Focus on Doctor Who - Project: Twilight

In my first deep dive into my back catalogue, exclusive for paid subscribers, I look back at my first professional script, an audio drama that pitted everyone's favourite Time Lord against the undead!

I originally had the idea for a vampire thriller set in a casino while covering a Las Vegas trade show for T3 Magazine in the late 90s. I was sitting in the bar of the New York, New York hotel with my editor¹ at three o’clock in the afternoon and realised I had no idea what time it was. There were no windows and the light levels never changed whether it was day or night. And there was also a sense that maybe… just maybe… someone could get lost among all the slot machines and card tables. What better cover could there be for vampire gangsters?

My co-writer Mark Wright jumped at the idea when I mentioned it to him a year or so later - yes, I had escaped the casino without losing my shirt or my life!

As I wrote last week, we’d been asked by Big Finish producer Gary Russell to pitch a story for a full-cast audio drama in BF’s fledgling Doctor Who line. We both loved vampires², so it seemed a no-brainer, especially as vamps feature so heavily in Time Lord mythos thanks to Terrance Dick’s classic State of Decay.