still under
detonator charges threw a speck of contract. Gerald Flood pre-recorded also stabilising a matte effect at the Accused of gun-running,
grit Into Davison's ey.e, causing his Kamellon dialogue on Monday 31 start of Part One (showing the planet the Doctor and Perl must face
production to be stopped while the October surface). Extras Included an extended the hostile General Chellak

actor was attended to version of the film sequence with the (Martin Cochrane). ® bbc video

The Caues of Androzani Is now held by suicide pill from Part Two, a featurette
When It became clear that the the BBC as D3 tapes taken from the about the regeneration, an Interview
studio dates would be changed. It one-Inch broadcast tapes, along with a with the late Christopher Gable, an
was hoped to remount the lost 70-mlnute HIBand U-Matic tape of Isolated copy of Roger Limb's sound-
two-day session over 4-5 January handheld Iso-camera recording from track, a remade version of the original
1984. Maurice Roeves (Stotz) lived In Thursday 12 January 1984. The 16mm BBCi the announcement of
trailer,

New York and had to be flown over film sequences also exist In a private Davison's departure on the One o'clock
specially, so abandoning the filmed collection Hews and Nine o'clock News, the Inter-

footage and reshooting new It with a view with Davison and Nathan-Turner
actor was briefly considered - but The serial was released on DVD by on South-East at Six and an audio
eventually the money was found to BBC Worldwide Injune 2001. commentary by Davison, Bryant and
secure Roeve's presence In the UK Restoration work included repairing a Harper recorded on Monday 25
for a longer period to complete the scratch to Part Four (which had been September at Television Centre's
serial visible on the original broadcast) and Dubbing Theatre Y

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Can Dauison-era Doctor Who still cut it in the nst century without the BBC, Adric, Jegan - or
mouin^ pictures - to carry it through? Gary Gillatt listens in on the Fifth Doctor's
new audio adventures and finds that he's seen, er, heard it all before ...

hen the Fifth Doctor began a always be judged on how faithful and consistent it terrible iniquities of life. What we do see,
second life on audio, some manages to be. But 'consistent' will always imply however, is him regret his actions. No other
15 years after he left our TV 'predictable', which in turn leads to 'unsurprising' Doctor was written to have so much self-doubt as
screens, his writers must and ultimately 'unsatisfying'. the Fifth. Whether it's dealing with the death of
have been faced with some- But if we have to capture this Fifth Doctor Adric in EartKshock, pondering why intelligent
thing of a dilemma. Were these new serials, precisely, how do we do it? What's a Fifth Doctor lizards had to die so he could save humanity in
plugged into tiny cracks in the ongoing narrative story like? What does the Fifth Doctor do? What's Warriors of the Deep, or considering the truth of
of the originalseries, supposed to be loving recre- a Fifth Doctor thing to say? Tegan's final comments on the unpleasantness of
ations of a long-gone era, or an opportunity to do When trying to describe the Doctor's varying his world, we frequently get to see how sad and
something original and brave with the character, character, writers have rarely struggled for the sensitive this Doctor can be.
free from the dogmas and obsessions of his orig- appropriate adjective. The First Doctor is, of
and producer? Was this
inal writers, script editors The Second is
course, irascible, often crochety. the Fifth Doctor often gets things wrong, it's
to be a re-tooling - an improvement - of the Fifth
Doctor, or merely an exercise in nostalgic
famously whimsical. The Third just dandy. The If because he isn't acmally very good at being
Fourth bohemian. The Sixth Doctor? He's Doctor Who. The Doctor has always played
homage? bombastic or bullying. The Seventh has been for high stakes, the lives of millions are often in
In the case of the new adventures of the Sixth judged postumously to be manipulative, though his hands and he has to do the best he can under
and Seventh Doctors, also launched by Big Finish perhaps the best that viewers at the time might difficult circumstances. He's never going to save
Productions in 1999, this decision was easier to have managed was 'annoying' or 'Scottish'. And the world from the Axons if he's going to blub
make. Common consensus, agreed by fans and over every evaporated UNIT corporal; he's not
star alike, suggested the Sixth Doctor's brief era going to be able to philosophise on how the
had been something of a Daleks might eventually
misfire, a squandered
become a force for
opportunity. No-one was
good if he's going to
going to be upset if this weep for all the small
'

incarnation was softened, fluffy aliens who'll be

lightened and improved. fried before that great
And after years of day comes. Only the
rewriting in his Virgin Fifth Doctor will
Books New Adventures, indulge in that kind of
nobody was really sure soppy sentiment
who the Seventh Doctor because, you see, the
was now anyway: the Fifth Doctor is weak. He

tiHB
cuddly comedian, or the player of Twister on a
thousand mats? The Seventh Doctor has passed
through the hands of so many creatives, one could
cast him as a Gandhi or a Gengis Khan without
BaLance
anyone batting an eyehd. Similarly, both the Sixth
and Seventh Doctors have large gaps in their life
stories
between
much room
- the Sixth after his
Suruiual
to tinker
trial and the Seventh

and the TV Movie - which offer

and tamper. Even the most
continuity-conscious listener would accept that
with just 90 minutes of screen time, the
Doctor's final incarnation was barely
around long enough for an adjective
stick, but his many female admirers would

probably opt for 'passionate' or, more

simply, 'fit'.
to
RIBHt isforever running to catch up before falling over.
the Doctor could have been up to anything, What, then, of our How do we
Fifth Doctor? He'd stand up just long enough to express some
become anyone, in those lacunae. pickle him with word? What does the
a single moral outrage, then fall over again. The first thing
But what to do with that pesky Fifth Doctor? label on his box read? There's little doubt about he did in the series was to faint, and the last ±ing
Many writers must have been hungry to try some- that: 'Vulnerable'. was up and almost lose the vital cure for his
to trip
thing new with him, but as these additional 'Vulnerable' is employed here as a synonym for dying companion. He spent the majority of the
adventures must be dropped into carefully 'sensitive'. The Fifth Doctor is painted as some- time in-between either on his knees or flat on his
jemmied gaps in his canon, how much change thing of a tragic figure. He's witness to and arse. Pick yourself up, man! Take charge!
could we accept? responsible for as much death as any of the other Seeing a touch of humanity and emotion in the
This is where the Fifth Doctor has always Doctors, but it seems to affect him a little more Doctor is, of course, no bad thing. His third incar-
suffered - both in novels and on audio. New tales profoundly.Of course, such is the episodic easy- nation, perhaps more than any, was known for
for his successors will always be judged on their come, easy-go nature of Doctor Who, we don't get being insufferably cocksure and self-righteous,
originalityand ingenuity - attributes prized by to see him suffering any lasting melancholy of but how much we love those fleeting moments of
discerning consumers hungry for something new soul, or catch him knocking back the Plutonian sensitivity: the regretfiil silence after the Brigadier
- while the Fifth Doctor's extending canon will Prozac as he fights to come to terms with the blows the Silurians halfway to the Triassic, or the
tears for Jo Grant as he flees her engagement what ridiculous scene where the Doctor tries to

party. But the trouble for anyone attempting to
recreate the Fifth Doctor era is that this Doctor
has become defined by his doubts and his wealc-
nesses. What seemed on TV a novel approach
the character soon became wearing; we need
defeat a monster by wrapping it in rugs.
Relationships between characters are also written
rather inconsistently, especially the animousity
to between Tulung and Brett which forms the
secondary plot for the adventure. But the Doctor is

ingenuity and and devil-may-care from the

flair true to character: he finds himself bullied into
Doctor, not endless noble self-sacrifice and Sidney making tea by Monica, and when faced by mad,
Carton soliloquy. illogical Brett, he attempts to sensitively reason
There you have the first problem faced by the with the man, in the process losing any influence
audio writers: the incarnation of the Doctor they he had over him, and allowing events to slip from
have to leave the least-changed is the one with the his control.
The Doctor who most needs to evolve
least variety. Forming something of a pair with The Land of
is the one who must always stay the same. Doctor
the Dead, Winter for the Adept also finds the

