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WHO TELLS YOUR STORY
Interview by
BENJAMIN COOK
Christopher H Bidmead
Images from some of the
Doctor Who stories script-edited or written by Christopher H Bidmead: Martin Fisk as Vargos in
The Leisure Hive
(1980); Tom Baker as the eponymous
Meglos
(1980); Marshmen in
Full Circle
(1980); the Doctor (Tom Baker) and Romana (Lalla Ward) in
State of Decay
(1980); the Melkur (Graham Cole) in
The Keeper of Traken
(1981); the Master (Anthony Ainley) in
Logopolis
(1981); the Doctor (Peter Davison) and Mergrave (Michael Sheard) in
Castrovalva
(1982); and the Doctor and Norna (Lesley Dunlop) in
Frontios
(1984).
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