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MainAll NewsForeign AffairsThe Vatican on Gaza: "Israel is a Baby-Killer"
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The Vatican on Gaza: "Israel is a Baby-Killer"
Not a word was heard from the Vatican all the years Sderot babies were in mortal danger. They began noticing the violence last week.
Giulio Meotti, Italy, 21/11/12 23:45
Peres in Sderot
Israel news photo: Flash 90
Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, President of the Vatican Council for Culture, commenting on the war between Israel and Hamas, delivered a severe attack on the Jewish people: "I think of the 'massacre of the innocents'. Children are dying in Gaza, their mothers' shouts is a perennial cry, a universal cry".
The Catholic Church high official equated Israel's operation in Gaza against terror groups with the New Testament story of Herod's slaughter of Jewish babies in his effort to kill Jesus.
Ravasi, who is one of the most popular Catholic cardinals and the director of the Church's policy on culture, called Israelis baby-killers in a shameless form of anti-Semitism which subtly accuses the Jewish State of trying to murder the new Jesus, symbolized by the Palestinian people.
The Vatican official's modern blood libel against Israel was delivered during the presentation of Pope Benedict's new book about the life of Jesus. However, Ravasi's theme – the Jews as Herod, who killed all the innocent babies because his heart was set on killing Jesus – was much beloved by Medieval organizers of pogroms.
The vicar-general of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, William Shomali, said on Vatican Radio that "what is happening in Gaza now is a vicious circle of violence". The auxiliary bishop then declared that "it's difficult to know who started it". How difficult?
A few weeks ago, in an interview with the Catholic magazine Famiglia Cristiana, Shomali claimed that "hatred of Christians" is the Talmud itself. "The Talmud, the holy book studied by the ultra-orthodox, more highly venerated than the Bible itself, invites religious hatred, speaks badly of Jesus, and even worse of Mary and, in general, of Christians," the bishop said, adding that "in Israeli schools, love for the other is not taught, but rather the destruction of the other".
Talking to the Vatican News Agency, Michel Sabbah, Patriarch Emeritus of Jerusalem, said that the Gaza Strip for many years "has been living under the weight of an absurd embargo, which makes the daily lives of a million and a half of people inumane".
Sabbah signed the recent appeal by more than one hundred Christian leaders who have asked the international community to support the recognition of the Palestinian State as a full member of the United Nations. Among the signers is the Greek Orthodox Archbishop Atallah Hanna, a self professed anti-Semite who blessed the suicide attacks against Israeli civilians.
As yet, no condemnation has come from the Pope of the barrages of rockets fired by terror groups on southern Israeli cities before Operation Pillar of Defense. The Church authorities, and Benedict XVI himself, raised their voices in condemnation of the violence that has broken out in the Gaza Strip only after Israel began bombing the installations of the terrorist movements in that territory. Not a word was heard before that.
During the Cast Lead operation in 2009, the Vatican officials called Gaza "a concentration camp". After the Nazi comparison did its work, the Jesus-killer motif has now returned to the Catholic Church.
The writer, an Italian journalist with Il Foglio, writes a twice-weekly column for Arutz Sheva. He is the author of the book "A New Shoah", that researched the personal stories of Israel's terror victims, published by Encounter. His writing has appeared in publications, such as the Wall Street Journal, Frontpage and Commentary. He is at work on a book about the Vatican and Israel.
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Larry David Catches Flak for Holocaust Joke in 'SNL' Monologue (Video)
"There are no good opening lines in a concentration camp," David said as he joked about hitting on women in a Nazi concentration camp
Phil Owen | November 5, 2017 @ 12:40 AM	Last Updated: November 5, 2017 @ 5:35 PM
"Curb Your Enthusiasm" creator and star Larry David hosted "SNL" this week and concluded his opening monologue with a crack about trying to pick up women in a Nazi concentration camp, a joke that didn't go over all that well with many members of the audience, both in the room in New York and viewers at home.
David make the joke just after bemoaning the fact that so many of the men in Hollywood being accused of sexual harassment and assault, including Harvey Weinstein, are Jewish.
"I have always, always been obsessed with women. And I have often wondered, if I had grown up in Poland when Hitler came to power and was sent to a concentration camp in my 20s, would I still be checking out the women in the camp?" David said, with this opening part of the bit being greeted by laughter that was of a decidedly different tenor than usual.
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"I think I would. 'Hey, Shlomo, hey, look at that one over by Barracks 8. Oh my God, what a knockout. Is she gorgeous or what? I've been eyeing her for weeks. I would love to go up and say something to her,'" he continued.
"Of course, the problem is, there are no good opening lines in a concentration camp. 'How's it going? They treating you okay? You know, if we ever get out of here, I'd love to take you out for some latkes. Do you like latkes? What? What did I say? Is it me or the whole thing? It's because I'm bald, isn't it?'"
The response on Twitter was chronicled in a Twitter Moment, which you can view here.
It wasn't uniformly negative, of course. The "both sides" of the response can basically be summed up with these two tweets:
Not feeling Larry David's concentration camp jokes @nbcSNL. Nothing about the holocaust will ever be funny. #majorfail #notfunny
— Cindi Avila (@ChefCindi) November 5, 2017
For the record, I'm Jewish and I thought Larry David's monologue was funny. Uncomfortable? Sure, but perhaps comedy isn't always supposed to make us comfortable. I hope the PC police can sleep tonight. #SNL #LarryDavid
— Joseph A. Wulfsohn (@JosephWulfsohn) November 5, 2017
You can view Larry David's full "SNL" monologue above.
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The State We're In: The Week in Politics Reporters' Roundtable
by NEPM | Jul 17, 2020 | Coronavirus & COVID-19, Public Affairs, Show Segments
There are 14 days before the end of Massachusetts' two-year legislative session. In some ways this year is no different previous years: there's lots of work to be done and not a ton of time left on the clock. But this year is very different for two distinct...
AIC Athletes Overcome Cancer Diagnoses
by NEPM | Jul 16, 2020 | Education, Show Segments, Simple Pleasures
When going off to college, young adults have their whole life ahead of them. But for two student athletes at American International College, their freshman year started off with devastating news: cancer diagnoses. Bonded by this challenge, Eric Otto and Eli Vazquez...
West Springfield Park & Rec Reimagines Summer Programs
With school out and summer in full swing, many children look forward to attending summer camps. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many traditional programs have had to reinvent themselves. Victoria Connor is the Director of the West Springfield Park and...
Western Mass Catholic Schools Reopening Plans
by NEPM | Jul 16, 2020 | Coronavirus & COVID-19, Education, Health & Fitness, Show Segments
Many public school systems in Western Massachusetts are wrestling with if and how to reopen this fall amidst COVID-19. The Springfield Roman Catholic diocese has announced that 12 elementary schools and St. Mary's High School in Westfield will fully reopen with...
Girls Inc's Project Red Provides Free Menstrual Products
by NEPM | Jul 15, 2020 | Coronavirus & COVID-19, Public Affairs, Social Issues
Girls Inc. of the Valley recently launched a new initiative called Project Red. The mission of the project is to provide girls in western Mass with essential menstrual hygiene products. Girls Inc. Found that many girls relied on school and after-school programs for...
Sen. Lesser on Lack of State COVID-19 Testing in Western Mass
by NEPM | Jul 15, 2020 | Coronavirus & COVID-19, Health & Fitness, Public Affairs, Show Segments
State Senator Eric Lesser weighs in on the latest developments in Massachusetts' fight against the coronavirus. The Baker administration recently announced that eight new sites would be offering free COVID-19 testing for any state resident through August 14th....
Apex Orchards Perseveres Through Pandemic
by NEPM | Jul 15, 2020 | Coronavirus & COVID-19, Show Segments, Simple Pleasures
Right now, orchards across New England usually begin gearing up for harvest season. But, 2020 has been anything but normal. After the state declared an emergency to combat the novel coronavirus, farms and orchards were faced with the challenges of just surviving,...
Amherst Students to Learn About Local Holocaust Connection
by NEPM | Jul 14, 2020 | Education, Show Segments
A new project in Amherst explores a lesser known side of the Holocaust: how members of a small town in Connecticut, largely Christians, helped Jewish Holocaust survivors find community after the war. This project will help shape a new curriculum for high schoolers in...
What Summer Activities are Safe During COVID-19?
The number of coronavirus cases in Massachusetts continues to trend downward as the state slowly reopens. For those looking for something to do, what summer activities are safe as we continue the fight against COVID-19? Carolee McGrath spoke with Dr. Armando...
Local Mom on Giving Birth During a Pandemic
by NEPM | Jul 13, 2020 | Coronavirus & COVID-19, Health & Fitness, Show Segments
When Jaritza Rivera found out she was expecting her third child she didn't imagine this experience would be drastically different from her experience with her first two children. As her due date approached in April, the threat of COVID-19 and resulting hospital...
