Shada

I guess we'll just keep this thing going for 63 years, so...

Cause why not? Why not? Uh, 1979 recording for Shada is canceled due to industrial action.

Damn.

So that's, that goes bye bye.

And very, very quickly, the third I will say is Dirk Gently's Holistic De- Detective Agency because despite its origin in-

in-Discarded bits of Shada and a little bit of City of Death here and there.

The book is so beautifully structured.

It falls together in just the most magnificent pattern, and it's got some of his absolute best bits of writing in, too.

Is it an actual cameo? Like, if they can't get him back, do they just use footage? [laughs] Like some unscreened footage of him behind the scenes doing a rehearsal for something? I'm sure there's some.

Um, like when they did the Five Doctors and, uh, Tom Baker didn't wanna come back, so they used footage from an episode called Shada that, uh, was abandoned because of a strike.

Um, you know, they could do that.

I mean, Shada's now been made, like, six times, one of them with Paul McGann, of all people.

Um, it just keeps happening.

Uh, [laughs] like and then, then Tom Baker did come back, and then they made a cartoon of it with Tom Baker's voice, and it's...