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RTD, Baker and Bonnie inside The Mind of the Hodiac
Last summer – before it was announced he was returning as showrunner – it seemed as if there was just one more Doctor Who story to come from Russell T […]
Last summer – before it was announced he was returning as showrunner – it seemed as if there was just one more Doctor Who story to come from Russell T Davies – the very first script he wrote, Mind of the Hodiac, which he wrote back in the mid 1980s. That’s now been finished and recorded by Big Finish and during recording, a small press round table took place which we were part of…
How much of this finished script is the same as what you pulled out of a box last year? What was the process like of turning it from a TV script into an audio script?
Russell: I thought it was really important to preserve the script exactly as it was. There’s no point if you start rewriting it, then it would all unravel – and also I was very pleased with it. There were tiny changes, for example the Doctor’s first line was ‘Um.’ I was clearly warming up… I got rid of that ‘Um’.
Colin: I could have done it, I could have done that ‘Um’!
Russell: Put it back in, it’s not too late!
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