The State We're In: How Do Massachusetts Mayors Govern?
by NEPM | Jul 10, 2020 | Public Affairs, Show Segments
Massachusetts has 351 cities and towns. In 47 of those cities and towns, an elected mayor serves as chief executive. Massachusetts mayors face a variety of challenges in running their cities, from working with city councils, to providing fiscal responsibility, to...
The State We're In: The Local Newspaper Renaissance
by NEPM | Jul 3, 2020 | Public Affairs, Show Segments
It is not an easy time for the newspaper business: circulation is down and staff layoffs are up. But, some western Mass newspapers are experiencing a renaissance of sorts. Ray Hershel explores the challenges that local newspapers face today—and how they are...


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A: Your code will only grant Contribute access to an existing Active Directory user.
If you really want to create a new Active Directory user, see Create Active Directory user in .NET (C#).

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Kobe Bryant, daughter Gianna among dead in copter crash
Life + StyleNews
By J. Jai Bolden
Lakers basketball champion Kobe Bryant, 41, and his 13-year-old daughter Gianna 'Gigi' Bryant died in a helicopter crash this morning in the Los Angeles suburb of Calabasas.
Authorities report that there were no survivors and that there were up to nine total passengers aboard the aircraft. More information about the identity of each victim will be released, pending notification of next-of-kin.
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The retired NBA athlete and fellow passengers were on their way to the daughter's basketball game in nearby Thousand Oaks when the fiery crash occurred, multiple sources report. No one on the ground was hurt.
The City of Calabasas confirmed that the helicopter went down in a remote field off Las Virgenes at about 10:00 a,m, this morning. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) are investigating.
Gigi on the Mamba Legacy: "I got this."
During a 2018 interview on Jimmy Kimmel Live, Bryant beamed about how Gianna was growing up and took great pleasure in watching her shut down those who said he needed to have a son to carry on the Bryant "Black Mamba" championship basketball legacy:
"The best thing is when we go out and fans come up to me—and she'll be standing next to me—and they'll be like: 'You and V got to have a boy! Someone to carry on the tradition,'" Bryant shared.
Gianna, he said, would stop them right there and say: "I got this. Don't need no boy for that. I got this."
"I'm like, that's right!" said Bryant, who coached and rooted the the young lady "Mamba" on to an impressive level of play. "Yes, you do! You got this."
NBA champion took his winning "Mamba Mentality" full steam into the tech, arts and media sectors, following his retirement from the storied Los Angeles Lakers franchise, founding Gravity Studios.
Memorials are springing up across the region, from the site of the crash in Calabasas to the Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles and beyond, as fans await word of official services. More information to come as confirmed.
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Canadian-developed screening test aims to detect early-stage cancer using blood samples
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TORONTO -- The COVID-19 pandemic led to a surge in late-stage cancer diagnoses, with restrictions preventing or discouraging many from getting screened early. But a new screening technology developed by a Canadian company could make it easier to detect cancers earlier.
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If mRNA sounds familiar, that's because it's the same technology that's been used to develop the COVID-19 vaccines made by Pfizer and Moderna.
Howard-Tripp says the blood tests can detect cancers with 98 to 99 per cent accuracy at any stage, even in very early stages. If the blood test comes up as positive for a cancer, the patient would be advised to see a pathologist for a traditional lab test to confirm the diagnosis.
"We will always tell you that we're not the definitive test. The definitive test is always a piece of tissue in front of the pathologist," Howard-Tripp said.
Cancer is the leading cause of death in Canada. According to the Canadian Cancer Society, an estimated 229,200 new cancer cases and 84,600 cancer deaths are expected in 2021.
But being able to detect cancers in the earlier stages can significantly increase the likelihood of survival. For example, patients with colorectal cancers detected in stage one or two have a five-year survival rate of around 90 per cent, Howard-Tripp says.
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Category Fifth Doctor
3rd Jan 2022 3rd Jan 2022 Jim Sangster	1 Comment
Synopsis: A case of mistaken identity leads to the Doctor playing for Lord Cranleigh's cricket team. Invited for a post-match party at Cranleigh Hall, the TARDIS team are startled to meet Lord Cranleigh's fiancee Ann, a young woman who appears to be an exact double of Nyssa. The party comes to a sudden halt as a murder is announced – and Ann has conclusive proof that the killer is the mysterious Doctor.
1. A Doctor to the Rescue
2. Nyssa Times Two
3. The Doctor Loses his Way
4. The Doctor Makes a Find
5. The Pierrot Unmasked
6. The Pierrot Reappears
7. The Doctor Stands Accused
8. Under Arrest
9. The Secret of Cranleigh Hall
Background: Terence Dudley adapts his own scripts from the 1982 serial. This completes the run of stories from Season 19 for Target.
Notes: In the prologue, the servant, Digby, is given a first name – Raymond – and his family don't know where he's working (as revealed in a letter from home found on his person by the Doctor); he survives the attack by 'the creature', only to be murdered a little later on (but still within the prologue), when 'the creature' uses the secret passage to spy on a sleeping Ann and then attacks Digby silently and fatally. There's a very telling paragraph within Ann Talbot's introduction, that suggests she's engaged to Charles purely out of a sense of duty:
She had loved George as she knew she could never love his brother, but this was something Charles did understand, or said he did. She would come to love him in time, he said. He would make her love him.
Lord Cranleigh's formal name is 'Charles Percival Beauchamp, tenth Marquess of Cranleigh', inheriting the title from his elder brother George, the ninth Marquess'. Charles's friend at Guy's Hospital is Smutty Handicombe (not Thomas as on TV) and he's both a celebrated cricket player and one of the top brain surgeons in the country. The captain of the opposing cricket team suggests Cranleigh's team bats first, to allow his last-minute guest to arrive.
Adric's insatiable gluttony is introduced when he longs for pie and gravy as illustrated in a poster at the station advertising Bisto gravy. The Doctor shamelessly name-drops Don Bradman, which impresses Tegan for once; making his first-class debut two years after this story is set (1925), Australian cricketer Sir Donald Bradman is widely recognised as the greatest batsman of all time. Tegan is a huge cricket fan, and tries to explain the game to her friends at length – but refuses to elaborate on the finer details of the Oxford-Cambridge boat-race. During the match, Tegan sees Latoni from a distance.
A new scene shows Charles and Ann choosing the costumes for their guests together, so Charles also knows there is only one pierrot costume, which he selects for the Doctor. Adric is treated with great empathy here. His appetite for food is actually one of curiosity, not greed, as there are so many foodstuffs he's never encountered before and he wants to try them all. Then there's the matter of dancing.
The last thing he wanted to be was conspicuous; more conspicuous than he felt in this ridiculous costume, that is. He'd suffered the last straw when a young man, dressed as what he discovered later was an eighteenth-century pirate, had approached him and asked him to dance. All he'd done was to open his mouth to say 'thank you' and the pirate had blushed, cleared his throat, muttered something about being sorry and beat a hasty retreat. It really was the limit.
Adric does eventually join in with the dancing and enjoys himself immensely. He's confident that he can spot Nyssa by the look in her eyes; he is wrong and completely fails to recognise that he's talking to Ann. He has slightly more luck elsewhere though, and he feels uncomfortable when he first sees the figure dressed as the Pierrot.
When Ann is abducted, she sees the disfigured man and is distressed by his appearance, but does not connect him to the attacker in the Pierrot costume, especially after Lady Cranleigh tells her a blatant lie, claiming that the inhabitant of the attic room is an explorer who suffered a similar fate to George and was brought to England as a penance to make up for the loss of George.
Tegan tells Adric that the penalty for a murder convition in 1925 is a hanging. The Doctor is permitted by Sir Robert to change back into his normal clothes prior to being taken to the police station. He ponders whether he has been sent to this time by the Time Lords (though it would seem a trivial case for their attention) and he recalls the events of The King's Demons, even though they happened in his future (but the book of that story was published first). He makes his way to the roof of the house by retracing his steps through the secret passage.
Latoni's role is much expanded; he's a tender companion to George and believes him to become agitated by the coming of the full moon (much to Lady Cranleigh's irritation). Though badly injured after he's attacked by George, Latoni survives the story, helped to safety from the fire by Charles. George realises that the woman in his grasp is not Ann when he sees that Nyssa does not have a mole on her shoulder. He falls to his death after reaching out to Ann and losing his balance. The epilogue tells us that the news of the terrible treatment endured by the famous explorer at the hands of South American natives and his subsequent death is received with some sympathy by the public. The Doctor and his friends leave after George's funeral, which takes place just three days after his death. It's not stated that they get to keep their costumes, though the Doctor does receive a copy of George's book.
Cover: On the lawn of Cranleigh Hall, a harlequin juggles balls in front of a parked police box – an eye-catching piece by Tony Masero..
