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Sunday, 12 July 2020

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Friday, 8 June 2018

Carruthers Ten Years On: June 2008

So, it's ten years ago today that Mr Carruthers Presents... presented for the first time and as such I used the blog that month to promote the flip out of it.

Many of the references have dated (do people still remember T4?) and reading them back again I don't remember writing any of it. I feel I can enjoy them as if it was someone else entirely. Who was he?

I was really trying with the search for Carruthers posts at this point. It remains to be seen I doubt later posts would contain as many ideas as these three, and then I put him into a Where's Wally? (with apologies to Martin Handford).

I learned how to post an animated gif for this one, which is something I would struggle to now and I'm still pleased with the gag. Then I learned how to embed videos here, here and here, and reminds me we made the videos to promote the live show, but for obvious reasons they became much more of a lasting legacy.

This one made me laugh and I was clearly enjoying the asterisks.

I think I made this to accompany one of Gi's scripts and again I'm genuinely impressed by the effort that I put into what was essentially a riff on a sketch that maybe sixty people saw once.

Coming up with sitcom porn names was some of the most fun we ever had.

The reviews were entirely genuine, although I can't remember where I found them.


I was enormously proud of the show and so disappointed that we never quite managed to get the act back together. There were a myriad of reasons and it's not worth raking them up again now.
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Tuesday, 29 January 2013

"The Past Is Another Country. 1987 Is Just The Isle Of Wight"

So says the Ninth Doctor in Doctor Who's Father's Day.

1987 was the year that Klaus Barbie went on trial for war crimes committed during World War II, the first ever Rugby World Cup kicked off, Margaret Thatcher was re-elected as Prime Minister for a third time, the Dusky Seaside Sparrow went extinct and someone briefly hijacks the signal of two American TV stations replaces it with a strange video of a man in a Max Headroom mask.

These are a few of my favourite things from 1987:

Film
Withnail And I
Paul McGann, Richard E. Grant, Richard Griffiths and Ralph Brown are all fantastic in possibly the most quotable film ever made. All of Withnail And I's set pieces are brilliant, the soundtrack is wonderful and "The sky's beginning to bruise, night must fall and we shall be forced to camp" is one of the most beautiful sentences ever spoken aloud.

Empire Of The Sun
Christian Bale is phenomenally good in Steven Spielberg's adaptation of J.G. Ballard's autobiographical novel. His journey from spoiled ex-pat brat to Internment Camp prisoner-of-war wide boy, witnessing the flash from an atomic bomb along the way, is fascinating and beautifully told.


The Living Daylights
Timothy Dalton's first foray as 007 establishes him as the best Bond. Maryam d'Abo, Art Malik, John Rhys Davies and Joe Don Baker are great. Stunning model work, some very impressive stunt work and a great script mark this out as a brilliant Bond movie. Darker than many of its predecessors yet losing none of what makes Bond Bond.

Radio Days
Woody Allen's tribute to the Golden Age of Radio of his youth is a love letter to a bygone era that rises above mere nostalgia to be a fantastic film. Mia Farrow, Julie Kavner, Seth Green, Danny Aiello, Wallace Shawn, Michael Tucker, Dianne Wiest and Woody himself all give wonderful performances. "Who's Pearl Harbor?"

September
Woody Allen's other movie this year is a tense and claustrophobic film that makes no claims on having the gag rate of Radio Days. Mia Farrow, Dianne West and Elaine Stritch are wonderful. September is akin to a very bleak piece of theatre on film.

Predator
The story may be thin and the script isn’t overburdened with great lines, but Predator has something indefinable that raises it above most of the action movie competition. The jungle location, music and sound design are great, Bill Duke gives every line such fantastic conviction and the realisation of the creature is brilliant at every stage. The allegory of a hunter more deadly than man is apt and explored here without comment.

Full Metal Jacket
Matthew Modine, Vincent D'Onofrio and R. Lee Ermey are fantastic in Stanley Kubrick's Vietnam war movie par excellence.









