Peter Alan Tyler my dad. The most wonderful man in the world. Born 15th September 1954. It is 2005, ‘Doctor Who has been off screen, barring the 1996 TV Movie and a few repeats for 15 years. A generation had grown up without knowing what a TARDIS or Daleks were and the British TV schedulesContinue reading “Father’s Day by Paul Cornell (2005)”
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The Next Doctor by Russell T Davies (2008)
I’m the Doctor. Simply, the Doctor. The one, the only and the best. If you could stand back, sir. This is a job for a Time Lord. ‘The Next Doctor’ – the one with the rubbish, shaggy Cyber Shades and that nonsensical giant Cyberman at the end, isn’t it? Well, there is a lot moreContinue reading “The Next Doctor by Russell T Davies (2008)”
Never cruel or cowardly
A tribute to Terrance Dicks (first posted in the aftermath of his death in 2019) When I first met Terrance Dicks at a convention in the early 80’s, I was still a child really and I was meeting the man who had written the first book I ever bought. My first real encounter with himContinue reading “Never cruel or cowardly”
Doctor Who and The Web of Fear by Terrance Dicks Target Novelisation (1976)
‘Forty years the Yeti had been quiet – Collector’s item in a museum. Then without warning it awoke – and savagely murdered. At about the same time patches of mist began to appear in Central London. People who lingered anytime in the mist were found dead, their faces smothered in cobwebs. The cobweb seeped down,Continue reading “Doctor Who and The Web of Fear by Terrance Dicks Target Novelisation (1976)”
The Five Doctors (Target Novelisation) by Terrance Dicks (1983)
Ahead of time… It is Saturday November 19th 1983. “Doctor Who’ isn’t on TV, it isn’t the 20th anniversary yet, Longleat has long been and gone, all should be quiet. So, why is a 14 year old me standing excited beyond belief in a bookshop in Liverpool? To answer that question, I’ll ask you aContinue reading “The Five Doctors (Target Novelisation) by Terrance Dicks (1983)”
Shada by Douglas Adams (every year!)
The following review was written in Cambridge – in May, but not May week- unfortunately Northern Rail were as confused as the TARDIS – faced with a new timetable boasting more trains, they panicked and decided to cancel most of their existing trains and in fact they now don’t seem to realise that they areContinue reading “Shada by Douglas Adams (every year!)”
Douglas Adams and the fundamental interconnectedness of all things
‘I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.’ ‘Hundreds of people who’ve never written before send in ‘Dr. Who’ scripts. They may have good ideas, but what they fail to realise is that writing for TV is incredibly complicated. They have no idea how difficult it is and whatContinue reading “Douglas Adams and the fundamental interconnectedness of all things”
Deadline by Rob Shearman (2003)
‘I so much wanted to be a great writer, Philip – an artist, a genius. It’s what geniuses do. Wagner, Picasso, Dickens, had affairs, treated their wives, their children like ¤¤¤¤. They had the right. I wanted to be like them, rise above the right and wrong. Only the art mattered. But the thing is,Continue reading “Deadline by Rob Shearman (2003)”
The Dying Days by Lance Parkin (1997)
‘Today, after over twenty years, the human race returns to Mars. This would be a cause for celebration regardless of which nation had got there. But it isn’t, I am sure, jingoism to suggest that we are all particularly glad that it is the United Kingdom that got there first.’ – applause – ‘Twenty yearsContinue reading “The Dying Days by Lance Parkin (1997)”
Damaged Goods By Russell T Davies (1996)
‘Bev lay awake, hoping that Father Christmas would come, but the Tall Man came instead. She could hear his voice in the front room, but her mother’s crying drowned his actual words. Mum had been upset all day, ever since she came home. Her mother had different sorts of tears – mostly anger, like whenContinue reading “Damaged Goods By Russell T Davies (1996)”
A Journal of Impossible Things 