I have a new goal on Patreon – if we reach $25 per post, I’ll be covering the Second Doctor as well! You can support me for as little as $1 or, as always, you can offer a one-time donation at Ko-fi. Doctor Who has already hit multiple breaking points. The first of these was,… Read More The Chase
To support this blog, you can offer a one-time donation at Ko-fi or subscribe for as little as $1 on Patreon. If you would like to own The Unwinding World, it is available here through the Big Finish website. The Space Museum was a seminal serial, issuing the first major challenge to the historical format… Read More Companion Chronicles: The Unwinding World
To support this blog, you can offer a one-time donation at Ko-fi or subscribe for as little as $1 on Patreon. Doctor Who has had a long relationship with the past over its first two seasons. The first voyage that the TARDIS took was to the very beginning, of mankind eking out an existence in… Read More The Space Museum
To support this blog, you can offer a one-time donation at Ko-fi or subscribe for as little as $1 on Patreon. For the first time in a while, it’s time to dip into my own first experiences of Doctor Who. It is late 2004. I can’t recall the exact date—all I remember is that I… Read More The Crusade
To support this blog, you can offer a one-time donation at Ko-fi or subscribe for as little as $1 on Patreon. The Web Planet is something of a curate’s egg, with a somewhat muddled reputation. The review of this serial in The Discontinuity Guide gets at this, noting that it is simultaneously “imaginative, ambitious, and,… Read More The Web Planet
To support this blog, you can offer a one-time donation at Ko-fi or subscribe for as little as $1 on Patreon. The Romans has, in many ways, proven a difficult story to analyse. This is mostly due to the fact that The Romans is very obvious in its intentions: this is the one where that… Read More The Romans
To support this blog, you can offer a one-time donation at Ko-fi or subscribe for as little as $1 on Patreon. The abandonment of Susan has left a hole in Doctor Who, and so it’s very much the mission statement of The Rescue to fill that absence. To fill this hole, the show offers the… Read More The Rescue
To support this blog, you can offer a one-time donation at Ko-fi or subscribe for as little as $1 on Patreon. A major concern of this blog, percolating throughout its entries since The Dead Planet, has been the problem of Whitaker’s original sin. It’s a rot at the origins of the program that emerges from… Read More The Dalek Invasion of Earth
To support this blog, you can offer a one-time donation at Ko-fi or subscribe for as little as $1 on Patreon. Before we get to The Dalek Invasion of Earth, the long and winding timelines of Doctor Who find themselves folding once again. In the process, they drag backwards a novel from 2005—The Time Travellers,… Read More Past Doctor Adventures: The Time Travellers
To support this blog, you can offer a one-time donation at Ko-fi or subscribe for as little as $1 on Patreon. It is October 31, 1964. The time is 5.10pm, and Britons across the country are congregating around their television sets for an evening of family entertainment. Some families haven’t turned on their televisions yet—now… Read More Planet of Giants
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