Final Analysis: It's a fairly small-scale story on television, where the story would pretty much play out as it does with or without the Doctor's involvement. This adaptation provides background to the family secret and to Latoni's motivations for helping George to get back home and Dudley tries to make the cricket scene as engaging as possible by contrasting Tegan's enthusiasm with her friends' utter bewilderment, highlighting how ridiculous the activity really is. There is an unfortunate element though, in the way the mystery is maintained: The victim of torture and violent abuse is labelled 'the creature', initially from Ann's point of view but the description persists. We're also back in the realms of exploitative body horror here.
The head was hairless with exposed and alternative livid and puce puckered skin. Human facial features were barely acknowledged. There were no recognisable ears. The eyes were hideously shot with blood, the right one almost submerged in folds of livid morbid flesh. A fleshless ridge with two perforations and a lipless gash beneath it was small evidence of a nose and mouth. The obscenely puckered forearms supported hands, the fingers of which were welded together, giving a grotesque prominence to the thumbs.
Doctor Who doesn't have a great track record when it comes to portraying disability and mental illness, but at least here we might make an excuse for what is effectively a literary pastiche, blending Jane Eyre and Agatha Christie. Putting the politics aside though, it's a beautifully crafted novel that does a satisfying job of expanding on the original source without introducing huge amounts of padding or waffle. Dudley goes to great lengths to provide a sympathetic approach to each of his characters – even Lady Cranleigh, whose ruthless pragmatism could place her in the role of genuine monster were it not for the way the Doctor justifies her more callous actions in the pursuit of protecting her eldest son. For once, Adric is shown some kindness too, even if (as mentioned above) he's too obsessed with grazing through the buffet to notice how close he comes to being given a romantic subplot with a clumsy pirate.
Chapter 107. Doctor Who – The King's Demons (1986)
26th Dec 2021 24th Dec 2021 Jim Sangster	Leave a comment
Synopsis: King John is an honoured guest at the home of Ranulph and his wife Isabella. When the Doctor, Tegan and Turlough unexpectedly drop in, the King welcomes them and dubs him his 'Demons'. The King's champion Sir Gilles views the intrusion with irritation – unsurprisingly, as he is the Master in disguise. But the Master is not the only one pretending to be something he's not.
1. The Challenge
2. The Demons
3. The King Takes A Hostage
4. The Iron Maiden
5. Command Performance
6. An Old Enemy
7. Doctor Captures King's Knight
8. 'Find These Demons!'
9. Kamelion
10. A Battle of Wills
Background: Terence Dudley adapts his own scripts from the 1983 serial, completing the run of stories from Season 20.
Notes: Ranulf Fitzwilliam has been a loyal servant and friend of King John for twelve years [since the French Wars that saw the King lose his hold on the Duchy of Normandy]. He is immediately suspicious of the 'King' who sits next to him now, identical to the one he knows, but his manner is vastly different – the way he consumes food 'like a starving Flemish mercenary'. The King's eyes are – metaphorically – described as 'metallic' and 'ferrous'.
Turlough is aware of the Doctor's ability to regenerate, or as he calls it cheekily, 'a refit', and later tells the incredulous Hugh that the Doctor has two hearts and is 'getting on for eight hundred years old'. He manages to escape from Hugh in the dungeon and is about to flee the cell when Sir Gilles returns with his prisoner, Isabella. Sir Gilles questions Turlough about the Doctor's 'blue engine' and Turlough accidentally reveals that it can only be opened by a key in the Doctor's possession. The Doctor tells Tegan that Shakespeare did not write history, so cannot be trusted as a factual source. He also shows off knowledge of the King's mother, Eleanor of Aquitane, and claims that she had told her son, the future King, about the legends of Melusine, the alleged daughter of Satan, which might explain King John's insistence that the travellers are demons. Tegan recalls her aunt's murder at the hands of the Master [see Logopolis].
The Doctor and Tegan both recognise the Tissue Compression Eliminator weapon and realise too late that Sir Gilles is the Master; he doesn't remove his disguise here. He accuses the Doctor of being 'obtuse', not naive'. as on telly Tegan tries to disarm him with a cricket ball, not a knife. Despite never having met him, Turlough recognises the Master by the Doctor's description from some previous point ('Listen here, Turlough, I know we've just had that unpleasant business with the Black Guardian, but the one you really have to watch out for is another black-garbed chap with a pointy beard – calls himself the Master. He's a Time Lord like me and…'). Tegan is 22 years old (and would very much like to celebrate her 23rd birthday). At one point, the Doctor recalls that he once spent time with the real King John's brother Richard and helped him in negotiations with Saladin [see The Crusade].
Taking up the role of King's Champion, the Doctor is dressed in full chain-mail armour and he persuades Sir Geoffrey to head to the dungeon by pretending that his demonic powers can be used to torture Lady Isabella. The gaoler is called 'Cedric'. The castle is said to be located at Wallingford, near Oxford, which Sir Geoffrey says is five hours away from London by horse. When Sir Geoffrey is shot by the Master, Turlough helps the merely-wounded knight to safety. Ranulf manages to enter the TARDIS and is so disturbed by the confusion of what lies within that he is convinced the Doctor and his friends are demons. Tegan is aware that to set the TARDIS in motion requires the use of one of two switches, 'the metastasis switch or the transit switch'. After a frustrating first attempt, she uses the transit switch, followed by the input bar. Kamelion's lute is apparently part of his illusion, as it transforms into a cricket bat when he takes the form of the Doctor. Once back in control of his ship, the Doctor makes an additional hop to both assure Lady Isabella that only the Master is their enemy and to give her some medicine to help Sir Geoffrey recover from his wounds. The Master manages to evade being shrunk by the trap with the TCE left by the Doctor, but it has somehow sent his TARDIS out of control.
Cover: David McAllister paints a jousting competition outside Ranulph Castle as Kameleon dominates the skyline while playing the lute.
Final Analysis: I've always felt rather dismissive of Terence Dudley, largely because of Four to Doomsday (where his rather dreary story was adapted without frills / thrills by Terrance Dicks), but his approach to his own novelisation is surprisingly entertaining. As Sir Gilles, the Master outlines his plan to discredit the King through the means of a lengthy tour around some of the King's most loyal supporters. Once his true identity is revealed and he faces execution inside the Iron Maiden, he orchestrates a display of fear and pleading so over the top that it makes the Doctor think he's finally succumbed to madness. So distressing is the performance that even Tegan is distressed at the prospect of his grisly death – until the villain escapes in his torture cabinet-disguised TARDIS.
Turlough is particularly vividly described, even though he spends most of the story in a prison, as on TV; his various attempts to escape and his increasing indignation at being left chained up is hilarious. When he's finally rescued, Turlough lets out a huge rant that builds to a revelation:
'Just a minute! Just a minute!' interrupted Turlough indignantly. 'Get on with what? What about my trust? What about my enemies? Who's doing what to whom and why? I'm dragged down into this hole by that young ruffian whose life you saved this morning. Then he's going to put me into that thing.' He flicked a hand at the Iron Maiden. 'Then I'm hung up on the wall by that hairy Frenchman … Estram. Then the other two get rescued by the Master but I'm left there… hanging… and not a sign on my …' He stopped short, overcome by the suddenness of thought and his mouth and eyes wide in realisation. 'It's an anagram! Estram! It's an anagram!'
The whole anagram thing works so much better in print, but the fact that the Doctor had only just made the same realisation a few pages earlier makes the scene all the funnier.
It's not all cause for celebration though. As great as he is at capturing Turlough, Dudley's depiction of Tegan is pretty patronising: The Doctor is profoundly irritated by Tegan's 'feminine superficiality' and her general habit of moaning, which he'd hoped she'd have grown out of, while there's a lengthy passage mocking her for her 'practical feminine mind' prompting her to ask the castle has 'a back way'. The Doctor also grows exasperated by Tegan's inability to grasp that the Master didn't need to drag the TARDIS through narrow doorways when he could dematerialise it; on TV the exchange is swift, but here it takes two pages before Tegan finally understands and calls herself 'stupid'. It might have been a funnier scene if the author hadn't spent the entire book having Tegan constantly and repeatedly moan about being cold. And then, to add insult to injury, he has Tegan sink into 'a swoon' when she's surprised by Hugh. Dudley also has the Doctor refer to 'a marooned stewardess from an Antipodean airline', while the book ends with the Doctor expecting Tegan to say that he knows she wants him to take her to London airport, which of course was her main goal in the previous season [Terrance Dicks made the same mistake in The Five Doctors]. Considering she spent her first year aboard the TARDIS trying to get back to a job she was swiftly sacked from, it must be particularly jarring for her to still be thought of as flight crew when she can't have actually done the job for more than a few months.
