Gallifrey never looked this fantastic...

Ok, yes I know it's been a long time since I posted anything but I was just too busy or simply had no will to do so. But this new series with the Tenth Doctor and his newest companion Martha Jones, has prompted me to finally get off my um...chair and write a thing or two because series 3 is/was fantastic and this finale looks to be one of the best in the general history of Who.

But for now just feast your eyes on this image of Gallifrey, the way it was supposed to be shown a long, long time ago...

More observations on series 3 to come hopefully soon and not in another year or so...

Sapphire & Steel Have Been Assigned

Sapphire & Steel, 1979-1982

All irregularities will be handled by the forces controlling each dimension. Transuranic, heavy elements may not be used where there is life. Medium atomic weights are available: Gold, Lead, Copper, Jet, Diamond, Radium, Sapphire, Silver and Steel. Sapphire and Steel have been assigned.

-Introduction followed by the main theme.

On my frequent visits to the Doctor Who Online Forums I've heard a lot about a certain Science Fiction Fantasy with the name of Sapphire & Steel and naturaly my curiosity was doubled when I found out that one of the Torchwood writers – who actually wrote an episode I did like – was a creator and head writer of this misterious series.

P(eter) J. Hammond wrote Small Worlds, a promising story that featured his frequently used plot tools: a paranormal, misterious theme, mythological creatures: fairies, nursery rhymes, children as the catalyst of events and sacrafice of the few for the good of the many– check all.
All of these were the main ingridients of good Sapphire & Steel stories such as Assignment 1, 2 and 4.

Why were they called Assignments? Well because Hammond probably wanted that to add to the mystery of the series, so along with nothing much being explained and the real identity of the main characters left unknown - we also didn't have the names of the stories.

The BBC's rival company ITV started showing the series in 1979 as an answer to the popular Doctor Who and after 4 years, 6 assignments or stories and exactly 34 episodes - it was cancelled do to budget problems.

Apparently Hammond did intend to bring back the series later with Assignment 7 as he left it on an unresolved cliffhanger but when the broadcasting company changed it's name they decided against it.

Many years later when Hammond sold the rights to the Big Finish company they started producing a revival audio series in 2005 featuring new actors David Warner as Steel and Susannah Harker as Sapphire as the series regulars were unavailable to repeat their roles.

The only original series regular was David Collings who did come back as Silver in the audio plays All Fall Down and Dead Man Walking.

After several failed attempts to find the DVDs (was surprised that it was a deleted item and for that reason hard to find) and two outbids on eBay I finally had the region 1 release which was – as I later found out thanks to the Anorak's Guide – a much better and worthy one than the UK release. That meant this one had some things that the region 2 edition didn't, like the episode commentaries from the creator Hammond and executive producer O'Riordan but like most American editions it also didn't have eng. subtitles or the ones for the hard at hearing which is a big minus and pulls down the overal mark to 4 out of 5 for the quality.

Anyway, I''l be taking a closer look at the Assignments and the related episodes for which I'll be posting regular reviews. For easier understainding I'll use the fan-made names of the Assignments that are also featured on the American DVD box set release: Escape Through a Crack in Time (6), The Railway Station (8), The Creature's Revenge (6), The Man Without a Face (4), Mr. McDee Must Die (6) and The Trap (4).

Also the audio revival will have seperate posts and I'll make it by seasons. Season one schedule is: The Passanger, Daisy Chain, All Fall Down, The Lighthouse and Dead Man Walking. The season two starts with The School, Surest Poison, Water Like A Stone, Cruel Immortality and Perfect Day. Season three's The Mystery of the Missing Hour has yet to be announced and awaiting release.

The One With the Zero Room

‘That’s the trouble with regeneration. You never quite know what you’re going to get.’
-The Doctor, Castrovalva 1981

I've recently visited Galaxy 4, the online Doctor Who merchandise retailer and found out that the upcoming box set containing the last two episodes of the Tom Baker era and the opening one for Peter Davison – has changed it's name from The Master Returns to The New Beginnings box set. Now, what does this have to do with my review of Castrovalva? Well for one thing Davison's opening serial is Castrovalva and I've decided to skip the review of the VHS version and do the DVD one. Which means that I'll post the review of this one after the box set is released some time in January. So until then, I'm onto watching the Complete Series 2 box set and some new/old series I've come to love (which has absolutelly nothing to do with Doctor Who, except for the genre and some similar concepts of time and its writer and creator being involved in the making of one of the episodes of the spin-off Torchwood) and will probably write my thoughts on it later...

