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The Basics

Place of Origin:
Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK

Editors:
Nick Goodman (#1-11, 14), Keith Musselwhite (#12),
Gareth Brownbill and Andrew Candish (#13)
and Andrew Trowbridge and Lisa Parker (#15)

In Production:
1989-99

Distribution Media:
 Audio Cassette

Tape Lengths:
 #1: C-60; #2-12: C-90;
#13: C-100; #14-15: C-90 x 2

Issues Produced:
15 (#15 not originally published)
 

 

Salisbury based Nick Goodman joined DWAS in the April of 1980 at the age of eleven, Season 17 having cemented his mania for Doctor Who which had been cultivated during the Tom Baker years. He joined hoping to make contact with others like him. It was to prove a harder job than he envisaged, as he remembers: “Looking back, it’s not clear what I had expected from DWAS. But I think I was hoping for something glossier, run by the BBC, and with endless opportunities to buy photos. And, above all, positive about the series. I found it rather a closed shop to start with and it appeared to be run by people much older than me who were thoroughly disaffected with the current show. It was about the worst time to join really for a doe-eyed young enthusiast who loved Nimons and the Nucleus of the Swarm.”

Nick began to buy fanzines such as Doctor Who Review, Shada, News, Views and Reviews, Invasion and Cloister Bell, getting a feel for the opinion at the court of fandom. He found himself frequently at odds with the views expressed and had a burning desire to voice his own, but feared ridicule in a world of fans older and smarter than him. A faltering start to one such fanzine of his own comprised reviews of Seasons 17 – “It never left the typewriter alive,” Nick comments. He subsequently made an unsuccessful attempt to contribute to Celestial Toyroom and a successful one to Glen Cooper’s fanzine Yetaxa. The desire to produce a title himself never went away and for some years he toyed with one called Quawncing Grig (named after the pedigree of Shockeye from The Two Doctors). But the arrival of the tapezine turned his head: “Here was a medium I loved very much. You could use clips from the show and you didn’t have to faff with paper at the photocopier. It seemed like the choice for me. The trouble was I didn’t know anyone to contribute apart from two like-minded school friends, Andrew Candish and Keith Musselwhite. I’d not been to a convention (apart from the famous Longleat event in 1983). I only had a clutch of poorly recorded tapes and beloved Target books. I was a rather immature wallflower and had conservative (economically, not politically), older parents who hardly encouraged me to attend DWAS socials or whatever.”

Nick Goodman having just left school in June 1985.
Can you spot an issue of Sonic Waves in this photo?
Image © Nick Goodman, 1985

Then in 1986, with school over the year before, Nick linked up with the new Salisbury Federation of Whovians (SFOW), reuniting with Keith, and meeting, amongst others, Warren Cummings and Andrew Trowbridge, both of whom would play a role in his eventual ’zine. Now he had friends to go to conventions with, to exchange views with, watch (previously unobtainable) videos with, and, in 1988, a video recorder was at last to be found at the Goodman home. Although the Salisbury group split that same year, the group members were still around and friendships survived the Local Group’s dissolution. Similarly, Nick’s desire to produce a fanzine remained undiminished. He meanwhile made contact with two younger fans through church connections, Danny March and his friend Paul Chandler, who he watched videos with. 1988 was Nick’s year of the video breakout: “Warren was one of my great ‘hangs’ in 1988, in and out of the fan frame. With him, Danny, Paul and myself, we almost made another local group. We made the local paper at the time of Doctor Who’s 25th anniversary and popped up in costume at a Children In Need event in Salisbury. Life just got too busy, but we were squaring up for a tapezine. I suggested Rayphase Shift as a title but Warren wasn’t keen. Intermittently, I was also connecting again with Keith, as we swapped tapes. He had kept the tapezine ball bouncing for three or four years by then. Then in the summer of 1989, Paul had a crack at one. The time had come: I realised what I had to do. A little late but I had to prove I could do it. I had a fairly decent collection by then, a half-decent tape recorder, a tape deck (Currys shop demonstration, with a tendency to drop out, but…) and my own video recorder. That sounds hopelessly clunky by the modern standards but to me it was progress! So, I bought the all-important RCA lead and the most devilishly handsome C-60 I could find and started work in June 1989. Time was of the essence because I could see myself losing heart. I recruited Andrew Candish because he and I would walk home from work together and he only lived round the corner from me. Although Keith Musselwhite and I were becoming close friends, I didn’t ask him to contribute to that first one because he was working on a (friendly) rival title, Death Zone.”

Children in Need, 1988. Future RPSers, Andrew Trowbridge, Nick Goodman
and Warren Cummings with an understandably wary Salisbury firefighter.
Image © Nick Goodman, 1988

The debut issue included convention recordings, reviews and a regular feature championing the sort of stories that Nick had by then spent nearly ten weary years defending. Recording was eventually completed on this tapezine in October 1989. Still keen on the once-rejected title, Nick chose to call it Rayphase Shift. The finished product was distributed to his Who friends and penfriends, to positive response.

By now, the disparate members of the old local group were reuniting. Nick’s 21st birthday party in the October concluded with Keith, Andrew Trowbridge (Trowby to his friends) and Warren singing The Ballad of the Last Chance Saloon from The Gunfighters at the top of their voices in the hall foyer. Then Andrew started popping round to Nick’s house regularly and swapping tapes. Others joined. The Local Group was dead but its members kept it alive in spirit, quite informally. Rayphase Shift (quickly shortened to RPS) had become a focus of interest.

Warren Cummings and Keith Musselwhite at a
December 1990 recording session for Rayphase Shift.
Image © Nick Goodman, 1990

Then Warren asked when the next issue was out and history was made, as Nick points out: “I had regarded RPS as a one-off but was chuffed and encouraged to discover that other people saw a future in it. What we had there at the time was an entirely informal gang of fun, fan friends, producing RPS, which had an extended audience among the penfriends we had at that point. It may not have been that which gave rise to Rayphase Shift, but it undoubtedly helped make it what it became. Andy Trowbridge, Keith Musselwhite and Andy Candish were particularly influential in its development. They really helped make it unique and entertaining. I couldn’t have done it without them.”

