v.srt%UCLA-LOCUS@sri-unix.UUCP (11/11/83)
From: Scott Turner <v.srt@UCLA-LOCUS>
For whoever requested information on a Programme Guide for Doctor Who:
The Doctor Who Programme Guide
by Jean-Marc Lofficier
Vol. 1: The Programmes
A Target Book published by the paperback division of
W.H. Allen & Co., Ltd., A Howard & Wyndham Company,
44 Hill Street, London, W1X 8LB
ISBN 0 426 20139 6
There is also a second volume called ``Who's Who'' which is in dictionary
format and covers all important names and plot devices. The Programme book
covers the first show through the show on March 21, 1981 (LOGOPOLIS). The
edition I have was published in 1981, so there may be later editions
available. I got mine from a friend in Dallas-Fort Worth.
Sample summary:
``LOGOPOLIS (4 episodes)
Writer: Christopher H. Bidmead
Director: Peter Grimwade
Regular Cast: see 5T above, and introducing Janet Fielding (Tegan
Jovanka) and Peter Davidson (the Doctor).
Cast: Anthony Ainley (the Master); John Fraser (Monitor); Dolore
Whiteman (Aunt Vanessa); Tom Georgeson (Detective Inspector);
Christopher Hurst (Security Guard).
Story: The Doctor decides to repair the TARDIS's chameleon circuit
and goes to England to find a real police box, thereby falling into
a complex dimensional trap devised by the Master. A young air
hostess, whose aunt is later murdered by the renegade Time Lord,
enters the TARDIS thinking it to be a police box. The Doctor, having
been warned by the mysterious Watcher that an enormous trial lies
ahead, rushes to Logopolis, a city inhabited by pure mathematicians.
There, the Monitor, who is in charge of Logopolis, reveals a copy
of the famous Pharos Computer Project on Earth. The Master, who has
been interfering with the City in his plans to destroy the Doctor,
accidently causes it to stop functioning. The Monitor reveals that
the Universe has passed the point of normal heat death and that its
life has been extended only by his people's calculations. Realising
the consequences of the Master's actions -- the dissolution of the
Universe -- the two Time Lords team up together they go to the
Pharos Project on Earth, to beam the Logopolitan Program into deep
Space. The Master now plans to blackmail the Cosmos into submission,
and the two Time Lords begin a fight which causes the Doctor to
fall to his death. The Master escapes while the Doctor's body
regenerates.''
reprinted here for purposes of review only.