Over on The Doctor Who Companion there’s a Christmas gift of fourteen days of Christmas stories from various contributors to the blog. It kicks off today with Peter Shaw’s To All Of You At Home a First Doctor, Steven Taylor and Sara Kingdom story. /// Message Ends \\\
The third season of Doctor Who: Early Adventures ends with The Sontarans. Simon Guerrier wrote this First Doctor story with companions Steven Taylor and Sara Kingdom. It’s action packed and rather clever. You want more? Carry on reading…
My wander back through the Big Finish Subscriber Short Trips hits 2010 and four more great Doctor Who stories to enjoy. Four authors, three readers, four Doctors and six companions (and some UNIT pseudo-companions) — you spoil us! Excitement aside, are these worth a listen? Short answer, yes; long answer…
Prompted by a full Companion Chronicles sale, here is the second part of my guide said range. It follows on from The R3 Companion Chronicles Collector’s Guide Part I. This part covers series 5 – 8. This is intended as a reference and is field under Home > Guides, as are all the other Red Rocket series guides.
With the end of the Companion Chronicles coming I’m producing a two-part guide in the style of The R3 Main Range 1-50 Collectors Guide. As ever this is intended as a reference and you might wish to bookmark this page if you are still building up your collection. This covers the first four series; the second part (Series…
Part of the Second Doctor Lost Stories boxset, Daleks: The Destroyers is actually the never made pilot for the Sara Kingdom US spin-off that never happened. Originally written by Terry Nation, and of course starring Jean Marsh, this was adapted by Nick Briggs and John Dorney. Not really a Doctor Who story, but almost the first spin-off…
January 2012 and the Companion Chronicles brought as the double-CD of Simon Guerrier’s The Anachronauts. This is a tale that in some ways talks to the heart of the rule of non-interference, dissects the relationship between Sara Kingdom and Steven Taylor and also shows us the harsh nature of the Doctor. There are a few spoilers…
As I mentioned when I talked about DWM #468 there must be something to say about The Time of the Doctor signalling 800 transmitted episodes of Doctor Who. This is that very article. And yes, if you click out the image on the left there are 800 copies of the TARDIS; and yes, it would have…
Details have been released for the first season of Early Adventures from Big Finish. There will be four 2xCD releases covering various parts of the First Doctor‘s adventures with a good range of companions and writers. To quote the Big Finish news story: Anyone who has heard our First and Second Doctor Lost Stories will be familiar with…
Starburst #390 (with Wolverine on the cover) includes my two-page write-up of an interview with Simon Guerrier. In this he discusses a range of topics including Graceless, Sara Kingdom, writing trilogies and his Destiny of the Doctor story Shadow of Death. He even finds time to talk about his Blake’s 7 story The Turing Test. In an exclusive he…
Big Finish has announced (see news item here) a huge cast for their 50th Anniversary story The Light at the End. Beyond all those already announced (see here) we now have a whole host of other companions making minor appearances in this five Doctor epic! The list now includes Vikki, Steven, Sara Kingdom, Zoe, Jamie,…
And now for something completely different – a project to produce something that might be truly wonderful, Ian Levine’s proposal for an animated Dalek Master Plan. I shamelessly lifted the gorgeous picture of Hartnell as the First Doctor from a posting on this topic on the JR Southall blog ‘Watching Doctor Who‘. As JR’s post…
