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While The Horns of Nimon was officially the end of Season 17, efforts have been made over the years to complete the unfinished story that was meant to be the season finale – Shada. And we are discussing the “definitive” version of that story that released on the 2021 Blu Ray release, mixing live action with animation in an episodic format. Given that the production team had hoped that this story would make everyone forget The Horns of Nimon, we ask – is this story as great as its legendary reputation would have it?   Join us as we discuss the edits that had to be made to make it work (including new music, FX, and a couple of short scenes), Skagra's bonkers plan and his amazingly camp stylings, how this story could had been a four-parter, the pettiness of artificial intelligence, and (of course) Tom being Tom. Meanwhile, Reilly imagines how this could look in live action with plenty of alien villains in the prison on Shada!   If you would like to watch along with us, you can find this story available for streaming on Britbox in the USA (http://www.britbox.com) and BBC iPlayer in the UK (https://bbc.in/48GSaCB). If you're a little old fashioned and prefer physical media (like our very own Anthony), you can find the entirety of Season 17 on Blu Ray from Amazon US (https://amzn.to/4cnZioD) and Amazon UK (https://amzn.to/3yvWfg9)   Other media mentioned in this episode*: The Lord of the Rings (1978 film) (Amazon US: https://amzn.to/4cJhrOa | Amazon UK: https://amzn.to/3XW6rJ5) Lord of the Rings Trilogy (Amazon US: https://amzn.to/3FucnNC | Amazon UK: https://amzn.to/3llVpsV) Looney Tunes – The Platinum Collection (Amazon US: https://amzn.to/3Aov8z7 | Amazon UK: https://amzn.to/3nRkM7w) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Amazon US: https://amzn.to/3G6YCoH | Amazon UK: https://amzn.to/3m0qOSc) Phantasm (Amazon US: https://amzn.to/30KUYk4 | Amazon UK: https://amzn.to/3pm4wMr) Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (Amazon US: https://amzn.to/4eO5p7H | Amazon UK: https://amzn.to/4hftl5A) What We Do in the Shadows – Season 1 (Amazon US: https://amzn.to/3IJaE7N | Amazon UK: https://amzn.to/3LhR8AV) Neon Genesis Evangelion: The Complete Series (Amazon US: https://amzn.to/3BLoOaw | Amazon UK: https://amzn.to/4dQH67D) The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkein (Amazon US: https://amzn.to/4dXHbGC | Amazon UK: https://amzn.to/4dTcS3R)   Finally, you can also follow us and interact with us on various forms of social media - Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. You can also e-mail us at watchers4d@gmail.com. If you're enjoying this podcast, please subscribe to the show, and leave us a rating or review.   *Support Watchers in the Fourth Dimension! We are an Amazon affiliate and earn a small commission from purchases through Amazon links. This goes towards the running costs of the podcast.

Skagra's ball is still causing chaos as we find out more about the mystery of Shada and who Salyavin really is. And aptly, this is episode 42 of this season of the podcast! (Pt 2 of 2)

On the Time Lash: The College Years opens with a discussion of 2017's The Pilot and the unfinished 1980 serial Shada. In other words, it's Joy Division and cheap lager v.s bicycles and acapella choo-choos. Is The Pilot really a fresh start? Who or what influenced Steven Moffat's re-imagining of the 12th Doctor as an educator? What happens when you add orange juice to Vodka and Coke? Just what is the definitive version of Shada and what the bloody hell does Kylie Minogue have to do with all of this? Also: The Degsestial Funmaker pays a long overdue visit to launch a new series of Degsey's Where Did it Come? Game, Ben and Mark ponder when Doctor Who last excited them and Ben shares quite a moving story about the personal connections he has to Douglas Adams' great unfinished work. You can buy us a pint here

Charles Skaggs & Jesse Jackson are joined by special guest companion Dave Proctor to discuss “Shada”, the unaired serial from Doctor Who Season 17 in 1980, written by Douglas Adams and completed in 2017 using animation, featuring Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor, Lalla Ward as the Second Romana, David Brierley as the voice of K-9, Denis Carey as Professor Chronotis, and Christopher Neame as Skagra! Find us here:Twitter: @NextStopSMG, @CharlesSkaggs, @JesseJacksonDFW Instagram: @nextstopeverywherepodcast Facebook: Facebook.com/Nextstopeverywherepodcast Email: NextStopEverywhereSMG@gmail.com Listen and subscribe to us in Apple Podcasts and leave us a review!

