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News And Views - Colin Baker has returned as the Doctor in The Ultimate Adventure, with a planned 8 week run from June 5th. The final story of Season 26 will now be called Survival. Sylvester McCoy has been asked to stay on as the Doctor if the BBC decide to go with a 27th season. The Voyager Graphic Novel from Marvel is now on sale priced £4.95. Kate Orman writes in to defend the plots of the Season 25 stories. Notables - The Season 25 Survey Results are published, with the winners as follows :- Best Story - Remembrance of the Daleks Best Episode - Remembrance of the Daleks 1 Best Actor : Sylvester McCoy Best Supporting Actor : Simon Williams Best Actress : Sophie Aldred Best Supporting Actress : Pamela Salem Best Music : Keff McCulloch Best Director : Andrew Morgan Best Villain : The Chief Clown Best Monster : The Daleks The 25 Years All Time Favourites winners were :- Favourite Doctor - Tom Baker Favourite Companion - Sarah Jane Smith Favourite Producer - John Nathan-Turner Favourite Season - 25 Favourite Villain - The Master Favourite Monster - The Daleks Favourite Novel - Fury From The Deep Favourite Story - The Talons of Weng Chiang In the first of an occasional series, The Newbery Masterpieces showcases rare photos from the private collection of designer Barry Newbery, starting this issue with The Destruction of Time. Reviews - Off The Shelf reviews The Nightmare Fair ("a wonderful novel and one can but despair that it was never made for broadcast." 4/5), Mindwarp ("a wasted opportunity" 1/5) and The Ultimate Evil ("well written; a darned good read" 3/5) Boxpops - Top of the pop charts in July 89 were the continuing Back To Life and You'll Never Stop Me Loving You by Sonia. Critique - The issues which are multiples of 50 tend to be a bit special, and this one is no exception, with the extra pages allowing for a good mixture of features. The cover is a bit uninspired though. Not too much to argue with regarding the poll results, although it's bizarre to see Keff McCulloch as best musician (presumably they just voted for the Dalek story in everything bar the villain), and it is equally amusing to see S25 as the all time greatest season! It's fun to now read the Nostalgia on Tomb, given that most of the comments refer to its missing status. The highlight of the issue though is the new series The Newbery Masterpieces, and some stunning photos from the final episode of Daleks' Masterplan, particularly Sara's ageing and death. Oh, and they didn't get McCoy to stay on for the 27th season after all... |
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The
Basics - Issue 150, July 1989. With a front cover dominated by 150 in
large numbers, this bumper anniversary issue contains 52 pages and costs
£1.60.