Major General Scobie of course also crops up
in Spearhead From Space. Bless him. I notice I also opted to
have them moved into the UNIT lab that first appeared in
Terror of the Autons and survived through to The Time Monster,
rather than the Season 7 one. I think it's the same building,
but UNIT budgetary concerns made them move the Doc up a couple
of floors into a smaller room. Perhaps he liked the canal
view. Perhaps him constantly chucking things into said canal
is what made 'em move out of London to the Three Doctors
onwards UNIT base. Perhaps I think too much about all this.
Jossey O'Grahame, the failed actor who worked with the
greats. Hmmm... wonder what I'm channelling there. Justin
(Richards) and Grayson (Fuller) are two real people whose
names I hijacked. Trevithick is of course the Nightshade actor
from Mark Gatiss's book of the same name. And I wince at the
idea of Carry on Digging now, but that said, it does sound
like an early Seventies Carry On movie.
"There's no higher responsibility than great potential" was
a phrase someone said to me as a kid and it was a philosophy I
tried to live by. Which explains the fractured, paranoid,
self-deprecating person I became in my adult life by not
living up to such perceived potential.
I liked the flashback/race memory thing - lifted in concept
from Mac Hulke's Cave-Monsters novel, and I was particularly
pleased with the phrase 'Devilbacks' to describe the
Silurians. Hey, I can be pleased with something, can't I?
Not sure where the Silurian name Sula is from, but Baal is
clearly lifted from Brecht's work.
Oh God, look, another trite continuity reference. Mister
Campbell, the electrical storesman is obviously the same
"dolly Scotsman" that Jo Grant talks to in Terror of the
Autons. Corporal Bell is, well, Corporal Bell from Mind of
Evil and Claws of Axos, and Masie Hawke is the name I gave to
the character played by Gypsie Kemp in Day of the Daleks.
Boyle, however, is I believe someone I've actually made up
myself. There's a first time for everything.
