Editing Shada (Doctor Who)

{{Short description|Unaired 1979 TV serial, later reworked}}
{{DISPLAYTITLE:''Shada'' (''Doctor Who'')}}
{{Use British English|date=September 2012}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2018}}
{{Infobox Doctor Who episode
| number             = 108.5<ref>{{Cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220129001816/https://www.doctorwho.tv/stories/shada/ |archive-date=29 January 2022|url=https://www.doctorwho.tv/stories/shada/|title=Shada &#124; Doctor Who}}</ref>
| serial_name        = Shada
| show               = DW
| type               = serial
| image              = Shada (Doctor Who) pic.jpg
| image_size         = 
| caption            = 
| doctor             = [[Tom Baker]] – [[Fourth Doctor]]
| companions         = 
* [[Lalla Ward]] – [[Romana (Doctor Who)|Romana]]
* [[David Brierly|David Brierley]] – Voice of [[K9 (Doctor Who)|K9]]
| guests             = 
* [[Christopher Neame]] – Skagra
* [[Denis Carey (actor)|Denis Carey]] – [[Professor Chronotis]]
* [[Daniel Hill (actor)|Daniel Hill]] – Chris Parsons
* [[Victoria Burgoyne]] – Clare Keightley
* [[Gerald Campion]] – Wilkin
* Derek Pollitt – Dr Caldera
* [[John Hallet]] – Police Constable
* David Strong – Passenger
* Shirley Dixon – Voice of the Ship
* [[James Coombes (actor)|James Coombes]] – Voice of the Krargs
* James Muir, Lionel Sansby, Derek Suthern, Reg Woods – Krargs
| director           = {{ubl|[[Pennant Roberts]]{{efn|name=1980v|Original 1980 version}}|Charles Norton{{efn|name=2017v|2017 version}}}}
| writer             = [[Douglas Adams]]
| script_editor      = Douglas Adams
| producer           = {{ubl|[[Graham Williams (television producer)|Graham Williams]]{{efn|name=1980v}}|{{nowrap|[[John Nathan-Turner]]{{efn|name=1992v|1992 version}}}}|Charles Norton{{efn|name=2017v}}}}
| composer           = {{ubl|[[Keff McCulloch]]{{efn|name=1992v}}|[[Mark Ayres]]{{efn|name=2017v}}}}
| production_code    = 5M
| series             = [[Doctor Who (season 17)|Season 17]]
| length             = {{ubl|111 minutes{{efn|name=1992v}}|137 minutes{{efn|name=2017v}}|152 minutes{{efn|name=2021v|2021 version}}}}
| date               = {{Start date|2018|07|19|df=y}} (USA){{efn|The original serial would have aired weekly in the United Kingdom from 19 January to 23 February 1980.}} 
| preceding          = ''[[The Horns of Nimon]]''
| following          = ''[[The Leisure Hive]]''
}}

'''''Shada''''' is a story from the British [[science fiction television]] series ''[[Doctor Who]]''. Written by the series' script editor [[Douglas Adams]], it was intended as the final serial of the 1979–80 season ([[Doctor Who (season 17)|season 17]]) but was never originally completed, owing to [[strike action]] at the [[BBC]] during studio recording. Entering production as a six-part story (6 x 25-minute episodes) in 1979, the story was later revised to be broadcast as a four-part story (4 x 25-minute episodes) in 1980. Ultimately however, the story was never completed in either format.

The BBC released a completed version of ''Shada'' in 2017, with missing dialogue newly recorded by the original cast, using the same audio equipment employed in the initial shoot, and animated by the team that undertook the reconstruction of the 1966 serial ''[[The Power of the Daleks]]''.<ref name="radiotimes.com">{{cite magazine|url=http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2017-10-10/doctor-who-shada-tom-baker/#r3z-addoor|title=BBC regenerates 'lost' Tom Baker Doctor Who story Shada|magazine=Radio Times|access-date=11 October 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0767QDR9X/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1|title=Doctor Who Shada|date=25 November 2017|website=Amazon.co.uk|access-date=25 November 2017}}</ref> This version was released on DVD and Blu-ray in 2017, and finally broadcast on television as a feature length [[Television film|TV movie]]{{snd}}which was titled ''The Lost Episode'' rather than ''Shada''{{snd}}in 2018.

