Doctor Who:
The Stones of Blood
By David Fisher
“How do you know? You've
been locked in that capsule for four thousand years! Even the finest piece of
machinery deteriorates after that time. Rust, dust, pieces of fluff. Think how
you'd feel if you condemn an innocent humanoid to death just because you got a
bit of fluff stuck in your sprocket wheel or whatever it is you've got in
there.”
The locator sends The
Doctor and Romana to a planet The Doctor knows all too well. Earth is the location of the third segment and
before they arrive the travelers receive a warning from The White Guardian to
beware The Black Guardian. They arrive
at a stone circle called the Nine Travelers which is in Boscombe Moor, Cornwall. There they meet up with Professor Amelia
Rumford and her friend Vivien Fay who is surveying the stones.
Things do not seem as they
appear as two of the stones seem to be alive. Two of them in fact are Ogri and
they are blood sucking rocks. Yes that is
right they drink blood to survive and have been getting their fair share from
campers to druids. Things seem to be
crazy as and not what they seem as it turns out that Vivian isn’t really Vivian
at all as the leader of a druid cult is actually Cessair of Diplos a big time
criminal who is awaiting trial by the Megara who are Judge, Jury and Executioner.
So to find the next segment The Doctor and Romana have a whole lot to sort out
first.
David Fisher who wrote four Tom Baker stories died on January 10th 2018. The four stories he wrote were for the later Tom Baker years and they are the 1978 stories The Stones of Blood and The Androids of Tara, the 1979 story The Creature from the Pit and the 1980 story The Leisure Hive. He also had a hand in the story The City of Death which he couldn't finish due to person reasons and handed it over to Douglas Adams to finish. You can read more at the Doctor Who news page.