With Christmas looming, Nick made Issue 2 a Christmas special. Realising Rayphase Shift was likely to endure for some time, however long that might be, he involved more and more people, including penfriends Elaine Bull and Lisa Wardle, Paul Chandler and one of his friends, too. “Our doors were open!” says Nick.

Davison fans Lisa Wardle and Elaine Bull recreate a scene
from The Caves of Androzani with the hapless Editor!
Image © Nick Goodman, 1990

1990 arrived and the tapezine settled down to plot its course with a little more care. Nick decided that each issue should have its own distinctive theme which would challenge the contributors to deliver their own take on it. Wishing to eschew the more predictable choice of theme (such as a certain era), RPS dedicated issues to subjects such as Alternative Theories, Eccentrics, Music, Time and Complexity, Horror and even Anti-Matter. These were often met with initial bemusement from the team: “I wanted hooks to hang issues on. Perhaps not slavishly but to give them identity. Some of the team would often breathe deeply and say, ‘What can we do with that?’ but would always pull something good out of the hat. Time and Complexity was one that stumped some people. By contrast, everyone seemed to know what to do with the Music one. Andy Trowbridge was a wizard at rising to the theme and was always very clever. There were a few misfires. For example, the Merchandise one didn’t really work on audio.”

The regular team was established as well as several elements that people came to expect. In the final moments of the first issue, Nick rattled off the ironic statement, “From the depths of my millionaire luxury recording studio in Los Angeles – adieu!” It became a regular sign-off. As with so many catchphrases, it was said in unscripted desperation and somehow caught on with people.

Double Duds, a vindication of two Doctor Who ‘turkeys’, appeared at the start of every Side B (apart from issues 3 and 11 which were subject to a change of running order due to their subject matter) with a different vindicator each issue. This was the acme of Nick’s resolve to make RPS a champion of the unloved.

There was the regular use of Richard Addinsell’s Southern Rhapsody as the adopted theme. In the ’60s and ’70s this musical fanfare had introduced Southern Television first thing each morning. Nick had adored the emotionally changing layers of this theme and rose early on a Saturday morning to catch it in the mid-’70s.

Armed with lethal sparklers, Andrew Trowbridge and Nick Goodman
battle for the front cover of RPS 5 at the Exo-Space convention.
Image © Nick Goodman, 1990

The aforementioned “luxury millionaire recording studio in Los Angeles” was of course, in reality, Nick’s own bedroom in West Harnham, Salisbury, where most of the recording took place. No new equipment was ever bought for the ongoing productions (bar a new tape-to-tape machine to copy issues). Subsequently, there were a lot of jokes about the sheer cheapness of it all, even for an amateur production. This was stepped up in later issues, as Nick recalls fondly: “We got deliberately cheaper as we went, sometimes merely impersonating clips and even backing music! The humour that came from this became the RPS calling card and was a team effort. During 1990, RPS acquired the self-inflicted slogan, “It’s Wacky and Tacky” – a catchy and honest legend, really. Alas, this caused confusion in later issues. Upon reading adverts, people would ask me for copies of It’s Wacky and Tacky Rayphase Shift!”

This self-effacing approach seemed to win a small but loyal following. Andrew Trowbridge (then still in DWAS, unlike Nick) submitted issues 3, 6 and 8 to Celestial Toyroom for review – with positive results. Adverts appeared in TV Zone from Issue 3 onwards and later in DWB, attracting attention as far as Australia and bringing forth new members to the team.

Nick found a flipside to ‘fame’ however, as he recalls: “In the course of my editorship of Rayphase Shift, I was faced with a letter from someone believing themselves to be the Giant Robot; an attempt to arbitrarily hijack the cherished (if proudly naff) artwork covers; a request for a job from a professional artist who believed my production was to feature pages of lavish artwork (I was a shop worker on minimum wage, for crying out loud!); a snooty Star Trek role player who refused to reveal his first name and deserted us after Issue 6 because we were ‘being too silly’. And who could forget the American gentleman who paid in springs (in reference to a quote from Dudley Simpson) and a cheque for all previous issues that didn’t even cover the conversion fee! The Master Tape’s Matt West addressed me in one covering letter as ‘The Little Man Who Makes Rayphase Shift’, a term of address which tickled me as it made me sound like an eccentric toymaker like Geppetto. With hindsight, I wish I had stayed in DWAS a bit longer, advertised big in CT and shown ’em what I was made of.”

In summer 1992, Keith Musselwhite met with Rachel Sinclair,
who ensured that Uncle Sam got properly wacky and tacky.
Image © Nick Goodman, 1992

The RPS team was entertaining, curious and loyal, and all had their parts to play: the biting, weary zaniness of Keith Musselwhite, the whimsy wit and Wurlitzer of Andrew Candish, the intellectual and original insight of Andrew Trowbridge, the unscripted off-the-wall Paul Chandler and Peter Davison’s faithful devotee, Elaine Bull. Nick’s American pen friend Rachel Sinclair contributed between issues 5 and 10, accompanied by Brian Hunt and, for Issue 5’s fan special, a raft of their friends. “These lovely and amusing Anglophiles got the ’zine’s brand of humour straight away,” Nick comments. “Neil Hogan of Doctor Who 2000 emerged from Australia and we worked on each other’s creations – indeed we briefly discussed the possibility of a joint venture, also including Stephen Broome’s The Master Tape, but aside from acting as distribution hubs for each other’s tapezines in the UK and Australia, this ultimately came to nought.”

From Lancashire came arguably the tapezine’s most popular long-distance recruit, Tony Darbyshire. A regular customer, Tony began to contribute articles from Issue 7 onwards. He soon developed an easy-going, throwaway style, mixed with a surreal take on his subject matter that was very popular with listeners and the RPS team itself.

