Doctor Who: Mad Dogs and Englishmen - Paul Magrs

Comedy and Science Fiction are strange bedfellows. The high concepts that sci fi involve means that they are ripe for parody, but because so many TV shows, films and books in the genre are so cliché already, any attempt at humour could undermine them. There have been a few great successes in combining comedy with space adventures – ‘Red Dwarf’ and ‘Galaxy Quest’ for example. There have also been a few authors that have managed to pull off the mix e.g. Robert Rankin, Terry Pratchett and Tom Holt. However, just because a few successes have occurred does not mean that the job is easy, I would argue that the above are the exception that proves the rule and that the vast ...