I rather loved Missy Series 1 and said as much in my CultBox review. It’s four great stories by Roy Gill, John Dorney, Nev Fountain and Jonathan Morris and Michelle Gomez is brilliant to listen to (and her episode with Rufus Hound as the Meddling Monk is just one highlight). Read my review here: Missy…
Thanks to the BBC Archive twitter, here’s a chance to watch a four minute interview from a 1983 episode of Nationwide with Sue Lawley talking to Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee and Peter Davison. Jelly Baby anyone?! [=] Message Ends [=]
February 2019 continued the trio of stories with the Fifth Doctor, Tegan, Turlough and Kamelion. It’s a pair of contrasting tales: Black Thursday / Power Game by Jamie Anderson and Eddie Robson, and jolly fine they are too! You want more?! Check out my review on CultBox: Doctor Who: Black Thursday/Power Game review. <+> Message…
The world of Dalek ownership is not a simple one, despite the experiences of Sudbury Hall (How to buy a Dalek). Take the case of a man in, Cornwall who restored a Dalek found in a shed, then had fans explain in painful detail just why it wasn’t an actual prop! Either way it’s been…
If you’ve ever thought about buying a Dalek, how do you go about it? Well, it turns out to be more involved than you might imagine. Here’s a link to a piece on how the Exploring Childhoods Project at Sudbury Hall came to get their own Doctor Who prop: The Museum Workers’ Guide to Buying…
The Third Doctor kick-started the 1970s with Spearhead from Space and the BBC archive page linked is well worth a proper read and gives a decent view of just how many firsts this story represents. I don’t think it’s perfect, but it has a lot going for it despite certain scenes aiming too closely to…
The Big Finish 2019 International Women’s Day release was The Eighth of March, with four stories, women writers, director and a full range of well-liked women from across the Doctor Who universe. The motif of the 8th of March is in each tale as an anchor; beyond that no big arc or other distraction. As…
The Candy Jar Books celebration of Fifty Years of the Brigadier is now available and retitled The Brigadier Declassified. It’s a bargain at £8.99 (+pp) web price, and covers TV, Big Finish, books and much, much more.
I continue to catch up with belated Third Doctor reviews with the second story in The Third Doctor Adventures Volume 04. It’s the turn of Marc Platt and finally the Third Doctor gets to battle the Cybermen. It’s a strong piece of story-telling and reminds me of an article I read decades ago. Let’s chat…
The First Doctor Adventures Volume 3 brought a superb historical from Marc Platt and a quirky story from Guy Adams, the latter with Carole Ann Ford sharing a story with the new-cast First Doctor team. I loved it and said as much on CultBox: The First Doctor Adventures Volume 03 review. ::: Message Ends :::
The BBC has identified Delia Derbyshire’s Doctor Who theme as one of ten pieces to be studied as part of a project to introduce children to classical music. This puts her on a level with Gershwin, Vivaldi and Brahms! Details: Children to study Doctor Who theme tune in BBC Ten Pieces. +++ Message Ends +++
If you happen to be on or near the Isle of Wight this August Bank Holiday weekend (2019), you might want to pop along to Cowes Enterprise College. Now, you need to also know the Isle of Wight will be heaving with visitors that weekend, but Cowes is well served with transport from Southampton, so…