TV
Doctor Who: Paradise Towers; Delta And The Bannermen; Dragonfire
Introducing Sylvester McCoy as the Seventh Doctor, the twenty-fourth season is possibly the most varied. Doctor Who does High Rise as the Doctor and Mel visit Paradise Towers in a story that gives the first real insight into the character of the new Doctor and McCoy is wonderful. Elizabeth Spriggs, Brenda Bruce, Clive Merrison and Judy Cornwall are great, the sets are beautiful and Stephen Wyatt's script features one of the best examples of 'world-building' in SF. "speaking from Wales in England", Delta And The Bannermen is a fun runaround with "space buns and tea", the fifties period setting is really nice, Ken Dodd, Don Henderson, Stubby Kaye, Johnny Dennis, Richard Davies and Hugh Lloyd are great and the question mark umbrella introduced here is a brilliant prop. Season finale, Dragonfire is excellent: the philosophical debates are nice, the pop culture references that take in everything from Alien to The Wizard Of Oz via The Unfolding Text and a lot more besides are great, Stellar’s scenes throughout are lovely, Kane’s death is fantastic and Mel’s farewell scene is wonderful, but this is Ace’s story and Sophie Aldred makes a great debut as the character arrives almost fully formed. McCoy, Edward Peel and Tony Selby are fantastic, while Bonnie Langford gives her best performance. The story is more traditional in tone than the rest of this season and a great sign of things to come…

Star Trek: The Next Generation: Encounter At Farpoint; The Naked Now; Where No One Has Gone Before; Hide And Q; Haven
The pilot episode of the third Star Trek series sees the launch of the USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D and an Encounter At Farpoint, that ably introduces all of the regular characters. Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Gates McFadden, Brent Spiner and Colm Meaney all make great debuts and DeForest Kelley's cameo is lovely, but John de Lancie steals the show out from under everybody as Q. Overlooking the fact that The Naked Now is a near-remake of the original series episode The Naked Time and also that it was a terrible idea for a second episode, but the intoxicated interactions of the crew are a lot of fun. The Enterprise boldly goes Where No One Has Gone Before in the first great episode of TNG with impressive imagery and great performances from Stanley Kamel and Eric Menyuk. De Lancie makes a welcome return and wears as Q turns his attentions to Riker in Hide And Q. A visit to planet Haven and an episode with a slight story, but a wonderful performance from Star Trek's First Lady Majel Barrett as Lwaxana Troi.

The Return Of Sherlock Holmes: The Sign Of Four
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's second Holmes novel is adapted into the first of Granada's feature-length episodes and the results are very good indeed. As usual Jeremy Brett and Edward Hardwicke are excellent, but Gordon Gostelow, Emrys James, John Thaw and Toby the dog all make great additions to the cast.


Blackadder The Third: Dish And Dishonesty; Ink And Incapability; Nob And Nobility; Sense And Senility; Amy And Amiability; Duel And Duality
Another series, another generation, another rung down the political ladder sees Blackadder as servant to the prince regent and possibly at his most conniving. The Dunny-on-the-Wold by-election of Dish And Dishonesty is a great parody of the British electoral declarations and giant turnip growing, Helen Atkinson-Wood, Denis Lill and Geoffrey McGivern are wonderful, while Hugh Laurie is a phenomenal addition to the cast. Blackadder's undermining the vocabulary of Dr. Johnson's dictionary in Ink And Incapability and Robbie Coltrane's portrayal of his pericombobulations is fantastic. Tim McInnery, Nigel Planer and Chris Barrie are brilliant in the Scarlet Pimpernelling, Nob And Nobility. I should hate Sense And Senility, since I'm sure it's responsible for the moment after Macbeth is said when someone always, and I do mean always, feels the need to correct the speaker with the phrase The Scottish Play and a wagging finger, but Laurie's delivery of "unaccustomed as I am to public speaking..." is absolutely hilarious, sadly The Bloody Murder Of The Foul Prince Romero And His Enormously Bosomed Wife is unlikely to see the light of day. Miranda Richardson is as wonderful as ever in Amy And Amiability and Stephen Fry is fantastic as Wellingon in Duel And Duality

Yes, Prime Minister: Man Overboard, Official Secrets, A Diplomatic Incident, A Conflict Of Interest
Paul Eddington, Nigel Hawthorne, Derek Fowlds, John Nettleton, Denis Lill, Christopher Benjamin, Nicholas Courtney, Richard Vernon and Deborah Norton are brilliant in Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn's intricate scripts in the first half of Yes, Prime Minister's second season.