Another difficulty stems from the enforced and Nyssa alternately hip deep in snow and
absence from these plays of the most important dashing from room to room in an isolated house.
character of the Fifth Doctor years: Tegan Jovanka. This adventure, a tale of psychic powers, poller-

IP THE FIFTH DDCTOR BETS THIRBS

lURDHB, IT'S BECHUSE HE ISH'T REHLLH
UERS BBBD RT BEIRB BBCTBR lUHB
Back as far as his first TV adventure, Castrovalva, geist and displaced aliens set in a Swiss finishing
the Doctor identified Tegan as 'the co-ordinator', school in 1963, is written by erstwhile McCoy-era
one who would hold him and his friends together. scriptwriter Andrew Cartmel. In terms of ideas
Tegan forced the Doctor to stop vacillating, to and originaUty, this is one of the better Fifth
make a stand. In many ways he was defined in Doctor plays. Cartmel famously has his own take
reaction to her. Vi^ith actress Janet Fielding now on the Doctor, and the Time Lord is allowed to be
seemingingly unwilling to pass within a country a littie more pro-active than normal here; in
mile of Doctor Who, what we are left with instead is Seventh Doctor style, he already has something of
a supporting cast of also-rans: Nyssa, an oddly a handle on events before the story even starts.
unengaging companion who, like the Doctor, can However, some of Cartmel's dialogue is uninten-
barely stay conscious most of the time; Turlough, tionally hilarious, with favourites being, "The ski
who shared remarkably litfle screen time with the poles! They're rising up! They're floating into the
Time Lord during his year on the show (and for air" and Nyssa's "I'm still sceptical about this so-
much of that was written as feckless, self-serving called poltergeist activity, but ..." Guest star Peter
or plain villainous); and Peri, a Sixth Doctor Jurasik (fresh from the torpid sci-fi soap Babylon
companion who just happened to turn up early. 5) impresses as a local policeman, and extra fun is

Furthermore, the writers have very litde raw offered by Sally Faulker's decision to deliver
material to work with when attempting to recreate school headmistress Mrs Tremayne in the manner
these Doctor-companion relationships. With of Miss Jean Brodie as played by Rab C Nesbitt.
Tegan out of the picture, the Doctor has to travel
alone with both Nyssa and Turlough. We see this
happen on screen, of course, but basically only for
nfter two
Nyssa
'cottage under siege' stories,
gets to see a litde more of the
one scene each, at the start of Arc ojinfinity and Universe in The Mutant Phase, part of Big
Planet oJFire respectively. Similarly with Peri, a Finish's Dolek Empire suite of stories. Crossing
whole friendship has had to be extrapolated from time and popping up on both Earth and Skaro,
the opening moments of The Caues ofAndrozani. As our heroes investigate the cause of a mysterious
hsteners, we have littie to relate to - these pairings contagion that is causing Daleks to mutate into
are unfamiliar and unnatural. The production team giant wasps. Nicholas Briggs writes and performs
and actors are struggling to accurately recreate the marvellous Dalek dialogue, and the creamres'
mood of adventures that never even existed in the commanding audio presence suggests that their
first place. It's an uneasy compromise. original designer Raymond Cusick no more
Salvation comes, to an extent, from the basic deserved to become a millionaire than Terry
Doctor Who formula. In order to develop two story Nation: its the voices that maketh the monster.
strands - an A and B plot, or perhaps just two Sadly, the tortuous temporal paradox that under-
differing aspects of the same investigation - the pins this tale sees the plot loop round on itself in
Doctor and his companion are generally separated such an unsatisfying and confusing way that even
and paired off with new, often rival, characters. the Doctor seems at a loss to explain it.
In the first Fifth Doctor audio (at least within The finalNyssa story to date is the dreary
the Doctor's chronology ), The Land of the Dead, the Primeual. The Doctor has to take his companion,
TARDIS brings the Doctor and Nyssa, seemingly always a fragile young thing, back to her home
fresh from the Heathrow of Time-Fight, to the planet of Traken after she falls sick. This means
wastes of Alaska. Millionaire Shaun Brett is we get another dull adventure set on perhaps the
building a home-cum-museum, and prehistoric dullest planet ever to be seen in the TV series. A
creatures are stirring in the foundations; creamres story for the most dyed-in-the-wool of Doctor Who
driven only by hunger and instinct. In fending off fans, calculated to delight with references to past
the threat posed to mankind by these fossil continuity, this tale doesn't even deign to tell us
monsters and the increasingly deranged Brett, the what Traken looks like. So as the Doctor wanders
Doctor is teamed with gutsy interior designer from room to room, place to place, we're left to
Monica Lewis, and Nyssa with the truculent half- our own devices to recall the brown corridors,
native, half-American Tulung. So engaging is Lucy potted palms and patio gardens of The Keeper of
Cambell's performance as Monica, one is left Tralcen. Although well-played by all - especially

hoping that she will leave with the Doctor at the Stephen Greif as the bubble-voiced Kwundaar -
end of the tale, leaving the dull Nyssa behind to this tale is lazy and uninvolving and is, by a long
play with her ion-bonder. The story passes chalk, the weakest of the Fifth Doctor audios.
amicably enough, but has much running from Mark Gatiss' Phantasmatioria, the first of the
room to room in Brett's mansion, and a some- Doctor's audio outings with Turlough, is a work-
 Turlough face murderous aliens and the

sinister gambler Sir Nikolas Valentine.

From Earth Mars to Earth to Skaro to Earth to Traken to

to ... LDUPS-GHRaUH
Written by Marc
er, Earth aflain - the Fifth Doctor's audio exploits at-a-g\ance\ Piatt

Set between Resurrection of the Doleks and

THE LHRD OF THE DEHD PRimEUHL Planet of Fire

Written by Stephen Cole Written by Lance Parkin Rival werewolves and a centuries-old love
Set between Time-Fliglit and Arc of Infiniti) Set between Time-flight and Arc of Infiniti/ affair threaten the Doctor and Turlough in Rio

In Alaska, 1994, the Doctor and Nyssa find Nyssa is dying. The Doctor takes her back to de Janeiro, 2080.
monsters that date from before the great Traken, 3000 years before her birth, for treat-
Permian extinction. ment - but they are both caught up in the evil RED DRUin
plans of Kwundar. Written by Justin Richards
lUIHTER FOR THE RDEPT Set between Planet of Fire and The Caues of
Written by Andrew Cartmel THE SIREHS DF TIIRE Androzani

Set between Timc-flighf and Arc of Infinity Written by Nicholas Briggs On Mars, the Doctor and Peri find themselves

