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September 1965 saw the return to our screens of Doctor Who for its third series with a

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story called Galaxy 4.

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Now sadly Galaxy 4 was one of the many which didn't survive the mass junking of archive

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material by the BBC in the 1970s.

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And to make matters worse, and unlike many of the later Doctor Who stories, no tele-snaps,

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no publicity, hardly any publicity photographs, and virtually no photographic evidence of

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any kind remains for this serial.

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Apart from that is one five minute tele-cine segment and one short section which was recorded

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off screen by a fan.

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Nothing else exists.

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Consequently the reconstruction of this story has been done in a rather unique way.

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It has made use of what publicity photographs and what on set photographs remain, plus existing

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material from other stories and various filmed reconstructions made by the Loose Cannon team.

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Very brave project and I think they've succeeded rather well.

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Now at this time stories were still being written in their original drafts for the Doctor's

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original companions, Ian and Barbara.

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So I unfortunately got landed with a great number of the lines which were meant and intended

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originally for Barbara.

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Consequently my character Stephen really never came to the surface at all, for which I was

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rather disappointed.

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I also was rather upset by the fact that in one of the scenes Stephen was overpowered

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by Marga, the leader of the Dravins.

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Though I suppose for many people to be overpowered by a magnificent Amazonian lady would be the

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stuff of their dreams.

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But I have to say that in spite of the fact that four magnificent leading ladies who played

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the Dravins was not sufficient to make Galaxy 4 one of my favourite stories.

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Obviously with the limitations that I've already told you about it would be impossible for

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a complete reconstruction to be made exactly like the original.

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But the Loose Cannon team have been working away like mad for over a year on this particular

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reconstruction.

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They've done a marvellous job and I think you'll enjoy what they have done with Galaxy

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4.