Chapter 95. Doctor Who – The Awakening (1985)
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Synopsis: In an English village, a historical re-enactment of the civil war begins to take a threatening tone. Some of the players are taking things far too seriously, in particular Sir George, who seems particularly driven towards making the event as accurate as possible. When Tegan Jovanka comes looking for her grandfather, she learns that he has disappeared, while the Doctor joins forces with a local schoolteacher and a time-displaced boy to uncover something terrifying in the church crypt…
1. An Unexpected Aura
2. The Devil in the Church
3. The Body in the Barn
4. Of Psychic Things
5. 'A Particularly Nasty Game'
6. The Awakening
7. Tegan the Queen
8. Stone Monkey
9. Servant of the Malus
10. Fulfillment
Background: Eric Pringle adapts his own scripts from the serial broadcast in 1984, the first novel based on a two-part story since The Sontaran Experiment.
Notes: Little Hodcombe is in Dorset (everyone on TV affects that 'just outside of London' accent that covers anywhere from Norfolk to Cornwall). Sir George's ancestors have governed over the region since before the civil war; Will Chandler was in service to one of them and it's that ancestor that he sees when he pushes Sir George into the Malus. The conclusion suggests that, as he promised to Tegan, the Doctor does indeed stay in the village for a holiday.
Cover: Andrew Skilleter's original cover is a handsome portrait of the Malus, free of its crumbling wall frame. Alister Pearson's 1992 cover adds the Doctor and Tegan to a walled-up Malus.
Final Analysis: This is a fun one: Back when this was first published, I wrote a review for a local fanzine in which I moaned about the padding that was evident in the fact that it took ten pages just to get past the first scene. Impatient youth! So, 35 years later, Eric Pringle's sole contribution to the range is indeed a slow build as he takes his time to describe every detail that we might have seen on screen… and that's the issue really. Although made as a two-part story, it was commissioned as four episodes and one might have hoped for an expanded novel that featured loads of extra scenes. As it was, the reason the story was reduced in size was because there wasn't enough to sustain 90 minutes of drama, so apparently very little incident was actually cut. There was one short scene with Kamelion in the TARDIS that was recorded but subsequently removed, but that doesn't make it into the novel either.
Of course, I didn't know there was material missing in 1985 and what we have is a very thorough and accurate adaptation of the story as broadcast. Far from being padded, this novel makes good use of the increased page-count that's been the standard since Frontios. The characterisation is strong, particularly for Will Chandler.
Will had given up being surprised. When he had been bobbing and swinging about in the cart and feeling sure that his bones were splintering inside him, he had made up his mind that if he survived he would take everything in his stride from now on. He had discovered that when absolutely everything is extraordinary, nothing is astonishing any more. Running into a blue box, therefore, was simply another wonder to be accepted without demur, and he shrugged as he ran in through its door, as though this sort of thing happened to him every day.
Oh why wasn't he a companion?! There's one thread that gives us a hint of WIll's backstory, as he explores the Little Hodcombe of 1984 and is appalled that the events that he remembers from 1643 – which must be just a day or so ago in his own timeline – are happening again. He even notes that this current time has its own Squire Hutchinson, just as his own did. The Squire who pressed him into service and whose actions led Will to hide in the church. Come on, Big Finish, surely there's a gap you could fill with a mini-series? The Will and Jane Adventures!
Chapter 93. Doctor Who – The Caves of Androzani (1985)
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Synopsis: Troops from Androzani Major are losing in a war against the android soldiers of Sharaz Jek, an arms trader who controls his operations from deep within the catacombs of the twin planet Androzani Minor. Driven by revenge, Jek has a stranglehold over the supply of spectrox, a substance that, when refined, is a much-valued elixir. In its raw state, however, it can be a deadly poison. And both the Doctor and Peri are already suffering from the effects of spectrox toxaemia. Can the Doctor hold off an impending regeneration long enough to rescue Peri and get them both to safety?
1. Androzani Minor Revisited
2. Spectrox War
3. The Execution
4. Sharaz Jek
5. The Escape
6. The Magma Beast
7. Spy!
8. The Boss
9. Crash Down
10. Mud Burst
11. Takeover
12. Change
Background: Terrance Dicks adapts scripts by Robert Holmes for a serial broadcast eight months earlier. This followed Planet of Fire on TV, so that's another pair of stories to be released consecutively.
Notes: Androzani Major and Minor are two of the five planets that make up the Sirius system. Peri gets her very own Terrance Dicks summary, she's 'an attractive American girl, her piquant features framed in short dark hair.' She considers the Doctor's interest in everything to be one of his 'endearing and aggravating characteristics', which might indicate that they've been together for some time, even though soon after she says that the mud of Androzani Major would make 'a change from lava', which would suggest this is her first trip since Sarn – or they've visited a lot of volcanic locations. We're shown what happened to Trooper Boze (a scene only recounted on TV in reported speech by the android Salateen) and the reference to 'Chacaws' is explained; they're a 'fiercely-spiked fruit grown on the penal plantations of Androzani Major', which leave the chacaw pickers covered in scars.
The Magma Beast is the recipient of this volume's 'let's beef up the monster' award:
The body resembled that of a giant tortoise, or perhaps an armadillo, though the creature stalked upright on two powerful back legs, like a Tyrannosaurus Rex. The massive fanged head was like that of a tyrannosaurus too, though it also bore two ferocious-looking horns. The powerful arms were short and stubby, ending in two enormous claws. As the monster stalked forwards, the massive carapace, at once protection and camouflage, covered the back of its body like an armoured cloak.
When the Doctor finds the beast dead, he surmises that it was caught in a mud burst and 'either choked or boiled to death'. Sharaz Jek removes his mask to reveal 'two mad eyes blazing from a face that was no more than a formless blob, a lump of peeling corrugated skin, devoid of all features'. He strangles Morgus until he's dead (rather than shoving his head into the laser of one of his machines).
Cover: Andrew Skilleter's cover shows Sharaz Jex clutching his mask forlornly while an explosion overhead has a blurred and very subtle approximation of the sixth Doctor's face. A 1992 reprint uses the VHS cover, again by Skilleter, which shows the fifth Doctor, Sharaz Jek (inset), some androids and the twin Androzani planets.
Final Analysis: Terrance Dicks is back, working on his friend Robert Holmes's most popular story – and doesn't put a foot wrong. He adds little details to help build upon the societies Holmes created, puts in a few extra bits to bridge gaps – and unlike the omissions by Bidmead in Logopolis, he describes the onscreen visions of the Doctor's past companions and the Master's taunting. It's the idea that the Master might literally get the last laugh that propels him towards choosing to survive. And so, once again, Terrance gets to describe the first moments of a new Doctor:
He had a broad, high forehead and a mop of curly light-brown hair. There was something cat-like about the eyes, a touch of arrogance in the mouth.
Chapter 92. Doctor Who – Planet of Fire (1985)
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Synopsis: Peri Brown, a young American student, is rescued from drowning by Turlough. Among her belongings is a metallic object that the boy recognises as coming from his own world. The shape-changing robot Kamelion interferes with the TARDIS to take them all to a volcanic planet where a religious order revolves around a teenage boy who might be the key to Turlough's secret past. A bewildered Peri discovers that Kamelion is being controlled by someone who knows the Doctor well, someone who calls himself 'The Master'…
1. Mayday
2. Message Received
3. Destination Unknown
4. Crisis on Sarn
5. A Very Uncivil Servant
6. Outsiders
7. The Misos Triangle
8. An Enemy in Disguise
9. In the Heart of the Volcano
10. The Blue Flame
11. The Time of Fire
Background: Peter Grimwade adapts his own scripts for the serial broadcast seven months earlier.
Notes: The book begins aboard the ship of Captain Antigonas struggling in a storm. The vessel is weighed down by the treasures of Dimitrios, a fat merchant from Rhodes who is more concerned with the welfare of a marble statue of a boy than for his own life (or those of the crew). He's last seen clinging to the statue 'as if it were a lover', plummeting to the depths of the ocean. The ancient ways of the doomed mariners are contrasted with the similar fate of the crew of a Trion vessel caught in the gravitational pull of Sarn. Another captain, Grulen, eagerly awaits landing on the planet as several generations of his family once lived there before the volcanoes became overactive. A sudden surge of volcanic activity causes a magnetic storm. Realising they won't be able to guarantee a safe landing, Grulen opens the security quarters of the ship so that his prisoners might have equal chance of survival as the rest of the crew. Having faced the threat of execution daily, two of the prisoners are resigned to their deaths and as the couple cradle their sleeping child, the father's thoughts turn to Turlough.