Music
Pulp: Freaks
Described on the cover "Ten stories about power, claustrophobia, suffocation and holding hands", the second album is darker than its immediate predecessor, but it's probably darker than its successors as well. The Freaks of the title aren't celebrated as the 'Mis-Shapes' would be eight years later. The lyrics of the likes of 'I Want You', 'Master Of The Universe' or 'They Suffocate at Night' aren't uplifting, but they are honest, while Russell Senior's vocals on 'Anorexic Beauty' reveal how varied Pulp's sound could be.
Stand-out tracks: 'I Want You', 'Being Followed Home', 'Master Of The Universe', 'Life Must Be So Wonderful', 'Anorexic Beauty', 'Don't You Know', 'They Suffocate at Night'

Books
Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett
Pratchett broadens the scope of his Discworld novels beyond Rincewind with the introduction of Granny Weatherwax and contrasting the female witches being in touch with nature with the male wizards whose magic is somewhere between science and ceremony.

Mort by Terry Pratchett
The fourth Discworld novel was the one that defined the possibilities of the series as it took a minor character from the first three and pushed him into centre stage. The day to day business of the Discworld's anthropomorphic personification of Death is fantastic, but the idea of the titular Mort being hired as his apprentice is genius. It would be easy for a book about Death (and a book about death) to be downbeat, morose or crass, but this is intelligent, witty and has a great depth to it. He likes cats, curries, talking in BLOCK CAPITALS and would call his Binky and over the course of this novel it increasingly feels as though Death is on our side.

Where's Wally by Martin Handford
Can you find our bespectacled and behatted hero as he hides at the beach, ski slopes, camp site, railway station, airport, sports stadium, museum, department store and the fairground in the most down to earth of his hide and seeks. Augmented, but also bizarrely censored in 1997, so there was both more and less to look for.





Comics
Doctor Who: Profits Of Doom!; The Gift; The World Shapers
The Sixth Doctor, Peri and Frobisher defeat a horde of malevolent slugs in the very atmospheric Profits Of Doom! and the slugs work better here than on TV. The trio visit Zazz, planet of jazz, for a party in The Gift and it's nice to se them enjoying themselves, the interlude on the moon and Shug are great. The World Shapers sees the TARDIS return to Marinus in a bonkers, but brilliantly imaginative end to the Sixth Doctors run: John Ridgway's artwork is phenomenal, the deaths are horrific and the continuity is convoluted, but also compelling.

Watchmen: Fearful Symmetry; The Abyss Gazes Also; A Brother To Dragons; Old Ghosts; The Darkness Of Mere Being; Two Riders Were Approaching...; Look On My Works, Ye Mighty...; A Stronger Loving World
The second half of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' masterpiece increasingly plays with structure, from the symmetrical page layouts of Fearful Symmetry to the increasing influence of Tales Of The Black Freighter. Several issues focus on the story of one individual: Rorshach in The Abyss Gazes Also, Night Owl and Silk Spectre in A Brother To Dragons and Doctor Manhattan in The Darkness Of Mere Being and the characterisation is fantastic throughout. The more ensemble pieces Old Ghosts, Two Riders Were Approaching... and Look On My Works, Ye Mighty... keep the storyline going, while A Stronger Loving World is a phenomenal ending to a phenemenal comic which redefined what the medium was capable of.

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Friday, 30 November 2012

"88 Was A Good Vintage"

So says Sam Tyler in Life On Mars whilst bemoaning ending up in 1973.

1988 was the year perestroika began in the USSR, the Singing Revolution began in Estonia, a cyclone in Bangladesh kills thousands and leaves 5 million homeless, the UK government bans broadcast interviews with the IRA and the BBC begins to use actors to voice their words, Ronald Reagan has the new American Embassy in Moscow torn down due to Soviet listening devices.

These are a few of my favourite things from 1988:

Film
Punchline
Sally Field, Tom Hanks, John Goodman and Mark Rydell are great in this comedy about comedians, from the hopelessly unfunny to the downright self-destructive. These stand-ups are a mixed bag, but the funniest scenes are probably in the Krytsick family home and Hank's sarcastic offstage rants and Singin' In The Rain. Here's the trailer.

Short Circuit 2
Johnny 5 returns and finds himself in a city filled with input, but also plenty of crime and people trying to take advantage of him. Michael McKean is great, but of course the robot is the real star. As a child I had no idea that Fisher Stevens had blacked up to play the part of Ben, I can't tell you how disappointed I was when I found out and I'm a little embarrassed to admit that it was a fairly recent discovery on my part. Here's the trailer trailer.

