Much has been said about the 1964 Doctor Who serial The Sensorites. Not all of it positive. We at Doctor Who Literature are here to reverse that trend. The Sensorites is awesome. Except when it isn't, but when it lands, it really lands.

This week's guest is Black Archives writer Jon Arnold.

Here is one of Jon's many recent appearances on Strangers in Space.

Cover artist of The Sensorites novelization, Nick Spender, passed away recently.

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"Doctor Who – The Sensorites" features cover art by Nick Spender.

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We open at the BFI in London where Conrad Westmaas from Big Finish appears live on the show to interview Jason!

David Barsky then joins Jason by Skype from Los Angeles to rap about The Space Museum, and to vigorously debate the most recent Disney+-streamed season of Doctor Who.

In the audio essay, Jason compares all four extant versions of Space Museum: TV, novelization, and both surviving scripts. With comparisons to the music of Elvis Costello.

Audio heard in this episode sourced from YouTube:

--Elvis Costello and Paul McCartney studio version of Veronica.

--Elvis Costello's studio version of My Brave Face.

--Elvis Costello's infamous 1977 appearance on Saturday Night Live.

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"Doctor Who – The Space Museum" features cover art by David McAllister.

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It's our second straight Patrick Troughton novelization on Doctor Who Literature -- before we jump into four straight William Hartnell books -- and this week it is time for The Faceless Ones.

Joining Jason this week is Shannon Sullivan of A Brief History of Time (Travel), the indispensable online resource for the production history of Doctor Who. Jason and Shannon have known each other for 30 years but haven't spoken in person since The Wilderness Years. They have a rousing conversation on Doctor Who, game shows, the 1993 baseball World Series, and so much more besides.

Links for this week:

The Faceless Ones page at Brief History of Time (Travel).

Shannon's 2000 appearance on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? (and he has not aged a day, trust me).

Toby Hadoke's Who podcasts, where you can find links to Too Much Information.

The last pitch of the 1993 World Series via Major League Baseball's YouTube channel.

The Mind Robber is one of Jason's Top 60 Doctor Who episodes, and the 1987 novelization by Peter Ling more than does it justice. This week Jason is joined on Doctor Who Literature by Adam Clegg from The Real McCoy podcast to discuss the TV story, the novelization, the two New Adventures sequel novels involving the Land of Fiction... and brief discussions of the new Celestial Toymaker animation, and (as of this release date), Doctor Who's most recent TV broadcast, The Legend of Ruby Sunday.

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"Doctor Who – The Mind Robber" features cover art by David McAllister.

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In lieu of a regularly scheduled Doctor Who Literature this week, Jason takes a moment to bid adieu to William Russell, who passed away this week at age 99, and explore the legacy of Ian Chesterton in Doctor Who.

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...700 years later, we return to The Ark, an instant sequel to last week's episode. Jim Sangster rejoins Doctor Who Literature to break down the story's accents and Beatles wigs.

And Jason reviews the newest Ncuti Gatwa Doctor Who episode at the time of writing: Dot and Bubble.

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"Doctor Who – The Ark" features cover art by David McAllister.

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Program needs over the next two weeks has turned this look at The Ark, a 1966 episode from Doctor Who's third season, into a two-part episode of Doctor Who Literature.

This week, a conversation with Lelon Stoldt from the InDOCtrination podcast. Lelon and his daughters are not quite up to The Ark yet, but perhaps this conversation will reveal what at least one of them will think about the story/book.

And a review of 73 Yards, which at the time of release is the most recently broadcast episode of Doctor Who.

For this week we are going back to the Jazz Age, with Doctor Who-specific musical accompaniment by Jim Sangster.

Our Doctor Who Literature guest this week is Steven B., who you can find at the New To Who podcast, The Three-Handed Game: An Avengers Podcast, and Reimagining Doctor Who.

Among several other Doctor Who podcast episodes cited in this week's episode, you can find:

--Steven B.'s appearance on The Library of Impossible Things;

--Jason's Black Orchid appearance on the Doctor Who Target Book Club Podcast; and

--Jason's appearance on A Kettle and some String;

And please enjoy the following two linked articles, both relevant to this week's DWLit episode:

--James Cooray Smith discusses Paradise Towers and the casting of Sylvester McCoy as the Doctor; and

--A Nerdist interview with Steven Moffat on the writing of the newest Doctor Who episode at the time that this episode was released: Boom.

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"Doctor Who – Black Orchid" features cover art by Tony Masero.

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