A new version with enhanced animation and split into six episodes was released on 20 December 2021, as part of a Season 17 Blu-ray boxset.<ref name=collection>{{cite web |title=Season 17 announced as the next instalment in The Collection Blu-ray range |publisher=www.doctorwho.tv |date=7 October 2021 |url=https://www.doctorwho.tv/news/?article=season-17-instalment-collection-bluray-range |access-date=7 October 2021}}</ref><ref name=released>{{cite web |title=Essential Christmas gifts for Doctor Who fans {{!}} Revisit a classic with the Collection Season 17 |publisher=www.doctorwho.tv |date=17 December 2021 |url=https://www.doctorwho.tv/news/?article=essential-christmas-gifts-for-doctor-who-fans-2021 |access-date=28 December 2021}}</ref>

Previous attempts to present the story include a narrated reconstruction for [[2 Entertain|BBC Video]]; a re-imagined [[radio drama|audio play]] by [[Big Finish Productions]], also offered with basic [[Adobe Flash|Flash]] imagery on [[BBC Red Button|BBCi]] and the BBC's ''Doctor Who'' website; and a novelisation by [[Gareth Roberts (writer)|Gareth Roberts]], based on the latest shooting scripts, with the author's own additions.<ref name="Southall" />

==Synopsis==
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The [[Fourth Doctor]] answers a distress signal from Professor Chronotis, a [[Time Lord]] posing as a professor at St Cedd's College, Cambridge who lent a [[Gallifrey]]an tome to his student Chris Parsons. The Doctor retrieves the book while Chronotis dies after his mind is extracted by the sphere of a mad scientist named Skagra, living long enough to warn [[Romana (Doctor Who)|Romana]], [[K9 (Doctor Who)|K9]], and Parsons of them and Shada. The Doctor locates Skagra's cloaked spacecraft, only for his companions to be captured while Skagra has his sphere extract the Doctor's mind to decode the book before taking Romana in the TARDIS to his carrier ship and Krarg creations. But the Doctor survives his ordeal with his mind intact and has the ship's computer release Chris and K9 and take them to a space station Skagra previously occupied. The group finds Skagra's discarded colleagues and learn he is after a Time Lord named Salyavin.

Back on Earth, Clare Keightley accidentally revives Chronotis whose chambers are revealed as a [[TARDIS]], the Professor explaining the book is a key to the prison planet Shada where Salyavin is held. Chronotis and Clare repair the TARDIS to reach Skagra's carrier, saving the Doctor and Chris after Skagra decodes the book and reveals his intent to absorb Salyavin's mind and use its [[telepathy]] to unite all life into a single Universal Mind.

The group reaches Shada as Skagra releases the prisoners, and Chronotis is revealed as Salyavin with Skagra extracting his mind and turning the prisoners and Chris into his thralls. Reminded that the Universal Mind contains a copy of his brain, the Doctor builds a telepathy helmet to wrest control from Skagra while the Krarg are destroyed. Skagra ends up a prisoner in his own ship while the Doctor returns the restored prisoners to Shada and parts ways with Chronotis, musing over Chronotis' exploits being exaggerated while expecting a similar treatment within two centuries.

==Production==
Originally, writer [[Douglas Adams]] presented a wholly different idea for the season's six-part finale, involving the Doctor's retirement from adventuring. Facing resistance from producer [[Graham Williams (television producer)|Graham Williams]], Adams chose to avoid work on a replacement, under the expectation that time pressures would eventually force the producer's hand and allow his idea to be used. Ultimately, however, Williams forced Adams to conceive a new story as a last-minute replacement, which became ''Shada''.

