Doctor Who: Fifty Stories For Fifty Years: 1972
March 19th, 2012
Doctor Who: Fifty Stories For Fifty Years: 1970
February 20th, 2012
Doctor Who: Fifty Stories For Fifty Years: 1969
February 11th, 2012
It was the end…but the moment had been prepared for.
Doctor Who: Fifty Stories For Fifty Years: The Mind Robber
February 5th, 2012
Sometimes the best creative work comes from having to work within restrictions imposed from outside. The Mind Robber is a perfect example of this. The story before, The Dominators, was originally meant to be a six-parter, but had to be cut down to five (thankfully, as it’s the most awful mess imaginable from every possible standpoint).
For some reason the scene above is a favourite of straight men, but few others…
Doctor Who: Fifty Stories For Fifty Years – 1967
January 19th, 2012
I’m back after an extended Christmas and not-being-arsed break! Only one photo this time though as my hard drive is knackered and I’m busy recovering all my files (have you any idea how difficult it is to recover a 2TB hard drive with about ten thousand non-contiguous bad sectors? Thank heaven for ddrescue). I could only get the one image before catastrophic failure.
Doctor Who: Fifty Stories For Fifty Years – 1965
December 12th, 2011
Doctor Who has always been primarily a TV show, but from very early on it became what we would now call multimedia. Very early on it stopped existing only on TV, and spread out into comics, books, theatre, records and more. I’ll be discussing these more once we get to the show’s cancellation in 1989 (and also in my book Bigger On The Outside, which I am currently slowly serialising on my own blog) but as we’ve reached 1965, we should start with the most important of these.
Doctor Who: Fifty Stories For Fifty Years – 1964
December 4th, 2011
It might seem odd to viewers nowadays, but one of the rules Sydney Newman, the executive in charge of Doctor Who at its beginning, put into place was ‘no bug-eyed monsters’. This rule was, of course, broken as early as the second story, The Daleks, but it signified something about the intention of the show when it started – that it was to be at least partly an educational series.
“So let’s all learn about human sacrifice and enforced marriage, shall we, children?”
Doctor Who: Fifty Stories For Fifty Years – 1963
November 25th, 2011
Yesterday was, as many of you will be aware, the forty-eighth anniversary of the first episode of Doctor Who. This means that next year, 2012, is the fiftieth year of Who’s existence.
Over the next year or so, on a roughly-weekly basis, I’ll look at one story from each of those fifty years, from 1963 to 2012. To start with, let’s travel back to that time just after the end of the Chatterley ban and the Beatles’ first LP.