Tony remembers what drew him to the ’zine: “There’s an immediacy to writing audio articles which appealed to me hugely; it lets you shade in more layers of jokes and references which you just couldn’t do in print, through sketches or the music bedding. Andrew Trowbridge did a feature on Sapphire and Steel’s June solstice-set fifth story backed (with zero comment) by Felix Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 61/4: Scherzo, which I found very classy. So, my learning that former Radio 2 Sunday afternoon wearisomes The Cliff Adams Singers ululated on The Underwater Menace’s soundtrack led inexorably to my having them harmonise Sing Something Simple over The Zaroff Climax – now that’s a proper bugger to do in prose, I tell you. My favourite was probably poor Patrick Moore, half-blinded by a wayward mallet whilst furiously xylophoning away on The Celestial Toymaker’s score (Gerry Davis got him the gig, of course).”

Nick was delighted with this listener-turned-collaborator: “The amazing thing about Tony is that he just completely got the whole ethos, vibe and humour of RPS without once meeting any of us. A lot of the silliness and traditions were built by our team who would record in the same room and bounce off each other. Tony sent the tapes through, and his articles always had that energy, as if he was in the room with us, bouncing off us.”

It was at Issue 9, in the autumn of 1992, that Nick’s confidence suffered the first of two wobbles. It was the Music Special, which had been in development for some time: “Maybe it was because I didn’t know what was next, or that I was expecting it to get stale after such a good run. Or maybe because I was going strong with a non-Who girlfriend. But I just felt something wasn’t coming together and perhaps I had landed my team with a subject they couldn’t get an angle on. I nearly donned my sandwich board and declared the end was nigh. But the team delivered in spades, and we produced one of the best issues of the run. Additionally, my non-Who girlfriend talked me out of quitting.”

Nick’s other and longer-lasting wobble came a year later during production of Issue 11, The Anti-Matter Special. In 1975, Planet of Evil had been Nick’s first behind-the-sofa story and had disturbed and fascinated him as a child. Ever encouraging his team to bring ever more personal touches to their articles to make them unique, he devised a review that time-travelled back to his six-year-old self watching the story. The team was present during the recording. Reaction was disappointing: “I suppose we had reached a point in our tapezine’s lifetime where we were daring to go one better, something which I felt I was doing. I was quite used to being riotously sent up, as were we all. But I felt a discord this time around which stopped me in my tracks. I was left with the feeling that I had at last gone too far. I was paranoid about outstaying my welcome. After a short period of thought, I announced that I was wrapping Rayphase Shift after the next issue.”

The vibe had not been shared by the team. Independently, both Keith Musselwhite and Andrew Candish volunteered to edit issues themselves. Keith was duly allocated Issue 12 and Andrew Candish, the thirteenth. All were agreed that thirteen was not the number to finish on, so it was agreed that Nick would return to host the final, 14th issue. Keith used his natural talent for presenting in the radio show-like Issue 12. Long-term regular listener Lisa Parker had meanwhile met and befriended the team the year before and here debuted with an article of her own. Andrew Candish chose Horror as his theme. Co-hosting Issue 13 with him was his stage friend Gareth Brownbill, who had long admired Doctor Who and had listened to several issues of Rayphase Shift. Andy Ching, another friend of the team, who had begun making films with the RPS team at the time, also debuted in this issue. Two versions of this 13th issue survive: an extended 100 minute version and a shorter 90 minute edit.

Andrew Candish, weighed down by the enormity of his
memorable Tom Baker article for Rayphase Shift 8.
Image © Nick Goodman, 1992

On announcing in October 1995 that Rayphase Shift Issue 14 would mark the end of the road for the tapezine, Paul Chandler said to Nick sympathetically, “Yes, there are only so many ways that you can say The Invisible Enemy is great.” Nick considered that an appropriate epitaph for Rayphase Shift. “It was a generalisation but an apt one. The face of fandom had changed. Stories such as that Graham Williams one now openly had admirers. The bullyish aggression of the ’80s had died down. We didn’t start the revolution. We were just the little guy at the back who said it might be a good idea. I was touched by Keith and Andy Candish wanting to keep it going just a bit longer and those two issues worked nicely. I didn’t like the last one though, Issue 14. I made a bad mistake in trying to make it a double issue. Sonic Waves had gone out on a double, but they had filled it end-to-end with great stuff. I had some fine articles but really not enough material to fill two C-90s. In fact, we didn’t and it ended on Side A of Tape 2. Messy! I didn’t edit it enough. It should have been one tape only.”

The final issue was advertised in TV Zone in December 1996 (despite having been released in July) with the declaration, “After seven years, its curtains!” But those curtains didn’t stay closed for too long. The recording of Issue 14 was filmed by Andy Ching who was preparing a documentary about the tapezine which was finally completed in 2003 under the title, Tape-to-Tape: The Life of a Rayphase Shift. Much specially recorded material was prepared for this including video messages from Colin Baker, Elizabeth Sladen and Sophie Aldred.

Andrew Trowbridge, Elaine Bull and Keith Musselwhite
during a July 1992 recording session for Rayphase Shift.
Image © Nick Goodman, 1992

Whilst the documentary was in production, however, Andrew Trowbridge and Lisa Parker joined forces to produce a one-off return issue, Rayphase Shift Issue 15. Much of this was recorded between 1998 and 1999 (fitted in between other projects they were working on) with the majority of former contributors returning to the fold. It was never finished or released. However, in February 2023, Andrew and Lisa lent the two C-90 master tapes out for digitising. Nearly all four sides of these tapes were complete, with ironically, more completed material than had been recorded for RPS 14. The part-scripted, part-improvised banter that had been part of the original run is dialled up considerably. This unedited, at times feral, material is more outspoken and zanier than ever, referencing popular culture of the time like Austin Powers and South Park.

Rayphase Shift played to a small and loyal audience. Unknown to many, it had its small part to play in the changing face of fandom. Its main legacy was the joy of laughter. Laughter at the programme, laughter with the programme, but perhaps also a celebration of the limitations of the programme, the fans and, gloriously, itself. Contributor Tony Darbyshire sums it up perfectly: “Clive James, mulling over his earliest output, reflected simply: ‘We had fun expressing our opinions.’ So did we, and that was very much the point. If that came across to the listener – brilliant. Or, as no one said back then, ace!”

