Boarding a Nostalgia Tours bus, The Doctor and Mel go for a holiday. They will soon learn that their fellow passenger Delta is a Chimeron Queen, fleeing from the Bannermen who wish to make her species extinct. Thus, the time travellers’ trip to Shangri-La turns into a battle against genocide…
NOTES
The scenes at the Shangri-La holiday camp were shot on location at the Butlins Holiday camp on Barry Island, Wales. The holiday camp is no longer there, but the island was used again, this time as a stand-in for a bomb site in 1941 London, in the 2005 series episodes “The Empty Child” and “The Doctor Dances”.
The soundtrack of this serial contained a higher-than-usual number of recognisable pop songs, although due to licensing costs all were re-recorded by “The Lovells”, a fictional group created by the show’s incidental music composer Keff McCullough. The songs featured in the serial were: “Rock Around the Clock”, “Singing the Blues”, “Why Do Fools Fall in Love”, “Mr. Sandman “, “Goodnight, Sweetheart”, “That’ll Be the Day”, “Only You”, “Lollipop”, “Who’s Sorry Now?” and “Happy Days Are Here Again”.
The motorbike ridden by Billy in this story is a Vincent, made by British manufacturer Vincent Motorcycles. The guitar The Doctor is seen hugging at the end of the story is a Squier Stratocaster by Fender, although the model is not one available at the time the story was set. The TARDIS scenes were recorded during production of the next story Dragonfire.
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