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Tag Archives: Tegan
Tegan the Sarcastic Devotee
Companion Tropes 27 MONITOR: Now, perhaps you would like to see more of Logopolis. TEGAN: I’d prefer to see a lot less of it. A few weeks ago we looked at Turlough, the anti-hero of the Fifth Doctor era, but … Continue reading
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Doctor Who Annual (1984)
“Get back, Doctor!” One step closer and I trigger the bomb!” That’s not a bad opening line for the first story in a Doctor Who annual, is it, but before we get to all that it’s worth mentioning that this … Continue reading
Posted in Annuals, Books, Doctor Who, Entertainment, Fifth Doctor, Science Fiction
Tagged 1984 Annual, Master, Peter Davison, Tegan, Turlough
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Doctor Who Annual (1983)
The 1983 Doctor Who Annual might have the blurriest photographic cover ever, but there seems to be a genuine attempt to make it more appealing to fans of Doctor Who than previous annuals. The big change is the effort that … Continue reading
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Tagged 1983 Annual, Adric, Master, Nyssa, Peter Davison, Tegan
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Cliffhangers: Fifth Doctor
When I wrote about the Fourth Doctor cliffhanger endings, I mentioned how the variety and inventiveness of the cliffhangers had been a diminishing process since the 1960s. That doesn’t just continue for the Fifth Doctor era, it falls off a … Continue reading
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Tagged Master, Nyssa, Peter Davison, Tegan, Turlough
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The Five Doctors
Ext. The Death Zone. IAN and BARBARA CHESTERTON are walking across a barren, rocky landscape. BARBARA looks frightened. BARBARA: Ian, what was that strange pyramid? IAN: Presumably some kind of travel device. We seem to have been transported somewhere. BARBARA: … Continue reading
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Tagged Brigadier, Jon Pertwee, Patrick Troughton, Peter Davison, Sarah Jane Smith, Susan, Tegan, Tom Baker
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Resurrection of the Daleks
Here’s a house. Here’s a door. Windows: one, two, three, four. Ready to knock? Turn the lock. It’s Play School! What window are we going to go through today? Oh look, it’s the brutal violence and death window. Sometimes less … Continue reading
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Tagged Davros, Peter Davison, Play Away, Play School, Resurrection of the Daleks, Tegan, Turlough
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Frontios
Once upon a time there was a writer called Christopher H Bidmead, who thought Doctor Who should be grounded in real science. When he became script editor he tried to squeeze Doctor Who into that pigeonhole, and even when he … Continue reading
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Tagged Frontios, Peter Davison, Tegan, Turlough
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Arc of Infinity
Arc of Infinity was the beginning of the 20th season of Doctor Who, and it was decided that every story should include some element of the past of the series to make up a celebratory year. Earthshock had gone down … Continue reading
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Tagged Nyssa, Peter Davison, Tegan
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Earthshock
During the 1980s, Doctor Who started to do a couple of things over and over again, which almost certainly contributed to the eventual cancellation of the show: very violent stories, and stories which feed off the past of the show. … Continue reading
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Tagged Adric, Cybermen, Earthshock, Nyssa, Peter Davison, Tegan
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Four to Doomsday
In 1981 the Doomsday Clock was at four minutes to midnight, so Doctor Who gave us a story called Four to Doomsday, featuring a TARDIS crew of four people encountering Monarch’s spaceship four light-days from Earth, with four ethnic groups … Continue reading
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Tagged Adric, Four to Doomsday, Nyssa, Peter Davison, Tegan
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