The Swiss Alps, 1963, In a girl's school, the Set between The Fine Doctors and Worriors dragged into a battle between Ice Warriors
Dortor and Nyssa's investigation of a ghost of the Deep (Fifth Doctor segment only) and amoral businessmen.
brings them up against an alien threat. The Doctor, in three of his incarnations,

is manipulated into changing history. THE EHE OP THE

DHLEK EinPIRE: Together they travel to Gallifrey to face SCDRPIDR
THE mUTHnT PHRSE their foe. Written by lain McLaughlin
Written by Nicholas Briggs Set between Planet of Fire and The Caues
Set between Time-Flight and Arc of Infinity PHRnTHSmHGDRIR ofAndrozani

Thai scientist Ptolem is working to combat a Written byMarkGatiss In Egypt, 1400BC, the Doctor and Peri meet
fatal disease that is destroying the Daleks. Set between Resurrection of the Daleks and the young Pharoah-to-be, Erimem, and get
The Doctor and Nyssa become both the cause Planet of Fire entangled in the murderous politics of her

and the cure. In 18th century London, the Doctor and court.

manlike exercise in formulaic Dortor Who; a tale of Just as the Doctor is forced to revisit the series' pleasures as Dust Breeding and Colditz. The Sixth
aliens up to no good in 1702 London clearly most tedious planet in Primeual, here he is obliged Doctor throws himself into the fray with great
informed by the more juicy, bloodthirsty writing to meet Dortor Who's most boring alien race, the Ice gusto, and it's his strength of character, and
of Robert Holmes. David Ryall, as the villainous Warriors, in a predictable tale of honourable ability to always do something entirely unexpected
Nikolas Valentine, doesn't so much steal the show if Martians ranged against amoral humans. Who that saves the day in the final minutes. Colin
as have it gift wrapped and delivered to his house. are the real 'monsters' here? Ahh, do you see ...? Baker steals the show, just as many of his
With Loups-Garoux, Marc Piatt delivers not just Realising how the continuity of the Fifth Doctor succeeding adventures - The Holy Terror, Whispers of
the finest Peter Davison audio, but the best Big era gives their writers Htde room to raanouevre. Terror, The One Dortor - would become the most

Finish production of all. It's no coincidence that Big Finish takes a bold step with Iain McLauchlin's popular of the range.
Piatt, Uke Andrew Cartmel, an alumnus of the
is Egyptian historical The Eye of the Scorpion and intro- The Fifth Doctor's solo story, meanwhile, set
McCoy era, and he brings welcome passion and duces a new companion in the form of usurped on a German submarine, feels the most true to
poetry to the life of the Fifth Doctor. Loups-Garoux teenage Pharaoh Erimem. Her courtly background its era. This would remain the distinctive signa-
is a twisted love story for werewolves that, with its of comfort and privilege are a reminder of Nyssa, ture of all his audio outings; chiefly because, as
trip to theCarnaval of Rio
de Janeiro and a race
through the Amazon, is a

Tagging along with the

FifthDoctor on his audio
voyages are (l-r): Nyssa
(Sarah Sutton), Turlough
(Mark Strickson), Peri
(Nicola Bryant) and Erimem
(Caroline Morris), s bbc/bfp

TEcnn^s HBsencE PRnm the hudid we've seen, there really

to go. Moreover, the closing episode
is nowhere else for
of The
him
Sirens

HDUEnrURES LEHUES THE DDCTDR TO ofTime has these three Doctors meet to face their

TRRUEL UJITH R CR5T DP 'RLSD RRnS' foe and, typically enough, the Fifth (set up almost
as a father figure), finds himself entirely eclipsed
rich, sweeping, feature film of an adventure. even if it's tempered by the plain-speaking self- by the energy and fiair of the others; just as his
Like Gatiss, Marc Piatt struggles with Doctor confidence she shares with Peri. Very much a distil- audio canon would come to be judged less
and Turlough in Loups-Garoux. On TV, these charac- lation of other companions, she may offer litde engaging than that of his Sixth and Seventh incar-
ters generally took turns to interact with Tegan, new for the Fifth Doctor to respond to; his is a nations.
rather than each other, and with this fulcrum character who badly needs a wise-cracking Like the character himself, the Fifth Doctor
missing the relationship falls apart. The two men Frobisher or inquisitive Evelyn Smythe travelling in audio adventures are good, if never great. While
sound like middle-aged work colleagues on a busi- his TARDIS. the standard of acting, direction, editing and
ness trip together, each on the lookout for some- sound design on the Big Finish range are as good
thing to do rather than actually talk to this stranger ne adventure remains to be discussed, and asyou will find anywhere, the plays struggle to
I

they've been paired off with. When Eleanor Bron's that's Nicholas Briggs' The Sirens oJTime, provide anything truly new.
werewolf Ileana de Santos pairs off with the Doctor the portmanteau story for the Fifth, Sixth
I

Seemingly destined to be overshadowed by his

in this story, you again wish that she could join the and Seventh Doctors that launched the Big Finish subsequent selves, this Doctor will have to do
Time Lord on his travels. Passionate and worldly- Doctor Who audio range, and in many ways stands something very bold, unpredictable and dramatic
wise, she brings out the best in the Fifth Doctor. as a metaphor for all that followed. The Seventh if he's ever tostand out from the crowd.
Justin Richards' Red Dau;n is as smalland Doctor's episode is fast, simple and thick with And if he becomes just a little less 'vulnerable'
parochial as Loups-Garoux is epic and imaginative. bizarre accents; very much a taste ofsuch later in the process? Well, it ujouM make a change ... Q
 REGEMERATIOMi
2-3 March 2002 At The Novotel Hotel, Hammersmith
A Two Day Convention Celebrating DR WHO
Featuring The First Ever Convention Appearance Of Paul McGann
 Many authors have told of their struggles to bring Trou^hton's in Goth Opera all
fit in with the celebratory cavalcade

of Guardians, Maras, Omegas and Masters.

Doctor to life on the printed pa^e. "Pshawl" says Matt Michael - it's Formnately, the book writers' choice of villains
is more sensible than die Season Twenty produc-
the Dauison model luho proues most resistant to bein^ booked ...
tion team's. These are all sequels to gothic Fourth
Doctor adventures, albeit not simple follow-ups or
n the surface, the Fifth Doctor has and a few mumbhngs, and the Sixth sketched out copycat remakes. Refirsing to rehash Pyramids of
not been hard done by when it with a couple of tongue-twisting confabulations Mars, Justin Richards' The Sands ojTime is enriched
comes to continuing his travels in and some Peri-baiting, the Fifth requires more rather than driven by its links to that story and Black
print. Since 1994, when the Missing work on the writer's part to prevent him from Orchid. Likewise, Zeta Major does more than just re-
Aducntures range was initiated, becoming a bland stereotype. Paul Cornell's Dccalotj visit the Planet qfEuil, being an intelligent tale that,
Virgin and the BBC have published 12 original story Lackaday Express, with its emphasis on the like Diuided Loyalties and The Crystal Bucephalus,
novels featuring Peter Davison's Time Lord, and a Doctor's jittery babbling, is an example of how to concerns itself with the consequences of the
fiirther nine short stories have appeared in the write the Fifth Doctor well. Craig Hinton's horren- Doctor's past actions. Goth Opera is linked to State of
Dccalog and Short Trips collections. The Fifth was the dously wimpish take on the Time Lord in The Decay only through the New Aduenture, Blood Harvest,
first incarnation to star in a Past Doctor book; the Ultimate Treasure represents the other extreme. with the Vampires playing a more minor role than
appear in a muld-Doctor novel, and
eariiest to Further problems he in the books' over-use of in Terrance Dicks' two Hammeresque romps. In
winner of the second prize in DWM's prestigious the past. Though probably true to say that the more concerned with
it's fact, its the Time Lords and
35th anniversary poll of the Missinij Aducntures their ancient history, continuing one of the themes
(losing by a nose to his immediate predecessor). of the Virgin range and fiirther developed in
He's even been honoured
BBC Book with a white
90CT0R another Fiftfi Doctor book. Cold Fusion. In short,

