Monster of Peladon

"Doctor Who Returns to Peladon", "The Return of Doctor Who to Peladon", "Thalira Mocking Bird", "The Coal War"

"The One with the Badger Haircuts" (USA), "Heroic Miners vs the Capitalist Aliens" (Cuba)

Doctor Who returns to the dullest planet he's visited in this life time and has another alleged "adventure"

*** - I think its production code sums up the story pretty well - YYY

"What have the rulers of Peladon ever done for we miners?"

"They gave us central heating in the mines"

"Apart from central heating, what have they ever given us?"

"Air conditioning for the summer months"

"Apart from central heating and air conditioning..."

"Kinky leather uniforms"

"Apart from central heating, air conditioning and kinky leather uniforms..."

"I still can't believe it. You see, they were the most alive pants I ever owned"

A thinly veiled attack on the BBC electricians strike, this story was not a victim of any industrial action, unfortunately.

Nina Thomas achieved greater success when she changed her name to Sarah Greene and married millionaire dullard Mike “Mike Smith” Smith.

Peladon got its name from the spine of an encyclopaedia – Pel to Don. It wasn’t a very popular encyclopaedia as the entries weren’t in any kind of order.

This story will be released on DVD in a special “Kinky Rubber Outfits” boxed set along with Keys of Marinus and The War Games.

With its bland sets, dull people and infant school political machinations, Peladon was a natural choice for a sequel.

The Knebworth Trumpet called Monster of Peladon “As gripping as an ex-wife and twice as exciting.” The Gloucester Globe on the other hand said it was “morally repugnant and existentially twisted beyond all imagination.”

...is that there is nothing "only" about being a girl, a miner or a dick in a curtain

Si Hunt

"Some years ago I acquired a mixed batch of VHS video cassette tapes from a source I have in the "entertainment" distribution trade. I didn't have any say in the cassettes that were sent to me but I was assured none of them would be reissued for at least five years (hence the purchase - one has to supplement ones meagre private income somehow). I was aghast to discover that I had several copies of Story YYY and that there was one left over once my M shelving unit was full. I had no alternative but to leave it on the floor outside my video vault. There was room on the N shelving unit but putting it there would've been beneath contempt. "Don't leave a container of video tape on the floor of your archive, Dennis Brent" quipped Ian Devine when he noticed it, "That's how things end up on bonfires." We roared with laughter at this convention calibre remark. However, three weeks passed and he said it every single morning and I was becoming a bit cheesed off. Since I had no alternative I decided to take the item to Mr Gibbon's second hand shop and exchange it for money. I wrapped it in brown paper so the proles wouldn't see me selling a "Doctor Who" video and assume I'd fallen on hard times. "What's it about?" asked Mr Gibbon (known as "Spunky" to his friends although I am not one of them). "It is a story set in a medieval society. A young queen presides over a restless world. Some foreign types have arrived with their exotic equipment and the burley natives are keen to give them what's coming to them." He licked his lips. "Any leather?" he asked. "Oh yes - most of the natives wear leather. One of the newcomers wears rubber if that is of any importance" I explained. "Could be, could be" he replied. "Anyway, the natives are getting up to all sorts of tricks when suddenly they are faced with soldiers with weapons more potent than any they have ever seen before. The only solution is for the mighty horny beast that they worship to come along and save them." He let out a soft moan and offered me fifty pounds for my cassette tapes. I took my purse out of my satchel to receive the monies when he asked one final question. "Who's in it?" he groaned. "It stars Jon Pertwee" I answered. "In that case I'll give you two quid" he grumbled. Oh well, it was better than hearing Ian Devine make his richly comic remark for a twenty second time."

"After Many Years Doctor Who is Back..." trumpeted Scorbie's Scowl on the front cover of its August 1995 issue. Opening up the issue reveals the other half of the headline as "...on Peladon in the next BBC Video release". Editor James Brie defended this potentially misleading cover saying "It's a great issue - one lucky reader will win a postcard." Elsewhere, Nigel Clench conducted a brief interview with Nina Thomas for the 2001 issue of No Not The Mind Probe Monthly and managed to cover her career in some depth. "What I most objected to" said Ms Thomas, "was them dying the sides of my hair blonde. I looked like road kill."