Doctor Who Literature Jason Miller

Welcome to the final week of our four-episode William Hartnell mini-season. The Romans is released in paperback in September 1987 and is the fourth straight Doctor Who novelization to come out of the First Doctor era.

Here on Doctor Who Literature, Jason Davis is back for the week to talk us through The Romans in both its print and TV incarnation. We also discuss lots of classic film and TV contents, and the particular perils of being an American Doctor Who working retail in the late 1990s.

Follow the Jason Davis by signing up for his irregularly offered newsletter at HumanityIsMyBusiness.com. Buy his book, Writing the X-Files, there or at Amazon, or books he edited from their respective authors: Stuntlady by Sandra Gimpel and Pleasure Thresholds by Patricia Tallman.

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Doctor Who – The Romans" features cover art by Tony Masero.

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Denise Sutton rejoins Doctor Who Literature during Week 3 of a 4-week stretch of four consecutive William Hartnell novelizations.

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"Doctor Who – The Reign of Terror" features cover art by Tony Masero.

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Much has been said about the 1964 Doctor Who serial The Sensorites. Not all of it positive. We at Doctor Who Literature are here to reverse that trend. The Sensorites is awesome. Except when it isn't, but when it lands, it really lands.

This week's guest is Black Archives writer Jon Arnold.

Here is one of Jon's many recent appearances on Strangers in Space.

Cover artist of The Sensorites novelization, Nick Spender, passed away recently.

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"Doctor Who – The Sensorites" features cover art by Nick
Spender.

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We open at the BFI in London where Conrad Westmaas from Big Finish appears live on the show to interview Jason!

David Barsky then joins Jason by Skype from Los Angeles to rap about The Space Museum, and to vigorously debate the most recent Disney+-streamed season of Doctor Who.

In the audio essay, Jason compares all four extant versions of Space Museum: TV, novelization, and both surviving scripts. With comparisons to the music of Elvis Costello.

Audio heard in this episode sourced from YouTube:

--Elvis Costello and Paul McCartney studio version of Veronica.

--Elvis Costello's studio version of My Brave Face.

--Elvis Costello's infamous 1977 appearance on Saturday Night Live.

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"Doctor Who – The Space Museum" features cover art by David McAllister.

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It's our second straight Patrick Troughton novelization on Doctor Who Literature -- before we jump into four straight William Hartnell books -- and this week it is time for The Faceless Ones.

Joining Jason this week is Shannon Sullivan of A Brief History of Time (Travel), the indispensable online resource for the production history of Doctor Who. Jason and Shannon have known each other for 30 years but haven't spoken in person since The Wilderness Years. They have a rousing conversation on Doctor Who, game shows, the 1993 baseball World Series, and so much more besides.

Links for this week:

The Faceless Ones page at Brief History of Time (Travel).

Shannon's 2000 appearance on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? (and he has not aged a day, trust me).

Toby Hadoke's Who podcasts, where you can find links to Too Much Information.

The last pitch of the 1993 World Series via Major League Baseball's YouTube channel.

The Mind Robber is one of Jason's Top 60 Doctor Who episodes, and the 1987 novelization by Peter Ling more than does it justice. This week Jason is joined on Doctor Who Literature by Adam Clegg from The Real McCoy podcast to discuss the TV story, the novelization, the two New Adventures sequel novels involving the Land of Fiction... and brief discussions of the new Celestial Toymaker animation, and (as of this release date), Doctor Who's most recent TV broadcast, The Legend of Ruby Sunday.

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"Doctor Who – The Mind Robber" features cover art by David McAllister.

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Please e-mail the pod at DrWhoLiterature@gmail.com.

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