Scrooged
Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without this modern re-telling of A Christmas Carol and the threat of a pair of antlers being stapled to a mouse's head. Bill Murray, Karen Allen, John Glover, David Johansen, Carol Kane and Alfre Woodard are great. Here's the trailer trailer.







TV
Red Dwarf: The End; Future Echoes; Balance Of Power; Waiting For God; Confidence & Paranoia, Me², Kryten; Better Than Life; Thanks For The Memory; Stasis Leak; Queeg; Parallel Universe
The greatest SF comedy series of all time begins at The End as the first episode kills off all but one of the crew. The characters of Rimmer, Lister, Cat, Holly and Hollister arrive practically fully-formed and Chris Barrie, Craig Charles, Danny John-Jules, Norman Lovett and Mac MacDonald are phenomenal. Travelling through light speed subjects the crew to Future Echoes and proves that this show is going to subject the audience to some pretty big ideas and the Cat's broken tooth, Rimmer's retelling of the biggest splits of Lister's life and the "What things?" conversation are fantastic. Examining the relationship between Rimmer and Lister, Balance Of Power veers from petty to bittersweet and back again nicely. Noel Coleman's Cat Priest spends his whole life Waiting For God whilst Rimmer seeks out aliens who can give him a new body in an episode that examines the beliefs of the three main characters, the Cat's indifference, Lister's embarrassment at being worshipped and Rimmer's atheism combined with his abandonment of scientific rigour in his desperate search for aliens he names Quagaars. Lister catches a mutated viruses with give him physical hallucinations and both Craig Ferguson and Lee Cornes are wonderful as his Confidence & Paranoia, darker than it's contemporaries this is another episode with great ideas at its core. Me² introduces a theme that Red Dwarf will return to time and time again as Rimmer is confronted with another version of himself and demands alot of Chris Barrie and he delivers whilst the Norweb federation, ippy dippy and gazpacho soup are all high points.
Series II invigorates the show and sees the crew leaving the ship. They meet Kryten and David Ross is fantastic as the mechanoid in an episode with some magnificent gags. Lister reading Rimmer's bad news is hilarious, the observation dome scenes are touching and the Rimmer's psyche taking its revenge on him in the Total Immersion Video Game Better Than Life. Lister gives Rimmer some of his memories and they have a profound effect on him in Thanks For The Memory, a truly beautiful piece of televison which shows the pathos which the show is able to achieve. The crew travel back to before the accident via a Stasis Leak and it's great to see MacDonald back as Hollister, while the Cat's repeated "What is it?" and the final scene are wonderful. Charles Augins in fantastic as Queeg replaces Holly and the showdown between them and the reveal are great. The boys from the Dwarf travel to a female dominated Parallel Universe and while the end result may not be subtle, but there are some nice gags and Suzanne Bertish, Angela Bruce, Matthew Devitt and Hattie Hayridge all give lovely performances as the parallel crew.

Doctor Who: Remembrance Of The Daleks; The Happiness Patrol; The Greatest Show In The Galaxy 1-3
The twenty-fifth season sees Doctor Who return to its 1963 roots in Remembrance Of The Daleks and injects some welcome mystery into the show. The Doctor as a master manipulator, the Hand of Omega, the Dalek civil war and the Special Weapons Dalek are all brilliant additions to the mythos. Sylvester McCoy, Sophie Aldred, Pamela Salem, Simon Williams, George Sewell, Michael Sheard, John Leeson, and Terry Molloy are fantastic. The cliffhanger at the end of Part One is thrilling, the cameo scenes with Joseph Marcell, William Thomas and Peter Halliday are wonderful, the Doctor's massive deceptions and the bait in his trap are excellent and a real turning point for the series. The commentary on racism, while not subtle, is integral to the plot, perfectly in character for the Daleks and it's great that the story doesn't shy away from more terrestrial examples. The 1963 period detail and references to the first ever episode of Doctor Who make for a far better anniversary story than Silver Nemesis. The Doctor and Ace take on The Happiness Patrol as Doctor Who takes on right wing politics in a brilliant little story that is an incisive parody of Thatcherism. McCoy, Aldred, Sheila Hancock, Harold Innocent, Lesley Dunlop, Rachel Bell and John Normington are wonderful. Helen A is a great representation of Margaret T, the gaudy Film Noir meets shocking pink design of dystopia Terra Alpha while hideously perfect somehow supersedes camp, the pink TARDIS looks great, the music is fantastic and despite his critics the Kandy Man is a terrifying monster, he may be Bertie Bassett on the outside but on the inside he's sadistic to the core. The concept that happiness means nothing without sadness is fascinating and a brilliant subversion of what the Doctor usually fighting for. The first three parts of The Greatest Show In The Galaxy are brilliantly creepy and invites you to share Ace's fear of clowns. McCoy, Aldred, T.P. McKenna, Jessica Martin, Christopher Guard, Gian Sanmarco and Ian Reddington are wonderful, the family audience are very funny and whether it is intentional or not, Whizzkid's dialogue, particularly "Although I never got to see the early days, I know it's not as good as it was, but I'm still terribly interested", is a very accurate depiction of fans and the sooner we admit it, the better we'll all be.

Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Big Goodbye; Datalore; 11001001; Home Soil; Coming Of Age; Heart Of Glory; The Arsenal Of Freedom; Symbiosis; Skin Of Evil; We'll Always Have Paris; Conspiracy; The Neutral Zone; The Child; Elementary, Dear Data
The first season continues with The Big Goodbye, the episode which first defines the holodeck using the brilliant 1940's noir Dixon Hill program and Patrick Stewart, Gates McFadden and Brent Spiner are all on top form. Spiner is fantastic as he pulls double duty as both Data and Lore in Datalore. 11001001 is inventive and bittersweet. The scientific ethics of Home Soil are great, but the episode deserves to be highly thought of, if only for giving world the phrase: "Ugly Bags Of Mostly Water". Both plot strands of Coming Of Age are wonderfully sinister and Wil Wheaton puts in a great performance. Michael Dorn and Vaughn Armstrong are fantastic in Heart Of Glory which brings the Klingons into the 24th century. The adaptive weaponry of The Arsenal Of Freedom is impressive in this darkly comical episode with a nice punchline. Symbiosis concerns an unusually gritty dilemma and a nice dramatic use of the Prime Directive. Skin Of Evil serves as a brave exit and Armus looks great. Romantic and also SF literate, We'll Always Have Paris is an episode that sees the beginnings of a mature TNG and the simplicity of the Manheim effect is very impressive. A tense atmosphere of intrigue permeates Conspiracy and the ending is suitably creepy. The Enterprise visits The Neutral Zone in the season finale as the Romulans re-enter the fold impressively and the culture clash between the Data and the defrostees is interesting.
Marina Sirtis and Wheaton are great in second season opener, The Child and Whoopi Goldberg and Diana Muldaur both make great debuts. Spiner and LeVar Burton play Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson in Elementary, Dear Data with aplomb, Pulaski's provocation is great, Victorian London looks brilliant and Daniel Davis is fantastic as Moriarty.

Star Trek: The Cage
The first pilot for the original series finally saw the light of day this year. The Cage is a piece of science fiction that feels very pure. It is filled with great ideas, looks fantastic and features brilliant performances from Jeffrey Hunter, Susan Oliver, Leonard Nimoy, Majel Barrett, John Hoyt and Meg Wyllie.

The Return Of Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Foot; Silver Blaze; Wisteria Lodge; The Bruce-Partington Plans; The Hound Of The Baskervilles
Jeremy Brett and Edward Hardwicke return as Holmes and Watson in The Devil's Foot which brings them back in style and deals with Holmes' addiction sensitively. The theft of Silver Blaze is a nice change of pace and Peter Barkworth is wonderful. An visit to Wisteria Lodge provides a strange eerie mystery and Freddie Jones is fantastic as the only policeman Holmes respects. Charles Gray, Denis Lill and Geoffrey Bayldon are wonderful in The Bruce-Partington Plans. Ronald Pickup, Fiona Gillies and Bernard Horsfall are fantastic in the beautifully shot feature-length episode of The Hound Of The Baskervilles, Hardwicke and Brett are wonderful as their separation gives Watson a bit more to do and Holmes has a real zeal upon his return.

