Tom Baker hit the ground running as the Doctor in the previous season, but it was Season 13 where he arguably became fully fledged, laying the ground work for his as yet unsurpassed lengthy tenure as the Doctor. How lucky we are to have all these adventures at our disposal. Read more…
Are you all looking forward to Season 13 being released on Blu-ray? I know I am! It’s a cracking season chock full of classics and every single story is a banger. The Doctor and Sarah are in full flow, battling Zygons and androids and big nasty plants! To whet your Read more…
Hello, Sweetie! A whole crossword dedicated to yours truly… I keep meeting with Him Indoors in the wrong order, so perhaps a crossword is the only way to make sense of our lives. Or perhaps a flowchart? I keep a handy little diary myself, but he’s had so many faces, Read more…
For me, the Eleventh Doctor can be grouped together with the Second and Seventh Doctors as a particular side of his personality – a scruffy little academic who is much cleverer than he lets on. In fact, he’s a genius. I loved the Eleventh Doctor as he really embodied that Read more…
The thing about mad scientists in Doctor Who is that they have a habit of unleashing all kinds of nasties on the world. Some are cast-offs and some are everything they hoped for. From Daleks to Vervoids, the Whoniverse is full of unintended – and fully intended – scientific consequences. Read more…
Speaking as a (social) scientist myself, it always strikes me as obvious how the Whoniverse is completely devoid of ethics in science. Trust me, in our universe, ethical science is a very big thing, and ethics applications take a long time. Not so for our favourite mad scientists – and Read more…