There's a shuffling of scenes at the start, with all of the scenes on Sarn shifted to chapter 4, and it all makes a lot more sense. We join the TARDIS in the immediate aftermath of Tegan's departure. Turlough considered the Australian 'argumentative, tactless, interfering, brainless and with a voice that could strip paint'; he also misses her terribly and so does the Doctor. Turlough suggests a holiday, and while the Doctor isn't enthused with the idea, remembering the chaos that ensued after a trip to Brighton, Turlough recalls a holiday with his school chum Ibbotson and his family to Weston-super-Mare – and so is determined that they should find a 'paradise island' instead. Kamelion's screams force the Doctor to realise he'd forgotten all about the robot shapeshifter and notes that he had 'none of the cheerful loyalty of K9'. His voice is like a speak-your-weight machine. Turlough suspects Kamelion of working with the Custodians on Trion and when the robot advises him to take care under the hot sun ('with your fair skin you will easily burn') it sounds to Turlough more like a threat than advice.
Howard Foster speculates that the mysterious metal object might be debris from a Russian satellite. His assistant is Karl, not Curt. Peri mentions a 'Doc Corfield' and notes that she would 'never trust a man with a toupee!!' Howard is 41 next birthday. He says that Peri has travelled all her life but Peri moans that it's mainly been a succession of Hilton hotels. She has a trust fund, left to her by her (presumably deceased) father, which will be released to her when she turns 21. The English guys she hopes to go travelling with are called 'Trevor' and 'Kevin'. Peri acknowledges that she's not a strong swimmer but it's leg cramp that causes her to come into difficulty as she heads to the shore. Incidentally, Lanzarote is not mentioned at any point in the story; the story begins with the shipwreck off the coast of North Africa ('the headland') so Howard's archeological excavation might take place in Gibraltar, which has easier access to Athens. But it's probably still Lanzarote in anything but name.
Turlough has a more physical altercation with Kamelion before disabling the robot with a bombardment of waves and dumping him in a spare room. Sarn is a city, not the name of the planet, believed to be the last surviving community after the last earthquakes and firestorms a generation ago. Turlough appears to tell the Doctor the name of his home planet, Trion, for the first time, despite having asked to go there in previous stories. The Doctor quotes Paradise Lost and admonishes Turlough for not studying Milton at school. Misunderstanding Turlough's intentions, the Doctor calls him a 'little racialist': 'As Tegan had never been slow to point out, Turlough could be a rather nasty piece of work.' There's a summary of the Master's exploits that led to his predicament, during which it's confirmed that this is his fourteenth incarnation. Turlough and Malkon find a poorly tended grave near the wreck of the Trion ship, which confirms Turlough's suspicions that Malkon is the only survivor of the crash. The Master's final teasing line asking the Doctor to 'show mercy to your own-' is cut, as is the final scene on TV where Peri received her proper invitation to join the Doctor.
Cover: Andrew Skilleter's illustration depicts the Master and Kamelion in waves of blue flame.
Final Analysis: An elegant adaptation here. I particularly like the way Grimwade makes sure we know when we're with the Kamelion version of any character as he undermines the illusion in every line: 'the duplicate professor'; 'the man in the dark suit who everyone believed to be Professor Foster'; 'Kamelion in the guise of the American archaeologist'; 'The robotic Master'. He also has a nice line in similes: The Doctor's device squeaks 'like an old lady who has turned her hearing aid up too high'; the volcano grumbled 'like a sleeping giant with a touch of indigestion'; the Master announces himself to Peri 'as if he were the Tsar of all Abe Russias'; the Doctor's party works its way through the streets of Sarn 'like rodents navigating the secret byways of the skirting board'; the Doctor arrives at the portico 'like a royal bride'; Kamelion glitters 'like a Maltese tinfoil Saint at Festa Time,' and later the robot appears 'blustered like an actor unsure of his lines'. It's so much fun seeing which ridiculous comparison he'll submit next. Though what we're supposed to make of Peri delivering 'a sharp kick at the Master's shins that would have repulsed a Globetrotter', I'm not so sure.
Chapter 91. Doctor Who – Frontios (1984)
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Synopsis: In the far future, the TARDIS suffers a forced landing on the planet Frontios, where the Doctor, Tegan and Turlough find a colony of humans struggling to survive against the elements and the continual bombardments from an unknown aggressor. Then there are the strange unaccountable deaths and the threat of insurrection from citizens tired of rations and restrictions. But Turlough knows the truth. A distant memory from his own people that reveals the attacks are not coming from above, but below.
1. Refugees of Mankind
2. The Unknown Invaders
3. The Deadly Hail
4. The Power of the Hat-Stand
5. Downwardness
6. Beneath the Rocks
7. The Force Takes Hold
8. Eaten by the Earth
9. The Excavating Machine
10. Prisoners of the Gravis
11. The Price of Rescue
12. Greed Sets the Trap
Background: Christopher H. Bidmead adapts his own scripts for a serial broadcast seven months earlier.
Notes: While Tegan tries in vain to read an unhelpful handbook, Turlough expresses his boredom by tying viciously tight knots into one of the Doctor's scarves, which the Doctor later fails to unravel. There's no follow-on from the previous story, so we're just told that the Doctor has become 'mysteriously reclusive' since whatever time and place they last visited. Turlough sees a large portrait on a wall in the medical shelter and Mr Range tells him it's of their recently deceased leader, Captain Revere (information that I'm sure will come in use later!).
When Norna describes the circumstances of the colony ship's crash on Frontios, we're told her grandparents died among many other casualties, but this was many years before she herself was born. Plantagenet is about the same age as Turlough with a 'thin physique' and a 'head of thick, white hair'. There's a useful paragraph that explains the scale of the crashed ship:
The propulsion chamber led them through into Causeway 8 that ran the length of the ship – a half hour's brisk walk in the days Brazen was a boy and the ship was whole. Now most of the structure except the stern end was buckled and filled with silt, and only the part of the ship they walked in now was usable for the business of state and the storage of the precious resource reserves.
The Tractators are 'silver creatures, each larger than a man. Their insect-like bodies were scaled like fish, and from their underbellies a pale luminescence emanated'. They have 'two bulbous eyes on either side of the shrimp-like head' with 'glossy black mouths'. Their leader, the Gravis, rises up on 'innumerable rear legs' and he's said to be larger than the other Tractators. As the creatures notice Norna, she experiences the sensation of them 'threatening to drag her flesh from her bones'. Later, we're told 'her hair stood up on her head in spikes'… well, it was the 80s…
Norna and her father find a plaque, not a map, which tells them that Revere found no valuable minerals as of the year 'Alpha 14404'. Brazen's Deputy is introduced early on, accompanying him as he discovers the blue Police Box in the colony. It's only when Mr Range faces the inquiry that we learn the Deputy is a woman. The Gravis has a translation machine and an excavation machine that utilise human body parts in very grizzly ways; the excavator is also vaguely the same shape as a Tractator. There are two colonists called 'Kernighan' and 'Ritchie', named after Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie, computer scientists who literally wrote the book on the subject of the programming language 'C'.
The Gravis claims that they know of the Doctor 'by reputation' and explicitly states his belief that the Doctor has been sent by the Time Lords of Gallifrey to prevent their plans (and of course, he also knows what a TARDIS is, though not what it looks like). Much more is made of the Doctor's ruse that Tegan is an android and as she recalls how she accidentally stumbled aboard the TARDIS and how she cared for the Doctor after his regeneration, she is outraged and not quite realising what the Doctor is doing until he gives her 'a swift, barely perceptible wink'. He later claims to need his spectacles just to buy him enough time to explain his deception to Tegan. He uses the half-frame spectacles 'when the print was very small, or the book unusually dull', though he tells the Gravis that they have 'poly-directrix lenses with circular polarising filters [to] reduce spectral reflection as much as seventy-five percent, without any perceptible deterioration of resolution', which is 'Gallifreyan technology – like the TARDIS'. Observing the wrecked excavation machine, the Doctor utters 'a Gallifreyan word that is said in these circumstances'.
Cockerill appears to assume the post left vacant by Brazen as Plantagenet's second in command, taking on an official uniform, giving tasks to the survivors and tempting the Retrogrades back into the community. The final scene where the TARDIS is caught in a plot device from the next story is omitted, though it's hinted at by the closing line: 'More serious trouble was on the way for the Doctor, nevertheless. But that was only to be expected.'
Cover: Andrew Skilleter's illustration shows a rather dignified profile of the Gravis, with Frontios in the background during a bombardment.
Final Analysis: I've been gently critical of Christopher Bidmead's arrogance leaking into his previous novels, so it's a relief to see that aspect missing here. Instead, we get a slow-burning horror story that gives Ian Marter a serious challenge with some genuinely unsettling body horror. The Gravis's translation device consists of 'a tall narrow trolley that floated a foot or so above the ground… mounted on it was the head and one arm of a dead Colonist, connected by improvised metalwork to a swinging pendulum'. As it speaks, 'its dead mouth moving to the click of the pendulum'. Then there's 'the machine' – the excavator – which 'needs a captive human mind to drive it' and uses human hands to smooth the walls of their tunnels:
White bones tipped with metal cutters scraped against the rock, while rotting hands polished the surface smooth. Through illuminated windows in the body Tegan glimpsed more mechanically gesticulating human arms and legs in an advanced state of decay. It was a machine built from the dead.