Under the original remit, Williams intended the story as a discussion about the death penalty, specifically how a civilisation like the Time Lords would deal with the issue and treat its prisoners.{{citation needed|date=December 2018}}

As composed by Adams, the story was scheduled to span six 25-minute episodes. Location filming in [[Cambridge]] and the first of three studio sessions at [[BBC Television Centre]] were completed as scheduled;<ref name="Southall" /> however, when the scheduled second studio block was due to start, it fell foul of a long-running technicians' dispute at the BBC.<ref name="Dicks" /> The strike was over by the onset of rehearsals for the third recording session, but ultimately the studio time was redirected to other higher-priority Christmas programming, leaving the serial incomplete.<ref name="Ley" />

Following the departure of Williams from the role of producer, attempts were made by new producer [[John Nathan-Turner]] to remount the story; for various reasons, however, this never transpired. Consequently, in June 1980, the production was formally dropped. It is estimated that only 50% of the story was filmed.<ref name="Southall" />

After the production halt, Adams expressed a low opinion of the script and was content to let it remain obscure, turning down offers to adapt the story in various forms. He once claimed that when he had signed the contract allowing the script's 1992 release (accompanying the serial's [[VHS]] reconstruction), it had been amongst a pile of papers sent over by his agent, and that he was unaware of what he was agreeing to.<ref name="Simpson" />

In 1983, footage from ''Shada'' was used in "[[The Five Doctors]]", the 20th Anniversary special. [[Tom Baker]], the fourth actor to play the Doctor, had declined to appear in the special, and the plot was reworked to explain the events in the scenes.<ref name="Dicks" />

===Cast notes===
[[Denis Carey (actor)|Denis Carey]] was subsequently cast as the [[eponym]]ous Keeper in Tom Baker's penultimate story, ''[[The Keeper of Traken]]'' (1981), and also appeared as the Borad's [[Avatar (computing)|avatar]] in ''[[Timelash]]'' (1985).

==Reconstruction==

===1992 VHS reconstruction===
A decade after the serial's abandonment, John Nathan-Turner set out to complete the story, in a fashion, by commissioning new effects shots and a score, and having Tom Baker record linking material to cover the missing scenes. The resulting shortened episodes (of between 14 and 22 minutes each) received a 111-minute VHS release in 1992. In its UK edition, the VHS was accompanied by a facsimile of a version of Douglas Adams's script.<ref name="Southall" /> The release was discontinued in the UK in 1996.

This VHS reconstruction, the 2003 [[BBC Red Button|BBCi]]/Big Finish adaptation, and the 1994<!-- Please note "Thirty Years in the Tardis" aired in 1993, then new material was added to that documentary and it became "More Than Thirty Years in the Tardis" which was released in 1994, so the number here is correct --> documentary ''More Than Thirty Years in the TARDIS'',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.doctorwhonews.net/2012/05/dwn030512103008-dvd-update-summer.html |title=DVD Update: Summer Schedule |publisher=Doctor Who News |access-date=9 October 2013}}</ref> were re-released together on DVD on 7 January 2013 as ''The Legacy Collection'' (UK) or simply ''Shada'' (North America).

===2017 animated restoration===
On 24 November 2017, an effort to complete the serial officially, using newly recorded dialogue from the original cast (using the serial's original recording engineer and audio equipment), and new animated footage to complete the missing segments, was released as a digital download; DVD and Blu-ray releases followed on 4 December that year, in Region 2.<ref>{{cite web |first=Cameron |last=McEwan |url=http://www.doctorwho.tv/whats-new/article/unfinished-fourth-doctor-classic-shada-to-be-finally-completed |title=Unfinished Fourth Doctor Classic 'Shada' To Be Finally Completed! |publisher=Doctor Who |date=10 October 2017 |access-date=10 October 2017 |archive-date=10 October 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171010104453/http://www.doctorwho.tv/whats-new/article/unfinished-fourth-doctor-classic-shada-to-be-finally-completed |url-status=dead }}</ref> The new sequences were animated by the same team that undertook the 2016 animated edition of the 1966 serial ''[[The Power of the Daleks]]'',<ref name="radiotimes.com"/> including director Charles Norton, with lead character art by Martin Geraghty, character shading by Adrian Salmon, props by Mike Collins, and background art by Daryl Joyce.<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Guerrier |first1=Simon |title=Story Preview: The Power of the Daleks |issue=505 |magazine=Doctor Who Magazine |date=December 2016}}</ref>

