In the latest chapter of the ongoing Underwater Menace saga, BBC Worldwide have given an optimistic sounding statement indicating a 2015 release, yet still only “hope to release” the title as opposed to a definite statement on the matter. The BBC said:
“We hope to release ‘The Underwater Menace’ in 2015. We delayed the release to ensure that our publishing schedule is phased appropriately across the year and the episodes will be animated.”
Whether this indicates that more classic series releases of some kind will be in the publishing schedule is unknown, but it does happily confirm that the missing episodes from the 1967 serial will indeed be animated.
In other exciting classic series news, Candy Jar Books have announced the publication of a new series of novels featuring Colonel Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart, as played on television by the great Nicholas Courtney (more famously by his future rank of Brigadier).
Created by Web of Fear writers Mervyn Haisman and Henry Lincoln and played by Nicholas Courtney, the character is one of the iconic recurring characters of Doctor Who’s original 1963 - 1989 run, appearing alongside six Doctors on-screen (the only time we’ll ever count Dimensions in Time in anything!) and seven if including Big Finish Productions.
The character debuted in the aforementioned Web of fear in 1968 and last appeared in some form at the climax of this years Death in Heaven.
The series, comprising four books released quarterly, is set following Web and prior to the character’s promotion to Brigadier as seen in the Season Six classic The Invasion.
- The Forgotten Son by Andy Frankham-Allen
- Horror of Det-Sen by Lance Parkin
- The Schizoid Earth by David A McIntee
- Mutually Assured Domination by Nick Walters
The Forgotten Son
The Great Intelligence has been defeated. And Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart’s world has changed.
For Colonel Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart his life in the Scots Guard was straightforward enough; rising in the ranks through nineteen years of military service. But then his regiment was assigned to help combat the Yeti incursion in London, the robotic soldiers of an alien entity known as the Great Intelligence. For Lethbridge-Stewart, life would never be the same again.
Now he has a mammoth task ahead of him – the repopulating of London; millions of civilians need to be returned home after being evacuated so suddenly. On top of that, he also has his engagement to think about.
Meanwhile in the small Cornish village of Bledoe a man is haunted by the memory of an accident thirty years old. The Hollow Man of Remington Manor seems to have woken once more. And in Coleshill, Buckinghamshire, Mary Gore is plagued by the voice of a small boy, calling her home.
What connects these strange events to the recent Yeti incursion, and just what has it all to do with Lethbridge-Stewart?
The Horror of Det-Sen
To convince his superiors of the alien threat, Lethbridge-Stewart travels to the Himalayas with Professor Travers.
The Schizoid Earth
Lethbridge-Stewart finds himself trapped in a past that never happened.
Mutually Assured Domination
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A brand-new series of novels set just after the Doctor Who serial The Web of Fear, featuring the characters and concepts created by Mervyn Haisman & Henry Lincoln.
Available to pre-order from: http://www.candy-jar.co.uk/books/lethbridgestewart.html price 8.99 plus postage. Also available as part of a bundle:
Bundle 1 (Get all four as they are released)
For the reduced price of £35 you can receive all four Lethbridge-Stewart books before general release.
Bundle 2 (Get Companions now)
Pre-order Lethbridge-Stewart: The Forgotten Son and get Companions: Fifty Years of Doctor Who Assistants for just £6 straight away.
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