Nov 17, 2020
"Doctor Medec was a fine-looking man with a neat beard, but his demeanour had struck many as being affectedly antiquated, and his eyebrows gave his face a hint of amusement that some had taken as being at their expense."-- The Knocking in the Mineshaft by Simon Bucher-Jones
Our chronologically earliest Doctor is based on Christopher Barry (1925-2014), director of The Brain of Morbius and nine other Doctor Who stories from 1963 to 1979. Simon Bucher-Jones' story finds him in eighteenth-century Cornwall, investigating a mysterious, perhaps malevolent, presence in an abandoned tin mine.