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
February 8th (hey that’s tomorrow!!) is my birthday, so if you like the Idiot Box consider shouting me a birthday coffee over at Ko-fi or subscribe for as little as $1 to my Patreon! If you would like to own The Masters of Luxor, it is available through the Big Finish website. We close at… Read More Lost Stories: The Masters of Luxor
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 Farewell, Great Macedon and “The Fragile Yellow Arc of Fragrance,” both are available as part of The Lost Stories: First Doctor Box Set through the Big Finish website.… Read More Lost Stories: Moris Fahri
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