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Relative Dementias
''Relative Dementias'' is a BBC Books original novel written by Mark Michalowski and based on the long-running British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. It features the Seventh Doctor and Ace. Ace's name Ace's full name is given as Dorothy Gale McShane. This resolves a naming anomaly created during sequence of BBC Books' Past Doctor Adventures set after Survival and written by Mike Tucker and Robert Perry. They had used the name 'Dorothy Gale', as the authors were unaware that the name 'McShane' had been used in the New Adventures New Adventures is a British dance-theatre company. Founded by choreographer Matthew Bourne in 2001, the company developed from an earlier company Adventures in Motion Pictures, now dissolved. History Adventures in Motion Pictures (AMP) was es ... novels. Continuity * Dorothy Gale McShane is given as Ace's full name in the Big Finish audio drama The Rapture. {{Seventh Doctor stories, selected=Books 2002 British novels 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Michalowski
Mark Michalowski (born 1963 in Chesterfield) is the editor of ''Shout!'', "Yorkshire's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender paper", as well as being an author best known for his work writing spin-offs based on the BBC Television series ''Doctor Who''. He lives and works in Leeds. Work Michalowski's first published work was a short story in the Big Finish Productions' collection ''Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Dead Men's Diaries'' (Big Finish, September 2000), which was the result of a chance meeting with producer Gary Russell whilst both were visiting BBC Manchester. He continued writing short stories for Big Finish's '' Short Trips'' range, and also for a variety of charity fanzines, before his first novel, '' Relative Dementias'' (BBC Books, 2003) was published as part of the BBC Books Past Doctor Adventures. This was widely well-received, and led to a further novel being published by the BBC, this time an Eighth Doctor Adventure called ''Halflife'' (BBC Books, 2004) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Survival (Doctor Who)
''Survival'' is the final serial of the 26th season of the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'', which was first broadcast in three weekly parts on BBC1 from 22 November to 6 December 1989. It is also the final story of the series' original 26-year run; it did not return regularly until 2005. It marks the final regular television appearances of Sylvester McCoy as the Seventh Doctor and Sophie Aldred as Ace, and is also the final appearance of Anthony Ainley as the Master, the latter appearing alongside McCoy's Doctor for the only time. Journalist Matthew Sweet has described ''Survival'' as "a parable about Thatcherism" that shares multiple characteristics with the later David Tennant era of ''Doctor Who''. The Doctor brings Ace home to Perivale, where her friends have been transported to the planet of the Cheetah People. Plot The Seventh Doctor brings Ace back home to Perivale in west London. Ace becomes worried when most of her old friends seem to have di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Rapture (Doctor Who Audio)
''The Rapture'' is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series '' Doctor Who''. Plot The Seventh Doctor and Ace visit The Rapture nightclub in Ibiza in 1997, where two angels are brainwashing clubgoers, and Ace discovers a secret about her family. Continuity * This story gives Ace's date of birth as 20 August 1970. * Ace's parents are named as Audrey and Harry McShane. * This story introduces Ace's brother, Liam McShane, who is four years her junior. * Following on from tie-in novels, Ace's full name is given as Dorothy Gale McShane (Although, this was never given in the original series). * Ace refers to the events of The Curse of Fenric and Colditz Cast *The Doctor — Sylvester McCoy *Ace — Sophie Aldred *Himself — Tony Blackburn *Liam — David John *Caitriona — Anne Bird *Brian — James Daniel Wilson James Daniel Wilson is an English actor and writer in various media including lip sync translations ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Finish Productions
Big Finish Productions is a British company that produces books and audio plays (released straight to compact disc and for download in MP3 and m4b format) based, primarily, on cult science fiction properties. These include ''Doctor Who'', the characters Judge Dredd and Strontium Dog from '' 2000 AD'', ''Blake's 7'', ''Dark Shadows'', '' Dracula'', ''Terrahawks'', ''Sapphire & Steel'', ''Sherlock Holmes'', '' Stargate'', '' The Avengers'', ''The Prisoner'', ''Timeslip'' and ''Torchwood''. History Founded in 1996, Big Finish in late 1998 began releasing audio plays adapted from the New Adventures, a series of novels from Virgin Books which had originally been licensed ''Doctor Who'' stories, but by then had become officially independent from the show and were based around the character of Bernice "Benny" Summerfield. In 1999, Big Finish obtained a non-exclusive licence to produce official ''Doctor Who'' plays, beginning with the multi-Doctor story ''The Sirens of Time''. ''Docto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virgin New Adventures
