There are many, many books about Doctor Who (I’m even thinking of writing one!) and not all of them can stand out. I’m pleased to report The Scientific Secrets of Doctor Who seems destined to join the ranks of the successful. Put together by Simon Guerrier and Dr Marek Kukula, this book has a lot to recommend it,…
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Big Finish Lost Stories sale – June 28-30 2013
This weekend gives the chance to pick up some bargain Lost Stories. On offer are 12 titles in all: eight from the first series featuring the Sixth Doctor and Peri; four from the second series for the Seventh Doctor and Ace. The latter also introduces us to Raine Creevy. I have heard a couple of the first series…
The one with the Zektronic energy beam – The Curse of Fatal Death reviewed
In 1999, as part of BBC’s Comic Relief charity bonanza, viewers were treated to a mini four-part Doctor Who story, by none other than Steven Moffat, entitled The Curse of Fatal Death. In Starburst issue #389 JR Southall in his Watching Doctor Who column talks favourably about the Curse played in the journey from Classic Who to nu-Who which led…
Thin Ice reviewed
As part of the recent Big Finish Ice Warrior sale to mark the episode Cold War I picked up a copy of the lost story Thin Ice by Marc Platt. I have dug around and found that originally this would have been called Ice Time (see the Hidden Planet blog) and had elements in common with the final…
The Raine Trilogy
In 2011 a set of Lost Stories was released by Big Finish that introduced the character of Raine Creevy, a safe-cracker who joins the Seventh Doctor in the TARDIS and still travels with him by the time of UNIT: Dominion. Conceived in the 1980s, this trilogy gives Andrew Cartmel the chance to share with us a…
UNIT: Dominion – a review
It’s finally here (as of October 23rd 2012), the first of the Doctor Who Special Releases, UNIT: Dominion. This Nick Briggs written and directed story (co-written with Jason Arnopp) features the Seventh Doctor and Raine along with a much welcomed return for Klein. This along with many new UNIT faces, some new monsters, multi-dimensional mischief and…
Timelines: The Seventh Doctor
In a lot of ways the Seventh Doctor‘s timeline appears simple (this is until you think about the various twists that tangle it up), though I will no doubt get castigated for ignoring loads of spin-off characters. To set out the sequence I will use the rule of ‘follow the companion’. For the odd story when the Doctor appears without…
Red Rocket Rising 