The Crossover according to Andy Lambert

I LOVE Andy Lambert`s artwork and this image is exactly the kind of thing we`re thinking of here!

You can see all of Andy`s brilliant work over at DeviantArt!

Face of the Enemy

Well, it may have taken a while but at last here`s something new for you – Episode Two of our Retcon Series, “Face of the Enemy”

This one is my version of “Seek, Locate, Destroy” and introduces us to Servalan and Travis. Since Cally is no longer part of the crew, it`s Leela who gets left behind. The Doctor is still part of the action, and understandably plays a bigger role in the climax, but this is still Blake`s story. By the end though, the Doctor is just as much in the Federation`s crosshairs as Blake and his chums are.

If B7 really had become the new format for Who, then as more of an ensemble piece, you would expect stories like this that go into each crew member`s backstory. And it would have given David Collings time to find his way into the part instead of having to find a way to make people forget about his predecessor from the off.

Also, the very fact that this is Doctor Blake means more Federation and less Monsters, which isn`t necessarily a bad thing. I won`t be putting monsters into these retcons just for the sake of it, they have to be there for a reason.

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More Sleepers of Death pix…

Since I`m so busy with all my other Who related stuff, I though it might be an idea to put some more pix up in lieu of another retcon script. I do have others completed but I wanted to get these up first.

They show how Doctor Collings and Leela would have looked onboard the Liberator and if you haven`t read the retcon script yet, they may be considered spoilers…

SPOILER ALERT!

These pix contain images of a certain Dr Who monster that I put into the retcon instead of the humanoids that were in the cryo capsule. Go read the script first if you don`t want to know who they are…

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Blake`s Seven gets a Big Finish!

Sorry for the lack of updates – again! – but I just discovered, via good old Combom,  that Big Finish are going to produce a new series of Blake`s Seven Audio Adventures!

They`re going to be called The Liberator Chronicles and whilst they sadly don`t mention a guest appearance by a certain Mysterious Traveller In Time And Space Known Simply As The Doctor, or certain pesky pepperpots/motorised dustbins/wee salt shakers from the planet Skaro it`s still good news.  And everyone`s still around with the sole exception of David Jackson who played Olag Gan.

Looking forward to lots more Blake/Avon face-offs, maybe revisiting the Blake/Travis backstory. That B7 is coming back in some for or another is good news if ever I heard it – if you`ll pardon the pun. And who knows, although Sky 1 declined a new series of B7, who knows where a return on audio might lead? It didn`t do Doctor Who any harm!

It` s not entirely clear whether these will be narrated audiobooks or two-hander plays. Maybe something in the style of BF`s recent Companion Chronicles for Doctor Who? All we know is each disc will feature two stars from the show. So Blake & Avon or Avon & Vila could happen but sadly there`ll be no Vila & Gan, which is a shame. But that still leaves us some intriguing potential combinations.

 There`s nothing about this over at the Horizon site. Not yet anyway. What is it with B7 fans?  Surely Chris Boucher will be involved? Won`t he?  Will there be any attempt to fit in or reference Kaldor City or that Early Years stuff they did a while back? 

Is it too much to hope for that the long-awaited DW/B7 Crossover will finally happen on audio? [2013 would be nice!]

Big Finish to produce New B7 Audios & Novels

B7 Enterprises Announce Big Finish Deal

Sleepers of Death Pix : Post-Regeneration

I was asked a while back what Dr Collings would be wearing during Sleepers of Death and had to confess that I hadn`t really thought about it. If you look at the script for this Retcon, there`s no mention of him getting changed but I`m now assuming that he and Leela change their clobber before the TARDIS lands onboard The Liberator. Maybe I should go back and retcon my retcon!

Having recently upgraded all the Talons of Death pix, that got me thinking about what those initial TARDIS scenes might have looked like. And so…

All the screengrabs of David Collings come from Assignment Six of Sapphire And Steel btw…

The Doctor Blake Gallery

Apologies for the lack of updates folks, here`s some DW/B7 crossover pix to be going on with in the meantime…

Did most of these years ago just to see what the much talked about crossover would have looked like. I was realy pleased to see that the Dr & Leela on board the Liberator looks just as great as I hoped it would!

The Sleepers of Death

Ok, as promised here we are with our first retcon script for our DW/B7 crossover – Sleepers of Death, otherwise known as Time Squad from the original Series One.

Because I`d used the first three episodes of Series One for The Curse of Cygnus Alpha, I quickly realised that left just 10 episodes from that first year to play with. So in order to make up our required 13 episodes, we`re going to have to being forward some scripts from Series Two. But that`s a probelm for another day, although I do have a rough idea of what scripts will fill those slots.

The first consideration was what should be the opener. I decided to go with the next story in sequence, which was Time Squad.  There are a lot of things I like about this script, the way Leela takes the Doctor`s regeneration in her stride, Vila trusting that it`s the Doctor, Avon`s mistrust of the Doctor and the monsters that are lurking in the pod. This is Doctor Blake after all so the pod can`t have humans or humanoids in it, it`s got to have monsters. I hope you agree with the ones I chose – they seemed the only obvious candidate.

One major digression is that Cally no longer joins the crew. Leela is already there to take most of her lines and adding her would be a needless complication. She will be back when Leela leaves, don`t worry…

All in all, I think this is quite a good start for a new Doctor in a new setting and new format. I`d like to think that this is the approach they would have taken had all this been for real.

And lastly, Time Squad isn`t a very Doctor Who-y title. And I`ve never been a fan of one-word titles either so Sleepers of Death it is! I hope you like it and any feedback would be appreciated.

DOWNLOAD 5.01 – SLEEPERS OF DEATH