The Douglas Adams story that just will not die as long as the BBC can milk some more money out of it.  Simon and Eugene look once again at Shada in its latest animated recreation form. Episode Synopsis:  Aboard a space station, something sinister involving people and a ball has happened.  The sinister Skagra leaves … Continue reading 430 – Doctor Who – Shada (Again)

On this week's podcast we cover the 2017 re-release of story #108.5, Shada!  In this newly-animated update of the unfinished serial, the Doctor and Romana visit Professor Chronotis on Earth in the 1970s -- but what dark secret does he hide, and who is the mysterious Skagra who is after the man and his Gallifreyan book?  This supplement to episode #108.5 reviews the FIFTH version of the story we've covered! QotW: Doctor Who Christmas specials often feature a singer. If you were creating a Doctor Who Christmas special, what professional singer (living or dead) would you like to have perform in the episode? So Here Are The Things/Listener Mailbag/Who News Discussion of "Shada (2017)" (Charlie 9, Trevor 8.5, David 8, Connor 7) Big Finish: The War Master: Only The Good, part 1: The Oncoming Storm (Charlie 7.5, Trevor 7.75, David 8) Hosts: Trevor  @WhovianTrev    Trevsplace Charlie  @insanityinchaos    The Infinite Longbox    The Comic Conspiracy David http://www.davidsafar.com/    @gwythinn    MaroonedWhovian Join us next week for our review of Doctor Who story #287, Resolution! Our audio adventure will be Doctor Who -- The Stageplays, #1: The Ultimate Adventure, available from Big Finish.

Shada! A story made of legend. Filmed, but never finished. And then finished in a variety of ways. Recently, Shada was again finished, but this time with animation and the original cast returning to voice their characters. How does the reality of Shada stack up against Shada the legend? How deep does the writing of Douglas Adams filter through the story? And where exactly does Skagra get those fancy duds? John & Taylor delve into all that and more on a sizeable episode of Podcastica!

To celebrate the release of the famous "incomplete" #DoctorWho classic Shada, Christian Cawley, James Baldock and Simon Danes take a look at the new version, and compare it with its predecessors... ...and ask the question: is Shada actually any good? And was Douglas Adams really "all that"? We also touch upon the 1992 version, the 2003 version from Big Finish and BBCi, as well as the Gareth Roberts novelization. Oh, and look out for the story of a young Simon Danes writing to Christopher "Skagra" Neame...

Shada! A story made of legend. Filmed, but never finished. And then finished in a variety of ways. Recently, Shada was again finished, but this time with animation and the original cast returning to voice their characters. How does the reality of Shada stack up against Shada the legend? How deep does the writing of Douglas Adams filter through the story? And where exactly does Skagra get those fancy duds? John & Taylor delve into all that and more on a sizeable episode of Podcastica!

This week we cover story #108.5, Shada!  In this unfinished serial, the Doctor and Romana visit Professor Chronotis on Earth in the 1970s -- but what dark secret does he hide, and who is the mysterious Skagra who is after the man and his Gallifreyan book?  In this extra-long episode we review FOUR different versions of Shada! QotW: In #Shada a TARDIS appears as a college room. What real-life building do you think might be a TARDIS? Charlie's Variety Segment/Listener Mailbag Discussion of "Shada" (Charlie 8, David 8.25, Trevor 8.25) Hosts: Trevor  @WhovianTrev    Trevsplace Charlie  @insanityinchaos    The Infinite Longbox    The Comic Conspiracy David http://www.davidsafar.com/    @gwythinn    MaroonedWhovian Join us next week for our review of Doctor Who story #109, The Leisure Hive! You can buy a digital copy on iTunes or buy the DVD from Amazon.com, BarnesAndNoble.com, the WB Shop, the BBC Doctor Who Shop, or many other fine retailers.

The sun was up the sky was blue-ish so what better time of year to have another tour of the city centre locations from the sadly unfinished story Doctor Who: Shada, this time I expanded the tour to include a couple of extra sights Garret hostel Lane Bridge where Skagra confronts the Doctor in episode 2 and a non Shada sight Cambridge’s famous mathematical bridge.   You can see a few photos I took during the tour here https://www.flickr.com/photos/tdrury/albums/72157655590829894   and there’s a video I shot during the tour here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbRouTWOtOk and another of a bike ride recce of the tour here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HugDGULz3hQ   End theme is Dr Who(Gypsy Guitar version) by Thrip   The show is now on Facebook please join the group for exclusive behind the scenes insights and of course also discuss and feedback on the show https://www.facebook.com/groups/187162411486307/   If you want to send me comments or feedback you can email them to tdrury2003@yahoo.co.uk or contact me on twitter where I'm @tdrury or send me a friend request and your comments to facebook where I'm Tim Drury and look like this http://www.flickr.com/photos/tdrury/3711029536/in/set-72157621161239599/ in case you were wondering.

