Doctor Who: Cold War
April 21st, 2013
Yes, I’m a week late with writing this one, but that’s because it’s quite difficult to find much to say about it.
Doctor Who: Fifty Stories For Fifty Years: 1986
April 18th, 2013
The levels of taste and good judgement in the Doctor Who production office in the mid-1980s can be summed up in three words:
Doctor Who: The Rings Of Akhaten
April 12th, 2013
Doctor Who: Fifty Stories For Fifty Years: 1985
April 1st, 2013
Eric Saward hasn’t received a lot of love in these essays so far, but in the last full series he script-edited, Colin Baker’s first, he finally found a coherent aesthetic vision for Doctor Who. Whereas previously he’d been content to throw in as much violence and references to old stories as he could, by this point he had been converted to The Church Of Bob Holmes, and had come up with a semi-formula for the show that worked in the three stories that year where he could try it — comic double acts, vicious black humour, and a smattering of post-modernism with characters commenting metafictionally on the action. The fact that new companion Peri’s catchphrase became “all of these corridors look alike to me” gives a hint of the way Saward’s thoughts were trending.
Doctor Who: The Bells Of… Oh, I Give Up
March 31st, 2013
Malkuth
February 5th, 2013
Or what does this have to do with Promethea anyway?
Crossposted at Sci-Ence! Justice Leak!, for reasons that will become apparent.
Doctor Who: Fifty Stories For Fifty Years — 1984
February 1st, 2013
Doctor Who: Fifty Stories For Fifty Years: 1983
January 18th, 2013
The twentieth anniversary of Doctor Who was obviously a special event, and who better to write it than the man most associated with Doctor Who, Terrance Dicks?
Doctor Who: Fifty Stories For Fifty Years: 1982
January 13th, 2013
Earthshock is almost universally considered one of the very best Doctor Who stories of Peter Davison’s tenure in the role, with only The Caves Of Androzani offering it much competition. In Doctor Who Magazine‘s 2009 reader’s poll ranking the first two hundred televised stories, it was rated number 19, and was one of only three stories from the 1980s to feature in the top twenty (in contrast, a full ten of the bottom twenty were from that decade).
It’s therefore a good case study to look at exactly what went wrong with the show
Doctor Who: Fifty Stories For Fifty Years – 1981
November 24th, 2012
It’s the end, but the moment has been prepared for…
