The story so far… ‘It all started out as a mild curiosity in the junkyard, and now it’s turned out to be quite a great spirit of adventure’ Let us take a trip back in time to 17:15 on Saturday 23rd November 1963. To a very different Britain, just 18 years after the end ofContinue reading “An Adventure in Black and White – A Season One Introduction”
Category Archives: First Doctor (William Hartnell)
Tenth Planet by Kit Pedler and Gerry Davis (1966)
‘We are equipped to survive. We are only interested in survival. Anything else is of no importance. Your deaths will not affect us.’ Once upon a time… Let’s travel back to a time when there was only ‘once’ and ‘twice’ was a long way off in the future. When this story only existed as aContinue reading “Tenth Planet by Kit Pedler and Gerry Davis (1966)”
The Guardian of the Solar System by Simon Guerrier (2010)
So, to the last of the ‘Sara Kingdom’ trilogy. In the moving prologue, Robert’s 21-year old daughter, who Sara helped save, leaves to see the world, never to return, but Robert stays in the house – shouldering the burden that Sara has carried for a thousands years. It is made explicitly clear that the impressionContinue reading “The Guardian of the Solar System by Simon Guerrier (2010)”
The Drowned World by Simon Guerrier (2009)
This is the second in the trilogy and picks up with Robert transcribing his thoughts on the image of Sara Kingdom and the ghost or rather echo of her in the house at Ely. We have a confirmation that human society is now less advanced than 1000 years previously when the house was first built,Continue reading “The Drowned World by Simon Guerrier (2009)”
Home Truths by Simon Guerrier (2008)
This is the first story in a trilogy about Sara Kingdom, written by Simon Guerrier and is part of the Big Finish Companion Chronicles range. The premise is really rather ingenious, finding a way to give use more stories of Sara Kingdom and the excellent Jean Marsh, but creating in the process something really ratherContinue reading “Home Truths by Simon Guerrier (2008)”
The Massacre of St Bartholomew’s Eve by John Lucarotti or Donald Tosh (1965)
In some respects, ‘The Massacre’ is Schrodinger’s Historical. A story that exists in three potential states, none of which quite allow us a glimpse of what it was really like. It is opaque, we view it through a haze or via our own chosen lens. To switch to a religious metaphor – we have theContinue reading “The Massacre of St Bartholomew’s Eve by John Lucarotti or Donald Tosh (1965)”
The Savages by Ian Stuart Black (1966)
‘I don’t intend to leave these people in this oppressed state’ ‘Oppose you? Indeed I am going to oppose you, just in the same way that I oppose theDaleks or any other menace to common humanity’ The Doctor has come a long way since ‘An Unearthly Child’, his travels have been followed and celebrated byContinue reading “The Savages by Ian Stuart Black (1966)”
The Aztecs by John Lucarotti (1964)
‘The little I know about them doesn’t impress me. Cutting out people’s hearts.’ ‘Oh, that was only one side to their nature. The other side was highly civilised.’ ‘A vision is with us and shall stand before them. And I, in supplication to the Rain God, shall offer human blood. The rains will come. NoContinue reading “The Aztecs by John Lucarotti (1964)”
The Rocket Men by John Dorney (2011)
When do you know? In which Ian struggles with his feelings for Barbara, Vicki is very brave, the Doctor communes with space mantas and there are some very nasty men with rocket packs. Back in my youth, during school holidays or on a Saturday morning, the BBC often ran classic sci-fi serials from the 1930’s,Continue reading “The Rocket Men by John Dorney (2011)”
Farewell Great Macedon by Moris Fahri (adapted by Nigel Robinson) (2010)
‘Farewell Alexander! Farewell Great Macedon!’ This ‘Lost Story’ is an absolute gem, to my mind the match of the best of the TV historical stories. It was originally written for season one and such is the quality of the script it is a bit perplexing that it wasn’t made. Moris Fahri (an Anglo-Turkish writer, whoContinue reading “Farewell Great Macedon by Moris Fahri (adapted by Nigel Robinson) (2010)”
A Journal of Impossible Things 