ÔI am an expert at war, Irongron.Õ
This Black Archive looks at how the US involvement in Vietnam combined with author Robert HolmesÕs experience of the Second World War in Burma and consciousness of BritainÕs imperial decline to create Doctor WhoÕs first Sontaran, Linx.
It also explores how the serialÕs medievalism invoked a shared cultural memory of Gothic and Romantic literature and cinema to launch not only one of the seriesÕ most enduring alien races but also one of its best-loved heroines, Sarah Jane
Smith.