 
 

 

Death Zone Issue 2 (September 1989) included a brief review by Keith Musselwhite of Rayphase Shift 1: “For a first issue – and I know for a fact that Nicholas Goodman had never presented a tapezine in his life – it’s very worthy and well worth listening to. Although there are a few criticisms [I could make, these] don’t detract from the overall impression of the experimental first issue.”

Celestial Toyroom editor Martin J. Kennaugh somewhat belatedly reviewed Rayphase Shift Issue 3 (June 1990) in the DWAS newsletter’s January 1991 issue: “Tapezines are always a tricky area. It’s difficult to ‘flip’ through a tape – skipping the less interesting bits. Further problems come when the ‘presenters’ of the tape have less than interesting voices, interesting material spoilt by bad delivery. Fortunately, this issue of Rayphase Shift has a good variety of interesting articles and all are clearly spoken by a selection of interesting voices. Most of the features are entertaining. The contents are mostly light-hearted… All the spoken sections are backed by pieces of music – these can be very obtrusive, since it is often far too loud. This, however, is a very small criticism. It’s very rare to get anything for free these days, but the only thing you have to lose here is the price of a couple of stamps, and a (re-usable!) C-90. For a very entertaining hour and a half, I can heartily recommend the third edition of Rayphase Shift.”

Writing in The Celestial Toyshop section of Celestial Toyroom (December 1991), Andrew J. Beasley began from the standpoint of wondering whether Rayphase Shift would be his type of thing: “Rayphase Shift, the ‘cassette fanzine’, describes itself as ‘wacky and tacky’. I am not a wacky person, neither am I zany. A little grouchy in the mornings maybe, but certainly not ‘zany’. I therefore listened, fearing the worst. However, was pleasantly surprised. Rayphase Shift is nowhere near as tacky as it claims to be! Issue 6 is a Graham Williams tribute and review edition, and the various presenters examine and comment on the Williams stories. The presenters themselves give a pleasing appraisal of the stories in question, presenting their views fairly and clearly. On the whole, all of the contributors should be congratulated for the smoothness of their delivery. True, on occasion, there is the slightest falter but if we can forgive certain professionals for the rare slip up, then we can certainly forgive a dedicated group of fellow enthusiasts. A nice touch is the use of background music to prevent what might become a monotonous monologue, giving each presenter a subtly different flavour. Another feature which I appreciated was the clever use of clips from the series, not just to illustrate certain points, but also cleverly taken out of context to comic effect. All in all, Rayphase Shift provides a solid 90 minutes of good natured fun, at turns interesting, witty, or just plain silly, but always engaging. If Issue 6 is typical of the series then I suggest that Rayphase Shift joins that ever growing list of essential fanzines. Failing that, get Issue 6 now, and then keep it in reserve for a miserable and fed up sort of day, then take as a tonic… would you believe, just what the Doctor ordered?”

Doug Potter’s Celestial Toyshop review of Rayphase Shift Issue 8 (Theme: Eccentrics) appeared in Celestial Toyroom’s August 1992 issue: “RPS is consistently entertaining, yet I was unable to work out when the performers were being serious and when they weren’t, if indeed they ever were. It’s difficult to tell sometimes… Several jokes are made with the old formula of stating something and then cutting to a quote from the show. What else have we got? A piece about Nigel Kneale’s ‘animal husbandry’ in Quatermass, an incredible pun about toads, an even worse one about Mr. De Vries from The Stones of Blood… and a load of swipes at Matthew Waterhouse… We’ve got Gharman’s parrot impression from Genesis, [over-the-top] performances from Yrcanos, the Gatherer and General Grugger (amongst others) and a remark about Jon Pertwee swallowing moths! What I’m trying to point out is the anarchic nature of the tape, so that if you want 90 minutes of very silly humour mixed in with what I took to be a couple of serious items, you know where to look. The serious items are, probably, merely spoofs played extremely straight… I couldn’t believe the Double Duds feature in which Rachel Sinclair looked at the two Rani serials. Please God let this have been a spoof I missed! I baulked at such statements like, ‘Pip and Jane’s intelligent dialogue is worthy of Robert Holmes,’ and that Time [and the Rani] ‘set a good precedent for the rest of Sylvester’s time’! In the words of the great Mr. McEnroe: You cannot be serious! Awards in triplicate for the Tom Baker article; the greatest eccentric in the show, and probably the brainiest actor, too! It was full of Tomisms and a witty script with a very silly score. Worth the tape price alone… RPS 8 is great fun and done with care. The OED describes ‘eccentric’ as ‘odd, whimsical’. The show definitely fits, as do the contributors (especially the one who thought up the gem about Pertwee and those moths!), but as for me? Well, I’ll take the ‘whimsical’ but I’ll fight all the way on ‘odd’!”

 
 

 

Nick Goodman went into scriptwriting for video and the stage, producing 18 amateur films between 1993 and 2008. He has also written several stage plays, four of which – Cradle Snatcher, The Dominoes, Sunset Whaddon and Building a Best Bud – have been performed on the Salisbury stage. He has also written four books – Magnet Memories and Life After Magnet Memories, about a ‘home-made’ science fiction adventure series that he wrote during his childhood and into his twenties, and Cabin Relese and the Secret of Myton and Cabin Relese and the Song of the Dreamers, adaptations of two of these ‘home-made’ stories. He has also narrated lost episode reconstructions of early adventures of The Avengers for StudioCanal DVDs and Blu-rays.

 
 

 

Ever since I first heard Rayphase Shift, I’ve been a touch envious of it. Not necessarily of the finished issues – which are mightily enjoyable, make no mistake – but because of the whale of a time that Nick Goodman and his group of friends were clearly having, gathered together in that fictional, though groovily mythical, millionaire luxury recording studio in Los Angeles as the items were recorded. The bond between these young people is very evident, and the listener is invited in to be party to the fun. You listen to Rayphase Shift and you want to be there, in that room, drinking in the fun and friendship, the ‘wacky and tackyness’ of it all. It’s sublime.

