8. A Note Of Brilliance
After he's plopped back into his own timestream by the Time Lords, the Doctor remembers very little of his meeting with his past & future selves. About the only thing he knows for sure is that he lost his recorder somehow. The Third never delivered on his promise to buy him 'a thousand more' to replace the cherished wind instrument but no matter. In the 1995 'Doctor Who' Yearbook there's a short story by future new-Who writer Justin Richards which sees the Second venture to an alien music shop with Jamie & Zoe Heriot in tow to buy himself a new one. A brilliant spin on the original 'ricordaire'-from which it gets its name. And what's that in English,you may ask? Simply 'to remember'. Which leads us nicely on... so when I say run, run!