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News And Views - An Unearthly Child and The War Games will be released on video in 1990, the latter as a double pack. It is possible that as many as six new titles, including these two, will be released during the year. With an announcement on the future of the show due soon, Gerry Davis and Terry Nation have made a joint bid for production. A letter writer suggests that an entire future issue could be devoted to the TARDIS. New Fiction - In the first of a new two part comic strip, the Seventh Doctor re-encounters the Foreign Hazard Duty in Hunger From The Ends Of Time! Notables - A special edition of Off The Shelf reviews the Target releases of 1989 month by month. The schedule for 1990 is Planet Of Giants (January), The Happiness Patrol (February), The Space Pirates (March), Remembrance of the Daleks (April), The Curse of Fenric (May) and provisionally Mission To Magnus (August), Battlefield (September), Ghost Light (October), Survival (November) and The Pescatons (December). Boxpops - Quantum Leap debuts on BBC2 on 13th February. Top of the pop charts in February 1990 was Nothing Compares 2U by Sinead O'Connor. Skaro Says - Tim Hawtin remembers thinking that the Spitting Image style puppets on the cover were never on Spitting Image, which he used to watch. He finds the comic strip feeble but the back cover excellent, along with the Season 19 Episode Guide. The further adventures in eating out in Matrix Data Bank was quite fun and surreal. Andrew Curnow doesn't remember much about this issue, but does recall watching An Unearthly Child during his lunch break - the now regular video releases coincided with him starting work. Paul Clement doesn't remember this issue either, but he likes the sound of the Off The Shelf review of the year. Critique - Another awful cover to get the new decade underway, though it is marginally better than the previous year's festive one. I was still a student at the dawn of the 90s so I couldn't afford to buy each video on release, but I did start working that summer after graduating, so was able to catch up and keep up! It's nice to see a Jackie Lane interview here, as I'm sure she hasn't been interviewed much at all in the history of the magazine. I liked the new comic strip, with its usual excellent, moody artwork from John Ridgway and the return of the Foreign Hazard Duty. The Off The Shelf review of 1989 is a good round-up, and overall it's an issue that's much, much better than the cover! Oh, and the editorial team must have taken note of that letter about a TARDIS issue, as the writer didn't have too long to wait... |
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Basics - Issue 157, February 1990. The front cover has a photo of the
puppets of the Seventh Doctor and Ace (see issue 144) wondering what the
year will bring, and the back cover pin up is of the Fifth Doctor and the
Master from Time-Flight.