The Shakespeare Code by Terrance Dicks. The planet Rexel 4 is named in an episode of "The Tomorrow People" from 1974. The Doctor quotes the line, "Rage, rage against the dying of the light," from "Do not go gentle into that good night" by Dylan Thomas — but warns Shakespeare he cannot use it as it is "somebody else's". The episode was Gareth Roberts' first writing credit proper on the show, however he had written for Doctor Who many times before. He started writing some Virgin New Adventures, a series of "Doctor Who" novels, with "The Highest Science" (1993). He went on to
Good Night, Dear Heart Horton, the new Red Scare, the new boogeyman for the masses" and the then-pending ballot initiatives in the states of Colorado (Amendment 2) and Oregon (Measure 9) that would have stripped gay and lesbian people of the right even to petition for gay rights legislation in those states. Mangels criticized "Quantum Leap" for its portrayal of Stephanie as a lesbian killer and for the lack of positive gay portrayals on the series. Noting the series's theme of "setting right what once went wrong", Mangels wrote that "Up Against a Stonewall" was his attempt to do just that. Good Night, Dear