Interview by SIMON GUERRIER
Alister Pearson’s cover painting for Doctor Who – Ghost Light (1990) features Ace (Sophie Aldred) and the Doctor (Sylvester McCoy).
On 30 August 1989, Target editor Peter Darvill-Evans issued a contract for Marc Platt to novelise his own Doctor Who story. Ghost Light had been recorded at Television Centre earlier that month and would be broadcast in October, with the novelisation to be published the following year.