PRICKLY HEAT!

An unhappy Tom Baker's Time Lord persona had to age for his opening story of his final season, then endure further presumably equally uncomfortable make-up as the last Zolpha Thuran, Meglos, in the story of the same name. The transmogrification of Baker's Doctor was certainly a memorable publicity image for the all-new WHO of the eighties though, part of an overall series re-vamp that certainly caught my eye in a positive way during 1980. The scary thorn-covered image of Meglos also made for a great early cover to the official monthly magazine.