by a
cover - an accolade that
otherwise only permitted to
Lance Parkin's Eighth
Doctor! Cold Fusion and Goth
Opera regularly rate among
the top ten Who novels so,
superficially at least. Fifth
Doctor fans should have
nothing to complain about.
But look more closely at
tiiatDWMpoU.True, Cold
Fusion, Thf Sands o/Time and
Goth Opera all rate highly, but
the other Fifth Doctor books
languish in the bottom half of
the rankings. As for the The
Ultimate Treasure, the first Fifth
WHO
these three novels aren't
is
successful because they're
sequels; rather, they
succeed because they're
well plotted, taut and
interesting; using their
links to the past to add
flavour rather than being
tied down by them. In this
sense they differ from
Diuided Loyalties, which,
despite a fantastic central
conceit suffers from overex-
posing the Doctor's history,
and from Deep Blue's inexph-
cable and unmemorable
teaming of the Fiftii Doctor
with tile Pertwee-era UNIT.

eao 'em
Doctor novel
in last. The
to
Fifth
be published by the BBC,
Doctor adventures published
since then have clearly failed to

making much of an impact in the

The King of Terror
most recent DWM survey. Strip away the multiple-
Doctor meetings, remrning villains and gimmiclq'
G lueep
it

capmre the imagi-

nation of readers, with neither Imperial Moon nor
crawls

Past Doctor adventures, by their very natore, have

always been more concerned with die past than the
A notable omission from
retired villains is die Fifth Doctor's
this comeback tour of
most persistent
'current Doctor' ranges, the Fifth Doctor novels nemesis, tiie Master. Thus far, not even the most
tie-ins to other ranges, and you're left with a very seem to suffer from a surfeit of continuity. In part, avid weaver of the tangled threads of continuity has
mixed bag indeed. that's tobe expected; the Fifth Doctor's run on TV attempted a story in which the Doctor's interfer-
Part of theproblem lies in the character of the is hardly free from gratuitous guest appearances ence results in the Master's small but pressing
FifthDoctor himself Whilst I would certainly and flashback sequences. However, it's been taken problem in Planet of Fire. Thankfiilly But despite
never buy into the vacuous 'he's bland and he's to an extreme in the books. No fewer than six reservations about overburdening the reader wi±
boring' mindset of some fans, when handled badly feature the remrn of an old enemy, and a further too much backstory, there issomething to be said
he can be just that. Authors have spoken of how four include appearances from UNIT or compan- for a novel that gets to the bottom of the Master's
difficult it is to transfer Troughton's performance- ions from another era. Only Imperial Moon and relationship with Davison's Doctor. Is his hatred
based Doctor to the printed page, but equally, few Superior Beings resist borrowing from other eras for motivated by the fact that the Fifth Doctor's youth,
writers have managed to convincingly capture inspiration. Again, in part, this is a knowing energy and innocence represent everything the
Davison's twitchy, uncomfortable, nervous-energy- Uribute to the TV series and John Nathan-Turner's Master no longer has? What are Nyssa's feelings
fiielled portrayal. As a result, the Fifth Doctor is promise that each story in Season Twenty would about the man who is, technically, her own father?
often reduced to an inoffensive young man with a see the reappearance of an old foe. Accordingly, all The interested author could take the Ainley Master,
pleasant, open face, occasionally muttering "brave the novels purporting to be set during the anniver- allegedly told to 'camp it up' on screen, and bring
heart" or "I should have realised ..." as if that's sary season pit the Doctor against one of his past in more of tiie focused villainy glimpsed in Suruiual.
enough to define his personality. Whereas the First opponents: the anti-matter creamres in Zeta Major, Apart from imitating the programme's explo-
Doctor can largely be conveyed by a sharp tongue the Osirans in The Sands of Time, and the Vampires ration of its own past, the FiflJi Doctor books have

CTQH UJHD mRGRSinE

picked up on other salient aspects of the era. If the herself in either Goth Opera or Zeta JWajor. In fact,
Season Twenty novels mirror the television series' she plays a greater role in the Fourth Doctor book
returning baddies, the Season Twenty-One books Asylum than in any Fifth Doctor novel. Fortunately,
emulate that year's monsters, with the added four short stories have utilised the pairing to good
bonus of an infinite budget, which means there are effect, with Daniel O'Mahony's astonishing Short
no Myrkas or Magma Beasts among the Xaranti, Trip, Parliament of Rats, being of particular note, as it

Valethske or Vrall. The Fifth Doctor's TV adven- castsNyssa as the voice of the Doctors conscience.
tures were also notable for the increased use of Ultimately, however, Nyssa remains a poorly devel-
time travel, not only as a method of getting the oped companion, and it will inevitably fall to Big
Doctor from A to B, but as an important element of Finish, who are effectively making a fiiU series of
the stories themselves. Thus we have The Sands of Fifth Doctor/Nyssa advenmres, to flesh her out.
Time taking a leaf from Mawdryn Undcad's book by Of the remaining companions, none have partic-
setting the plot in two different time zones, The ularly benefited from the book treatment. Despite a
Crystal Bucephalus taking place in a time-travelling brave attempt by Gary Russell to inject some
restaurant, and Steve Lyon's short story The Eternity interest into the character by suggesting he felt
Contract casting the Doctor and Nyssa as Sapphire resentment at being sidehned by the rest of the
and Steel, investigating strange temporal distur- crew, Adric has appeared too rarely to have gained
bances in a haunted house. much. Turlough, a companion whose story arc was
Imitation is one thing, innovation is another, effectively concluded at the end of Enlightenment,
and this is an area in which the Fifth Doctor novels and who was thereafter httie more than an Up
have largely failed. Passing over the opportunity to Pompeii-style prophet of doom ("Why did we leave
explore the crew's reaction to Adric's death despite the TARDIS? We were safe before we did
its abrupt glossing over at the beginning of Time- that!"/"Face itTegan, the Doctor's dead!" etc), has

