HMS Bellerophon (1786) Admiralty at the time, John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, had apparently selected the name from Lemprière's Classical Dictionary, which he kept on his desk. The recently ordered 74-gun ship was thereafter to be named after the Greek warrior Bellerophon who rode the winged horse Pegasus and slew the monster Chimera. The pronunciation proved difficult for the ordinary sailors of the period, and she was widely known by variants, most commonly "Billy Ruffian" or "Billy Ruff'n", although "Belly Ruff One" appears in a satirical 1810 print by Thomas Rowlandson, and "Bellyruffron" in the novel "Poor Jack" by Frederick Marryat. She
The Time Warrior Christopher Bahn praised the characterisation of Linx and Sarah. DVD Talk's Stuart Galbraith gave "The Time Warrior" four out of five stars, highlighting the "clever writing" and actor David Daker. In 2009, "SFX" listed the cliffhanger where Linx removes his helmet as the seventh scariest "Doctor Who" moment, praising the monster design and idea. A novelisation of this serial, written by Terrance Dicks, was published by Target Books in June 1978. The Target novelization, "Doctor Who and the Time Warrior", features a prologue written by Robert Holmes involving Linx at war with a group of Rutan Fighters. He is given