‘A town is full of buildings – some tall, some short, some wide, some narrow. The buildings are flats and houses and factories and shops … do you live in a town?’ ‘Mary, Mungo and Midge live in a tall block of flats – right at the top, in the flat with the flowers growingContinue reading “Paradise Towers by Stephen Wyatt (1987)”
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The Ultimate Foe by Robert Holmes/Eric Saward/Pip and Jane Baker! (1986)
You are elevating futility to a high art. There is nothing you can do to prevent the catharsis of spurious morality Eric has been coerced back to finish the last two scripts of the season. He had already started on episode 13 before he resigned. Sadly, just before the transmission of ‘Mysterious Planet’ Robert HolmesContinue reading “The Ultimate Foe by Robert Holmes/Eric Saward/Pip and Jane Baker! (1986)”
Terror of the Vervoids by Pip and Jane Baker (1986)
My submission concerns a crisis which threatens the lives not only of a group of people confined together with no means of escape, but would, if unresolved, threaten every mortal being on the planet Earth. What are you, a comedian? No, more a sort of clown, actually. Some context… So, while the next story isContinue reading “Terror of the Vervoids by Pip and Jane Baker (1986)”
The Fires of Vulcan by Steve Lyons (2000)
In which Mel discovers that she has a character and the Doctor riles a Gladiator. Before ‘The Fires of Pompeii’ and before the TV show came back, there was the ‘Fires of Vulcan’. Now, I like the TV story well enough, I watched it again recently, but to be honest it wastes a fair bitContinue reading “The Fires of Vulcan by Steve Lyons (2000)”
A Journal of Impossible Things 