The Adventures of the Fifth Doctor

Hmm, these past few months I’ve dedicated a lot of time to the Eight Doctor audios and the new series but as soon as I finish the reviews for the Eighth Doctor, I’ll get my hands on the Fifth Doctor ones, including the television episodes.


Fifth Doctor’s chronological appearances including the timelines of audio episodes:

Season 19

Castrovalva

Writer: Christopher H. Bidmead

Companions: Tegan, Nyssa, Adric
TV Series

Four To Doomsday

Writer: Terence Dudley

Companions: Tegan, Nyssa, Adric
TV Series

Kinda

Writer: Christopher Bailey

Companions: Tegan, Nyssa, Adric
TV Series

The Visitation

Writer: Eric Saward

Companions: Tegan, Nyssa, Adric
TV Series

Black Orchid

Writer: Terence Dudley

Companions: Tegan, Nyssa, Adric
TV Series

Earthshock

Writer: Eric Saward

Companions: Tegan, Nyssa, Adric
TV Series

Time-Flight

Writer: Peter Grimwade

Companions: Tegan, Nyssa
TV Series

The Land Of The Dead

Writer: Stephen Cole

Companions: Nyssa
BF Series

Winter For The Adept

Writer: Andrew Cartmel

Companions: Nyssa
BF Series

The Mutant Phase

Writer: Nicholas Briggs

Companions: Nyssa
BF Series

Primeval

Writer: Lance Parkin

Companions: Nyssa
BF Series

Spare Parts

Writer: Marc Platt

Companions: Nyssa
BF Series

Creatures Of Beauty

Writer: Nicholas Briggs

Companions: Nyssa
BF Series

The Game

Writer: Darin Henry

Companions: Nyssa
BF Series

Season 20

Arc Of Infinity

Writer: Johnny Byrne

Companions: Nyssa, Tegan
TV Series

Omega

Writer: Nev Fountain

Companions: None
BF Series

Snakedance

Writer: Christopher Bailey

Companions: Tegan, Nyssa
TV Series

Mawdryn Undead

Writer: Peter Grimwade

Companions: Tegan, Nyssa, Turlough, Brigadier
TV Series

Terminus

Writer: Steve Gallagher

Companions: Tegan, Nyssa, Turlough
TV Series

Enlightenment

Writer: Barbara Clegg

Companions: Tegan, Turlough
TV Series

The King's Demons

Writer: Terence Dudley

Companions: Tegan, Turlough
TV Series

Twentieth Anniversary Special:

The Five Doctors

Writer: Terrance Dicks

Companions:

5th (Tegan, Turlough),

4th (Romana II),

3rd (Sarah Jane),

2nd (Brigadier),

1st (Susan)
TV Series

The Sirens Of Time

Writer: Nicholas Briggs

Companions: 6th & 7th Doctor

BF Series

Season 21

Warriors Of The Deep

Writer: Johnny Byrne

Companions: Tegan, Turlough
TV Series

The Awakening

Writer: Eric Pringle

Companions: Tegan, Turlough
TV Series

Frontios

Writer: Christopher H. Bidmead

Companions: Tegan, Turlough
TV Series

Excelis Dawns

Writer: Paul Magrs

Companions: Iris Wildthyme
BF Series

Resurrection Of The Daleks

Writer: Eric Saward

Companions: Tegan, Turlough
TV Series

Phantasmagoria

Writer: Mark Gatiss

Companions: Turlough
BF Series

Loups-Garoux

Writer: Marc Platt

Companions: Turlough
BF Series

Planet Of Fire

Writer: Peter Grimwade

Companions: Turlough, Peri
TV Series

Red Dawn

Writer: Justin Richards

Companions: Peri
BF Series

BF Running Series:

