Attentive readers of this newsletter, assuming it has any, will have been expecting Genesis of the Daleks next. It was, after all, on the same tape as last issue’s The Sontaran Experiment. But when posting that episode out, I tried to link to last year’s email on The Time Warrior and realised that despite being finished, it was never sent. So, here’s a Missing Episode of Psychic Paper. A blast from an imaginary past. Which is weirdly appropriate, given its content.

“Baked Potato changed my life. Baked Potato showed me the way. If you want to know what is wrong from right you must listen to what the Baked Potato say.”

The Time Warrior is one of the Doctor Who stories I first saw when renting the VHS. It is, in fact, the last of this strange and select group. I was getting a little older, and not that far away from having Saturday jobs with which to fund my burgeoning VHS collection habit. I was also moving away from wanting action figures for Christmas and Birthday presents. (I’ve since moved back). It’s a weird sort of key story for me, then. The kind of milestone you only notice long after it’s passed. Which is fitting given the nature of the serial. The Time Warrior is one of the most influential Doctor Who stories ever made, and in ways that no one could have predicted at the time.