Книга: Mike Tucker, Robert Perry «Doctor Who: Illegal Alien»

Doctor Who: Illegal Alien

Серия: "Doctor Who: 50th Anniversary Collection"

The Blitz is at its height. As the Luftwaffe bomb London, Cody McBride, ex-pat American private eye, sees a sinister silver sphere crash-land. He glimpses something emerging from within. The military dismiss his account of events– the sphere must be a new German secret weapon that has malfunctioned in some way. What else could it be? Arriving amid the chaos, the Doctor and Ace embark on a trail that brings them face to face with hidden Nazi agents, and encounter some very old enemies… An adventure featuring the SeventhDoctor, as played by Sylvester McCoy, and his companion Ace

Издательство: "BBC Books" (2014)

Формат: 130x200, 320 стр.

ISBN: 978-1-84990-757-6

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Mike Tucker

Mike Tucker (born South Wales) is a special effects expert who worked for many years at the BBC Television Visual Effects Department, and now works as an Effects Supervisor for his own company, The Model Unit. He is also the author of a variety of spin-offs relating to the television series Doctor Who and novelisations based on episodes of the television series 'Merlin'. He sometimes co-writes with Robert Perry.

Effects work

Tucker's early work for the BBC was as a holiday relief assistant on the 1982 history series Timewatch. Following this, he became a full time member of the BBC Visual Effects Department working on practical effects and models for a range of BBC programmes including Casualty, Top of the Pops, EastEnders, The Singing Detective, Proust and Tomorrow's World among many others. He was one of the principal effects crew for Red Dwarf series 1 - 7 and worked as an effects assistant on the final four series of the original Doctor Who. His association with Doctor Who continued long after the series was "rested" by the BBC, working on the Children in Need special Dimensions in Time.

He became a fully fledged effects supervisor in the early 1990s, handling the effects for shows including 'I Was a Rat', '999 International', 'Raging Planet' and 'Twister Week'. Starting to specialise in miniature effects he went on to handle model sequences for 'Egypt's Golden Empire', 'Disasters at Sea', 'Nelson's Island' 'Billy and the Fighter Boys', 'Hiroshima' and 'The Brighton Bomb'.

In 2005, Tucker became the first person to work on the original series of Doctor Who to work on the revived version starring Christopher Eccleston as model work supervisor, work which continues to the present day. Following the closure of the BBC effects department in 2001 he set up his own company 'The Model Unit' based at Ealing Studios and has since contributed miniature effects sequences for the Munich air disaster segment of BBC's 'Surviving Disaster' series, 'Krakatoa - The Last Days', also for the BBC, 'Moonshot' and 'Primeval' for ITV and 'Human Body - Pushing the Limits' and 'Clash of the Dinosaurs' for the Discovery Channel.

In May 2006, Tucker won a BAFTA Craft Award for his special effects work on the drama-documentary Hiroshima.

In July 2008 Tucker was part of the team nominated for a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Visual Effects in a Television Series for his work on the "Strength" episode of Discovery Channel's 'Human Body - Pushing the Limits'.

Writing work

Tucker's first writing work was co-writing with Sophie Aldred the non-fiction book Ace! about the final season of the original Doctor Who. This was quickly followed by the short story Question Mark Pyjamas in the second volume of the Virgin Decalog anthology series: this was the first story that Tucker wrote with his longtime writing partner Robert Perry. This was followed by several stories for the BBC Short Trips anthology, again all co-written with Perry.

In October 1997, the first book in Tucker and Perry's self-styled Season 27 run was publish as part of BBC Books' Past Doctor Adventures series. The book, Illegal Alien, was rumoured to be based on a script which was in consideration for production had a twenty-seventh season of Doctor Who gone ahead. Tucker and Perry continued to write their Season 27 stories, with the novels Matrix (1998), Storm Harvest (1999), Prime Time (2000, written by Tucker alone) and Loving the Alien (2003).

The fourth book in the series, Prime Time, was Tucker's first novel written without Robert Perry, and instigated an arc that continued in Dale Smith's Heritage before ending in Loving the Alien, for which Perry returned. It sparked some small controversy amongst Doctor Who fans for stating that the Ace's last name was Gale: Ace's surname was never established on screen, but her creator Ian Briggs suggested that if one was needed then Gale should be used as he saw the character as a parallel to Dorothy Gale from The Wizard of Oz. However, the Virgin New Adventures established after the end of the original series that Ace's last name was McShane, and Tucker's change was interpreted as an attempt to remove the New Adventures from the nebulous Doctor Who canon. Tucker, however, stated that the error was due to him not having known of the McShane last name, and later books have attempted to establish that Ace's full name is Dorothy Gale McShane.

Between writing his novels, Tucker also wrote for Big Finish Productions' audio adventures, writing the audios The Genocide Machine in 1999 and Dust Breeding in 2001. Dust Breeding featured the return of the Krill, a race of aliens created for Storm Harvest, and also Bev Tarrent, a character from his previous audio. Tucker has also written for Big Finish's Bernice Summerfield and Tomorrow People range of audios.

During this period, Mike also had a brief stint as a university academic, giving multiple lectures on science fiction and other topics. Later, in 2003, Tucker and Perry also wrote the novella Companion Piece for Telos Publishing Ltd.'s range of Doctor Who books, again for the Seventh Doctor but introducing a new companion, Catherine Broome.

More recent Doctor Who books are the Tenth Doctor novels The Nightmare of Black Island (his first published Doctor Who book not featuring the Seventh Doctor) and Snowglobe 7. He has also contributed comic strips to the magazines Doctor Who - Battles in Time and Doctor Who Adventures.

Away from Doctor Who he has recently novelised the 'Merlin' episodes 'Valiant', 'The Labyrinth of Gedref' and 'The Traitor Within' for Random House and co-authored (with Mat Irvine) the History of the BBC Visual Effects Department for Aurum Press.

External links

Источник: Mike Tucker

Robert Perry

Robert Perry (born South Wales) is a television writer. He was script-editor on the BBC soap opera "EastEnders", as well as writing for the television series "Family Affairs" and "Is Harry on the Boat?". He has also worked on "Emmerdale". He is also known for a writing partnership with Mike Tucker on a variety of spin-offs relating to the television series "Doctor Who", specifically for the character of the Seventh Doctor.

Writing work

Perry's first writing work was the short story "Question Mark Pyjamas" in the second volume of the Virgin Decalog anthology series: this was the first story that Perry wrote with his long-term writing partner Mike Tucker. This was followed by several stories for the BBC Short Trips anthology, again all co-written with Tucker.

In October 1997, the first book in Tucker and Perry's self-styled Season 27 run was publish as part of BBC Books' Past Doctor Adventures series. The book, "Illegal Alien", was rumoured to be based on a script which was in consideration for production had a twenty-seventh season of "Doctor Who" gone ahead. Tucker and Perry continued to write their Season 27 stories, with the novels "Matrix" (1998), "Storm Harvest" (1999), and "Loving the Alien" (2003).

In 2003, Tucker and Perry also wrote the novella "Companion Piece" for Telos Publishing Ltd.'s range of Doctor Who novellas, introducing a new companion, Catherine Broome.

External links

* [http://www.gallifreyone.com/dwdata.php?id=Robert+Perry Outpost Gallifrey's Robert Perry page]
* [http://www.cuttingsarchive.org.uk/telos/archive/who/novella13/main13.htm Telos' Companion Piece page]

Источник: Robert Perry

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