THE FIFTH DDCTDR REQUIRES R LDT DF

lUDRH nn THE WRITERS' PRRT TD STOP
Him BEcnmins r blrrd steredtspe
Flight, or asking why Tegan would want to rejoin gained littie from his five novel appearances.
the Doctor after demanding to be taken home for Subjected to the indignities of an anal probe in The
26 episodes, book development has mainly been King of Terror and adolescent romance in Imperial
confined to dropping in a few more poindess facts Moon, Turlough has, unfortunately, become a char-
about Gallifreyan biology. acter more sinned It seems
against than sinning.
To be fair, missing adventures have a problem that since his background was so comprehensively
when it comes to long term character development, revealed in Planet of Fire and Turlough and the
since they're obliged to plug gaps between existing Earthlink Dilemma, there is litde more to say. In
stories. Certain authors have found novel ways contrast, Kamelion's past is never more than
around this, for example using companions after vaguely sketched out. We know that he was left on
diey've left: the TARDIS (Bullet Time and Asylum), or Xeriphas after a previous invasion ... and that's
exploiting changes in production team and style about it. Craig Hinton and Christopher Bulls have
(The Well-Mannered War). However, most of the added more to the character, although it's largely
time, any development has to be subtie if it's to been background Kamelion has
detail given that
ring true with subsequent television adventures. no real will of its own, other than a morbid desire
This is particularly true of the Fifth Doctor books. for self-destruction (though the idea of Kamehon
Tegan's dramatic departure in Resurrection of the as Marvin the paranoid android has some appeal).
Dalcks is apparendy inspired by her disgust for all Meanwhile, Peri's handful of appearances are most
the killings she's witoessed. On television, it seems notable for the restraint shown on the part of the
oddly abrupt - one would have thought the horror writers, given the infamous treatment meted out to
of Adric's demise in Earthshodc would have affected Dodo and Ace.
her more than the deaths of half a dozen soldiers
and a former Play School presenter. Fifth
authors have tried to rationalise the
Doctor
moment. Mark The Doctor himself has been surprisingly
underused in his own books, particularly
Morris' Deep Blue feamres a doomed love affair the Virgin Missing Adventures. It was the
between Tegan and a policeman who is shot dead Fifth Doctor's cameo in Paul Cornell's outstanding
after he begins to metamorphose into a Xaranti, Timeuiyrm: Revelation that effectively set the tone for
while the superb short story Good Companions the Virgin authors' use of the character. In
implies that Tegan was on the verge of a nervous Revelation, Ace meets a crucified Fifth Doctor,
breakdown. Tegan has done prett>' well out of her symbolic of his Seventh self's repressed guilt. It's a
eight novels, as many writers have tried to sketch scene that began a long-time obsession with the
in details of her past. We learn in The Sands oJTime Davison incarnation in the New Adventures, with the
and Divided Loyalties that Tegan's father was about Fifth Doctor providing an interesting contrast to
as lucky as her other relatives, and died of cancer the then-current Time Lord. While the Seventh
when Tegan was very young. This fact goes some Doctor plans ahead, laying traps for his enemies
way to explaining her strongly independent streak years in advance, the Fifth Doctor has rarely
as, bereft of a man about the house, the Jovanka thought beyond the next cup of tea. The Seventh
women were forced to fend for themselves. Doctor sacrifices human pawns for the greater
Inversely, and sadly continuing the relegation to good, while the Fifth gets people killed only by
upper-crust screamer/skirt-dropping crumpet that accident. The Seventh Doctor is brooding and
she suffered on television, the novels have not been knowing, the Fifth is fresh-faced and innocent.

particularly kind to Nyssa. Interestingly, while Big Most of all, the Seventh Doctor sees the bigger
Finish have taken the underused team of the Fifth picture that his Fifth self is barely aware of. The
Doctor and Nyssa and made it their own, the books Fifth Doctor sees and feels things on an almost
have been less willing to experiment with this human scale, and his reactions - guilt, anger,
combination. Nyssa fights for attention with the horror - are very human. The Seventh Doctor
more strident Tegan and the more irritating Adric represses those feelings to allow him to do what he
in Divided Loyalties, plus Chris and Roz in Cold thinks is necessary. It was this dichotomy that
Fusion; is placed in a Kinda-esque coma for the made the Fifth Doctor such an attractive character
duration of The Sands o/Time, and is not quite to so many Doctor Who writers, and it's no surprise
 Set between The Kings Demons and The PRSCIRRTIBR
Fioe Doctors Written by David J
Howe
A time-travelling restaurant provides the Set between Planet of Fire and The Cam

of Fifth Doctor prose aduentures -

backdrop for the resurrection of the Messiah, of Androzoni
Lines and lines and lines
Lazurus. But he's not the Messiah, he's a very Peri is enslaved by an enraptured admirer
and some of them haue euen got Tegan in! Oh, and Adric ...
naughty boy ... [Decalog]

CDLD PUBIDR Set between Time-Flight and Arc of Infinity BBP BLUE HBT ICE
Written by Lance Parkin The Doctor causes chaos at a crumbling castle Written by Mark Morris Written by Christopher Bulls
Set between Costroualuo and Four to Doomsiay [Dccolog 3] Set between Warriors of the Deep and Set between Planet of Fire and The Caoes
Tlie Fifth Doctor, Adric, Tegan, Nyssa, tiie The Auiakening of Androzani
Seventii Doctor, Ctiris and Roz meet on an ice THE ETERRITy CanTRHCT Something fishy is afoot in the seaside The Doctor and Peri are embroiled in a plot to
planet (so it's cold). And there are some Written by Steve Lyons resort of Tayborough Sands, and it's not steal a gemstone [iVIorc Short Trips]

bombs (fusion). And they have to save the Set between Time-Flight and Arc of Infinity the Myrka. The Doctor must join forces with

universe from the evil Ferutu. And the The Doctor and Nyssa find Death in a Gothic UNIT before they all fall victim to the alien THE UmmOTE TRERBURE
Doctor's wife is in it. Hard to sum up mansion [More Short Trips] Xaranti Written by Christopher Bulls

Set between Planet of Fire and The Caocs

DIUineD LDUnLTIES 2ETH mRdOR THE HIRE BP TBRRBR of Androzoni

Written by Gary Russell Written by Simon Messingham Written by Keith Topping The Doctor and Peri are sent on a tiresome
Set between The Visitation and Black Orchid Set between Arc of Infinity and Snakedonce Set between The Auiakening and Frontios quest. And that's it

The Celestial Toymaker has a plan to entrap The Doctor regrets talking technobabble Call in the X-Files! The Doctor and UNIT are
the Doctor and his friends. Expect the usual when he discovers that the Morestran caught between thejex, the Canavitchi, and a SUPERIBR BEIRBS
fun and games, plus a dose of 'Voung Doctor Empire has built a giant tower to harness shadowy figure within the CIA Written by Nick Walters
Who' the power of planetary movement. But it Set between Planet of Fire and The Caocs
doesn't work.So they've returned to Zeta LBRBS BP THE BTBRRl of Androzani
LnCKROnH EHPRBSS Minor for some anti-matter, with predictable Written by David A Mclntee The foxy Peri meets her match in the

Written by Paul Cornell results Set between Resurrection of the Daleks and Valethske, a race of vicious hunters seeking

Set between Earthshock and Time Flight Planet of Fire revenge ... and human flesh

The TARDIS crew encounter ghosts at an THE SRRDS OP TinUE The Doctor and Turlough have to defend the
abandoned research station [Decolog] Written by Justin Richards planet Raghi from the warring Sontaran and R TBUJR CHLLEB
Set between Arc of Infinity and Snakcdance Rutan Empires ETERRITB
Laneui onus Nyssa is kidnapped by the fanatical followers Written by Lance Parkin and Mark
Written by Daniel BIythe of the Osiran goddess, Nepthys, whom the ilTIPERIRL RIBBR Clapham
Set between Time-Flight and Arc of Infinity Doctor must battle in two time zones Written by Christopher Bulls Set between Planet of Fire and The Caoes
The Doctor and Nyssa discover a man living Set between Resurrection of the Dolcks and of Androzoni
alone on an asteroid [Dccalog 2] BOTH DPBRR Planet of Fire The Doctor and Peri encounter an old foe
Written by Paul Cornell Good old Blighty lands a man on the Moon - seeking the elixir of youth [Short Trips and

