Big Finish’s run of audio dramas set during Tom Baker’s final TV series of Doctor Who from 1980-81 continues with a script by James Goss.
“When I was told, ‘It’s Season 18’, that was immediately interesting,” James smiles, “because Season 18 was my favourite. I remember Doctor Who as a programme before then, but Season 18 is the one where it became something that you consciously went home for, on a Saturday evening in the autumn. But also, it felt like autumn; it’s just the most fantastically atmospheric, redolent season of Doctor Who. It’s so gloomy, and quiet, and intellectualbut also, so full of that lovely dry wit. So I sat down and wrote some Season 18 story ideas, and the one [producer] David Richardson went for said: ‘Doctor Who goes to Hollywood, and somebody has been stealing the voices of silent film stars’.
WRITTEN BY James Goss