The Eye Of The Scorpion

Writer: Iain McLaughlin

Companions: Peri, Erimem
BF Series

The Church And The Crown

Writer: Cavan Scott& Mark Wright

Companions: Peri, Erimem
BF Series

No Place Like Home

Writer: Iain McLaughlin

Companions: Erimem
BF Series

Nekromanteia

Writer: Austen Atkinson

Companions: Peri, Erimem
BF Series

The Axis Of Insanity

Writer: Simon Furman

Companions: Peri, Erimem

BF Series

The Roof Of The World

Writer: Adrian Rigelsford

Companions: Peri, Erimem
BF Series

Three's A Crowd

Writer: Colin Brake

Companions: Peri, Erimem
BF Series

The Council Of Nicaea

Writer: Caroline Symcox

Companions: Peri, Erimem

BF Series


The Kingmaker

Writer: Nev Fountain

Companions: Peri, Erimem

BF Series

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The Gathering

Writer: Joseph Lidster (closely follows the story from The Reaping)
Companions: Tegan Jovanka

TV Series

The Caves Of Androzani

Writer: Robert Holmes

Companions: Peri
TV Series

I'll add on to the chronological shedule after new releases...

Charley Pollard, Meet the Men From Mondas

Big Finish Productions

Doctor Who: Sword of Orion

Written by: Nicholas Briggs

Directed by: Nicholas Briggs

Released: 26th February 2001

Characters: Paul McGann as the Doctor, India Fisher as Charley Pollard with Michelle Livingstone as Deeva Jansen and Bruce Montague as Grashe and Nicholas Briggs as Cyber Leader

Timeline: This story takes place after the TV Movie

Summary: When the Doctor sets out to educate Charley on the darker side of her race's future, he does not anticipate being embroiled in the protracted Orion War. The front line may be light years away, but the human race's struggle for victory has led to desperate measures.
Trapped aboard a mysterious star destroyer in the Garazone System, the Doctor and Charley find themselves cast as scapegoats. But the real danger has yet to awaken...
The Cybermen have received the signal for reactivation.

Introduction: After the very succesful start of this new Eight Doctor range of audios, the production team has decided to return to the classics in this second story. They wanted a known villain and at the same time a good enough story set in the distant future.

The Daleks were very well known adversaries but were a too obvious choice and besides they already featured in audio with the Seventh (The Genocide Machine) Doctor so the Cybermen were due to make an appearance.

In the foreword of this audio the author Nicholas Briggs (also giving voice to most of the Cybermen) notes that the original story was written on an old type-writer machine and was left aside years ago, until it was finally edited and adopted for audio.

Storywise Mr Briggs shows his preferance for the Robert Holmes/Phillip Hinchcliffe era and of course his love for the cybernized humanoid race and if you’ve ever got your hands on any of his creations you’d know his affinity for certain deadly pepperpots from Skaro.

One thing good to note is that this story doesn’t resolve that ‘sort of’ small cliff-hanger-like ending to the Storm Warning, though there are some references to it.

(I recommend you get the previous story anyway because some things still might confuse you.)

And so after an eerie preview the story begins with the Doctor and Charley already being on some kind of an alien planet and wandering through the bazaar, looking for medicine for the apparently ill Ramsay – the vortisor they rescued in the previous story.

In their search they stumble onto a shop whose owner originally works on a scrap-ship but as the Doctor correctly points out he’s also into smuggling of stolen goods. The shop-owner - fearing to have been discovered by the authorities – informs his accomplice of the two strangers.

After some time it ends up being pretty similar to any other Doctor Who story – the Doctor offers to take his newest companion somewhere she’s never been before but before they even enter the time ship, it’s been pulled on the ship of the shop-owner’s accomplices - leaving the Doctor and Charley temporarily stranded. But soon enough the Doctor finds some kind of a flying craft (imagine the one Tom Baker piloted in The Pirate Planet) and shows his flying skills.

Robert Holmes type of storyline comes into play here, when the Doctor and Charley arrive on the space ship and pretty soon get accused of murder of one of its crew. (Robots of Death anyone?)

But of course the murder accusation is the least of their problems as something deadly lurks in the background, pretty soon taking out the members of the crew, one by one and the ship’s captain who is not who she appears to be…

I really enjoyed this play, not for its originality, because it’s obviously been done before but for its execution and performances from the cast and crew.

Once again McGann shows his enthusiasm for the role by perfecting his performance and showing us how great of a Doctor he might have been if the series was commisioned after the telemovie.

India Fisher is also brilliant and shows her character’s intelligence, stubborness but also bravery when confronted by the men from Mondas.

