RDP: Welcome to the Library

"Where are we professor?” “We are in one of the 700 wonders of the Universe, the library of Lady Constance. It is the oldest and newest place in the Universe.” “How does that work?” “Words my dear,” “Words?” “They exist in a state of flux, they are well known yet brand new for someone to …

30 Day Song Challenge: Day 18

The theme from your favourite television show growing up. I think I will go for several. First up: Doctor Who and since there are many versions of the theme I am going with my favourite Doctor. https://youtu.be/FFpuIqDKErk Next is the sci-fi sitcom Red Dwarf. https://youtu.be/zV0hwZwNQZc The Avengers. Tara King was/is my favourite Avenger girl https://youtu.be/U8OyQ3e9SqY …

FOWC: Building High for Happiness, Looking back on Paradise Towers

This is a draft of an ultimately rejected article on the Doctor Who story "Paradise Towers" I pitched for Celestial Toyroom, the DWAS official newsletter Paradise Towers is something of a nostalgic guilty pleasure for me, principally because it is the first story I had strong memories of and probably was what started me on my course …

Please Mind the Gap

Christmas Day has been and gone and now I am stuck in that weird Limbo period before New Year and everything can go back to normal, well for however normal lasts until the UK disintegrates under the fall out from Brexit, still least we don't have Trumpty-Dumpty... yet. It's been a mixed affair at in …

FOWC: Dead on Target

Being an old school fan of Doctor Who (as in was there for the primary run albeit at the tail end) I was in the situation where although video recorders were becoming more widespread commercial video releases were mostly films and they were expensive and most likely VHS (we were a Betamax family), so my …

FOWC: Whitaker’s World

Doctor Who's first script editor was a man named David Whitaker and was probably the bridge between the Drama Department and the BBC's intent for Doctor Who as a partially educational series for children. In comparison to the Dennis Spooner script edited season 2, the dialogue leans to a more mature level of speech, if …

Doctor Who: No Man’s Land. A Review

Doctor Who: No Man's Land (big finish 89) Written by Martin Day Starring Slyvester McCoy as the Doctor, with Sophie Aldred as Ace, Philip Olivier as Hex and guest starring Michael Cochrane as Brooke. From the back cover: It is 1917 and the Doctor, Hex and Ace find themselves in a      military hospital …

Fandango’s One Word Challenge: Video

In response to Fandango's One Word Challenge: Video (just in case you missed that in the title) When I was about 6 my Dad purchased our first VHS video recorder (our first video recorder was a Betamax but that was stolen when we got burgled) and this opened up the field of being able to …

The Taint

Doctor Who: The Taint by Michael Collier was a book published in the BBC Books Eighth Doctor Adventures range and in a way was a catalyst for a marked in improvement and consistency in the range, which had up to that point being a bit of a hit and miss affair, with no real focus and …

The Sandman Returns

After a week of late finishes and early calls in I am proud to say I hung up the barman's apron for a week and took my beloved Heather away for a week. We spent two days in the seaside resort of Blackpool and the next three days we donned our waterproofs for break in …