With The Timeless Children like it or not Doctor Who entered a new phase. In the 1980s / 90s we had aspects of the Cartmel Masterplan, then RTD reset the show to bring it back. Steven Moffat undid some of that, weaved his own ideas and now Chris Chibnall has really stirred things up. There’s…
If you can get to Leeds for Sunday 12 May, you might like to know Andrew Cartmel is talking Masterplan at Headrow House. It’s a Who 77 Promotionsevent, costs £10 and details are here. +++ Message Ends +++
Over on Amazon I’ve noticed a new Seventh Doctor novel series has been revealed, with the intriguing title of: Doctor Who: The Seventh Doctor Volume 1. The intriguing bit is the Volume 1 and the list of authors! Looking closer it’s actually the already announced Titan Comics releases for later this year. Nearly!
Here’s a random thing: Andrew Cartmel interviewed about all things Doctor Who in 2017. It’s on the Movie Viral website and is a skillful interview conducted by James Murphy. The interview is: Cartmel Blanche. Is worth a read for the explanation of the Cartmel Masterplan. There’s no big reveal, but it does give some insight. *** Message Ends ***
My random walk through the TV reign of the Seventh Doctor continues with The Curse of Fenric. Written by Ian Briggs this is a rich story that combines plenty of themes, is a treat to watch as much of it is shot on location and gives plenty of Ace’s back story. It isn’t all perfect - my…
I thought I would turn my attention to Lungbarrow, Marc Platt’s 1997 novel featuring Gallifrey and the Seventh Doctor (along with Ace, Leela, K9 and Romana). I won’t repeat material found elsewhere (and written by those with far better understanding of the facts) suffice it to say that this story sits on the edge of canon and…
One of the joys of having a chunk of the show’s past explored is that it allows for all kinds of speculation and for the myriad of TV shows, novels and audio offerings to be compared, contrasted and generally kicked over looking for gaps and contradictions. The Name of the Doctor gives us plenty to chew…
I have no idea when the tipping point occurred that meant Doctor Who would be cancelled in 1989 after season 26, but if it wasn’t before Battlefield was transmitted I suspect this was another nail in the show’s coffin. It could be argued that there are elements of a strong story in Ben Aaronovitch’s tale of…
One of the many images available in the gallery for Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS is the picture shown on the left - that of an ancient book entitled The History of the Time War. Now i don’t remotely think we will learn anything of the Time War from this episode and I am…
So the BBC has revealed that the last episode for this run (Series 7B) of Doctor Who is to be The Name of the Doctor. Given this is the episode where the question Doctor ‘Who’? is answered then this title is hardly a surprise. What we also spot is tha the Eleventh Doctor and Clara will also have the pleasure…
One of the many things we are promised in the next season of Dr Who (and probably as part of the 2013 50th anniversary) is an answer to the question of ‘Doctor who?’ This to me (and no doubt most people) sounds like an origins question, in which case there is a lot of back-story /…
So it’s Friday again and in the style of this post here I think I would engage in some idle speculation. This time my topic is the 50th Anniversary (due November 23rd 2013 of course) about which we believe we will still have the eleventh Doctor, Mr Moffat in charge and a new companion (as…