This is of course to say nothing of the content, which was always entertaining. The championing of what Nick calls “the unloved – or at least the under-loved” is laudable and chimes with my own opinions. I love The Dominators, The Invisible Enemy, The Horns of Nimon, Time-Flight and Timelash, despite their obvious flaws, and so did Rayphase Shift. Hooray!

In many ways, it wasn’t so much a rayphase shift as a perspective shift that RPS encouraged in its listeners. The fact that it lasted 14 issues is, in itself, a real achievement, but Nick and his friends, some of whom produced issues too (each capturing the RPS magic perfectly), ensured that the real triumph of RPS was that it remained consistently entertaining and warmhearted – not to mention, wonderfully silly! – during an era when fandom could often be rather caustic and po-faced in nature.

Alan Hayes

 
 

 

RAYPHASE SHIFT – ISSUE 1
October 1989, C-60

Side A:

  1. Introduction by Nick Goodman

  2. Convention Guest Panel: Richard Franklin (White Hart, Salisbury, 28.02.1988)

  3. The Writers: Robert Sloman by Nick Goodman

  4. Convention Guest Panel: Ian Marter (Leisure Hive III, Swindon, 1986)

Side B:

  1. Double Duds: The Horns of Nimon and Meglos by Nick Goodman

  2. BBC Video Review: The Ark in Space by Andrew Candish

  3. The Valeyard by Nick Goodman

  4. Review: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy by Andrew Candish

  5. Review: Season 25 by Nick Goodman

  6. Rayphase Shift 1 Sign Off by Nick Goodman

Original cassette inlay artwork

Reverse of original cassette inlay artwork, signed by actors Cy Town and James Bree

RAYPHASE SHIFT – ISSUE 2:
CHRISTMAS SPECIAL LATE LATE LATE LET-YOUR-HAIR-DOWN ISSUE
January 1990, C-90

Side A:

  1. Introduction by Nick Goodman

  2. Doctor Who – The Musical, aka The Gunfighters by Andrew Trowbridge

  3. Review: The Tomb of the Cybermen by Warren Cummings

  4. Review: The Power of Kroll by Andrew Candish

  5. Commercial: DZFM by Keith Musselwhite

  6. Brief Review: Time-Flight by Andrew Reid

  7. Review: Season 26 by Nick Goodman

  8. Review: Season 26 by Elaine Bull

  9. Review: Season 26 by Andrew Candish

  10. Doctor Who Repeats by Nick Goodman

  11. Double Duds Outtakes by Andrew Candish

  12. Clip from The Horns of Nimon

Side B:

  1. Double Duds: The Gunfighters and The Creature from the Pit by Andrew Candish

  2. Song: Mel’s Ditty by Elaine Bull

  3. Lost in Longleat by Paul Chandler (edited version, previously distributed as a full tape, see Lost in Longleat)

  4. Review: Doctor Who Magazine 10th Anniversary Signing Event by Andrew Trowbridge

  5. Review: Season 26 by Andrew Trowbridge

  6. Review: Season 26 by Paul Chandler

  7. Review: Season 26 by Keith Musselwhite

  8. Review: The Caves of Androzani by Elaine Bull

  9. Letters from David Aldridge and Andrew Reid

  10. Rayphase Shift 2 Sign Off by Nick Goodman

Original cassette inlay artwork

RAYPHASE SHIFT – ISSUE 3:
ALTERNATIVE THEORY REVIEW ISSUE
June 1990, C-90

Side A:

  1. Introduction by Nick Goodman

  2. Robert Holmes and Blake’s 7 – What Bob Did Next by Andrew Trowbridge (Part 1)

  3. Alternative Theory Review: The Dalek Lolly by Andrew Reid

  4. Commercial: The Grimsby Fantasy Society by Nick Goodman

  5. K-9 by Nick Goodman (Part 1)

  6. From Screen to Novelisation: Frontios by Lisa Wardle

  7. Alternative Theory Review: The War Games by Andrew Trowbridge

  8. Review: Season 23 v. Season 22 by Keith Musselwhite

  9. Letters from Andrew Trowbridge and Paul Chandler

Side B:

  1. Robert Holmes and Blake’s 7 – What Bob Did Next by Andrew Trowbridge (Part 2)

  2. K-9 by Nick Goodman (Part 2)

  3. How to Make Kinda Cardboard Cut-out People by Elaine Bull

  4. Commercial: DZFM by Keith Musselwhite

  5. Right of Reply: Nick’s Repeats Article from RPS 2 by Lisa Wardle

  6. Latham’s Light Programme: Honeycomb Convention (BBC Wiltshire Sound, 26.8.1989)

  7. Alternative Theory Review: Potential Monster Book 3 by Nick Goodman

  8. Commercial: RPS Back Issues by Nick Goodman

  9. Rayphase Shift 3 Sign Off by Nick Goodman

  10. A Message from Paris by Andrew Candish

  11. A Cordial Invitation by Andrew Trowbridge

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RAYPHASE SHIFT – ISSUE 4:
MERCHANDISE SPECIAL
November 1990, C-90

Side A:

  1. Introduction by Lisa Wardle and Elaine Bull

  2. Merchandise Review: Peter Davison Jigsaw by Lisa Wardle (Part 1)

  3. Robert Holmes and Blake’s 7 – Traitor and Orbit by Andrew Trowbridge

  4. Book Review: The Nightmare Fair by Nick Goodman

  5. Merchandise Review: Peter Davison Jigsaw by Lisa Wardle (Part 2)

  6. Merchandise Review: Doctor Who Viewmaster by Elaine Bull

  7. Comic Marts by Paul Chandler

  8. Convention Review: Exo-Space 1 by Nick Goodman

Side B:

  1. Humour: Constructing the Stuart Evans Kit by Nick Goodman and Andrew Trowbridge

  2. Double Duds: The Romans and The Androids of Tara by Andrew Trowbridge

  3. Video Review: The Brain of Morbius (Re-release) by Andrew Candish

  4. Bygones: Dalek Costume

  5. Review: Audio Visuals – Minuet In Hell by Andrew Trowbridge

  6. Merchandise Review: Star Trek Communicator by Andrew Trowbridge and Warren Cummings

  7. Merchandise Review: Peter Davison Jigsaw by Lisa Wardle (Part 3)

  8. Sign Off with the Rayphase Shift team

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RAYPHASE SHIFT – ISSUE 5:
"LET’S HEAR IT FROM THE FANS" ISSUE
May 1991, C-90

Side A:

  1. Introduction by Nick Goodman

  2. Peter Davison by Elaine Bull and Lisa Wardle

  3. Interview with Richard Scott of the Whovian Alliance of Salem, Oregon

  4. Double Diamonds: Reappraisal of Spearhead From Space and Remembrance of the Daleks by Andrew Candish and Nick Goodman

  5. Early Doctor Who Memories by Andrew Candish, interviewed by Nick Goodman

  6. Double Duds: Arc of Infinity and Warriors of the Deep by Keith Musselwhite

Side B:

  1. Early Memories by Lisa Wardle and Elaine Bull

  2. Early Memories by Andrew Trowbridge, Warren Cummings and Rachel Sinclair

  3. Commercial: Impromptu ad for RPS by Warren Cummings

  4. First Impressions by American fans interviewed by Rachel Sinclair

  5. Audio Visuals by Andrew Trowbridge and Warren Cummings

  6. Englishness by American fans, interviewed by Rachel Sinclair

  7. Finding Other Fans by Andrew Trowbridge, Warren Cummings and Nick Goodman

  8. What would you like to see in the Future? – American fans interviewed by Rachel Sinclair

  9. Favourite Doctor by Elaine and Lisa Wardle

  10. First Impressions and Being a Fan by Brian Hunt, interviewed by Rachel Sinclair

  11. Frightening Moments and Fandom by Keith Musselwhite, interviewed by Andrew Trowbridge

  12. Humour: The Four Yorkshire Whovians with Lisa Wardle, Andrew Trowbridge, Nick Goodman and Elaine Bull

  13. Rayphase Shift 5 Sign Off by Nick Goodman

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RAYPHASE SHIFT – ISSUE 6:
GRAHAM WILLIAMS TRIBUTE ISSUE
August 1991, C-90

Side A:

  1. Introduction by Nick Goodman

  2. Convention Review: Anglicon 4 by Rachel Sinclair

  3. Anthony Read and Don Houghton on Sapphire and Steel by Andrew Trowbridge

  4. Review: Invision Magazine – Season 15 by Nick Goodman

  5. Leela in Season 16 by Andrew Trowbridge (Part 1)

  6. The Script Editors of Graham Williams by Keith Musselwhite

Side B:

  1. Double Duds: The Invisible Enemy and Nightmare of Eden by Nick Goodman and Paul Chandler

  2. Leela in Season 16 by Andrew Trowbridge (Part 2)

  3. Interview: Andrew Trowbridge talks about Season 16 with Nick Goodman

  4. Overview: The Graham Williams Era by Elaine Bull

  5. Season 17 by Andrew Candish

  6. Graham Williams Tribute and Rayphase Shift 6 Sign Off by Nick Goodman

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RAYPHASE SHIFT – ISSUE 7:
TIME AND COMPLEXITY ISSUE
February 1992, C-90

Side A:

  1. Introduction by Nick Goodman

  2. Complex Stories by Nick Goodman

  3. Doomwatch by Tony Darbyshire

  4. Confusing Stories of the 1980s by Paul Chandler

  5. Complexity and Absurdity by Andrew Candish

  6. State of Decay by Keith Musselwhite

Side B:

  1. Double Duds: The Space Museum and The Krotons by Tony Darbyshire

  2. Time Concepts by Andrew Trowbridge

  3. Competition Time by Warren Cummings

  4. Interview: Sally Taylor talks with Nick Goodman and Warren Cummings, Children In Need 1988

  5. Discussion: The Sylvester McCoy Era by Nick Goodman and Elaine Bull

  6. Rayphase Shift 7 Sign Off by Nick Goodman

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RAYPHASE SHIFT – ISSUE 8:
ECCENTRICS ISSUE
June 1992, C-90

Side A:

  1. Introduction by Nick Goodman

  2. Animals of Sci-fi by Andrew Trowbridge

  3. Review: Who’s Who by Tony Darbyshire

  4. Review: Johnny Byrne and Space: 1999 – Force of Life by Nick Goodman

  5. Tom Baker by Andrew Candish (Part 1)

  6. The Matthew Waterhouse Experience by Keith Musselwhite

Side B:

  1. Double Duds: The Mark of the Rani and Time and the Rani by Rachel Sinclair

  2. Commercial: Doctor Who 2000 by Neil Hogan

  3. The Eccentricities of Marco Polo by Neil Hogan

  4. Top Ten of Eccentrics by Paul Chandler

  5. Try to Sound Like Jo Grant by Elaine Bull

  6. Tom Baker by Andrew Candish (Part 2)

  7. Doctor Who Oddballs by Nick Goodman

  8. Anthony Ainley by Keith Musselwhite

  9. Rayphase Shift 8 Sign Off by Nick Goodman

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RAYPHASE SHIFT – ISSUE 9:
MUSIC ISSUE
October 1992, C-90

Side A:

  1. Commercial: Back Issues by Keith Musselwhite

  2. Introduction by Andrew Trowbridge and Keith Musselwhite

  3. Sylvester McCoy’s Music by Tony Darbyshire

  4. Dominic Glynn by Andrew Candish (Part 1)

  5. The Music of The Sea Devils by Andy Boot

  6. Who Theme Scare Factor by Darren Powis

  7. Audio Letter by David Britch (Part 1)

  8. Malcolm Hulke and The Gravediggers by Tony Darbyshire

  9. Variations on the Theme – John Woodnutt Vocal

  10. The Music of Season 18 by Keith Musselwhite

Side B:

