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…
