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The Fact of Fiction

Dinosaurs on a Spaceship

Silurians! Queen Nefertiti! And, of course, dinosaurs on a spaceship! ALAN BARNES looks back at one of the most audacious stories of the Eleventh Doctor’s era.
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The Daft Dimension
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Reviews
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Competitions
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The Lone Centurion Volume One
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SUFFICIENT DATA
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FORTY-TWO TO DOOMSDAY
It was commissioned by Douglas Adams to air as part of Doctor Who’s 1979 season, but it’s taken JOHN LLOYD’s satirical tale four decades to reach realisation – as he tells GRAHAM KIBBLE-WHITE
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