Not a great deal to say about this Episode I'm afraid, folks. The story moves along and we get the truth about Jana just in time for her to die. Looking back at this now, I think I handled her very badly - I did what I'd call an 'Eric Saward' on her and just killed her off when her function in the story had ceased. Except that she doesn't actually have one - I'm rather appalled at this. She's there to get Liz to L'ithe and then provide a cliffhanger. Beyond that, she's rather irrelevant to the whole thing. What a shame. Sorry.

The idea of the pale young man having a scar that immediately tells the reader who he is but not the story's characters is an unashamed rip-off from Malcolm Hulke's novelisation of Invasion of the Dinosaurs where the character of Butler is only identified by his scar. I didn't even have the wherewithall to change it from a scar! That's outrageous. Naughty Gary. I do love the fact he has crosshairs instead of eyes, however. A spark of originality at last - but only because it's something I wrote in a story when I was eight.

Ooh look, Tom Osgood from The Daemons makes his appearance. So does Champion and (in conversation) Robins from The Silurians plus Tracy from The Invasion. Shipman and Farley are the names of people I knew at school and have turned up in other things I've written. I wonder where they are now. Oh well, one for Friends, Reunited I suppose...

The Nestene Energy Sphere going to the National Space Museum is of course a precursor to Terror of the Autons. I like the conversation here between Mike Yates and Masie Hawke. I'd forgotten that I'd paired her off with Captain Hawkins from The Silurians. This is a nice moment - something that's always bothered me about the casual death count in UNIT stories was always what do they tell the families. If UNIT's this top secret organisation (or was at the time of Season Seven), then what could they be told. I loved the fact that Masie couldn't tell Sam Hawkins' family about his death because of the Official Secrets Act, and that she had to write all the letters full of lies and half-truths to other families. Oh, and I also like Dairy Milk chocolate bars.

Finally we end up back with the Third Doctor doing what he does best - trying to broker a peace deal and losing when stupid humans turn up with guns and things.