A two-disc Region 1 DVD release was originally set to be made available on 9 January 2018; this was later postponed in the US and Canada to 4 September that year.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Doctor-Shada/23830|title=Doctor Who – We've Waited This Long For 'Shada,' So What's Another...YEAR?!?!?!?!?|date=27 November 2017|access-date=28 November 2017|work=TVShowsOnDVD|first=David|last=Lambert|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201041222/http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Doctor-Shada/23830|archive-date=1 December 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B076W4DBYP |title=Doctor Who: Shada – Amazon.ca |access-date=3 December 2017 |via=Amazon}}</ref> The serial was released on 10 January 2018 in Region 4.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.jbhifi.com.au/movies-tv-shows/movies-tv-shows-on-sale/tv-sci-fi/doctor-who-shada/548100/ |title=Doctor Who – Shada |publisher=Doctor Who |access-date=4 December 2017}}</ref>

The final completed version received its US debut broadcast on 19 July 2018, on [[BBC America]], with guide data giving the episode title as "The Lost Episode" rather than "Shada".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/la-et-st-tvhighlights-20180719-story.html |title=Thursday's TV highlights: 'Doctor Who: The Lost Episode' on BBC America |last=Stockly |first=Ed |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=18 July 2018 |access-date=20 July 2018}}</ref>

===2021 animated restoration===
Season 17 of ''Doctor Who'' was released on Blu-ray on 20 December 2021 as part of the Collection series, including a new version of Shada with enhanced animation. Whereas the 2017 version was only available in omnibus form, the new version was presented in the form of six separate episodes.<ref name=collection/><ref name=released/>

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==Other adaptations ==
{{Infobox audio drama
|title=Shada
|italic title = no 
|publisher=[[Big Finish Productions]]
|series=[[Doctor Who]]
|number=II
|featuring={{plainlist|
* [[Eighth Doctor]] – [[Paul McGann]]
* [[Romana II]] – [[Lalla Ward]]
* [[K9 (Doctor Who)|K9 Mk. II]] – [[John Leeson]]
* Skagra – [[Andrew Sachs]]
* [[Professor Chronotis]] – [[James Fox]]
* Chris Parsons – [[Sean Biggerstaff]]
* Clare Keightley – [[Susannah Harker]]
* Wilkin – [[Melvyn Hayes]]
* Dr Caldera – [[Barnaby Edwards]]
* Motorist/Constable – Stuart Crossman
* The Ship – [[Hannah Gordon]]
* Think Tank Voice – [[Nicholas Pegg]]
}}
|cover= Shada (audio).jpg
|writer=[[Douglas Adams]], [[Gary Russell]]
|director=[[Gary Russell]]
|producer=Gary Russell
|production_code=II
|length=150
|date=December 2003
|}}

===Big Finish audio play and web animation (2003)===
{{Anchor|Eighth Doctor}}
In 2003, the BBC commissioned [[Big Finish Productions]] to remake ''Shada'' as an audio play which was then webcast<ref name="Southall" /><ref name="bbcwebcasts" /> in six episodic segments, accompanied by limited [[Adobe Flash|Flash]] animation, on the [[bbc.co.uk|BBC website]] using illustrations provided by comic strip artist [[Lee Sullivan (comics)|Lee Sullivan]].<ref name="LeeSullivan" /> The play stars [[Paul McGann]] as the [[Eighth Doctor]] and [[Lalla Ward]] as Romana. The audio play was also broadcast on digital radio station [[BBC Radio 4 Extra|BBC7]], on 10 December 2005 (as a 2½-hour omnibus), and was repeated in six parts as the opening story to the Eighth Doctor's summer season, which began on 16 July 2006.

