Old fanzine buying again...

[parrot_knight]

I've had a few rounds on eBay recently, and while was unwilling to pay over the odds for an issue of DWFC Mag from 1973, with the first review of The Three Doctors, I did pick up a couple of issues of In Vision. This caught my eye from issue 50, covering Warriors' Gate"[Steve/Stephen Gallagher's] first commission was a six-part science-fiction

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[tree_and_leaf]

One of Gallagher's submissions, called An Alternative to Suicide, was considered a little too strong for Radio 4 but was passed forward to John Nathan-Turner's office with the suggestion that it might be suitable material for Doctor Who.

*boggles*

[parrot_knight]

As malaheed indicates below, this seems to be a a case of Doctor Who fan hubris, as An Alternative to Suicide was broadcast after all...

[malaheed]

AN ALTERNATIVE TO SUICIDE 1979 90m
Science fiction. Set in the future; the crews of interstellar ships are little more than super-efficient automatons who have been programmed from birth for their life away from Earth. One of them breaks his conditioning and finds the truth about his existence. Superior sf play. With Michael Jayston, Catherine Kessler, Paul Maxwell, Brian Haynes, John Bull, Michael Drew, Adrian Egan, Murray Cash, Carole Boyd, Margaret Robertson, Peter Marinker, Nigel Lambert, Danny Schiller, Roger Hammond, Patrick Barr, Graham Faulkner, Henry Knowles. Directed by Martin Jenkins.

It's listed as broadcast in 1979 on BBC radio

[wellinghall]

Where did you get that from?

[malaheed]

http://web.ukonline.co.uk/suttonelms/sgall.html

http://www.radiolistings.co.uk/programmes/alternative_to_suicide__an.html

http://www.stephengallagher.com/novelisations.htm

[wellinghall]

Ta