THE PHRUnmBIIT OP Set between Snokedonce and Mau;dryn Undead in 1878! But is this real history, or has Side Steps]

RRTS It's not an opera and there aren't any goths. something gone terribly wrong?
Written by Daniel O'Mahoney The Doctor is faced with the twin problems of BBBB CBmPRRIBRS
Set between Time-Flight and Arc of Infinity a vampirised Nyssa and an old flame from 2BITBEIST Written by Peter Anghelides
The TARDIS crash-lands on a planet that has Time Lord High Written by Craig Hinton Set a long time after Resurrection of the

become temporally unstable [Short Trips] Set between Resurrection of the Daleks and Daleks

THE CRH5TRL Planet of Fire An elderly Tegan is approached by a

PRST RECHaninB BUCEPHHLUB The TARDIS materialises on a time-looped mysterious stranger calling himself Doctor

Written by Jackie Marshall Written by Craig Hinton planet [Decalog 3] Smith [IVIorc Short Trips]

that, when the two ranges crossed over, tJiey did so Parkin writes the Fifth Doctor well, certainly, but Enlightenment and The Caues of Androzani - in favour
with Fifth Doctor novels (Blood Haruest/Goth Opera he's still there to make a point rather than to have of spectacular planet-wide quests and space operas
and Shakedouin/Lords ojthe Storm). It's fitting, there- an adventure. Given the way Virgin used the char- seems misguided. As one of the Doctor's more
fore, that Virgin's final Fifth Doctor book. Cold acter, it's probably appropriate that ourimage last introspective incarnations, the Fifth is at his best
Fusion, should see these two diametrically opposed of the Fifth Doctor in the Missing Adventures is of confronting the dark places of the inside rather
incarnations meet. Roz knocking him over the head before he can ask than foiling the intergalactic machinations of
In a way, it's almost unfair to call Cold Fusion a any awkward questions. massive alien armies.
Missing Adventure, given that author Lance Parkin Too often, it feels like the authors have picked
DWM 305 high-
is far more interested in the Seventh Doctor
companions. Acting as another link in the
and
New
his
The article Books

lighted the
o/Doom
common mistakes
in
found in
on the most superficial elements of the era and
ignored or underplayed the quality that charac-
Aduenturcs' ongoing exploration of Time Lord Doctor Who submissions. They cite conti- terises it most: the Doctor's relationship with his
history, and prefiguring lunghanow in its revela- nuity-packed plots, sequels to rubbish TV stories. travelling companions. Themes of friendship and
trust distinguish the Davison period, from his
HQ YHig ihDST inTRDSPECTlUE DQCTDR, reliance on his friends in Castroualua right up to his

THE FIFTH IS HT HIS BEST CDnFRDnTinB final sacrifice to save Peri.

Doctor novels that truly
There are no Fifth
capmre the essence of his
THE DHRH PLRCES DF THE IHSIDE eraand his character, and much of the time, it
seems as though the Fifth Doctor is being used as a
tions about the Doctor's early years, Cold Fusion has and hotch-potches of other TV sci-fi shows as mere archetype. During Virgin's tenure, the Fifth
more in common with Remembrance of the Daleks and common errors. All three can be found among the Doctor was cast as a symbolic figure, an antithesis
Ghost Light than Castroualua or Four to Doomsday. Fifth Doctor's book adventures, but the latter is a to his Seventh incarnation. In the BBC Books, he
Accordingly, the Fifth Doctor is littie more than a particular problem with both Lords of the Storm and provides far less of an interesting contrast to the
concerned onlooker, as much a pawn of his fiiture The Ultimate Treasure. The former, rather cruelly Eighth Doctor, himself a character written very
self as Chris or Roz. He spends most of the novel dubbed 'Lords of the Yawn' because of its inter- much like Davison in his early books.
ignorant of the Seventh Doctor's machinations, minable. Star Trek-inspired space batdes, and the Ultimately, Big Finish has taken the most risks
more worried about the health of the enigmatic latter, which reads like a particularly dull episode with the character, allowing refreshing dollops of
Patience than the anagrammatical Ferutu. Cold ofKni^htmare, are examples of writers trying to turn humour to pepper Davison's portrayal. Since, in
Fusion uses the Fifth Doctor in the same way Paul Doctor Who into something it's not. Rejecting the comparison, many of these novels seem timid,
Cornell did way back in Timeujyrm: Revelation, as a smaller-scale threats that characterise Davison's perhaps there is good reason for Fifth Doctor
conscientious foil to his Seventh incarnation. most memorable TV moments - Kinda, fans to feel hard done by after all. Q

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It may have been all bitch-fi^hts, hatstands and teenage angst in the
Fifth Doctor's TV TARDIS, but as Scott Gray discovers, tilings weren't a barrel of laughs

for the Time Lord's con\\c strip alter-ego, either ...

back at the Fifth Doctor's first He

Looking
of on year hfe television, it's difficult
importandy, with his sense of wonder.
the Doctor to be an "angel of God", and reminds
believes

not to feel a deep, burning sympathy
for theman. His fourth incarnation
had gotten a glimpse of his own fiiture
and {very wisely) taken a flying leap off a tall tele-
scope, leaving his successor to inherit easily the
most difficult gathering of companions the series
had ever seen. The Fifth Doctor soon became a
virtual prisoner in his own ship, forced to play
houseparent to a group who seemed to take
_ up every square inch of the TARDIS' infi-
nite fioor space. While Nyssa
was essentially a passive
character, Adric and Tegan
were the exact opposite.
Shouting, whining and
sulking in equal measure,
they were the two
volatile, attention-seeking
companions ever,
were staying in the
at the same time!
It begs the question: what
would the Fifth Doctor's
have been like if he'd
chance to avoid it all?
never had to involve himself in
teenage traumas and Antipodean
him of what a miraculous life he truly leads. Sir
lustin is never overwhelmed by the amazing worlds
and beings he encounters. He has an innate under-
standing of time, perceiving it as "all one great
moment".
The Doctor's second companion, Shayde, is a
very difierent prospect. Shayde is a creation of pure
intellect; faceless and unemotional. He's a weapon.
The Doctor thinks of him as "my only link with
reality" during his surreal search for Melanicus.
Shayde seems to symbolise the Doctor's rationality,
sharply contrasting witii Justin's reflection of his
own passionate moral righteousness.
The Doctor has an air of quiet authority
surrounding him in Tfie Tides of Time - he's the Lord
President of Gallifrey, the man who's saved his
most planet several times from destruction, and
everyone knows it. He can calmly confer with
and they Rassilon on matters of cosmic importance and is
TARDIS granted every privilege without question. The
respect he so rarely received on television is in
abundance here. It's interesting to note that the
life Doctor states that he plans to retire from his travels
had the one day and live on GalUftey again. Contrast this
If he'd homecoming with the one in Arc of Injiniti|, where
he's immediately locked up and sentenced to
death.
The Tides of Time has about as much science
fiction content as an episode of Gardeners' World.
The occasional piece of technobabble can't
disgiuse the fact that's it's an unabashed fantasy

»^ mm

CRIED
story
aggro? If he'd never had to cope with, as
script editor
with roundels"?
Andrew Cartmel put it,

In 1982, the answer could be found in the

pages of Doctor Who Monthly, beginning with a
many readers still regard as the absolute
pinnacle of the Who comic strips: The Tides of Time.
later