  1. Music Jingle 1 by Keith Musselwhite

  2. Double Duds: Four to Doomsday and The Twin Dilemma by Elaine Bull

  3. Music Jingle 2 by Keith Musselwhite

  4. The Music of Season 8 by Andrew Trowbridge

  5. Humour: Keff’s Music Take-Over by RPS team

  6. Dominic Glynn by Andrew Candish (Part 2)

  7. Variations on the Theme – Andrew Candish circa 1986

  8. Audio Letter by David Britch (Part 2)

  9. Appraisal: Dudley Simpson by Nick Goodman

  10. Rayphase Shift 9 Sign Off by Nick Goodman

  11. Commercial: The Master Tape by Stephen Broome

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RAYPHASE SHIFT – ISSUE 10:
CUTTING ROOM FLOOR ISSUE
March 1993, C-90

Side A:

  1. Introduction by Nick Goodman and Andrew Candish

  2. RPS Outtakes

  3. Double Pretty Damned Good Video Releases: Tomb of the Cybermen by Andrew Candish and Nick Goodman

  4. Interview with a Palitoy Dalek

  5. Interview with Doctor Who Magazine

  6. Commercial: Weng-Chiang’s Mongolian Grill by Brian Hunt and Rachel Sinclair

  7. Audio Letter (by telephone) by Lisa Wardle

  8. Issue 5 Talk Out Clips with Andrew Trowbridge, Elaine Bull and Lisa Wardle

  9. The Awakening v. Sapphire and Steel by Tony Darbyshire

  10. Ode to the BBC by Keith Musselwhite

  11. Audio Letter by Suzanne Brady

  12. Audio Letter by Neil Hogan

  13. Outtake from RPS 8 Tom Baker article by Andrew Candish

  14. A Greeting from Sophie Aldred

  15. Introduction to Paul Chandler at Longleat

  16. Continuities for The Creature From The Pit, The Ark In Space, City of Death and The Stones of Blood

  17. Chris Boucher and Star Cops by Keith Musselwhite

  18. Poem: Underworld by Nick Goodman

Side B:

  1. Double Duds: Invasion of the Dinosaurs and Revenge of the Cybermen by Nick Goodman

  2. Convention Guest Panel: Mark Strickson (White Hart, Salisbury, 28.02.1988)

  3. Book Review: Time’s Crucible by Rachel Sinclair

  4. Memories of RPS by Paul Chandler

  5. Audio Letter by Rachel Sinclair

  6. Predictions of the Future by Tony Darbyshire

  7. Double Pretty Damned Good Video Releases: Shada by Andrew Candish and Nick Goodman

  8. Right to Reply by Keith Musselwhite

  9. Offcuts – Lisa Wardle and Elaine Bull from Issue 4

  10. Interview: Brian Hunt talks about Season 26 with Rachel Sinclair

  11. Discussion: Conventions by Keith Musselwhite, Andrew Trowbridge and Nick Goodman

  12. Excerpt: Colin Baker at Honeycomb (BBC Wiltshire Sound, 26.8.1989)

  13. Rayphase Shift 10 Sign Off by Nick Goodman

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RAYPHASE SHIFT – ISSUE 11:
THE ANTI-MATTER ISSUE
November 1993, C-90

Side A:

  1. Rayphase Shift 11 Sign Off by Nick Goodman

  2. Original Titles by Andrew Trowbridge (Part 6)

  3. Audio Letter by David Britch

  4. Misheard Lines by Andrew Candish (Part 2)

  5. Behind the Sofa Review: Planet of Evil by Nick Goodman, introduced by Keith Musselwhite

  6. Original Titles by Nick Goodman (Part 5)

  7. Queen’s Message by Elaine Bull

  8. Commercial: Spotlight by Elaine Bull

  9. Gellguards on Points Of View by Paul Chandler and Elaine Bull

  10. Double Duds: The Android Invasion and The Hand of Fear by Andrew Trowbridge

Side B:

  1. The Un-Three Doctors by Keith Musselwhite

  2. Robert Holmes and Doomwatch by Tony Darbyshire

  3. Original Titles by Andrew Trowbridge (Part 4)

  4. Omega on Points of View by Paul Chandler and Elaine Bull

  5. Anti-Matter and Pip and Jane Baker by Tony Darbyshire

  6. Original Titles by Nick Goodman (Part 3)

  7. Audio Letter from Matthew Hirsch and Variations on the Theme

  8. Misheard Lines by Andrew Candish (Part 1)

  9. Original Titles by Nick Goodman (Part 2)

  10. Anti-Matter Overview by Nick Goodman

  11. Original Titles by Nick Goodman (Part 1)

  12. Introduction by Nick Goodman

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RAYPHASE SHIFT – ISSUE 12:
THE RPS CUP FINAL ISSUE
May 1994, C-90

Side A:

  1. Introduction by Keith Musselwhite

  2. Review: The Paradise of Death by Tony Darbyshire

  3. Costumes of the 1970s and 1980s by Elaine Bull

  4. Video Review: The Colin Baker Years by Keith Musselwhite

  5. The Navy Lark’s Who Influence by Andrew Trowbridge

  6. Marvel Newsflash by Keith Musselwhite

Side B:

  1. Introduction by Keith Musselwhite

  2. Family Appeal by Lisa Parker (Part 1)

  3. Interview: The Melkur by Keith Musselwhite

  4. Triple Duds: The Invasion of Time, Paradise Towers and Delta and the Bannermen by Nick Goodman

  5. Commercial: Spectrum – Prisoner Cell Block S by Andrew Trowbridge

  6. Humour: Gamesmaster Send-up by Andrew Trowbridge

  7. Family Appeal by Lisa Parker (Part 2)

  8. Frontier in Space with Mr. Blobby by Andrew Trowbridge

  9. Rayphase Shift 12 Sign Off by Keith Musselwhite

  10. Commercial: A plug for Spotlight by Keith Musselwhite

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RAYPHASE SHIFT – ISSUE 13:
HORROR ISSUE
March 1995, C-100

Side A:

