Top 40 Chart Singles (1989)

 It's time for us to look at the top UK charting songs of 1989. It's a Jive Bunny Free Zone, before you start, because feck that rabbit. As with previous years, for a song to qualify for the years top 40, it has to have reached the UK top 40 in that year.  Again, I tend to err against repeats that could have been listed in an earlier year. And yes, at least one controversial artist from the time period will show up on the list, because you have to separate art from artist in these matters. 

That's right, Mick Hucknall will show up at one point. You have been warned!

The Dalek Master Plan

Dalek Master Plan (part 1)

Steven lies on a makeshift bed on the TARDIS floor, dying. I'm sure things can only get better in this, the grimmest Dr Who story ever written, surely?

The Nightmare Begins, the title card reassuringly tells us.

Steven needs specialist drugs to live so the Doctor is going to land in the future to get some.

We cut to... Brian Cant and Nick Courtney!!!!

Brian Cant lies injured on the ground, while Courtney tries to unleash an SOS beacon much like we saw another chap try to do a few weeks previously. In a very familiar looking jungle.

Meanwhile, Nick's desperate SOS is missed because at HQ, the people meant to be watching, Roald Dahl and Lizan Phil, are arguing over what to put on the TV, the football or The Guardian of the Solar System's Speech.

Hey, maybe we should look out for that missing agent, thinks Roald, before getting distracted.