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Magic Bullet Productions
Magic Bullet Productions is an independent audio-production company formed in 2000 by Alan Stevens, focusing on ''Doctor Who'' and ''Blake's 7'' spinoff audios. Originally set up to produce the Kaldor City audios, in 2004 they acquired the rights to produce Lawrence Miles' Faction Paradox audio CDs. Magic Bullet Audios *Kaldor City **''Occam's Razor'' (2001) by Alan Stevens and Jim Smith **''Death's Head'' (2002) by Chris Boucher **''Hidden Persuaders'' (2003) by Jim Smith and Fiona Moore **''Taren Capel'' (2003) by Alan Stevens **''Checkmate'' (2003) by Alan Stevens **''The Prisoner'' (2004) by Alan Stevens and Fiona Moore (co-production with MJTV). **''Storm Mine'' (2004) by Daniel O'Mahony Daniel O'Mahony (born 24 July 1973) is a half-British half-Irish author, born in Croydon. He is the oldest of five children, his siblings including Eoin O'Mahony of the band Hamfatter, and Madeleine O'Mahony, who has designed and made hats for Ca ... **''Metafiction'' (2012) by Alan St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Alan Stevens (writer)
Alan Stevens is a British writer and producer who is based in the Southeast of England, where he runs his own audio production company, Magic Bullet Productions. Stevens has produced a number of documentaries, serials and dramas for radio and independent audio release, including the ''Blake's 7''/''Doctor Who'' spinoff series ''Kaldor City'' and the second ''Faction Paradox'' audio series, and has co-written two guidebooks for Telos Publishing, ''Liberation: the Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to Blake's 7'' and ''Fall Out: the Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to The Prisoner'', with Fiona Moore. He writes articles for ''Celestial Toyroom'', the magazine of the Doctor Who Appreciation Society, and has written in the past for ''Doctor Who Magazine'' and '' DWB''. Print material * "Skull Duggery", with Fiona Moore, in forthcoming anthology ''Shelf Life'' * "The Human Factor: Daleks, the Evil Human and Faustian Legend in Doctor Who" ''Time and Relative Dissertations in Space'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doctor Who
''Doctor Who'' is a British science fiction television series broadcast by the BBC since 1963. The series depicts the adventures of a Time Lord called the Doctor, an extraterrestrial being who appears to be human. The Doctor explores the universe in a time-travelling space ship called the TARDIS. The TARDIS exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. With various companions, the Doctor combats foes, works to save civilisations, and helps people in need. Beginning with William Hartnell, thirteen actors have headlined the series as the Doctor; in 2017, Jodie Whittaker became the first woman to officially play the role on television. The transition from one actor to another is written into the plot of the series with the concept of regeneration into a new incarnation, a plot device in which a Time Lord "transforms" into a new body when the current one is too badly harmed to heal normally. Each acto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blake's 7
''Blake's 7'' (sometimes styled ''Blakes7'') is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. Four 13-episode series were broadcast on BBC1 between 1978 and 1981. It was created by Terry Nation, who also wrote the first series, produced by David Maloney (series 1–3) and Vere Lorrimer (series 4), and the script editor throughout its run was Chris Boucher, who wrote nine of its episodes. The main character for the first two series was Roj Blake, played by Gareth Thomas. ''Blake's 7'', which was broadcast in 25 other countries, had a low budget but featured many tropes of space opera, such as spaceships, robots, galactic empires and aliens. Critical responses have been varied; some reviewers praised the programme for its dystopian themes, strong characterisation, ambiguous morality and pessimistic tone, as well as displaying an "enormous sense of fun", but others have criticised its production values, dialogue, and accused it of lacking originality. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaldor City
''Kaldor City'' is a series of audio plays using elements from the British TV series '' Doctor Who'' and ''Blake's 7''. Many of the elements borrowed from these series for use in ''Kaldor City'' were originated by Chris Boucher, who wrote for ''Doctor Who'' and was script editor for all four seasons of ''Blake's 7''. The series, produced by Magic Bullet Productions, was released on CD beginning in 2001. Within the stories, Kaldor City is a major humanoid city of the future "on a corrupt world governed by an all-powerful Company, where the rich scheme in mansions filled with robot slaves, the poor scrabble for survival in the Sewerpits, the Security forces are out of control and terrorism is a daily fact of life". It was first mentioned in the 1977 ''Doctor Who'' serial ''The Robots of Death'' as the home base of a "storm mine" touring the desert searching for and mining precious minerals from within the sands, with the crew working on commission for the Company. Boucher reused Ka ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lawrence Miles
Lawrence Miles (born 15 March 1972 in Middlesex) is a science fiction author known for his work on original ''Doctor Who'' novels (for both the Virgin New Adventures and BBC Books series) and the subsequent spin-off Faction Paradox. He is also co-author (with Tat Wood) of the ''About Time'' series of ''Doctor Who'' critiques. Life and work Miles's first professionally published fiction was a 3-page comic strip, illustrated by Richard Elson and run under the generic title ''Tharg's Time Twisters'' in the weekly science fiction anthology comic ''2000 AD (comics), 2000 AD''. It appeared in issue 722 (March 1991) and to date is Miles's only contribution to ''2000 AD''. Miles's major contribution to the ''Doctor Who'' expanded universe is the "War in Heaven" story arc, arc begun in his novel ''Alien Bodies''. He has also written several novels and short stories outside this arc. After most of the elements contributed by Miles were removed from the BBC novel range in the novel ''T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Faction Paradox
''Faction Paradox'' is a series of novels, audio stories, short story anthologies, and comics set in and around a "War in Heaven", a history-spanning conflict between godlike "Great Houses" and their mysterious enemy. The series is named after a group originally created by author Lawrence Miles for BBC Books' ''Doctor Who'' novels. Overviews Originally a subplot in the Eighth Doctor Adventures, the War involves several characters and concepts evolved from the original ''Doctor Who'' set-up. In several cases, the ''Faction Paradox'' series still features these groups, albeit with names changed for reasons both literary (most of the groups or items mentioned are described from different perspectives) and legal (the Faction and the Enemy are Miles's creations, but other elements are not – thus the Great Houses are the Faction Paradox range's equivalent to ''Doctor Whos Time Lords). Faction Paradox themselves are ''not'' the enemy in this War, and play a neutral part, willing to act ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Boucher (writer)
Christopher Franklin Boucher (15 February 1943 – 11 December 2022) was a British television screenwriter, script editor and novelist. He is known for his frequent contributions to two genres, Science fiction on television, science fiction and crime fiction, and worked on the series ''Doctor Who'', ''Blake's 7'', ''Shoestring (TV series), Shoestring'', ''Bergerac (TV series), Bergerac'', ''The Bill'' and ''Star Cops''. Early life Boucher was born on 15 February 1943 in Maldon, Essex. Prior to becoming a television writer, Boucher worked at Calor Gas as a management trainee and gained a Bachelor of Arts in economics at the University of Essex. Career Boucher began his work in television science fiction for the series ''Doctor Who'', writing the serials ''The Face of Evil'', ''The Robots of Death'' and ''Image of the Fendahl'' (all broadcast in 1977). Prior to his death in 2022, he was the last remaining living ''Doctor Who'' scriptwriter from prior to Doctor Who (season 18), Se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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