While Marter likes his violence wet and gooey, this is more mechanical, playing on castration anxiety and the 'vagina dentata' folklore as much as Jaws, where the ground devours people and then the Tractators' machines chew them up and reconstitute the parts as required. Just look at Bidmead's description of the Doctor's reaction here:
The Doctor was not very fond of tunnels at the best of times. They were frequently damp, dark, deep and dangerous, and as a method of transport ranked only a little higher than sitting absolutely still under water waiting for the right current. The best place to be in a tunnel was outside, and if you had to be inside, the less inside you were the better.
We don't even need Dr Freud to explain this one, do we boys? No wonder 80s producer John Nathan-Turner kept reassuring his audience of quivering adolescents that there'd be 'no hanky panky aboard the TARDIS'…
Chapter 87. Doctor Who – Warriors of the Deep (1984)
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Synopsis: The Earth was once home to a race of intelligent reptiles who dominated the land and the sea. Having spent millions of years in hibernation, they are now preparing to awake and reclaim their planet. As the personnel of a nearby underwater military base run tests in preparation for a potential war, their paranoia and stress is being exploited from within by agents secretly working for a foreign power. The Doctor has failed to broker peace with the reptiles before, but now the Sea Devils and Silurians are working together to trigger a war that could eradicate humanity entirely.
1. The Intruder
2. The Traitors
3. Hunted
4. The Sea Devils Awake
5. The Attack
6. The Myrka
7. The Breakthrough
8. Sabotage
9. The Hostage
10. Captured
11. Counterattack
Background: Terrance Dicks adapts scripts by Johnny Byrne for the serial broadcast just four months earlier.
Notes: By 2084, Earth is divided into two power blocs, East and West (suggested on screen but not spelled out) and after space stations proved vulnerable to 'spy-satellites and the searing blast of laser beams', many of Earth's defence systems are now housed under the sea. Commander Vorshak has 'the rugged good looks of a recruiting-poster hero, much to his own embarrassment'. The hull of the Silurian vessel has an irregular surface, as if it were 'grown rather than manufactured'. The Silurians are 'immensely tall, robed figures'…:
… brown-skinned with great crested heads and huge bulging eyes. Their slow, almost stately movements, their coldly measured speech-tones gave evidence of their reptilian origin.
Icthar is confirmed as the sole survivor of the 'Silurian Triad' and it's made clear that the Doctor specifically remembers him as one of three Silurians from their origin story [see The Cave Monsters for Okdel, K'to and Morka – thought he could be one of the other bystanders who survives the end of the story only to be entombed]. He led the return to hibernation and awoke over a hundred years later. The Sea Devil warriors are in suspended animation in a chamber in the bowels of the Silurian ship (not in their own base as on TV), which is where Icthar found them, frozen under a polar ice cap (so Sea Devils and Silurians presumably had an alliance at some earlier point, considering the Sea Devils are piloting a craft that the Doctor recognises as specifically Silurian). There's a handy addition to the backstory of the Earth Reptiles, summarising their two previous appearances. Apparently, many of them had developed' almost mystic powers, the Silurian 'third eye' being 'the source of psychic energy that enabled some Silurians to dominate lesser races by sheer mental force'.
Terrance Dicks still considers Tegan to be an 'air-hostess'; she hasn't been one for some time now, after she was sacked, and hadn't actually started work prior to Time Flight, so it might be time to accept that she's ex-flight crew now and let her move on, eh?
Doctor Solow was recruited by Nilson to the cause of the Eastern Bloc. She was 'disappointed in her career, left alone by the death of her husband and her parents' so she fell 'an easy prey to Nilson's arguments'. Icthar found the Myrka along with Sauvix's ship and revived it. The beast is 'like a kind of pocket dinosaur' with a 'hideous dragon-like head' and 'a long tail' that is agile enough to use as a weapon against its attackers.
The Doctor climbs out of his stolen sea base uniform as soon as he's handed the gun over to Vorshak. The charred bulkhead door reminds Turlough of toast, which triggers a memory of 'study teas' at his public school, 'with a terrified fag to make the toast'; for non-English readers, this isn't quite as offensive as it sounds, referring to the public-school practice of forcing the younger boys to work as servants (or fags) for older boys. The fact that he finds himself running towards the sound of battle with a gun in his hand strikes Turlough as odd. Later, he and Preston shoot down two Sea Devils to rescue the Doctor and Tegan; Turlough reminds Preston to 'Aim for the head'. Tegan is surprised by Turlough's change of heart but decides to give him the benefit of the doubt. As the Doctor laments that there 'should have been another way', he also recognises that Bulic won't be the sole survivor and maybe he can lead the others and get the base running again.
Cover: The first release boasts a straightforward portrait of a Sea Devil warrior by Andrew Skilleter. Alister Pearson's 1992 cover is really classy, with the sea base and the Doctor between a Silurian and a Sea Devil. There's also a new brand logo, the colourful target is dropped in favour of a hollow, white line drawing.
Final Analysis: Terrance Dicks has form for improving on the limitations of what could be achieved in a studio: Adapting a story that was famously overlit because of external pressures, he tells us here that the whiteness of the sea base is intentional, a design choice to counter the blackness of the deep sea; while the Silurians walk and speak slowly not because of restrictive costumes but because it's dignified to do so; the heavy bulkhead door lands on Tegan, whose foot is 'only trapped, not mangled'; and the Myrka is a horrific beast with a lithe and deadly tail! In truth, I've always loved this story, so it's gratifying to see Terrance do it justice, even if some of the enhancements are tongue in cheek, it at least allows him to pay tribute to his friend Malcolm Hulke in reminding new readers of the origins of the Sea Devils and Silurians.
We should remember also that this novel, like the story it retells, was released in 1984, the year that Ultravox released Dancing with Tears in My Eyes and Frankie Goes to Hollywood topped the charts with Two Tribes. While the TV episodes and the novel both predate the harrowing drama Threads this was the peak year for anxiety of mutual annihilation from a nuclear attack, the most '1984' story we could have got, short of a celebrity historical where the Doctor meets George Orwell.
Chapter 85. Doctor Who – Enlightenment (1984)
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Synopsis: As the Black Guardian tightens his grasp on the terrified Turlough, the time travellers find themselves taking part in a race across the solar system. The players are a race of Eternals and the prize is 'enlightenment', though nobody seems too sure what that means. As one of the eternals tries to cheat their way to victory, the finish line offers a surprising choice for Turlough.
1. Winner Takes All
2. The Race
3. Here She Blows!
4. Marker Buoy
5. One Down!
6. The Officers
7. Man Overboard!
8. The Buccaneer
9. The Grid Room
10. Spy!
11. Focus Point
12. The Prize
Background: Barbara Clegg adapts her scripts from the 1983 serial. She's the first woman to write for Target's Doctor Who range.
Notes: As on TV, Turlough and Tegan play chess as a foreshadowing of the battle between the Guardians; significantly, on TV, Turlough chooses to play as white, but here he's black. The Black Guardian doesn't appear after the White Guardian at the beginning. The Doctor reviews a newspaper to discern that it's 1901 (the newspaper on TV is from a year later). In her quarters aboard Striker's ship, Tegan is startled to see the dress that Lady Cranleigh gave her among her things [see Black Orchid]. Striker's ship is unnamed (although it's only named on screen on a lifebelt). Turlough's communication crystal for the Black Guardian is, once again, a cube.
Quick trigger warning: Aboard the Buccaneer, Turlough sees 'Persian rugs and a negro statue holding a great candelabra'. Mansell is a much bigger man than on telly:
… his brocaded coat flashed with gold thread, but it appeared to have belonged once to someone else, for it fitted him poorly. His broad shoulders were nearly bursting the seams. He walked with the lithe power of a black athlete…
The Doctor speculates that Eternals don't have a human form, but simulate it based on the minds of their 'ephemeral' crews. Wrack's deadly jewels include crystals and sapphires as well as the ruby gems seen on TV; they're all described as 'capuchon', so they're polished, not cut like more modern gems.When activated by Wrack, the gem in Tegan's tiara turns black and as the Doctor tries to destroy it, they can all hear the voice of the Black Guardian saying 'Focus… focus…' (this happens on TV, but it's not clear if it's diegetic sound or just a theatrical device). As the 'Enlighteners' (the two Guardians) reveal the prize of the race, the Doctor tells Turlough that he wasn't sure who the boy would push overboard on the Buccaneer; Turlough confesses, neither did he.