"Neighbours
Ut
adventure, packed with knights, vampires, wizards
{Rassilon is

perilous quest to
even joined by Merlin himself), a
fitlfil and a monstrous demon to
Writer Steve Parkhouse and artist Dave confront. Shayde takes the role of a helpfiil genie,
Gibbons begin the strip Doctor's advenmres on a appearing whenever the hero needs assistance or
warm evening in the rural village of Stockbridge. information. Parkhouse's narrative captions are all
It seems the Doctor has finally gotten that hohday written in the past tense - the standard in prose
he's always been talking about - he's made stories, but a rare approach in comics - and it gives
friends with the locals, he's playing cricket, he's this story in particular a fairy tale atmosphere.
laughing - did he euer look so relaxed on TV? He The Fifth Doctor's comic strip debut has one
soon meets his first companion, and he's a far cry important element in common with his television
from the neurotic television crowd. Sir Justin, a one - as in Castroualua, the Doctor is swept along by
Medieval laiight, is a bold, optimistic adven- the events of The Tides of Time, with litde or
no
turer -just the sort of friend the Doctor needs control over his fate. He must rely on his compan-
as he's plunged into the temporal chaos engi- ions to find the way through this journey, and the
neered by the sinister Melanicus. final blow to Melanicus is dealt not by him but by
Sir Justin impresses the Doctor, Sir Justin, sacrificing himself in much the same
first with his easy acceptance of manner as Shardovan does to defeat the Master.
time travel and then, more The Doctor is left completely bewildered at the

I THE COmPLETG PIPTH CTOR

 end, unsure of the reality of his victory, even Stockbridije Horror, and wi± good reason: he's seri- against him is a justifiable one. He's accused of
worried that the crisis will begin all over again. ously injured in a road accident, and soon finds setting free a destructive force that has rampaged
This uncertainty would prove to be a dominant himself pursued by an unearthly being that makes through human history. He's ignored all the
aspect of his comic strip era. a habit of burning innocent bystanders to death. warning signs whilst relaxing in Stockbridge,
The TARDIS' defences prove no obstacle to the "living the life of a rural Englishman", as the pros-

The Doctor remains in Stockbridge for the

following two stories as the tone quickly
creature - indeed, the craft seems almost to ecutor puts it. He's saved once again by Shayde,
who destroys some crucial incriminating evidence.
changes to a much more realistic, darker It's a very unheroic way out of the situation, and
feel. Stars Fell on Stockbridtje is a strange, foreboding the Doctor knows it.

story set on a haunted Thereafter, the

spaceship. The Doctor Doctor's normal
gains another surrogate
wanderlust seems to
companion, lonely UFO- have completely
spotter Max Edison, but deserted him. He
makes no emotional trades Stockbridge for
connection with him. At a remote tropical
one point, he even coldly island in Lunar Lagoon,
slaps Max in the face to
but has no interest in
bring him out of his exploring - instead he
hysteria, a scene unimagin- sits on the beach and
able on television. He goes fishing. He forms
certainly shows no desire to a friendship with Fuji, a
invite Max for any fiirther Japanese fisherman-
spins in the TAEXlIS. This turned-soldier. But Fuji
Doctor is choosing his is in an unstable state,
friends carefully ...
dangerous and unpre-

THE STDCKBRIDBE HDRRDR' BlUES US HR IRSIBHT IRTB THE

DBCTBR'S inSECURITIES IR R PRR IRBRE IRTIIHRTE PRSHIBR
THRR CBULO EUER BE PRESERTEB BR TELEUISIBR
The TV series cast the Fifth Doctor as an often welcome it aboard. The security of the Doctor's dictable. He attempts to prove his bravery by
confused individual, but nonetheless a level- world has shattered; nothing seems certain pursuing an American fighter pilot, but when they
headed, capable one - he had to be, considering anymore, not even the trustworthiness of his own meet, he is shot dead - his rifle has been emptied.
how often he was called upon to allay his compan- time-ship. The story's conclusion sees the Doctor The scene shifts to the Doctor standing alone in
ions' fears. Left alone, however, with no-one to placed on trial on Gallifrey, his former stams the darkness, examining the bullets in his hand.
protect, the Doctor's resolve falters. His own stripped away by Rassilon. For once, the case It's a devastating moment for the reader as the
vulnerabilities come to the fore, and never more Time Lord ponders the morality of his actions, and
dramatically than in The Stockbridge Horror. comes to a simple, brutal conclusion: "It was a
The reader increasingly privy to the Doctor's
thoughts as
is

this story progresses, and ,

-
~ question of survival ..."

But the Doctor can't shrug off this enor-

we gain an insight into his insecu- /,// / mous betrayal quite so easily. The following
rities in a far more intimate -/1 'i
'

story, 4-Dimensional Vistas, begins with an

fashion than could ever be unprecedented moment in Dortor Who's
presented on television. history. Upon learning from the
He's a genuinely fright-
American pilot, Gus Goodman, that
ened man in The he is on a parallel Earth (one still
fighting the Second World War in
1963), the Doctor isthrown into
a state of total shock. Whereas
normally such a mystery
would galvanise
him, here it seems
to be the last straw
for his tortured
psyche. "Tm lost in
time!" he cries. His
journey has become
"fiitile, meaningless".
Dazed, guilt-ridden and
despairing, he goes wandering
out into the ocean. The waves
come crashing over him, and he
makes no effort to save himself.
Gus and thousands of Doctor
Who Monthly readers are
stunned by the sight, and the
unavoidable conclusion to be
drawn from it ...
The Doctor is
attempting suicide.
Gus rescues him.
That act of courage
and compassion
(despite Gus' cynical
assertion that he
only does it because
the Doctor is his
 FDDL IF anu
THE CURSE DP THE TIDES DP TIDIE
THE SCRRRB Story Steve Parkhouse
Story Alan Barnes Art Dave Gibbons

THinn IT'S DilER Art Martin Geraghty

Doctor Who Magazine 228-230

This story places the Doctor and Peri
Doctor Who

STRRS PELL DO
Monthly 61-67

Want to see the Doctor meet with Merlin, the Meddling Monk in
STOCHBRiDBE
1 938 Hollywood and is the closest in feel to
Story Steve Parkhouse
and Mummies? Best search out these comic strips then ... the Fifth Doctor's TV era. The Doctor
Art Dave Gibbons
unravels a murder mystery and clashes with Doctor Who Monthly 68-69
Three stories have
Fifth Doctor strip

been published
ward story which could really

any Doctor. The lack of any strong

have featured the amusingly deranged film director Seth

Rakoff, who is attempting to resurrect THE STOCHBRIDBE

since the initial 1982-84 emotional content gives it a vague, Kephri, one of the Osirian gods. The Doctor HDRROH
run. All have been placed firmly detached odds with the TV Story Steve Parkhouse
feel at series. makes short work of Kephri, dispatching
Art Steve Parkhouse (70-72),
inside the television continuity and him in a cold, efficient manner reminiscent
Mick Austin (73-75)
must be judged as adaptations of THE LUHHR STRIinCiERS of similar "executions" in Arc of Infinitj) and
Doctor Who Monthly 70-75
the TV series rather than a continua- Story Gareth Roberts Pldttct of Fire.

tion of the Doctor Who Monthly Art Martin Geraghty

LURRR LRBDDn
story thread. Doctor Who Magazine 215-217 Story Steve Parkhouse
The Lunar Strangers seems to be a reaction Art Mick Austin
BLDDD inUDCRTIDn against the often overly serious tone of the Doctor Who Monthly 76-77
Story Paul Cornell Davison era. The Doctor, Tegan and