Other members of the cast are also good, especially Michelle Livingstone as the ship's captain Deeva, who appears to have hidden agendas of her own and Bruce Montague as the rebbelious Grashe.

Overall this is a very good play, well written – though at times you could have a hard time distinguishing who is who of the scrap-ship's crew…but on another listen everything becomes perfectly clear and then you wonder why it wasn't in the first place.

I would give it 9 out of 10 for the above mentioned reasons. You can get it here.

The Never Realised TV Pilot

Big Finish Productions

Doctor Who: Storm Warning

Written by: Alan Barnes

Directed by: Gary Russell

Released: 22 January 2001

Characters: Paul McGann as the Doctor, introducing India Fisher as Charley Pollard, with Gareth Thomas as Lord Tamworth

Timeline: This story takes place after the TV Movie

Summary: After a dangerous encounter in the space/time vortex, the Doctor finds himself on Earth, October 1930. Or rather above it, aboard the British airship R101 on it's maiden voyage over France. Also on board is a young stowaway, Charlotte 'Charley' Pollard, seeking adventure and excitement away from her stifling family atmosphere. What Charley doesn't know but the Doctor does is that the flight is destined to end in tragedy, although no-one really knows why. Not even the Doctor, although maybe the passenger in Cabin 43 can help...

Introduction: So as the summer draws to a close and our TV channels are swamped with reruns of reruns, I’ve decided that eighth Doctor audio adventures deserved another listen to and I must say it’s completelly true that you find out things you didn’t know before on the second or third time. This was a great story with a lot of interesting characters and introducing the new companion which was a stroke of genius on Mr Barnes side.

Charley Pollard is such an interesting and lively character and is so thoughtfully written that you just can’t help but care about what happens to her and cheer when the Doctor disregards one of the primary temporal laws and invites her aboard the good time-ship TARDIS, despite the Vortisors (reminescent to the new series’ Reapers in appearance and concept) and a huge paradox glooming in the background.

Storywise, Barnes traditionally uses a historical event as the background of a much greater scale of events, because if you listen more closely this is not about the alien invasion, or about morality, humanity or war, or even the disaster featured – those are just plot devices – no,

this is really about a certain Edwardian adventuress, or Charley to her friends, a soon-to-be companion and best friend to a certain Time Lord. She is the key and she is the beginning of a story arc almost on an epic scale.

Like I said Barnes’ cleverly used a historical event as a background plot device and set it on the British airship R101 and described one of the lesser known disasters, that happened before the Hindenburg one.

It crashed in the early morning hours on October 5, 1930 in France during its maiden voyage, killing 48 people. The horrific event hindered the international public opinion of lighter-than-air craft and effectively ended British employment of rigid airships.

According to historical files the R101 departed on October 4 at 6:24 p.m. for its intended destination to Karachi (then part of British India) via a refuelling stop at Ismaïlia in Egypt under the command of Flight Lieutenant Carmichael Irwin. Passengers included Lord Christopher Thomson, Secretary of State for Air, and Sir Sefton Brancker, Director of Civil Aviation. The airship had to drop 5 tons of water ballast to lift off.

Over France, the R101 encountered gusting winds that tore back the outer covering, exposing and rupturing the first gas bag. The R101 crashed into a hillside near Beauvais, north of Paris, at only 13 mph (20 km/h). The crash ignited the leaking hydrogen and fire quickly engulfed the entire airship.

46 of the 54 passengers and crew were killed. Two men who survived the crash died later in a hospital bringing the total to 48 dead. According to survivors, the top layers of the outer cover and some of the forward gas bags had been torn in the wind, causing a loss of the flammable hydrogen lifting gas. On impact, an engine had struck the gas bags, igniting the gas.
Of course like any historically-based story this one also had the names of real people changed and a couple of things were also changed to fit the plot but other than that everything was as it happened.

I wonder what would have happened if the producer of the TV Movie commissioned Alan Barnes to write the script for the pilot – how different would the fans take it and McGann as the Doctor, who unfortunatelly still stays underrated in the role. But then again if that happened would we have this new series to look forward to every Saturday?

We can’t be sure but if things were different back then we would probably have McGann as the eight Doctor for a while, before some other actor, perhaps Eccleston took over. Maybe we’d even get a chance to see how the Doctor regenerated and how he fought in the Time War.