Cover: That daft cutout of the Doctor is still blocking the logo, but Andrew Skilleter captures that beautiful image of the sailing ships floating through space towards the glowing Enlightenment.
Final Analysis: Again, the original scriptwriter novelises the story and it's a cracker. Barbara Clegg brings a level of nuance that I'm not sure we'd have got with Terrance Dicks. While other writers have highlighted Tegan's brashness, Clegg delves a little deeper: When Marriner corners Tegan and appears 'inexperienced' in his pursuit, Tegan feels she can cope with the situation:
There had been other young men boringly concerned about her in the past. She was on home ground…. She did hate emotional scenes, particularly when she could not return the emotion.
Clegg also chooses to hide the Black Guardian's involvement until very late on, so for any reader who's missed Turlough's previous adventures so far, his involvement with the Doctor's enemy will come as quite a shock.
Chapter 84. Doctor Who – Snakedance (1984)
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Synopsis: The Doctor allows Tegan to choose their next destination to cheer her up after a series of bad dreams. A seemingly random selection takes them to Manussa, which was once home to a great empire. Little of it survives, except in ritual, the true meaning of which has long been forgotten. As the Doctor and his friends explore, a realisation dawns on them. Their arrival at this time and place is no coincidence. Manussa was once home to the Mara – and through Tegan it will return.
2. Cave of the Snake
3. Voice of the Mara
4. Hall of Mirrors
5. The Sign of the Mara
6. Dinner with Ambril
7. Dojjen's Journal
8. The Origin of Evil
9. Death Sentence
10. The Escape
11. Dojjen
12. The Becoming of the Mara
Background: Terrance Dicks adapts scripts from 1983 by Christopher Bailey.
Notes: Nyssa claims she can't remember who read out the coordinates to the Doctor, but she actually remembers very clearly that it was Tegan and doesn't want to get her into trouble. The Fortune Teller is named 'Zara'. On counting the Faces of Delusion, Chela realises the Doctor's point before it's spelled out to Ambril. Finding herself alone with Chela in Ambril's study, Lady Tanha feels his presence is 'very soothing' and soon begins to confide in him in a way that is politically indiscrete and which makes Chela 'petrified with fear and embarrassment'. She later chats with Ambril and learns that the scholar has no family of his own; 'Children can be very disappointing,' she confesses. Wanting to avoid explanations, the Doctor guides his friends back to the TARDIS and departs, while in his mind's eye, he sees Dojjen waving goodbye to him.
Cover: A pearl-like planet hovers between the jaws of a snake, its tail tightly coiled. An eerie concept from Andrew Skilleter somewhat spoiled by the photo of a smiling Peter Davison that's been shoved into the logo at the top of the frame, making it read 'Do-or Who'. Hmm…
Final Analysis: Just a reminder that my mission here is to review the books, not the stories, and this is another difficult Terrance Dicks adaptation that leaves us with very little to examine that isn't on TV. Again, I can't help but wish that Christopher Bailey had written this one, just to give us more than the enticing myths and half-truths we learn about the old Manussan empire. Still, Terrance Dicks gives us the solid, steady approach and I know this is one of the stories he didn't feel he wanted to embellish because it's so very good. It's the sign of a good yarn if we're left wanting more.
Chapter 83. Doctor Who – Kinda (1984)
Synopsis: A small survey team has set up a base on a jungle planet to review it for possible colonisation. But when the Doctor and Adric are brought to the survey dome, they can already sense a tension in the air. Some of the survey team's number have disappeared and another is clearly on the brink of a breakdown. Left alone in the jungle, Tegan falls into a deep sleep and finds herself trapped in a nightmare with a terrifying evil force. Her only chance of freedom will also release the Mara!
1. Dangerous Paradise
2. The Kinda
3. Ghosts
4. The Box of Jhana
5. The Mara
6. The Change
7. The Vision
8. The Dream Cave
9. The Wheel Turns
10. The Path of the Mara
11. The Attack
12. The Face of the Mara
Background: Terrance Dicks adapts scripts from 1983 by Christopher Bailey. Publication for this was delayed to give Dicks time to finish The Five Doctors.
Notes: Deva Loka is a planet of 'rich sub-tropical jungles, and warm blue seas'. Tegan has close cropped hair and her stewardess uniform, so a combination of her looks from Seasons 19 and 20. Sanders notes that falling asleep on duty usually carries a death sentence but as Hindle's overnight watch is voluntary, he can't be punished. The TSS machine looks like 'a kind of squared-off parody of the human form'. Todd is referred to as 'Doctor Todd' throughout. Hearing the names of the inhabitants of the dome, the Doctor identifies the expedition as being of Earth origin (as in many novels set during Earth's expansion across the universe, the homeworld is said to be overcrowded). Only one of the missing survey team – Roberts – is named on screen, but here we learn that the other two were Stone and Carter. The three people in Tegan's dream are not named. Doctor Todd identifies the Kinda jester as 'Trickster', a 'symbolic figure from Kinda ritual'.
Cover: A slight step up in the photographic covers as there are two elements from the story that aren't the most boring they could possibly be (the Doctor and a TSS Machine) – they finally learn how to do a decent montage just as the photographic covers are dropped for good [but see Time and the Rani]. We'll have to wait until the 1991 reprint for Alister Pearson's composition showing the bleached-out features of Dukkha, the Doctor, the Mara wrapped around a Kinda necklace and a sinister leering Tegan.
Final Analysis: I love Terrance Dicks – really I do – but this is a story that really needed to have been novelised by the original author. I'd have adored that extra insight into Christopher Bailey's vision because, like many fans, I didn't appreciate just how majestic this story was on first viewing (incredibly, it came bottom of the Doctor Who Magazine season poll, in a season that contains Four to Doomsday and Time Flight!). As ever, Dicks kindly improves on elements that didn't quite work on TV: As the Mara detaches itself from Aris he 'seize[s] it in a passion of hatred, as if determined to throttle it with his bare hands' (as opposed to wiggling a rubber snake to make it look animated); while the Mara itself is larger than 'any natural animal, it lashed about the clearing in a furious writhing coil. Its markings were red and black and white, and the fierce yellow eyes glowed with hatred'.


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River Brent - West Hendon
River Brent
The Brent flows south and west and enters the Brent Reservoir/Welsh Harp.
Post to the east Brent Cross
Post to the west Welsh Harp
Post to the north Hendon Station
Post to the south Dollis Hill
Brent View Road
Built by Mr. Bishop in 1881
Hendon Islamic Centre. This was the Alexandra Works, used as a warehouse until 1995 and previously electrical engineers. It had previously been Hendon Alexandra Working Mens Club. It has also been said that it was King's Hall, which became the Bioscope Cinema.
Cool Oak Lane
8 Normal Propeller Co. 1930s
Coles Green Road
Trading units
Staples Corner Business Park
Watling Street. This is the Roman Road to St. Albans and the north, but 'Watling' is a Saxon word. From 1711 it was part of the Edgware-Kilburn Turnpike Trust, who improved it.
Brent Bridge. Called The Harp Bridge in the early 19th because of its nearness to the pub. It was rebuilt when the reservoir was built but the river is now culverted under the road. The reservoir was once considerably wider under the road and the bridge rebuilding would have been to cover this.
Welsh Harp Pub. It is said that it was used by drovers bringing animals from Wales. It was known as the Old Welsh Harp after the Upper Welsh Harp was built further north. A music hall song praised its attractions as a leisure venue after the reservoir was built and the landlord owned the fishing rights. He also ran a race track until stopped by Parliament and the first cycle race was held here in 1868. It is said the first greyhound racing using mechanical hares was put on here inn 1876. There were said to be 'nasty incidents' among visitors to events and crime and violence were not uncommon. In another incident a bear escaped from a menagerie. The pub was rebuilt in 1937 'on up to date lines' and was an Ind Coope house, but it was demolished for the Staples Corner flyover.
Welsh Harp Station. Opened in 1870 by the Midland Railway and constructed by J.E. Hall. It was only 600 yards south of Hendon Station and was built for leisure traffic going to the reservoir. It was on the north side of the road on a small slip road – it is said some cobbles on this old entrance road remain. The line was widened in 1890 and the station was rebuilt. It closed as trade declined in 1903. The station building remained there until the 1970s.
Geron Place
Big shed shops and trading units
Cineworld Cinema. This was planned by Cineplex-Odeon and opened as the Cannon Staples Corner in 1991. It was taken over by Virgin Cinemas in 1995, and later by Union General Cinematographique.
There were plans since the 1920s for a motorway network but enabling legislation was not in place until 1949. The M1 was Britain's first full-length motorway and opened in 1959 with the section between Luton and Rugby. The final section was opened in 1977 to Staples Corner which was called Junction 1 It meets the North Circular at a junction where roads exist at different heights with a roundabout. It had been planned for it continue to Hampstead to meet the proposed London Motorway Box and the layout of the Staples Corner junction was built to allow for this, but the plan was cancelled in the early 1970s.
