Doctor Who - Audio Details

The Clutch is a fleet in constant motion, ships jostling for position, in an endless migration between the stars.  For the Galyari, forbidden by an ancient curse from setting on a world ever again, the Clutch is home.  But the curse travels with them...

The Sandman, a figure of myth and folk-lore, preys on the young and old alike.  He lurks in the shadows and it is death to look upon him.

All too soon after the TARDIS arrives, it is evident that the Doctor and the Galyari share a dark history, and Evelyn is shocked to discover that, on the Clutch, it is her friend that is the monster.

The Sandman, according to the tales, also goes by the name of the Doctor...

DOCTOR WHO MONSTERS HAVE a hard time of it, don't they?  What with bad press, being denounced as 'evil' and 'ruthless', and then when they come up with a cunning masterplan, this Doctor fellow turns up and defeats them.  Such harsh and unfair treatment must surely leave it mark.

Well, perhaps not on some of the more evil and ruthless species.

But what about the monsters that aren't 'monsters': the alien races?  Draconians, Silurians.  Scales and sympathy are not mutually exclusive.

Humans are surely not the only ones to be preyed upon by monsters.  And alien races might do any number of things that wouldn't meet with the Doctor's approval.

The key difference, of course, is that the alien races might well possess a conscience on which the Doctor might have a marked effect.  That, essentially, is where the seeds of this story were sown.

And there are at least two sides to every story.

Simon A Forward, March 2002