Saturday 29 October 2016
We have a storage problem: not enough room for our DVDs. Husband has a brilliant idea: if he throws out all his remaining old
Doctor Who VHS tapes we can no longer watch (he has slowly been replacing them with DVDs), then the
Doctor Who DVDs can go in the
TARDIS video cabinet, making space in our other storage units.
Problem 1: Find the autograph. I distinctly remember Colin Baker signing a VHS cassette at the Who shop that briefly appeared in Little Chalfont, whilst avoiding falling Silurian masks. Obviously we don't want to throw that one out. But none of the VHS tapes in the TARDIS are of Sixth Doctor stories. The later VHS tapes are downstairs, but the only Sixth Doctor story we have left is Trial of a Time Lord, and that hasn't been signed. Have we already ditched the autograph by mistake?
Problem solved: Husband finds the autographed cassette. It turns out to be the 1994 Bill Baggs Video The Zero Imperative, starring Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy, John Pertwee, Caroline John, Louise Jameson, Sophie Aldred and Linda Lusardi. (Spot the odd one out...) There is also an appearance by the writer, a young man called Mark Gatiss. I wonder what happened to him?
Problem 2: DVDs are slightly deeper than VHS tapes. The doors of the TARDIS no longer close properly, and one of them comes off completely. Husband has another (not so) brilliant idea: we take the other door off to match.
I have a better idea: we put the Virgin New Adventures and Missing Adventures in the TARDIS, and the DVDs on the bookshelf.
The books fit, and I wield my (totally un-sonic) screwdriver to fix the doors.
Just one problem left. Where shall we keep The Zero Imperative?