Art John Ridgway Turlough travel to a moonbase where they

M-DimEnSIDRRL UlSTRS
Story Steve Parkhouse
Doctor Who Yearbook 1 995 meet two members of the Dryyth - an alien
Art Mick Austin
The Doctor is summoned to Gallifrey to deal race identical to Earth cows. It's enjoyable
Doctor Who Monthly 78-83
with a cult of vampire-worshipping Time to watch the Doctor's "performance" in

Lords. Tegan is infected with the vampire this story - not for a second does he treat THE IRDDERRTDR
virus, but the Doctor's faith in her drives the situation as anything less than deadly Story Steve Parkhouse
her off. The (strangely unnamed) villain is serious, despite the antics of the comedic Art Steve Dillon

destroyed by sunlight. It's a straightfor- villains Ravnok and Vartex. Doctor Who Monthly 84, 86-87

"ticket out of this place") seems to lift the Doctor's is firmly back on track. them down and kill ±em. Gunfire is exchanged,
spirits almost immediately. He invites Gus into the The Doctor attempts to get Gus home at the and both Gus and the Moderator drop to the
TARDIS and quickly offers him the chance to join beginning of hisfinal story, The Moderator, but ground. Gus dies, passing away to the soundtrack
him on his travels. The fact that the Doctor has just meets with no success. Gus understands that the of Vera Lynn's We'll Meet A^ain, crackling from the
deliberately tried toend his own travels for good is TARDIS might take a while to navigate through an Moderator's helmet. The Moderator himself lies
delicately avoided by both men. And so the Doctor, infinite number of parallel universes, and doesn't helpless on the ground. The Doctor picks up Gus'
at last accompanied by an official companion, goes seem to mind the delay. "I've got faith in this box pistol, and turns toward us. Another shocking
vworping off into the wide blue yonder ... of tricks," he comments, placing himself as far moment: tears of rage are sliding down his
away from a certain Australian air hostess as is cheeks. He's an alien no longer, his humanity

The Gus
Doctor begins their voyage by showing
the epic majesty of the Earth forming
humanly possible!
There are some interesting parallels between the
washing over him. He points the gun and fires ...
... At the helmet, to stop the song. He then,
out of gas clouds and dust in the distant and TV stories. Both
Fifth Doctor's final strip remarkably, takes the killer to an outpost for
past.With a new pair of eyes in the TARDIS, the feature claustrophobic underground settings and medical treatment. It's the act of a man who has
Doctor seems also to be seeing everything from a utilise financial greed as the villain's motivation - seen too much death in his recent life to allow
fresh perspective. He smiles for the first time since the toad-like Josiah W Dogbolter is definitely cut anyone, even a friend's assassin, to perish. In The
The Tides oJTime. Gus is a likeable fellow firom the from the same cloth as Trau Morgus from The Caves Caves o/Androzani, the Fifth Doctor's last action is
start, and the reader warms to him as quickly as oJAndrozani. When Dogbolter attempts to buy the to save the life of his friend. In The Moderator, it's
to save the life of his enemy. Which is the greater
OTEUE PHRKHQUSE CREHTED R UJDRLD act of compassion?

IJUHERE THE DDCTDR'S CHRRRCTER

CDULD BE STUDIED ITIDRE CLDSELU The Fifth Doctor's comic strip tenure is the

only time a single writer has been allowed

to chart the progression of the main char-
the Doctor. He sees himself as an ordinary guy - TARDIS, his naked avarice seems to anger the acter from start to finish, and the results are highly
"John Wayne I'm not" - but the Doctor trusts him Fifth Doctor far more than any previous enemy impressive. Steve Parkhouse clearly had no interest
to cope with their new opponents. he's encountered. Asked to name his price for his in duplicating the approach of the television series.
After the shadowy stalker from The Stodcbridge time machine, he pauses theatrically before Instead, he created a parallel thread where the
Horror, the familiar faces of the meddling Monk asking for "Half a pound ... of frogspawn." Gus Doctor, unencumbered by any of the cluttered,
and the Ice Warriors are a welcome sight for the and the Doctor escape the magnate's clutches domestic responsibilities he faced on screen, could
Doctor. He's on solid ground once more, his when a revolt breaks out on one of his many be studied much more closely. Ably assisted by
doubts evaporating as he confronts his old mining worlds. Dave Gibbons, Mick Austin and Steve Dillon,
enemies and stops their plan to create a giant Gus' TARDIS and the Doctor is
faidi in the Parkhouse charted a satisfying emotional journey
diamond to power a sonic cannon. Martians are eventually justified. The Doctor returns him to the for this most human of the Doctor's incarnations,
invading Earth. What could be simpler? islandwhere they first met, and a happy ending laying his personality bare in a variety of powerful
And then the The Doctor reveals
twist comes. seems assured. But Dogbolter's reach is long - he stories. It remains a high-water mark in the
that his extended stay in Stockbridge was no
holiday at all - he was there on a mission for the
has paid a bounty hunter, the Moderator, to track Doctor's long life on the printed page. Q
Time Lords, investigating the Monk's temporal
machinations. His apparent complacency was a
sham. This most 'open' of Doctors is still capable
of surprising us, still the devious Time Lord at
heart. A dizzying TARDIS chase (wonderfiilly
depicted by the much underrated Mick Austin)
ends with the Monk's defeat. "Nice of you to drop
in. Shame you won't be staying long," the Doctor
confidendy remarks, before slam-dunking his old
adversary into a backwater dimension. The Doctor

THE COmPLETE PIFTH DOCTDH

 "It took me
three bloody years
to find my feet!"
have a confession to make. Several confessions, in

fact ... First off, I firmly believe that, when I started

in Doctor Who, I was too young to play the Doctor.

There, I admit it. A number of people, many of them 'fans',

have been kind enough to point this out to me over the

last 20 years, often in words of one syllable - but have I

always believed it. I felt in my head that the Doctor was

older, but no way was I going to turn the part down. I

wanted to do it. A role to grow into!

Furthermore, I had absolutely no idea how the hell I

was going to play him. It sounds weird, I know, but the

thing about the Doctor was that you never really had
anything to go on. It took me three bloody years to find

my feet! began I to settle in, ironically, just as I was about

to leave.

And yes, I am glad - very glad! - that only I did three

years. Sorry. Don't get me wrong, I've never really

regretted accepting the part, but neither have I ever
regretted leaving when I did. People have always thought
of me as 'Tristan Farnon playing somebody else', which is

fine, but it must be frustrating for actors who can never

break free from one part. I feared, perhaps without need,

that Doctor Who might stop me from ever working again, or

that I'd be typecast, but I was wrong. Or perhaps I've just

been very, very lucky?

Either way, the fact is that, 20 years after first playing

the F^^h Doctor, I'm still here - and I'm still working. And
nobody is quite as relieved about that as me! You see.

Doctor Who made 'Peter Davison' a household name - no

longer was I known as just 'that bloke from the vet series'

- and for that. Doctor Who, I will always be grateful.

Talking of which, whilst I'm confessing my sins, I hereby
admit that ever animal on this planet - all creatures, great

and small - do, in fact, hate my guts! would make

I a

hopeless vet. Honestly! I'm the last person anyone would

want to look after their dog. And I'd probably end up
killing it!

Well, that's about it -confession over! I knew you'd

understand.

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