“New Adventures in Sci-Fi.”
Doctor Who was dead, to begin with. 1992 isn’t considered a landmark year in the history of Doctor Who. The TV series had ended in 1989. The 2005 revival was...
The Caves of Androzani
"Mud. Mud. Glorious mud." Episodes: The Caves of Androzani Parts Two and Four Seen: 9th & 16th March 1984 The Long Way Round The Caves of Androzani has been...
Resurrection of the Daleks
“I couldn’t ever bring myself to hate you as I’d like.” Resurrection of the Daleks Part Two Seen: 15th February 1984 The Long Way Round Writer Eric Saward...
The Awakening
“Sumer is icumen in. Loudly sing cuckoo.” Seen: 19th & 20th January 1984 The essence of Doctor Who is in juxtapositions. Its first episode starts with the...
“You take the high road, and I’ll take the low road.”
In 1986 a selection of Doctor Who comics were given away with Golden Wonder crisps. On the back of each comic was a quiz page, proudly entitled The Doctor’s...
Spearhead from Space @ the BFI Special
“We are showroom dummies. We start to move and we break the glass." It would be surprising for anyone with any interest in twentieth century Doctor Who not...
“The Kids Are Alright”
This week’s Doctor Who article is being published on Sunday, not Friday, as it’s tying into something. So today, instead of that, here’s something else. It’s...
“Toymaker, Toymaker, make me a Toy.”
The mostly missing The Celestial Toymaker has prompted a variety of fan responses since its single UK television airing in 1966. It is, for example, one of...
"Going Underground."
Here at Psychic Paper, we like Doctor Who and we also like the London Underground. It’s handy for getting to the BFI’s Doctor Who screenings for a start....
K9 & Company - A Girl’s Best Friend
“Who let the dogs out? Who!? Who!? Who!?WHO!? Seen: 24th December 1982 The Long Way Round When John Nathan-Turner took over Doctor Who in 1980, he had...
“The End Has No End”
When was “old” Doctor Who cancelled? The last episode of the last twentieth century series of the programme was transmitted on 6th December 1989. That was...
“Come on, you Target for faraway laughter.”
It would be remiss for a Doctor Who Substack to not mark the fiftieth anniversary of the beloved Target Books Doctor Who novelisation range. The golden...
"And if you go chasing robots..."
The TARDIS has been taken out of time and space altogether. It sits in a white void, one seemingly unpopulated except for by silent, insistent White Robots....
“Don't tread on an ant, he's done nothing to you.”
The Web Planet, transmitted in six episodes in spring 1965, remains one of the most highly rated Doctor Who stories ever. That’s not, by the way, in terms of...
The Visitation
“Everybody needs to know it's the year of the rat.” Seen: February 1982 The Long Way Round I’m not sure I still remember watching The Visitation on...
"Follow Mister Apollo,”
On 23rd August 1966 NASA’s Lunar Orbiter took the first picture of the Earth from the distance of the moon. While not now as famous as later, colour pictures...
“I will return, to my English Rose”
“I will return, to my English Rose” 18 years ago tonight, Doctor Who came back. This is the review of the first episode I wrote immediately after...
Castrovalva
“Two by two, they step in the dark.” Castrovalva Part Three Seen: 11 January 1982 The Long Way Round I suppose it makes sense that the second Doctor Who...
“It’s the only chart that counts.”
“It’s the only chart that counts.” When Doctor Who fans talk about “ratings”, that word is usually used to mean the same thing. The number of viewers,...
Logopolis
“Do you remember the first time?” Logopolis Part Four Seen: 3rd December 1981 The Long Way Round I’ve pretty much always known what the first episode of...