North Circular Road
This section of the North Circular appears to cover an area which was once an extension of the Brent Reservoir – essentially a widening of the River Brent.
Staples Corner. The interchange has two linked roundabouts and flyovers, which connect the North Circular with the A5 and the bottom end of the M1. Between the two roundabouts is the Midland Main Railway Line also carrying the Thameslink line. The interchange appears to have been designed to carry the M1 further south – with the stub now used to carry traffic from the North Circular.
Staples Corner Flyover. This was built in 1976, and runs for half-mile-long as an elevated road of prestressed concrete with transverse beams in the deck.
Staples Mattress. This factory was designed by Ambrose Heal who had acquired the UK patent rights for a system of internally sprung mattresses from a US inventor, called John Atkinson. The factory was eventually taken over by Myers beds and in 1986 moved away. The factory was taken by B&Q and is now a stationery warehouse, also called Staples
1000 Kemp Empress Biscuit Works designed and built by Wallis Gilbert in 1930. George Kemp himself lived at Copped Hall in nearby Totteridge from where he gave money to the Agepomonites. Kemp's had other factories, including at Grimsby and Manchester and had been in partnership with Scribbans, as Scribbans Kemp, since the 1920s and in 1972 became part of United Biscuits. The building was requisitioned in the Second World War and used for engine assembly by De Havilland. In 1966 the building was taken over by National Cash Registers.
Park Road
This was Upper Gutters Hedge Lane leading to Guttersedge Farm– now the site of schools.
Park Road Youth Community Centre
Parkfield Children's Centre
Midland Railway main line. This runs through the area of Brent Sidings parallel to the A5. The line between Brent and Elstree was planned in the early 1860s and contracted to Waring Bros. The work was halted in 1866 following heavy rain and loss of the workforce. The contract was then undertaken by Joseph Firbank and the first goods train ran 1867. This was a through line and not designed for local stops.
Brent Viaduct in nineteen-arches across the Brent at Staples Corner. Built in 1867 to go over an arm of the Brent Reservoir and widened c. 1895. No longer impressive, as the reservoir and its valley has been partly filled in and the whole area altered for the junction of the North Circular Road and the M1. It is 30 feet high and originally carried four rail tracks. Two tracks were added on each side in the early 1890s so there is a different style on each side of the viaduct and features can be seen showing where the extension was built.
Brent sidings – the extensive rail sidings south of what was Brent Bridge were built by the Midland Railway and used largely for coal traffic.
Midland Railway Gas Works. Gas Works built by the Midland Railway in 1876 to supply its local railway stations The G.L. & C. Co. tried to purchase this works in 1877. It had had annual output of 80 million cubic feet of gas. The works had its own sidings from the main line and had two holders on the west side of the works. It was closed down in 1928
St David's Place
School is the site of Brent Hill Farm. Previously Gutters Hedge Farm home of Pettit Smith, inventor of the screw propeller. Also at the farm was the Normal Gunpowder Co. making shot gun cartridges 1898-1940
Parkfield Primary School. This was the site of St David's County Secondary School for Boys which became part of Hendon School and moved from here in 1978. The school had been built here in 1964 and was itself the merger of other secondary schools one of which was Brent Secondary Modern School in Sturgess Avenue. The new school was to be called the Grahame-White School but White's family did not give permission for this and instead it was called St.David's. The Brent School building was subsequently demolished, but the St David's school buildings became Parkfield Primary and Nursery School and new buildings have now been added, and older ones replaced.
Philex House, art deco building
Raw Spice. Asian restaurant which was previously the Upper Welsh Harp pub. This was built in 1865 at the junction of Cool Oak Lane and Edgware Road. It was a Beskins of Watford house
Clunn, The face of London,
Connor. Forgotten Stations
Field. London place names
Form and Fancy. Web site.
GLIAS Newsletter
HADAS. Web site
Hendon Mosque. Web site
Grace's Guide. Web site.
M1.Wikipedia Web site.
Parkfield Primary School. Web site.
Petrie. Hendon and Golders Green Past
Pevsner and Cherry. London North
Smiths industries
Staples. Web site
Stewart. Gas works in the North Thames Region
Walford. Village London
Steve Bird said…
In the 1970s-80s, Philex House was the headquarters of the East German Trade Delegation, believed to be a front for an espionage operation.
M said…
Steve - thank you very much, that is really interesting. Do you know who built it and what it was originally. It looks a really interesting building but I could find nothing out about it - on some later maps there are two little things at the back of it. What are they??
Are you the Labour Historian??
I was looking for 2 West View on a map but it doesn't seem to exist anymore - do you know what the building is now? (My Grandmother was in service there).
Was looking for maps of lower fosters council estate as I resided there during the 1960s
Edgware Brook Little Stanmore
Edgware Brook Canons
Edgeware Brook - Stanmore Marsh
Edgware Brook - Stanmore Park
Edgware Brook Great Stanmore
Edgware Brook Bentley Priory
Edgwarebury Brook - Edgwarebury
Dean's Brook - Edgware
Dean's Brook. Upper Hale
Dean's Brook Stoney Wood
Deans Brook - Scratchwood
River Brent - Brent Cross
River Brent - Brent Street


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I am a grown women who is seeking out her potential. Can you relate?
Top of my high school class, college graduate, wife and mother but still, sometimes I don't see the purpose in all the heartaches, fears, and trials in my life. I wonder when the refining will end and the shiny creation will emerge embracing whatever crazy will that the Lord has ready for me.
I have dragged through the murky waters for years on end hoping that I would achieve that gold star that loved ones wanted for their trophy case. Kicking and fighting, testing and seeking, and I still haven't achieved what I was told to by the pounding voices all around me.
If I haven't made my mark in the world that I have been part of over my days as daughter, student, wife or mother, do I stand to have a glimpse of hope to ever reach that top mark that would set my family name in the lights?
Will I ever get to the point of paying off the debts of money and time spent in arguments over my life goals.
Speaking of those goals, I don't even know where I am in those, other than running a race that only ends when I meet up with those pearly gates. When I think of the prize that my eye is ultimately on, why do I continue to fret over being thought less of because of the path that I am on? I wonder why I let the fiery darts of rejection or being thought less of phase me when I have been called to something more than any degree or career could possibly earn me.
Finding myself thinking through all of this in a blog post pushes me to let go of these potential things and place my mind on the things above. I know it's hard to let go of the expectations that have bit at my heels for forty years. Still seeking to be the Lord's hands and feet, my mission has changed and I am seeing the need to embrace His will over any other thoughts on the matter.
Now it is time to embrace what true potential is. The Lord provides the truth in all things.
Degrees and circles of influence cannot truly get us the ultimate fulfillment that our hearts earn for. We cannot be filled by small talk when we want to soar in an abundant life.
The work, the fulfilling life and the true mission lies in the work set before us by the Lord. He will provide and He will prepare us in all things. I see this and even as I dread facing the giants of supposed failure, I see the truth beating down those things that want to keep me submerged in the muck.
We soar in all things when we keep our eye on the truth and our lives rooted in the Lord.
I find myself wondering if you are a first born. So much of your journey of achievement and desire to arrive resonates with me. The Lord keeps telling me to just show up. Trust Him to do the rest. Blessings and joy to you on this journey!
I am the first born. And I agree with you, show up and God will do the rest. Thank you.
You're writing for God. I think you've achieved your potential, right there, because your words have the kind of warmth that melts ice-bound hearts.
Thank you for your kind and encouraging words, Andrew.


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Some fantastic evangelists as well as promoters have actually seen their ministry as saving individuals from the sinking ship of the world. The watercraft is going down as well as our work is to save as many as we can from going down with it. The world is diing, yet whoever does the will of God follows forever.
The trouble with this image is not specifically just what some doubters think it is.
Some explain that the watercraft is not dropping. The earth is the Lord's. And the heavens are his, too. He will certainly make all things new. So, they state, the concept that Christian ministry is a rescue operation is ill-conceived. Life on the watercraft, and the watercraft itself, are going to be totally reconditioned someday. What has to happen currently is to get to work, as well as make progress on that particular refurbishing.
It's true that the ship of the world will never sink as well as become uninhabitable. Every person on this ship passes away.
Currently, if they have a faith-in-Jesus life vest when they die and overdo, Jesus comes and also picks them up in his eternal-life redemption boat.
If they do not have the faith-in-Jesus life jacket, then they die and sink. The seriousness is not that the watercraft is sinking, however that all the travelers are dying.
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It is additionally true that the Lord Jesus that made the ship, and maintains it afloat will one day board the ship in person as the rightful Captain. When he does, all the nonbelievers and mutineers go crazy.