After script-editing Big Finish’s main Doctor Who range for more than a decade, Alan Barnes is moving on. “It’s been 12-and-a-half years, which is far too long for any individual’s sanity!” he says, laughing. “But there were a couple of things that I wanted to do and had never quite got around to, and Kamelion was one of them.”
Kamelion was a shape-changing android introduced in The King’s Demons (1983), who joined the Fifth Doctor, Tegan and Turlough aboard the TARDIS. But because the robotic prop was difficult to control, and its operator died in an accident, Kamelion wasn’t seen again until Planet of Fire (1984), in which he was written out.