FRONTIER IN SPACE >Where is Harry Kersey? (Give us more >tales of spanking in the TARDIS, Harry! I vote for Jo as the next lady >to get it!) Your wish is my command, but I'm going to choose a slightly unusual story. Much as I love the idea of the Doctor punishing those symbolic red panties in 'Day of the Daleks', I'm going for the other Ogron story, 'Frontier in Space'. I like a challenge, and this is a story in which the Doctor and Jo are separated for long stretches of time. But when they are together they are mainly locked up in cells, which might offer a suitable interlude for a spanking. The obvious reason would be that Jo was somehow responsible for their predicament. From there it's just a matter of 'pick your prison'. I'm going to make it a little more interesting, and choose Part Four, when they are in the cell of the Master's police spaceship. Well, it's part of the story that needs livening up! Let's assume that Jo was sent to the Moon prison with the Doctor and that she, not Professor Dale, was his partner in the attempt to escape and steal the Sirius police ship (which turns out to be the Master's). She makes a silly mistake about the air supply, and takes along empty cylinders, so they have to turn back - just in time to be handed over to the Master. The Doctor lambasts the prison governor about an attempt to murder them with the empty air cylinders, while Jo bites her lip. (She knows what will happen if the Doctor finds out the truth.) And so they end up in the cell of the ship they intended to pilot away. The Doctor is not pleased: he wants to get back to Earth to try and talk some sense into the President. 'Maybe you should spank her, Doctor,' quips Jo. The Doctor witheringly tells her you can't use spanking as a tool of interplanetary diplomacy - though there was the time he met a very naughty alien princess who had been sent as ambassador to the United Planets... And as he reminisces, he cuts his way through the lock, as on TV. Later, as he finishes the job, Jo unthinkingly comments that he'd never have had to do all that cutting if she hadn't picked up the wrong air canisters. The Doctor's face darkens. Jo shamblingly explains that they seemed easier to carry than the others put out for them, so she took them instead. 'There is one good thing about this cell, Jo,' says the Doctor. 'There's still room for you to go across my knee.' Not just yet, though, because at that very moment, the Master announces to them on the audio link that there will be some space turbulence from a meteor storm. The Doctor sees his chance and leaves the cell: the Master will be distracted as he tries to pilot the jolting ship, so it's an ideal moment to jump him and take control. Because the cell is wired for sound, Jo must keep him convinced that the Doctor is still there. Jo can only think of her own narrow escape, and what the Doctor would be doing if he were still in the cell. She proceeds to pretend that the Doctor is giving her a spanking! She smacks her own bottom, calculating the slaps for maximum sound and minimum pain, and hollers and pleads with the absent Time Lord! The Master's voice chips in from the speaker: 'The stern hand of justice caught up with you at last, Miss Grant? You have my deepest sympathy.' And with that he turns down the audio to concentrate on the controls. Later, after the escape attempt has failed and the Doctor has been returned to the cell, he thinks back to where he left off. Jo is evasive. 'You were telling me about all the interplanetary peace conferences you visited,' she suggests. 'Ah, yes,' says the Doctor. 'And there's also the little matter of a good spanking I owe you. Come here, my dear.' 'Oh please, Doctor, not again,' says Jo, as he pulls her across his knee...