Blackadder: The Cavalier Years & Blackadder's Christmas Carol
Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Stephen Fry and Warren Clarke are great in Blackadder: The Cavalier Years, a short made for Comic Relief, which shows us a Blackadder from the English Civil War and gives Fry the opportunity to play Charles I as if he were channel the current Prince of Wales.
Blackadder's Christmas Carol concerns Ebeneezer Blackadder, an uncharacteristically nice example of the lineage settling in for a very messy Kweznuz, but who learns the true spirit of Christmas from visions of the exploits of his ancestors and descendents thus teaching him to be as selfish as they were. Revisiting Blackadder II and Blackadder The Third as well as pair of alternative futures. Atkinson, Robinson, Fry, Miriam Margolyes, Jim Broadbent, Pauline Melville, Nicola Bryant, Denis Lill, Robbie Coltrane, Miranda Richardson, Patsy Byrne and Hugh Laurie are all great.

Yes, Prime Minister: Power To The People, The Patron Of The Arts, The National Education Service, A Tangled Web
The political to-ing and fro-ing at Number 10 continues with the second half of series two. Four more wonderful episodes of Jim Hacker's short-lived optimism, Sir Humphrey's obfuscation and Bernard's endearing pedantry. Paul Eddington, Night Humphies, Derek Fowlds, Deborah Norton, John Nettleton, John Bird and Geoffrey Beevers are wonderful. The explorations of them and us thorough illustrations of local government, arts funding, education and media manipulation. Here's a slice of Bernard's dialogue from the last episode that take Donald Rumsfeld's known knowns to its logical conclusion and beyond: "The fact that you needed to know was not known at the time that the now known need to know was known, and therefore those that needed to advise and inform the Home Secretary perhaps felt that the information that he needed as to whether to inform the highest authority of the known information was not yet known, and therefore there was no authority for the authority to be informed because the need to know was not, at that time, known or needed."

Stoppit And Tidyup: Beequiet And Beehave; Eat Your Greens; Comb Your Hair; Wash Your Face; Go And Play; I Said No!; Hurry Up; Calm Down; Don't Do That!; Go To Bed; Sayplease And Saythankyou; Clean Your Teeth; Take Care
Terry Wogan narrates these wonderful, anarchic five minute visits to the land of Do As You're Told. Populated as it is with characters named after and epitomising all those stock phrases parents say to children, despite this there is no moralising. Not Now and the big bad I Said No are scary, but it's the Sit Downs that terrify me.

Books
Sourcery by Terry Pratchett
Not Sorcery, but Sourcery as in the actual source of magic itself. Rincewind heads an unlikely group that finds themselves pitted against a Sourcerer, an eighth son of an eighth son of an eighth son, while the One Horseman and Three Pedestrians of the Apocralypse wait in the wings. The fifth Discworld novel is absolutely epic in scale, but not without losing the humour.

Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett
Packed full of Shakespearean references this novel takes the plot of Macbeth and the concept of witches and owns the both. The kingdom of Lancre comes to life in more ways than one as Granny Weatherwax returns and is joined by the excellently named Magrat Garlick and Nanny Ogg, who may well be one of the best characters in the entirety of literature. Ever.

Where's Wally Now? by Martin Handford
Wally gets lost all through time and space in a sort of greatest hits of history taking in the Stone Age, Ancient Egyptians, Romans, Vikings, Crusaders, Aztecs, Samurai, Pirate and into the Future. Carelessly he also loses a book at each stop, but who can be bothered to help him find them?






Comics
Doctor Who: Claws Of The Klathi!; Culture Shock!; Keepsake; Planet Of The Dead; Echoes Of The Mogor!
The Victoriana and the visit to the Great Exhibition in Claws Of The Klathi! are wonderful and the artwork is a huge improvement on recent Seventh Doctor strips. Culture Shock! is exacly that, a weird change of pace that proves to be a shot in the arm for the strip and the "We've got people to see, places to go, things to do!" ending has a welcome sense of vigour to it. The Doctor's run in with Keepsake is atmospheric and the visuals are great and the landing gear probably something Sylvester McCoy would have loved to have filmed. The TV show's twenty-fifth anniversary (see above) was celebrated in the comic as well and Planet Of The Dead is a better version of The Seven Doctors than fans might have expected and Lee Sullivan's likenesses of the Doctors are fantastic. Echoes Of The Mogor! has striking visuals and a suitably creepy feel.

Recommendations welcome.

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