Mission to Magnus
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| Author | Philip Martin |
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| Cover artist | Alister Pearson |
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Doctor Who book: Doctor Who Missing Episodes |
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Release number
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3 |
| Subject | Featuring: Sixth Doctor Peri |
| Set in | Period between The Nightmare Fair and Leviathan |
| Publisher | Target Books |
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Publication date
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12 July 1990 |
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| Preceded by | The Ultimate Evil Remembrance of the Daleks |
| Followed by | None Ghost Light |
| Mission to Magnus | |
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| Big Finish Productions audio drama | |
| Series | Doctor Who: The Lost Stories |
| Release no. | 2 |
| Featuring |
Sixth Doctor Peri Brown |
| Written by | Philip Martin |
| Directed by | Lisa Bowerman |
| Executive producer(s) |
Nicholas Briggs Jason Haigh-Ellery |
| Production code | 6Y/AB |
| Release date | December 2009 |
Mission to Magnus is a story originally written to be part of the unfilmed 1986 season of Doctor Who. It was novelised by its scriptwriter Philip Martin, who had previously written the television stories Vengeance on Varos and Mindwarp.
The story is set after another unfilmed story, The Nightmare Fair.
A novelisation of the story was published by Target Books in 1990 as the third volume of its Missing Episodes series. A Big Finish audio adaptation of the story was published in 2009.
The Sixth Doctor and Peri find themselves being threatened by Anzor, an old school bully from the Doctor's time on Gallifrey, who locks the TARDIS in orbit above the planet of Magnus. On this planet, Anzor has been working with the female upper caste to his own ends, alongside the Doctor's old enemy Sil. When the Doctor investigates further, he discovers that the polar icecaps of the planet hide an even darker foe — the Ice Warriors.
It was announced in 1985 that Michael Grade, controller of BBC1, had cancelled a number of long-running programmes in order to help fund the launch of a new soap opera named EastEnders. Of the many programmes that were cancelled, Doctor Who was the most high-profile. A campaign was quickly launched by the national press to see about its return and Grade very quickly confirmed that Doctor Who would be returning in 1986.
Several stories had already been in the planning stages for the 23rd Season of Doctor Who, three of which were in the middle of being scripted when the announcement was made. Writer Philip Martin, who had seen mild success with his script for Vengeance on Varos the previous year, was asked by producer John Nathan-Turner to write a script containing the return of the popular Sil, introduced in that story. He also requested the inclusion of the Ice Warriors, who hadn't been seen in Doctor Who since The Monster of Peladon in 1974. As the third in production, this script was the least complete at the time of the cancellation, and no director had yet been announced (evidence suggests it might have been Ron Jones, who helmed both of Martin's other scripts for the series).
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