Doctor Who has form with audio stories – back in the 70s there were some vinyl LPs, like an abridged Genesis of the Daleks. Then there are the missing stories (https://fivemilesout.home.blog/2020/08/29/like-the-deserts-miss-the-rain/ ) that the BBC released on cassette (sometimes with bizarre linking commentary) and then on CD. The weirdest bit was in The Daleks MasterContinue reading “We Can’t Rewind We’ve Gone Too Far”
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Just what the truth is, I can’t say anymore
I like time travel as a concept. Two of my favourite books as a young teenage were The End of Eternity (https://fivemilesout.home.blog/2020/08/30/life-has-begun/ ) and Up The Line. Doctor Who includes time travel, but almost always as a device to move the story to a location rather than something to be examined or used. The reasonContinue reading “Just what the truth is, I can’t say anymore”
You cry out in your sleep
After Virgin lost the licence to print Doctor Who novels (https://fivemilesout.home.blog/2020/11/01/lets-all-meet-up-in-the-year-2000/ ) they had enough characters and concepts that they had created to continue the series. The lead character was the popular companion Benny Summerfield. She had to be split up from her husband Jason Kane (there are no happy ever afters in continuing fictionContinue reading “You cry out in your sleep”
Ride out protectors of the realm
Unpopular opinion – Black Sabbath were a better group with Ronnie James Dio as a lead singer. I remember discussing this with Jason Sainty back in 1992 and he was sceptical. To be fair most people are. It isn’t just that I think Dio is the best metal singer ever (https://fivemilesout.home.blog/2020/09/05/just-like-somebody-slammed-the-door/ ), I mean thisContinue reading “Ride out protectors of the realm”
War In Heaven
Some people did not like the Doctor Who New Adventures (https://fivemilesout.home.blog/2020/11/01/lets-all-meet-up-in-the-year-2000/ ) claiming that they were not in the spirit of the program or that the plotlines were too complicated. I think Virgin books got it right as you cannot sustain a book series on a monster of the month in a novel with aContinue reading “War In Heaven”
As a white knight on his steed
Doctor Who was born in the 1960s and, as fans know, the first episode clashed with the assassination of John Kennedy. Fortunately they repeated it before episode 2 the following week. (The original cast – Carol Ann Ford, Jacqueline Hill, William Russell and William Hartnell) It was not expected to last long and the factContinue reading “As a white knight on his steed”
Across the Midnight Sky
Flip and Fill are one of those dance acts, with varying singers, who did a cover of a famous song in a dance mode – in their case I Wanna Dance With Somebody (other groups did Bryan Adams’ Heaven and Duran Duran’s Ordinary World). Shooting Star was their best track. There are six television auteursContinue reading “Across the Midnight Sky”
Here’s something you’re never gonna forget
People who know me, or read this, know that I like Doctor Who. My knowledge of it is encyclopaedic and my collection of books on it is frighteningly huge (over 600 at a guess) and it is hard to say why. I would not say that it was one of the best programs ever andContinue reading “Here’s something you’re never gonna forget”
Like the deserts miss the rain
There are two types of missing/ lost TV stories. Early TV was assumed to be a one and done kind of happening, like a stage play, though most of it was recorded as live, rather than actually live. Equity (the acting union) were worried that their members would lose work if too much was repeated. Continue reading “Like the deserts miss the rain”
History will condemn you
Doctor Who was off the air for 16 years (apart from the McGann movie) but it was not a dead zone. In fact it was a far more creative period for the mythos than the actual TV show. A seems to be the way with any organisation or franchise or society in decline there wasContinue reading “History will condemn you”
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