Besides Barnes’ there were so many other great scripts for these plays, Justin Richards’, Robert Shearman’s, Nev Fountain’s, Joseph Lidster’s – just to name a few. But let’s not dwell on the past and let’s look at his audio series as a huge success because it’s just that.

Without a doubt Paul McGann is brilliant as the romantic Darcy-like, angst-ridden with an almost child-like sense of wonder and curiosity but witty Doctor and India Fisher shows us a few great glimpses of her vocal acting skills and what to expect from an intriguing character Charley Pollard. From the supporting cast, the most memorable is Gareth Thomas (formerly Roj Blake from another cult sci-fi series Blakes 7) as the duty-bound ex-military man Lord Tamworth who drops his original intent and after a heroic end decides to stay to help instead of fight the aliens.

The only little nitpick I have is the annoying character Rathbone – whose accent borders on German and at times it was hard to understand what he was saying and that didn’t do him any favours - infact it made him even more irritating.

Other than that this was a great reinvention of McGann’s Doctor and introduction to the new series of Big Finish plays. Also worth a mention is the new variation on Ron Grainer’s original theme made specifically for the eight Doctor range. It’s a mix of something old- the classic series' and the TV Movie’s theme with a touch of something new.

Overall I give it 9/10 for the story but mostly for the excellent performances from the main cast and supporting crew.

You can get it here.

Next time I’ll tackle The Sword of Orion, featuring the eight Doctor’s first encounter with the original Cybermen.

Torchwood: Jack Harkness Diaries

Yes, I know this blog is mainly about the Doctor Who but as I’ll probably uh definitelly pay some attention to its spin-off series Torchwood, I’m sure I’ll be inclined to write a thing or two about it sometime. Though I’ll leave the rest to those more in the know.

Already the premises sound interesting and with John Barrowman as Captain Jack Harkness - formerly a TARDIS time traveller – I bet it’ll be interesting. I’d also like to know what happened to Jack after being left behind on Satellite 5…

The filming has already started a long time ago and if you’d like fresh news you should visit the best Torchwood related informative blog here.

More updates on the series when it airs and that’ll be sometime in October. Counting the days…

Goodbye to the Master of Horror

‘Listen, if somebody who knew the future pointed out a child to you and told you that the child would grow up totally evil... To be a ruthless dictator who would destroy millions of lives. Could you then destroy that child?’

-The Fourth Doctor in Genesis of the Daleks, 1975

BBC site reported the death of David Maloney. David Maloney was probably not known to some people or to my compatriots but the Whovians will always remember him as the director of the classic episodes of Doctor Who in the more "violent" era of the production. The words violence and horror were commonly used by the anti-TV series campaigner Mary Whitehouse, because she thought the series diverted from its original "more for kids" theme. It was true that some stories directed by Maloney could be considered not suitable for children but that sort of dark theme was started in the Pertwee era, so it was nothing new on her claims.

But this director did have a unique way of filming and used slow-motion death scenes, freeze frames on bloody scenes, dark-colour and claustrophobic scenes...just remember classics like The Talons of Weng-Chiang, The Deadly Assassin and one of the all time favorites Genesis of the Daleks. Also let's not forget his earlier work on Patrick Troughton's The Mind Robber, The Krotons and the Second Doctor's ten-parter epic and the final story The War Games, as well as Frontier in Space and the Planet of the Daleks in the Pertwee era.

It's also worth to mention his work as a producer on the first three seasons on another classic sci-fi series Blakes' 7.

Goodbye Mr Maloney, you'll be missed...

Voice of Original

I've decided to mention a couple of greats involved in the Doctor Who productions over the years. A lot of people who worked on the original series have left us these past couple of years. One of the people that certainly deserved a mention was Peter Hawkins.

Who was he? Mr Hawkins was one of the people that was involved in the early production of the series, he was one of the two actors in charge of giving the voices to the original Daleks. He usually worked in tandem with David Graham and they both covered every Dalek serial from the 1960s as well as the Peter Cushing movies.

So long, Mr Hawkins, you'll be remembered by true fans everywhere...

Tegan is back!

Yes, she's back though not on screen but in audio and she's reunited with Peter Davison’s Fifth Doctor in the newest Big Finish drama The Gathering, that's to be released in late September.
This is huge news since Janet Fielding refused for many years to be involved with anything related to Doctor Who. And then that fateful day Peter Davison sat down with her, had a nice dinner and asked, so how about it? At first she declined but apparently after a couple of more glasses of wine finally accepted.