The webcast version (originally broadcast via BBCi's "Red Button") remains available from the BBC ''Doctor Who'' "classic series" website{{citation needed|date=November 2023}} and an expanded audio-only version is available for purchase on CD from Big Finish. This expanded version was the one broadcast on BBC7.

====Production====
Tom Baker was originally approached to reprise the role of the Doctor, but declined. The Eighth Doctor was then substituted and the story reworked accordingly.

Portions of the Big Finish version were reworked by [[Gary Russell]] to make the story fit into ''Doctor Who'' continuity. This included a new introduction, and a new explanation for the Fourth Doctor and Romana being "taken out of time" during the events of "The Five Doctors": the [[Eighth Doctor]] has come to collect Romana and K9 because he has begun to have a feeling that there was something they should have done at that time.{{citation needed|date=November 2012}}

When Skagra is investigating the Doctor, clips from three other Big Finish productions can be heard, exclusively on the CD version – ''[[The Fires of Vulcan]]'', ''[[The Marian Conspiracy]]'' and ''[[Phantasmagoria (audio drama)|Phantasmagoria]]''. The original serial was to have used clips from ''[[The Pirate Planet]]'' (1978), ''[[The Power of Kroll]]'' (1978–79), ''[[The Creature from the Pit]]'' (1979), ''[[The Androids of Tara]]'' (1978), ''[[Destiny of the Daleks]]'' (1979), and ''[[City of Death]]'' (1979).{{citation needed|date=November 2012}}

====Outside references====
In Episode 2 of the webcast version, when Chris is in his lab showing Clare the book, a vending machine-like object in the background is labelled "Nutrimat", a reference to a similar device in Adams' ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]''. Two other references are a sequence where Skagra steals a [[Ford Prefect (car)|Ford Prefect]] and when images of ''Hitchhiker's Guide'' characters appear as inmates on Shada itself.

===Ian Levine animated version (2011)===
In 2010, [[Ian Levine]] funded an unofficial project to complete the original ''Shada'' story using animation and the original voice actors, minus Tom Baker and David Brierley, to complete the parts of the story that were never filmed. [[John Leeson]] replaced Brierley as the voice of K9, and Paul Jones (voice actor and commercial radio producer)<ref>{{IMDb name |id=nm2458850 |name=Paul Jones (XXVI)}}</ref> replaced Tom Baker as the Doctor.<ref name="Southall" /> The completed story was finished in late 2011 and announced by Levine, via his Twitter account, on 8 September 2011.<ref name="Southall" /><ref name="Burk" /> J. R. Southall, writer for the science fiction magazine ''[[Starburst (magazine)|Starburst]]'', reviewed the completed version at Levine's invitation and scored it 10 out of 10 in an article published on 15 September 2011.<ref name="Southallreview" /> The completed Levine version appeared on torrent sites over two years later, on 12 October 2013.

==In print==
===Novelisation and audio book (2012)===
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|author = Gareth Roberts
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|release_date = 15 March 2012
|publisher = [[BBC Books]]
|pages = 416
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Elements of the story were reused by Adams for his novel ''[[Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency]]'', in particular the character of Professor Chronotis who possesses a time machine. Adams did not allow ''Shada'', or any of his other ''Doctor Who'' stories, to be novelised by [[Target Books]]. It is, therefore, one of only five serials from the 1963–1989 series not to be novelised by Target – along with Adams' other stories ''[[The Pirate Planet]]'' and ''[[City of Death]]'', plus [[Eric Saward]]'s two [[Dalek]] stories (''[[Resurrection of the Daleks]]'' and ''[[Revelation of the Daleks]]'').

