The Three Doctors
“I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together.” When I was a lad, and the universe less than half its present size, we all saw The Three...
The Aztecs
“So when the rainy season comes I hang my head/For all the things I've seen and done and sung and said/And when my tears are dry/I hold my head up high/And...
The Keys of Marinus
”Key of E?” “Is there any other?” The original edition of board game Trivial Pursuit (1981) asked the question “Who created Doctor Who?” and gave the answer...
The Dominators
“All I want is peace! Peace! A little piece of...” The Dominators was not included in the bottom ten of Doctor Who written up by Doctor Who Magazine writers...
The Space Museum
“No future. No future. No future for you.” In the post on The Web of Fear a few weeks back, we touched upon how most Doctor Who stories come with a couple of...
"I don’t want a lot for Christmas…"
Did you get everything you wished for for Christmas? I didn’t. It’s not that I’m greedy or ungrateful.(Quiet at the back.) It’s just that some of the things...
"Do They Know It's Christmas Time At All?"
Doctor Who fans, or at least fans of old money Doctor Who, tend to have a greater understanding of the history of television than most people. There’s even...
The Web of Fear
“The distant echo of far away voices boarding far away trains…” Most old money Doctor Who stories come with a couple of anecdotes attached. Back in the days...
The Abominable Snowmen
“In the meadow, we can build a snowman…” In the 1980s more of Doctor Who was missing than is the case today. Not just in that nearly two dozen episodes have...
The Edge of Destruction
“Back from the edge. Back from the dead. Back before demons took control of my head.” The third Doctor Who serial has a writing and production history almost...
BSB - Introduction: "I don't know why you say 'Goodbye' I say 'Hello'."
Interviewed for the New Jersey Network’s The Making of Doctor Who in 1988, producer John Nathan-Turner explained his wish to leave the series by saying it...
The Brain of Morbius
“Where’s your head at? Where’s your head at? Where’s your head at? Where’s your heeeeeead at? Where’s your head at? Where’s your head at?” Doctor Who...
"All of Me, Loves All of You?"
Something that comes up a lot online is the idea of how much of Doctor Who you have to have engaged with (or have recall of) to legitimately call yourself a...
The C Bomb
The word “companion” is routinely used in the real world as a description of supporting characters in Doctor Who. But I recently found myself wondering how...
"Look to the future now, it's only just beguuuuuu-un."
The announcement of a 2026 Doctor Who Christmas special less than a week after I wrote this led to considerable joy in this household and I’m sure many...
1990
“It’s all just a little bit of history repeatin’.” “1990 was the brainchild of Wilfred Greatorex, and conceived as literally ‘1984 plus six’; a series that...
Planet of Fire
“Fire! I want you to burn!” I wound up with a VHS copy of most of Planet of Fire in early 1990. It was an unlikely choice for only the sixth story I had even...
Genesis of the Daleks
“It’s time to start all over, make a new beginning.” As I’ve said before here, sometimes the most celebrated Doctor Who stories are both the hardest and the...
ESREVER NI EMIT
“But is tomorrow yesterday? Or has it been and gone today? I wish someone would say.” George Kaufman and Moss Hart’s 1934 play Merrily We Roll Along is the...
TIME IN REVERSE
“But is tomorrow yesterday? Or has it been and gone today? I wish someone would say.” In the July 1994 cover dated issue of Doctor Who Classic Comics1 Marvel...
