![]() ![]() Contemporary reviews criticised the humorous tone, but we now know it is an absolute classic work of Douglas Adams and also a very good Doctor Who story. Adams was offered the chance to novelise his Who stories in the 1980s, but there was the small matter of his becoming a bestselling writer with The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy in 1979 and the pitiful fee on which Target Books refused to budge. ![]() This in mind, but not to take away from the glory, it managed to gain 16 million viewers by its fourth and final episode, making it the best rating Doctor Who story ever broadcast. All these hurdles overcome, the story was screened on the BBC during an ITV strike. Rewritten (from an original story by David Fisher) over a weekend by Douglas Adams, armed with nothing but a typewriter and a bottle of whiskey, it took the Doctor and Romana to Paris on a shoestring budget and public holiday weekend meaning many of the shooting locations were closed. The Doctor Who story City of Death has quite a legacy. ![]()
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