The Androids of Tara

It's Malcolm Terrace, when his underpants split in the Horns of Nymon, you go, come on, you can retake that one.

Or the plastic clattering in the androids of Tara.

And then the Philip Hinchcliffe.

I mean, I grew up with it, but even... objectively from a distance of like 40 years on it is the strongest written in terms of the characterization it's the strongest performed i think of all of doctor who and so whatever you think of the stories themselves it is it has the best presentation of any of doctor who

So how it's gone from third to second, I do not know.

John?

Are you going to take The Androids of Tara as finished second in the key to time? How is that

possible? I

Three have already been published.

That was James Goss' novelization of The Pirate Planet and David Fisher's renovelizations of The Stones of Blood and The Androids of Tara.

James Goss and Rob Shearman have teamed up And they are covering the remaining three books.

So that will be six key to time renovelizations, all in the same volume.

Yeah.

The, and the best stories, you've mentioned some of them, Androids of Tara, Ribos Operation, just on fire.

How could they possibly start this story with him snoring in a deckchair, and then turn him into an old man who can't do anything?

And they...

Yes.

And so that way we don't have all of that sort of framing story ruining Androids of Tara.

[laughs]

Or Power of Kroll.

Oh, me.

It was either The Ribos Operation or The Androids of Tara, Tara.

Mm.

Mm.

That's another, like, really stupid adventure that you can pick the holes in if you want.

Androids of Tara, Ribos Operation, uh, Remembrance of the Daleks, The Three Doctors, love that one.

So there, there are some ones that just were on the periphery of, of making it.

Do you know when I came on this call, I thought to myself, "Gosh, he looks like an intelligent fellow." And now in the last hour, you've just confirmed my initial of com- ah.

However, there is a new... 853 page, if I recall correctly, novelization of the Key to Time season coming out, featuring all new material.

James Goss' recent renovelization of the Pirate Planet as Douglas Adams, David Fisher's two renovelizations of Stones of Blood and Androids of Tara, and now James Goss and Rob Shearman are going back and doing new novelizations for the Rebus operation, based on the original scripts.

Power of Curl, which Rob Shearman is lending his considerable talents to.

And then James Goss is novelizing the original scripts for Armageddon Factor, which were changed dramatically before getting to television.