The Doctor manages to catch Skagra by turning his own ship against him.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: , For the United States Navy ship, see ; for the Arabic emphasis sign, see ; for the village in Azerbaijan, see . Shada Serial Shada, the prison planetoid of the Time Lords. Cast () () (Voice of ) Others — Skagra – – Chris Parsons – Clare Keightley – Wilkin – Dr Caldera – Police Constable – Passenger – Voice of the Ship – Voice of the Krargs , , , – Krargs Production Writer Director (original) Script editor Douglas Adams Producer (original) (video) Production code 5M Series Length Incomplete (original) 6 episodes, 25 minutes each (intended) Originally broadcast Unaired (original) 6 July 1992 (video release) Chronology ← Preceded by Followed by → Shada is an unaired serial of the series . It was intended to be the final serial of the 1979-80 season (Season 17), but was never completed due to a at the during filming. In 1992, its recorded footage was released on video using linking narration by , the Doctor to complete the story. The script, with adaptions, was later produced by as an , with animation and was made available on and the BBC website in 2003. This version saw take on the role of the Doctor, with reprising her role as , with an otherwise different cast. A novelisation of the story written by and returning the action to the Fourth Doctor and Romana was released in March 2012. Contents Synopsis The story revolves around the lost planet Shada, on which the built a prison for defeated would-be conquerors of the universe. Skagra, an up-and-coming would-be conqueror of the universe, needs the assistance of one of the prison's inmates, but finds that nobody knows where Shada is anymore except one aged Time Lord who has retired to , where he is masquerading as a professor at . Luckily for the fate of the universe, Skagra's attempt to force the information out of coincides with a visit by the professor's old friend, . Continuity In an unfilmed scene in Episode 5, a listing of prisoners kept on Shada included a , a , and a . Instead of these, aliens bearing resemblance to were seen. In 1983, clips from Shada were used in , the 20th-Anniversary special. , the fourth actor to play the Doctor, had declined to appear in the special, and the plot was reworked to explain the events in the clips. In the book, various references are made to past and future Doctor Who. In particular past rebellious Time Lords are mentioned including, , , the and . For the Big Finish version, Tom Baker was originally approached to reprise the role of the Doctor, but declined. The Eighth Doctor was then substituted and the story reworked accordingly. Although working from the original Adams script, portions of the Big Finish version were reworked by to make the story fit into Doctor Who continuity. This included a new introduction, and a new explanation for the Fourth Doctor and Romana being "taken out of time" during the events of The Five Doctors; the has come to collect Romana and K-9 because he has begun to have a feeling that there was something they should have done at that time. In addition to this – is referred to as Madam President by Skagra in Episode 5. In Episode 6 it is Romana, using her Presidential powers, who decides that Chronotis should be allowed to return to Cambridge. When the policeman enters Chronotis' room, the Doctor can be heard talking about a "terrible way to see in the New Year" in a possible reference to that Doctor's . Various other minor dialogue changes throughout, mostly relating to the Eighth Doctor reflecting that he has missed Romana and since they left him and how much he enjoyed their company in the past. When Skagra is investigating the Doctor, clips from three other Big Finish productions can be heard, exclusively on the CD version – , and . The original serial was to have used clips from , , , , , and . The webcast features outlines of the first eight Doctors' faces. Production Original television version The original story, as written by Adams, was scheduled to be 6 episodes. It is estimated that only about 50% of the story was filmed. Location filming in and the first of three studio sessions at were recorded as scheduled. The second studio block was affected by a long-running technicians' dispute. The strike was over by the time rehearsals began for the third recording session, but this was lost to higher-priority Christmas programming. Attempts were made by new producer John Nathan-Turner to remount the story, but for various reasons it never happened and the production was formally dropped in June 1980. Nathan-Turner was eventually able to complete the story (so far as was possible) by commissioning new effects shots, a score and having Tom Baker record linking material to cover the missing scenes to create six shortened episodes of between 14 and 22 minutes each. The result was released on video in 1992 as a 111 minute VHS tape, but has never been aired on