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News And Views - Season 25 began on 5th October, with no plans to interrupt its 14 week run over the Christmas and New Year period. Remembrance of the Daleks will now be followed by The Happiness Patrol, meaning that the first episode of Silver Nemesis will still be transmitted on November 23rd. The Greatest Show In The Galaxy now becomes the final story of the season. The entire season will be broadcast in stereo sound. Terror of the Zygons and The Talons of Weng Chiang will be released by BBC Video in late November, both with a PG rating. The series goes off-air on Super Channel in October, but will probably return in November. The Target release schedule for the first half of 1989 is Delta and the Bannermen (January), The War Machines (February), Dragonfire (March), Attack of the Cybermen (April), The Nightmare Fair (May) and The Chase (June). Preview - The Happiness Patrol is previewed - "This is the sort of story that readers will either love or loathe; highly innovative, highly imaginative, but also highly whimsical." Boxpops - First Born debuts on BBC1 on 30th October. The evening line up on BBC1 on Wednesday 23rd November was Wogan at 7pm, followed by Doctor Who (new story), Rockliffe's Folly, Points of View, Nine O'Clock News, The Visit and Sportsnight. On BBC2, DEF II from 6pm featured Mission Impossible and Reportage, followed by Rally Report, Under Sail, Antenna, MASH, Christabel, Building Sights and Newsnight. Top of the pop charts in November 88 were the continuing Enya and First Time by Robin Beck. Critique - I liked the cover, though it's very amusing with hindsight that they were so confident there'd be a movie Doctor (though arguably the next incarnation was sort of a movie Doctor!). Gallifrey Guardian has a small news report and photo of the South Essex Local Group - at this time, I had just moved to South Essex and soon contacted and joined them. The rearrangement of the season running order meant that the DWM preview for Greatest Show In The Galaxy the previous issue was printed some 3 months before it actually aired! As for the preview of The Happiness Patrol, I was one of those that loathed it... |
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Sylvester McCoy looks grumpy at the start of 1989. Imagine how he looked by the end. |
The
Basics - Issue 142, November 1988. Celebrating 25 Years Of Adventure
and being Back On TV, the front cover has photos of all seven TV Doctors,
Peter Cushing, and a question mark for the yet to be cast Coast To Coast
movie Doctor. There are four bonus pages in colour, though the page count
remains at 36.