Second paragraph of third chapter:Sometimes the Doctor vanished loudly, with a comforting little yell as he fell into something.
This is surely the last of the unpublished Douglas Adams scripts to surface. Back in 1976, Adams had actually submitted a story outline to Robert Holmes involving warlike aliens with a peculiar connection to cricket - this ( Read more... )

Nobody can really do Douglas Adams like Adams did, especially if they are trying too hard. Did not finish.

We've waited a long time for this ( Read more... )

Having gone to The Hobbit 3 last week, at F's request we watched the 2005 movie of The Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy last night. It held up much better than I remembered; Martin Freeman is given rather more of an emotional arc for Arthur Dent than he gets for either John Watson or Bilbo Baggins, climaxing with the deployment of the Point-Of- ( Read more... )

I resolved some time back that if I ever did a rewatch of New Who, i should start with The Curse of Fatal Death and should include all the dramatic presentations, to choose a potentially wideranging term, that fit into the general sequence. Before the glorious return of Doctor Who to the screens in the person of Christopher Eccleston, the BBC ( Read more... )

We've waited a long time for this, the lost novelisation of the lost Doctor Who story, brought to life from the final version of Adams' script by one of the best-placed of the current Who authors. And it is pretty damn good. Having watched both the 1992 video of the surviving parts of the original 1979 filming, and the webcast version with Paul ( Read more... )

After my recent struggles with Belgacom I was rather comforted to remind myself of Arthur Dent's problems with bureaucracy, many years ago. I more or less knew this book by heart when I was twelve, and the Adams genius still works for me; most of the good lines are in the various other incarnations of the story, but one or two are only found here ( Read more... )

11) Doctor Who and the City of Death, by David Lawrence

When I was reading through the Doctor Who novelisations over the spring and summer, I bemoaned the fact that all were available, in print or electronically, apart from the unofficial New Zealand fan write-up of City of Death. I spoke too soon; because back in August, thanks I believe to the ( Read more... )

I wrote up both Doctor Who and the Deadly Assassin and the Leela novelisations some time back, and Doctor Who and the Ribos Operation is one of the Ian Marter novels, so that brings me to the rest of the Season 16 Key To Time sequence. The first of these is an unofficial fan novelisation; the other four are by the inevitable Terrance Dicks. None of ( Read more... )

Diehard fan though I am, my family was living in the Netherlands in 1979-80 and so I have never seen any of Season Seventeen ("Destiny of the Daleks", "City of Death", "The Creature from the Pit", "Nightmare of Eden", "The Horns of Nimon" and what there is of "Shada"). I have now put this right, as far as I ever intend to, by watching "City of ( Read more... )