television—making Shada the only Doctor Who television story never to be broadcast. Douglas Adams himself did not regard the story highly and was content for it remain permanently unseen in any form. He once claimed that when he had signed the contract allowing the 1992 release, it had been part of a pile of other papers presented to him by his agent to sign and he wasn't fully aware of what he was agreeing to. Levine animated version In 2010, decided to fund a project to complete the original Shada story using animation and the original voice actors, minus Tom Baker and David Brierley, to complete the parts of the story that were never filmed. John Leeson would replace Brierley as the voice of K9 and Paul Jones, impersonating Baker, would replace him as the Doctor. In October 2010, Dan Hall of confirmed that a DVD release of Shada was in production and intended to release it with another title. The completed story was finished in late 2011 and announced by Levine, via his Twitter account, on September 8, 2011. J. R. Southall, writer for the science fiction magazine , reviewed Levine's completed version and scored it 10 out of 10 in an article published on September 15, 2011. On October 26, 2011, 2 Entertain announced that only the Shada framgents would be released on DVD, along with the 1993 documentary 'Doctor Who': Thirty Years in the Tardis and other items, possibly sometime in 2012. Southall confirmed the news that same day writing that Dan Hall, 2 Entertain's comissioning editor, was not going to release Levine's completed version. Big Finish version (2003) Shada Series Release number II Featuring Writer , Director Producer(s) Gary Russell Set between and Length 150 Release date December 2003 The Cast The Doctor – () – – Skagra – – Chris Parsons – Clare Keightley – Wilkin – Dr Caldera – Motorist/Constable – The Ship – Think Tank Voice – Broadcast date: 10 December 2005 In 2003, the BBC commissioned to remake Shada as an audio play which was then webcast in six episodic segments, accompanied by limited animation, on the using illustrations provided by comic strip artist . The play starred as the and as . The audio play was also broadcast on digital radio station BBC 7, on 10 December 2005 (as a 21⁄2-hour omnibus), and was repeated in six parts as the opening story to the 's summer season which began on 16 July 2006. Lalla Ward (Romana) is the only actor to appear in both the original television version and the subsequent Big Finish remake. Outside references In Episode 2 of the webcast version, when Chris is in his lab showing Clare the book, a vending machine-like object in the background is labelled "Nutrimat", a reference to a similar device in Adams' . Two other references are a sequence where Skagra steals a and when images of Hitchhiker's Guide characters appear as inmates on Shada itself. In print book Doctor Who – Shada Writer Gareth Roberts Publisher Release date 15 March 2012 Preceded by ' Followed by ' book Doctor Who and Shada Writer & Jonathan Preddle Publisher (unofficial novelisation) Cover artist Alistair Hughes Release date March 1989 Preceded by ' Followed by ' Elements of the story were reused by Adams for his novel , in particular the character of Professor Chronotis who possesses a time machine. Adams did not allow Shada, or any of his other Doctor Who stories, to be novelised by . It is, therefore, one of only five serials from the 1963–1989 series not to be novelised by Target – along with Adams' other stories and , plus 's two stories ( and ). A six-part adaptation of the story by Jonathan V Way appeared in issues 13-18 of Cosmic Masque, the 's fiction magazine. Douglas Adams granted permission for the adaptation on condition that it was never published in collected form. A fan group in New Zealand published an unofficial adaptation in 1989, later republishing it as an online eBook titled Doctor Who and Shada. published a novelisation of this serial on 15 March 2012, written by . Roberts has drawn on the latest versions of the scripts available, as well as adding new material of his own to "fix" various plotholes and unanswered questions. VHS, Webcast and DVD releases VHS release: The original televsion version of Shada was released in 1992 on VHS and featured linking narration by Tom Baker and was accompanied by a facsimile of a version of 's script (except in North America). The release was discontinued in the UK in 1996. Webcast: The webcast version (originally broadcast via BBCi's "Red Button") remains available from the BBC Doctor Who "classic series" website, and an expanded audio-only version is available for purchase on CD from Big Finish. This expanded version was the one broadcast on BBC7. DVD: announced on 8 September 2011 that his personally-funded reconstruction of all six episodes of the serial, using animation and recently-recorded vocal tracks to fill in missing parts of the story, had now been completed. 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