In February 1985, Doctor Who was canceled...temporarily, at least. The premiere of Season 23 was pushed back from January 1986 to September, and the original slate of stories was all scuttled. As Doctor Who fans like to do, even stories that were junked and scrapped and lit on fire, are worthy of resurrection, such that you can find much of that canceled Season 23 done up as full-cast Big Finish audios... and three of them done up as Target novelizations in 1989 and 1990. The Nightmare Fair is the first of those.

Dan Hollingsworth, one of Jason's Trap One Podcast co-hosts, makes his Doctor Who Literature debut to help quantify just how much a Nightmare this story is (or isn't!). Mark from Trap One adds a dramatic reading and audio essay.

This week's non-Doctor Who essay is a tribute to the recently deceased American entertainer "Uncle" Floyd Vivino.

The DWM backup strips, including the Celestial Toymaker, can be found (and discussed on Trap One) in Return of the Daleks and Black Sun Rising.

One of the more accessible clips from "The Uncle Floyd Show" can be viewed here.

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"Doctor Who – The Nightmare Fair" features cover art by AlisterPearson.

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Doctor Who Literature's final season continues with the great Dave Rennie from the A Kettle and Some String podcast. This week we are discussing the penultimate (canonical) Colin Baker novelization, Eric Saward's gruesomely violent yet oddly touching novelization of a Season 22 Cybermen story...of heavily disputed parentage.

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"Doctor Who –Attack of the Cybermen" features cover art by Colin Howard.

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Doctor Who Literature extends a warm welcome to Anthony and Alasdair from the brilliant Too Broad and Too Deep podcast, which covers Jason's beloved Doctor Who New Adventures novels of the 1990s.

This week we are discussing Dragonfire, the final story of Doctor's 24th season, the swan song for Bonnie Langford's Mel (until the 21st century), and the debut of Ace. There's a lot to discuss here, and Anthony & Alasdair bring their "A" game.

You can find Alasdair here and here, and you can find Anthony here.

Jim Sangster wrote and recorded this week's song.

Graeme' Burk's The Comics Code is well worth its seven episodes, and not only because Jason's voice acting is featured.

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"Doctor Who – Dragonfire" features cover art by Alister Pearson.

Please e-mail the pod at DrWhoLiterature@gmail.com.

You can catch all past episodes athttps://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/doctorwholit.