A very special guest joins us this week to discuss Enlightenment... my daughter! She has much to say about Barbara Clegg and how this story is unique in showing the female perspective in Doctor Who's early years.

Jim Sangster (@Monster_Maker) also has a song for us this week. With a YouTube video!

This concludes our run of ten straight Peter Davison books. The Target range's focus is about to shift in a major way. And be sure to join in next week for what may well be our Biggest Episode of All Time.

"Doctor Who – Enlightenment" features cover art by Andrew Skilleter.

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The novelization of Snakedance is published the month after the novelization of Kinda, so it fell to Terrance Dicks to adapt both Doctor Who Mara stories from the small screen to the printed page. Terrance doesn't have all that much to add to Christopher Bailey's complex themes and explorations of the dark sides of human nature... but we have plenty to add to the discussion.

Joining me this week is Jim Sangster (@Monster_Maker). Jim also contributed our show logo, and this week's celebrity voice impression sketch. Along the way, we'll talk about the great Hollywood movies, EuroVision and Top of the Pops, Nellie Bly, and... well, many other topics.

Superman: The Movie can be purchased or streamed on Amazon, while My Dinner With Andre can be watched free on YouTube.

You can hear the voices of H.G. Wells and Walt Whitman on YouTube, and also watch the entirety of the January 1973 Foreman v. Frazier heavyweight title fight.

Lastly, for more on Nellie Bly, check out the Bowery Boys Podcast, as I always do for all things NYC.

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Delighted to welcome to the show this week Ian Potter, who's done remarkably good work with Big Finish, Black Archives volumes on The Myth Makers and Carnival of Monsters, and with RIffTrax Presents. A great conversation, do not miss!

And Jim Sangster (@Monster_Maker) has a correspondent's piece for us about the recent Target Books Day in London. Thanks, Jim!

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Rejoining me this week is Dale Smith, author of several Doctor Who novels and Black Archives books, including a forthcoming (August 2023) look at The Greatest Show in the Galaxy. The book this week is 1982's Kinda, novelized in 1984.

Jason has several other podcast episodes out on other shows, including A Kettle and Some String, and new Trap One episodes repackaging my interviews with Philip Hinchcliffe and Elizabeth Morton. Please enjoy (after you've downloaded this episode first).

Friend of the podcast James Cooray Smith also has a terrific Psychic Paper article up about The New Adventures, well worth a read. Jason previously did a documentary about the first four NAs over on Trap One.

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Season 6 of Doctor Who Literature starts a week early as our bonus episode is delayed. We jump into the 1984 books by looking at Mawdryn Undead with the capable help of Steven B. (@steedstylin) from the New To Who podcast (@NewToWhoPodcast). We have a lot to talk about.

Steven's new project is Reimagining Doctor Who, which comes highly recommended.

Many thanks to Jim Sangster (@Monster_Maker) for research assistance and for a dramatic reading from the diaries of Angus Mackay, a member of the Mawdryn Undead guest cast.

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As we continue on with our look at The Five Doctors, Doctor Who's 20th anniversary special, this week we are joined by Elizabeth Morton (@LiverpoolGirl72), author of the new novel The Orphans from Liverpool Lane. We'll discuss Elizabeth's strong Doctor Who family connection, and, of course, with two Doctors in her household already, who's her favorite? The answer may surprise you.

A panel of three great friends of the podcast then join Jason to discuss Five Doctors -- is it the greatest episode of all time? Again, the answer may surprise you. Welcome back to Graeme Burk (@GraemeBurk), Professor Stacey Smith?, and David Barsky.

Jason then examines the back half of the Terrance Dicks' Five Doctors novelization.

Next week we'll finish up our look at The Five Doctors and will have another bestselling author for you to join the conversation.

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This week, it's The Five Doctors, the 20th anniversary special for Doctor Who, aired (at least in the States) exactly on the 20th anniversary, and the novelization, by episode writer Terrance Dicks, came out the same week. We're now at three times the 20th anniversary, but this story still has a powerful hold.

We'll be bringing you three straight episodes exploring Five Doctors - in every dimension, in every detail - and this week my guest is James Cooray Smith, author of many Black Archives titles such as The Massacre, and keeper of the great Psychic Paper Substack. James and I have much to discuss; there's probably enough material in here to cover seven episodes, let alone one, as we discuss Five Doctors and beyond -- way beyond.

Music heard this week includes a 1980s US cartoon TV theme (sung by John Sebastian!), the theme to the PBS staple This Old House (via Fats Waller), some old school late '80s hip-hop, and a Jim Sangster (@Monster_Maker) homage to Tulips from Amsterdam.

Shout-out to the Metebelis 2 Podcast.

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Joining me this week is Bill Evenson (@BillEvenson) of the Frankenstein Minute Podcast (@FrankenMinute). This was Jason's first Doctor Who cliffhanger; Bill came to the story later, but we're both fond of it, even against conventional wisdom.

Naturally the conversation takes several twists and turns. No conversation with Bill fails to reference the 1987 World Champion Minnesota Twins.

This episode also features a musical composition by Jim Sangster (@Monster_Maker), and includes a few feature, #DoctorWhoOnPluto

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Thank you for downloading this episode of the Doctor Who Literature podcast. We know you have a choice... and we know that not many Who fans are gonna wanna sit through a 105-minute discussion on Terminus -- but this is a strong episode. Promise!!

Steven Alexander (@stealexanderuk) from the Robots in Your Eyes podcast (@RobotsInEyes) is my return guest this week. He has a LOT to say about "Terminus", both TV serial and book. We'll discuss religion, disease, Norse mythology, the movie Alien, and epic 1920s Hollywood silent-film-blockbusters... and "Terminus".

The 1923 Cecil B. DeMille production of The Ten Commandments can be watched on YouTube.

The 1993 HBO original movie And The Band Played On can be watched on Max.

Paul Scoones' excellent article on the Doctor Who DVD information text commentary tracks can be found here.

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Earthshock was a signal moment in the journey of many Doctor Who fans when it aired in March 1982, from the surprise reveal of a returning monster, to the unexpected departure of a regular cast member. Ian Marter's August 1983 novelization of the story is a bit different from what we saw on television, but is no less impactful.

We're very happy to have with us this week Jon Arnold (@The_Arn) as a first-time Doctor Who Literature guest. Jon can be heard on two other excellent podcasts, the Doctor Who-inspired Strangers in Space (@strangerscast), as well as the football (soccer)-themed @BustingBallsPod. Jon has also written several terrific volumes in Jason's favorite Who non-fiction range, The Black Archives from Observe Books, including a look at a TV story previously examined on this very show, Invasion of the Dinosaurs. And don't forget Jon's contributions to the Silver Archive range; Jon and Jason also discuss TV's "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" this week.

Also mentioned this week is Jim Sangster (@monster_maker)'s newest DWLit-themed T-shirt.

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