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Post by allthingshorror on Jan 28, 2009 15:22:06 GMT
Alan W Lear, author of Let's Do Something Naughty from PBoH #25 died on the 26th Dec 2008.
Wiki gives the following:
Alan William Lear (born October 1953~died December 26 2008) was a Scottish writer of science fiction and horror, whose credits included the 1984 BBC Radio 4 play Why Not Take All of Me?
Lear wrote four plays for the Audio Visuals series of amateur-produced Doctor Who stories in the 1980s entitled Enclave Irrelative (which featured Michael Wisher as "Maul"), Minuet in Hell (again featuring Michael Wisher, this time as Lord Sandwich), Cloud Of Fear and Planet Of Lies (from an original scenario by Jim Mortimore). The latter saw the destruction of Gallifrey and the Time Lords by the Daleks many years before the 2005 revival of Doctor Who did something similar.
He was also the writer behind Audio Visuals' first foray into video production with the little seen drama Scarecrow City, starring Nicholas Briggs as Arthur Mowbray and Liz Knight as Penny dealing with unusual behaviour in the city of Pastonmouth.
In 2001, Minuet in Hell was extensively rewritten (by Lear with Gary Russell) and remade by Big Finish Productions for their range of audio dramas with Paul McGann featuring as the Eighth Doctor. A further story by Lear for Big Finish, Riders Of The Vortex, was abandoned due to creative difficulties with producer Gary Russell.
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Post by dem bones on Jan 28, 2009 16:45:17 GMT
Very sad. Aside from the stories used by Van Thal, Mary Danby, RCH and Richard Dalby, Alan Lear contributed to several small press publications, notably Ghosts & Scholars, Aklo, Dark Dreams and All Hallows. Rosemary Pardoe published his four story booklet Spirits of Another Sort (Haunted Library, 1992) and a certain small woman of my very close acquaintance illustrated his rather spicy Crueller Than God for Aklo.
R. I. P.
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