A six-part adaptation of the story by Jonathan V. Way appeared in issues 13–18 of ''Cosmic Masque'', the [[Doctor Who Appreciation Society]]'s fiction magazine. Adams granted permission for the adaptation on condition that it was never published in collected form.<ref name="Foster" />

[[BBC Books]] published a novelisation of this serial on 15 March 2012, written by [[Gareth Roberts (writer)|Gareth Roberts]]. Roberts drew on the latest versions of the scripts available, as well as adding new material of his own to "fix" what he viewed as various plotholes and unanswered questions.<ref name="Berriman" /> [[Nicholas Pegg]], in his review of the book for ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'', heartily praised it, calling it a "successful duet".<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Pegg|first=Nicholas|date=4 April 2012|title=The DWM Review: Shada|magazine=[[Doctor Who Magazine]]|publisher=[[Panini Comics]]|location=Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent|issue=445|pages=72–73}}</ref>

====Audio book====
[[AudioGo]] released an unabridged audiobook of Roberts' novelization on 15 March 2012.  Narrated by Lalla Ward, with John Leeson voicing K9, it runs 11 hours and 30 minutes.  It was made available for download or on 10 CDs (CD {{ISBN|978-1-4458-6763-2}}, Download {{ISBN|9781445867656}}).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.audiogo.com/doctor-who-shada |title=Doctor Who: Shada Audiobook on Audio CD, Audio Download, buy now from |publisher=AudioGO |access-date=9 October 2013}}</ref>  Vanessa Bishop reviewed it favourably for ''Doctor Who Magazine'', singling out Simon E. Power's sound design for special praise.<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Bishop|first=Vanessa|date=30 May 2012|title=The DWM Review: Shada|magazine=[[Doctor Who Magazine]]|publisher=[[Panini Comics]]|location=Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent|issue=447|pages=72–73}}</ref>

==Reviews==
[[Paul Cornell]], [[Martin Day (writer)|Martin Day]], and [[Keith Topping]] gave the serial (at the time in the form of the 1992 VHS reconstruction) a mixed review in ''[[The Discontinuity Guide]]'' (1995), saying; {{cquote|'I dunno, nowadays they'll publish anything.' Infamous because it was never completed, it was for a long time stated that ''Shada'' would have been the highlight of the seventeenth season. What was filmed doesn't quite encourage such optimism. It's a very cheap looking story, and there are lashings of bad puns and dull comedy, including three takes on the 'One lump or two?/Sugar?' joke. Against that, the basic plot is interesting – almost justifying its six episodes, which is rare – and the Cambridge scenes, though stilted, are well executed. It's hugely flawed, but it's a shame that this one was clobbered by a strike and ''[[The Creature from the Pit]]'' wasn't.<ref name=Discontinuity />}}

Patrick Mulkern reviewed the 2017 partially reconstructed version for ''[[Radio Times]]'', and thought that despite "pockets of magic to enjoy", it was a "sprawling but far-from-epic serial". He felt that the humour was repetitive and fell flat, and that the action was pedestrian.  Mulkern recommended the novelisation by Gareth Roberts as a superior alternative.<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Mulkern |first1=Patrick |title=Tom Baker returns in Shada but is this lost Doctor Who still a plodder? |url=https://www.radiotimes.com/news/2018-07-25/tom-baker-returns-in-shada-but-is-this-lost-doctor-who-still-a-plodder/ |magazine=[[Radio Times]] |date=24 November 2017}}</ref>

==Notes==
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==References==
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<ref name="Simpson">{{cite book | last = Simpson | first = M. J. | author-link = M. J. Simpson | title = [[Hitchhiker: A Biography of Douglas Adams]] | year = 2005 | publisher = [[Justin, Charles & Co.]] | location = Boston, Massachusetts, US | isbn = 9781932112351 | oclc = 144991011}}</ref>

<ref name="bbcwebcasts">{{cite web | url = http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/webcasts/shada/ | title = BBC – Doctor Who – Classic Series – Webcasts – Shada | year = 2003 |work=BBC | access-date =19 November 2010}}</ref>

<ref name="LeeSullivan">{{cite web | url = http://www.leesullivanart.co.uk/LEE/webcasts.htm | title = Lee Sullivan Art, Doctor Who Webcasts | first = Lee | last = Sullivan | year = 2008 | work = Lee Sullivan Art | publisher = Lee Sullivan | access-date =19 November 2010}}</ref>

