Suites and Musicals

Stardust County

1999
The songs, the legend, the C&W ballad about werewolves that grew into an opera! Jennifer Ashley calls it "one part fantasy, one part paranormal romance, one part western."

Arizona Harbors

1988
Written when I was a relative newcomer to Arizona, and the novelty of the desert landscape - physical, social, and political - was still a fasctinating puzzle to be solved. Meant to close side one of Welcome to the Real World; since I was using 60-minute cassette tape it ran about 30 seconds long and so "Cactustown" got bumped to the other side.

The Once and Future Doctor

1987
In this musical mash-up of "Trial of a Time Lord" and "Camelot", the Doctor shoots Peri, but no-one can fault him for that. Next, a mad scientist who, thanks to a typo, spent ten years on a dessert planet, unleashes a horde of ravening blancmonges upon humanity! Can the Doctor, Melanie, and the script survive the ever-encroaching tide of Python references? A Barking Gecko production.

Singin' in the Vortex

1986
In this no-budget fan vid from Barking Gecko productions, the Doctor and Peri are menaced by a cockroach. Not a giant cockroach, a normal sized one. Queen Thalidomide's Chancellor of the Eschewer vows that the Doctor will pay for what the Time Lords have done to him - and he does, using Peri's Visa card. Meanwhile, Peri talks the Master's ear off, and, oh, who cares how it ends?