One of the benefits of Doctor Who being a show about time travel is that one can travel back into the dim and distant past. In fact, the Doctor, Susan, and the kidnapped teachers Ian and Barbara did just that in the very first story when they encountered the Tribe Read more…
The aliens of Doctor Who never fail to capture our imagination. Much of that is down to the ingenuity of the writers and production team who, especially in the classic era, never let a little thing called money hamper their skills or imaginations. As a result, we have Sontarans, Rutans, Read more…
The missing episodes of Doctor Who are a well-known story. I think the idea of junking episodes to our modern eyes and the ways in which we consume media seems crazy. To the BBC at the time, Doctor Who (and many other programmes) was just old stock costing them money. Read more…
Clara Oswald is a somewhat divisive figure in Doctor Who. Some fans like her, others really don’t. For me, this can be encapsulated in The Impossible Girl story. It’s a nice idea, and a great use of classic footage, but the implications are that she’s somewhere in every story and Read more…
It’s no accident that Doctor Who has paid homage to Agatha Christie murder mysteries over the years in Black Orchid, Terror of the Vervoids, and the Horror of Fang Rock (amongst others), as both genres benefit from the same plot devices. A handful of characters with motives isolated in a Read more…
