Monster bash
- Publication: Radio Times
- Date: 1989-09-02
- Author:
- Page: 96
- Language: English
Ace in a frock? Doctor Who's tomboy assistant has even more surprises up her sleeve in store. Sophie Aldred tells all ...
MET ANY GOOD monsters recently? I have. In fact, I recently encountered the most scary ones so far - worse than the Cybermen or even the Daleks. They're called Haemovores and they're after people's blood!
According to the Doctor, Haemovore is the correct technical term, but they're vampires if you ask me. They are really horrible, with hideously deformed faces and they're what humans evolve into in millions of years' time - although actually they're from the past.
That story - The Curse of Fenric - is set in wartime Britain, so wait until you see my clothes and haircut. I've decided I should blend in a bit more and not just wear my old black bomber jacket and badges all the time. For another adventure, Ghost Light, we end up in a Victorian house and I have to wear a rather beautiful dress. The only problem is that they used to wear corsets underneath, which didn't go down too well!
That house is really spooky. It is full of pale-looking maids and a housekeeper who are all taken over by these monsters called the Husks. They wear dinner suits so they look all right until you see their hands and faces - one is an insect and the other a reptile, with enormous bulbous eyes.
Then there are the Cheetah People that we meet on a strange planet in a story called Survival who try to turn everyone into big cats like themselves.
I quite like them in a way - a that running around in wide open spaces appeals to me - and I mall friends with one of them. But real] they are dangerous fighting, killing creatures, like real cheetahs.
There is one adventure that doesn't have any monsters. It is like King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, only from another dimension. I was a bit disappointed that I never get to have a sword fight, although I do wield a sword but you'll have to wait and see how that happens!
This time the Doctor really does seem to have gone out of his way to make me face up to things that frighten me. He's a trickster, that' why I like him - I'm a bit of a rebel and he's a rebel Time Lord. Maybe he's made me grow up a bit, a though I haven't lost my appetite for adventure, you'll be pleased to hear. I'm not really one to sit around in the Tardis and knit! •
Sophie Aldred returns in Doctor Who on Wednesday BBC1-and look out for her in a new series of Corners beginning on BBC1 next week
Caption: Out for blood: the Haemovores (inset) just one of the monstrous foes Sophie Aldred does battle with in the new Doctor Who
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