Tidying up my home office, I realised I’d yet to review Doctor Who The Complete History Volume 1. Like many people (I suspect) I bought the first few months of subscription then cancelled once the free gifts ran out! In this case it was the free Companion Chronicle read by Sarah Sutton, The Toy. Of course the bonus…
To call Attack of the Cybermen a confused collage of tropes and ideas might be easy and justified but misses the point. In many ways less than the sum of its parts, it is not without some merits, even if it needed trimming back and reshaping. Whence does this confusion arise? Well the clue may be in…
As we all know Doctor Who started in 1963 with an episode titled An Unearthly Child. This name replaced the original title for the first story (10,000 BC) and it tends to be this opening episode that gets attention rather than the subsequent three-part story. At some point every Doctor Who blog has to discuss the show’s…
Big Finish released three Companion Chronicles for the First Doctor and Steven (Peter Purves doing both) and a brand new companion in the form of Oliver Harper (Tom Allen — Pip Bin from Bleak Expectations). The stories are written by Simon Guerrier (author of several other trilogies notably the Sara Kingdom stories). How well does this series work and…
So, that’s it, we are now living in the years after the 50th anniversary which I like to think of as AD or after Day of the Doctor. We had surprises, Daleks, Zygons, Doctors and all sorts including the end of the Time War and the fate of Gallifrey decided. I loved it and thought it…
In the last few days (I am writing on the 23rd of October 2013, with one month to go until you know what) we have finally been treated to a trailer for the anniversary show The Day of the Doctor. It views as a tribute more than an actual trailer though I would be very happy to…
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…
