Disclaimer – there are now two versions of The Stones of Blood novelization, and therefore two audiobook versions. One was written by David Fisher, who originally wrote the TV script for the story. Originally released…
Matt Jones has Doctor Who in his DNA. His first work in words was in Doctor Who Magazine, and he went on to write novels in the Virgin New Adventures series during Doctor Who’s hiatus…
Releasing collections of short stories translated from comic-strip and short-form stories in the Doctor Who Annuals of days gone by into audiobook format, read by leading figures from the Doctor Who world, might be considered…
Planet of Fire, the penultimate story of Peter Davison’s TV time in the Tardis, had a lot to get done. It had to: Bring back Anthony Ainley as the Master, last seen trussed up like…
Before we go any further, this review comes with two confessions. Confession #1: Destiny of the Daleks was the first Doctor Who story I watched with the mindset of a fan. It was so amazing…
Rogue on TV was a peculiar episode of Doctor Who, with three general categories of reaction. On the one hand, there were the disappointing people who took umbrage at the kiss between bounty hunter Rogue…
73 Yards was a deeply peculiar Doctor Who story on-screen. In its main storyline, it was an excellent riff on Russell T Davies’ epic Years and Years with an effective folk horror twist. But in…
Probably one of the more underrated pairings in the New Who era, the Tenth Doctor and Martha Jones were marked on screen by complex emotional turmoil – she loved him, body and soul, he was…
There were seldom occasions in Classic Doctor Who when a companion was so thoroughly front and centre of the storytelling as Janet Fielding’s Tegan Jovanka was in Kinda, originally written for the screen by Christopher…
First, a disclaimer: of the three 60th anniversary specials released in 2023, Wild Blue Yonder was my least favourite. The bizarre pre-credits sequence, complete with the mavity gag that appears to be dying no time…
Doctor Who and the Image of the Fendahl – Written by Terrance Dicks & Read by Louise Jameson – CD / Audible (BBC Audio) You can tell almost immediately that Terrance Dicks probably enjoyed writing…
Doctor Who: Revelation of the Daleks – Written by Eric Saward & Read by Terry Molloy with Dalek voices by Nicholas Briggs – 4xCD (BBC Worldwide) Davros. From the moment he first arrived on our…