I have been excited ever since the rumor was started a year and a half ago, so this isn’t exactly news to me but it’s nice to hear an official confirmation from the people involved in the production.

So who was she?

'A lot of good people have died today. I'm sick of it.'

'You think I wanted it this way?'

'No. It's just I don't think I can go on.'

'You want to stay on Earth?'

'My aunt Vanessa said, when I became an air stewardess, if you stop enjoying it, give it up.'

'Tegan.'

'It's stopped being fun, Doctor.'

(When Tegan turned to leave) ‘No, not like this!’

-Tegan and the Doctor in the Resurrection of the Daleks, final scene 1984

Tegan Jovanka was an on-screen companion to the Tom Baker’s Fourth and Peter Davison’s Fifth Doctors’ and she was a regular in the series from 1981 to 1984. According to producer John Nathan-Turner, when he was thinking of a name for the character, it was either going to be Tegan, after a friend's niece in Australia, or Jovanka, after Jovanka Broz, the widow of now an ex-Yugoslavian President Josip Broz Tito, so he wrote both down on a piece of paper. Script editor Christopher H. Bidmead mistakenly believed that Jovanka was the character's last name rather than an alternative, and so he wrote her in as "Tegan Jovanka".

She first appeared in the Fourth Doctor's last serial, Logopolis. On her way to Heathrow Airport to start her new job with Air Australia, her car stopped because of a flat tyre. She entered a roadside police box to seek help, not knowing that it was actually the Doctor's disguised TARDIS. She was present when the Fourth Doctor fell from the Pharos Project radio telescope and regenerated into his Fifth incarnation, and despite everything continued to travel with the Doctor and his other companions, Nyssa from Traken and Adric from Alzarius. As a character she was stubborn, loud, and direct, with a no-nonsense manner and not afraid to speak her mind, she even called herself ‘mouth on legs’ in Earthshock.

While she often bickered with the other TARDIS occupants as well as with the Doctor, her strength of character kept them together and her loyalty to her fellow travelers was unquestionable. She was very close with Nyssa, and was sad at her leaving in Terminus.
The Doctor noted many times that she was a good coordinator, and often encouraged her with the words, ‘Brave heart, Tegan.’

Eventually, the carnage surrounding the events of Resurrection of the Daleks proved to be too much and she left with an emotional good-bye to the Doctor and Turlough, while they were still in 1984 London. Later she returned to play an illusory image of Tegan seen during the Fifth Doctor's regeneration into the Sixth in The Caves of Androzani (1984).

Big Finish Productions

Doctor Who: The Gathering

Written by: Joseph Lidster

Directed by: Gary Russell

Recorded: 29 & 30 June 2006

Date of Release: Late September 2006

Starring: Peter Davison as the Doctor and Janet Fielding as Tegan

Timeline: This story takes place between the Planet of Fire and the Caves of Androzani

Summary: On the morning of 22 September 2006, Tegan woke up. She was expecting to spend the day relaxing at home and, that evening, tolerate a party thrown to celebrate her 46th birthday. But things don't always go as expected...it's been over twenty years since she chose to leave the Doctor. She's got a job, mates... a life. Meanwhile her friend, Katherine Chambers, makes a decision that could change all their lives, and Tegan discovers that you can never really escape the past.

This seems to be the year of big releases and the return/revival of old characters and companions. The trend was started in this new series' second season, in the episode two Tooth & Claw, when an old Who actress Pauline Collins returned as Queen Victoria and continued in the School Reunion which marked the appearance of the all time favorite Doctor’s companions Sarah Jane Smith, played by the wonderful Elizabeth Sladen and the robotic dog K9, voiced by John Leeson.

Too bad the release doesn’t come sooner because I could really use something to get over my post-season finale, Doctor Who summer hiatus depression. Oh well there’s always the classic episode DVD editions to look forward to and the Hand of Fear will be released on the 27th, so I’m counting the days.

And let’s not forget another release in September, the Mark of the Rani, ‘marking’ the return of Anthony Ainley as the Master and Kate O’Mara as The Rani. Oh yes and it also features Colin Baker as the Doctor and Nicola Bryant as Peri.

So to quote the Earth, Wind & Fire, there’s gonna be dancing in September...