Dr Who - Escape to Danger
Obverse Books charity anthology
Invasion of the Space Wheel
Escape to Danger
The Spirit of Sherwood
The Carriers of Death
The Pirate's Treasure
The Destroyer of Worlds
Six more adventures for Dr Who...
An abandoned spaceship, a deadly mine, treacherous pirates, untrusworthy politicians and the dreaded Daleks are just some of the terrors faced by Dr Who and his family.
Time and space are full of dangers for Dr Who. Notes: The thing about the radio series we envisaged for Peter Cushing's Dr Who was that they were pretty much all planned out from the start. The three radio Christmas specials were a late addition to the plan, but the four 6-part series were all worked out pretty early. But as you know, for you are wise enough to be here reading this, plans do have to change sometimes. And the plans for this book changed, too. I was only going to do two stories, but I wound up doing four. The two I had intended to do were the first half of a four episide arc that would be tied up in the next anthology, based on the putative 3rd series. What I wanted for these four episodes was for the first three to be standalone stories, just featuring the same guest characters, but when we got to the fourth episode of the arc, everything would come together and we'd get a feeling of "Oh, so that's why they did that..." - at risk of sounding immodest, I think that worked out rather well. Escape to Danger and The Destroyer of Worlds were the two episodes in this series that formed part of the arc. And yes, Escape to Danger was named after the often-used chapter title in the Target novelisations. The Spirit of Sherwood was a Robin Hood story, but I wondered what kind of Robin Hood story Richard Carpenter would have written for Dr Who on radio. Carpenter's Robin of Sherwood is one of the best versions of the legend, and I used some of the themes from that, made them more basic and unrefined. HOwever, I wanted it to hang onto a bit of Hollywood swashbuckler about it, which is why Louise has the big swordfight at the end. One of my favourite TV stories is The Ambassadors of Death. It's long and the story of its writing seems to be as tumultuous as the trip to Mars we got on screen. It was a story I thought would really work when pared down to a 25 minute radio episode. I think it turned out okay in The Carriers of Death.
An abandoned spaceship, a deadly mine, treacherous pirates, untrusworthy politicians and the dreaded Daleks are just some of the terrors faced by Dr Who and his family.
Time and space are full of dangers for Dr Who. Notes: The thing about the radio series we envisaged for Peter Cushing's Dr Who was that they were pretty much all planned out from the start. The three radio Christmas specials were a late addition to the plan, but the four 6-part series were all worked out pretty early. But as you know, for you are wise enough to be here reading this, plans do have to change sometimes. And the plans for this book changed, too. I was only going to do two stories, but I wound up doing four. The two I had intended to do were the first half of a four episide arc that would be tied up in the next anthology, based on the putative 3rd series. What I wanted for these four episodes was for the first three to be standalone stories, just featuring the same guest characters, but when we got to the fourth episode of the arc, everything would come together and we'd get a feeling of "Oh, so that's why they did that..." - at risk of sounding immodest, I think that worked out rather well. Escape to Danger and The Destroyer of Worlds were the two episodes in this series that formed part of the arc. And yes, Escape to Danger was named after the often-used chapter title in the Target novelisations. The Spirit of Sherwood was a Robin Hood story, but I wondered what kind of Robin Hood story Richard Carpenter would have written for Dr Who on radio. Carpenter's Robin of Sherwood is one of the best versions of the legend, and I used some of the themes from that, made them more basic and unrefined. HOwever, I wanted it to hang onto a bit of Hollywood swashbuckler about it, which is why Louise has the big swordfight at the end. One of my favourite TV stories is The Ambassadors of Death. It's long and the story of its writing seems to be as tumultuous as the trip to Mars we got on screen. It was a story I thought would really work when pared down to a 25 minute radio episode. I think it turned out okay in The Carriers of Death.