Night Terrors

This review took me just a couple of hours, the quickest I’ve ever written for the magazine. As such, I don’t have a huge amount to add, other than recalling that I originally had that first line as: “Dolls. Shudder! Dolls are scary!” But then realised I was aping the rather staccato and repetitive delivery that Doctor Who – and a lot of BBC shows at the moment – use to connote they’re saying something light-hearted. So I changed it. 

Sorry, not much of an anecdote. Anyway, this is from DWM #439.

The Doctor’s Wife

The bit below where I write: “Well, until she and the Doctor have a tiff.” That bit. After this, the copy originally ran: “The ‘pull to open’ gag clinches it. That one’s been staring us in the face forever. From that point onwards, I bought the whole relationship, and the odd kind of intimacy that exists between the two.” But then Tom Spilsbury at DWM pointed out that said gag was actually misconceived. “Pull to open” isn’t what’s written on the TARDIS door, but what’s written on the telephone panel. The joke doesn’t work. Good point.

And so I deleted that passage, and we carried on.  

This is from DWM #435.