The ''Virgin New Adventures'' (NA series, or NAs) are a series of novels from Virgin Publishing based on the British science-fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. They continued the story of the Doctor from the point at which the television programme went into hiatus from television in 1989. From 1991 to 1997, all the books except the final one involved the Seventh Doctor, who was portrayed on television by Sylvester McCoy; the final book, ''The Dying Days'', involved the Eighth Doctor, who was portrayed in the 1996 television film by Paul McGann. In further books published between 1997 and 1999, the New Adventures series focused on the character Bernice Summerfield and the Doctor did not appear. Publication history ''Doctor Who'' Virgin had purchased the successful children's imprint Target Books in 1989, with Virgin's new fiction editor Peter Darvill-Evans taking over the range. Target's major output was novelisations of televised ''Doctor Who'' stories, and Darvil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Perry (writer)
Robert Perry (born in South Wales) is a Welsh novelist and television screenwriter. He was script-editor on the BBC Television, BBC soap opera ''EastEnders'', as well as writing for the television series ''Family Affairs'' and ''Is Harry on the Boat?''. He has also worked as a storyliner on ''Emmerdale''. He is also known for a writing partnership with Mike Tucker (special effects artist), Mike Tucker on a variety of Doctor Who spin-offs, spin-offs relating to the television series ''Doctor Who'', specifically for the character of the Seventh Doctor. Prose Writing Perry's first writing work was the short story ''Question Mark Pyjamas'' in the second volume of the Virgin Decalog anthology series: this was the first story that Perry wrote with his long-term writing partner Mike Tucker. This was followed by several stories for the BBC Short Trips anthology, again all co-written with Tucker. In October 1997, the first book in Tucker and Perry's self-styled Season 27 run was publish a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Tucker (special Effects Artist)
Mike Tucker (born in South Wales) is a Welsh special effects expert who worked for many years at the BBC Television Visual Effects Department, and now works as an Effects Supervisor for his own company, The Model Unit. He is also the author of a variety of spin-offs relating to the television series '' Doctor Who'' and novelisations based on episodes of the television series '' Merlin''. He sometimes co-writes with Robert Perry. Effects work Tucker's early work for the BBC was as a holiday relief assistant on the 1982 history series ''Timewatch''. Following this, he became a full-time member of the BBC Visual Effects Department working on practical effects and models for a range of BBC programmes including ''Casualty'', ''Top of the Pops'', '' EastEnders'', ''The Singing Detective'', ''Proust'' and ''Tomorrow's World'' among many others. He was one of the principal effects crew for '' Red Dwarf'' series 1 - 7 and worked as an effects assistant on the final four series of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Science Fiction On Television
Science fiction first appeared in television programming in the late 1930s, during what is called the Golden Age of Science Fiction. Special effects and other production techniques allow creators to present a living visual image of an imaginary world not limited by the constraints of reality. Story creation and scientific accuracy Science fiction tries to blend fiction and reality seamlessly so that the viewer can be immersed in the imaginative world. This includes characters, settings, and tools. Viewers often critique the scientific plausibility and accuracy of technology and technological concepts. In the 2020 series ''Away (TV series), Away'' a notable plot point in the eight episode, ''Vital Signs'' has astronauts listen intently for a sound boom picked up by a real-life Mars rover called InSight. Similarity, in 2022 scientists used InSight to listen for the landing of a real spacecraft. Visual production process and methods The need to portray imaginary settings or char ... [...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] |
Drift (Doctor Who)
''Drift'' is a BBC Books original novel written by Simon A. Forward and based on the long-running British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''. It features the Fourth Doctor and Leela. Synopsis It is winter in New Hampshire New Hampshire is a U.S. state, state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. It is bordered by Massachusetts to the south, Vermont to the west, Maine and the Gulf of Maine to the east, and the Canadian province of Quebec t .... The US military is pursuing a survivalist while battling a series of unnatural sexual pleasures. They are also holding a snow-blowing threat that could threaten the entire world if it is not stopped. External links * ReviewsThe Whoniverse's review on ''Drift'' 2002 British novels 2002 science fiction novels Past Doctor Adventures Fourth Doctor novels Novels by Simon A. Forward Novels set in New Hampshire {{DoctorWho-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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