![]() ![]() Such was Dicks' input into this that his successor, Robert Holmes, had to join the production team well before he was officially credited with the role. However, we should mention that Hayles was a writer who was frequently paid for earlier drafts of stories which were subsequently heavily rewritten by the script editor (Gerry Davis for The Celestial Toymaker, and Dicks himself for two of the Ice Warrior stories - this one and The Seeds of Death). ![]() ![]() As we mentioned when looking at Curse, Barry Letts and Terrance Dicks have stated many times that this topicality was never intentional, though both admit that the zeitgeist may have found its way into Hayles' scripts. It is ironic that these two stories also just happen to be those most steeped in 1970's current affairs. There have been many appearances by returning aliens and characters, but Monster explicitly shows the consequences of events from Curse, albeit 50 years later. ![]() Credited to Brian Hayles, it is a sequel to that earlier story - one of the rare sequels from the Classic phase of the programme. The Monster of Peladon's main inspiration is, of course, The Curse of Peladon, broadcast two seasons previously. ![]()
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