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
Gentle Giant "I hated making (that) last record, I hated being involved with it." In 2005, Derek Shulman reflected ""Civilian" was done with less passion than some of the other albums. As it turns out we as a band were just not good at being rock or pop stars. We would have loved to be as popular as a Genesis or Rush or Yes. In hindsight, I sometimes think that Gentle Giant was wrongfully put into the progressive rock category. Much of what we did was very clever, but we certainly didn't do these long complex tunes like Yes or Genesis did."