Writer's Notes

In the moment of creation you’re making art for the ages, only to realise that everything’s written on water. But like a returning comet, Doctor Who stays in your life.

Nightmare Country was my detailed pitch for Season 21 and would have been my third story for the show, but for a terse note from the production office that read, "You’ve sent us another million-dollar movie and we just can’t do them."

Some ideas you can recycle, some parts you can reuse; but where do you find another show like Who? So my million dollar movie went into the files and I moved on, until the day my and the Doctor’s paths crossed again.

Sometimes, it seems, you just have to stay ready and keep the faith.

Stephen Gallagher