  1. Introduction by Gareth Brownbill and Andrew Candish

  2. Review: Horror of Fang Rock by Andrew Trowbridge

  3. Double Pretty Damned Good Stories: Vengeance On Varos by Gareth Brownbill (Part 1)

  4. Vox Pox on RPS by Andrew Candish and Gareth Brownbill

  5. Double Incomplete But Pretty Enjoyable stories: The Underwater Menace Part 3 and The Moonbase Parts 2 and 4 by Tony Darbyshire

Side B:

  1. Horror Acting by Andy Ching

  2. Double Diamonds: The Talons of Weng-Chiang and Earthshock by Nick Goodman

  3. Top Ten of Horror Hairdos by Elaine Bull

  4. Double Pretty Damned Good Stories: The Curse of Fenric by Gareth Brownbill and Andrew Candish (Part 2)

  5. Censorship by Nick Goodman

  6. Rayphase Shift 13 Sign Off by Andrew Candish and Gareth Brownbill

RAYPHASE SHIFT – ISSUE 14:
THE END (DOUBLE ISSUE)
March 1996, C-90 x 2 – 3 sides only / also offered as C-90 + C-60

Side A:

  1. Introduction by Nick Goodman and the RPS team

  2. Commercial: Eye of Horus

  3. Endings by Andy Ching

  4. Ghost Light by Andrew Trowbridge

  5. Audio Letter by David Britch

  6. The End of Doctor Who by Andrew Candish

  7. Terry Nation and Blake’s 7 by Lisa Parker

Side B:

  1. Man from the Ministry by Paul Chandler

  2. Double Duds: Colony In Space and The Trial of a Time Lord (The Mysterious Planet) by Nick Goodman (Part 1)

  3. Double Duds: The Trial of a Time Lord (Mindwarp) by Elaine Bull (Part 2)

  4. Double Duds: The Trial of a Time Lord (Terror of the Vervoids) by Keith Musselwhite (Part 3)

  5. Double Duds: The Trial of a Time Lord (The Ultimate Foe) by Nick Goodman (Part 4)

Side C:

  1. Perversions of The Invasion by Paul Chandler

  2. Misheard Lines by Andrew Candish

  3. RPS Overview by Andy Ching

  4. Audio Letter by Jon Kolchak Pertwee

  5. Marvel Signing – The Sequel by Andy Ching

  6. Season 6 by Tony Darbyshire

  7. News Item: Interruption of Horror of Fang Rock transmission with pirate TV broadcast

  8. Commercial: Spectrum – The Forgotten Hour by Andrew Trowbridge

  9. Last Requests by the RPS team and Rayphase Shift - The End Sign Off

  10. Last Acknowledgement by Nick Goodman

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RAYPHASE SHIFT – ISSUE 15:
THE ASPECTS OF THE DOCTOR ISSUE
November 1998-Summer 1999, C-90 x 2
(not completed or released)

Side A:

  1. Introduction by Andrew Trowbridge, Lisa Parker and Nick Goodman

  2. Dr. Who of the 1960s Dalek Films by Tony Darbyshire

  3. Commercial: The Austin Hartnell by Andrew Trowbridge

  4. Commercial: The VW Troughton by Andy Ching

  5. Commercial: The Renault McGann by Lisa Parker

  6. Double Duds: The Time Monster and Terminus by Nick Goodman

  7. The Sixth Doctor: Colin Baker by Andrew Trowbridge

  8. Side 1 Sign Off: When Will This Tape Run Out? by Andrew Trowbridge, Lisa Parker and Nick Goodman

Side B:

  1. Side 2 Introduction by Andrew Trowbridge, Lisa Parker and Nick Goodman

  2. Favourite Doctor Moment: The Sixth Doctor by Andrew Trowbridge

  3. UK Gold Trailer: Revelation of the Daleks (satellite channel trail)

  4. Which Guardian Are You? by Andrew Trowbridge, Lisa Parker and Nick Goodman

  5. Doctor Who Dreams by Andrew Trowbridge, Nick Goodman and Lisa Parker

  6. Music: Colin Baker Sings – Gratuitously! by Colin Baker

  7. Humour: 26 Reasons to Love the Fifth Doctor by Elaine Bull and Keith Musselwhite

  8. The Fifth Doctor: Peter Davison by Elaine Bull and Keith Musselwhite

  9. The Eighth Doctor: Paul McGann by Lisa Parker

  10. What Paul McGann Did Next by Lisa Parker

  11. Side 2 Sign Off: How to End This Side? by Andrew Trowbridge, Lisa Parker and Nick Goodman

Side C:

  1. The Blue Guardian Sentences Steve Cole by Nick Goodman

  2. The Third Doctor: Jon Pertwee by Nick Goodman

  3. Favourite Doctor Moment: The Third Doctor by Nick Goodman

  4. Commercial: The Ford Pertwee by Andrew Trowbridge

  5. Commercial: The Rover Baker Mk I by Nick Goodman

  6. Commercial: The Mini McCoy by Lisa Parker

  7. The Curse of Fatal Death Doctors by Nick Goodman, Lisa Parker and Andrew Trowbridge

  8. Commercial: The Rover Baker Mark II by Lisa Parker

  9. Commercial: The Nissan Davison by Paul Chandler

  10. Commercial: The Cushing of Reasonable Comfort by Andy Ching (*)

Side D:

  1. The Seventh Doctor: Sylvester McCoy – How Would the Seventh Doctor and Ace Fit into Stories from Previous Eras? (Part 1) by Paul Chandler

  2. Excerpt and Theme Music: Dark Shadows (US TV series)

  3. The Seventh Doctor: Sylvester McCoy – How Would the Seventh Doctor and Ace Fit into Stories from Previous Eras? (Part 2) by Paul Chandler

  4. Favourite Doctor Moment: The Seventh Doctor by Paul Chandler

  5. The First Doctor: William Hartnell by Andy Ching

  6. Favourite Doctor Moment: The First Doctor by Andy Ching

  7. The Fourth Doctor: Tom Baker’s Quintessential Moments by Lisa Parker

  8. Favourite Doctor Moment: The Fourth Doctor by Lisa Parker (**)

(*) Side C was not completed and runs to c. 30 minutes only
(**) Side D was not completed and runs to c. 41 minutes only
 

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