Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Loch Ness Monster in popular culture" in English language version.
Scotland's Loch Ness Monster figures in some stories, including Fred Hoyle and Geoffrey Hoyle's novella "The Monster of Loch Ness" (1971), wherein the "monster" is a vehicle used by the lake's intelligent inhabitants to scrutinize the surface world; the Doctor Who episode "Terror of the Zygons" (1975), which reinterprets the monster as an alien on Earth; Sandy Schofield's Quantum Leap novel Loch Ness Leap (1997), in which the time traveler becomes a scientist searching for the Loch Ness Monster (see Time Travel); and the film Beneath Loch Ness (2001), a routine horror movie.
One of the most popular of these animals is Scotland's Loch Ness Monster, described as a large reptile from the age of the dinosaurs in stories like Leslie Charteris's (1907–1993) "The Convenient Monster" (1959) and Lionel Fanthorpe's (1935–) "The Loch Ness Terror" (1960). Fred Hoyle (1915–2001) and Geoffrey Hoyle (1941–) more ingeniously suggest that it is really an alien in "The Monster of Loch Ness" (1972).
