SHATTERED CHAINS!

The Curse of Fenric has been unleashed and the undead have slipped their moorings in this terrific image of the Haemovore creatures taken on location during the wet, cold weather of April 1989, giving even more atmosphere to the completed all-time classic story for Sylvester McCoy's incarnation in his final season.

TARDIS LOVE!

I always loved the scenes set inside the TARDIS of the B/W era of WHO- the design, originally created by an at-first apparently reluctant and other commitments burdened Peter Brachaki, was one of the best ever conceived for both television and British television science fiction. And though its interior got smaller and smaller in size as time and recording studio space restrictions went on, it still had a compelling and irresistible air of alien-ness to it. The claustrophobic and eerie first part of The Mind Robber, featuring the Second Doctor and stalwart companion Jamie, was an example of using the main characters at their best within the time vessel.

A TRIP OF A LIFETIME...

Regarded as one of the most intelligent and classy productions from the original Hartnell launch season, and exemplified from the surviving photos, novelisation, screen grabs and audio soundtrack, the sadly 'lost' Marco Polo lives up to the hype. The seven-part story was sold reasonably well abroad in the sixties by the BBC, so we can but hope that a copy of some kind will turn up for discovery sooner rather than later.

More on the Classic Series Hartnell Missing Episodes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saQa6PR6Z44&t=333s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dA7bKEDgFo

ESSENTIAL READING!

The UK's popular, long-running entertainment guide Time Out has always had a diverse readership, so the presence of a eye-stalked Dalek from Skaro turning up with a copy likely wouldn't surprise them.

A lovely cover to the magazine from January 1982, signalling the landmark start of a brand new era to WHO via Peter Davison's youthful and more fallible incarnation. The inside feature, from later TARGET Book Editor Nigel Robinson, would provide a fine overview of the series then nineteen years on the airwaves.

WELCOME TO NECROS!

The snow cold climes of a crisp morning await the Sixth Doctor, emerging from his newly arrived TARDIS- a fantastic location image beautifully and atmospherically captured from Colin Baker's finest tale: Revelation of the Daleks. Imagery like this is what's always made the show special, in my book.

NO TIME FOR DARWIN-ISM!

They were one of the most memorable early monsters of the Jon Pertwee era- the hibernation emergent intelligent reptilians, the Silurians- soon shocked to hear that mankind has become the dominant species of their planet during their sleepy-byes absence.

This is a great close-up pic of one of the Silurians, presumably taken for photography linked to Jon Pertwee's first season publicity shot alongside a host of memorable monsters (including a Yeti and a hodge-podge assembled Cyberman). Though their Sea Devil cousins got in on the act, it was a shame that the Silurians didn't return again for another intriguing and serious sequel story from Malcolm Hulke later in Pertwee's time.

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.