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CT of Death was a short-lived tapezine produced from 1988 to 1989 by Doctor Who fans Alastair Hooley and David Bickerstaff. The two-volume series consisted primarily of non-fiction articles and sketches about the contemporary era of Doctor Who. Its title was a humorous portmanteau of the titles of the fanzine The Celestial Toyroom and the Doctor Who serial City of Death [+]Loading...["City of Death (TV story)"].[1][2] The duo attempted to submit an advertisement to be printed in Doctor Who Appreciation Society's Celestial Toyroom fanzine, but they rejected it,[1] leading the duo to submit the advertisement to Doctor Who Bulletin,[2] who "weren't so fussy!"[1] Customers had to send in their own C60 tape for the duo to record the audio onto, for the cost of 30p.[2]
Currently, no archived copies of this tapezine series exist online; a remastered version of volume #1 was available on Alastair Hooley's website by 2013, with plans to release the second volume in the same way,[2] but the website has since gone defunct and no archived copies of the download page are preserved on the Web Archive. Therefore, both volumes of CT of Death appear to be lost media, unless if physical copies remain in private collections.
Volume #1 contained a comparison between "The Pilot Episode [+]Loading...{"noital":"1","1":"The Pilot Episode"}" and "An Unearthly Child" [+]Part of An Unearthly Child, Loading...{"namedep":"An Unearthly Child (1)","1":"An Unearthly Child (TV story)"}, a two-part review of Directors in Who, a review of Donald Cotton's works, skits and a quiz.[2] It had a runtime of sixty minutes.[1]
Volume #2 was released a year later after the positive reception of volume #1, with an extra half an hour in runtime. After the issues of finding material for the first volume, Hooley and Bickerstaff found that much more content was submitted, including a now-lost audio play by Paul Magrs, an immature child who recorded himself pretending to shoot John Nathan-Turner whilst playing Rambo on his ZX Spectrum ― this caused concern to Hooley and Bickerstaff, who believed that their listeners had an immature mentality ― but these thoughts were mitigated by the next contributions they looked through, which weren't anywhere near as silly.[1]
Needless to say, the Rambo contribution never made it on to Issue 2.
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Alan Hayes. CT of Death. The Tapezine Matrix. Archived from the original on 4 September 2016. Retrieved on 14 March 2024.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Alastair Hooley (2009). Audio. Stair's Stuff. Archived from the original on 27 November 2013. Retrieved on 14 March 2024.