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News And Views - With no announcement yet made regarding the show's future, the BBC are standing by their announcement that the series will continue, with independent production now "almost definite". JNT will be leaving the BBC at the end of August. BSB will be relaunching its showing of the series, now planning to broadcast all the complete stories in order, beginning on the weekend of 22nd and 23rd September, with the Galaxy Channel devoted entirely to the programme. New Fiction - A new three part comic strip written by Andrew Cartmel, Fellow Travellers, begins. Reviews - Off The Shelf reviews Mission To Magnus ("a pleasant if none-too-deep tale; a welcome and worthy addition to the Target range."), The Brain of Morbius video ("by no means the best example of a Hinchcliffe/Baker story") and The Five Doctors video ("pretty darn good; a splendid romp"). Notables - The Episode Guide, which began in Issue 138, concludes by examining Season 26. Boxpops - Star Trek : The Next Generation debuts on BBC2 on 26th September 1990. Top of the pop charts in September 1990 were the continuing Bombalurina, The Joker by Steve Miller Band and Show Me Heaven by Maria McKee. Skaro Says - Andrew Curnow remembers enjoying Fellow Travellers, despite finding it to be rather sparse on dialogue. He is amazed at the flattering review of Mission To Magnus though! Tim Hawtin finds this a curious issue, with a cover from Keeper of Traken, but Terror of the Autons being the featured story inside. Sidesk lost track of the first 6 Seasons featured in the Episode Guide, and cut the others from the back of the magazine, although he did keep them. Critique - As Tim mentioned, it is very unusual to have a main cover image that seems to have no connection with the contents at all! The Terror of the Autons Archive benefits from some nice artwork, and from the inside cover comic strip of the Master's first appearance. Fellow Travellers was superb, and I already knew Arthur Ranson's work at the time from 2000AD where he was also highly acclaimed. With more from Gary Downie, including some of his own photos taken from the filming of The Two Doctors, and an interview with JNT as he prepared to leave the BBC, overall this is a good start to the four-weekly era. |
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Basics - Issue 164, 8 September 1990. From this issue, the magazine is
published once every four weeks (the date given here will be the cover
date, not publication date). The front cover photo is of the Fourth Doctor
and Melkur from The Keeper of Traken.