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Tag Archives: Romana
Romana the Distaff Counterpart
Companion Tropes 4 Supergirl, Spider-Woman, She-Hulk, Batwoman, She-Ra, Little Miss Chatterbox, Mrs Potato Head, Romana. OK, not quite the same thing, but on a fundamental level these are all distaff counterparts. The term refers to a particular kind of female … Continue reading
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Tagged Distaff Counterpart, Lalla Ward, Mary Tamm, Romana
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Doctor Who Annual 1981
The amount of stories was reduced again for the 1981 Doctor Who Annual, with just one comic strip and five short stories. However, the child of 1980 had no reason to feel hard-done-by, because the stories are actually all of … Continue reading
Posted in Annuals, Books, Doctor Who, Entertainment, Fourth Doctor, Science Fiction
Tagged 1981 Annual, Romana, Tom Baker
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Doctor Who Annual 1980
The 1980 Doctor Who Annual offers slim pickings once again to fans of Doctor Who fiction, with only five stories and two comic strips. On the plus side, it’s the first annual for many years to feature recognisable artwork for … Continue reading
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Tagged 1980 Annual, Romana, Tom Baker
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Shada
Oh I do love the spring. All the leaves, the colours. Cambridge is an amazing place. When I was a teenager I stayed in one of the colleges for a few days, one summer, with a view to possibly studying … Continue reading
Posted in Doctor Who, Entertainment, Fourth Doctor, Reviews, Science Fiction, Television
Tagged Cambridge, Douglas Adams, Romana, Shada, Tom Baker
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City of Death
The appreciation of art can easily be extended to film and television. It is not a giant leap to interpret Doctor Who as art, and more than once a story has actually taken a work of art as the starting … Continue reading
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Tagged City of Death, Douglas Adams, Lalla Ward, Music, Romana, Tom Baker
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Destiny of the Daleks
I’ll turn Davros and his life-support system into scrap metal. Now spack off! It’s not often we hear the Doctor swear. I suppose that must be some kind of Time Lord insult. All joking aside, the situation at that point … Continue reading
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Tagged Daleks, Davros, Destiny of the Daleks, Lalla Ward, Romana, Tom Baker
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Nightmare of Eden
Season 17 has been big on ideas, and following on from a story that was a mashup of issues of capitalism and Greek mythology we have an anti-drugs parable where worlds collide. To tackle drug addiction in Doctor Who in … Continue reading
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Tagged K9, Nightmare of Eden, Romana, Tom Baker
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The Creature from the Pit
Me only cruel immortality Consumes: I wither slowly in thine arms, Here at the quiet limit of the world… Oh dear, look at that monster. It’s shaped like… well, that’s unfortunate. How did nobody notice before it went in front … Continue reading
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Tagged K9, Romana, The Creature from the Pit, Tom Baker
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The Armageddon Factor
A big climax to a 26 episode story arc needs to be epic, and that’s exactly what The Armageddon Factor shoots for. It has a mixed reputation and maybe I’m just a sucker for the tricks the story plays, but … Continue reading
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Tagged K9, Romana, The Armageddon Factor, The Key to Time, Tom Baker
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The Power of Kroll
The Power of Kroll is one of those Doctor Who stories where people sometimes struggle to see past the special effects. They would have been a lot better, were it not for a couple of mistakes: only the bottom half … Continue reading
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Tagged Romana, The Key to Time, The Power of Kroll, Tom Baker
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The Androids of Tara
The first thing that always gets said about The Androids of Tara is that it was based on The Prisoner of Zenda, by Anthony Hope. I suspect that might feel like an obscure reference nowadays for any new fans discovering … Continue reading
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Tagged K9, Romana, The Androids of Tara, The Key to Time, The Prisoner of Zenda, Tom Baker
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The Stones of Blood
The problem with The Stones of Blood is you can’t see the birthday cake. It was there, and it informs the whole story, but it never made it to screen. You see, this was the 100th Doctor Who story, and … Continue reading
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Tagged K9, Romana, The Key to Time, The Stones of Blood, Tom Baker
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The Pirate Planet
Most television series would be incredibly lucky to get even one creative genius contributing scripts. Doctor Who has had several, and the most notable is Douglas Adams, one of the greatest writers of the 20th Century. This is his debut … Continue reading
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Tagged K9, Romana, The Key to Time, The Pirate Planet, Tom Baker
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The Ribos Operation
Well, this is something very different. The closest we have come to a season arc before was the Master appearing in every story in Season Eight, unless you count six out of the seven Season Five stories having the same … Continue reading
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Tagged K9, Romana, The Key to Time, The Ribos Operation, Tom Baker
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Warriors’ Gate
So here it is, the most incorrectly apostrophized story on websites of them all (yes, there is more than one warrior!). It’s also one of the biggest missed opportunities of them all, because it chickens out on an idea that … Continue reading
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Tagged Adric, Caspar David Friedrich, K9, Romana, Tom Baker, Warriors' Gate
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State of Decay
Welcome back Terrance Dicks. Watching this in the original broadcast order it seems like an eternity since Doctor Who has done something like this, and it only happened because new script editor Christopher H Bidmead was in a pretty dire … Continue reading
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Tagged Adric, K9, Romana, State of Decay, Tom Baker
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Full Circle
So here begins the E-Space Trilogy, a run of three stories set in a different universe. If this were done again, it would be described in terms of the TARDIS passing through a “rift”, or a “crack in the universe”, … Continue reading
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Tagged Adric, Full Circle, K9, Romana, Tom Baker
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Meglos
As monsters go, Meglos is a really odd one, a mad and bad shapeshifter who also happens to be a cactus. As threats go, this is delightfully strange. He also works well as a way to tell a story about … Continue reading
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Tagged K9, Meglos, Romana, Tom Baker
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The Leisure Hive
Look! We’ve been completely reinvented. This is now a totally new blog, a complete departure from what it was last week, and nothing will ever be the same again… because the writing is BLUE! Sometimes a change is not as … Continue reading
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Tagged K9, Romana, The Leisure Hive, Tom Baker
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The Horns of Nimon
How many Nimons have you seen today? Poor Soldeed’s marbles have gone astray. There are many flavours of Doctor Who, And Tomfoolery fun should not be taboo. When Doctor Who started getting released on VHS tapes, the first choices were … Continue reading
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Tagged Lalla Ward, Romana, The Horns of Nimon, Tom Baker
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