Final Episode! In “Doctor Who – Terror from the Deep” written by John Freeman, the final episodes drawn by Bill Storie, the Seventh Doctor and Ace battled, and defeated, both the Movellans and the Daleks.
A group of Time Lords, designations unknown, have reviewed the chronal records of the events, in the end avoiding direct observation of the Seventh Doctor… and now turn their attention to another concern…
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Episodes of “Terror from the Deep” have appeared weekly, on Saturdays at 5.16pm, featuring the Seventh Doctor and Ace in an exciting adventure with the Daleks.
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For Those Who Came in Late: Thank You for Reading
We’re not quite sure when Bill Storie and I will begin “The Secrets of Rassilon” but we hope you will join us for another adventure when we do!
Thank you for reading “Terror from the Deep” – I hope you enjoyed the journey, from its origin form, an intended Doctor Who newspaper strip pitched to the Daily Express, the seeds of the story born at a “Carousel” convention in Cardiff at a panel with myself, Mike Collins and Lee Sullivan on stage in the 1990s, just a couple of days after I’d been in a quarry watching shooting of scenes for the last regular Seventh Doctor story to air on BBC, “Survival”. (Attendees of Carousel may remember that Sylvester and Sophie had to cancel their planned appearance because the hot weather they endured proved exhausting!).
“Terror from the Deep” might just hold some sort of record for “longest gestation period for a piece of Doctor Who comic project”. Its origins lie in a plan I had while editing Doctor Who Magazine in the 1990s to launch a Doctor Who newspaper strip.
As you can read here (“Doctor Who – Terror from the Deep, the newspaper strip that might have been“) The idea that had been kicked around at Marvel UK for over a year before two weeks of test strips, plotted and scripted by myself and drawn by Gerry Dolan, finally appeared in Doctor Who Magazine Issues 167 and 168 in late 1990.
This project began as a pitch project to the Daily Express for a newspaper strip, way back in 1989, but the end of the show’s “classic era” on TV meant it did not progress.
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My thanks to Danny Cushion for taking me up on completing this story, and Bill Storie, for bringing it to a close on the art side. My thanks, also to Paul Hanley, artists Mike Collins and Lee Sullivan, and the late Gerry Dolan – and Andy Walker for connecting me up with Paul Cooke
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John is the founder of downthetubes, launched in 1998. He is a comics and magazine editor, writer, and Press Officer for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He also runs Crucible Comic Press.
Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine and Overkill for Marvel UK, Babylon 5 Magazine, Star Trek Magazine, and its successor, Star Trek Explorer, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics; and has edited several comic collections and graphic novels, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”, and Hancock: The Lad Himself, by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page.
He’s the writer of comics such as Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs”, with Dave Hailwood.
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Doctor Who – Terror from the Deep: Episode 93
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