<ref name="Berriman">{{cite web | url = http://www.sfx.co.uk/2012/03/06/doctor-who-adapting-douglas-adams/ | title = Doctor Who: Adapting Douglas Adams | first = Ian | last = Berriman | date = 6 March 2012 | work = SFX | publisher = Future Publishing Limited}}</ref>

<ref name="Southall">{{cite magazine |last1 = Southall |first1 = J. R. |editor-last = Jordan |editor-first = Royce |date = 12 September 2011 |title = Doctor Who and the Shada Man |magazine = [[Starburst (magazine)|Starburst Magazine]] |location = London, England |issn = 0955-114X |oclc = 79615651 |access-date = 1 April 2012 |url = http://www.starburstmagazine.com/features/feature-articles/915-doctor-who-and-the-shada-man |url-status = dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120103184356/http://www.starburstmagazine.com/features/feature-articles/915-doctor-who-and-the-shada-man |archive-date = 3 January 2012 |df = dmy-all}}</ref>

<ref name="Burk">{{cite web | url = http://dwin.org/home/blog/article/shadariffic/ | title = Shadariffic | first = Graeme | last = Burk | date = 16 September 2011 | work = Doctor Who Blog | publisher = Doctor Who Information Network | access-date =1 April 2012}}</ref>

<ref name="Foster">{{cite web | url = http://www.doctorwhonews.net/2012/02/dwn130212150008-shada.html | title = Doctor Who News: Shada | first = Chuck | last = Foster | date = 13 February 2012 | work = Doctor Who News | publisher = News in Time and Space | access-date =3 April 2012}}</ref>

<ref name="Dicks">{{cite video | last = Dicks | first = Terrance | author-link = Terrance Dicks | title = Doctor Who: The Five Doctors | date = 11 September 2001 | medium = DVD |publisher=BBC | location = London, England | time = 12:45 | oclc = 52906976}}</ref>

<ref name="Discontinuity">{{cite book |last1=Cornell |first1=Paul |author-link1=Paul Cornell |last2=Day |first2=Martin |author-link2=Martin Day (writer) |last3=Topping |first3=Keith |author-link3=Keith Topping |title=Doctor Who: The Discontinuity Guide |year=1995 |publisher=[[Virgin Books|Doctor Who Books]] |location=London |isbn=0-426-20442-5 |pages=248–9 |chapter=109 'Shada' |chapter-url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/episodeguide/shada/detail.shtml#bottomline}}</ref>

<ref name="Southallreview">{{cite magazine | last1 = Southall | first1 = J. R. | editor-last = Jordan | editor-first = Royce | date = 15 September 2011 | title = Review: Doctor Who 'Shada' |magazine=[[Starburst (magazine)|Starburst Magazine]] | location = London. England | issn = 0955-114X | oclc = 79615651 | access-date =3 April 2012 | url = http://www.starburstmagazine.com/reviews/doctor-whotv-episode-reviews/929-doctor-who-shada}}</ref>
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==Bibliography==
* Howe, David J; Stammers, Mark; Walker, Stephen James. ''Doctor Who: The Seventies'' (1994) (London: Doctor Who Books) {{ISBN|9781852274443}}

==External links==
{{Wikiquote|Fourth Doctor}}
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* {{BBCCDW|id=shada|title=Shada}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110708112925/http://www.cambridgetimetraveller.com/live/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=351:doctor-who-douglas-adams-a-cambridge&catid=2:cambridge-history&Itemid=3 Cambridge Time Traveller Group, Article on Shada], 
*{{ISFDB title|id=1374828|title=Shada: The Lost Adventure by Douglas Adams}}

===Fan novelisation===
* [http://nzdwfc.tetrap.com/archive/shada/ ''Doctor Who and Shada''] ebook
*{{ISFDB title|id=1724598|title=Shada}}

===Webcast===
* [https://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/webcasts/shada/ ''Shada'' webcast on the BBC website]
* [http://www.bigfinish.com/Doctor-Who-Shada Big Finish Productions – ''Shada'']

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