This month, we sadly lost Christopher H Bidmead, former script editor and writer of Season 18 of Doctor Who. I have always liked Season 18, particularly its intention to stride out on a different direction in Tom Baker’s final year. That takes guts, I think. More to the point, Bidmead Read more…
The thing with Doctor Who is that it is messy. Even the numbering of the series don’t make any sense – there are three Series One at least… and that’s before you even get to the Doctor numbering. Once upon a time, numbering Doctors was easy – one followed the Read more…
It was recently Sylvester McCoy and Sophie Aldred’s birthday, so to celebrate, Cryptic Who is going all Seventh Doctor this week! It’s no secret that this was my TARDIS team when I was growing up, so compiling these crosswords has been an absolute pleasure. The Seventh Doctor era has been 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…
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…
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…
Picture it! Sicily, 1912! No, not really. It’s 1990 and Doctor Who is being “rested”, ushering in what is now known as The Wilderness Years. This is a title I would dispute because those long years off the television allowed Doctor Who to venture into new territories, never more so Read more…
Cryptic Who has covered the Daleks numerous times, but there is always more to plunder about those scallywags from Skaro. After all, they have a very long history going back some sixty years or so. This time, you’re looking for Dalek story titles. They might be whole or partial story Read more…
Big Finish have given us decades of adventures with their Doctor Who stories. Over the years, they have expanded the Doctor Who universe immeasurably and have given the Sixth and Eighth Doctor so much more time than they ever had on screen. Who doesn’t love an adventure being blasted into Read more…
As the Summer Solstice was not so long ago, I thought it might be a good idea to set free all kinds of mythical creatures on this blog. Doctor Who has plundered myths and legends for decades – the outlandish monsters and tales have always been a good fit for Read more…