h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Welcome to the Life Boat, a cruise ship in the Zygroanon sea, to those aboard it is a dream holiday. But for an excited scientist it is the chance of a life time to complete his life work...

But onto this cruise steps the enigmatic adventurer in time & space known as the Doctor with Lissa by his side they seek to enjoy a holiday but that isn't as practical as it sounds!

A storm is coming, ships have sunk in the area and people are talking about sea gremlins but who is the mysterious old woman on the rocks?

And when will the horror that circles the boat rise up and claim its prize?

Who is in control and what lies inside the cargo hold that could mean life and death for everyone on the planet?

Sounds most interesting Mister Wilden, most interesting indeed...

I hope that you mind time to contribute to this great concept but inbetween your sagas perhaps we could do a season of Alternate Doctor Who stories which becoming like Carnival of Monsters/ Sea Devils and Dust Breeding with every passing moment.

What's up next I hear you shout?

The Pudding Base

About the Moonbase but with Cakes and battery monsters-Electromen or Buzzbots!

We used to have a bunch of psuedo-Cybermen in the Lord Mike Saga last year. They were called the Electrodudes and the joke was that everything they did was 'Electrosomething'. remember there was a bit where one Electrodude was,

Electroshot in the electrochest and fell into an electroheap on the electrofloor

Then try this:

Notes from the Alter Doctor series- Season 4


Gary Lets:

My resume to date was in the long running science fiction show Doomsday in which I was script editor, costume designer throughout the series and second tendriloid on the left in the serial: Menace of the Tendriloids.

If I become part of this production I shall do my very best to create an accurate sixties/ seventies style theme onboard using hippies, free love and some marujuana cigarettes and John Lennon records. Sorry I was joking.

I saw Doctor Who & the Furious Fire Fiends starring Patrick McGouhan and Cilla Black some years back, they were making in in the studio when I was asked to be second Yokel, olive picker on the right and basically be Fiend Fodder.

So can I be Director, script editor and costume designer?
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Terrance Sticks

A good set designer with a fetish for life boats and dark spaces, a writer who isn't flawed to having green monsters and too much continuity.

I remember The Furious Fire Fiends, not very good, particularly the papier mache props on wires against a CSO background too, no I prefer The Landlubbers.

You must remember it, when the Doctor and Cilla land on a pirate ship marked for England where the inhabitants are strange people with posh accents and drink tea and eat crumpets between cricket and soccer.

You must remember it, when the Doctor dresses up as a Mermaid, a Policeman, a blind pirate and adopts a Glaswegian accent to appear Scottish.

Come on, the episode they brought in Bernard Cribbins to play the brawny Landlubber Jamesie, an accountant who can hold his own at a cricket match.

Don't remember it?

The British Broadcasting Conglomerate were showing it on their Netsite in a photobook, oh well your loss.
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Hi there, I'm a friend of Terry and I know the Landlubbers and follow up story Pudding Base. Yes a flawed story if ever, for people in the early twenty-first century to have a bakery on the moon. What was Kit Peddle thinking of but it's certainly a change for the Doctor, Cilla and Jamesie.

With Jamesie reduced to a bumbling fool as he arrives in a spacesuit to be knocked out as he walks into the door.

Then Electromen, nothing more than a quick resign to include more versatile costumes and a faster buzzing voice with such a plan too- to cripple the sugar plants of the world by destroying the Pudding Base.

Though in my mind introducing a concept that these 'battery' people could be magnetised was just pushing the boat out too far!

Anyway I worked on The Killer Crab Horror, I know it was flawed but such huge crabs that featured strongly in the story instead of being left to the side as Mr Noir had originally intended.

I created the seemingly adequate feeling of perfection in those camps and the overall creatures themselves., so can I take part?
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Gary Lets

I worked up until 1971 when David Jason took over as the Doctor. He was very different to work with unlike Patrick who had been a star, a real professional whereas David used to crack a joke one minute and then throw abuse the next.

He didn't seem to fit in well as the Doctor particularly with his white wig and bottle glasses though when the series became Earth-based then I did wish that I was still working with them?

He once apparently ran out halfway through The Subterranians and off to the pub and started a fight when someone though he was an olf fart.

I had moved onto other programmes by then but I was very pleased to see Vladek Sheybal back as a regular villain in the form of the Co-ordinator, he was also very good as an earlier incarnation as the WarGeneral in Patrick's last story: Battle Conflicts. He was very good at doing evil people.

Though coming back to the set question, I remember Crabs very well because I had sculpted the studio into a leisure centre that was so real that it had to be sinister.

I remember that Patrick liked it because he felt that most of stuff so far had been awfully poor but this had plenty of meat on it.
Though I remember Cilla wanting to get out of it, she'd been seen by an agent board and they wanted her.

Of course she left in the next story, though her replacement Valerie Singleton was a very good screamer- Miss Vicki Boggysworth.