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Last words…for a while.

The Doctor (Sylvester McCoy) and Ace (Sophie Aldred) in “Survival”.

“There are worlds out there where the sky is burning, the sea’s asleep and the rivers dream. People made of smoke and cities made of song. Somewhere there is danger and somewhere there’s injustice and somewhere else the tea is getting cold…

“Come on Ace, we’ve got work to do.”

My friend Andrew Cartmel wrote those words twenty-six years ago, and they closed out what was—for fifteen years—the final season of Doctor Who on 6 December 1989.